recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
André-Marie Ampère

## Ability

### Ability

**Turn Up the Power****(Play)** Your James Watt card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**André-Marie Ampère** made the revolutionary discovery that a wire carrying electric current can attract or repel another wire next to it that’s also carrying electric current. The attraction is magnetic, but no magnets are necessary for the effect to be seen. Say what?!

Although Ampère wasn't technically the first person to observe a connection between electricity and magnetism, he was the first scientist to attempt to theoretically explain and mathematically describe the phenomenon. So, credit where credit's due!

His hugely important contributions laid the groundwork upon which the science of electrodynamics (a term coined by Ampère, but now more commonly referred to as electromagnetics) has been built. In a nutshell, he produced the best definition of electric current of his time.

Ampère also proposed the existence of a particle we now recognise as the electron, discovered the chemical element fluorine, and grouped elements by their properties over half a century before Dmitri Mendeleev produced his periodic table.

The SI unit of electrical current, the ampere, is named in his honour.

Pop trivia: After relocating to Bourg in the early 1800's, Ampère completed, 'The Mathematical Theory of Games', an account of the probabilities of winning or losing faced by gamblers. It will not help you be better at CUE, sadly.

'Portrait of of great french physicist Andre Marie Ampere' by Unknown Author (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
A Bird in Flight

## Ability

### Ability

**Open Wings****(Draw)** If your deck has 12 or more Birds cards, 12 of your random Birds cards, wherever they are, gain +13 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Who ever said that Math can’t be beautiful? From awesome fractal patterns to the iconic works of M. C. Escher, and now the **A Bird in Flight** mathematical artwork, there’s no limit to the masterpieces that can be created with mathematics.

The bird pictured on this card is an artwork created by Iranian mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh, a design made from 20,001 circles. The designs he makes are created by combing through tens of thousands of computer-generated mathematical figures to find coincidental replications of real life objects, which he then perfects using his knowledge of trigonometric functions.

It’s not just birds that he creates either, with his other designs including hearts, fish, flowers, and even human faces!

'A Bird in Flight made up of 20,001 circles' by Hamid Naderi Yeganeh (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
16 Psyche

## Ability

### Ability

**Psych Out!****(Draw)** If you are not winning the round, this card costs -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

In 1852, Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis spotted a large asteroid in the sky and named it after the Greek mythological figure Psyche. The body, which orbits between Mars and Jupiter, has a diameter of 226 kilometres, making it the largest of the M-type asteroids. What de Gasparis didn’t know was that the monetary value that this asteroid was colossal.

In 2021, a new study from the American Astronomical Society made it possible to develop a temperature map of the asteroid by analysing millimetre wavelength emissions. The conclusion? This asteroid holds wealth greater than Earth’s global economy. More precisely, the iron from **16 Psyche** alone is thought to be worth $10,000 quadrillion (that’s $10,000 followed by another 15 zeroes).

'Rendering dell'asteroide Psiche' by ASU/Peter Rubin (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Aphrodite

## Ability

### Ability

**Feel the Love****(Play)** Your Heart Nebula card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Aphrodite**, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, was one of the twelve Olympian Gods who lived on Mount Olympus. This young, beautiful goddess is often pictured with an apple, scallop shell and a dove or swans. She also rode a flying chariot that was pulled by sparrows. (Yes, sparrows. Those notoriously big strong birds who are perfectly suited to chariot-pulling.)

Many famous works of art have Aphrodite as the subject including the sculpture Venus de Milo by Alexandros of Antioch, The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, and... um... the Gummy Venus de Milo from The Simpsons.

Being an Olympian, Aphrodite was immortal and extremely powerful. She even had a magical belt that would cause others to fall in love with the wearer (currently out of stock on Amazon sadly).

Unsurprisingly, other Greek goddesses, such as Hera, would borrow the belt from time to time. Aphrodite also could make fighting lovers kiss and make up again, like a divine couples therapist.

Two stories in Greek mythology tell of Aphrodite's birth. The first says that she was the daughter of Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and appeared out of the foam of the sea, floating on a scallop shell to the island of Cypress. The second story says that she was the daughter of Zeus and the Titaness Dione. Dione helps tend to **Aphrodite's** wounds in the story of the Trojan War.

Obviously, many of the gods were in love with Aphrodite. Zeus became afraid that a great battle would break out over her so he arranged a marriage between her and the god Hephaestus. This was of particular amusement to the sniggering Greeks, as Hephaestus was known as a lame and hideously ugly god.

Aphrodite wasn't faithful to Hephaestus and had affairs with several other gods (Ares, Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus) and mortals (Adonis, Anchises). She eventually left Hephaestus for Ares, the handsome god of war. One of their children was Eros (Cupid), the winged god of love... and subject of another card.
Aconcagua

## Ability

### Ability

**Summit of the Southwest****(Play)** Your Majestic Mountains cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Behold **Aconcagua**, the tallest mountain in the Americas and the highest point in the Western hemisphere. Situated in Mendoza province in Argentina, Aconcagua has two summits—north and south—connected by a ridge.

