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Black Witch Moth

## Ability

### Ability

**Money Moth****(Return)** Your Money, Money, Money cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power next turn.

## Did You Know?

Just spotted a **Black Witch Moth**? Congratulations, you’ve come across the largest noctuoid (night owl moths) in the Continental United States. Boasting a seven-inch wingspan, it’s easy to see where the nickname “bat moth” comes from.

According to Caribbean legend, this species is the “Money Moth”, and if it visits your home, you’ll come into a lot of cash. In South Texas, a similar myth says that if a Black Witch Moth roosts over your door, you’ll win the lottery.

Don’t get too excited though, because the black witch moth is a harbinger of death in Mexican folklore. Here, they are known as “mariposa de la muerte,” the butterfly of death. In scientific terms, the Black Witch Moth is totally harmless - but you might want to write that Will, just in case.
Captain Stormalong

## Ability

### Ability

**Tall Ships****(Draw)** If your deck has 4 or more Riding the Waves! cards, your Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 3 turns. **(Return)** Your Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, cost +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Meet **Captain Alfred Bulltop Stormalong**, a larger-than-life American hero who called the high seas home. This towering titan stood at a staggering 30 feet tall and commanded a mammoth ship named the Courser - a ship so big it needed hinged masts to avoid scraping the moon and a stable full of Arabian horses for the crew to get around. Due to its size, the Courser got wedged in the English Channel, requiring the crew to grease the hull with soap. As the vessel scraped against the cliffs of Dover, the soap left them shining bright white.

Every hero needs a nemesis, and Old Stormalong’s was none other than a colossal Kraken from Norse mythology. After various encounters, Stormalong finally defeated his nemesis by luring the beast into an inescapable whirlpool.
Cassiopeia

## Did You Know?

Vanity never goes down well in Greek mythology (just ask Narcissus). The constellation of Cassiopeia depicts the Queen of Aethiopia sitting on a throne that revolves upside-down - her punishment for saying that she was more beautiful than the Nereids (daughters of the sea god Nereus).

Cassiopeia is contained within the Perseus constellation family and contains both the Soul and Heart Nebulae, as well as the remnants of a supernova.
Broadnose Sevengill Shark

## Ability

### Ability

**Sharkway to Seven****(Draw)** If your deck has 7 or more Sharks! cards, your non-Limited Sharks! cards, wherever they are, gain +28 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Why have 5 gills like all those other sharks when you can have 7?! The **Broadnose Sevengill Shark** is one of those sharks your mermaid girlfriend told you not to worry about. It’s also got 6 rows of sharp bottom teeth, as opposed to 5. We’re not saying that this definitely means it could beat you in a fight but maybe just keep your distance.

Now, those 7 gills aren’t just a way to show off to the other sharks. They actually mean that the Broadnose Sevengill Shark is closely related to ancient Jurassic sharks, which also had 7 gills. While these sharks are much smaller than the monsters they are descended from (the average length being around 1.5m), the biggest ever recorded was around 3m, which we can quite safely say we don’t want to run into anytime soon!
Cancer

## Ability

### Ability

**Sign of the Crab****(Play)** Your Jaguar Round Crab and Horned Ghost Crab cards in hand gain +36 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you’re born between June 21 and July 22, there’s a good chance you’ve been called “emotional”, “sensitive” or even a “crybaby” before. Don’t listen to them, Cancerians – you’re just in touch with your feelings. If they don’t get it, don’t waste your water-sign superpowers (empathy, intuition and emotional intelligence) on them.

Sure, you may have been known to save every receipt or piece of rubbish as a memento of a special time, and yes, you may have *some* history of overthinking things, but the moment someone needs a shoulder to cry on, you’ll be there providing free therapy sessions. Represented by the crab, the **Cancer** sign of the Zodiac is shared by the likes of Malala Yousafzai, Vin Diesel and Selena Gomez.
Buffing Collections: Arts and Culture

An important element of deck building is to include cards that buff other cards in your deck, either decreasing their energy cost or increasing their power. The strongest buffs apply to all the eligible cards wherever they are in your deck. If there are several cards buffing the same collection (or album) then the cards in that collection can be very powerful.

This table does not include cards that just buff for a turn where the buff card is played or drawn. Instead, they must apply either to all the cards in the deck (wherever they are) or at least to the five cards in hand for multiple turns or until they are played. See the separate page of album buff cards and buffs for collections in other albums.
Battle Axe

## Ability

### Ability

**Cleave****(Play)** If played in the left or right slot with no card in the middle, one of your random cards, wherever it is, gains +40 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

As the name suggests, the **Battle Axe** was designed specifically for combat (instead of other axe-related activities like felling trees and hunting animals.) As such, it was more lightweight and came with a narrow slicing blade that could deliver devastating wounds.

In the medieval times, the battle axe was the go-to weapon for blood-thirsty kings, commanders and general maniacs. King John II and Sir James Douglas both had a swinging good time with it, and even Richard the Lionheart got in on the action (because who needs a sword when you can have a massive axe, am I right?).

