recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Hellbender

## Ability

### Ability

**Hell of a Survivor****(Draw)** If your deck has 5 or more Monsters of the Deep cards, this card costs -5 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Before we delve deeper into the life of the **Hellbender**, let’s just say what everyone’s thinking: this slimy amphibian isn’t winning anyone over with its looks. Apparently, fishermen nicknamed the creature ‘Hellbender’ because it looked like it had “crawled out of hell and is bent on going back”.

These turd-resembling amphibians are also known as “snot otters *due to the mucus they secrete through their skin when threatened. Another nickname for this species of aquatic salamander is “lasagna lizard”, but that doesn’t make it any more appealing.*

Despite their best efforts, the male Hellbender salamander is hardly the model parent. Although they create and guard the nests, the males also eat the eggs, which makes the whole nest-building and guarding process pretty pointless.
Haggis

## Ability

### Ability

**Got the Guts?****(Return)** If you are winning the round, your opponent's remaining cards in hand **Burn** (20) until played and if you are losing the round, your remaining cards in hand **Burn** (5) until played.

## Did You Know?

As wealth increased throughout the 20th century tastes changed and the UK fell out of love with the nose-to-tail diet. By that, we essentially mean offal - the organ meats of an animal. The big-daddy of them all **Haggis** takes full advantage of the smörgåsbord innards available including sheep's heart, liver, lungs and stomach lining among other ingredients.

In more recent times, however, Burns night has started to become popular across the world, making the humble Haggis and its vegetarian cousin super-popular as the de facto Burns Night supper. This, however, is not something our North American chums can enjoy, as importing haggis to the USA was made illegal in 1971. We understand that there are lung-free versions available, but let's be honest, that's like having a burger without the patty!

When Burns Night next comes around don't forget to recite the *Address to a Haggis*, as it definitely makes it taste better! It's a long address so we won't include it on the card. But here's the last verse by way of an introduction:

*Ye Pow'rs, wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis*

P.S. We decided against including the recipe on this card as the ingredients are not readily available to domestic customers, and in this writers opinion, the recipe and process would carry an NC-17 Rating (18 - UK and Europe).
Hatshepsut

## Ability

### Ability

**Foremost of Noble Ladies****(Play)** Your Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Mythology cards in hand gain +18 Power this turn. **(Play)** Your Female Unruly Rulers cards, wherever they are, gain +30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Breaking the glass ceiling isn’t easy to do – let alone in the 15th century BC. But **Hatshepsut**, the elder daughter of the 18th-dynasty king Thutmose I, smashed the patriarchy in Ancient Egypt, becoming the longest-reigning female pharaoh in Egypt. To have a woman become pharaoh of Egypt was highly unusual at the time – so how did this come about?

Well, when her husband died in 1479 B.C. and her stepson was appointed heir, Hatshepsut dutifully took on the job of regent to the young Thutmose III. But, after the years passed, she became less of an overseer and more of a co-ruler to Thutmose III – that is, until she made a huge power play, declaring herself as Egypt’s rightful ruler and becoming an icon of radical feminism forever.
Ida & Dactyl

## Ability

### Ability

**Planetoid Asteroid****(Draw)** Your Paleontology cards in hand cost -1 Energy this turn. **(Play)** Your Mars, Asteroids and Jupiter cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Ida** is an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. Like, *yawn*. That describes plenty of asteroids. Just another lump of rock in space.

Except - Ida has a little baby satellite! This was discovered in 1993 and named **Dactyl** - after the mythical beings that protected the baby Zeus on Mount Ida. Dactyl is around 1.5km wide, so you could run all the way round it in about 20 minutes.

Aside from there being something oddly cute about this set-up, Ida and Dactyl was the first time an Asteroid was observed to have its own moon (aka a binary system). Since then, several others have been discovered.

'Diagram of potential orbits of Dactyl around 243 Ida' by Unknown (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Gold

## Ability

### Ability

**Always Believe in your Soul****(Play)** If this card matches the Arena, it gains +50 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Gold (Au) has been used to make jewellery since at least 4000 B.C. Around three-quarters of gold is still used in jewellery, with the remainder used mainly in the electronics industry as well as for dental and medical purposes. The visors on astronaut helmets feature a thin layer of gold as it blocks harmful ultraviolet rays.

Did you know that gold is extremely ductile? Ductile means that it can be stretched into a thin wire, a practice that this writer didn't realise was prevalent enough to get its own verb. You can turn 28 grams of gold into a thin wire that stretches for 8 kilometres!
Imhotep

## Ability

### Ability

**Gradually Glorified****(Draw)** For every round completed this game, your Ancient Egypt cards, wherever they are, gain +9 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Fun fact: The Mummy’s frightening antagonist **Imhotep** was actually a real person in ancient Egypt. But he wasn’t a necromancer who came back from the dead to devour human flesh. Quite the opposite, actually.