Between 1896 and 1897, a European expedition led by British mountaineer Edward FitzGerald tried and failed to reach the summit eight times. Finally, on January 14th, the Swiss guide Matthias Zurbriggen stood on the summit of Aconcagua. As far as he knew, it was the highest point a man had ever been. But he stood there alone, as FitzGerald had been forced to stop due to altitude sickness at 6,000m.

With a summit elevation of 6,961m above sea level, Aconcagua does make for a difficult climb, but that doesn’t stop around 3,500 climbers from attempting it each year.
Banded Sea Krait

## Ability

### Ability

**Serpent-up Frustration****(Play)** Your Bushmaster card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

We shall call this, “A Sea Kraits tale”, which is essentially a tale about a Sea Krait’s tail - why? Because a Sea Krait has a very interesting tail. “But what even IS a Sea Krait?!” we hear you cry… well, a Sea Krait is basically a Sea Snake - it just sounds cooler.

Now, back to the tail- the key distinguishing physical characteristic of Sea Snakes and Kraits compared to land-living snakes is the tail, which is flattened to give it a paddle-like effect which it uses for swimming through the water. Clever, huh?

Actual sea snakes spend almost all of their time underwater but Sea Kraits return to land to digest their prey, rest and to reproduce. Adult Banded Sea Kraits spend equal amounts of time underwater as they do on land. These chaps are pretty slow when on dry land though, and can only move at around one 5th of the speed that they do in the water.

Banded Sea Kraits are well adapted for hunting on coral reefs. They can hold their breath for long periods of time and are specialists at hunting eels, which they are able to locate by snaking and peeping through crevices and cracks in the reef.

They paralyse their prey with powerful venom and swallow it whole. Something of a pied piper, other fish follow the Sea Krait and catch the smaller fish that the snakes scare out of the reef while hunting for eels.
Bacchus, God of Wine

## Ability

### Ability

**I'll Drink to That!****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +12 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

Bacchus was the son of the god Jupiter (Zeus) and the Theben princess, Semele, making him the only god born to a mortal mother. He was primarily known as the god of agriculture and wine, but was also associated with fertility, drama, and revelry. He was depicted as a god of trees and forest, and was often sought out to help the orchards grow. He was also an extremely important guy to have around during the fall grape harvest.

Before you start thinking he was all outdoorsy and ethereal, Bacchus was the original playboy and party boy of ancient times, holding secret ritualistic parties called Bacchanalia with his entourage known as satyrs, who were men with goat-like features, and female maenads, also called Bacchae (who were often found drunkenly dancing).

His parties with his strange crew became renowned as the original frat party. The shindigs were filled with drunken antics, orgies and general debauchery and were even banned for a time by the Roman Senate. These gatherings were often where people felt they could speak freely, after being loosened up by excess wine, this led to Bacchus earning the nickname on the social scene of, ‘The Liberator!’ The OG party god.
Aesop

## Ability

### Ability

**Fabulist****(Play)** If you have played at least 3 Life on Land cards this game, your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The man behind some of our favorite fables - The Tortoise and the Hare, the Boy Who Cried Wolf and the Lion and the Mouse - had incredibly humble beginnings in Ancient Greece. **Aesop** - of Aesop’s Fables fame - began his story as a slave in Greece around 600 BCE.

While we don’t have any of his writings and very few accounts from the time, several important writers and scholars have discussed his works, giving some hints and insights into his ownership over the tales. Aristotle, Herodotus, and Plutarch all wrote about his fables. However, a good chunk of ideas we have about Aesop comes from a fictionalised tale called The Aesop Romance. We just want to repeat - it’s fiction. It said he was gifted his gift for storytelling from a goddess so definitely not true. This also rather meanly described him as ugly too so we’re just going to take that with a pinch of salt.

The important thing though is that Aesop is attributed with writing the collection Aesop’s Fables, which are a bunch of moral stories, usually featuring cute/scary/kind-of-weird animals in tricky situations. We know that Aesop was considered a fabulist (that’s fabulist, not fabulous but we’re sure he was) by many ancient Greek scholars and there were several translations of his work into Latin.

Because we know so little about him, it also makes the story of his death so strange. Some say that Aesop was sent to Delphi by the king but then managed to anger the Delphians (possibly by calling them all immoral) and they supposedly threw him off a cliff. Which seems a bit much if you ask us. Afterwards, the Delphians suffered from famine and sickness, so the moral of this story is don’t chuck your fabulists off a cliff when he says something you don’t like.
Agriotherium

## Ability

### Ability

**Wild Beast****(Play)** For every Ice Age card you have played this game, up to a maximum of 12, this card gains +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

ROAARRRRRRRR!!!!!! Sorry, did the sound of this terrifying apex predator frighten you? Well SIKE, because the half-ton giants **Agriotherium** are thought to have been too weak and slow for hunting - preferring to laze on the sofa with a bowl of fruit and invertebrates, sometimes venturing out to snack on the carcasses of other predators prey. (There is no paleontological evidence for the Pleistocene-aged sofa, but none against it either).