With the rise of gunpowder in the 16th century, the battle axe was eventually retired from military service, leaving Scandinavia to hold onto it for a few extra centuries.
Brushtail Possum

## Did You Know?

Trichosurus vulpecular, from the Greek and Latin meaning “furry tailed little fox” - ahh, bless - is a semi-tree dwelling, nocturnal marsupial in the Phalangeridae family. Indigenous to Australia, it is the size of a cat and the second biggest possum in Australia!

Now for the gross bit; a scent gland on the possum’s chest secretes a reddish brown substance that the possum uses to mark its territory. They also urinate to mark their territory being very vocal as they do so (though who can say they've never sung on the toilet too... )

Although they prefer tree-dwelling, these pesky little rascals also seek out chimneys, roofs of houses, garages and garden sheds. One cheeky possum took it to the extreme in a Florida liquor store one year at thanksgiving, breaking in to the property and getting drunk. According to a Daily News report: “A worker there found the possum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it. The possum definitely wasn’t acting fully acting normal.” Or maybe it was just 'playing possum.'
Biomass

## Did You Know?

A great philosopher once said "When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life." Well, imagine that instead of an antelope eating your remains, it was burned up and converted into energy.

Biomass fuels can also include byproducts of agricultural processes such as wood waste, sugar cane, straw and manure, as well as garbage. When Biomass is burned, the chemical energy is released in the form of heat which is converted into electricity.
Cattail

## Ability

### Ability

**Aggressive Competition****(Draw)** If your deck has 4 or more Plant Life cards, your other Plant Life cards in hand lose -10 Power until played and for every Plant Life card in your hand, this card gains +20 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Welcome to Survivalist Lessons 101! The first rule of the wild is simple: Mother Nature has got your back - and she's pretty much covered all the bases with the **Cattail** plant. Not only can you munch on its young shoots or use the lower parts of the leaves in salads, but cattail also makes for some seriously handy shelter material. Weave those leaves together and ta-da! Instant roof.

Feeling the chill? Grab some cattail fluff and stuff it into your clothes for a cosy warmth boost, or use the seed fluff as tinder to start a fire. And if you're feeling particularly crafty, cattail has you covered there too - baskets, rainwater funnels, you name it. It's like this plant was made for the ultimate survivalist.
Cao Guojiu

## Ability

### Ability

**Life Eternal****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Eight Immortals cards, your Stage and Screen cards, wherever they are, gain +18 Power for 2 turns and your Eight Immortals cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

**Cao Guojiu** (literally Imperial Brother-in-law Cao) is a Chinese mythological figure and one of the Eight Immortals in the Taoist pantheon. As the brother of Empress Dowager Cao, and therefore the most aristocratic member of the Eight Immortals, he is often depicted in a headdress and official robes, holding a jade tablet (for admission to court.)

But Cao Guojiu also had a younger brother called Cao Jingzh who was corrupt, and abused his position. Embarrassed by his actions, Cao Guojiu tried to make up for the misdeeds of his brother, to no avail. In the end, he resigned and fled to the countryside. Here, he met Zhongli Quan and Lü Dongbin, who taught him the magical arts. After years of dedication to Taoism, he became an Immortal.
Things i need to prep

1. Book on triton lore for Edryn
	* In Aquan, describes several old fairy tales rooted in reality, including one about the Old Ones who will protect the realm
2. Shinebright Hamlet
	* who was really the bad guy?
	* they have a property now- tax evasion?
3. Beory visions to recover memories
	* where and what are the memories?
4. who is staying at the shrine
COCONUTS-2b

## Ability

### Ability

**A Lovely Bunch****(Play)** If your deck contains Saturn, gain +13 Power/Turn this round and if your deck contains Jupiter, gain +13 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

2b or not 2b, that is the… giant exoplanet?

In 2021, astronomers with the COol Companions ON Ultrawide orbiTS (COCONUTS) program directly imaged a massive exoplanet orbiting the low-mass red dwarf L 34-26. Approximately 6.3 times the mass of Jupiter, **COCONUTS-2b** is now the nearest imaged exoplanet to Earth known to date.

Due to its wide-separation orbit (which takes around 1.1 million years to complete) and its cool host star, this exoplanet’s skies would look drastically different to an observer there compared to the skies on Earth. Astronomers suggest that, from the perspective of someone on COCONUTS-2b, night and day would look virtually the same, with the host star appearing as a bright red star in the dark sky.
Brutus

## Ability

### Ability

**Et tu?****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -23 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

In the words of historian Gretchen Wieners of Mean Girls: “**Brutus** was just as cute as Caesar; Brutus was just as smart as Caesar; people totally liked Brutus as much as they liked Caesar - and when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody? Because that’s not what Rome is about, we should totally just stab Caesar!”

In all fairness, that’s a pretty accurate summary of how Brutus was manipulated into feeling. Several senators who called themselves “Liberators” believed Julius Caesar would become a tyrant and destroy Rome, so they recruited Brutus to their side. He would go on to play a leading role in Caesar’s assassination on 15 March 44 BC.
Bowhead Whale

## Ability

### Ability

**Icebreaker****(Return)** If you won the turn, your remaining cards in hand cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Measuring the length of a cricket pitch and living up to 200 years, the **Bowhead Whale** is, quite literally, a big old beast. Named after their unique, triangular skulls, bowhead whales are capable of using their heads to break through Arctic ice.

