recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
The Lovers (VI)

## Ability

### Ability

**True Love****(Play)** If you play exactly 2 cards this turn and the cards are adjacent, give both cards +70 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Don’t get your hopes up: **The Lovers** doesn’t signal the arrival of a tall dark stranger. But hey, who needs strangers anyway? Just learn the Tarot, get a cat and become a full-time fortune teller, then you’ll hold all the power. Or… don’t?

If you’re considering this, or pondering any other important decision, the Lovers signifies that choice you have to make between things that are opposing and mutually exclusive. Like, becoming a fortune teller and people taking you seriously.

When dealt upright, the Lovers symbolises balance, harmony and love - all feelings you’ll get when you learn to understand what your goals are and the path you must take to get there. When reversed, this card is a sign you’re struggling to take ownership of the decisions you’ve made.
The Davenport Brothers

## Ability

### Ability

**Fraud Exposure****(Play)** Two opponent's random cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

What could possibly be so perplexing about two brothers sitting in a large wooden box full of musical instruments? Nothing, of course. But if those brothers are tied up tightly with rope, seemingly unable to move, and you can hear the sound of each instrument being played, you start to wonder whether ghostly forces are at work.

The Spirit cabinet was **The Davenport Brothers**’ most famous magic trick, and it all started with a dare at one of their New York shows in the mid-1800s. Eager to wow the crowds with their supposed supernatural powers, the brothers accepted.

But the response wasn’t always applause. On many occasions, the audience turned violent - and who could blame them? When you’re promised ghosts, you expect ghosts - not deceptive trickery from commercial magicians.
The General (1926)

## Ability

### Ability

**Never Fake a Gag****(Play)** If you have played any On Track! card this game, this card gains +26 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

A note to budding directors: if your film doesn’t do well at the box office, don’t worry. There’s a chance it might later be known as one of the greatest films ever made.\* Case in point: “**The General**” starring Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman.

At the time of release, this silent film was a commercial flop and led to a decline in Keaton’s career. Today, it’s often ranked as one of the best American films of all time. Like the Fast and Furious of its day, ‘The General’ is recognised for its impressive and dangerous stunts, including Keaton’s famous ride atop the locomotive’s cow catcher. It’s also notable for its historical accuracy in depicting the civil war, and for showcasing Keaton’s trademark deadpan humour and physical comedy.

* unless it’s just <link="https:>really, really bad.</link>
The Lady of the Lake

## Ability

### Ability

**Seal Away****(Play)** Your Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power this round and your Excalibur card, wherever it is, gains +50 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**The Lady of the Lake** - also known as Viviane or Nimue, is responsible for several key moments in Arthurian legend, even though her part is somewhat underwritten: we have little idea where she has come from, and what her motives are.

Nonetheless, she…

a) Raises Sir Lancelot from birth
b) Gets tutored by Merlin, before later imprisoning him
c) Possesses and then hands over Excalibur, and
d) Carries King Arthur to Avalon on his death.

Now, we aren’t sure this was all the same person - ‘Lady of the Lake’ may have been more of a title than a specific individual.

Regardless, you should remember that “strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.”\*

  \*(With eternal gratitude to Monty Python)
Sunday Roast

## Ability

### Ability

**Beefeater****(Play)** If it's the third turn of a round, your Arts & Culture cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Sunday Roast** first came about during King Henry VII’s rule in 1485 - that’s one theory, anyway. Supposedly, royal bodyguards ate roast beef on the regular, earning them the nickname ‘beefeaters’. Another theory goes that this traditional British meal came about in mediaeval times, when village serfs would run through battle practice on Sunday and be rewarded with roasted oxen if they did well.

In any case, by the industrial revolution, people were putting joints of meat in their oven with veg and potatoes before heading out to church. When they got back, their slow-cooked Sunday Roast would be ready to eat. Today, Yorkshire pudding is served as part of the roast, but it was originally an appetiser to prevent excessive meat consumption and keep the costs down.
Tasmanian Devil

## Ability

### Ability

**[Incoherent Slobbering]****(Draw)** A random card in your hand loses -25 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

If you're anything like this writer, you first heard about **Tasmanian Devils** because of Taz, the Looney Tunes' spinning ball of rage. You may also be saddened to learn that the real thing looks nothing like its cartoon counterpart - it's not like animation to take liberties with reality!

The real **Tasmanian Devils** are among the larger marsupials in the world, and are native to Tasmania in Australasia. They don't start off large though - mother **Devils** will have litters of 30-50 at a time, all of them born the size of a grain of rice! However, she only has four teats for them to latch onto, so only the fastest four will get a spot in the pouch...

The bite of the **Tasmanian Devil** is among the most powerful in the world - it can exert around 544 kilograms of pressure per square inch!
The Frog Prince

## Ability

### Ability

**A Kiss from a Princess****(Play)** If you have played any Female Unruly Rulers card this game, your Amphibians cards, wherever they are, gain +23 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Life is funny sometimes. One moment you’re dropping a golden ball into a pond under a linden tree, the next you’re befriending **The Frog Prince** who is actually under a fairy’s spell and is really a handsome prince. Ah, we’ve all been there.

