1. Market Board
Place the Market Board on the table.
2. Starting cards
Give two Staff and eight Coin cards to each player and remove all remaining Staff and Coin cards from the game. Every player shuffles these 10 cards and places them face down in front of them. This deck will be called the ‘player’s own deck’.
3. Divide cards
Divide the remaining cards as follows:
- Take all the Beer cards (with the white frame), shuffle them and place them face down on the space marked 1 on the Market Board. This is the Beer deck.
- Take all the Scroll cards (with the purple frame), shuffle them and place them face down on the space marked 2 on the Market Board. This is the Scroll deck.
- Take all the Spell cards (with no frame), shuffle them and place them face down on the space marked 3 on the Market Board. This is the Spell deck.
- Take all the Potion cards (with the blue frame), shuffle them and place them face down on the space marked 4 on the Market Board. This is the Potion deck.
- Take all the Nuggets cards and place them face up on the space marked 5 on the Market Board.
This is the Nuggets deck.
4. Build the main deck
Shuffle all remaining cards and place the deck next to the Market Board. This deck is the Main deck.
5. Reveal the first card of each deck
Reveal the first card of each deck on space 1 2 3 4 and lay them face up on their respective deck.
6. All done!
Lay the first 5 cards from the “Main deck” face up on space 6 7 8 9 10.