Not only that, but they have the largest mouth of any animal. Inside their mouths, rows of vertical comb-like teeth help the bowhead strain huge volumes of water to capture food. Every year, a single bowhead whale may eat over 100 metric tons of crustaceans!

They also have impressive hearing – their ears are adapted to pick up on low-frequency sound, which is essential in their underwater habitat that can often be difficult to see in.
Caihong Juji

## Ability

### Ability

**Rainbow Crest****(Draw)** If your deck has 3 or more Paleontology cards, your Unruly Rulers cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 2 turns. Repeat for Life on Land and Science.

## Did You Know?

At roughly 40cm in height, the **Caihong Juji** was a very small dinosaur indeed. Found in the Hebei province of China, fossilised feathers of the Late-Jurassic era dinosaur revealed that the creature had feathers on its head, wings, and tail that were iridescent, with colours that shimmered in the light.

It figures that this tiny theropod dinosaur was given the name ‘Caihong’, which means ‘rainbow’ in Mandarin. Aside from giving the Jurassic period a splash of colour, the fossil records of the Caihong Juji are fascinating because they show features that are both ancient and modern. While the bony crest is usually seen in dinosaurs from earlier eras, the feathers are the first known occurrence of iridescence that can be found in a variety of hummingbird species today.

'Caihong juji life restoration 3' by Lucas-Attwell (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Blue Mint Beetle

## Ability

### Ability

**Infinite Crisis****(Play)** Your Scarab Beetle card in hand gains +50 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Not to be confused with the DC superhero, the **Blue Mint Beetle** isn’t an alien relic but rather a species belonging to the family Chrysomelidae. So named for its metallic blue hue and penchant for mint leaves, the Blue Mint Beetle was originally described by German theologian and entomologist, Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba in 1791. The beetle then fused with Scriba’s body, granting him a powerful exoskeleton armour and turning him into a supe- no, hang on. That’s the other one.

This blue beetle just kept to itself, living alongside rivers and meadows across Europe. They range in size from 1 mm to 18 mm and live for a year or so, chomping on leaves but never doing enough damage to be considered a threat.
Björn Ironside

## Ability

### Ability

**Sides of Iron****(Play)** Your Machines of War cards adjacent to this gain +36 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

No one wants to live in their parents’ shadow, but when your dad is notorious Viking king Ragnar Lodbrok, you’ve got your work cut out getting famous in your own right. For **Bjorn Ironside**, inheriting the Kingdom certainly helped.

But beyond his title, Bjorn became well known for his raids in modern France and England, as well as along the Mediterranean coastline. Clearly a big fan of pillaging (what Viking isn’t), Bjorn also looted several cities from Italy like Pisa and Luna - the latter of which he thought was Rome when he reached its walls. Don’t worry Bjorn, it’s easily done.

Upon his return, he divided up the Scandinavian kingdom, and Ironside ruled Uppsala and Sweden, enjoying life as a wealthy man well into old age. Good for you, Bjorn.
CUEniverse Wiki

There was a temporary wiki for CUEniverse as this (CUE) wiki was overrun with referral code spam. The CUE wiki now has an active administration team so the duplicate CUEniverse wiki has been deleted and redirected here.

Welcome to our wiki, I hope you find the information useful. Have a look at the menus; we have card descriptions, information such as interactions, and guides about aspects of CUE. The wiki is still relatively new and being built. We are always looking for volunteers to contribute.
Big Al

## Ability

### Ability

**Keep it Together****(Draw)** This card gains +20 Power until played. **(Return)** If you are winning the round, this card gains +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

…Or Not-so-**Big Al** as he should really be known. He was an Allosaurus who hadn’t fully grown before he died aged 6, most likely during a drought.

How do we know this? The formation of his (very well preserved) fossil shows his head and tail pulled back into an arc - this happened when dinosaurs bodies dried in the sun, shortening the tendons in their backs.

Despite his youth, Big Al had already been through the mill - he had 11 broken bones. These had occurred at different times (we can tell from the amount of healing) - but the most potent injury would have been the last one: a broken toe. That sounds innocuous to us, but that would have meant he could no longer hunt. Worse still, his toe had become infected - and reptiles instinctively try to fight infection by raising their temperature.

In other words, during a time of drought, Big Al felt he had to stay out in the sun - a sadly fatal move.
Cactus Mouse

## Ability

### Ability

**Desert Dweller****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Going Underground cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Scurrying around in the dry desert habitats and mountain foothills in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico is the **Cactus Mouse** - a little rodent with a very long tail and a knack for surviving scorching weather. When the temperatures soar, the Cactus Mouse lowers its metabolism and becomes inactive to reduce the amount of water it needs to live.

