I have no idea why I waited so long to buy this expansion. It improves the part of the original game that felt like it was kind of lacking, the collecting cards to cure diseases portion. It adds a ton of amazing strategy to the game by way of forcing you to pull cubes from the board and place them on the lab board, which is essentially the same as the cubes being on the main board the whole time as far as reducing the number of cubes in the supply goes. It adds this neat balance where you are forced to keep cubes out of the supply, risking losing by running out of cubes, and spending lots of actions on curing diseases. One could argue that it does not add many actions per disease cure, as less card swapping occurs, but at the same time, curing just one disease is quite taxing, let alone the fact that you can only cure two diseases at a time, forcing you to pick which diseases to ignore temporarily. I personally feel that it changes the game for the better and adds more fun and interesting components to the original game than the second expansion did. The one gripe I have is that they try to force you to buy the second expansion in order to use the third expansion. However, from what I have seen from my playing of the game, this is not necessary. Basically all that they really require from the second expansion are the petri dishes. If you don't really care whether you have these, you can easily play without, or you can buy them separate from many reputable sellers on Ebay. If I were to pick one expansion for Pandemic, this would be the one I would buy. Read full review
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A lot of fun in a box for a reasonable price.
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Great expansion. Would not recommend if it’s the only expansion you’re getting but it changed the Pandemic format the most.
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