recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Water Rabbit

## Ability

### Ability

**Gentle and Enduring****(Start)** A random Life on Land and a random Oceans and Seas card in your hand gains +10 Power until played and if you have played **Water Rabbit** this game, this card gains +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s hard to believe that someone born in 1963 could have anything in common with a person born in 2011, but it’s true. Both are represented in the Chinese Zodiac by the **Water Rabbit**. In theory, that means they share similar characteristics, being fragile creatures who fear confrontation and crave constant reassurance.

In good news, the fluid influence of the Water Element makes the Water Rabbit the most emotionally intuitive of all the Rabbit signs. Like rabbits, people born under this sign are happiest when surrounded by friends or family and are fiercely loyal to those they love. Apparently, some of them even possess the physical abilities of rabbits (<link="https:>Michael Jordan</link> being a great example.) If you’re a Water Rabbit reading this in 2023, this is your year.
White-V Octopus

## Ability

### Ability

**Far-Reaching****(Return)** Your opponent's remaining cards in hand lose -24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Although the **White-V Octopus** has been recorded from the Philippines and Indonesia for a while, it is still to be scientifically described. It also goes by a second name, the Long Arm Octopus (although nobody seems sure why…)

The octopus is a master-camouflager, changing its color to blend in seamlessly with the sandy ocean floor.
Walking Turkey

## Ability

### Ability

**Courage is a Practice****(Draw)** If you have lost 1 round this game, your Angela Maxwell's Walking the World cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**12,400 km from home. (7,705 mi.)**

“Take. Take.” The woman selling figs and oranges under a derelict bus stop loaded a bushel of her fresh fruit onto Athena. She had no idea what I was doing, who I was, or where I was going. We were complete strangers, yet she wanted to give me something for my journey. Knowing she had less than me, I offered her some money but she refused to take it.

While exploring and walking along the coast of the Black Sea (42.0294107610979, 35.069551042795766) there were many occasions when perfect strangers would offer me tea, hazelnuts (fındıklar in Turkish), and fruit. I was of course familiar with kindness, but not this type of kindness, which left me in awe at the Turks capacity to engage and look after a complete stranger and that made me wonder, “Would I give like this back in America?” If you offered strangers tea and fruit in my own town, it would be treated with suspicion and skepticism.

As I neared Istanbul (41.017671790711084, 28.979899037015834), the crowds grew and so did the traffic, along with the almost continuous honking and the aggression. I very quickly longed for the peace and quiet of the small seaside villages where strangers become friends over a cup of black tea and some figs.

**About Angela**

In 2013 Angela Maxwell decided to turn her perfectly normal life upside down. She was in a relationship and running a successful business, but after overhearing a conversation at her art class about a man who had walked around the world, everything was about to change. In less than nine months she had left her home in Bend, Oregon to travel the world alone with nothing but a few supplies and her trusty two-wheeled cart Athena.

She walked for nearly seven years across four continents, over 32,000km (20,000 miles) and 14 countries. During the journey, Angela discovered her innate strength, conviction, and courage. A novice adventurer when she began, Angela faced the odds of surviving the outback in Western Australia, dengue fever in Vietnam and the sheer challenge of being a lone woman traveling and sleeping wherever she could lay her head for the night.
Venetian Patent Statute

## Ability

### Ability

**Patently Sensible****(Return)** Your Documented cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The Parachute, Flying Machines, Bell Chimes and Whiskey – these are just some of the inventions that came from the 1400s. However, prior to 1474, there was no way for the inventors of these products to protect their ideas from being stolen by others. On March 19th, 1474, the **Venetian Patent Statute** was established – it was the first patent system in Europe and is thought to be the earliest codified patent system in the world.

In fact, the principles created in the Venetian Patent Statute formed the basic principles of trademark and copyright law we use today. Between 1474 and 1788, the Venetian Senate granted about 2000 patents, the earliest and most famous being a five-year monopoly granted to a German print master.
Tully Monster

## Ability

### Ability

**A Monster Play****(Draw)** Your cards, wherever they are, with 70 or more Base Power gain +22 Power until played. **(Return)** Your remaining cards in hand with 7 or more Base Energy cost -2 Energy for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Thought to have lived over 300 million years ago, the **Tully Monster** looks like something out of a science fiction movie. But since its fossilised remains were discovered in Mazon Creek in Illinois in the 1950s, it was thought to be a small spineless blob with a weird mouth pincer from a bygone era. And we were right about most of those things.

However, in 2020, a new study finally revealed the Tully Monster (aka Tullimonstrum gregarium) was a vertebrate. That’s right: somewhere inside this squishy body was a backbone. That may not seem like a big deal for non-tully monster enthusiasts, but the enigma of Tully’s true evolutionary relationships has made this bizarre creature quite popular, ultimately leading it to be named the state fossil of Illinois.
Tom O'Day

## Ability

### Ability

**They Steal Horses, Don't They?****(Draw)** Your opponent's Life on Land cards in hand lose -10 Power for 2 turns and your Life on Land cards in hand gain +10 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

<link="https:>No ticket?</link> No problem - well, not if you’re robbing a Union Pacific train and using the freighters horses as your getaway car. Just ask **Tom O’Day**, aka Joe Chancellor - a key member of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and the Wild Bunch.