That’s not to say these massive bears couldn’t generate an impressive bite force, or that its enormous size was useless either. When scavenging on the bone-dense leftovers of the Scimitar cat, intimidation is key.
Ace of Pentacles

## Ability

### Ability

**New Opportunities****(Draw)** If it's the first turn of a round, your cards in hand gain +30 Power until played. If you have lost 1 or more rounds this game, your cards in hand lose -30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you’ve just turned over the **Ace of Pentacles** in a Tarot reading, it’s about to come up for you. Big time. See that hand holding a gold coin? That’s a sign of wealth, and below the hand is a garden that someone’s obviously been tending to.

Prosperity is yours if you want it, but you’ve got to have the right frame of mind and stability in your life for those flowers to flourish. Think about it this way: you can’t plant a bunch of seeds and expect a good harvest without lifting a finger.

Whether it’s a relationship, a new career opportunity or financial investment, watering the seed could prove very rewarding. Or not at all, given that Tarot cards have no scientific backing.
Aoshima

## Ability

### Ability

**Cat Island****(Play)** If your deck has 5 or more Cute Cats cards, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +13 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Dog people, feel free to tune out of this one. Cat people, pack your bags and prepare for the holiday of a lifetime! Today, we’re jet-setting to **Aoshima**, also known as Cat Island. Situated just off the coast of Ehime in Japan, this paw-some place is home to over 120 free-roaming felines.

It all started back when cats were used on boats to combat rodents, but increasingly, the creatures remained on the island and began reproducing in large numbers. Today, feline residents far outnumber the human population of the island - we’re talking a cat to human ratio of 36:1. If you think you can handle 36 cats at the same time, you’re in for a treat. Just remember to pack 36 litter trays.
The Beginning of the End (TV Story)

***The Beginning of the End*** was the seventh serial of Season 40 of *Doctor Who*. It was written by Russell T Davies, directed by Graeme Harper and starred Aidan Gillen as the Tenth Doctor & Sophie Okonedo as Helliza

## Synopsis

100 planets in the universe have vanished. Someone has moved them out of existence & it's upto the Doctor & Helliza to find them. They know it's the Daleks, but they don't know what they want with the planets?

Meanwhile on Earth, many of the Doctors allies come together to contact the Doctor. He hasn't been for a long time. The people of Earth need him more than ever. All 100 planets need him more than ever

## Cast

* The Doctor - Aidan Gillen
* Helliza - Sophie Okonedo
* Romana - Chloë Annett
* Kalien - Nicola Walker
* Hartsran - Jacqueline Pearce
* Leela - Louise Jameson
* K9 - John Leeson
* Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
* Chris Hector - Robert Bathurst
* Jennifer Ward - Keeley Hawes
* Jack Afton - David Oyelowo
* Brigadier Winifred Bambera - Angela Bruce
* The Master - Derek Jacobi
* Dalek Voices - Nicholas Briggs
* Ian Chesterton - William Russell
* Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
* Polly Wright - Anneke Wills
* Victoria Waterfield - Deborah Watling
* Liz Shaw - Caroline John
* Brigadier Lethbridge Steward - Nicholas Courtney
* Benton - John Levine
* Jo Jones - Katy Manning
* Cliff Jones - Stewart Bevan
* Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen
* Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
* Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson
* Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant
* Melanie Bush - Bonnie Langford
* Ace - Sophie Aldred
* Raine Cunningham - Julia Ormond
* Abigail Norwood - Beverley Cressman

To be added.

## Home video releases

### DVD

* This story along with the other stories in Season 40 were released as *Doctor Who: The Complete Fortieth Season* in 2004.

### Blu-ray

* This story along with the other stories in Season 40 were later released as *Doctor Who: The Complete Fortieth Season* on Blu-ray.
Aurora Consurgens

## Ability

### Ability

**Alchemical Abstract****(Play)** If your deck has 1 or more Excellent Elements card, your The Occult cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Looking for a good page turner to sink your teeth into while on holiday? Forget those summer romance novels or whodunnits and go straight to **Aurora Consurgens**, one of the earliest emblematic alchemical manuscripts.

Meaning “Rising Dawn” in Latin, the Aurora Consurgens dates back to the early 1400s, but no one is quite sure who wrote it. Some claim that it was the philosopher Thomas Aquinas, others attribute the manuscripts to a writer known as “Pseudo-Aquinas”, but what we know for sure is that it’s a commentary on the Latin translation of Silvery Waters by Senior Zadith (Ibn Umayl), and that it contains some highly strange\* watercolour images supposed to depict the connection between the human experience and the spirit worlds.

* huge understatement.
The Genie

An odd fellow that the party met while travelling towards Candlekeep. He seems to be a genie in disguise, bent on no longer fulfilling wishes for mortals.

Still, he did agree to help the party resist the influence of their current affliction/curse - caused by the Allip. Oddly enough, it was because of said curse that the party met the genie.
Arctic Fox

## Ability

### Ability

**Winter Withstander****(Play)** Your Blizzard card in hand gains +80 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Arctic Fox** is pretty hardcore; it can survive frigid arctic temperatures as low as –58°F. It's robust and adaptable, with furry soles, short ears, and a short muzzle - all-important adaptations to the chilly clime.

