recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Swiss Army Knife

## Ability

### Ability

**Versatility****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand costs +1 Energy permanently, a random card in your hand gains +15 Power until played and if you are losing the round, gain +15 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

It was Karl Elsener who revolutionised the design of the pocketknife. In the 1890s, he handcrafted the first-ever two-sided blade that we know as the **Swiss Army Knife**. After the pocketknife got such high demand, he released a new model, spring-loaded with an additional corkscrew – a feature that the Swiss military purchasers deemed “not essential for survival.” Shows how much they know…
Teeth

## Ability

### Ability

**Bite Size** **(Draw)** Your Sharks! and Paleontology cards, wherever they are, gain +9 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Unless you’re a dentist or the Tooth Fairy, there’s probably a lot you don’t know about **Teeth**. For example, did you know humans spend 38.5 days brushing their teeth in a lifetime? If you don’t enjoy brushing your teeth, consider yourself lucky that the tools we use for the job have advanced as much as they have. Before the invention of the toothbrush, people chewed on bunches of twigs to clean their teeth.
The Furies

## Ability

### Ability

**Goddesses of Vengeance****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your opponent's remaining cards in hand lose -20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Given the ancient Greek origins of democracy and justice, it’s no surprise that they had fearsome goddesses dedicated entirely to enacting vengeance on men who committed heinous crimes. Effectively the O.G. Justice League, **The Furies** sprang into being after the Titan Kronos castrated Uranus. The blood from his wound fell to Earth and produced the Giants, the Furies and the Meliae.

The Furies’ speciality was driving their victims mad with a wild paralytic song that aroused feelings of remorse. Honestly, the thought of being tortured by a trio of terrifying winged women with snakes for hair singing songs that paralyse you with guilt is worse than any physical prison. When they weren’t torturing the living, the Furies lived in the Underworld, torturing the damned for their past crimes.
The Pantheon

## Ability

### Ability

**Sacrifice to the Gods****(Play)** This card loses -60 Power this turn and your Roman Empire cards, wherever they are, gain +35 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**The Pantheon** was originally built as a temple to all the Roman gods. The version built by Agrippa burned down in 80 AD, and the sequel (produced by Emperor Domitian) burned down in 110AD. However, it was third time lucky for the Pantheon, and Hadrian commissioned the version we now know in 120AD.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of it is its largely intact state - having survived upheavals from Barbarian invasions to two World Wars, and of course the inevitable erosion from weather and pollution over time. As a result, it houses what is still *to this day* the world’s largest unreinforced dome, at 43 metres in diameter. In order to achieve the dome’s impressive dimensions, the architects not only made the dome thinner as its height increased (to reduce its weight), but also switched to lighter materials.

The Pantheon has been hugely influential in architecture since the Renaissance (when the Romans came back in fashion big-time) - and its impact can be seen in buildings from Brunelleschi’s *Santa Maria del Fiore* to Thomas Jefferson’s Library at the University of Virginia.
The Nine Realms

## Ability

### Ability

**Norse Síður****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 9 Norse Mythology cards, your Norse Mythology cards, wherever they are, gain +9 Power for 9 turns.

## Did You Know?

Hello and welcome to the reception at the World Tree. We ask that visitors please read the terms and conditions and sign a waiver before entering either of **The Nine Realms** of the universe.

Here at the desk we’ve got pamphlets with information about each world: Niflheim, Muspelheim, Asgard, Midgard, Jotunheim, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Svartalfheim, Helheim. No, it’s not by coincidence that there are nine realms - nine’s a big number in Norse mythology. Odin hung on Yggdrasil for nine days and nights, Heimdall had nine daughters, and Njord had to wait nine days for Skadi.

If you’re human, you’ll be familiar with Midgard (Earth), but you might want to avoid Helheim (the realm of the dead) and Muspelheim (the realm of fire.) Jotunheim is also full of giants, hence the waiver.
The Great Exhibition

## Ability

### Ability

**Clear as Crystal****(Play)** All other cards in both player's hands lose -30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Prince Albert wasn’t quoted as saying “Go Big or Go Home”, but this was essentially the thinking behind his plan to build the biggest greenhouse in the world and use it to show off on a global stage. The result was **The Great Exhibition** of 1851, a display of the British Empire’s prowess in engineering, science and the arts. The extravaganza showcased some of the finest innovations of the era – even the restrooms were luxurious, boasting actual flushing toilets!

## Fusion

 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao | 10
Taurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Sign of the Bull****(Play)** Your Ankole-Watusi Cow and The Brazen Bull cards in hand gain +33 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Stubborn as a mule with the strength of a bull, Astrology aficionados describe **Taurus** people as being persistent, loyal and unmoveable. This sign belongs to the Earth element, which helps the Taurus to stay grounded.