Born in 1862, Tom O’Day was an active participant in many of the bank and train robberies that occurred in Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah. Some records refer to O’Day as a forward scout - the guy who scoped out places for a heist. Others, however, say he was just the comic relief who was often too drunk to watch the horses.

In any case, it seems things didn’t go to plan for Tom, as he eventually got caught and sentenced to six years in Wyoming state penitentiary.
Thomas Tew

## Ability

### Ability

**The Pirate Round****(Play)** Your Plundering Pirates cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

When people refer to you as a “wicked and ill-disposed person”, you’re probably doing a good job of being a pirate. That was the reputation that preceded **Thomas Tew**. Like most in the business, Tew had started his career as a privateer, but turned to piracy as a faster way to make bank.

Together with his new pirate crew, Tew sailed to the Red Sea and confidently attacked a great Indian ship with more than 300 soldiers aboard. Somehow, they emerged victorious, each crew member receiving £3,000 from the spoils.

Not long after, Tew sailed to Rhode Island, where he was pardoned. But the call of booty was too great, and in 1695, Tew went back to the Red Sea, attacked a big ship and was killed in the process.
Trona Pinnacles

## Ability

### Ability

**Famous Formations****(Play)** Your Stage and Screen cards in hand gain +23 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

They’ve served as the backdrop for sci-fi blockbusters like Star Trek and Planet of the Apes - and with good reason. **The Trona Pinnacles** are out of this world. Featuring over 500 tufa spires reaching 140 ft in height, this geological wonder in the California Desert has been dubbed ‘Cathedral City’ - but how did it get here?

Word on the street (the geology street) is that the area was under 640 feet of water during the Pleistocene era. Some 100,000 years ago, calcium-rich groundwater and alkaline lake water combined to create tufa spires. Later, when saltwater brine infested the great sea, they carbonised the spires into hard rock. Visit at sunset and you’ll truly feel like you’re on a distant planet (until the other tourists come and bring you back to Earth.)
Titicaca Water Frog

## Ability

### Ability

**Entirely Aquatic****(Play)** If played between two Oceans and Seas cards, your Amphibians cards, wherever they are, gain +27 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you were a frog, what would you look for in a mate? If you said “excessive skin folds and a low metabolic rate”, the **Titicaca Water Frog** might be your perfect match. Also known by the unfortunate nickname “Titicaca Scrotum Frog” due to its wrinkled body, this exotic species is considered the largest aquatic frog in the world with some individuals reaching up to 13 cm in length.

Sadly, numbers of the frog are dropping fast from over-harvestation for human consumption. While frogs may not be a delicacy, this species is considered to be an aphrodisiac when mixed with honey, the roots of a local plant, and several other products. It doesn’t help that trouts are always eating their tadpoles either.

'Titicaca water frog with earthworm, Prague Zoo' by Zoo Praha (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Tidal Wave

## Ability

### Ability

**Wipeout****(Return)** Your Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power and cost +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

"Wait a minute - we’ve already got a Tsunami card. Why are we making another one?"

Well, first let’s put on our smug pedant hat.

Ah, there we go, fits like a glove. Right. Despite vast swathes of the English-speaking population using the terms interchangeably, a **Tidal Wave** and a Tsunami are completely different (except that they are waves made of water).

A Tsunami is caused by seismic disturbance (i.e. an underwater earthquake) and can get crazy big and crazy fast (up to 800 km/h!). Most Tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean.

Tidal Waves, on the other hand, occur *daily*, pretty much wherever there is a coast. They are the result of gravitational forces of the sun and moon and are rarely spectacular. That said, you might not want to take on the rapid surge of the annual ‘Silver Dragon’ as it travels up China’s Qiantang river - this can reach 30ft in height, and speeds of 40km/h.

Sure, it’s no Tsunami, but it’s still faster than you.

## Fusion

 Humpback Whale | 1
 Royal Penguin | 1
Theo van Doesburg

## Ability

### Ability

**De Stijl****(Play)** If played next to Piet Mondrian, two random Arts & Culture, History and Oceans and Seas cards in hand gain +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Painter, writer, poet and architect: **Theo van Doesburg** was an industrious Dutch man - he even found time in his busy schedule to serve in the Dutch military and during World War I. You go, Theo.

But of all his accomplishments, Theo van Doesburg is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl. And if that sounds familiar, it might be because the White Stripes took the name (and art style) for their 2000 album release.