It was collected by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812 in Grimm’s Fairy Tales, but the story of the Frog Prince is thought by some scholars to date back to at least Roman times. In Petronius Satyricon, the character Trimalchio says "qui fuit rana nunc est rex" ("The man who was once a frog is now a king"). Of course, they could have just been mocking the emperor Nero, who was often compared to a frog.
The Amazons

## Ability

### Ability

**Closed for Men****(Draw)** If your deck contains only Female Greek Mythology cards, your cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Everyone from Achilles to Alexander the Great himself is said to have battled them. Theseus, the mythical king of Athens, supposedly married one. **The Amazons** were a race of warrior women who lived at the outer limits of the known world in the city of Themiskyra on the Black Sea.

Noted for their courage, pride and strength, the Amazons’ whole society turned gender roles on their heads, with women holding the highest ranks of political and military power. Meanwhile, the men stayed at home, weaving and raising the children. Judging by the artistic depictions, the Greeks were fascinated by this idea. However, given that most of the stories about the Amazons do involve them being beaten and subjected by men, it’s clear they weren’t ready for it.
The Forum in Rome

## Did You Know?

A Forum was the community centre of a Roman city, serving as a public area where commercial, religious and social activity occurred. Rome’s own Forum, developed from the 7th century BC, was known for hosting criminal trials, executions and gladiatorial battles too - so the next time you're listening to generic pop music at the mall, count yourself lucky!
The Renaissance

## Ability

### Ability

**Culture Shock****(Draw)** Your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played. **(Draw)** If your deck has 6 or fewer Arts & Culture cards, your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Often considered the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history, **The Renaissance** is the term given to the period from the 14th to the 17th century, in which art, literature, science and philosophy thrived.

The Renaissance marked a shift in mindset: instead of relying on the will of God, people started to act according to their capabilities. Some major developments of the Renaissance include astronomy, humanist philosophy, the printing press, vernacular language in writing, painting technique, world exploration and, in the late Renaissance, Shakespeare's works.

The word “Renaissance” is French for “re-birth” – the period is so named because of the renewed interest in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome during this time.

'Michelangelo's David' by Livioandronico2013 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered) Photograph of Michaelangelo's David
The Magnetic Poles

## Ability

### Ability

**Pole Vault****(Return)** Your The North Pole and The South Pole cards, wherever they are, cost -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Play around with two magnets and it won’t take you long to notice that they have two sides where they are stronger. Depending on how you hold them, they’ll either attract or repel each other. The ends of the magnets are called **Magnetic Poles**: one end is the north pole; the other is called the south pole.

Sound familiar? That’s because the Earth acts like a giant magnet. The magnetic field that surrounds it creates magnetic poles that are near the geographical poles. Earth’s invisible magnetism helps migratory animals like birds to get around, while humans can use a compass that relies on the geomagnetic field to find directions. Here’s where it gets crazy: Earth’s magnetic poles are always moving, shifting around 40km each year.
Tezcatlipoca

## Ability

### Ability

**Ruler of the North****(Play)** If you have played Quetzalcoatl this game, your Xipe Totec card in hand gains +60 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Tezcatlipoca** (tes-kaht-li-poh-kah), or Smoking Mirror, was one of the four Aztec creator gods as well as the god of war, The Great Bear (Ursa Major) and the Jaguar Sun, the first of the four worlds that were created and destroyed before our universe was created.

Often depicted with his right foot replaced with an obsidian mirror (lost battling a monster during Earth's creation). Its reflective nature is somewhat underplayed in Minecraft, as obsidian, when polished, makes a dark smoky dark mirror which is also symbolic of Tezcatlipoca’s dark nature.

As with many of the Aztec deity stories, they often conflict or contradict one another, however most are pretty crazy (unsurprisingly, Aztecs were known to use Peyote, a hallucinogenic drug).

One story says that Tezcatlipoca became the sun which angered his brother Quetzalcoatl who beat him out of the sky with a club. Somewhat cheesed off by his brother's attack, Tezcatlipoca turned into a jaguar and obliterated the world.
The Chariot (VII)

## Ability

### Ability

**Self Control****(Play)** If played alone, your Tarot cards in hand gain +16 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Hurdles? What hurdles? You’ve just pulled **The Chariot** card in a Tarot reading, which means you’re ready to overcome any obstacles in your path with determination, focus and willpower. Or you picked the card at random and it means absolutely nothing. But hey, it’s always nice to believe that you’re in control of your destiny, right?