When we say chilly, what we actually mean is nose-falling-off-and-hands-going-purple kinda cold. These guys are clever and in a blizzard, they may tunnel into the snow to create shelter. These are no ordinary tunnel homes though, they've been totally pimped out with dozens of entrances and have sometimes housed generations of **Arctic Foxes**.
A Christmas Carol

## Ability

### Ability

**Bah! Humbug****(Draw)** Your cards, wherever they are, cost +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

By the time the book “**A Christmas Carol**” was published the Christmas festivity’s were growing in popularity, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria had introduced the Christmas tree to Great Britain, more and more Christmas theme books were being written.

The book “**A Christmas Carol**” took only 6 weeks for Charles Dickens to write, it was published on the December 19th 1843, and the first edition sold out by Christmas Eve. In total Dickens published five Christmas stories during his 35 year writing career.

There have been many different film incarnation of Ebenezer Scrooge and I’m sure we all have our favourites, it definitely has to hold some sort of record for being the most remade work of fiction!

Back in 1843 it was common to say “Happy Christmas” but through out the book “**A Christmas Carol**”, Dickens repeats the phrase “Merry Christmas” it is believed this is why it became a popular Seasonal greeting!
Ancient Olympia

## Did You Know?

**Olympia** was the site of the Ancient Olympic Games, which were significantly more brutal than the modern games. Wrestling was the most popular event, at a time when the only two rules were no biting or attacking the genitals. Leontiskos of Messene, a two-time champion, would *break his own bones* to escape from holds - bringing new meaning to 'no pain, no gain'.
Arete

## Ability

### Ability

**Moral Virtue****(Play)** If your deck has 4 or more Ancient Greece cards, your cards in hand gain +22 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Bill and Ted and Greek mythology both share one overarching doctrine: Be Excellent to Eachother. In Greek mythology, this level of excellence was known as “**Arete**”. According to famous philosophy dude Aristotle, the concept of Arete is “a capacity (dynamis) of providing and preserving good things, and a capacity of conferring many great benefits (euergetikê)”.

In Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, arete is used to describe heroes and people of nobility. However, the ancient Greeks applied the concept of Arete to anything: from the excellence of a man to the excellence of a chimney. As long as something or someone has reached their full potential in effectiveness, he, she or it is “arete” e.g. “this party is arete!” or “yo, your social media game is arete!”
Amphicyon

## Ability

### Ability

**Bear Dog****(Play)** Your Grizzly Bear card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Nicknamed the "bear dog", the Amphicyon was a canine-like omnivore that lived in and around modern-day North America, France and Spain.

The scientific community is still undecided on whether this animal hunted in packs (like dogs) or solo (like bears). What they do know is that it's not the ancestor of either of those species.

'Amphicyon ingens' by roman uchytel (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- Summarising Prospero?
Abu Simbel

## Did You Know?

You know the Map Room scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Where Indiana Jones uses the Staff of Ra to show the location of Ark of the Covenant?

Well firstly, if the answer’s no - go and watch it again, we’ll wait.

Remember it now? Good. The Abu Simbel Temples were designed in a similar way, so that sunlight would illuminate three statues on two days of the year (October 22nd and February 22nd). We think that’s pretty epic, but even more epic is the fact that the whole site was moved onto a nearby hilltop in 1968 to enable the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Archerfish

## Ability

### Ability

**Water Shot****(Play)** Your opponent's Life on Land cards in hand lose -16 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Named for their impeccable shooting abilities, the **Archerfish** doesn’t settle for scraps. Instead, it preys on land-based insects by shooting them down with what amounts to an oral water pistol. Armed and dangerous, Archerfish start shooting when they’re just 2.5cm long, building experience as they hunt in small schools. When they’re fully grown, these aquatic assassins can bring down bugs that are up to three metres above the water’s surface.
Archimedes

## Did You Know?

Archimedes was one of the world’s most celebrated and revered mathematicians and philosophers. His discovery and application of pi, hydro-statics, geometry and invention of numerous war machines made him legendary both in his day and indeed, centuries later.

Yes, war machines - did you know he had a military background? His weapons of war were vital to the defence of Syracuse when it was besieged by the Romans from 214 to 212 BCE. While living in Syracuse he designed many intricate and elaborate weapons to defend the city from attackers, including the ‘death ray’ designed to concentrate the strong rays of the Sun onto incoming enemy ships, thus setting them alight.

He also developed catapults and a ‘giant claw’ that could latch onto the hull of a ship and cause it to capsize… Q would be proud.
Basilisk

## Ability

### Ability

**Stoney Stare****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands with 2 or less Base Energy cost +4 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

The common **Basilisk** isn’t nicknamed the Jesus Christ Lizard for no reason. This reptile can walk about 20 feet on water by spreading out the folds on its feet to create a paddle. The evolutionary advantage? Well, if you’re hunting insects, you have to be fast and adaptable. Plus, they look really cool when they do it, which can’t hurt when you’re trying to build a reputation in the rainforest.