Considered the “inventor of healing”, Imhotep’s name literally means “He Who Comes in Peace,” and he is one of the only Egyptians to be fully deified. As if serving as the nation’s chief physician wasn’t enough, Imhotep also invented the iconic pyramid style in architecture, and is credited with the design of the pyramid of Djoser - a step pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt in 2630-2611 BC.

For context, this is thought to be the first stone building in history. So, even if Imhotep couldn’t heal you, he could at least knock up a pyramid for you to rest in peace.
Great Stalacpipe Organ

## Ability

### Ability

**Lithophone****(Play)** If your deck has 2 or more Instrumental cards, your Natural Monuments cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

He may have been a programmer for the Pentagon, but the legacy that Mr Leland W. Sprinkle left behind is lurking deep beneath Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in the Luray Caverns. If you take a tour to this world-famous place, you’ll start to hear ethereal tones as you descend deeper into the caves.

What you’re hearing is the world’s largest natural instrument. Named the **Great Stalacpipe Organ**, this unique instrument uses the cave formations to make music. It took Sprinkle three years and over 2,500 tries to find the right 37 formations to serve as natural chimes, but he nailed it. Despite being operational by 1956, it wasn’t until 2011 that an original song was composed with the organ by a band called Pepe Deluxé.

'Console of the Organ' by Jon Callas (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Igraine

## Ability

### Ability

**Significant Uther****(Play)** Your King Arthur and Tintagel Castle cards in hand gain +28 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, **Igraine** enters the story as the wife of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall. One fateful night, Uther Pendragon has a spell cast upon him by Merlin which makes him resemble Gorlois. Igraine is none-the-wiser and the two share a night of romance. That night, Igraine conceives Arthur.

Later in the tale, after Gorlois has died in battle, Uther marries Igraine. Although she is Arthur’s mother, she doesn’t get to see him after she gives birth to him as he is given by Merlin to Sir Ector to raise as his son. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth’s version, Igraine also bore a daughter, Anna, to Uther Pendragon. Anna later goes on to become the mother of Gawain and Mordred.
Jackalope

## Ability

### Ability

**You Know Jack****(Play)** Your cards with "Jack" or "Jackson" in their name in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Is it a rabbit? Is it an antelope? No, it’s the warrior rabbit - more commonly known as the **Jackalope**. Native to the state of Wyoming, the legend of the jackalope attracts tourists to the snow-capped mountain ranges and raised prairies – yet the origins of this creature came by complete accident.

In the 1930s, Douglas Herrick and his brother tossed a jackrabbit carcass against the wall of their taxidermy shop. By chance, the carcass landed right below a pair of deer antlers. Amazed by their accidental creation, the brothers decided to fasten the antlers to its head before mounting it – and so, the Jackalope was born. Over time, the legend grew, with some myths suggesting that the Jackalope can talk by mimicking human voices.
Hulk

## Ability

### Ability

**SMASH!****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -70 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

As any Marvel fan worth their salt knows, Bruce Banner became the **Incredible Hulk** when exposed to heavy levels of gamma-radiation - so it’s only fitting that one of the gamma-ray constellations is named after the Avenger himself!

In 2018, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space telescope - NASA named 21 of the Gamma-Ray constellations, and you might recognise a few of them yourself; including Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir, and the tangentially related Black Widow Spider!

Although NASA described the constellations as unofficial, and gamma rays are invisible to the human eye, so you won’t be able to see them on your night-time stroll - here at CUE cards, it doesn’t entirely diminish the comforting thought of the Incredible Hulk in the sky above, watching over us all.
Gennady Padalka

## Ability

### Ability

**Years in Orbit****(Play)** Your Space Technology and Radical Rockets cards, wherever they are, gain +26 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

During his impressive career, Russian cosmonaut **Gennady Padalka** completed 10 spacewalks and was the only person to have commanded the ISS four times.

After returning from his last mission in June 2015, Padalka had racked up a total of 879 days in space over five trips, setting the world record for most time spent in space. A ground crew rushed to welcome Gennady Padalka and his crew home, and a medic checked their condition:

"I am fine," Mr Padalka told them as he sipped tea and ate an apple.

For his achievements, Padalka has received the Hero Star of the Russian Federation and been awarded the Russian Federation Government’s prize in the field of science and technology.
Imp

## Ability

### Ability

**Critter-cal Hit****(Play)** Your Little Critters cards, wherever they are, gain +37 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

If you happen upon a bottle that contains an **Imp** who promises to grant you your every wish, just make sure you sell the bottle to a new owner once your wish is granted. Otherwise, your soul might be sent to Hell.

That’s just one example of the mischievous-verging-on-evil behaviour of the mythical creature known as an Imp (this one, in particular, comes from the mind of author Robert Louis Stevenson in ‘The Bottle Imp’).