Mediums say this card upright represents your ability to harness your own power and direct it towards a specific goal - whether that’s climbing Everest or just climbing out of bed in time for work. If this card presents itself upside down, you might be feeling powerless, like you’re sitting in a chariot led by wild horses with no direction. Option 1: Take back control. Option 2: Embrace the chaos.
Sylphina Angel

## Ability

### Ability

**Delicate and Deliberate****(Return)** If you lost the turn, lose -2:energy/turn: next turn and if you won the turn, gain +5:energy/turn: next turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Sylphina Angel** is one cold-blooded butterfly – but only in the literal sense. In fact, as per their blood temperature, the Sylphina Angel lives a very chilled existence. Their life is spent basking in the sunshine, paddling at the edge of streams and feeding from the nectar of flowers.

This rare butterfly can be identified by its exquisite blue inner wings and black lined clear outer wings. Chances of spotting one are pretty low, though, as this butterfly is a cloud forest species that can be found in Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia at altitudes between about 2,000-3,000m. The top flight speed of a Sylphina Angel Butterfly is 12 miles per hour, which is usually the top speed of your average treadmill.

'Chorinea sylphina near Machu Picchu.' by Ssola (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Piltdown Man

## Ability

### Ability

**Of Monkey and Man****(Play)** If your deck contains The Brain, your Primates and Human Evolution cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

From the start, there was something off about **Piltdown Man**. Hailed as the missing link in human evolution, the fossils of this big-brained, ape-jawed creature were discovered by an amateur fossil hunter by the name of Charles Dawson in a gravel pit near a small village in the UK. The Piltdown Man suggested England and not Africa as the location that modern humans evolved.

But, in 1953, new techniques revealed that the Piltdown Man was nothing but a con: not only were the bones of all different ages, but they didn’t even belong to the same species. In Dawson’s defence, it was still one of the most successful hoaxes in the history of science. And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling palaeontologists!
Taste

## Ability

### Ability

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

## Did You Know?

The sense of **Taste** is immensely powerful, but most of that sensation happens in the brain – not the mouth. When we eat something, taste and nerve signals move throughout the brain, joining up with smell signals to give the sensation of flavour.

Remember the taste map of the mouth you learned as a child that said our taste is confined to specific areas? The ones that’s on the front of this card? It was a myth. While we do have receptors for sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami, these receptors are distributed all over the tongue.

Talking of taste buds, these little sensory organs are ever-changing, dying off and regenerating every few days. As we age, that cycle slows down, which explains why older people prefer their meals to be saltier or spicier.
The Big Rip

## Ability

### Ability

**How It All Ends****(Play)** If it is the last turn of a round, both players lose -100 Power/Turn this turn.

## Did You Know?

As if we don’t already have enough problems on Earth, a mathematical model developed by Professor Marcelo Disconzi known as **The Big Rip** suggests the universe we know and love could tear itself apart in 22 billion years. Don’t worry though, given the way we’re going with climate change, we probably won’t be around to see it happen.

But - on the off chance that your great, great, great (etc) granddaughter is alive in 22 billion years - this is what she might experience: dark energy winning a battle with gravity to ultimately rip apart atoms individually on a mass scale. According to Disconzi, this will happen due to the rapid acceleration of the universe to the point of infinity, with cataclysmic results.
The Big Bang

## Did You Know?

This is the sine qua non (look it up...) of literally everything.

The Big Bang kickstarted the Universe 13.8 billion years ago, and you should make it your go-to scapegoat. Got the plague? Big Bang's fault. Lost your homework. Big Bang did it. Became a Universe expanding for billions of years before eventually collapsing into itself\*? Not without the Big Bang you didn't.

If you're lucky enough to have a recent smartphone or tablet, check out CERN's Big Bang AR app to experience those first nanoseconds of the Universe in all their mind-bending glory.

* Other theories are available. Your mileage may vary.
The Ninety-Nines

## Ability

### Ability

**Equal Opportunity****(Start)** If your deck has 16 or more cards from any one album, your non-Science cards in hand gain +6 Power until played. Repeat for your opponent.

## Did You Know?

In 1929, a group of female pilots from across the world came together to promote advancement of aviation through education and scholarships and to preserve the unique history of women in the industry. They called it **The Ninety Nines**, because - well, that’s how many charter members there were.

In 1931, Amelia Earhart was elected the first President, and membership was immediately opened to other women as they became licensed pilots. Ten years later, a guy (unfortunately) named Dick Ballou <link="https:>**wrote a song** about them: "In the air, everywhere / It's the song of The Ninety-Nines / Wings in Flight / Day and Night / with the Song of The Ninety-Nines.” Today, the non-profit organisation is still active, but the member count is well above 5,000.
Stonehenge

## Ability

### Ability

**Lay the Foundations****(Play)** Your Super Structures cards in hand gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Who doesn't love a good henge? Stonehenge (definitively the pengest henge) has fascinated henge fans for centuries - 45 of them! Centuries, that is, not the amount of fans.

No one knows quite why the Neolithic and Bronze Age people built it, but it is thought to be for spiritual purposes. Originally of timber construction, they realised that a structure called "Stonehenge" probably ought to be made of stone; the 'bluestones' (weighing in at between 2 and 5 tons each) were transported from Pembrokeshire, Wales- 140 miles away.