Although TVD started his career as a figurative painter, influenced by impressionism, a meeting with Mondrian set him on a new, non-figurative path. Pretty soon, he started making purely abstract art, which led to the formation of the De Stijl group in 1917 and the De Stijl magazine that Theo edited and published.
The Soul

## Ability

### Ability

**Food for the Soul****(Play)** Your Philosophy, Curious Cuisine and Musically Minded cards in hand gain +55 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

We’ve never seen it before and we can’t really prove its existence. No matter how powerful our microscopes are, we won’t find it. And yet, unlike Santa Claus, Bigfoot or monsters under your bed, **The Soul** is a concept most of us really believe in.

Hardly surprising, given that it has a place in many religions as “the essence of a human being”. Even the kooky church of Scientology believes that a person doesn’t “have” a soul, but “is” a soul. It sounds crazy, but they could be right.

If we take the idea from quantum physics that reality doesn’t exist until “observed”, then perhaps the soul exists outside of space and time, observing or “creating” the physical world. Intrigued? Pay $200,000 to find out more.
Vili and Vé

## Ability

### Ability

**The Triad****(Draw)** If you have played Odin this game, it and 2 random cards in either player's hand gain +33 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

You’ve heard of Odin, but what about his brothers **Vili & Vé**? Together, the brothers created the cosmos. How, you ask? Well, they slayed the giant Ymir (the first being that had come into existence) and fashioned the entire cosmos from his corpse. Standard world-creation stuff, really.

Apparently, the brothers had grown tired of watching Ymir laying on his back all day while drinking warm milk from the primeval cow Audhumbla, so they killed them – and for that, we should really be grateful.

Vé was also known as the god of the seas, but his ambition got the best of him. After losing a duel to Odin over the throne of Asgard, Odin sent his brother to the underworld as punishment.
Vidar

## Ability

### Ability

**Vengeance****(Play)** Your cards with "Heart" in the name, wherever they are, gain +22 Power until played. Repeat if your deck contains Fenrir.

## Did You Know?

He was said to have been able to crush the head of a giant with his bare hands: **Vidar** was the kind of god you wouldn’t take on in a fight unless you had a death-wish. The son of Odin and the Giantess Gridr, Vidar was known for his superhuman strength and for being a bit of a lone wolf (pun intended).

When the cataclysmic battle of Ragnarok rolled around, Vidar was one of the only gods to survive. Just as was foretold, Vidar slayed the wolf Fenrir that swallowed Odin by stepping down with one foot on the lower jaw of the monster, grabbing his upper jaw in one hand and tearing his mouth apart. Now that’s metal.
Thomson's Gazelle

## Ability

### Ability

**Pronking****(Play)** If you are winning the round, your Mammals cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Like an electric scooter, **Thomson’s Gazelle** has a top-speed of 40 miles per hour. Now, we’re by no means suggesting that you put this fact to the test and challenge a gazelle to a race on a scooter. But if you do, we may or may not place bets on it.

This grazing antelope is known to its friends as “Tommie”, and Thomson’s Gazelle has a lot of friends. As a herd animal, you’ll find Tommie in groups consisting of as few as ten or as many as several hundred. In the mornings and evenings, the gazelles all get together to socialise. During these parties, young members of the group engage in play such as slotting, in which they spring into the air like excited bunnies.
Turning Torso

## Ability

### Ability

**Twist Ending****(Return)** If you won the turn, your opponent gains +20 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

Standing at a "mere" 190 metres tall, the **Turning Torso** towers about the Western Harbour of Malmö, Sweden. I mean, look at the thing on the front of this card - no skyscrapers or even moderately tall buildings around it, allowing its architectural majesty to be seen from all around.

The twisting design was inspired by a sculpture called "Twisting Torso" which is exactly what it sounds like - the middle of a guy, turning around a bit. Fortunately, Santiago Calatrava (the architect) took the twisting motion bit of the inspiration and not the "half a body" bit, otherwise Malmö might have started looking like Gotham City.
Virginia Apgar

## Ability

### Ability

**The Apgar Test****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Brilliant Human Body cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

“Nobody, but nobody, is going to stop breathing on me.” This famous quote from **Virginia Apgar** perfectly captures her determination as a physician. She even carried a pocket knife and rubber tubing in case someone needed an emergency airway, which resulted in her saving 16 lives.

Emergency surgery aside, Virginia Apgar revolutionised neonatal care by introducing the Apgar Score, a systematic method evaluating Appearance, Pulse, Grimace, Activity, and Respiration. This score remains crucial in quickly identifying infants in need of immediate medical attention.

