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Deviled Eggs

## Ability

### Ability

**Roman Appetizer****(Draw)** Your The Roman Empire cards in hand gain +8 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Originating in ancient Rome, **Deviled Eggs** are not the eggs of a demon-possessed hen. They’re just a simple side dish consisting of a halved boiled egg with a seasoned yolk mixed with mustard, mayonnaise, herbs and spices in the middle. The secret ingredient of sin!

Jokes aside, there’s no hidden demon at the centre. The term ‘deviled’ is a culinary term dating back to the 1700s that means to cook something with plenty of hot and spicy condiments - think sriracha, not succubus.

In France, this dish is known as Mimosa eggs due to the resemblance of the Mimosa tree, while in Hungary, deviled eggs are called “Casino eggs”, supposedly because they were served to European royalty before a stint at the National Casino in Budapest.
Comic Sans

## Ability

### Ability

**Back 2 Skool****(Play)** Your Playtime cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Birthday party invites, missing cat posters and notices reminding you to clean your mugs in the break room: these are the only instances in which **Comic Sans** is acceptable. On the flip side, when you’re the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers and you’re announcing the <link="https:>departure of LeBron James</link> from your team in a public letter, using this font will only add insult to injury.

The universally-mocked font made its desktop debut with the launch of Windows 95. Its creator, Vincent Connare, said he was inspired by two comics that he kept in his office - The Dark Knight Rises and Watchmen. He looked at the print in these comics and adapted their fonts to make Comic Sans. Today, the campaign to ban Comic Sans is the biggest anti-font movement in the world.
Aether

## Ability

### Ability

**Up in the Air****(Draw)** If you are tied in the round, your opponent gains +50 Power/Turn this turn.

## Did You Know?

In Greek mythology, **Aether** is the personification of the "upper sky". He embodies the pure upper air that the gods breathe - as opposed to that basic air breathed by mere mortals. As the god of the sky, Aether’s mists were thought to fill the space between the transparent mists on the ground and the solid dome that made up the sky.

He did marry his sister Hemera, the Goddess of the Daytime, but that was pretty standard for Greek gods. Plus, we can’t judge too hard, because it was Aether that protected humanity against Tartarus and Hades. Since Hades ruled over the dark, Aether brought in the light to allow us mortals to live without fear of the underworld.
Dik-Dik

## Ability

### Ability

**A Mate For Life****(Start)** Two random Little Critters cards in hand gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Look beyond the bad dates, celebrity throuples and bizarre catfishing and you’ll see: true love is real, and it can happen to you. Just look at the **Dik-Dik**. Considered one of the smallest antelopes in the world, these mammals are completely monogamous and will usually form life-long pair bonds. Throughout the year, the male and female will stay together, just vibing.

Highly vocal animals, Dik-Diks talk to each other with a variety of calls, including whistles, barks and bleats. They’re so lovey-dovey that they’ve become synonymous with loyalty and longevity in many African cultures; their monogamous nature and long-lasting bonds serving as a symbol of a strong relationship. But maybe this species is just superior to humans.
Death

## Ability

### Ability

**Judgment Day****(Draw)** If you have played Conquest this game and if you have played War this game, this card gains +50 Power this turn. **(Play)** The card opposite this loses -50 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your The Four Horsemen cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

You can’t have the apocalypse without death: it’s like trying to play football without a ball, or making pizza without the dough. In the Bible’s Book of Revelation, **Death** comes forward as the fourth horseman, riding a pale horse: “And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with the sword, and with hunger, and with death and with the beasts of the earth.”

Unlike the other three riders, this one has a name: Θάνατος (Thanatos). Instead of carrying a weapon or object as the other horsemen do, he is followed by Hades - the resting place of the dead. To avoid confusion with the white horse of Conquest, Death’s horse is more of a sickly green, like that of a corpse.
Ceres

## Did You Know?

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and is a Dwarf Planet. Ceres enjoyed a long period (50 years) of being considered one of the Planets, before being confirmed as an Asteroid.

Then in 2006 it got promoted back to Dwarf Planet.

During this time of course, Ceres itself didn't actually change one bit.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- A big fan of delicate fabrics.
Cold Reading

## Ability

### Ability

**Take a Guess****(Draw)** If your opponent's deck contains 2 or more Arts & Culture cards, this card gains +20 Power this turn. Repeat for Space and Science.

## Did You Know?

I see a tall dark stranger on your horizon. I sense an older female figure in your life who wants to protect you. I see a health issue with a relative. Does any of this speak to you?

Of course it does, because they are vague enough statements that you can interpret them to be specific to your life. This is an example of shotgunning, a fortune-telling technique used in a **Cold Reading**. As the name suggests, this set of methods relies on no prior knowledge. It’s a fun parlour trick, but there’s no science here. Instead, the reader combines high-probability guesses and broad statements with psychological tricks to create the appearance of intuitive perception.

