There is an interesting discussion going on at the BGG (https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2543564/sealing-when-all-influence-cards-are-discarded)
We know if your deck is empty and you need to seal cards, you reshuffle and take no other penalty (https://www.etherfields-secrets.com/forum/other-cards/sealing-cards-with-empty-influence-deck).
Thing is, there is no agreement on what to do when you use an action that allows you to draw a card outside the Draw step when your deck is empty. Do you
Reshuffle, draw the card(s) and take penalty as if it was the Draw step
Reshuffle, draw the card(s) and take no penalty as if you were sealing cards with an empty deck
Try to draw, realize you have no cards and do nothing. You'll reshuffle, get penalties and draw as normal during your next Draw step
As an extra hypothetical question, if you were instructed to draw and discard a card as a penalty, would you treat is a sealing with an empty deck (shuffle, suffer no extra penalty, draw and discard), or like a draw effect (1, 2 or 3, whichever is right).
For people arriving late like me https://www.etherfields-secrets.com/forum/main/comment/60d4658bf4cb220065df12f9
> Well... We had a tough team meeting.
In fact, the intention in the reshuffle penalty rule was different.
The point is that we unfortunately used "Draw step" term as the name of the rules for drawing Influence cards (i.e. where are they drawn from, what happens when the Influence deck runs out of cards during Draw, etc.).
However, in the rule regarding the penalty for reshuffle Influence deck, it was not supposed to be about a specific moment of the Dreamers phase, but about each drawing of a card / cards from the Influence deck.
We have marked the changed fragments (from "Draw Step" to new excerpts) in green. It should be like this:
RESHUFFLE
Every time you reshuffle your Influence deck while drawing cards,, you suffer 1 Distress or Seal 3 cards (after reshuffling).
To push away the menace of death, you will have to choose between suffering dangerous Distress or sacrificing cards from your deck by Sealing them. One way or another, you will have to find ways of curinging your Distress or Unsealing your cards in order to get back into shape.
You will have to rest from time to time to regain your strength. The easiest way to do this is the special Delta Phase tile, hidden in the Slumber deck.
Sometimes, the game allows you to reshuffle your Influence deck, even though you still have some cards in it – take all cards from your deck and Discard, reshuffle them, and make a new Influence deck , from them. Remember that when you reshuffle while not drawing cards, you don’t suffer the reshuffle penalty.
So, it should be:
- Every time you reshuffle your Influence deck due to any draw - you must consider a penalty.
- If you perform a reshuffle not related to the draw card - you will not consider the penalty.
We sincerely apologize for this inaccuracy and in addition we sincerely apologize for the related incorrect answer here.
We will add a note to the errata and correct the Draw penalty responses in other threads!