These are some of the commonly used terms and actions you'll see on the cards and in the rules.

• Consult: Put a card from your treasury to your council (i.e. draw a card).
• Deploy: Play a card, usually from your council.
• Pull: Reveal the top card of your treasury. After the action or ability is resolved, put all revealed cards into your landfill. Some actions let you deploy the pulled cards, so they may go somewhere (usually the map) instead of the landfill.
• Discard: Put a card from your council into its owner's landfill.
• Destroy: Put a card on the map into its owner's landfill.
• Sacrifice: Put a card on the map that you control into its owner's landfill.
• Fresh: A card is deployed on the map in its upright state, denoting that it is fresh and ready to act.
• Exhaust: When a card is used for an action (such as attacking, blocking, and exploration) or an ability that requires exhausting it, turn it at an angle to signify that it is used up and exhausted for this turn.
• Refresh: At the beginning of each turn, all exhausted cards are refreshed and return to its upright state.
• Explore: Pull X cards (X is the unit's move value, or 3 if deploying a new city). You may deploy one of revealed cards if it is a city, terrain, resource mod, or discovery event.
• Produce: Put a unit or creation card from your hand behind a city on the map if that city is not producing anything and you meet the tech requirements for that unit or creation card. It becomes the city's production. That card cannot be used and has no effect until its production has been completed.
• Research: Put a tech card from your hand on the map if you are not researching anything. It becomes your current research.