Incidentally, if you've been inspired by this and would like to build your own henge, the key features include a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Alternatively. if you're not into building you can just go and dance around it on the Summer Solstice.
The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl

## Ability

### Ability

**Lovers of the Milky Way****(Play)** Your The Milky Way card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

According to Chinese folklore, a cowherd named Niulang happened upon the goddess Zhinu bathing in a lake. They say opposites attract, and that was certainly the case for **The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl**. Since Zhinu was kind of a big deal, she was banned from seeing Niulang.

Finally, the Goddess of Heaven let them see each other once a year on the 7th day of the 7th month in the lunar calendar. Today, the Qixi Festival celebrates their annual meeting.

CRAFTING CLUES BELOW!

- You're well on your way to solving the Pangaea mystery, keep on down the roald...
- Imitate the Sun, amidst small stars.
The Danube

## Ability

### Ability

**Capital Idea****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your cards in hand gain +15 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Europe’s second longest river, **The Danube** river runs 2,850km from Germany to Ukraine into the Black Sea and is home to over 5,000 species. In terms of eco-diversity, it is surpassed only by the Great Barrier Reef and the Galapagos Islands. The Danube River got its name from the Proto-Indo-European word ‘dānu', which has been used for naming several old European rivers. That, or because it’s blue, danube dee danube die.

Does anyone remember Eiffel 65? ANYONE?
Styxosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Styx it to the Man****(Play)** Your Hades card in hand gains +36 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Ever wondered whether you're getting enough *rocks* in your diet?

**Styxosaurus** certainly got their daily recommended amount. Specimens in North Dakota have been found with over 200 stones in their belly. One theory is that they aided digestion, presumably because North Dakota wouldn't get its first Walgreens for a few million years.

The more popular theory is that the weight of the stones enabled **Styxosaurus** to sink closer to the ocean floor for feeding. Which begs the question - what did it do when it wanted to float back up again?

*Ouch.*
The Dull Sword

## Ability

### Ability

**Early Anime****(Play)** If it's Round 1, your Stage and Screen cards in hand gain +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Antique shops aren’t just places for dusty furniture, eccentric salespeople and Genie-harbouring lamps. In 2008, a Japanese short film dating back to 1917 was rediscovered in an antique shop in Osaka, and it turned out to be one of the oldest examples of anime.

Named なまくら刀 (‘**The Dull Sword**’), this 4-minute movie tells the story about a ronin’s purchase of a dull-edged sword and their attempts at tsujigiri (that is, testing a new weapon by attacking a defenceless passer by).

Spoiler alert: it doesn’t go too well for the dim-witted samurai, and his sword proves to be totally useless, even against the weakest opponents. What goes around comes around, and the samurai gets knocked out by one of his victims.
Sword of Attila

## Ability

### Ability

**Divine Weaponry****(Play)** Your Machines of War cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until played. If played next to Attila the Hun, give them an additional +6 Power permanently. **(Return)** If your deck contains Attila the Hun, your The Roman Empire cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

When fearsome leader **Attila the Hun** was a little boy, his mother told him stories about an ancient sword forged by the Gods from iron of a meteorite for Scythian kings. According to the legend, “he who finds God’s sword will rule the world.”

That prophecy almost came to pass when Attila, (now an adult with big ambitions) found the sword just sticking out the ground. Very convenient. Although the Huns typically used bows or axes in combat, the Sword of Attila gave the Hunnic empire a new edge.

Believing that he was the rightful owner and destined to conquer the world, Attila wielded the sword with such vigour but tragically for him, he died soon after finding the sword, so wasn’t able to take full advantage of its power.
The Effigy of Marzanna

## Ability

### Ability

**Approaching Spring****(Draw)** This card **Lock**s and **Burn**s (20) for 2 turns. **(Return)** Your Common Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Summoning the springtime? We recommend building a humanoid figure from straw, dressing her up in old clothes, burning her on the first day of spring and chucking all of the remains into the river. An old Polish tradition rooted in Pre-Christian Slavic Rites, this ritual rids the people of Marzanna (the Polish Goddess of Winter, Pestilence, and Death) so that new life can thrive.

One of the most well-known deities in Slavic mythology, Marzanna is usually depicted as a pale figure with black hair. She is often portrayed wielding a scythe and is either beautiful or a horrific creature with claws and fangs. After the **Effigy of Marzanna** is burned, drowned or both, it is said that the deity travels to the underworld of Nawia until her return in autumn.

'Letohrádek Kinských - Musaion 712' by Matěj Baťha (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Hope Diamond

## Ability

### Ability

**45K Magic****(Play)** Your cards in hand with 46 or more Base Power gain +45 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

There’s bling, and then there’s **The Hope Diamond**, a spellbinding, crystal blue jewel that has been the subject of intrigue and mystery for hundreds of years. The story of this dazzling diamond reputedly starts on the forehead (or third eye) of a statue of the Hindu goddess Sita. Legend has it that the diamond was stolen, and this was the start of the fabled curse that brought bad luck and death to all who touched it. The first owner was the French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier, a 17th-century French merchant. But it soon changed hands to King Louis XVI, who was later beheaded. If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s “don’t mess with the Hope Diamond.”