According to ancient mythology, just one look into the basilisk’s eye could kill an animal, and its breath was so foul that it was as lethal as poisonous gas. None of this is true, but if you combine those myths with its real-life ability to tread water, you get a terrifying monster.
Banshee

## Ability

### Ability

**Wailing Lament****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Mythical Creatures cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you’re out in the Irish countryside and happen to see an old hag combing her hair frantically while wailing, send a mass text to every family member to check up on them. According to Irish folklore, this is the **Banshee**, and her appearance is said to herald the death of a relative. How the banshee knows about the imminent death of a person isn’t clear - the mythology kind of just says “A Wizard Did It”.

What we do know is that the word ‘banshee’ comes from the Irish ‘bean sí’, which translates as “woman of the fairy mounds”. Historians traced the origins of the banshee back to a tradition from the 8th century, whereby women sang a sorrowful song to lament someone’s death.
Aristotle

## Ability

### Ability

**The Golden Mean****(Play)** If you are tied in the round, gain +30 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

Sumptuous beard owner, all-round egghead and philosopher Aristotle was born 384 BC, Stagira Greece.

As a young man, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and there he remained for around 19 years (and you thought graduation was tough nowadays) after which time he became Alexander III of Macedon's, tutor. Presumably, this went well as Alexander III went on to become Alexander the Great.

He established Lyceum school and library which helped him produce his numerous papyrus scrolls many of which influenced Christian theology and Islamic thought. He was revered among medieval Muslim scholars as "The First Teacher".

After Alexander the Great (very much great by this stage) died suddenly, anti-Macedonian sentiment spread across Athens leaving Aristotle in fear of prosecution. So he set off to the island of Euboea which is where he remained until his death.

## Fusion

 Confucius | 10
Avicenna

## Ability

### Ability

**Enormous Corpus****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 1 Philosophy card, gain +6 Power/Turn permanently. Repeat for Watching the Skies and Mega Math.

## Did You Know?

Born in 980 AD in present-day Uzbekistan, Ibn Sina (known as **Avicenna** in the West) was a remarkable polymath renowned for his contributions to medicine, astronomy, mathematics, physics and philosophy. Rumour has it that he even memorised the entire Quran before hitting double digits.

A keen student of natural sciences, Avicenna’s holistic approach to medicine emphasised balance within the body, and his most famous work, "Canon of Medicine", was the ultimate medical encyclopaedia that doctors couldn't put down for centuries.

In addition to medicine, Avicenna’s studies in astronomy led to advances in our understanding of celestial mechanics and planetary movements. Somehow, he even found time to dabble in poetry and pen a philosophical masterpiece, earning him a legacy as one of the most influential Islamic scholars in history.
Anaglyph 3D

## Ability

### Ability

**Complementary Color****(Play)** If played next to an Arts and Culture and Science card, your Science cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Without a man called Louis Ducos du Hauron, who produced the first **Anaglyph 3D** prints in 1891, James Cameron may never have made Avatar. And without Avatar, we may never have had that odd phase when every movie was made in 3D. (Seriously, what was that about?)

The technology has changed a lot, but in 1891, Hauron created this optical effect by printing two negatives onto the same sheet of paper. One of the negatives was printed in blue or green while the other negative was printed in red. The viewer would use coloured glasses (red for the left eye and blue for the right eye) to create the optical 3D effect.

By the 1920s, anaglyph had hit the cinemas with the release of the silent (but 3D) movie ‘The Power of Love’.
Baosheng Dadi

## Ability

### Ability

**Medicine God****(Play)** If your deck has 6 or more Chinese Folklore cards, your Marvellous Medicine cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

In his mortal life, **Baosheng Dadi** was a skilled doctor and Toaist practitioner. But, legend has it, he did some pretty exceptional things, like applying eye drops to a dragon’s eye and removing a foreign object from a tiger’s throat. It makes you wonder what the emergency rooms of ancient China looked like: did they have a triage system, and special waiting rooms for deadly animals?

In any case, Baosheng Dadi’s medical miracles earned him deity status after his death in 1036. The Hongxi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty made it official and gave him the insanely long title of Imperial Inspector at Heavenly Gate, Miracle Doctor of Compassion Relief, Great Taoist Immortal, and the Long-lived, Unbounded, Life Protection Emperor. But you can just call him Dadi.
Attenborosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**A True Natural****(Play)** If your deck has 6 or fewer Oceans & Seas cards, your Oceans & Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power for 6 turns, Repeat for Life on Land and Paleontology

## Did You Know?

What if David Attenborough isn’t human, but rather the descendent of a gigantic, extinct sea monster – specifically, the **Attenborosaurus**? Sorry to disappoint, but our sources have confirmed that Sir David is 100% human, whereas the Attenborosaurus is a genus of plesiosaur - a reptile with a long neck, round body and four limb paddles.

Nevertheless, it is named after Sir David Attenborough himself. And, after the name was made official, Sir David paid a visit to the fossil reptile at the Natural History Museum in London. The remains of the beast were first discovered on the Jurassic Coast in 1880. They revealed that the Attenborosaurus lived about 190 million years ago during the Early Jurassic Period and swam in the tropical seas that covered land on the south coast of England.