Born between April 20th and May 20th, Taureans can stick to projects even when they become painfully time-consuming. Of course, that’s if they’re interested in the first place. Trying to get a Taurus to do something they don’t want to do isn’t as simple as waving a red cloth in their face. However, when there’s a will, there’s a way - whether it’s tracking down an old friend on Facebook, editing a Wikipedia article to win an argument or completing a crash course in Astrology to convince a non-believer.
Sága

## Ability

### Ability

**Golden Cups of Knowledge****(Play)** Your Tarot cards with "Cup" in the name, wherever they are, gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

One of the twelve Norse Goddess, **Sága** holds quite the prestigious position as the second-in-command to Frigg, according to Snorri's Prose Edda. She resides at the illustrious Sökkvabekkr, which translates to 'Sinking Beach,' a charming landscape of cascading waterfalls where she and Oðin drink every day from golden chalices. The liquid is either the waters of memory, or perhaps from the Well of Urðr.

Her name means ‘seeress’ or ‘omniscience’, so Sága often gets tagged as the historian Goddess - in fact, rumour has it that she might be the one behind all those prophecies about Ragnarök. And here's a thought: if Frigg knows everything about the present, and Sága knows all about the past, maybe Sága is just Frigg's memory bank in disguise?
The Fisher King

## Ability

### Ability

**Ask the Right Question****(Draw)** If you are tied in the round, gain +15 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

Everyone’s heard of the Holy Grail, the sacred cup that possesses powers that provide eternal youth and happiness. Well, according to Arthurian legend, **The Fisher King** is the last in a long bloodline charged with keeping the Holy Grail.

Versions of the story vary, but most accounts say this king had a pretty rough time. Due to a disabling wound in his legs, he was incapable of standing (something, something, arrow in the knee, yadda yadda yadda).

All he could do is fish in a small boat on the river near his castle, Corbenic, and wait for someone noble to heal him. Knights travelled from many lands to help the Fisher King, but only the chosen one would accomplish this by asking the healing question: “whom does the Grail serve?” (Spoiler alert: it’s the Grail King.)
Syracosphaera azuureaplaneta

## Ability

### Ability

**Blue Planet****(Play)** If your deck has 12 or more Oceans and Seas cards, this card gains +50 Power.

## Did You Know?

In order to understand what the catchy-named **Syracosphaera azureaplaneta** is, you need to first know what a coccolithophore is. And to know what that is, you need to know about phytoplankton.

To keep it simple, ocean phytoplankton are microscopic marine algae, and they’re important because they produce 70-80% of the earth’s atmospheric oxygen. So, next time you take a breath, give thanks to these little organisms.

Named after the BBC TV documentary series, The Blue Planet, Syracosphaera azureaplaneta was collected in the South Atlantic from the RRS James Clark Ross research vessel in 2008. Although this type of phytoplankton is not common, it occurs in all the major seas, from the freezing sub-arctic to the warm tropical regions.

'Scanning electron microscope image of Syracosphaera azureaplaneta' by Jeremy Young (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Silk Road

## Ability

### Ability

**Trading Places****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand costs +1 Energy until played and this card costs -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Connecting the East and West, **The Silk Road** was an ancient trade route spanning 6,000 kilometres that allowed goods to be carried from country to country. Along with these goods came the transfer of knowledge, culture, philosophies and technology, changing the world forever. While the Silk Road was severed in 1368, China intends to open a modern version called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’. Hm. Catchy.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- She made Phileas Fogg seem sluggish.
Temple of Garni

## Ability

### Ability

**Anastylosis****(Draw)** For every History card you have played this game, up to a maximum of 10, this card gains +11 Power until played and your History cards, wherever they are, lose -1 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s so perfectly preserved that it almost looks like it was copy pasted to the landscape, but the **Temple of Garni** is very much real. Still, how does a temple built in 77 AD survive for so long in such good condition? Spoiler alert: it actually collapsed in an earthquake in 1679, and was carefully reconstructed from the original stones by the Soviet Armenian government in 1975.

Nevertheless, Garni survived the destruction of numerous pagan temples following countless invasions, the Armenian conversion to Christianity, and several other earthquakes. Originally constructed in dedication to the Sun God Mihr, Garni is the only standing pagan temple in Armenia. However, some scholars believe it is not a temple but a tomb, hence why it was left alone all those centuries ago.
Philip the Handsome

## Ability

### Ability

**Driven to Madness****(Return)** This card loses -25 Power permanently and your Joanna of Castile card, wherever it is, gains +75 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

In 1496, Philip the Handsome married Juana of Castile, the daughter of the Spanish king and queen. 10 years later, he became the first Hapsburg to be crowned King of Spain. Did he have the makings of a good king? Probably not. But was he a good husband? Also no.