'The Hope Diamond in 1974' by Unknown Author (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Tasmanian Emu

## Ability

### Ability

**Tas-Team****(Draw)** Your Tasmanian Devil card, wherever it is, costs -2 Energy until played. **(Play)** Your Marsupials and Ice Age cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Until 1865, emus roamed Tasmania’s midlands and the north-east and north-west of the state. The only remaining complete specimen can be found at the British Natural History Museum in London. So, what happened to this flightless bird? Sadly, no one knows for sure why this creature ceased to exist.

“Now, hang on CUE”, you may be thinking - “what’s this doing in the Ice Age collection if it went extinct in the mid-19th century?” Well, it serves to highlight how important the ice age was for the migration of certain species. During the Pleistocene era, sea levels were much lower and there was a land connection between Australia and Tasmania, which emus used to move there. As the ice melted, the two islands separated, and the Tasmanian emu remained.

Here’s what we do know: the **Tasmanian Emu** was closely related to the modern-day Australian mainland emu, and likely acted as a long-distant seed disperser. We also know that Tasmanian aborigines would use feathers on sticks to lure these creatures to capture them – one emu made a good-sized meal for the family. In all likelihood, early settlers probably ate the Tasmanian Emu into extinction.
Tantalum

## Ability

### Ability

**Tantalizing****(Play)** If you have played Tantalus this game, this card gains +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

You’ll find it in mobile phones, DVD players, video game systems and computers. No, it’s not a secret chip that “they” have put in there to control us - it’s just good old **Tantalum**. Named after Tantalus in Greek mythology, this refractory metal has several advantages like a high melting point, low vapor pressure, good cold workability, high chemical stability and strong resistance to metal corrosion.

As a result, this element can also be used to make chemical process equipment, nuclear reactors, aircraft and missile parts. However, compared with other metals, Tantalum is in relatively short supply. Australia alone accounts for nearly 62% of global tantalum reserves, followed by Brazil, which accounts for 36% of the total.
The Legend of Danny

## Ability

### Ability

**No Peeking...****(Play)** If you are winning the round, this card gains +50 Power.

## Did You Know?

A South African Christmas tradition revolves around the story of Danny, a young boy who was warned by his grandmother not to eat the cookies she'd left out for Santa. Danny, being the protagonist in a cautionary tale, weighs up the pros and cons and scoffs those cookies right down.

His grandmother finds out and beats him to death for his trouble, which seems cruel and unusual, and his ghost is said to haunt children thinking of sneaking out of bed to do the same.
The Prisoner's Dilemma

## Ability

### Ability

**Sentence Case****(Play)** If you are tied in the round, a random card in either player's hand gains +45 Power until played, **(Play)** if you are losing the round, a random card in your hand gains +45 Power until played and if you are winning the round, an opponent's random card in hand gains +45 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**The Prisoner’s Dilemma** goes like this: two suspects in a criminal gang have been caught and are being held in separate rooms at the police station. The prosecutor has given each prisoner the option to betray the other to have their charges dropped, assuming that the other prisoner will not confess. If one prisoner does not confess while the other does, the first will be given a 3-year sentence. If both confess, both prisoners will serve a two-year sentence. If neither prisoner confesses, both will be given one-year sentences.

Devised by Merill Flood and Melvin Dresher in 1950, the Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of the most famous game theories that shows why two rational people will choose self-interest over cooperation, even if it’s within their best interests to cooperate.
The Kon-Tiki

## Ability

### Ability

**Prove It****(Play)** Your opponent gains +40 Power/Turn this turn. **(Return)** Your opponent loses -80 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

In 1947, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl led an expedition by raft to the Polynesian islands from South America. His goal? To show that people from South America could have made the same voyage during pre-Columbian times with the materials and technologies they had available. In other words, this expedition was effectively a long-winded “told you so” moment.

The raft was named **The Kon-Tiki** after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom “Kon-Tiki” is said to be an old name. There is no doubt that the voyage of the Kon-Tiki was a great adventure: after three months on the open sea, they eventually reached Polynesia. Today, however, Heyerdahl’s hypothesis of Polynesian peoples is rejected by overwhelming cultural, genetic and archaeological evidence that point towards a western origin.

'Expedition Kon-Tiki 1947. Across the Pacific.' by Nasjonalbiblioteket (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Tawny Mining Bee

## Ability

### Ability

**Buzz...****(Play)** Your Western Honey Bee card in hand gains +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Red hair? Hand-me-down robes? This must *bee* a Weasley. We’re kidding about the robes, but the **Tawny Mining Bee** can be easily recognised for its big tuft of fox-red hair.