Still, check in with your relatives and avoid strangers.
Dearc

## Ability

### Ability

**Detriomphe****(Play)** If your deck has 8 or more Fearsome Flyers cards, your Fearsome Flyers cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A large body, a wide snout, a long pointed tail and large curved teeth: no, it’s not your latest Tinder match - it’s the **Dearc**, a genus of rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur that has been proposed based on fragmentary fossil remains. There’s only one specimen, and it was found on the peninsula of Trotternish, part of the Isle of Skye in north-west Scotland.

Although the specimen recovered was a juvenile and still growing, it still had an estimated wingspan of 2.5 to 3 metres. That makes the Dearc one of the largest known Jurassic pterosaurs and potentially the largest flying animal of its time. Its discovery also made palaeontologists rethink the origin of large pterosaurs, concluding that they actually reached greater body sizes much earlier than once thought.
Crooked Forest

## Ability

### Ability

**Mys-tree****(Return)** If your deck has 4 or more Tremendous Trees cards, your opponent's Legendary cards, wherever they are, cost +2 Energy for 5 turns.

## Did You Know?

It looks like a real-life Salvador Dali painting, but the **Crooked Forest** is very real and very weird. Situated near the town of Gryfino, Poland, this grove of 400 curved pines came to be in the 1930s. It is believed that fluctuations in gravitational forces could have caused the trees to grow with a 90-degree bend in their base.

Another theory says that heavy snowfall could have flattened the base of these trees while they were just saplings. It’s also possible that humans intervened to create curved timber that could be used for furniture or boat building. In any case, curved trees do exist in other parts of the world, but not in such great numbers, nor as neatly arranged as in Poland’s Crooked Forest.
Diamond Tetra

## Did You Know?

The Diamond Tetra is a small freshwater fish of the characin family of order Characiformes. It is found in and around Lake Valencia in Venezuela, South America. As is true in much of nature, this species exhibits clear sexual dimorphism, with males having much longer dorsal fins than the females. Typical huh.

If the Diamond Tetra could drive a Ferrari it would. Why? Because it's flashy as hell. One of the flashiest of all the tetra species, it has more bling than the Queen's tiara drawer, with green and gold or orange iridescent sparkles on its attractive, silvery-violet scales! This fish has a gorgeous twinkly, sparkling appearance and is a sight for sore eyes. The colours and good looks don't fully form until adulthood but hey, that's true for us all (mainly)!
Charles Darwin

## Ability

### Ability

**Life Sciences****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Science cards, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 4 turns. If your deck has 9 or more Science cards, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain an additional +10 Power for 4 turns.

## Did You Know?

British naturalist Charles Darwin rightly deserves his place among the greatest scientists to have lived by proposing his theory of evolution in 1859 in The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

As a Cambridge graduate, he became HMS Beagle's naturalist and it was on this 5-year voyage of exploration where he witnessed and observed first-hand evidence of evolution. He noted the slightly different forms of mockingbirds and tortoises and collected the ancestral fossils of endemic creatures across the Galapagos Islands.

Returning to England in 1836, Darwin began the search for the driving mechanism that would cause evolutionary change, hitting upon the idea of natural selection. By 1839 Darwin had completed his theory of evolution but it would be another 20 years before Origin of Species was published.

Evolution by natural selection is the process by which living things change over time as a result of changes in inherited behavioral or physical traits. These adaptions improve the chances of survival and having more offspring.

Here at CUE Cards HQ we like to give you the measure of a subject by offering up little known nuggets of information and insight. As a young man, while reading Divinity at Cambridge, Charles became president of the short-lived Glutton Club. With the raison d'être of sampling “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate.” The club apparently lost their enthusiasm after chowing down on an 'indescribable' Barn Owl. Darwin himself took it on the chin and continued his culinary adventures while on the HMS Beagle, chomping his way through a puma, armadillos, iguanas, tortoises and a hard-to-catch rhea which was meant for study.
Common Chimpanzee

## Ability

### Ability

**Chimp Tricks****(Play)** Your opponent's Science cards, wherever they are, lose -30 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Located in ranges along Africa's equator, the **Common Chimpanzee** is one of the most recognisable primates (think Caesar in the brilliant Planet of the Apes reboot). Chimpanzees have the remarkable capability to use other objects in their environment as tools to benefit themselves (such as using a rock to break nutshells open), thus making them Nature's fallback plan if things don't work out so well with humans.
Dilong

## Ability

### Ability

**Emperor Dragon****(Return)** All remaining cards with "Emperor" in their name in both player's hands **Lock** for 2 turns and your Mythical Creatures cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

When the first fossil of ***Dilong** paradoxus* was uncovered, it was considered one of the earliest forms of Tyrannosauroidea, the group that includes the march larger Tyrannosaurus rex. Not only that, but this small ancestor of the T-Rex was the first of its kind that had direct evidence for feathers.