'Life restoration with Asteroceras obtusum' by Nobu Tamura (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered) Background added, color corrected, image enhanced.
Asiatic Lion

## Ability

### Ability

**Hear Me Roar****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -14 Power permanently and a random card in your hand gains +14 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Once upon a time, the **Asiatic Lion** prowled across Asia and the Middle East. Sadly, the lions were hunted to near extinction, and the current wild population of Asiatic Lion consists of only 350 individuals restricted to the Gir Forest in the state of Gujarat, India.

The most distinguishing feature of this lion is the fold of skin that runs along its belly which is rarely seen in African lions. Male Asiatic lions also have a smaller mane than African lions. This features a sparse covering of fur, so their ears are always visible.

In Asiatic lion culture, the female hunts for prey, using their retractable claws and sharp teeth to seal the deal. Yet, following a successful hunt, the male eats first. The audacity…
Ackee and Saltfish

## Did You Know?

**Ackee and Saltfish** is the national dish of Jamaica. The Ackee is a fruit that was brought over from West Africa and caught on in a big way.

You have to be very careful about harvesting it though - if you pick it before it's opened up naturally (and you can see the pitch-black seeds on the inside), it'll be rife with toxins and it could cause an illness called "Jamaican Vomiting Sickness". Take a wild guess what it's like to have that.

Once you've picked the ackee correctly and safely (or purchased it from a trusted retailer, in a can), here's a great recipe for Ackee and Saltfish.

230g (1/2lb) salt cod
2 tbsp oil
2 tbsp diced yellow onion
2 heaped tbsp diced bell pepper
1/2 Scotch bonnet chili, stemmed seeded and minced
2 garlic cloves
1 small tomato, diced
1 scallion, sliced
2 tbsp thyme
1 540g (18-20oz) can ackee
Salt and Pepper
Avocado for serving

Rinse the cod, place it in a bowl and cover it with fresh water. Soak it at room temperature for about an hour. Drain it, transfer it to a pan and immerse it in new fresh water. Bring to boil, and cook it until it flakes easily - should take about 40 minutes. Drain it again, then flake it into 1-inch pieces - make sure to remove any bones.

In a large skillet, heat the oil and add the onion, pepper, Scotch bonnet and garlic and cook until softened for five minutes. Add the cod and cook for another five minutes.

Add this tomato, scallion and thyme, stir them in, and cook until the vegetables are tender (another five minutes).

Stir the ackee in gently, being careful not to over-mix it which can cause it to become mushy, and cook for another 3-4 minutes. Season and serve with Avocado.
Argentinosaurus

## Did You Know?

Here it is, the Argentinosaurus, the largest dinosaur known to man - in fact, the largest land creature known to man. The remains we've found indicate that it was around 115 feet long - that's about the width of a soccer pitch! - and would have weighed between 73 and 85 tons (so why isn't this the Legendary card of the Herbivores collection? - Ed).

Remarkably, their eggs were comparatively very small. At about the size of a beach ball, after hatching, the baby Argentinosaurus had to look forward to expanding to nearly 25,000 times its size before adulthood - and you thought human puberty was bad.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- It's hard to see.
Ancula Gibbosa

## Ability

### Ability

**Moss Definitely****(Play)** Your Mossy Frog card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Mother Nature was definitely feeling creative when she made the **Ancula Gibbosa**, more commonly known as the Atlantic Ancula. This transfixingly beautiful species of dorid nudibranch is a marine gastropod mollusc whose translucent, speckled body can reach a length of around 3cm.

Favouring colder temperatures, this species can be found along the Atlantic coast of Norway, Greenland, Iceland and across to New England on the coast of North America. You can also find these all around the British Isles, but usually in small numbers. If you’re opening an underwater restaurant, make sure you’ve got Ectoprocta on the menu for your Atlantic Ancula customers: they can’t get enough of these minuscule moss-like animals
Ammonite

## Ability

### Ability

**Fossil Fuelled****(Play)** Your Trilobite card in hand gains +35 Power this turn. **(Return)** This card costs +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Around 416 million years ago, an ancient relative of today’s octopuses and squids was the most abundant animal in the sea. Behold: The **Ammonite**.

The key difference between the ammonite and its cephalopod descendants was that it lived in a shell made from aragonite. As they grew in size, ammonites would add new chambers to their shell, eventually forming a spiral.

But long before science gave us an answer to what these mysterious objects were, ammonite fossils were the subject of fascinating folklore. One Anglo-Saxon legend tells that St Hilda cast a spell that turned the snakes of Whitby to stone and threw them from the clifftops. In support of the legend, Whitby residents carved snake heads at the end of the ammonite fossils, believing they were petrified snakes.
Alpaca

## Ability

### Ability

**Alpacalypse****(Play)** All other cards in both player's hands lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Like its cousin the llama, the **Alpaca** was domesticated over 6,000 years ago by the Incas, who reared them for their perfect coats. Stronger than mohair, warmer than duck down, silky to the touch and non-flammable, this creature arguably has the best fleece of the animal kingdom – in ancient times, it was even known as the ‘Fibre of the Gods’. Besides their fur, alpacas make very good pets – just be warned, they’re pack animals, so you’ll need more than one.