Apgar's contributions extended beyond the score, as she advocated for neonatal intensive care units and advancements in infant resuscitation. She also became the first female full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Vampire Bat

## Did You Know?

Vampire Bats are so called because they do actually feed on blood, and not because they have sparkly faces. They'll take blood from sleeping animals and, occasionally, humans. They're the only species of mammal that can fly as well, but it's not all abject terror; they've also been known to adopt younger bats if something happens to their mother. Isn't that sweet?
War of the Worlds (1938)

## Ability

### Ability

**Mars Attacks!****(Play)** If played next to Mars, your opponent loses -20 Power/Turn for 5 turns.

## Did You Know?

Everyone knows the story: on the evening of October 30, 1938, upwards of a million people across the U.S. heard a startling report of mysterious creatures and terrifying war machines, and became convinced, if only briefly, that the United States was facing an alien invasion. That’s the narrative widely accepted and printed in the history books.

But in reality, the ‘hysteria’ created by Orson Welles’ broadcast of ‘**War of the Worlds**’ was just a myth blown out of proportion by newspapers to instil fear over the power of broadcast radio. Apparently, radio had stolen some advertising revenue from print during the Great Depression, so the papers saw Welles’ broadcast as the perfect opportunity to discredit the radio and brand it the #FakeNewsMedia.
Trigonometry

## Ability

### Ability

**Pyramid Scheme****(Play)** Your The Pyramids card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Trigonometry is a field of mathematics that looks at the relationships between the sides and angles of triangles. A key part of this is that we can use three main ratios - Sine, Cosine and Tangent - to answer virtually all questions about a triangle, if enough information about the other sides/angles is known.
Troodon

## Ability

### Ability

**Troo Facts****(Play)** Your Paleontology cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Troodons were small, bird-like dinosaurs that lived in the Cretaceous period. They're most well known for having the biggest brain of any dinosaur which... actually isn't saying very much. Fossils of the creature have indicated that their brains would have taken up a larger space in the skull relative to other dinosaurs, however size isn't everything and its most likely they only had the IQ of a chicken...
Welwitschia

## Ability

### Ability

**Living Fossil****(Play)** Your Paleontology cards, wherever they are, gain +7 Power until played. **(Return)** If you won the turn, your Paleontology cards, wherever they are, gain +7 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Often referred to as a living fossil, the **Welwitschia** is one of the most fascinating plants on our planet, mastering life in the hot, dry conditions of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast. After germination, they only develop two true leaves that continue to grow throughout their lives – which can be over 1,000 years!

Stranger still, this is one of the few plants that has a gender: male and female species are distinguished by different cone-like seed pods. Another nickname given to the Welwitschia is “octopus of the desert” because its two leaves are often shredded into ribbons by the windy conditions of the Namib Desert. From afar, these curled over leaves create the appearance of a giant octopus.
The Triassic Period

## Ability

### Ability

**Mesozoic Massive****(Play)** Your The Cretaceous Period card gains +40 Power and your The Jurassic Period card gains +100 Power this turn. If these cards match the Arena, they gain an extra +50 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Following the Permian-Triassic extinction event (or the ‘Great Dying’ as it is rather morbidly known), the continents came together in one big landmass love-in called *Pangaea*. And life began to take on some new directions.

Conifers and ferns became *de rigeur* with gardeners, and amphibians and ichthyosaurs populated the waters, terrorising anyone who couldn’t spell. Not only that, the first pterosaurs appeared around 230 million years ago - the first vertebrates known to fly.

But perhaps most importantly (for us), the Triassic gave rise to the *dinosaurs*, and also some small insectivores that became what we now call ‘*mammals*’.

So - thank you, **Triassic Period**.
Volans

## Ability

### Ability

**Flying Fish****(Play)** If you have played Awesome Aviation this game, your Fabulous Fish and Feisty Fish cards in hand gain +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Constellations don’t typically look exactly like their namesake, and **Volans** is no exception. Even if you squint hard at it, you probably won‘t be able to see this group of stars as the flying fish it represents. In early celestial maps, the flying fish was depicted as accompanying the ship Argo Navis, the idea being that the fish could jump out of the water, glide through the air and guide ships to their destination.

Volans is one of the 12 constellations that were introduced by the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the late 16th century. It was first depicted in 1598 on a globe by the Dutchman Petrus Plancius under the name Vliegendenvis, until it was updated by German astronomer Johann Bayer to ‘Piscis Volans’.
Trilobite

## Ability

### Ability

**Fossil Fuelled****(Play)** Your Ammonite card in hand gains +40 Power this turn. **(Return)** This card costs +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

In the pantheon of important early animals, the Trilobite ranks high. One of the OG arthropods, **Trilobites** are distant relatives of modern lobsters and spiders. They were also the first group of animals to develop complex eyes, allowing them to see objects clearly and even estimate how far away they were.

The name ‘trilobite’ was given to these extinct sea creatures because their body could be split into three parts. Trilobites appeared abruptly in the early part of the Cambrian Period (around 500 million years ago.) For almost 300 million years, these arthropods thrived, but a prolonged decline set in before they finally became extinct at the end of the Permian period. That means these marine animals lived long before dinosaurs walked the earth.
The World Turtle

## Ability

### Ability

**Universal Support****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 4 Arts & Culture cards, your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played. Repeat for each album.