The species name ‘paradoxus’ refers to this, as the discovery of feathers on a tyrannosaur was not expected. The name ‘Dilong’, on the other hand, means ‘emperor dragon’. Some experts think Dilong's attributes - its small size, feathers and carnivorous diet - point to a warm-blooded metabolism similar to that of a modern bird. Dilong roamed the area now known as the Liaoning Province in north-eastern China 138-129 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous Period.
Chihuahua

## Ability

### Ability

**All Bark and No Bite****(Play)** If your deck has 11 or more Dogs cards, this card gains +66 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

As the world’s tiniest dog breed, it’s hardly surprising that the **Chihuahua** is the champion of Small Dog Syndrome. What they lack in size, they make up for in attitude. And in a way, it’s justified - after all, when it comes to brain size in relation to body size, Chihuahuas have the largest brains of all dog breeds.

Although the exact origin of this breed isn't known for sure, it’s thought that Chihuahuas are descendants of the Techichi, a small, mute dog kept by the Toltec people of Mexico as long ago as the 9th century AD. Perhaps the reason why the species is known as being yappy is because the modern Chihuahua is making up for centuries of silence.
Crystal Skull

## Ability

### Ability

**Chiselled Features****(Play)** Your Hidden Gems cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

The legend of the Aztec **Crystal Skulls** has been shrouded in mystery and Hollywood hoopla, thanks to a certain Indiana Jones movie. But here's the twist: not a single crystal skull has ever been unearthed from an actual excavation site.

Every Aztec crystal skull in museum collections across the world are fake - and they can all be traced back to one man: Eugène Boban. This French geologist had a peculiar fascination with Mexico’s history, so he gallivanted around the country, befriending renowned archeologists and taking advantage of museum curators' lack of knowledge about Aztec society to sell them fake crystal skulls.

So, who actually made the skulls? Some say Boban got them from ageing Christian churches in Mexico that the government was tearing down, but no one knows for sure.
Circled Dot

## Ability

### Ability

**Alchemical Sun****(Play)** If you have played 9 or more Solar System cards this game, this card gains +90 Power.

## Did You Know?

When you look at a **Circled Dot**, what do you see? An eye? The sun at the centre of our solar system? An out-of-proportion donut? As it turns out, the “circumpunct”, or circled dot, can represent a number of things.

You’ll find the circumpunct in Egyptian hieroglyphs, used to depict the sun - or Ra, the sun god. In Monism, the circled dot is used as a symbol of “oneness” - the inside dot representing a single, primordial source, and the circle on the outside meaning the expansion of your soul through all the experiences and all the lifetimes. Meanwhile, in Arabic, the circled dot is an eye-shaped amulet called a Nazar, used to protect against the evil eye. If you still see a funny shaped donut, that’s fine too.
Christ of the Abyss

## Ability

### Ability

**Benediction of Peace****(Play)** If your deck has 9 or more Oceans cards, your History cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played, and vice versa.

## Did You Know?

Some people find Jesus when they’re least expecting it. Like, while snorkelling in the Mediterranean Sea, and bumping into a giant bronze statue of the man himself.

Known as **Christ of the Abyss**, this unusual tribute was sculpted by Guido Galletti, based on the idea of an Italian diving instructor Duilio Marcante. In 1954, the statue was submerged near the spot where Dario Gonzatti - the first Italian to use SCUBA gear - died in 1947.

Strangely, it’s not even the only underwater Jesus on the planet. Dive 25 ft into the water off the coast of Key Largo, Florida and, sure enough, you’ll find Christ offering a benediction of peace, with his head and hands raised skyward. There’s also a third one in Grenada’s underwater sculpture park in Molinere Bay.
Communist Manifesto

## Ability

### Ability

**The Spectre of Communism****(Draw)** This card loses -30 Power until played and your cards in hand gain +6 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, the **Communist Manifesto** formed the basis of the modern communist movement. The text starts with the dramatic words “A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism” - postulating that capitalism was on a collision course to self-destruction, encouraging the working class to rise up and free themselves of the chains of capitalism.

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Although hundreds of copies were produced, only 26 original copies of the Communist Manifesto still survive today. One of them sold at auction in 1986 for $39,811. A capitalist might argue that, as it was missing a cover, it could have gone for even more.

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Christ the Redeemer

## Ability

### Ability

**I Am The Resurrection****(Draw)** This card gains +20 Power and costs +1 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Standing 30 metres tall, **Christ the Redeemer** towers over the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and is one of the most iconic monuments on planet Earth.

Each year, Christ the Redeemer is visited by nearly 2 million people, and the record number of visitors to the statue in a single day was a huge 14,000 during Easter of 2011. Now considered one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, the statue was built in 1922 using reinforced concrete and has an outer shell of 6 million soapstone tiles.

Apparently, the workers who made the tiles often wrote notes on the back – meaning this landmark is effectively one gigantic time capsule full of hidden messages we’ll never read.

'Vista aerea de São Cristóvão' by Gustavo Facci from Argentina (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Arachnocampa

## Ability

### Ability

**Spawn Camp****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, gain +8 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

Look! Look at the pretty lights!