However, unlike its bee cousins, the Tawny Mining Bee (TMB to bee connoisseurs) doesn’t create a colony. As a solitary species of bee, each female has her own nest. Still, TMB neighbourhoods might still comprise several hundred nests within a few square metres, so it’s not as if socialising is totally out of the question.

As their name suggests, females excavate or ‘mine’ into the earth to create their nest burrows. As a result, their nests have little volcano-style mounds of soil around the entrance and can be seen in lawns and flowerbeds of gardens and parks.
The Great Conspiracy

## Ability

### Ability

**Warband Invasion****(Draw)** For every 3 The Roman Empire cards in your deck, your The Roman Empire cards, wherever they are, gain +5 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Wake up, sheeple! The Roman Empire was attacked on multiple fronts - not only did members of the Roman garrison let savage tribes including the Picti, Scoti and Attacoti penetrate Hadrian’s Wall, but Saxon and Frankish warbands also attacked Roman outposts and settlements across Britain, ransacking the towns and leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. How do you explain that?!

Some “historians” say it’s “opportunistic”. They say the Empire had been in turmoil since the death of Constantine, civil war and usurpation, so attacks were “inevitable” - very convenient, don’t you think? Clearly a global cover up that suits their narrative! Real ones know the truth, which is that this is the **Great Conspiracy**, the result of a pre-planned attack that took years to orchestrate!
Summa de Arithmetica

## Ability

### Ability

**Into the Vernacular****(Play)** If you are trailing by 80 Power or more, this card gains +65 Power.

## Did You Know?

If you haven’t read the **Summa de Arithmetica**, are you even a maths nerd? Written in vernacular Italian by the father of accounting, Luca Pacioli, the Summa is the first printed work on algebra.

Published in 1494, this ancient maths textbook includes the first description of double-entry bookkeeping – the “Methods of Venice.” The original print is ten chapters long and covers a range of mathematical topics.

If you make it past the first seven chapters, a summary of arithmetic, you’ll get to the good bit: chapter eight explains contemporary algebra in 78 pages, and the ninth chapter dives deep into maths in the context of business and trade including barter, bills of exchange, weights, measures and bookkeeping.

Spoiler alert: the tenth chapter is all about practical geometry.

'Title page of Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni, et proportionalita' by Stockholms Universitetsbibliotek (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Tasmanian Pademelon

## Ability

### Ability

**Patience, Young Pademelon****(Start)** A random Marsupials card in your hand gains +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The **Tasmanian Pademelon** would be the perfect cuddle buddy if they weren’t solitary and nocturnal. When they do choose to socialise, it’s often over a good hearty meal, where as many as 10 pademelons come dine together.

But make no mistake - this creature is legit a MGTOW: Marsupial Going Their Own Way. Instead of taking one partner, Tasmanian Pademelons are polygynandrous – the fancy word for promiscuous. Both males and females have multiple mates, and although there’s no official breeding season, 70% of pademelons are born at the start of winter. Given that their gestation period is 31 days, it’s clear that Halloween really gets these marsupials going.
The Charter of the United Nations

## Ability

### Ability

**Combine Our Efforts****(Return)** If 6 cards in your deck are from different Albums, this card and a random card in your hand cost -4 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

After World War II, 50 countries were all in agreement: more warfare would be disastrous. The world wanted peace (or at least a break from fighting!) So, these countries signed **The Charter of the United Nations** to maintain international peace. The United Nations would replace the League of Nations, which had clearly been pretty rubbish at preventing war.

The charter, which was signed in June 1945 and came into effect in October 1945, consists of 19 chapters divided into 111 articles. The document calls for member states to keep the peace, promote social progress and better standards of life, strengthen international law and promote the expansion of human rights. Today, the United Nations is made up of 193 members.
The Alphabet

## Ability

### Ability

**To The Letter****(Play)** Your cards in hand gain +5 Power this turn and your Paper card, wherever it is, gains +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Have you ever used words? Maybe said them or even, on occasion, written them down? Then congratulations - you are proficient in **The Alphabet**!

The Latin Alphabet contains 26 letters, which cover 40 different sounds that a human mouth can make, and the words we speak are made up of the thousands of combinations of those letters. Those 26 letters are used in nearly 100 languages worldwide, but there are seven other alphabet groups - Cyrillic, Greek, Georgian, Brahmi, Armenian, Aramaic and Arabic - that use entirely different sets of letters.

The most commonly used letter in The Alphabet is E, and the longest word in the English language that does not contain E is *floccinaucinihilipilification*, which is the habit of underestimating the value of things. Like brevity, for example.

## Trivia

* The 26 Power is a reference that there are 26 letters in the alphabet.
* The first letters of the crafting ingredients are in the alphabetical sequence (A B C D E F G H I).
* This was the first crafted card released.
* The recipes are found from clues. In this case, the clues were released as images in the background of official CUE videos and similar social media activity.