Imps are humanoids, which mean they look like us – except they are considerably smaller and have a tail. Their most distinguishing trait is their love for mischief and wreaking all sorts of havoc in the home. So, next time you misplace or drop something valuable, just blame it on an imp.
Gray Slender Opossum

## Ability

### Ability

**Strange Cycles****(Play)** Your Marsupials cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power until played. If you have played **Gray Slender Opossum** twice this game, your Marsupials cards, wherever they are, gain an additional +18 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

This tiny little beastie from Brazil lives for only a year to a year and a half, which is brutal because the **Gray Slender Opossum** is outrageously cute. It’s got a tail that’s longer than its body and the sweetest eyes you’ll ever see on an opossum. And, in case you haven’t already noticed, it’s got giant ears!

The Gray Slender Opossum is semi-arboreal meaning it likes to split its time between hanging out in the trees in the Brazilian rainforest and hanging out on the forest floor. They live on a diet of insects and tend to stick to themselves. We wish we had more to tell you about these little guys but keeping this card back as short as their lifespan seems poetic.

'Marmosops incanus, an opossum from South America' by Ramon Campos (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Jack Russell Terrier

## Ability

### Ability

**Enormous Energy****(Start)** This card loses -10 Power permanently. **(Play)** If your deck has 6 or more Dogs cards, this card gains +90 Power permanently. **(Return)** This card costs +5 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Yo, the name is Jack, I like to attack, I’ve chased so many foxes I can barely keep track. I’m friendly but tenacious, my energy’s contagious, call it “small dog syndrome”, but I just call it greatness. \*Mic drop\*

Okay, so the **Jack Russell Terrier** can’t rap, but if it could, it would be the best rapper of all time. OF ALL TIME. Originally, the breed was named after Reverend John “Jack” Russell, an avid fox hunter who bred hunting dogs during the 1800s. Since then, the breed has been renamed, sort of, three times.

After the Rev died, the breed evolved into the “Parson terrier” which had longer legs. The newest offshoot is Russell terrier, AKA “Shorty JRT”, which has the shortest legs of all at only eight inches tall.
Geothermal Energy

## Did You Know?

Geothermal Energy is made inside the Earth itself - heat generated deep inside the Earth’s core is harnessed by a Geothermal power plant, utilising steam or hot water reservoirs underground to drive an electrical generator.

So if you happen to know someone full of hot air, they could potentially be saving the planet.
Great White Shark

## Ability

### Ability

**Get a Bigger Boat****(Play)** Your opponent's Riding the Waves! cards in hand lose -100 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Here it is, the meanest and most vicious creature in all the seas (that we know about - who knows what crazy monsters are down below in the deepest depths of the ocean?)

They can detect a single drop of blood in 25 gallons water, and set upon it quickly - they've been clocked swimming at speeds on up to 15 mph.

At between 15-20 feet in length, the Great White Shark is the largest predatory fish in the world. That doesn't make it the biggest shark (hello, Whale Shark), but it is the biggest one that won't think twice about biting your leg off.

Okay, that isn't entirely fair - Great White Sharks are only responsible for between 5-10 attacks on humans per year. That could be the result of humans figuring out that they need to stay well away from Great White Sharks, but it could also be because they might not like the way we taste that much - when a Great White bites a human, it's believed to be taking a sample bite and quite often it releases them afterwards.

## Fusion

 Sand Tiger Shark | 19

## Trivia

* The quote "Get a Bigger Boat" is a reference to "You're going to need a bigger boat", a famous quote from *Jaws*, a movie that involves a Great White Shark terrorizing beachgoers.
Handwashing

## Ability

### Ability

**Everyday Hygiene****(Play)** Your Common Science cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

We all (should!) know when and how to wash our hands. But here's a refresher anyway - before eating, before and after preparing food, looking after a sick person, after leaving the house, and after touching anything you wouldn’t want to put in your mouth. You must keep going for as long as it takes to sing Happy Birthday to yourself - no cheating!

**Hand Washing** with soap is the single most effective and inexpensive way to prevent diarrhea and acute respiratory infections, and according to UNICEF - turning hand washing with soap into an ingrained habit can save more lives than any single vaccine or medical intervention.

Oh, and don’t worry if you don’t always have access to warm water, contrary to popular beleif, water temperatures from 4 to 40 °C do not have a significant difference in killing germs and viruses, it’s much more important to make sure you’re scrubbing properly and using soap!

The WHO even recommended ash or sand as an alternative to soap if it is not available as, like soap, ash forms an alkaline solution when in contact with water, making it a disinfecting agent. However soap has an additional effect of breaking down the lipid membranes of viruses and bateria, so don’t start taking your baths in ash just yet, the evidence to support this isn't particularly great. Plus soap is way more convenient.
Hessdalen Lights

## Ability

### Ability

**UFOs?****(Return)** Your Space Oddities cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Visit the Hessdalen Valley in Norway and you might bear witness to a jaw-dropping light show in the skies above. For over a century, glowing orbs as large as cars have been spotted above the valley, often zipping across the sky and disappearing in a flash. Numerous theories have attempted to explain what the **Hessdalen Lights** really are – unsurprisingly, many of these relate to UFOs. In the early 1980s, UFOlogists hailed the Hessdalen valley as a portal to other worlds and flocked there to check out what they assumed to be flying saucers.