Originally from the Andes Mountains of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chile, alpacas have been exported around the world. Today, you’ll find large populations of these creatures in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Thailand and the Netherlands. This calls for a round-the-world trip - alpaca my bags!
Baryonyx

## Ability

### Ability

**Heavy Claw****(Play)** If it matches the Arena, your opponent's cards in hand lose -30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Baryonyx** is a Cretaceous period theropod which was discovered by a plumber in Britain in 1983. Sadly, he wasn't unclogging a U-bend at the time - instead he was an avid amateur fossil-hunter, and he discovered a huge claw in some clay pits. The claw was verified by the Natural History Museum in London, who descended upon the pits to unearth more of the skeleton.

Those claws are its most recognisable feature - they were at least 33 centimetres long each. With its elongated mouth as well, the Baryonyx cut a striking figure in the jungles of the Cretaceous.
Baobabs

## Ability

### Ability

**Upside Down****(Return)** This card loses -58 Power and costs +58 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Also known as ‘upside-down trees’ because their branches look like roots, **Baobabs** may be amongst the oldest life forms on the planet. Some people believe that if you pick a flower from a baobab tree, you will be eaten by a lion, and if you drink water in which baobab seeds have been soaked, you will be safe from a crocodile attack.

Here’s an idea: don’t get the two mixed up. If you’re worried about crocodiles, the last thing you need is a hungry lion.
Axolotl

## Did You Know?

SO I HERD U LIEK AXOLOTLZ?

Yes, this is the creature that inspired the design of the Pokemon Mudkip, which in turn spawned the SO I HERD U LIEK MUDKIPZ meme. The Axolotl itself is a fascinating creature - designated an amphibian due to its biological proximity to a salamander, it doesn't go through the process of metamorphosis (where it develops legs and lungs and takes to land) so it remains underwater its whole life.

It also has amazing regenerative properties - you can cut off their limbs and they'll be perfectly back to normal in a few weeks, with no scarring. You can even remove segments of their spinal cord and it'll grow new ones to replace them quickly. You could even... actually, probably best if I stop thinking of ways to hurt Axolotls, especially because they're critically endangered.
Baldr

## Ability

### Ability

**Favour the Bold****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +40 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

Often depicted as the most handsome of the Norse Gods, Baldr (sometimes called Baldur or Balder, by people who aren't up against deadlines and can afford to type an extra character) rules over light, Summer and joy. He's also meant to be invulnerable, which this writer would contend is kind of par for the course for a deity.

But in Baldr's case, his invulnerability is notable because he's most well known for the way he died. When he was born his mother, Frigga, was desperate to protect her son and she asked EVERYTHING to promise not to harm him. Every single thing in existence. The idea that she made a walnut swear never to send him into an anaphylactic shock is great fun, but she made one small error - she didn't ask mistletoe.

Loki, the god of mischief, wanted to kill Baldr and he learned of Frigga's omission. His opportunity came when Baldr, at a party, told everyone to throw sharp objects at him so he could prove he couldn't be harmed (clearly a few horns of mead in at that point). Loki fashioned a dart made of mistletoe and had Hod throw it at him. It struck Baldr and killed him instantly.
American Cheetah

## Ability

### Ability

**Former Felidae****(Play)** If your deck has 4 or more Cool Cats cards, your Ancient Creatures cards in hand gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Despite its name, the **American Cheetah** wasn't exactly known for its blazing speed like its modern cousin. With estimates of its top speed sitting at around 50 miles per hour, this Pleistocene predator was more like the 'cheetah-lite' version. As a result, it’s thought that at least one species of American Cheetah would have opted for an arboreal lifestyle, catching prey in the tree-tops instead of chasing it on the plains.

However, comparing it to modern cheetahs is probably unfair, as this creature was more closely related to modern pumas and cougars. This is due to convergent evolution (when animals in the same ecosystems evolve to have the same features.) Still, it did share mating habits with cheetahs (female urinates on bushes and rocks, male responds with yelps.)
Amaro Pargo

## Ability

### Ability

**Corsair Caballero****(Draw)** For every Lost Treasures card in your deck, up to a maximum of 5, give your cards +6 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

One of the most renowned corsairs in Spain of the Golden Age of Piracy, **Amaro Pargo** (born Amaro Rodríguez-Felipe y Tejera chado) made a name for himself as a do-gooding pirate after he founded a chaplaincy for the needy and allocated 3,000 reales for the poor in prisons.

But let’s be honest: Amaro Pargo was still a pirate - he just chose to attack and torture those who weren’t “good Catholics”, which was basically the majority of prisoners he captured from ships belonging to enemies of the Spanish Crown.

In his role as a privateer, he dominated the route between Cadiz and the Caribbean and went on to own great swathes of land, houses and several vineyards. Shiver me timbers! Or, in Spanish: ¡Rayos y centellas!
Alexander Graham Bell

## Did You Know?

Scottish-born scientist Alexander Graham Bell is credited as the inventor of the telephone in 1876 and later founded the Bell Telephone Company.

In reality, the invention of the telephone has a chequered history with accusations of intellectual theft. Bell was one of a number of scientists and engineers chasing this innovation including Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray, a professor at Oberlin College who filed a patent on the same day as Bell. Because of this Bell is probably best described as inventing the first practical telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent.