Weighing an average of 29 grams in adulthood, these desert-dwellers wouldn’t need much water to begin with - we’re talking around five millilitres, which is roughly a teaspoon. As for their diet, the cactus mouse feeds on seeds, insects, beans and greens. Despite its name, this rodent is no prickly character - in fact, it’s been described as "shy and excitable”, and seldom bites when handled.
Biometrics

## Ability

### Ability

**Handsome Prints****(Play)** If your deck has 4 or more Brilliant Human Body cards, your Brilliant Human Body cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until played. **(Play)** If this card matches the Arena, your Hands and The Eye cards, wherever they are, gain an additional +38 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s not hard to forge a signature. Forging a fingerprint, on the other hand, is a real mean feat. That’s what makes **Biometrics** as a form of security, so strong: they are linked to people’s unique physical characteristics.

While the earliest accounts of biometrics date back as far as 500BC, the first record of a biometric identification system was in the 1800s. A Parisian, Alphonse Bertillon, invented a method of specific body measurements to classify and compare criminals. Today, we use biometrics to unlock our phones, be it through fingerprint or face recognition – but this is just the beginning. Eventually, biometric technology will be used to recognise our reactions such as heart rate increases and pupil dilation.
Camelot

## Ability

### Ability

**A Silly Place****(Play)** For every Knight of the Round Table you have played this game, a random card in your hand gains +13 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The capital city of King Arthur’s Realm, **Camelot** was first introduced to the legend in 12th-century French romances. Since then, it has come to be synonymous with the legend of King Arthur and his court. Camelot represents a society in perfect harmony – also known as Utopia. This is symbolised by the equality among the Knights of the Round Table.

Although most scholars agree that Camelot is totally fictional, there are still some who believe it was a real place – and the location of the castle has been the subject of thousands of years of rumour and speculation. One retired professor even claims he discovered the location of the mythical castled city on the outskirts of Huddersfield, England!
Calavera

## Ability

### Ability

**Sugar Skull****(Draw)** If your deck has 1 or more Brilliant Human Body cards and 1 or more Curious Cuisine cards, gain +22 Power/Turn this turn.

## Did You Know?

Death is a part of life. There’s no sugar-coating it - that is, except when you’re making a **Calavera**. Traditionally made from sugar-paste, these decorative skulls have become one of the most recognisable cultural and artistic elements of the Day of the Dead festivities.

Historians say Catholic friars that arrived in the Americas with the Spanish brought with them the knowledge of how to make decorations with sugar. However, long before contact with Europeans, mesoamerican civilisations were using representations of skulls in their culture over 3,000 years ago.

Today, these ornately decorated skulls are crafted to celebrate the sweetness of life and inevitability of death. Although many calaveras are still made from sugar today, the focus is more on the aesthetic appeal than the taste or food safety.
Daphne

## Ability

### Ability

**Love/Hate Relationship****(Play)** Your Apollo card in hand loses -25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

This is a story about how dads are stupid.

**Daphne** was a beautiful Naiad, and the daughter of the river god Peneus (stop sniggering at the back there…). For reasons both unknown and understandable, **Daphne** wanted to remain untouched by a man for her entire life.

Enter Apollo, God of Light. He had been annoying Eros (God of Love), who decided to get revenge. Eros shot Apollo with a gold arrow which meant he would fall madly in love with **Daphne**. He then shot **Daphne** with a lead arrow which meant she would always detest Apollo (one presumes it also meant a visit to the hospital.)

Apollo then makes it his life’s mission to win **Daphne** over, which she finds annoying as hell. So, in what seems like a sensible move, she asks her dad if there’s anything he can do to stop Mr Light bothering her.

Her dad has a good think about this, and - setting a precedent for fathers of daughters throughout time - goes and screws it up.

“What would stop Apollo from going after my daughter?” he wonders. “I know! I’ll turn her into a tree! No one chases a *tree*!” At which point he probably went to the pub with his mates to toast his genius.

And that is how **Daphne** got turned into a Laurel tree, by her idiot dad.

Bonus Factlet: Apollo went on to revere the Laurel and that is why we now have things like Laurel wreaths and the Poet Laureate. You’re welcome.
Blob Sculpin

## Ability

### Ability

**Blob****(Draw)** Your Prominent Painters cards, wherever they are, gain +6 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s cousin the Blobfish was voted the World’s Ugliest Animal, and unsurprisingly, **Blob Sculpin** isn’t much of a looker either. However, in this creature’s defence, it does live almost 3000m down in the dark depths of the bathypelagic zone. If you lived here and were dragged out by a trawler and photographed in the harsh light of day, you probably wouldn’t look a million bucks either.

While many fish use an air-filled swim bladder to stay afloat, Blob Sculpins simply rely on their gelatinous flesh which is mostly held together by the deep-sea pressure. When hauled to the surface, the rapid pressure drop causes the fish to lose shape and effectively turn into a sad ball of goo.
Bonnie and Clyde

## Ability

### Ability

**Stealing Hearts****(Draw)** All cards in your opponent's hand lose -4 Power permanently, and this card gains +20 Power permanently. If you are losing the round, repeat this.

## Did You Know?

On May 23rd, 1934, **Bonnie and Clyde** were shot and killed by Texas and Louisiana state police, bringing to an end one of the most dramatic and spectacular manhunts in history. Although they’re often portrayed as the Robin Hood of the Great Depression, their 21-month long crime spree was more a chaotic robbery spree of small gas stations, restaurants and local banks. Sometimes they only left with around $5-$10, but they still killed anyone who got in their way.