Many scientists believe the phenomenon is simply caused by ball lightning made from plasma, while others think metallic rocks divided by a sulphurous river provide a natural “battery” that creates the right condition for glowing orbs.
Kirby Krackle

## Ability

### Ability

**Negative Space****(Draw)** Your Prominent Painters cards in hand gain +25 Power until played. **(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Prominent Painters cards, your Energy cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Whether you’re a self-proclaimed comic book nerd or just a casual fan, there’s a high chance you’ve come across **Kirby Krackle**. Created by the legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby, it’s used to depict everything from explosions and smoke to cosmic energy and outer space phenomena. The technique involves drawing a series of overlapping black dots on a coloured background around the edge of an energy effect.

The earliest instance of this device can be traced back to the 5th issue of Blue Bolt in 1940. As well as explosions and power bursts, Kirby used this technique to bring space-faring stories like the Silver Surfer to life. Instead of repetitive black-void backgrounds, Kirby drew dots over oceans of violets and blues to create <link="https:>captivating scenes</link> that transported readers to otherworldly realms.
Gallimimus

## Ability

### Ability

**Chicken Mimic****(Play)** Your French Hen card in hand gains +80 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Gallimimus is the largest known ornithomimid (a genus of dinosaurs which bear resemblance to the ostriches of today.) It had a very thin jaw - several of the bones in its beak were only a few millimetres thick, in the one place in the body where you probably need your bones to be quite strong. Especially when it was a rock-chewer - it would eat rocks along with its food to help break it up. CRUNCH.
Hans Trapp

## Ability

### Ability

**Christmas Cannibal****(Play)** All cards (except Festive Traditions) in both player's hands lose -30 Power this turn. **(Return)** This card gains +60 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

He sees you when you’re sleeping, he knows when you’re awake, he knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good or risk getting eaten up by **Hans Trapp**, a terrifying Christmas scarecrow from European folklore.

Legend has it that this child-eating villain was once a German knight who was banished from society for partying and stealing from the people. Left to wander the woodlands, Hans Trapp sold his soul to the devil, disguised himself as a scarecrow and lured children in to taste their flesh.

At Christmas, he accompanies St. Nick to punish the naughty kids. While the story has definitely been exaggerated for folklore, Hans Trapp really did exist - but his name was Hans von Trotha, and there’s no evidence that he ate people.
Fusion Recipes

Fusions are created with specific recipes comprised of multiple fusion ingredients. The recipes can comprise only commons, or some higher rarity level ingredients up to a legendary. There are two (sortable) tables, the first one focuses on the normal fusions and their ingredients and the second table lists the recipes for ultra-fusions.

## Fusion Recipes

For each ingredient, the letter and number in brackets refers to the rarity (common, rare, epic, legendary) and how many are required.
Kepler 13 A b

## Did You Know?

**Kepler 13 A b** is an exoplanet in the Kepler system which is blisteringly hot - it travels close to its sun, and is geostationary which means it's locked so that one side is always facing it.

Fortunately, the planet snows sunscreen! Kind of. Before you go forgetting your factor 50, it snows titanium oxide which is one of the major ingredients of sunscreen.

Unhelpfully, it also only snows titanium oxide on the cold side facing away from the sun. So pack that factor 50 - in fact, get like factor 6 trillion, because that sun-facing side is absolutely scorching.
Gaius Appuleius Diocles

## Ability

### Ability

**A Word from our Sponsors****(Play)** Your Good Sports cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Often cited as the highest-paid athlete of all time, **Gaius Appuleius Diocles** was a Roman chariot racer who went on to become one of the most idolised sportspeople of ancient times. When he retired at 42, his total career earnings were 35,863,120 sesterces. In today’s economy, his net worth would be fifteen billion dollars.

To put that into context, Lionel Messi is on track to make his first billion, so he’s still trailing Gaius in wealth.
Honey Possum

## Ability

### Ability

**Sweet-Natured****(Play)** All cards in both player's hands gain +15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Also known by its Aboriginal name “Noolbenger”, The **Honey Possum** is absolutely minuscule, weighing between 7-10 grams. For context, that’s about the weight of one regular marshmallow. Talking of sugary treats, the Honey Possum is the world’s only nectar-eating marsupial; it’s bristled tongue-tip helps it to collect nectar from flowers. Every day, it consumes around 7ml of nectar. That may not sound like much, but in human terms, it’s like drinking 50 litres of fizzy pop a day.
Hearing

## Ability

### Ability

**Perfect Sense****(Draw)** If your deck contains Taste, this card gains +12 Power this round and your Taste card, wherever it is, costs -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

A scream. A song. A laugh. A roar. A car alarm endlessly whining in the early hours of the morning. We perceive these sounds thanks to the wonder of **Hearing**.

More specifically, sound waves are transmitted through the different parts of the ear and are converted into information the brain understands through a highly complex system. When sounds enter the ear, the eardrum vibrates, and these vibrations make their way to the ossicles and cochlea. Even while we’re sleeping, the ears hear sounds that we aren’t conscious of.

