Cactus Game Design Message Boards

Cities are a new card type in Redemption similar to Curses and Covenants. In deck, hand, reserve, and discard pile Cities are both a Site and Fortress. Once laid on the playing surface, however, the holder must decide if they want to benefit from the Site ability or the Fortress ability

If a card like "Raining Fire" states "discard a City to ..." would that only work on the new City cards since technically the old one's are only a Site or a Fort. I would guess that I couldn't use "Raining Fire" to discard "The Gates of Hell", can I?
Would it make sense to have a "City" identifier?

Would it make sense to have a "City" identifier?

Potentially, but that wouldn't be consistent with the current game and in my opinion isn't super necessary. "City" is, as quoted, a new card type similar to Covenants and Curses. This means that any card that is a combination of a Site and a Fortress is a City. Identifiers are generally reserved for things that describe what the card represents, not the card itself. The exception to this, of course, when the print on the card somewhat ambiguous, such as the territory class icon only applying to one side of the card.