Naturally, they often had to leave things behind in their crime sprees: one time, Clyde left behind his beloved guitar and even asked his mother to ask the police if he could have it back. The answer was a hard no.
Brownie

## Ability

### Ability

**Household Helper****(Start)** Your other cards in hand gain +5 Power until played and this card loses -5 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When you’re tucked up in bed, sound asleep, the **Brownie** does its best work. A tutelary spirit from Scottish folklore, this ragged-looking creature emerges at night to take care of household chores and farming tasks. Of course, that’s if you treat it with respect. If you don’t leave a bowl of milk or cream out for the Brownie, prepared to be shunned.

These creatures are the ultimate snowflakes of the spirit world and will not hesitate to leave your home forever if they feel they aren’t being treated fairly. Forget quiet quitting - an angered Brownie might fly into a rage and wreck all his work before leaving. And it’s not just a lack of appreciation, either - they’ll take offence if a human watches them work, criticises them or laughs at them.
Bohemian Waxwing

## Ability

### Ability

**Flying Under the Influence****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -18 Power until played and a random card in your hand loses -12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Many of us like to indulge over the festive period, and the **Bohemian Waxwing** is no different. Named so for their waxy, red wingtips and their penchant for travelling - these birds spend their breeding season in Scandinavia, Russia and parts of North America, while travelling south between October and April to treat themselves to an all-you-can-eat berry buffet.

Waxwings have an incredible appetite, typically eating roughly twice their body weight per day in berries - that’s around 800-1000 of them every day! Fortunately for them, they have an innate ability to find berries, and it’s not rare to find a flock (or to use the proper term for a group of waxwings - an *“ear-full”* or *“museum”*) devouring a whole shrub’s worth in minutes, before moving off to find the next one.

As a result of their insatiable hunger, they’re also susceptible to a few rogue fermented ones - with many of them flying under the influence and terrorising towns all over the world. In years when a frost comes early which causes berries to ferment earlier than usual, the birds can be seen stumbling around confused and flying into buildings and cars without caution. Luckily, given a bit of food, drink and a nice cosy place to sleep, most are fine within a couple of days - but we wouldn’t want to be them the next morning.
Bobcat

## Ability

### Ability

**Wildcat Formation****(Draw)** Your Cool Cats cards in hand gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Bobcats are a species of wild cat native to North America, and get their names from their short, stubby tails. It can also be in reference to the way they walk - their hind legs are longer than their front legs, so they kind of bob along at walking pace.

But their running pace is no joke - they can run up to 48 km/h! They naturally place their back feet in the exact spots they placed their front feet, in order to reduce noise while hunting.

Here's a word you may not have heard before - Bobcats are "crepuscular", which means they are most active at dawn and dusk (the exact opposite of this writer's active periods).
Carmilla

## Ability

### Ability

**Vampiric Precursor****(Draw)** Your Count Dracula card, wherever it is, gains +22 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

While Dracula might be the first person who pops to your head when you think “literary vampire”, he certainly wasn’t the first. In fact, appearing in print almost 25 years earlier was **Carmilla**, written by Sheriden Le Fanu.

The novella tells the tale of Carmilla, a vampire who preys upon (and kind of falls in love with) her friend Laura. After a carriage accident, Carmilla is whisked off to Laura’s father’s estate to recover and she and Laura grow close following lots of nighttime walks. Things get weird when Carmilla receives a portrait of an ancestor called Mircalla who looks a hell of a lot like her and Laura starts to scratch her head.

Upon visiting Mircalla’s old village, Laura and her father hear that another young woman was once killed by a vampire called - wait for it - Millarca! I hope you’re keeping up. There’s a tussle with a vampire hunter and Carmilla/Mircalla/Millarca is vanquished before any more harm can come to Laura.

“Secret” identities aside, Carmilla is still a hugely influential text in the history of horror and it’s an early example of the lesbian vampire trope. Here at CUE, we’re all for strong lady vampires with a penchant for anagrams. Who needs Team Edward when you could have been Team Carmilla?
Celatone

## Ability

### Ability

**Cycl...oops****(Play)** If played next to Galileo Galilei, your Space cards in hand gain +14 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Galileo Galilei has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern physics and the scientific method. But he’s also the creator of a funny looking tool called the **Celatone**. Taking the form of a helmet with a telescope in the place of an eyehole, the Celatone was invented to observe Jupiter’s moons with the goal of finding longitude on Earth.

When he came up with the design in 1617, Galileo was convinced that the Celatone would make him one of the richest men in Europe. Spoiler: it did not. The idea was that any sailor could spot the moons through a telescope with one eye and chart their position on a scale with the other. But the rocking of the waves made that impossible, and his proposals were rejected.

'Using of celatone' by Museo Galileo (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Captain Nemo

## Ability

### Ability

**Mobilis In Mobili****(Play)** If played next to Jules Verne, your Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, gain +19 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

His name translates to ‘Nobody’ in Latin, and that’s no accident. The enigmatic and reclusive **Captain Nemo** from Jules Verne’s novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is both a hero and a villain, and his motives and past are shrouded in mystery. Well, for a while, at least.