According to a recent study, we hear music better on our left side, since this side is more receptive to continuous tones and musical sounds, while our right ear is more responsive to speech.
Huginn and Muninn

## Ability

### Ability

**Bringers of Knowledge****(Draw)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -5 Power for 6 turns and this card gains +25 Power for 6 turns.

## Did You Know?

In Norse mythology, **Huginn and Muninn** are Odin’s two ravens - Huginn meaning “thought” and Muninn meaning “memory”. Every morning at sunrise, Odin did the old Norse equivalent of scrolling the news on his phone one-eye open: he sent his ravens off to fly across the nine realms to gather information on what was going on.

The names of the birds signify that they aren’t your standard ravens, but more an extension of Odin’s thoughts. When he sent them out to gather news, Odin was effectively sending out a part of himself to collect additional wisdom – a common practice by historical Norse sorcerers and shamans. Every time he sent them out, Odin risked losing them entirely – but in the quest for knowledge, it was a risk worth taking.
Jan Van Eyck

## Ability

### Ability

**Als Ich Kan****(Play)** If your deck has only Arts & Culture cards, your Legendary cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

He may not have “invented” oil painting altogether, but Northern Renaissance artist **Jan Van Eyck** was definitely a pioneer in the technique. As the court painter for the Duke of Burgundy, he had access to the highest levels of society which allowed him to create some of his most famous works, including the Arnolfini Portrait and the Ghent Altarpiece.

Rumor has it that he even undertook a number of journeys described as “secret commissions” for the Duke of Burgundy in which he acted as an envoy to the court and got paid multiples of his annual salary. Nevertheless, he couldn’t have taken himself that seriously, as he signed many of his paintings with a pun on his name: ALS ICH KAN (As I/Eyck can)
Georgia O'Keeffe

## Ability

### Ability

**Perfectly Composed****(Play)** If your deck has only Arts & Culture cards, this card gains +60 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Men put me down as the best woman painter… …I think I’m one of the best painters.
*Georgia O’Keeffe*

**Georgia O’Keeffe** prioritised composition over imitation, and she is celebrated primarily for her bold, stylised close-ups of natural forms such as flowers, animal skulls, and the New Mexico landscape.

Gender stereotypes led to much of her work with flowers being interpreted as an exposé of female sexuality - but O’Keeffe rejected this notion. She was hugely successful in her own lifetime, in a landscape that (particularly when she began) was dominated by men. She explained her success thus:

“I’ve always been absolutely terrified every single moment of my life, and I’ve never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
Dante's Inferno

## Ability

### Ability

**Dante's Journey****(Play)** If you have played Dante Alighieri this game and if you have lost 1 round this game, gain +9 Power/Turn for 9 turns.

## Did You Know?

If you find yourself in a frozen lake with a three-mouthed Satan eating Brutus, Cassius and Judas… we’ve got some bad news. You’re in Danté’s deepest circle of hell, reserved for the betrayers of sacred trusts - hence the inhabitants. Sorry about that.

The first part of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy, **Danté’s Inferno** depicts nine circles of hell, each of which represent its own sin: not accepting Jesus Christ as saviour, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud, and treachery. Clearly, the writer had no shame, as he put people he considered his enemies in the various circles of hell, despite the fact that many of them were still alive when the poem was published. Rude…
Kallikantzaros

## Ability

### Ability

**Saw****(Start)** Your The World Tree card in hand costs -1 Energy for 6 turns and if you are winning the round, your The World Tree card in hand gains +10 Power for 6 turns.

## Did You Know?

As if we didn’t already have enough problems on our planet, now we learn that there are mischievous Greek Christmas goblins living at the centre of the Earth? Known as **Kallikantzaros**, these creatures are small, mostly blind and have long black tails.

For over eleven months of the year, they spend their time cutting down The World Tree that holds up the world with a large saw. But during the twelve days of Christmas, they come up to the surface and cause all sorts of trouble and mischief.

Like Santa, Greek folk tales say the Kallikantzaros can enter your house through the chimney. Once inside, they cause all kinds of havoc. So, if you happen to burn the sprouts this year, just blame it on the goblins.
Immanuel Kant

## Ability

### Ability

**Kant Touch This****(Play)** If you are winning the round, this card gains +30 Power.

## Did You Know?

Born 1724 in the Kingdom of Prussia, Immanuel Kant is widely regarded to be one of the most profound and original philosophers to have ever lived.

To understand Kant's works, it's important to understand that before the Enlightenment religious scriptures laid out the moral doctrine: Murder BAD, Stealing BAD, taking an interest in your neighbors' wife BAD etc. During the Enlightenment, Kant and other philosophers challenged this way of thinking. If God doesn't exist and there is no guarantee of eternal justice, why should anyone bother being good? Kant believed in emphasizing human happiness.

Kant's work, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, starts with the line: “The only thing that is unconditionally good is a good will". Superficially this sounds ambiguous but in essence, he is pointing out that arguably good things like good health, for example, may turn out to be bad or have negative side effects. For example, a dictator that is in good health.