## Did You Know?

Forget everything you know about our planet. It isn’t a round object floating in space. It isn’t flat, either, or hollow with dinosaurs at the centre. According to Hindu mythology, Earth is supported by four elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle. But this isn’t just any turtle - it’s the Hindu deity Vishnu, reincarnated as the turtle Kachhapa who carries the weight of the world on its back.

Serving as the inspiration for Terry Pratchett’s ‘Discworld’ series, the concept of **The World Turtle** also makes an appearance in Chinese and Native American mythologies. But if the world is carried by a turtle, who or what carries the turtle? Some say another larger turtle - in which case, it might be turtles all the way down.
Ultrasound

## Ability

### Ability

**Baby Steps****(Play)** Your cards, wherever they are, with 0 Base Energy gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

In 1956, an obstetrician named Ian Donald used ground-breaking technology to determine the diameter of the head of a foetus. It was the first use of **Ultrasound**, and just two years later, advances in technology enabled doctors to visualise the findings of an ultrasound, increasing its life-saving potential.

However, the history of ultrasound dates back even further than the 1950s. In 1794, a physiologist called Lazzaro Spallanzani studied echolocation among bats. Spallanzani deduced that the bats were emitting ultrasound waves that were inaudible to humans and listening to the echoes to determine the distance and direction of objects. Right enough, humans cannot hear ultrasound waves due to their high frequency, but dogs and cats can!
The Trees of Slope Point

## Ability

### Ability

**Wind-swept****(Return)** Your Forces of Nature cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

If you think you’re having a bad hair day, you haven’t seen the **Trees of Slope Point** on New Zealand’s South Island. Thanks to its southern location, Slope Point experiences relentlessly heavy ocean winds all day, every day. The trees here can never catch a break, but at least they’re useful to the sheep. Farmers bring their livestock here to graze on patches of grass while taking shelter under the thatch of crooked branches.
Twelve Grapes of Luck

## Did You Know?

The **Twelve Grapes of Luck** (*las doce uvas de la suerte*) is a tradition of eating 12 grapes for each time the clock bell tolls at the start of a new year (or more accurately, trying to shovel twelve grapes into your gob faster than your friends can). Originally a Spanish tradition (although now reaching Latin American countries and the Philippines), it is most closely connected to the time ball of the Royal House of the Post Office in Puerto del Sol.

If you decide to partake in the tradition this year, be careful not to get carried away and start cramming them in too soon - it’s considered bad luck to start the grape-eating before midnight.

Dating back to the late 19th century, the grapes are eaten to symbolise good luck for each month of the new year year. However, like all good traditions with consumerist roots, it wasn’t until 1909 when the tradition became fully established, when vine growers decided to cash in on some lucky grapes after an exceptional harvest.
Wepet-Renpet Festival

## Ability

### Ability

**Sirius Party****(Draw)** Your Egyptian Mythology and Ancient Egypt cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Ah, New Years’ Eve – a night for squabbling over where to go until taxi prices rise and you resign yourself to the Hootenanny. Thankfully for them, Ancient Egyptians celebrated a little bit differently.

During the first month in the ancient Egyptian calendar, the **Wepet-Renpet Festival** was held to celebrate “The Opening of the Year.” Instead of the classic countdown, they would observe the sky and look for the brightest star, “Sirius”, and with its return, the festivities would begin.

But it didn’t end in the early hours of the morning – instead, the feasting and drinking would go on for days. Solemn rituals relating to the death of Osiris were observed as well as singing and dancing to celebrate his rebirth.
Toyger

## Ability

### Ability

**Big Cat, Little Cat****(Play)** Your Bengal Tiger and Sumatran Tiger cards in hand gain +60 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you love tigers but aren’t prepared to go full Joe Exotic, you should get yourself a **Toyger**. One of the newest breeds of domestic cat, this feline has been bred to be exactly what you imagine: a toy tiger.

One person is responsible for the initial development of the toyger in 1980 - and no, it’s not Carol Baskin. It was Judy Sugden, the daughter of Jean Mill, who was the original breeder of the Bengal cat. To create the Toyger, Sugden began a breeding program with two cats: Scrapmetal, a domestic shorthair tabby, and Millwood Rumpled Spotskin, a big-boned Bengal. In time, Sugden hopes that the development of the toyger will prevent the extinction of big cats by enticing cat lovers to pursue toyger ownership over wild species.
Triceratops

## Did You Know?

Triceratops' name - meaning 'Three-horned face' - sums up its distinctive appearance. It would have shared territory with the T. Rex, but would most likely have been its prey, rather than a well-matched opponent. Together these species would have died out in the Cretaceous-Tertiary (or K-T) mass extinction event. Yes, that's the one with the asteroid (to the best of our current knowledge).
WR 102

## Ability

### Ability

**It's a Scorcher****(Play)** If you have won 2 rounds this game and if you are winning the round, this card gains +77 Power.