Spoiler alert: Captain Nemo is actually a former Indian prince who became a victim of the British Empire's colonisation and was forced to flee his homeland. A brilliant scientist and inventor, Captain Nemo built his own electric submarine, Nautilus. That would be impressive in any timeline, but when the novel was published in 1870, this technology simply didn’t exist, and wouldn’t be invented for another 25 years. Yet, Verne described the technology in near-perfect detail.
Biserica Neagră

## Ability

### Ability

**Friable Grit****(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card loses -40 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Nothing sounds more goth than somewhere called the Black Church. Which is pretty handy because the **Biserica Neagră** (or the Black Church) was actually built in the style of Gothic architecture.

Completed in 1476, the church still stands in Brașov in Transylvania, Romania (another goth point for being in Transylvania). Built by German settlers and taking over 100 years to complete, the church was initially intended for Catholic worship. However, in the 16th Century, the Reformation meant that it became a house of Protestant worship instead. It was the site of the first ever Lutheran service in Transylvania.

Now you might be wondering where the name “The Black Church” came from, which was only used from the 19th Century onwards. Some think that it was due to the soot from the 1689 fire in the town of Brașov, but more recent research suggests that the building gets its dark look from pollution after the industrial revolution. Either way, it’s still an incredibly cool name!
Bleeding Tooth Fungus

## Ability

### Ability

**Oozing Blood****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your remaining Brilliant Human Body cards in hand cost -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

If you’re prone to those nightmares about your teeth falling out, Hydnellum peckii isn’t the fungi for you. Also known as the **Bleeding Tooth Fungus**, this bizarre fungus is found in forested areas of North America, Europe, Iran and Korea.

With an appearance like something from an 80s body horror flick, you’re unlikely to be drawn to the Bleeding Tooth Fungus for a snack if you’re lost in the woods. But in spite of the oozing blood and sharp “tooth” like structures, this fungus is not dangerous - on the contrary, it’s thought to be good for your health. If you can get past the bitter taste of the red substance (and the fact that scientists don’t even know what it is), you’ll benefit from its anticoagulant and antibacterial properties.
Caribbean Reef Shark

## Did You Know?

A dominant predator of its reef habitat, the Caribbean Reef Shark brings new meaning to the idea of 'puking your guts up'.

By which we mean - and hopefully you're not eating right now - that they literally vomit their ACTUAL STOMACH out of their mouths to rinse it out and remove 'noxious material'... and then swallow it back again. Hard to know whether to be disgusted or impressed by that. Maybe a bit of both.
Chinstrap Penguin

## Ability

### Ability

**Penguin Suit****(Play)** Your Yellow-eyed Penguin card in hand gains +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Chinstrap Penguins are so-called because of the thin black lines around their jawlines that make them look like they're wearing a helmet (or like the beard 'Fill Me In' era Craig David had - ask your parents).

These are the most common type of penguin found in the Antarctic and they live in huge colonies - literally, there are millions of them. The island of Zavodovski, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is host to over 1.2 million breeding pairs. PAIRS.
Cato the Younger

## Ability

### Ability

**Old Values in Decline****(Draw)** For every round completed this game, this card loses -10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

A sad truth about politics: those who play dirty tend to win. Case in point - Julius Caesar and **Cato the Younger**. One of the leading figures in the senatorial party, Cato wasn’t shy about his views of Caesar. To Cato, Caesar was a power-hungry demagogue who was undermining the traditional values of Rome and was therefore a threat to the Roman Republic.

One day, the two were arguing in the senate about Caesar’s involvement in the Catiline conspiracy when a messenger entered and delivered a note to Caesar. Though Caesar was aware of the contents of the letter, Cato, thinking the note was proof of Caesar’s involvement, asked the note to be read aloud. Unfortunately, the note turned out to be a love letter from Cato’s sister, who was in love with Caesar. Cringe.

'Inscribed bronze bust from Volubilis' by Ángel M. Felicísimo (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Cave Salamander

## Did You Know?

Cave Salamanders are a sub-species of salamander that lives in - wait for it...

... caves.

There are several different kinds of Cave Salamander - the one on the front of this card is Eurycea lucifuga, a North American variety that's not particularly interesting but is way nicer to look at than the Olm, a flesh-coloured tube of a creature that doesn't have eyes.
Birman

## Ability

### Ability

**Teamwork****(Play)** Your Chinlone and Cute Cats cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

With a title like The Sacred Cat of Burma, the **Birman** cat has a big reputation to uphold. Legend has it that this beautiful creature descended from Burmese temple cats who were raised by Tibetan priests. Their snowy white paws were awarded to them by the priests as a symbol of purity for their devotion, while their sapphire eyes were the result of divine intervention of a blue-eyed goddess worshipped in the country’s mythology.

The personality of the Birman cat reflects its regal looks and holy lineage: they are calm in demeanour, highly intelligent and have soft angelic voices. When they do meow, it comes out as a sweet bell-like noise. Every time a Birman meows, an angel gets its wings.
Boab Prison Tree

## Did You Know?

When you’re sentenced to jail, you don’t expect to spend some of your sentence locked in a tree. But, according to Australian legends, the **Boab Prison Tree** was used as a place to keep indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. Of course, there’s no evidence to suggest this ever happened.