It’s like magical Christmas tinsel! Beautiful, like… like…

…like the mucus-covered threads from gnat larva? Is that where you were going with that?

Prettier to look at than think about, **Arachnocampa** (meaning ‘spider worm’) have a bioluminescent larval stage, a bit like glowworms. The glow attracts prey to silk threads that are cunningly covered in a poisonous mucus, accelerating the prey’s demise.

With this comfortable set-up, it’s perhaps no wonder that the species spends most of its existence in the larval stage - up to a whole year.
Dahu

## Ability

### Ability

**Around and Around****(Play)** If played next to any Majestic Mountains card, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Catching a **Dahu** requires two people: one to hold a bag open at the bottom of a mountain slope, and the other to stand behind the creature and expertly make dahu noises. When it turns around, it will lose its balance and roll down the hill into the bag.

Alternatively, grind some pepper onto a large stone in its habitat, wait for the dahu to sniff the pepper, sneeze and knock itself out on the rock. Will any of these methods work? Absolutely not, because there’s no such thing as a dahu.

This mountain-goat-like cryptid is a hoax invented by the French. Apparently, since the creature has shorter legs on one side, it can only walk around the mountain in one direction. But (oh-oh-oh-oh) that’s what makes it beautiful.

'Illustration of a Dahu' by Phillip Semeria (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Deathstalker

## Ability

### Ability

**The Scorpion King****(Draw)** Your Ancient Egypt cards in hand cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Presumably the winner of a naming competition somewhere, the Deathstalker is otherwise known (by more patient, but less cool, people) as Leiurus quinquestriatus. This means 'five striped smooth tail' - neatly skirting around the fact that this is one of the most dangerous scorpions in existence.

The Deathstalker sting contains a mix of neurotoxins, which in healthy adult humans may cause long-term damage, but for children or people with underlying health conditions is more likely to be fatal.

Be especially careful if you live in the US, because the anti-venom isn't even approved for use. (Of course, you should never find Deathstalker in the wild in the US - they are usually found in North Africa and the Middle East.)
Code of Hammurabi

## Ability

### Ability

**Legal Relief****(Return)** Your Documented cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy until played and if you are losing the round, they gain +13 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Just finished a book and looking for your next read? Why not give the **Code of Hammurabi** a go?

Okay, real talk: there are a few reasons why that might be difficult. Firstly, it’s written in an Old Babylonian dialect, apparently by Hammurabi, the sixth king of the First Dynasty of Babylon. Secondly, the text (which is the best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East) is inscribed on a basalt that stands 2.25 metres tall.

Now, even if you had the desire and ability to read legal writings in an ancient language, you would have to go to The Louvre Museum in France to view the basalt upon which the text is inscribed. Or… you could just look for a translation online. But that’s much less impressive.

'Stele of Hammurabi' by Mbzt (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Dinosaur Eggs

## Ability

### Ability

**Eggs In One Basket****(Play)** Your Egg Nebula card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When Dinosaur Eggs were first discovered in 1859, they were thought to be giant bird eggs. Since being correctly identified, the oldest known eggs found are those of the Massospondylus, which lived around 190 million years ago.

Fossilised Dinosaur Eggs are extremely hard to find because, would you believe it, dinosaurs didn't take great care of them. Most eggs were gobbled up before they hatched, and those that did hatch left behind shells - they're quite commonly found, but intact eggs with baby dinosaurs inside are very rare.
Comb Duck

## Ability

### Ability

**Bad Hair Day****(Play)** Your cards with "Hair" in the name, wherever they are, gain +19 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

You might be tempted to refer to the **Comb Duck** as an “ugly duckling” but that would make you a bit rude now, wouldn’t it. Instantly recognisable by the large comb on its beak, the Comb Duck is native to South American wetlands and it would quite like it if you didn’t stare so much.

Only the males have the comb and it grows during mating season. Both sexes have dark almost-metallic looking feathers down their backs and wings and white undersides. These guys like to perch in trees and actually like to rest in tree hollows, meaning they sometimes look like they’re living in a very large cuckoo clock. The claws in their feet are so strong that they can actually cling vertically to a tree trunk. Which maybe does look a bit weird and it would probably be understandable to be staring at that.
Conservation of Energy

## Ability

### Ability

**Store Power****(Return)** This card loses -5 Power and costs -4 Energy until played. Gain +5 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

**Energy Conservation** describes the discovery that energy is never destroyed - it is always transformed into another form of energy, and when it is waiting to be transferred, it is "conserved". In a closed system, energy is never lost - it only changes forms.

It's also something of a scientific BYOB, as several scientists over the centuries contributed to the unified understanding of Energy Conservation we have today.

The phrase "Energy Conservation" is also used to describe the act of using less power. Examples include not taking 45 minutes in the shower every day, not leaving the heating on all day and, for the last time, SWITCHING THAT LIGHT OFF IN THE HALLWAY. Ahem.
Da Vinci's Aerial Screw

## Did You Know?

Leonardo Da Vinci is probably going to appear on a lot of CUE cards going forward - he had his renaissance fingers in just about every area of art and engineering.