## Did You Know?

It’s smoking hot and super close to death. In other words, **WR 102** is here for a good time, not for a long time. A rare star in the constellation Sagittarius, this glowing gas ball is one of the very few known oxygen-sequence Wolf–Rayet stars, with just four in the Milky Way galaxy and six in external galaxies.

Not only that, but WR 102 is the hottest known star, with a surface temperature of 210,000 K and emitting hundreds of thousands of times the light of the Sun. Even if you had enough reflective, heat-resistant material to say goodbye to this star before it dies, you’d get blown away by stellar winds of 5,000 kilometres per second. You’re better off sending a thoughtful text.

'WR102 Ejecta Nebula' by Judy Schmidt from Fresh Meadows (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Vegetarian Sausages

## Ability

### Ability

**Healthy Alternative****(Return)** Your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

In World War I-era Germany, food shortages were common. With far fewer farmers and suppliers to provide pork, some blue-sky thinking was needed to keep the population well-fed. Enter Konrad Adenauer—then the mayor of Cologne and a keen inventor. In response to the meat shortage, Adenauer took on the challenge of addressing the problem himself, combining soya, flour, corn, barley and ground rice to create what he called “the Kölner Wurst”, a cheap alternative to meat.

It’s been over a hundred years since the first **Vegetarian Sausages** were made, and the demand today is higher than ever. Apparently, if laid end-to-end, all the veggie sausages sold in the UK during 2017 would stretch 15,000 times the height of Nelson’s Column.
Thoth

## Did You Know?

**Thoth** is the Ancient Egyptian god of magic, wisdom, writing and The Moon (and, before you go spitting all over your expensive smartphone, it's pronounced "toth" to rhyme with "moth". Many QA devices were bricked to bring you this card.)

He's said to be created during the conflict between two other gods, Horus and Set. The two fight for the right to be the king, and... well, let's say "biological material" is swapped between the two that forms **Thoth**. Those two represents order and chaos respectively, and **Thoth** goes on to represent balance and equilibrium.

**Thoth** is also credited with the creation of the 365-day calendar. Originally the calendar had 360 days, and the goddess Nut (to rhyme with "toot"), was cursed by Ra to never bear children on any day in the Egyptian calendar. Pregnant with the child of Geb, Nut turns to **Thoth** for advice.

In a stunning display of lateral thinking, **Thoth** goes to The Moon and plays dice games with it to win five more days of light - Nut gives birth to a child on each of those days, and **Thoth** goes down in legend as a Very Solid Bloke.
White Knight Two

## Ability

### Ability

**Mothership****(Play)** Your Radical Rockets cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **White KnightTwo** is a double-fuselaged aircraft designed to carry SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic’s space tourism aircraft. Named after Richard Branson’s mum, VMS Eve is the first and only White Knight Two – and she’s a mothership in more ways than one.

As any good mum should, she carries her young (SpaceShipTwo) and nurtures them with cabin pressurisation, temperature control and electrical power - everything a good little spacecraft needs to fly and thrive.

'The Scaled Composites Model 348 WhiteKnightTwo (WK2)' by D. Miller (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered) Background extended, color correction

"White Knight Two and SpaceShipTwo directly overhead during a flyby at Spaceport America" by Jeff Foust (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Vacuum Flask

## Ability

### Ability

**Insulation****(Play)** If you are leading by 50 Power or more, your cards in hand gain +10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Ah, that satisfying sip of a warm drink on a crisp winter’s day walk. We may take it for granted now, but it’s only made possible thanks to Sir James Dewar, who invented the technology behind the **Vacuum Flask** in 1892.

But Dewar wasn’t trying to find a solution to the unpleasant feeling of sipping lukewarm coffee. He was simply trying to determine the specific heat of the element Palladium. To do this, Dewar made a brass chamber that he enclosed in another chamber to keep the palladium at its desired temperature and inadvertently created ground-breaking beverage technology.

He didn’t patent his design, so it was quickly transformed into a commercial product in 1904 when two glassblowers discovered that it could be used to keep cold drinks cold and warm drinks warm.
Tsintaosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Qingdao Lizard****(Play)** Your Reptiles cards in hand gain +26 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Of all the dinosaurs​​, it’s hard to believe that the duck-billed ones (the hadrosaurids) were one of the most successful. But it’s true - and **Tsintaosaurus** is a perfect example. Like other hadrosaurids, this herbivore had ​​a beak-like mouth and hundreds of tightly packed teeth that were constantly replaced throughout its lifetime. It also had that distinctive mohawk-style crest on its head that may have been used for communication, intimidation or attracting mates (the 3 top survival skills).