Avid created new clues later to put on the back of the cards to have a puzzle for players who joined after the original event. The clues and cards are:

 Feline reverential
 WWII gun makes them cry
 Here's a clue to break the ice
 Look! We've been charged
 Power? It's a gas
The Golden Hinde

## Ability

### Ability

**Drake's Fortune****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +10 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

The Golden Hinde was an English Galleon that circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1580. It was originally called Pelican but mid-voyage it was renamed Golden Hinde by its captain, Sir Francis Drake.

The fleet traveled across the Atlantic and down the coast of South America. After passing through the Strait of Magellan, they entered the Pacific Ocean and went north along the coast of Peru, ransacking towns along the way and capturing a treasure laden Spanish ship-the Cacafuego. Drake seized provisions at Valparaíso, attacked passing Spanish merchantmen, and captured gold and silver, minted Spanish coinage, precious stones, and pearls.

Eventually, Drake's fleet was down to a single ship, the Golden Hinde. After three years of sailing, on September 26, 1580, the ship arrived back home in England. Drake's expedition was only the second in history to sail around the world and deemed a huge success by Queen Elizabeth I.

Much to the annoyance and horror of the King of Spain, Francis Drake was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I on his return aboard the ship.

By 1588 King Philip II of Spain had had enough and assembled a huge fleet of Spanish Warships (The Spanish Armada) to take over England. It was the Golden Hinde that became the messenger and carried the news of the arrival of the Armada to Drake and Howard at Plymouth.

The Golden Hinde was put on show in Deptford on its return. This is the earliest known example of a ship being maintained for public display because of her historic significance. She remained there for almost 100 years before she sadly rotted away.

## Trivia

* The quote "Drake's Fortune" is a reference to the 2007 action-adventure game *Uncharted: Drake's Fortune*.
The Cinnamon Challenge

## Ability

### Ability

***Unintelligible Spluttering*****(Play)** If \*cough\* played next to Lungs, your \*wheeze\* Lungs card in hand loses -17 Power \*cough\* permanently and if played next to Lungs, this \*cough\* card gains +40 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Okay, so we’re putting this warning at the top so that you definitely read it and don’t do anything stupid: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME, IT’S RIDICULOUSLY UNSAFE!

The **The Cinnamon Challenge** was a thoroughly stupid online challenge, circa 2012. Unlike the Ice Bucket Challenge, which people did for charity (although some still managed to injure themselves), this stunt was purely so that the whole internet could laugh at you.

It involves filming yourself as you ingest a spoonful of cinnamon powder in under 60 seconds with no liquids to wash it down. In most cases, when people tried this, they failed, and wound up choking and spraying cinnamon everywhere as they hacked up a lung or two.

While some people might think that this is hilarious, in a few cases it went very badly and even resulted in the death of one young boy. The Cinnamon Challenge can cause choking as people breathe in the powder, which can then actually burn your lungs or even suffocate you. Swallowing it also makes your gag reflex kick in and can result in vomiting. And if you’ve got asthma, don’t even think about it because it can trigger an attack.

So please, keep that cinnamon for your apple pies or even better, just buy one of those Christmas candles that’ll leave your whole house smelling of the stuff for about a month.
The Magician (I)

## Ability

### Ability

**As Above, So Below****(Play)** If you are winning the round, your Life on Land cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power for 3 turns and if you are losing the round, your Going Underground, Deep Ocean and Monsters of the Deep cards, wherever they are, gain +32 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

What does it mean to pull **The Magician** card from a Tarot deck? Bad news: it doesn’t mean you’re about to gain magic powers. However, if you do believe in that kind of stuff, the Magician card is associated with energy, potential and the manifestation of one’s desires.

The card shows a figure pointing with one hand to the sky and the other to the ground to represent the meetings of the spiritual worlds and the physical worlds (“as above, so below.”) As with all tarot cards, the specific interpretation depends on how the card is sitting when selected (right side up or upside down). On a broad level, The Magician reveals how your wishes can be realised through determination and willpower.
Sydney Harbour Bridge

## Did You Know?

Nicknamed 'The Coathanger' because… well, because it vaguely resembles a coathanger, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was the world's tallest steel arch bridge until September 2019 (when it was overtaken by the Xiangxi Yangtze River Bridge). It took 1400 men (including one Paul Hogan - who later became Crocodile Dundee) eight years to build - and 16 people died in the process.
The Little Mermaid

## Ability

### Ability

**Underwater Kingdom****(Draw)** Your Common and Rare Fabulous Fish cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until this is returned to your deck.

## Did You Know?

Apparently, having a human’s head and torso but a fish tail isn’t all it’s cracked up to be - especially when you fall in love with a human. Just ask Ariel, also known as **The Little Mermaid**. But don’t feel too sorry for her, because Disney’s adaptation massively strays from the original, very dark, fable by Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837.