However, what we do know is this: the Boab Prison tree is around 1,500 years old and has a circumference of 14.7 metres. In the Nyulnyulan languages of Western Australia, boab trees are called “larrgaidy” and play a key role in Aboriginal mythology. According to folklore, these ancient trees are regarded as cherished individuals who each have a unique personality. That makes the legend of the prison tree weird on a whole other level.
Butcherbird

## Ability

### Ability

**Meaty Diet****(Play)** Your Bugs and Reptiles cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played. **(Return)** Your Horrible Halloween cards, wherever they are, gain +9 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Native to Australasia, the **Butcherbird** is an opportunistic songbird who has, over time, adapted to the urbanisation of its homeland.

Much like ravens, this species is a meat-loving bird who shows little fear when it comes to hunting in human spaces like homes and gardens. If you live in Australia, you may well have seen this bird feeding on beetles, caterpillars or even mice and lizards.

And if you have, you may have been traumatised by what you witnessed, because butcherbirds get their name from their gruesome method of eating. When they catch their prey, they hang it off a branch and hack at the meat like a butcher, often leaving a poor creature impaled for hours before returning for leftovers. Don't play with your food, kids.
Carmenta

## Ability

### Ability

**Oracle****(Play)** If played between two The Roman Empire cards, your The Roman Empire cards in hand gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you’re on your way to pray to **Carmenta**, the Roman Goddess of childbirth and protector of mothers, leave that leather jacket at home. Carmenta doesn’t approve of it. And given her role and significance, this rule is probably worth respecting.

According to the writer Ovid, this is because leather was symbolic of death or dead things, and Carmenta didn’t want death negatively influencing pregnancies and childbirth among her faithful.

Now that’s been addressed, you’re ready to join in the festivities of Carmentalia, the Festival of Carmenta, which the Romans (mostly the women) celebrated between January 11th-15th. According to Roman legend, Carmenta created the Latin alphabet by adapting the Greek alphabet used in the Greek colony of Cumae in southern Italy - although, there’s no historical evidence to support this story.
Californian Runner Eggs

## Did You Know?

A natural born salesman, Jack E. Sullivan started many businesses in his hometown of Saltdale, California. So much so, that the locals even called him “Sellivan”. From rubber shoelaces to handheld lie detectors and accessories for dogs, ol’ Sullivan didn’t have much luck in business until he found his niche: **Californian Runner Eggs**.

It all started when his son Jasper, who was a fussy eater, claimed his eggs had “ran away” from his plate. This gave Jack an idea: what if he took a standard egg, marketed it as being able to run when submerged in water, and sold them to tourists?

Oddly enough, his harebrained scheme worked. For 3 years, his runner egg business boomed as tourists ate up his lie, and Saltdale became the Runner Egg capital of the United States.
Brahmaputra River

## Ability

### Ability

**Trans-Boundary****(Play)** If 6 cards in your deck are from different Albums, this card gains +63 Power.

## Did You Know?

It flows some 2,900 kilometres from its source in the Himalayas to its confluence with the Ganges river: the **Brahmaputra River** is the 9th largest river in the world by discharge and the 15th longest.

Curiously enough, every year during the month of Ashaad (June), the Brahmaputra river near Kamakhya turns red. It is believed that the goddess ‘menstruates’ during this time – ironically, into a river with a rare ‘male’ name. While most rivers on the Indian subcontinent have female names, Brahmaputra means “son of Brahma” in Sanskrit.

The most rational explanation for this phenomenon is that the iron-rich content of the soil on the river bed gives the water reddish hue. However, some people believe that priests pour vermillion colouring into the waters to deliberately make it red.
Buck Moon

## Ability

### Ability

**Moon of July****(Play)** Your Money, Money, Money cards in hand gain +20 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Ah, that time of the year when the weather is warm, the days last forever and male deer antlers are on the grow. Basics call it “July”, but real ones know it as the **Buck Moon**. The term is of Native American origin and comes from the fact that male deer (bucks) tend to start sprouting antlers from their heads around the month of July.

That may not be of significance today, but back in ye olde days, deer phases were probably common knowledge. In other parts of the world, July’s moon was known by other animal-related terms like the Feather Moulting Moon and the Salmon Moon as well as plant-based names like Raspberry Moon and the very catchy “Moon When the Chokecherries are Ripe”.
Crystal Red Shrimp

## Ability

### Ability

**Selective Breeding****(Return)** Your Life on Land and Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +19 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

In 1993, a Japanese sushi chef by the name of Hisayasu Sukuzi accidentally got an unusual red shrimp in a batch of around a thousand bee shrimp, which are striped white and black. This rogue red shrimp gave him an idea: if he could fix the red gene, he could select and crossbreed the bee shrimp to have red stripes. After many cycles of selective breeding, Sukuzi finally achieved the “true red bee shrimp”.

