Variable Supply Variant

The Variable Supply Variant is a gameplay setup variant that limits the options that can be built by a player on their turn.

Setup
All the cards to played are shuffled face down into a single deck. Draw and place cards until there are 10 unique cards. If duplicates are drawn, then they are stacked on top of their original cards (the supply stack).

During play, whenever the last card of a supply stack is built, replace it by drawing cards from the deck until there are 10 unique cards visible. Like during setup, duplicates are placed on top of the originals.

Comparisons
Compared to the beginner game setup, this mostly forces each player to develop their own strategy and limits the amount of imitation and pre-determined strategy. It also takes significantly less time to setup and/or pack up, since all the cards can be randomly combined into a single deck.

However, the downside is that it is possible for a player to have no viable options on their build phase due to the mix of cards available (e.g. all Major Establishments or Two Dice Cards at the start of the game), so this variant has mostly been superseded by the Hybrid Supply Variant.