In this story, the nameless mermaid enters into a pact, allowing her tongue to be cut out by the sea witch in exchange for legs. In turn, the witch keeps the mermaid’s sweet singing voice. Bleak. Released in 1989, Disney’s The Little Mermaid grossed $233m at the global box office and features sneaky cameos from ​​Mickey, Goofy, Donald Duck and even Kermit the Frog.
Telescopium

## Ability

### Ability

**Celestial Observer****(Play)** Your Watching the Skies cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

About 1,000 light years away in the southern celestial hemisphere lies a constellation known as **Telescopium**. First introduced by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, the constellation is visible in latitudes south of 33 degrees from June through August.

As you probably guessed, it’s so named to honour the invention of the telescope – but that’s not the most interesting thing about it. You see, within the Telescopium constellation is the closest known black hole to our planet – one that weighs four times the mass of the sun. This black hole forms part of a triple star system that, ironically, can be seen on a dark, clear night without the help of a telescope.
Spiny Seahorse

## Ability

### Ability

**Snout and About****(Draw)** Gain +3 Power/Turn this round and a random card in your hand gains +11 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

England is known for many things: failing to score in the Eurovision Song Contest; failing to score in penalty shootouts at major football tournaments; and failing to score the trade deals it thought it would in the wake of Brexit. But one thing it's not necessarily known for is its marine life, and in June 2021 a lucky diver scored a view of an extremely rare **Spiny Seahorse** off the coast of Devon.

Unfortunately, Spiny Seahorse populations have been in steep decline; where previously there were scores of them, environmental changes have threatened their seagrass homes.

It underscores the importance of fighting against climate change, the topic of discussion at the G7 summit being held nearby to the discovery. Local marine authorities are hoping to score a victory for conservation by planting new seagrass meadows.

Now you know the score.
The Dorian Mode

## Ability

### Ability

**Major 6th****(Draw)** Give 6 cards in either player's hands +8 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

**The Dorian Mode** (referring to the modern diatonic scale, rather than the Ancient Greek or medieval scales of the same name) is one of utility in modern music, taking the ordinary minor scale (or Aeolian mode) and sharpening the 6th to add a cheeky little bit of major tonality and flavour to an otherwise plaintive posse of pitches.

Appearing across every corner of the musical realm, from sea shanties to the main theme of Halo, the Dorian mode is heard frequently in jazz music, featuring throughout the discographies of legends such as Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis and well beyond. For a clear audible example of the mode in use, <link="https:>**HERE**</link> is Miles Davis' 'So What', featuring as the lead track for his 1959 magnum opus 'Kind of Blue'.
Straight-tusked Elephant

## Ability

### Ability

**Straight-Forward****(Play)** Gain +7 Power/Turn this round and your Paleontology cards in hand gain +18 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you think modern-day elephants are big, you haven’t seen the **Straight-tusked Elephant.**  Possibly the largest land mammal to ever exist, some straight-tusked elephants would reach 4.5m in height: that’s just over double the height of Shaquille O’Neal.

As well as their humungous size, straight-tusked elephants were distinguished by a highly unusual feature: running around their head was a crest of bone that jutted forward, which may have helped to support their gigantic heads.

Findings from fossil analysis suggest that straight-tusked elephants survived until at least 21,000 years ago before going extinct. This means that they overlapped in time with humans. As is usually the way with our species, our ancestors may have been responsible for killing a fair few of them... sorry about that.

'Straight-tusked Elephant' by Apotea (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Bayeux Tapestry

## Ability

### Ability

**A Stitch in Time****(Draw)** Your History cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played and this card **Burn**s (30) until played.

## Did You Know?

**The Bayeux Tapestry** is only the most famous tapestry out there! Out of all those other really, really famous tapestries, ahem, the one stitched in Bayeux (Normandy, France) is top of the list.

It didn't get to the top of the list by being a shrinking violet. It's over 70 meters long and 50 centimetres high (230 feet and 20 inches). Its origins are a bit of a mystery but it's thought William the Conqueror’s half-brother the Bishop Odo of Bayeux commissioned it as some sort of memento / interior design nightmare.

The 11th-century tapestry tells the story of events from 1064 to 1066, culminating in the Battle of Hastings and King Harold's demise. Interestingly it's thought the arrow (pictured) was added in the 18th or 19th century during some restoration.

There are two other pretty interesting things about **The Bayeux Tapestry**; it features the first image of Halley's Comet. Oh, and it's not a tapestry at all but embroidery. The Bayeux Embroidery!
Tapejara

## Ability

### Ability

**Old Being****(Play)** Your Fearsome Flyers cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Tapejara** was a flying creature from the Cretaceous Period. Only one specimen has been found to date, in Brazil. It's been speculated that it would have been just as colourful as the birds that currently frequent that area.

See that massive crest on the top of its head? That's an example of evolution not quite being there yet, as it would have been detrimental to flight - **Tapejara** could fly, and had a wingspan about the length of the modern albatross (3.3 meters 10 feet), but if it turned its head during flight that crest would have immediately affected its aerodynamics, suggesting that **Tapejara** would not have been that manoeuvrable.