As well as constantly cheating on Juana, Philip jumped for joy when her brother, the prince of Aragon, died, clearing the path for Philip’s ascension to the throne. Through his marriage, **Philip I of Castile** gained a brother in law in Henry VIII, who was married to Catherine of Aragon. Philip was proclaimed king in 1506, but died a few months later, and since he died before his father (Maximilian I) he never got to become the Holy Roman Emperor.
Sugar Glider

## Ability

### Ability

**Sugar Snap****(Play)** All cards in both player's hands lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Far from being a rubbish science experiment you might get a small child to do if you were a rubbish teacher ("stick wings on a sugar cube, there you go, the basics of aviation"), the **Sugar Glider** is actually a species of possum.

They're known for the wingsuit-like membranes between their forelegs and hindlegs, which allows them to glide between trees, and for their sweet tooth - their favourite foods include sap and nectar.

They're also a creature that communicates via smells - in the same way we use language and writing, they use different scents to convey meaning. This extends from marking their territory with urine as other species do, to asserting their position in social hierarchies by sweating.
Tanzanite

## Ability

### Ability

**Gemstone of a Generation****(Draw)** Your Rare Hidden Gems cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Do you need more calmness and compassion in your life? Get some **Tanzanite** – a striking blue gemstone worn by celebrities on the red carpet that’s said to be a thousand times rarer than diamonds.

The Maasai tribe who live in the area of Tanzania where the gem is mined associate Tanzanite with calmness due to its colour. Blue is the colour of the sky which provides rain, so in Maasai culture, this gem is also believed to aid in the creation of new life. But for the stone to turn this gorgeous blue hue, it needs to be heated at exactly 600˚C for half an hour. The deeper the blue of the tanzanite, the more desirable (and valuable) it will be.
The Hesperides

## Ability

### Ability

**Daughters of the Evening****(Play)** If it's after Round 4, your Mythical Creatures cards, wherever they are, gain +30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Described as having “clear voices”, **The Hesperides** were the three daughters of Nyx and Atlas (possibly - their parentage is a little…fuzzy). The three guarded the golden apples that Gaia gave to Hera on her wedding day. They were the goddesses of the evening and sunsets, which means that we like to imagine them as perpetually backlit with a warm glow, like an early 2000s RnB album cover.

They apparently lived in the west, beyond the sunset (which is an incredibly vague note to leave for the UberEats driver who’s just trying to drop off your McNuggets) and the golden apples are possibly what gives the sunset its golden glow. The Hesperides feature in Heracles 11th trial as he slayed the dragon, Drakon, which also protected the apples with them. Some stories say that Heracles then stole the apples and others say that the Hesperides willingly gave them to him.

We are aware that we’ve given you very few concrete facts about the Hesperides on this card. In fact, while researching this, we found that there may not even have been three of them, maybe there were seven. And they could have been called Aegle, Erytheia, and Hespere, but who knows because we’ve seen at least twelve different spellings on our travels. It’s been a rather stressful afternoon of conflicting research.

Needless to say, they sang nicely, protected apples and were mega into sunsets. That’ll do.
The Kettering Bug

## Ability

### Ability

**Drone Out****(Return)** Your opponent's cards, wherever they are, lose -11 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

In 1918, the first self-flying aerial torpedo was developed as a secret project supervised by Orville Wright and Charles F. Kettering. Known today as **The Kettering Bug**, this vehicle was capable of striking ground targets up to 121 kilometres from its launch point, while travelling at speeds of 80 kilometres per hour. What is now regarded as one of the most destructive weapons invented during the war, the “Bug” was effectively a remote-controlled bomb, with a 90kg payload of high explosives and mustard gas.

After a couple of failed attempts, the Kettering Bug finally flew. When it reached a pre-determined distance, the ignition stopped, and the bomb dove onto its target. Ironically, there were too many bugs in Kettering’s Bug, which made it unreliable for combat, but its legacy lives on as the forerunner to today’s drones.
The Internet

## Ability

### Ability

**Log On****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

You know what **The Internet** is - you don't need me to tell you that it's an enormous network of connected computers across the whole planet that gives everyone the ability to communicate with pretty much anyone.

You don't need me to tell you that you are using **The Internet**, right now, to fetch this copy from a server somewhere, possibly hundreds or thousands of miles away, and display it on your screen within milliseconds.

And I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that, if you wanted to, you could use **The Internet** right now to send me a pizza; my address is (REDACTED, don't send him pizza - Ed), I'll have a Mighty Meaty with garlic dough balls, please.

What you might need me to tell you is about how **The Internet** came to be. It started in the 1960s when ARPA (the Advanced Research Project Agency, a division of the US Department of Defense) wanted to design a way to have computers share workloads - these were early computers, very limited in what they could do, and so the ability to have multiple computers contribute to single tasks was extremely helpful.

From there, it began to grow - fifteen computers were connected by the end of 1971, and in the next decade more and more international agencies connected to it. But it wasn't like **The Internet** as you and I use it - it was mostly interacted with through command-line interfaces.