Kant thought that perpetual peace could be secured through universal democracy and international cooperation. As no one has given this a go yet, we don't know if he was right. Immanuel Kant, but at least Immanuel Tried.
Ion Thruster

## Ability

### Ability

**Propulsive Efficiency****(Draw)** Your Radical Rockets and Space Technology cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

We like to imagine that travelling through space is a bit like that scene in *Wall-E* when that cute little robot uses a fire extinguisher to scoot around the skies with his wee sleek robo-pal. According to NASA, **Ion Thruster** is basically that fire extinguisher. We mean, it’s a lot fancier but as long as you’ve got the basic image in your head, you’re all good.

Okay, okay, if we ignore the *Wall-E reference,* Ion Thrusters use ion propulsion to move things like satellites and spacecraft through space. This uses a gas like argon or neon and ionises before using these ions to create thrust using electricity. NASA used this technology in the Dawn mission, which orbited the planet Ceres, and this kind of technology not only saves on fuel but allows for the kind of manoeuvres that weren’t as achievable until now. A great example of this in the movies can be seen in Ridley Scott’s *The Martian,* where Matt Damon gets lost in space (again).

We know, we preferred the fire extinguisher in space analogy too.
Kabaddi

## Did You Know?

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If you haven't come across **Kabaddi** before, you're in for a treat. It's going to be hard to do it justice on this card, so we thoroughly recommend you review a couple of how-to videos online before trying out for your local team.

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Here are the basic rules.
Each team is made up of twelve players, though only seven players per team are on the court at any one time. The playing area is divided into two halves and the object of the game is to score as many points as possible. Pretty simple and fairly unoriginal so far...

Each team takes a turn at raiding the other. The raid sees one player head over to the opposition's side and attempting to touch as many players as possible. If they make it back to their side all the players they managed to touch are out! Now, this is where it gets a little unorthodox, raiders have to hold their breath for the duration of the raid, they prove this by shouting 'KABADDI' repeatedly for the duration of the raid. If the opposition can restrain the player before they get back to their side (meaning they have to take a breath), it's the raider that's out.

This all sounds a bit crazy, but it leads to a very interesting balance between high energy play and quick strategic thinking. As a raider you have to weigh up scoring high against your ability to return to your team and as a defender, you have to decide when to pounce on the raider, as a failed attack and restraint will mean you're out of the game if they make it back to their half.

Kabaddi originated in India and is extremely popular across Southern Asia and is one of the national sports of Nepal, it also has growing popularity in North America and Europe, so if you are interested in giving it a go, get in touch with you local federation.

'Kabaddi' by Avinashsatamraju (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- Ah! You must be looking for a clue. Ok. Well, your next card looks like a bikini top worn back-to-front, with a little behind. Good luck!
Hippocleides Doesn't Care

## Ability

### Ability

**No Regrets****(Play)** If you have lost 2 rounds this game, your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Upon winning the chariot race at the Olympic Games, Cleisthenes of Sicyon sent out a proclamation: anyone who thought themselves worthy of wedding his daughter Agariste would come forth by the sixtieth day. Of all the potential suitors of all the noble families, one guy stood out: Hippocleides, a wealthy and very handsome man with a good pedigree to boot.

On the day the victor was to be announced, a party was held, of which Hippocleides was the life and soul. Before long, he was dancing on a table, gesticulating his legs wildly - much to Cleisthenes’ disgust. “Oh son of Tisander, you have just danced away your marriage,” Cleisthenes said.

But the now-former groom-to-be just shrugged him off with one of the greatest rebuffs of history: “**Hippocleides Doesn't Care.**” The burn was so severe, that according to Greek Historian Herodotus, the phrase entered common vernacular in the Greek world.
Kintsugi

## Ability

### Ability

**Golden Repair****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Legendary cards in hand gain +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

During the fifteenth century, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, the eighth shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, broke his favourite teacup. Devastated, the shogun sent the cup to some Japanese craftsman. They were surprised at the shogun’s steadfastness, so they set out to transform his teacup into a jewel by filling its cracks with lacquer and powdered gold.

And so, the Japanese art of **Kintsugi** was born - a tradition that consists of joining the fragments of broken items together with a precious metal, giving them a new, more refined aspect. Kintsugi, which translates to “golden repair”, teaches us to turn negatives into positives and embrace our flaws - because, just like the cracks in the shogun’s cup, it is these that make us unique and precious.
Human Remains Found

## Ability

### Ability

**Skeleton Sequence****(Play)** Your Sue Black's In The Bones cards, wherever they are, gain +3 Power until played. **(Play)** If you have played Identity Confirmed this game, your Unidentified Body card, wherever it is, gains +8 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A human skeleton is found in the woods.

A man walking his dog in a fairly remote part of the highlands of Scotland. He finds what he believes might be human skeletal remains. The Police are called.

A Forensic anthropologist (FA) is called out to the scene and confirms that the remains are human and of forensic interest i.e. the individual has died within the last 70 years.