But unlike other duck-billed dinos, Tsintaosaurus had longer forelimbs and a long, flat tail. 70 million years ago, this rebel without a cause roamed the lands now known as China. The name "Tsintaosaurus" comes from the city of Qingdao (formerly Tsingtao), where the first fossils of this dinosaur were discovered in 1958.
Ursa Minor

## Did You Know?

Ursa Minor means "lesser bear" in Latin, and it is named due to its proximity and similarity to Ursa Major. Both constellations resemble ladles, which give them their alternatives names of "The Little Dipper" and "The Big Dipper" (although there's debate over whether you dip or scoop ladles, in the CUE office at least).

It's an important constellation for sea navigators because it contains Polaris, AKA, the North Star.
White Lily

## Did You Know?

Often selected in bouquets for weddings and funerals, the **White Lily** (Lilium candidum) is a type of lily native to the Balkans and the Middle East. Unlike other plants in the true lily family, the white lily grows a basal rosette of leaves during the winter, which die the following summer.

This beautiful plant has been cultivated for over 3,000 years, and over the millennia, has become a symbol of purity, rebirth and rejuvenation for many cultures.

Not for cats, though: for felines, the white lily means imminent death if ingested. Death by toxic flowers isn’t really the most rejuvenating experience. This in mind, turning up to a cat’s funeral with white lilies would definitely be in bad taste.
Thorne-Żytkow Object

## Ability

### Ability

**Starception****(Play)** Your Constellations , Signs of the Zodiac and The Solar System cards in hand gain +18 Power this turn. **(Return)** If you won the turn, the remaining cards from those collections in hand gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Life in space is like the Wild West. If you’re a neutron star on a collision course with a red giant, we’re sorry to say, your days are numbered. Soon, you’ll be cannibalised and become what is known as a **Thorne-Żytkow Object**. Just when you thought space couldn’t get weirder, you learn that there is such a thing as a star within a star.

First hypothesised by scientists Kip Thorne and Anna Żytkow in the 1970s, TZOs are red giants or supergiant stars that have neutron stars in their cores. In 2014, astronomers thought a star called HV 2112 might be a Thorne-Żytkow Object, but that theory was later called into question. So, until one is observed, these strange objects remain a mystery.
Tufted Capuchin

## Ability

### Ability

**Social Primate****(Draw)** Three random Primates cards in hand gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

On first impression alone, you probably think the **Tufted Capuchin** is just another funny looking monkey with a haircut like an Elvis impersonator. But there’s more to this New World primate than meets the eye.
For starters, the tufted capuchin is more powerfully built than the other capuchins, with rougher fur and a long, thick tail. Plus, some members of the species have been trained as <link="https:>**service animals** for people with spinal cord injuries. And if that wasn’t impressive enough, the tufted capuchin has even been to space.

In December 1969, as part of 'Operación Navidad' (Operation Christmas), Argentina launched monkey astronaut Juan 82 kilometres into space using a two-stage Rigel 04 rocket. Juan lived to tell the tale, inspiring the next generation of space-faring capuchins.
Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event

## Ability

### Ability

**Triassic, Parked****(Draw)** This card **Lock**s for 3 turns and your Paleontology cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Extinction events aren’t all comets blasting towards Earth and obliterating everything in sight. It may help to explain the **Triassic-Jurassic Extinction event**, but there’s no scientific consensus on why so many species disappeared completely.

In the oceans, 23-24% of genera disappeared, and the whole Conodonta class (cute-ish little eel-like swimmers) were wiped out, and on land only plants, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammals managed to swerve the extinction bullet completely.

Theories as to why this happened are varied. That old familiar climate change is cited as a possible culprit, causing more seasonal, severe weather and rising sea levels, bringing acidification and decreased oxygenation.

Or maybe it *was* a comet that hit planet earth, although there hasn’t been a crater found big enough to support this idea, there are enough craters to suggest that a “multiple impact event” could have occurred.

However, the most widely held hypothesis is that massive volcanic eruptions along the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) released poisonous gases that caused intense climate change and the aforementioned ocean acidification, becoming aggressively inhospitable to so many varied species.
Tintoretto

## Ability

### Ability

**Il Furioso****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Prominent Painters cards in hand gain +13 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Although he may not be related to Dominic Toretto, **Tintoretto** clearly adopted a Fast and Furious approach to his work. So much so that he was nicknamed II Furioso ("The Furious”).

We’re not even kidding. When it came to painting, Tintoretto had a need for speed, attracting admiration and criticism from his contemporaries along the way. Considered one of the “Big Three” 16th-century Venetian painters alongside Titian and Paolo Verones, Tintoretto was the go-to guy for churches and charitable institutions who needed religious pictures painted.

While in his twenties, Tintoretto was tasked with painting the church of the Madonna dell’Orto, where he was later buried. He didn’t even ask for payment for the work, producing it purely to spread the word about his painting skills in Venice.
USV Remote Survey Vehicle

## Ability

### Ability

**Unmanned Surface Vehicle****(Draw)** If you have played any Ingenious Inventions card this game, your Riding the Waves! cards in hand gain +18 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Made with precision in France by Marine Tech SAS, the sleek and autonomous **USV Remote Survey Vehicle** has been making waves in the marine tech world since 2008. With its ability to operate multiple oceanographic sensors, conduct hydrographic surveys, and even perform surveillance and security tasks with its high-resolution infrared camera, the RSV is like a high-tech robot for the ocean - a ro-boat, if you will.