In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed WorldWideWeb, the first web browser, as well as the fundamental protocols and algorithms that would allow **The Internet** to scale. With it, he developed Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), a coding language that could give a graphical look to information on **The Internet**, and that was the key to making it accessible to everyone.
Spinel

## Ability

### Ability

**Cubism****(Return)** This card gains +44 Power and costs +4 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Used in jewellery since ancient times, **Spinel** is most famous for its deep red variety that closely resembles ruby. Since they come from the same rock, that’s hardly surprising. In fact, it was only in the late 19th century that the distinction was made between the two.

It soon came to light that the "ruby" that forms the centrepiece of the royal crown of England was actually spinel. Best not mention that to Elizabeth, though – she’ll turn red with embarrassment.
Storming of the Bastille (1789)

## Ability

### Ability

**Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité****(Draw)** Your cards in hand cost -2 Energy this turn. **(Play)** This card loses -80 Power and the card opposite this loses -80 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your opponent gains +20 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

A word of advice to the ruling class: don’t piss people off too much, or they’ll form a mob and overthrow you in a revolution. That’s what happened in Paris on July 14th, 1789. Tired of being suppressed by the First Estate of the Clergy and the Second Estate of nobility, the Third Estate (the people) regrouped and formed the National Assembly with a vision to take a stand against the king and his cronies.

Their first target? The 30-metre high state prison known as the Bastille. Although it only held seven prisoners at the time, the **Storming of the Bastille** sent a strong message to the King and is now celebrated as the defining moment of the French Revolution.
The Fire-Fairy

## Ability

### Ability

**The Dancing Fire Maid****(Play)** If played next to Fire, your Life on Land cards in hand gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Written by Pavel Bazhov, the Fire-Fairy was inspired by folklore of the Ural region of Siberia. And it goes like this: a boy, his dad, his gold-prospecting pals and a wise old man are warming themselves by a fire. Suddenly, something leaps from the fire and starts dancing: it’s a small girl, with red hair, waving a blue handkerchief. Once she’s finished dancing, everyone acts like nothing happened.

Everyone, that is, but the old guy, who says the girl is in fact **The Fire-Fairy**, and if she shows herself, it means there’s gold in that place. We won’t spoil the rest of the story, but it’s got everything you want from a fairytale: an enchanted item, an evil stepmother and retribution for the main characters.
The Tunguska Event

## Ability

### Ability

**Deep Impact****(Play)** Your opponent's cards, wherever they are, lose -7 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s been referenced in Stargate, Star Trek and Doctor Who; Call of Duty, Crysis and Assassin’s Creed; Ghostbusters, Hellboy and Indiana Jones -

… yet with the **Tunguska Event** we’re still not exactly sure *what* we’re referencing.

What we *do* know is that in 1908 an explosion levelled over two thousand square kilometres of forest in Russia. The most widely accepted theory is that this was caused by a meteoroid exploding in the air a few kilometres above the Earth (this conveniently explains the absence of a crater).

Assuming this is correct, the Tunguska Event is the largest impact event in recorded history. It may not be up there with prehistoric extinction events, but it’s a stark reminder of our place in the universe. (Spoiler alert: we aren’t in the middle of it.)
Tabby's Star

## Ability

### Ability

**In Flux****(Return)** Your opponent's remaining Science cards in hand cost +1 Energy until played and your Space Oddities cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When a player lets us know they’ve found a bug in our game, and nobody else has reported it, and we can’t reproduce it - it’s very hard to know what to do. Is it a problem with their device? With their account? Or have they just found a particularly hard to reach bug in our code?

**Tabby’s Star** is the astronomical equivalent of a non-reproducible bug.

Also known as the *WTF Star* (no, we’re not being rude - that stands for ‘Where’s the Flux?’), the problem with Tabby’s Star is that it goes dim and then bright again, in an *irregular* pattern.

A regular pattern is easily explained by planets in orbit. But the pattern of this star has led to much more interesting explanations - such as an ‘alien megastructure’ (as pictured on this card), or comet storms. The most widely accepted (but still unproven) hypothesis is that the star is orbited by an uneven ring of cosmic dust.

Obviously, our heart lies with the alien megastructure theory.
Virtual Production

## Ability

### Ability

**Extended Reality****(Draw)** Your Science cards in hand gain +12 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

According to James Cameron, “Your imagination can create a reality.” He’s got a point - but then again, Avatar would have remained a figment of Cameron’s imagination if not for **Virtual Production**.

With this technique, you can have all the benefits of filming on a green screen stage, but with the added bonus of being able to see your special effects in real-time. It's like magic, but with computers. Directors can work on a mocap stage, but view a virtual environment and characters.

Considered a revolution in film-making, we have virtual production to thank for Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian, which was a breath of fresh air after the CGI-overload of the prequel trilogy.
Taekwondo

## Ability

### Ability

**High Kick****(Return)** Your cards, wherever they are, with 65 or more Base Power cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Dating back over 2,000 years, **Taekwondo** is one of the oldest forms of martial arts in the world and one of only two forms of martial arts to be included in the Olympics. The national sport of South Korea, Taekwondo includes a system of kicks, blocks, punches and open hand strikes – but you’ll need more than physical ability to be the GOAT of Taekwondo. Concentration, discipline and quick-fire reactions are also key to success.