The FA will photograph the remains in situ, chart what is present and if elements of the skeleton are missing (often fingers and toes), then they will search for these as they may have been taken away by animals or they may simply have fallen away from the location of the burial.

Once all the bones have been recovered, they will be transported to a Police mortuary so the investigation can start to discover who the individual was, how they died and what were the circumstances leading up to their death.

Professor Dame Sue Black is an anatomist and a forensic anthropologist. She led for her discipline in the war crimes investigations in Kosovo and has deployed to many countries around the world including Thailand, Iraq, Sierra Leone and Grenada. She is the author of 14 textbooks and 2 popular science books about her career. She is a Fellow of 5 learned academies and is a cross bench Peer in the House of Lords. She is currently Pro Vice Chancellor for Engagement at Lancaster University and is President Elect for St. John's College, Oxford.
Hanged Man (XII)

## Ability

### Ability

**Martyrdom****(Play)** This card loses -50 Power permanently and your cards adjacent to this gain +25 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Getting the **Hanged Man** in a Tarot reading seems like a bad omen. After all, what good can come from being hanged? In fact, this card isn’t what you think. According to the fortune telling community, The Hanged Man is a sign that you should put things on pause before you take the next step.

Notice the imagery on the card: the man is hanging upside-down, viewing the world from a completely new perspective. He seems calm and collected, suggesting that he is hanging there by choice. Of course, you don’t have to adopt the same position to achieve the same frame of mind. Simply hit the breaks, release the old behavioural patterns that no longer serve you and take some time to reassess where you are on your path.
Grendel

## Ability

### Ability

**Terrible To Look Upon****(Play)** The card opposite this loses -20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Some horrible beasts are greatly misunderstood. You might think they’re just rampaging and destroying for the lols. But some might just be really mad because you and your other Viking pals are causing a racket while it’s trying to sleep. That’s the case for **Grendel**, the monster that the hero of the epic Norse poem, Beowulf, is called in to slay.

In the narrative poem, Grendel is a monster who lives pretty close to where King Hrothgar has just built a fancy new mead hall where a bunch of Vikings party, sing and drink all night long. Grendel is thoroughly disturbed by this (as we all would be) and resorts to attacking the revellers and killing several of them (as we all absolutely should not).

Rather than meeting up for a cuppa and having a sensible chat like good neighbors should, King Hrothgar enlists Beowulf - basically the Geralt of Norse legend - who fights and kills the beast. Unfortunately, there was something out there much worse than Grendel - Grendel’s Mother. We definitely recommend giving the poem a read because we don’t want to spoil the rest for you. Oh and make sure you keep the noise down while you’re at it.
Joan of Arc

## Ability

### Ability

**Visions of Victory****(Draw)** A random card in your hand gains +55 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Long considered one of history’s greatest saints, and an enduring symbol of French unity and nationalism, **Joan of Arc** came from humble beginnings as a peasant girl living in medieval France.

When she was around twelve years old she had a vision - she saw the Archangel Michael, who told her that she was to lead the French in a battle against the English. After she drove the English out she was to take the king to be crowned at Rheims. Specific...very specific.

Joan continued to hear voices and have visions over the next several years. When Joan turned sixteen she decided it was time to listen to her visions and finally take action.

Here was the rub though; Joan had zero military training but managed to (after much initial suspicion) convince the embattled crown prince Charles of Valois to allow her to lead a French army to the besieged city of Orléans. Joan was on to something, and the French Army won a momentous victory over the English and their French allies.

After seeing the prince crowned King Charles VII, Joan was captured by Anglo-Burgundian forces and tried for witchcraft. The English held her as a prisoner and gave her a trial to prove that she was a religious heretic. She was questioned over the course of several days while the English desperately tried to find something that she'd done to deserved death.

They came up with nothing apart from the fact she had dressed as a man, which was apparently enough to warrant execution. Joan of Arc was found guilty of heresy and was tragically burned at the stake in 1431, at the age of 19.
Horse-fly

## Ability

### Ability

**A Bite Annoying****(Draw)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -9 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you’re being bothered by a **Horse-fly**, stay perfectly still, don’t breathe and whatever you do, don’t cry. These blood-sucking insects are attracted to movement, carbon dioxide and moisture. Even if you do run, beware that these bugs are strong fliers capable of travelling more than 30 miles.

Although they do prefer horses and cattle, horse-flies have been plaguing humans for centuries - even the ancient Greeks blamed them for driving people mad. Inside a horse-fly’s mouth is a skin piercing kit comprising two blades that they use to cut through flesh and lap up blood. Unsatisfied by a few drops, these flies inject an anticoagulant into the skin of their prey containing a substance to ensure the blood keeps flowing like cheap drinks on Spring Break.
Hecate

## Ability

### Ability

**Protector of the Oikos****(Play)** Your Dogs, Plant Life and Venomous Creatures cards in hand gain +8 Power for 2 turns and if you have played Zombies this game, they gain +8 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

As a goddess of the underworld presiding over sorcery and the spaces in between worlds, **Hecate** has held a bit of a bad reputation since the rise of Christianity. But the Greeks didn’t see her this way at all. In fact, based on Hesiod’s description of Hecate, she is a benevolent goddess, assisting kings in judgement, protecting horsemen, making cattle reproduce and helping fisherman secure a catch of silvery fish.

