I'm curious if the item decks are suppose to be reshuffled when you get a card that states to look through the X deck for Y item and take it. For example, there is an encounter that will allow you to search through the Unique Items deck and take the 1st Tome there. Once you do so should the unique items deck be reshuffled? If not, then you will know what some of the cards at the top of the deck are.

In a game a last week this happened, so I started going through the Unique Items deck looking for the 1st Tome. The top 2 cards were Elder Signs! Since I saw them and we didn't reshuffle the deck we made sure no one went shopping at the Curiosity Shop until someone got a Unique Item from an encounter.

Did we play this correctly? Or should we have reshuffled?

I would have reshuffled. Knowing which cards were on top caused you to change your gameplay...kind of takes some of the chance factor out of it. 2 elder signs in a row is sweet though.

If you are searching for the first tome, I think you should DRAW until you find a tome.

Now if you were to take any one item from the deck as a reward of some sort, you might want to shuffle. I don't think there's any hard ruling that says you should shuffle after taking that item. But knowing relatively where things are in the deck takes the fun out of the randomness AH offers.

Haha, yea it was!

There are quite a few encounters like this, one says search the Common Item deck for a Shotgun item. I never knew if we should reshuffle or not. After the double Eldar Sign game (where we lost anyway) I figured we'd start reshuffling, but wondering if there was an official rule (if so I can't find it).

Right...

Generally when you have to take the first X in the deck, you flip over cards until you find it. In this case a tome. Then you discard all the cards that you flipped over to get it and continue the game. In your case, those two elder signs would have gone to the bottom of the deck.

The other one is more tricky. In the case of finding some item, like the shotgun, generally we start searching from the bottom of the deck. If we find it soon enough, we don't bother discarding, knowing we probably won't get through the deck. If we get close to the top, we'll reshuffle. I think the general consensus in this case is you should reshuffle the deck.

If you search for a specific item (as opposed to a type of item), you're supposed to reshuffle afterwards. I got this question answered a number of years ago. But no, it's not in any of the rulebooks or FAQs yet ::rolls eyes::