Out of an estimated 70 million people in 188 countries practising Taekwondo, around 4 million people are blackbelts. This is still a relatively small amount, but it’s worth not starting fights with strangers on the off chance that they fall into that 4 million.
The Tide Jewels

## Ability

### Ability

**Ebb and Flow****(Draw)** If your deck has 6 Oceans and Seas, 6 Mythical Creatures and 6 Japanese Folklore cards, your cards, wherever they are, lose -15 Power this turn. **(Return)** If your deck has 6 Oceans and Seas, 6 Mythical Creatures and 6 Japanese Folklore cards, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

​​What more could you want from a wedding present than the ability to control the sea? According to classical Japanese mythology, the ocean kami Watatsumi ("sea god”) or Ryūjin "dragon god" gave his demigod son-in-law Hoori the magical **Tide Jewels** as a present to ensure the future prosperity of his descendants.

Often depicted as two pearls, the kanju jewel controls the ebb-tide, and the manju jewel controls the flow-tide. With these jewels, the dragon king’s son in law grew very powerful, rising up to defeat his enemies with floods and waves. Supposedly, the baby of the human and dragon princess of the sea went on to found a dynasty that would rule for more than 2000 years.
Tiangou

## Ability

### Ability

**Heavenly Dog****(Play)** If your deck contains Lunar Phases, your Dogs cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Dogs will eat just about anything. Case in point: **Tiangou**, the Chinese black dog who ate the moon or sun during an eclipse. Since eclipses were seen as omens of great change, sun-eating dogs were seen as a threat.

As such, astronomers of the emperor’s court were tasked with chasing Tiangou away, which they attempted by throwing fire-crackers, banging pots together and shooting arrows into the sky and when the sun returned, they celebrated their success in scaring Tiangou away.

Aside from eating celestial bodies, this doggo was eventually given the important job of guarding the gates of heaven – hence its name, which translates to “Heavenly Dog”. Given the dog’s colossal size, Tiangou was the obvious choice for the task.
Thorn Bug

## Ability

### Ability

**Thorn in the Side****(Return)** Your opponent loses -3 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

Top tip: don’t play Hide and Seek with a **Thorn Bug** in the woods. Also known as Treehoppers, these bugs have a sharply pointed spine on their back that looks exactly like a thorn on a plant. You’d spend hours searching for this master of disguise. Their thorns don’t just help with protection: males fly from branch to branch, strutting their thorny bodies to assert their dominance in the colony and attract single hot females in their local area.
Violette Szabo

## Ability

### Ability

**Behind Enemy Lines****(Draw)** Two opponent's random cards in hand cost +2 Energy for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

**Violette Szabo** was the first British woman to be awarded the George Cross. At only 23, she became a Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. On her second mission in occupied France, Szabo and several resistance fighters were stopped by a German patrol. Szabo fought off the Germans, providing cover for the others to escape but was captured when she ran out of ammo. Despite facing torture, she never gave up her companions.

'Portrait photo of the French World War II secret agent Violette Szabo' by Not stated - Imperial War Museum record HU 16541 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Three of Swords

## Ability

### Ability

**Heartbreak****(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card loses -70 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

You don’t need to be an expert in the Tarot to know what the **Three of Swords** card symbolises. Just look at that imagery: three swords brutally piercing a heart with rain clouds in the background. It's your average emo band’s album cover.

As you can probably guess, the 3 of Swords represents hurt, betrayal, disappointment, sorrow, loss - you get the picture. If you’ve pulled this one upright from the deck, brace yourself: you’re about to hit a low point. The good news? Things can only get better from here! Maybe. Probably.

In any case, the 3 of Swords card can officially be your excuse for cancelling plans, eating a strict diet of ice cream and never leaving your bedroom.
Wellington Top Hat

## Ability

### Ability

**A Gentleman's Game****(Play)** If played next to Pocket Watch, your Arts & Culture and Science cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Nothing looks more dashing than a fine top hat. But which kind to wear? There are so many to choose from - the beaver top hat, the stovepipe, the collapsable? Or, what about that short-lived trend in the early 1800s - the **Wellington Top Hat**?

It’s sometimes called the “Mad Hatter”, due to it being the type of hat seen on the character of the Mad Hatter in both the Alice in Wonderland novel illustrations and the inspirations for subsequent films (particularly the bizarre fever dream that was Tim Burton’s 2010 adaptation).

