diff --git a/app/controllers/prompts/cards_controller.rb b/app/controllers/prompts/cards_controller.rb
index a2d6fb592..77a64178f 100644
--- a/app/controllers/prompts/cards_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/prompts/cards_controller.rb
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ class Prompts::CardsController < ApplicationController
     @cards = if filter_param.present?
       prepending_exact_matches_by_id(search_cards)
     else
-      @cards = published_cards.latest
+      published_cards.latest
     end
 
     if stale? etag: @cards