Autonomy varies from 4 hours to 48 hours, allowing this unmanned vehicle to go where humans can’t. Dams, rivers, shallow waters and even offshore locations are a piece of cake for the RSV, controlled by humans from the safety of land. And they can even generate their own power renewable, through solar, wind or wave energy.

'RSV Orca in transit to a survey area, France, April 2016' by Marinetech83 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
White Hole

## Ability

### Ability

**Expel Energy****(Return)** All remaining cards in both player's hands cost -6 Energy next turn.

## Did You Know?

Ready for some hypothetical statements? Take everything with a pinch of salt here - no one truly knows if **White Holes** are real, but they're the best explanation we've got for what's at the centre of galaxies.

Essentially, a **White Hole** is the opposite of a Black Hole - where you can only enter Black Holes from the outside and matter and light cannot escape them, **White Holes** cannot be entered from the outside, but they expel matter and light.

It's theorised that Black and **White Holes** are two sides of the same coin - everything sucked into a Black Hole is expelled from its corresponding **White Hole**, potentially trillions of light-years away, which forms stars and planets and asteroids and all that good stuff.

Basically, if **White Holes** are real, the entire universe is one massive masonry recycling operation. Sorry for ruining the majesty of the cosmos there.
White Lion

## Ability

### Ability

**Lead the Pride****(Play)** If your deck has only Life on Land cards, they gain +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**White Lions** are not white (as you can see from the picture). A better name might have been Light Lion or #fff4eb Lion, but here we are.

Unsurprisingly the cause of this is genetics, **White Lions** possess a recessive gene which gives them their light colouration. A similar gene also produces white tigers. This isn't to be confused with albinism which is a more extreme mutation in the same gene. They're basically a slightly different version of the Southern African lion and are indigenous to the Timbavati region of South Africa.

Because of their rare colouration, they have been subjected to captive selective in-breeding (which is Quite Bad, check out the House of Habsburg). Regarded as divine creatures by some African cultures, top entertainers, magicians and part-time chew-toys Siegfried & Roy had one as a pet.
Warp Drive

## Ability

### Ability

**Highly Illogical****(Play)** For each round that has been completed this game, a random card in your hand gains +12 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Hold onto your command chair, Trekkies - spaceships with **Warp Drive** like the Enterprise might be possible in the not-too-distant future. Made popular by Star Trek, a warp drive is a device that distorts the shape of the space time continuum, allowing a spaceship to travel faster than the speed of light.

NASA are in the process of creating what they call an ’Alcubierre Drive’, a device capable of twisting spacetime behind a spacecraft, creating a space time “bubble”. Theoretically, this bubble will reduce the distance that the ship will travel. There’s just one \*slight\* problem. The amount of energy required for the NASA warp drive is impossible to create with conventional tech. Actually, it would take more energy than what the entire universe has in order to make a spaceship propelling bubble.
The Tramp

## Did You Know?

Today, he is recognised as one of the most iconic characters in cinema history - but **The Tramp** wasn’t originally a recurring character. However, audiences loved the character so much in his first appearance that Charlie Chaplin brought him back for subsequent films.

The baggy trousers and small bowler hat he became synonymous with were actually just items that Chaplin often wore in his personal life. As for the Tramp’s famous mustache, that was actually a last-minute addition. Although Chaplin had originally planned to wear a fake mustache as part of the costume, he forgot to bring it to the set for his first appearance in “Kid Auto Races at Venice.” Instead, Chaplin applied dark make-up to his upper lip.
The Wright Brothers

## Ability

### Ability

**Spirit of Collaboration****(Draw)** Your Science cards in hand gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, are often referred to as the "Pioneers of Flight" for their invention of the very first functional airplane. The Wright Flyer (as their fabulous flying contraption was called) first flew on December 17th 1903 for a total distance of 120 feet. For comparison, flying that distance today would probably cost you about $50.
White-Thighed Surili

## Ability

### Ability

**Forest Dwellers****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 1 Primates cards, your Common and Rare Tremendous Trees cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Ranking high on the list of intelligent monkeys, the **White-Thighed Surili** always looks like it’s about to drop a thesis on the meaning of life. As an arboreal species, it spends most of its time pondering great mysteries atop the trees in the sub-montane forests of the Thai-Malay Peninsula, the Riau Archipelago and Sumatra. When it does socialise, it sticks to small groups that it can depend upon for predator detection.

Despite its unique markings, this elusive species is often overlooked by locals who misidentify them as Long-Tailed Macaques. But this common error does a disservice to the reserved nature of these creatures, as their personalities stand in stark contrast to their lively macaque cousins.