The Wellington Top Hat stands out from other top hats due to its more unusual shape. It has a wide top, which tapers down into concave sides and sits on a sometimes arching brim. And, if you’re a Mad Hatter from Wonderland, your hat may also have a card marking the numbers 10/6 sticking up from the brim - which was actually the cost of the hat (ten shillings and sixpence). This suggests that the Hatter forgot to pull the price tag off his hat before putting it on. How uncouth. Although, maybe he was planning on returning it after the afternoon tea?
Tokugawa Iemitsu

## Ability

### Ability

**Closed Borders****(Draw)** If your deck has only Feudal Japan cards, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Some rulers hesitate to leave their mark on history, content with keeping the status quo. **Tokugawa Iemitsu** was not one of those rulers. During his reign that lasted between 1623 to 1651, the third shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty crucified Christians, expelled all Europeans from Japan and closed the borders of the country - a foreign policy that would remain in place for over 200 years after its institution.

On top of that, Iemitsu increased the power of the shogun, introduced new social reforms and instilled new behavioural standards. A real stickler for the rules, Tokugawa wasn’t about to let his younger brother make him look bad by ignoring the law and treating his subjects poorly. So, he did what he felt was right and… forced him to commit suicide.
Wallaroo

## Ability

### Ability

**A Little from Column A...****(Play)** Your Wallaby and Red Kangaroo cards in hand gain +35 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Hailing from the mountainous pastures of eastern Australia, the **Wallaroo** is a breed of kangaroo that has a stocky build and shaggy fur. When two male Wallaroos fight over a female, it isn’t to the death – one simply surrenders and leaves peacefully. When the female gets pregnant, the male Wallaroo sticks around while the joey is in the pouch to protect the two. Don’t prepare the ‘Dad of the Year’ award just yet – when the joey grows up, they bounce.
Voyager 1

## Ability

### Ability

**Flyby****(Play)** For every The Solar System card in your hand, gain +10 Power/Turn for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

"Look again at that dot." Carl Sagan wrote. "That's here. That's home. That's us.” The pale blue dot in question is Earth, as seen through the cameras on **Voyager 1** in 1981.

Not only did this picture become world famous (no pun intended), but it marked the first and only attempt by a spacecraft to photograph our solar system. As well as snapping a pic of Earth, Voyager 1 was the first of the twin probes to race by Jupiter and Saturn, despite the fact that Voyager 2 was launched two weeks prior. And it’s still out there today.

On February 17, 1998, Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space, and is currently 14.6 billion miles from our planet.
Two Towers of Bologna

## Ability

### Ability

**Family Feud****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +36 Power/Turn for 2 turns and if you lost the turn, your opponent gains +36 Power/Turn for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Pisa may have one leaning tower, but Bologna has two. Constructed between 1109 and 1119, the **Two Towers of Bologna** served for signalling and defence as well as representing, with their grandeur, the social status of the families who had them built.

The taller tower is called Asinelli and stands 97.2 metres tall – just a metre taller than Big Ben. Centuries after its construction, the tower was used by scientists to study gravity and earth rotation. It was also used as a sight post in World War II.

The smaller and more leaning tower is called the Garisenda. Originally, it was approximately 60 metres tall, but in the 14th century, Garisenda was lowered as its leaning position and height was dubbed a danger to Bologna’s citizens.
The Very Large Array

## Ability

### Ability

**Dish Up****(Return)** Your Space Technology cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The Very Large Array in New Mexico consists of 27 80-foot radio telescope dishes, in a Y-shaped formation that looks nothing like a regular telescope. As well as investigating the universe, it is used to receive transmissions back from spacecraft billions of miles away.

The dishes can be repositioned using a series of railway tracks they're mounted on (one of them even intersects Route 60) and in the same way you would focus a camera lens, this allows the astronomers of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory zoom in on whatever they're investigating.
Type 97 Te-Ke Tankette

## Ability

### Ability

**Short Burst****(Draw)** A random card in your hand gains +20 Power this turn and gain +2 Energy.

## Did You Know?

In the 1930s, Tankettes were in vogue in the world of military hardware. About the size of a car, these small armoured vehicles were used for infantry support and scouting. Just like many other countries, Japanese military officials were fully on board with the tankette trend.

In 1936, Tokyo Gasu Denki (now Hino Motors) developed the **Type 97 Te-Ke Tankette** to replace the outdated Type 94 light tank. The Type 97 had several key differences – notably, the engine was in the rear and the gun turret was in the middle.

Designed as a fast reconnaissance vehicle, the Type 97 Te-Ke Tankette would go on to be used by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War, at Nomonhan against the Soviet Union, and in World War II.
Thomas Edison

## Ability

### Ability

**Current Affairs****(Draw)** Your Energy cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Everyone knows the guy who invented the lightbulb right?!

**Thomas Edison** was that guy and was, in fact, one of the most successful innovators in American history. A hero amongst men, who seemed a magical force to be reckoned with for the way he seemed to invent ideas seemingly from thin air.

Not only did he set up his own lab in his parent's basement when he was 10, but he has over 1000 patents. Not all of them are solely in his name - Edison was known for working with many collaborators and has been remembered as a shrewd businessman.

