Forest Shuffle

Each player draws 6 cards at setup; if none of those is a tree you may take a mulligan by discarding all six and drawing six replacement cards, but each player may mulligan at most once (page 2).

On your turn you must take exactly one action: either Draw Two Cards (one at a time, from deck or clearing) or Play a Card and Check the Clearing — you are not forced to play a card (page 2).

When you draw a winter card you place it face up next to the clearing and immediately draw a replacement, and when the third winter card is drawn the game ends immediately (you may not finish your turn) (pages 3 and 7).

A tree sapling is any card played face-down as a universal sapling that provides four slots like a tree but does not belong to any tree species or show a species symbol (page 5); note that when you play a real tree you must also draw the top card from the deck into the clearing (page 4).

To play a card you pay its cost by placing that many other cards from your hand face-up into the clearing (for split cards choose one half to play and pay only that half's cost); a binocular bonus activates only if all cards you discarded as payment show the same tree color/symbol as the card being played (pages 4 and 6).

Most cards give an instant effect you may use immediately after playing the card, while mushrooms grant a permanent effect you may use from your next turn onward and each time their trigger condition occurs (page 6).