In Greek mythology, Hecate was the only child of the Titans Perses and Asteria and was given power over heaven, the earth and the sea. Since she had connections with the Moon and creatures of the night, Hecate was called upon by the Greeks to ward away evil spirits.
Jorogumo

## Ability

### Ability

**Kiss of the Spiderwoman****(Draw)** For each card with 'Spider' in the name played this game, up to a maximum of 10, your cards with 'Spider' in the name, wherever they are, gain +2 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Don’t you just hate it when a beautiful woman you’re courting turns out to be a shapeshifting spider-like creature who wants to eat you? Don’t we all. This is no “friendly neighbourhood spider-woman” - on the contrary, it’s a ‘Yokai’ - a supernatural being from Japanese folklore who brings misery to its victims.

**Jorogumo** are said to come about when an orb-weaving species of spider reaches 400 years old. On its 400th birthday, the spider suddenly grows to the size of a cow and can then change its shape to a pretty lady as a means of luring victims into her web. Once they have become a Yokai, the Jorogumo has a penchant for eating humans, and young men in particular.
Jim Lovell

## Ability

### Ability

**Houston, We Have a Problem...****(Return)** If you are losing the round, your remaining cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

You may well know **Jim Lovell** best from his achievements in the field of "being portrayed by Tom Hanks in a film", but he's actually one of early space flight's most prolific astronauts. Between 1965 and 1970 he was part of four missions into space.

His first, Gemini 7 in 1965, was an endurance experiment. **Lovell** and Frank Borman spent 14 days in space, during which they orbited Earth 206 times and performed tests to see how well a human could live in orbit.

Gemini 12 launched with **Lovell** aboard in 1966 (alongside teammate Buzz Aldrin). As well as docking with and Agena Target Vehicle, the mission proved that human could work effectively outside a spacecraft.

Apollo 8, which launched on 21st December 1968, was the first mission to the Moon. **Lovell** was navigator on this journey and, along with Borman and William A. Anders, the three of them became the first mean to enter the orbit of another celestial body. They completed 10 orbits of the Moon before returning to Earth, but they didn't land on it.

Landing on the Moon was the objective of the Apollo 13 mission, which launched on April 11th 1970. **Lovell**, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert were the crew for this one, and **Lovell** was set to become the 3rd or 4th man on the Moon. Unfortunately, 55 hours into the mission, an oxygen tank onboard exploded - the three of them were left hurtling away from Earth with limited oxygen reserves. The team on the ground worked tirelessly to plot course corrections and jury rig equipment to keep them alive long enough to make an orbit of the Moon and return home safely.

## Trivia

* The quote "Houston, We Have a Problem..." is a popular quotation from the radio communications between John Swigert and the NASA Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 spaceflight, as the astronauts communicated their discovery of the explosion that crippled their spacecraft.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells

## Did You Know?

Hydrogen Fuel Cells combine hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, heat and water. They are similar to batteries, producing electricity whilst creating no emissions. However, unlike batteries, Hydrogen Fuel Cells do not run down or need to be recharged if there is a constant supply of hydrogen and oxygen.

That sounds great, doesn't it? So why isn't everyone driving hydrogen-powered cars?

Well, it's very tricky to extract hydrogen from renewable sources at the moment, in quantities our society demands. A large amount of our hydrogen is separated from natural gas, which, if you've read our Natural Gas card, isn't a sustainable source.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- Count on Swedish pop.
Greensleeves

## Ability

### Ability

**Instant Classic****(Play)** If your deck has 6 or more History cards, your Musically Minded cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Probably the biggest bop of the 1500s, **Greensleeves** is often said to be a raunchy song about a promiscuous woman whose clothing was stained green from having… ahem… relations in the grass. It’s also commonly attributed to King Henry VIII. But neither of these “facts” are true.

For starters, the song is more likely named as green was the colour associated with romance at the time. And, while there are similarities between the narrative of the lyrics and the King’s turbulent relationship with Anne Boleyn, the version that everyone knows wasn’t published until a few decades after his death and is therefore believed to be Elizabethan in origin.

Still, Henry did write <link="https:>Pasttime with Good Company</link>, which is a pretty big tune in its own right.
Hypatia of Alexandria

## Ability

### Ability

**Martyr for Philosophy****(Draw)** This card loses -50 Power this round and your Philosophy cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Mathematician, astronomer and all-round intellectual powerhouse, **Hypatia of Alexandria** was recognised as a better philosopher than most of the men during her time.

Her philosophy meant she saw no need for marriage: in her words, she was “wedded to the truth.” The truth was sadly widowed after Hypatia’s death at the hands of a Christian mob – an event that is said to have marked the end of intellectual life in Alexandria.