Many of his inventions still have a major effect on our lives today, with perhaps the most important one meaning we aren't constantly falling downstairs in the dark or walking into wardrobe doors. Hallelujah Thomas Edison for bringing us the light! His other inventions include the automatic telegraph, the Carbon Telephone Transmitter, The Phonograph and the Movie Camera and Viewer.

Did you know that Edison uttered the words, "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as the very first sentence to be uttered on the Phonograph? We would have personally gone for "Would Seymour Butts please come to customer services..." but maybe we're just immature...
Vampire Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**Piercing Gaze****(Play)** If your deck has 2 or more Crustaceans cards, two of your opponent's cards, wherever they are, lose -50 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Their name suggests a thirst for blood, but don’t worry - you don’t need to wave garlic at the **Vampire Crab** or drive a stake through its carapace. In fact, it’s so-called because of its glowing yellow eyes. Even if you did want to slay it Buffy style, you’d have a hard time, as these crabs only reach 2 inches when fully grown, including their legs.

While they do favour more substantial snacks like shrimp or bloodworm, these spooktacular creatures aren’t fussy. In the wild, they’ll settle for woodlice or even plant matter. In general, vampire crabs are cool with each other, but aren’t the most forthcoming to crabs of a different breed and won’t hesitate to start a fight if they feel threatened.
Therizinosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Theriz No Escape****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

See that picture on the front?

It's almost certainly \*not\* what a Therizinosaurus looked like. All dinosaur reconstructions are in part guesswork (remember for years paleontologists thought the Stegosaurus' brain was in its tail) - but this one is more guesswork than most, as so few (and incomplete) specimens have been discovered. We don't even know for sure that it was a Herbivore.

What we \*do\* know is that Therizinosaurus was very much the Freddie Krueger of its day: its claws are the longest ever discovered, at around 1m in length.
The Sphinx

## Ability

### Ability

**Riddle of the Sphinx****(Play)** All Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Mythology cards in both player's hands gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The Great Sphinx is thought to have been built in the likeness of the Pharaoh Khafre, who did not, as you might suspect, have a 'nose job'. The original Sphinx is believed to have had a 5ft long nose and a beard, and would have been brightly painted.

This is largely conjecture - but what we do know for certain is that the Sphinx... is not really a Sphinx. The Greek idea of the Sphinx (and this is where the name comes from) was a woman with the haunches of a lion and wings. So the Great Sphinx is more of a man-lion-thing (or more specifically, an 'Androsphinx').
Titanosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Clash of the Titan****(Draw)** Your Ancient Greece cards in hand gain +50 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Titanosaurus lived in the Cretaceous period, 145 million years ago. It was primarily found in India, although fossils have been found in Romania, Argentina and France.

Titanosaurus is also the name of a fictional Kaiju monster in Godzilla films. This creature is not related to the pre-historic Titanosaurus sadly but instead depicted as bipedal, with a crest on top of its head. If you see a picture or illustration showing a Titanosaurus walking about on two legs, it’s probably not the actual real deal but instead a Kaiju on a mission. This was made EXPLICITLY CLEAR to the guy picking the image for the front of this card.

Titanosaurs have been in the headlines lately, as bigger specimens have been discovered in South America. The recent announcement of the fantastically named and fantastically LARGE Dreadnoughtus may yet make the record books but for now, Titanosaurus is the biggest of boys.
Vodyanoy

## Ability

### Ability

**From The Water****(Play)** If played next to any Raging Rivers card, your Raging Rivers cards in hand gain +17 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

There’s nothing like a nice soak after a long day. But just be mindful not to bathe after sunset. Or on a holy day. And you might want to make the sign of a cross before bathing. Otherwise, you might get sucked into the water by the **Vodyanoy** - a malicious water spirit from Russian and Slavic legend. Fortunately, its domain is rivers and lakes, so you don’t have to worry about finding this naked, frog-headed OAP in your bathtub.

If drowning people wasn’t bad enough, the Vodyanoy was said to break dams, drown crops and wash away mills. Basically anything bad that happened with water was this guy’s fault. To that end, fishermen, millers and even bee-keepers made sacrifices to appease this mythical demon frog.
Walking America

## Ability

### Ability

**Courage is a Practice****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Angela Maxwell's Walking the World cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

**4,332 km from Bend, Oregon. (2,692 mi.)**

Home at last, from Washington DC, crossing the corn and soy fields of the midwest, over the Rockies and back home to where I started in Bend, Oregon.

I tramped parts of the Appalachian trail and passed through the suburbs of Pittsburgh and Indianapolis. The middle of America can have winds over 100 miles per hour and I often used large hay rolls to tuck behind as a windbreak.

I was back in the land I knew well. But having experienced such vastly different cultures and customs, been taken in by strangers and survived the desert, I was not the same person I knew. My inner landscape had changed.

