Living Rules Reference · v2.0
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Relics
Marked text is printed in red in LRR v2.0 (new or changed with Prophecy of Kings)
Relics are powerful artifacts with unique abilities.
Players can use the abilities of hazardous, cultural, and industrial relic fragments in their play area to draw cards from the relic deck.
- Relic fragments can be found when exploring planets and frontier tokens, and can be exchanged with other players as part of transactions.
When a player is instructed to gain a relic, they draw the top card of the relic deck and place it faceup in their play area.
- If there are no cards in the relic deck, they do not gain a relic.
A player can use the abilities of relics that are in their play area.
Relics cannot be traded.
Source: Twilight Imperium: Fourth Edition — Living Rules Reference v2.0 (September 22, 2020), page 28. Rules text reproduced verbatim; the rulebook’s diagrams are omitted.