One day in 1489 he decided he was going to try his hand at designing a flying machine. The corkscrew design you see on the front of this card was inspired by the falling of seeds from maple trees - if you throw them in the air, they spin as they descend, and Da Vinci applied rotation principles to his design.

It's not known if one of these was actually constructed, but it's a safe bet that it probably wouldn't have flown - the designs indicate that it would require four people pulling levers to make the corkscrew turn, which is not enough people to generate anywhere near enough power to get it off the ground. Additionally, if it could get into the air, the torque created by the lever-pullers would actually rotate the platform they're standing on as well - on top of any potential airsickness you might have.
Chlorine Gas

## Ability

### Ability

**Air of Sorrow****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

During World War I, perhaps the biggest - and certainly the most controversial - advance in the fine art of mass killing was the use of chemical weapons. While the French were the first to use gas in the war, the Germans started with **Chlorine Gas**. This was used to devastating effect at Ypres, killing over a thousand men in its first use. Thankfully soldiers soon discovered that covering their face with a rag soaked in water (or often, urine) would prevent the water-soluble Chlorine from doing much damage.

Swedish pharmacist Carl Wilhelm Scheele was the guy who discovered **Chlorine Gas** in 1774 - but he didn't realise that he'd done so. He also discovered Oxygen, but Joseph Priestley gets the credit because he published his findings first. These near-breakthroughs led to Isaac Asimov later dubbing the great chemist 'Hard-Luck Scheele'.
Chinese Mitten Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**Cold Claws****(Play)** Your cards adjacent to this lose -20 Power this turn. **(Return)** Gain +25 Power/Turn for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

What do the kids from South Park, Mickey Mouse and the Shanghai hairy crab have in common? That’s right, they all have mittens to protect their hands, paws and claws, respectively.

Also known as the **Chinese Mitten Crab**, this critter is a pretty invasive species. In the past, they’ve invaded German waters, destroying fishing nets, hurting native fish and causing €80 million worth of dam-damage. As a result, the import or trade of the crab is now forbidden across the entire European Union.

Still, if you do catch one, it’ll make for a good meal. Sure, a Hairy Crab may not sound like the most appetising of creatures, but archeological studies suggest that the Chinese have been eating mitten crab for 5,000 years. Just make sure to remove its gloves!
Christmas Rose

## Ability

### Ability

**Rosy Cheek****(Return)** If your deck has 9 or more Plant Life cards, your Plant Life cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Weirdly enough, **The Christmas Rose**, also known as the black hellebore, is neither black, nor a rose, but it does bloom at Christmas time.

A member of the buttercup family, the flowers are generally white with an occasional pink tinge. But perhaps “white with an occasional pink tinge buttercup that kind of looks like a rose” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

The Christmas Rose is unsurprisingly steeped in Christian tradition. The tale goes that a while tending to her sheep one winter’s night, a young shepherd named Madelon watched the three wise men and the shepherds bring their myrhhiad *(get it?)* of gifts for the newborn baby Jesus, and with nothing to share with him herself, began to cry. An angel, seeing her despair and wanting to provide a gift, brushed away the snow to reveal this beautiful flower created by the young girl’s own tears, the Christmas Rose.

However, if you are involved in any nativity reenactments this year, be careful when *(ie. definitely avoid)* giving this flower to any babies - as they are highly poisonous and just touching the plant can cause skin irritation.
Cinco de Mayo

## Ability

### Ability

**¡Viva México!****(Play)** Your Mexican Mole Lizard, Mexican Beaded Lizard, Carlota of Mexico and Burrito cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

On the 5th May 1862, The Mexican Army triumphed against the French in the Battle de Puebla. It was the victory that the Mexican Army needed during the second French intervention in Mexico – so, every year, it is celebrated through El Día de la Batalla de Puebla, a festival that takes place on the 5th of May.

Over time, this festival has evolved to become **Cinco de Mayo**, a holiday more popularly celebrated in the United States that centres around Mexican-American culture. Los Angeles hosts the largest Cinco de Mayo celebration, but Vancouver does hold a Cinco de Mayo skydiving event and the Cayman Islands has an annual Cinco de Mayo air guitar competition.
Cornish Rex

## Ability

### Ability

**Seek Attention****(Draw)** Your opponent's Legendary cards in hand **Burn** (25) this round.

## Did You Know?

It may have a stray-like appearance, but the **Cornish Rex** is a lover, not a fighter. Playful and affectionate, the Cornish Rex defies all cat stereotypes: they’re great with strangers, they love being around children and aren’t afraid to act a fool to get attention from its owners (cameras at the ready!)

Because of its natural love for people, this breed of cat demands more fuss, boops and pats than most felines.
Dark Star

## Ability

### Ability

**Preventing Collapse****(Draw)** If you are losing the round, your Exploring the Stars cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Dark Stars** aren’t like regular stars, they’re cool stars. Regular stars shine because of the nuclear fusion in their cores. Dark stars just shine from the heat generated by the annihilation of dark matter. Well, hypothetically speaking. Because here’s the thing: we don’t know if they actually exist.