In 1996, after further refinement, he branded his shrimp the **Crystal Red Shrimp** and was awarded a patent for this recessive red mutation of the normal bee shrimp. Ever since the crystal red shrimp has been wildly popular because of its beautiful and striking pattern.
Card Backs

Card Backs are what you apply to your cards to make them look cooler to your opponent. You start out with one default card back called the Classic one, all other card backs are premium and only available for a limited amount of time.

This is a list of all known Card Backs in the game as of March 6, 2023.

## Gem Card Backs

These are bought with the premium currency.

## Top 500 Card Backs

This was from reaching the top 500 in Dragon Rank on League Mode
Boxer Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**Lightweight****(Draw)** Your Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Like Conor McGregor, the **Boxer Crab** is small, ginger and likes to fight.

Also known as the Pom Pom Crab, this crustacean has a fascinating symbiotic relationship with sea anemones, which they wear on their front claws for protection like boxing gloves. If they lose one of the anemones, boxer crabs will carefully split a single anemone in two, essentially producing a clone of the first. Each piece of split anemone eventually regenerates, giving the crab full protection once more. For the anemone, the benefit is extra oxygen and more food – although, crabs usually steal this food to make sure the anemones stay the perfect size for their claws. In the end, it’s a fairly controlling relationship.
Carina Nebula Landscape

## Did You Know?

What you see on the front of this card is a cloud of gas and dust in the Carina Nebula. It's often fun to look at clouds and think about what they look like - this writer can see the shape of a pegasus in there, although others might see something different (and they’d be wrong, it's definitely pegasus shaped, I'm not crazy, am I?)

Anyway, what makes this different from the white clouds you see in the sky, is that this is an incubator for new stars; or rather more accurately, the formation of new stars is shaping the cloud this way. The stellar winds emitted by star creation pushes the dust and gas around and shapes it LIKE A PEGASUS - seriously, it's a pegasus.
Canis Major

## Ability

### Ability

**Dog Star****(Return)** All remaining Dogs cards in both player's hands gain +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Canis Major is one of the Orion family constellations and is usually depicted as one of Orion's hunting dogs chasing the Lepus constellation. It contains Sirius, aka "The Dog Star", which is the brightest star in the night sky (which is the symbolism behind Sirius Black turning into a dog in Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban - sorry, spoilers for a 20-year-old book).
Cormorant

## Did You Know?

Cormorants can dive underwater for about 4 minutes to look for food, which is undeniably impressive.

Also impressive (but not in a good way) is that, because whole colonies tend to nest in one place, their faeces has been known to kill trees through sheer volume.

Cormorants are also known as 'shags'. No jokes here. Move along now.
Celebochoerus

## Ability

### Ability

**Celeb Gossip****(Draw)** This card loses -8 Power permanently and your other cards in hand gain +6 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Likely an ancient ancestor of Pumbaa, **Celebochoerus** was a unique suid with extremely large upper tusks who lived from the Pliocene – Pleistocene period in the Sulawesi Island in Indonesia and Luzon, in the Philippines. Although its name starts with ‘celeb’, little is known about this creature. However, we do know that the Philippines species differs from the Sulawesi species in having distal enamel canines.

Fossil findings suggest that the pig’s ancestors arrived in the Philippines from Taiwan, and eventually migrated to the Indonesian island. It’s thought that its extinction correlated with the geographical expansion of other members of the warty pig family like anoa and babirusa. Fossils found in the Philippines suggest the Celebochoerus weighed between 200 – 300 kg on average and measured a metre in height.

Image by Roman Uchytel, https://prehistoric-fauna.com
Boudica

## Ability

### Ability

**Boudica's Revolt****(Play)** If you are losing the round, this card gains +20 Power. **(Return)** If you won the turn, this card gains +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

After the death of the king of the Iceni tribe, his queen, their people and neighbouring tribes were expected to submit to Roman rule. But Iceni Queen **Boudica** wasn’t prepared to go out without a fight – and what a fight she gave.

The legendary Warrior Queen led the revolt against the Romans; her forces slaughtered an entire Roman army and set London in flames in the name of freedom. Move aside, Sparta... This. Is. Boudica.
Camelops

## Ability

### Ability

**Hump Day****(Play)** If this card matches the Arena, this card gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When a construction crew at a Wal-Mart site in Mesa, Arizona discovered the remains of two juvenile **Camelops** while digging a hole for a citrus tree, the media dubbed it the Wal-Mart Camel. An extinct type of old-world camel, Camelops lived late enough to have been encountered by the first humans to enter the Americas (but not long enough to see the first Wal-Mart built.)
Bearded Axe

## Did You Know?

“And my axe!” Proclaimed Gimli, son of Gloin.
“And my beard!” said the Axe, weapon of Gimli.

Okay, so axes can’t talk, but some of them do have beards. And what we mean by that is the lower portion of the axe, so-called because it extends below the butt of the axe. This “beard” part of the blade allows for a greater cutting surface while keeping the weight of the axe low enough to be used in battle.

The **Bearded Axe**, or ‘Skeggøx’ in Old Norse, is commonly associated with Viking Age Scandinavians as early as the 6th Century AD. While most bearded axes could be used for woodcutting, some were deliberately designed with edges so thin that they split a skull into two.