None of this detracts from Bell's achievements, who, on March 10, 1876, and after years of work, made the first telephone call to his assistant Thomas Watson with the immortal words "Mr Watson - come here - I want to see you".
Bambiraptor

## Ability

### Ability

**Great Prince of the Forest****(Play)** If this card matches the Arena, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

It may be named after the adorable Disney character, but we can assure you that this ancient carnivore looked nothing like the baby deer in the animated film.

**Bambiraptor** actually had more features in common with modern birds: it had a wishbone, an essential component in wing-flapping, and it had a keeled sternum, a bone that serves as an attachment site for the muscles used in flying.

Nevertheless, this creature was still more dinosaur than bird, possessing a killer claw on its foot like the velociraptor and a mouth full of razor-sharp teeth. This feathery-but-fierce hunter roamed the area now known as North America during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 76-72 million years ago.

'Bambiraptor' by Nobu Tamura (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
95 Theses

## Ability

### Ability

**Reform****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand **Burn**s (20) until played and a random card in your hand **Lock**s this round.

## Did You Know?

At the turn of the 16th Century, if you were a wealthy Catholic and you’d just been a very naughty boy or girl, then you were going to spend a very long time in Purgatory (a kind of hellish waiting room).

Just kidding! Of course you weren’t. Because *you* had enough money to buy an Indulgence! An Indulgence was like a ‘Get out jail free’ card, but for Purgatory.

Poor people… not so fortunate. But then, poor people shouldn’t be naughty, right?

If you’re thinking ‘wait, what?’ then you’ll understand why Martin Luther wrote his **95 Theses**. The abridged version: ‘This whole Indulgences thing ain’t right.’

This went down *really* well with the Pope. Ahem.

Luther claimed that he hadn’t really wanted to attack the Pope at all, but he was nonetheless excommunicated in 1521.

The date he first sent the Theses is now considered the beginning of the Reformation - the start of Protestantism and its split from the Roman Catholic Church.

'This 19th-century painting by Julius Hübner sensationalizes Luther's posting of the Theses before a crowd.' by Julius Hübner (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Aurora Borealis

## Did You Know?

Aurora Borealis, AKA the Northern Lights, shine brightly in the sky when electrically-charged particles enter our atmosphere from space and... look, we're not doing this card without going all-in on Steamed Hams references. No way. Ahem;

AURORA BOREALIS?

At this time of year? The best time to see the Northern Lights is between April and August.

At this time of day? The Northern Lights have been sighted at 4 pm at the earliest and as late as 6 am, but the best time to see them is between 9:30 pm and 1 am.

In this part of the country? You can see them in Norway, Iceland, Canada, Alaska and they've even been spotted as far south as Hawaii!

Localised entirely within your kitchen? The light tends to extend for around fifty miles and as high as 400 miles.

I mean, what are we supposed to believe that Superintendent Chalmers thought for even a second that the Northern Lights could be in Skinner's kitchen? Boy, I really hope Bill Oakley got fired for that blunder.
Amelia Earhart

## Did You Know?

It says a lot about the importance of role models, that **Amelia Earhart** (the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic) was given flying lessons by Neta Snook (the first woman to run her own aviation business), and her mother was the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado.

Earhart has a long list of firsts to her name - including the first flight from Hawaii to California (a longer and more dangerous flight than the Atlantic) and being the first woman to earn an Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross. She also wrote articles (including for Cosmopolitan) and started her own fashion line of functional clothing for active women.

All of which made it even more of a loss when, in 1937, Amelia Earhart's plane disappeared during an attempt to fly around the world. Despite much speculation - and new theories are put forward to this day - no-one knows for sure what happened.
American Shorthair

## Ability

### Ability

**Sufferin' Succotash****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

American history books always rattle on about human settlers and their impact on the country. But where would the land of milk and honey be without the cats that came over with them?! In fact, the ancestors of the **American Shorthair** breed also crossed the ocean with the pilgrims on the Mayflower to the land of the free/home of the brave.

Back then, they were ship cats who held the important job of mouse-catching. They may not be athletic, but their muscular build and low-maintenance nature made the breed perfect for the role. By 1906, the American shorthair was among the first five breeds to be recognised by the CFA. Fast forward to 2020 and the breed has become the 8th most popular pedigreed cat in the world.
Ayam Cemani

## Ability

### Ability

**Goth Chick****(Play)** Your cards in hand with "Black" in the name gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Hailing from Java, Indonesia and taking the main stage at FeatherFest 2023 is the rockstar of the roost, **Ayam Cemani!** This isn’t just a phase with the Ayam Cemani, oh no. This chick is black hearted. Literally.

These chickens have a kind of hyperpigmentation which means that they don’t just have black feathers and beaks - they’re black all the way through. Internal organs, meat, bones and even the bone marrow are all black. Now that really is bad to the bone.

These birds traditionally aren’t eaten but have been revered as good luck charms. Their dark blood is sometimes used in medicine and they were once used in religious rituals too. They have a very peculiar crow and sailors would sometimes use them as foghorns. Although, we think that’s just the heavy metal singer in them, warming up for their next gig.