The name alone is confusing, given that dark stars aren’t dark at all, but rather some of the biggest and brightest stars in our universe. And yet, no one has ever seen one. In theory, this type of star would have been around in the universe way before conventional stars were able to form and thrive. In order to prove their existence, we need telescopes capable of peering back to the extremely distant past.
Corythosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Duck-Billed Lizard****(Play)** If your deck has 1 or more Reptiles cards and 1 or more Sea Birds cards, your Herbivores cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When we think about the animals who roamed the earth in prehistoric times, we tend to picture mighty mammoths, terrifying T-Rexes or aquatic behemoths with rows of razor-sharp teeth. The **Corythosaurus** was none of those things. Imagine a plant-based mega-duck with a mohawk.

When fully grown, this duck-billed hadrosaurid would have reached a length of up to nine metres and boasted a long heavy tail weighing between three to five tonnes. But Corythosaurus (Cory for short) was a big softie at heart. According to scientists, this is the first hadrosaur that had a social requirement of being around other members of the same species for comfort. If anything, that just endears us to the mega-duck even more.
Coterel Gang

## Ability

### Ability

**Inspiration?****(Draw)** For every time this card has been played this game, give your [[:Category:The Legend of Robin Hood|The Legend of Robin Hood]] cards, wherever they are, +9 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Like the Sopranos of the 14th century, the **Coterel Gang** were a notorious family-run crime outfit who operated in the peaks of Derbyshire and the woods of north Nottinghamshire. The group was led by one James Coterel and supported by his brothers Nicholas and John, as well as members of the clergy.

Since their preferred hide-outs were in the local woods, the Coterels and their associates were known as a “greenwood gang”. Sound familiar? That’s because many of the activities of the Coterels inspired the stories later woven into the Robin Hood tales penned in the early 15th century.

Just like the legends of Robin Hood, the Coterels stole from the rich, however, there’s no evidence to suggest they donated the spoils of their crimes to the poor.
Cyclopean Isles

## Ability

### Ability

**Rend a Pointed Rock****(Play)** Your The Original Odyssey cards, wherever they are, gain +29 Power until played. **(Return)** Your Natural Monuments cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy for 4 turns.

## Did You Know?

Around 500,000 years ago, a small volcanic archipelago was formed off the coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. It didn’t have a name at the time (humans were too busy evolving from neanderthals to know or care), but it would later come to be known as the **Cyclopean Isles**, the setting for a curious tale in Homer’s Odyssey.

When the hero of the story visited, it was teeming with Cyclops: large giants said to have only one eye. After one of the creatures killed two of Odysseus’ men, he blinded it by driving a wooden stick into its eye. As Odysseus escaped to his ship, Polyphemus (the cyclops in question) threw massive rocks at his enemy, and these boulders became the Cyclopean Isles.
Chaoyangsaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Horned Faces****(Return)** Your Centrosaurus, Hellboy, the Regaliceratops, Diabloceratops, Styracosaurus and Triceratops cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Only one specimen of the **Chaoyangsaurus** has been found by palaeontologists, and it was discovered in the Chaoyang area of Liaoning Province in northeastern China in 1976.

Thought to have lived between 150.8 and 145.5 million years ago, this ancient herbivore had a few distinguishing traits. For a start, it may have actually been fluffy, or had long quills on its tail. Its skull was quite large compared to its body, and it had a long beak-like snout that was slightly hooked. On the backside of its head was a ridge-like structure, and these horned-like physical characteristics led them to be classified as the earliest known Ceratopsians, meaning ‘horned faces’ in Greek. So, if you can’t remember its name, you can just call the Chaoyangsaurus ‘Horny McHornface’.

'Chaoyangsaurus BW' by Nobu Tamura (http://spinops.blogspot.com) (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Columba

## Ability

### Ability

**Slightly Inconspicuous****(Play)** Your Constellations cards adjacent to this gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Columba** is the Latin word for ‘dove’ - but don’t worry if you can’t make out a bird-shape when peering up at this constellation. Once upon a time, the constellation was known as Columba Noachi, meaning “Noah’s dove”, in reference to the biblical dove that told Noah that the Great Flood was receding.

It’s not the easiest constellation to pick out; its brightest star Alpha Columbae geing only of magnitude 2.7. For reference, a higher positive number means a fainter celestial object, while a higher negative means a brighter object - our own Sun being −26.7. The only other named star in the Columba constellation is Beta Columbae, an orange-hued giant star of magnitude 3.1.
Daniel Shays

## Ability

### Ability

**Shays' Rebellion****(Play)** If you are trailing by 100 Power or more, your cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, **Daniel Shays** was no stranger to protest. In August 1786, he led a large group of armed rebels (called Shaysites) in a revolt against the state government in protest of unjust economic policies and corruption of the Massachuessetts state legislature. And who could blame them?