As I walked those last hundred miles towards the very place I took my first step, I retraced my journey and could feel the hot humidity of Vietnam, I could taste strong Turkish tea and see the turquoise sea of Sardegna. I took steps around the world and now the world lived within me. I had been away for 6 years, 7 months and 14 days.

**About Angela**

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

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

## Ability

### Ability

**Rocket Lawnchair****(Play)** If your deck has 5 or more History cards, your Radical Rockets cards in hand gain +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If your friend said “I want to build a big chair and strap rockets to them - FOR SCIENCE,” you’d probably tell them no. When **Wan Hu** suggested this during the Ming Dynasty in China, his mates said “yeah sure, let’s go get some rockets.” Or something like that.

Now, it’s tempting to think that Wan Hu might have had a death wish here but this stargazer was actually attempting to launch himself into space and reach the moon. In order to do so, he built a large metal chair with two kites attached (for steering) and had 47 rockets strapped to the back. Yes, specifically 47 rockets.

Wan Hu sat in his chair and ordered his servants to light the rockets. They did and a loud bang followed along with a lot of smoke. When the smoke cleared, Wan Hu was gone. To the moon? Probably not. To oblivion? Most definitely.

While this story seems wild, the ideas and the theory are all there for actually travelling to the moon. Wan Hu might have died in a horrible experiment gone wrong. Or, he might actually have been the first ever astronaut.
Walking Vietnam

## Ability

### Ability

**Courage is a Practice****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your Angela Maxwell's Walking the World cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

**13,086 km from home. (8,131 mi.)**

The striking Marble Mountains provide the backdrop to Da Nang’s\* buildings. The sun was hot but the humidity was oppressive and inescapable. It’s a chaotic place, cars, mopeds and street vendors lined the bustling city giving it an edgy and almost alien feel.

* (16.08611383193819, 108.08566957836976)

My first great feat was to cross the Hai Van Pass on the eastern sea. It is a steep incline climbing to 496 meters (1627 ft). It took me a full day to push Athena to the top. As I reached the summit, an elderly lady who had passed me that morning on her way to work, began clapping and singing in praise of me for making it before nightfall giving me a real sense of achievement.

We interacted through gesticulation, not speaking a word of each other’s language and sipped coffee together. In an act of kindness she offered me the use of her make-shift cafe to sleep in. So that night I slept on the wooden floor of her tin shack where she served instant coffee with condensed milk and chicken skewers to visitors to the pass. Despite being remote, it wasn’t quiet and it was to a cacophony of insects and tired muscles that I drifted off to peaceful sleep.

A week later I learned I had Dengue Fever, a tropical disease transmitted by mosquitoes and caused by the dengue virus. My symptoms included head and body ache, vomiting and a high fever. With my sights set on crossing Southeast Asia, the fever itself would completely change my route. Soon, I would be heading for Central Asia.

**About Angela**

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

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

## Ability

### Ability

**Earwarmer****(Draw)** Your Bat-Eared Fox, Long-Eared Hedgehog and Amelia Earhart cards, wherever they are, cost -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Most of us know this cosy headgear as the Russian fur cap, but the technical name for the hat is ‘**Ushanka**’ – deriving from the Russian word for ears, “ushi”. The design is made to keep the cold out with two flaps that cover the ears that are tied together under the chin. Traditionally, the ushanka was made from cheap sheepskin, rabbit or muskrat fur. Artificial fur hats are referred to as “fish fur” since the material doesn’t come from any real animal.

The modern ushanka design first appeared during the Russian Civil War, introduced by Admiral Alexander Kolchak who ruled in Siberia. In Norway, there’s a variant of the ushanka called "bjørnefitte", which literally means “bear’s vagina,” and is considered an insult in most parts of the country.
The Set of All Sets

## Ability

### Ability

**Who Shaves the Barber?****(Start)** This card gains +7 Power permanently and another random card in your hand gains +7 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Did you hear the one about the barber? He is the “one who shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves.” So, does the barber shave himself? Well, if he were to shave himself, he would cease to be the barber. If he does not shave himself, he fits into the group of people who should be shaved by the barber. So, he must shave himself. If he does, he stops being the barber.

What do we have here? Other than a confused barber with an exceptionally long beard, we have an example of Russell’s paradox, named after Bertrand Russell, who discovered it first. The paradox arises in set theory by considering **The Set of All Sets** that are not members of themselves.
Tiresias

## Did You Know?

In The Odyssey, **Tiresias** is a blind prophet who lived in Thebes whose insight comes not just from his blindness, but because he was transformed into a woman for seven years, allowing him to see life from all perspectives. One of the most renowned soothsayers, Tiresias makes a dramatic appearance in book 11 of the Odyssey.

It is here that Tiresias meets Odysseus in the underworld and helps the protagonist to get back to Ithica. The prophet Tiresias tells Odysseus that his crew may still get home if he can “curb their wild desire and curb your own”. He warns Odysseus not to disturb the cattle of Helios, the sun god, for if they do, it will be their end.