Having \*just\* fought a revolution inspired by opposition to British tax policies, rural labourers weren’t about to welcome the burdensome taxes and oppressive credit terms imposed by the banks. To make their demands heard, the Shaysites organised protests, preventing proceedings of the courthouse.

Later, in 1787, they marched on the federal Springfield Armory in an unsuccessful attempt to seize its weaponry and overthrow the government. Although the rebellion was suppressed, the incident did expose weaknesses in the federal government.

'Daniel Shays' by Bryant White (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Diana

## Ability

### Ability

**Hunter × Hunter****(Draw)** If your deck contains Artemis, your The Roman Empire and Greek Mythology cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Picture the scene: you’ve literally just emerged from your mother’s womb, and you’re forced to play the role of a midwife to help deliver your twin brother. Your brother is then born clutching a bronze sword.

Both natural archers, you and your brother set out to hunt a terrifying creature known as Python that has pursued your mother. After such a traumatic experience, you might retreat to the woodlands to avoid more chaos.

That was certainly the case for **Diana**, goddess of the hunt and a master of the bow in Roman mythology. After her and her brother Apollo killed the beast, they went their separate ways, with Diana choosing the solitude of the forest. Here, she roamed the wilderness, hunted game and guarded the boundaries that separate wild from civilised.
Conway's Game of Life

## Ability

### Ability

**Live or Dead****(Play)** Your cards in hand with 1 or less Base Energy lose -20 Power this turn, your cards in hand with 2 or 3 Base Energy gain +20 Power this turn and your cards in hand with 4 or more Base Energy lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If we’re living in a simulation, it’s probably designed in a similar way to **Conway’s Game of Life**. Unlike CUE, there are no “winners” or “losers” in this game, because it simulates itself. But like CUE, this simple game actually results in some surprising behaviour.

Devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970, the game consists of a grid of cells, which, based on a few mathematical rules, can live, die or multiply. All you need to do is start the process by choosing a specific, or random, combination of cells, and voila: life happens. Fifty years on, the mathematician’s most famous (and, to him, his least favourite) creation continues to prove two things: Complexity arises from simplicity, and uncertainty is the only certainty.

'Trefoil knot conways game of life' by Raphaelaugusto (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Centennial Light

## Ability

### Ability

**Forever Burning****(Draw)** Your opponent's cards in hand **Burn** (10) until this is returned to your deck.

## Did You Know?

How many people does it take to change a lightbulb? If it’s the **Centennial Light**, the answer is none. Because this light has been burning since 1901, making it the world’s longest lasting lightbulb.

It all started with French engineer Adolphe Chaillet, who invented the hand-blown carbon-filament light bulb in the late 1890s. Although the Centennial Light is the longest burning bulb, many just like it still exist and can be found functioning.

Situated in a fire station in Livermore, California, the bulb is maintained by a dedicated supergroup of lightbulb protectors known as the Centennial Light Bulb Committee. If you want to check the status of the bulb and have nothing better to do, you can watch it burn on <link="https:>Bulbcam</link>.
DNA

## Ability

### Ability

**Organic Blueprint****(Draw)** Your Life on Land cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Deoxyribonucleic Acid, commonly mercifully shortened to **DNA**, is kind of like an instruction manual for how to make you. An extremely long, very complex and, until recently, unreadable instruction manual, which can be found in every single cell of your body.

**DNA** was first identified by Friedrich Miescher in the late 1860s. It was he who first identified a 'nuclein' while studying white blood cells, a protein unlike any others he'd seen before. That term evolved into 'nucleic acid', which became 'Deoxyribonucleic Acid'. He was slightly limited by the times - he lacked the technology to advance his research, and it would be James Watson and Francis Crick, in 1953, who would expand upon it. It was those two that discovered it had a helix-like structure.

The human genome - the parts of your **DNA** that determine you're a human being - is highly complex. Each human is 99% the same as every other human, and the differences in the last 1% are so many that they produce the vast variety of our species.

To write out the whole genome, assuming you're typing 60 words per minutes for eight hours a day, would take you 50 years! Fortunately, the hard work's been done for us - in 2002, The Human Genome Project mapped the entire genome and gained an understanding of what we're made of - knowing how to read and, eventually, manipulate our genetic building blocks could pave the way for the elimination of all kinds of diseases and conditions.
Coconut Octopus

## Ability

### Ability

**Secret Hideout****(Draw)** If your deck has 8 or fewer Going Underground cards, your Going Underground cards, wherever they are, gain +30 Power and cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Found on the sandy bottoms of the western Pacific and Indian oceans, the **Coconut Octopus** is the only member of the elite club of tool-using animals who doesn’t have a backbone. In order to hide from predators, these cephalopods tiptoe around with coconut-shell halves suctioned to their undersides before reassembling the halves and disappearing inside for protection.

When they aren’t hiding in a coconut, this octopus is easy to recognise from its webbed skirt that gives the cephalopod an appearance of a sentient parachute. This breed also has an incredibly inquisitive nature and has been known to jump on to divers and feel out their equipment to check whether there is anything useful for them to steal.
Cronopio

## Ability

### Ability

**Gone Nutty!****(Draw)** Your Woolly Mammoth, Smilodon and Megatherium cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

First discovered in 2011, the **Cronopio** was a shrew-sized, insect-loving mammal who lived among dinosaurs more than 100 million years ago. In fact, it is one of the very few mammals to come out of South America from this period.

Cronopio is what is known as a dryolestoid – a group of extinct mammals belonging to the lineage leading to modern marsupials and placental mammals. The fact that this creature bears resemblance to the sabre-toothed squirrel in the "Ice Age" movies is pure coincidence – but, in the words of scientist Guillermo Rougier (who found the fossils of the Cronopio in South America), the fact that you can create a bizarre animal and later discover it actually existed proves how little we really know about the diversity of ancient mammals.

'Cronopio' by Frank Markussen (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Columbian Mammoth

## Ability

### Ability

**Mammoth Mammoth****(Draw)** If your deck has 2 or more History cards, this card loses -40 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Where the woolly mammoths and mastodons of the Pleistocene era favoured the colder northern climes of Canada and the Arctic, the **Columbian Mammoth** headed south where it was marginally warmer. I mean, it was an *Ice Age, after all, I know where I’d want to be!*

*Almost all specimens of the Columbian Mammoth have been found in the United States of America, where they would have existed 12,000-or-so years ago, around the same era as the first humans to inhabit the Americas.*

*The defining feature of the Columbian Mammoth is its tusks, which were longer and more curved than its evolutionary cousins. The longest mammoth tusk ever found, at 4.9 m long, belonged to a Columbian Mammoth. Additionally, because it evolved in warmer climates, it would not have had as much fur as the woolly mammoth, if it had any at all.*
Circe

## Ability

### Ability

**Turned to Swine****(Play)** Your opponent's Legendary cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Circe**'s ability to turn enemies into animals is quite well-known – in the Odyssey, the enchantress turns Odysseus’ crew into ‘swine’.

However, her evil magic is further highlighted in the story of Picus, an Italian king who figuratively 'swiped left' on Circe - only to be turned into a woodpecker as a punishment.

That’ll tell him.
Defibrillator

## Did You Know?

CLEAR!

Defibrillators are used to restart hearts that have stopped pumping blood around the body. The user holds the two paddles to a patient's chest, and they send an electrical pulse through the body. This causes the heart to contract, which makes it pump blood, and the user keeps doing that until the heart is pumping by itself again.

Claude Beck, a cardiac surgeon at the University Hospitals of Cleveland in 1947, was the first person to use defibrillation on a human. He'd been experimenting with the concept of passing current through a heart to restart it on animals, but when a boy's heart stopped during surgery he grabbed a prototype defibrillator and used it on him out of desperation. The first shock failed, but the second successfully brought the boy back to life!
Coelacanth

## Ability

### Ability

**Living Fossil****(Draw)** If your deck has 4 or more Paleontology cards, your Feisty Fish and Fabulous Fish cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It was thought to have gone extinct along with the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Then, in 1938, a **Coelacanth** fish was found alive and well, just off South Africa’s east coast in 1938. Based on fossil analysis, these resilient fish were believed to have vanished during the mass extinction event that brought an end to three-quarters of Earth’s species following an asteroid strike. However, in true Gloria Gaynor fashion, these fish survived.

Coelacanth fish are plump in appearance and can grow to over 2 metres long. Their lifespan is thought to be around 100 years, with the oldest known specimen being 84 at the time of its capture in 1960. Although their lifespan isn’t too different from humans, their gestation can last up to five years!
Colin Campbell Cooper

## Ability

### Ability

**Early Works****(Draw)** If it's the first turn of a round, your opponent's Arts & Culture and History cards in hand **Burn** (25) this round. **(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your non-Limited Super Structures cards, wherever they are, gain +19 Power until played. **(Return)** Your non-Limited Super Structures cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy next turn.

## Did You Know?

American impressionist painter, **Colin Campbell Cooper** had a particular eye for architecture. Most known for his paintings of cityscapes and buildings, he was also a teacher of watercolor painting and architectural art. Sadly, after a fire in a gallery in 1896, much of his early work was lost but thankfully, we have lots of his work from the rest of his career to enjoy and reflect upon.

Cooper’s wife, Emma, was also a painter and throughout the early 1900s, they often exhibited their work together. They were both avid travellers and it’s thanks to Cooper’s hunger for exploring the world that we have many of his greatest works, which capture the sights of Paris, Verona, Seville and Madrid.

After his wife’s death in 1921, Cooper moved to Santa Barbara in California and this shaped his work in later life. He was inspired by his move away from the busy city towards the beauty of the nature around him. However, he still maintained his New York studio whilst living in California, as he considered New York to be the "artistic universe of America".