recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Funnel Web Spider

## Ability

### Ability

**Light at the End of the Funnel****(Return)** If your deck has 3 or fewer Science cards, your opponent loses -15 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

It’s always the quiet ones. If you came across a big, hairy, scary Tarantula in the wild, that might be quite terrifying. But the **Funnel Web Spider** - so boring-looking that the best way to describe it is ‘spider-like’ - is the one you want to avoid.

Of the 35 species of Funnel Web, the ones to avoid most of all are the Sydney and Northern Tree-Dwelling species. With fangs powerful enough to bite through fingernails, these spiders can cause death in humans in as little as 15 minutes. Thankfully, advances in first aid and anti-venom mean that fatalities are now very rare. While they live in burrows (typically under rocks or bark), it is the ‘wandering males’ - out looking for a mate in warmer weather - who are behind the most common attacks.

Image from JMonkk - thank you!
Greenwich Mean Time

## Ability

### Ability

**Mean Time****(Start)** This card loses -24 Power until played. **(Play)** If it's the second turn of a round, this card gains +48 Power this turn. **(Play)** If it's Round 3, this card gains +48 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Until the mid-19th century, almost every town kept its own local time, defined by the sun. But telling the time by the sun creates a problem: not all days are the same length. Around 22nd December, noon to noon takes 30 seconds more than 24 hours, and around 20th September, noon to noon is 21 seconds less.

When railway networks expanded in the 1850s, the need for a national time standard became inevitable. So, the people agreed to use **Greenwich Mean Time**: the yearly average or ‘mean’ of the time each day when the Sun crosses the Prime Meridian at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. While around 98% of the clocks in Britain were set to Greenwich mean time by 1855, it wasn’t made the law until 1880.
Gunpowder

## Ability

### Ability

**Gunpowder...****(Play)** Your Guy Fawkes card in hand gains +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Thought to have been invented during the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907),
this mixture of ground-up charcoal (fuel), sulphur (stabiliser) and potassium nitrate (oxidiser) come together with atmospheric oxygen and heat to create an explosive propelling reaction.

The invention likely travelled with the Mongol conquests across Asia, the Middle East and Europe (1206–1294) and changed the face of war forever. First with the introduction of fire arrows and bombs and ultimately artillery and guns.

The name **Gunpowder** was first used in 1411 and there was no single recipe, with different countries and changing the proportion and even ingredients depending on preference and its purpose.
Gateway Arch

## Did You Know?

Completed in 1965, the Gateway Arch was built to commemorate Thomas Jefferson, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Despite how it may appear, the Arch is exactly the same width and height - 630ft, making it the World's tallest arch. Inside the Arch, there is a tram system taking visitors to an impressive viewing deck at the top.

As you might expect, the two legs of the arch were built independently (they couldn't very well start at the top and work their way down) - but this meant that the welders had less than half a millimetre of room for error. Any more variance than that and the two halves wouldn't be able to join at the top.
Gaboon Viper

## Ability

### Ability

**Beware the Fangs****(Play)** If your deck has 5 or more Venomous Creatures cards, your opponent loses -50 Power/Turn this turn.

## Did You Know?

If a **Gaboon Viper** bites you and you’re still alive, that’s not by accident. Consider yourself lucky, as this viper can control whether it injects venom and how much, so the result can range from instant death to no effect. That being said, Gaboon vipers are docile in nature and only tend to bite humans when they get stepped on. So, maybe watch where you put your feet.

Not that size matters, but this species has the biggest fangs of all venomous snakes. It’s also the largest viper in Africa, reaching lengths of more than six feet. With a striking pattern that resembles fallen leaves, the Gaboon Viper blends in perfectly to its forest-floor habitat in Central, East and West Africa.
Haida Ermine

## Ability

### Ability

**Look Ma, I'm a Species!****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, gain +7 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

Look at that adorable **Haida Ermine** on the front of this card... is what we'd be saying if that was an adorable Haida ermine. It's actually a visually-close-enough white stoat. There aren't many images of the Haida Ermine - because it's only just been classified as its own species.

You'll find the Haida Ermine in British Columbia, on the island of Haida Gwaii, hunting mice and voles (they're pretty vicious - they've been known to take down chickens and rabbits!) That's where Jocelyn Colella of the University of Kansas studied them in 2020 and came to the conclusion that, after examining their skulls and cellular tissue, that they were distinct enough from stoats to be a species in their own right.

She also thinks it's just the tip of the iceberg, as it were; she's been studying martens in the area that have been exhibiting similar patterns. If you want to learn more about a species developing because of its isolation on an island, go get the Europasaurus card!
Fugu

## Ability

### Ability

**Tetrodotoxin****(Draw)** Steal 2 Energy from your opponent. **(Play)** Your Venomous Creatures cards, wherever they are, gain +40 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Meet the fish more poisonous than cyanide: Takifugu is a genus of pufferfish, often better known by the Japanese name **Fugu**. This form of blowfish contains lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin in its inner organs – especially its liver, ovaries, eyes and skin.

The poison is a sodium channel blocker, which paralyses the muscles while the victim stays fully conscious. Unable to breathe, the victim of the fugu eventually dies from asphyxiation. Fortunately, the preparation of fugu is strictly controlled by law in Japan and other countries, meaning only highly qualified chefs with at least three years of training are allowed to prepare the fish using a special knife called the fugu hiki, which is stored separately from other knives.
Fáfnir

## Ability

### Ability

**Guard the Gold****(Start)** Your Money, Money, Money cards in hand gain +12 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

There’s greed, like taking the last Jaffa Cake without checking if anyone else wanted it, then there are **Fáfnir** levels of greed. This dwarf of Norse mythology killed his father in order to steal all his gold. However, this wasn’t just any gold, this was CURSED GOLD. Yup, that kind. See, Fáfnir’s father had gotten that gold after he demanded compensation from Odin for the death of his other son, Otr, at the hands of Loki (to be fair, he looked like an otter at the time) and Odin had obliged but stuck a big fat curse on it first.

And what was that curse? The gold turned Fáfnir into a dragon, destined to protect all his treasure forever. Good one, Odin. Then that courageous young Sigurd turned up to slay the dragon and it was a matter of “Bye, Bye, Fáfnir.”

So what have we learned today, children? Don’t kill otters in case they’re actually dwarves. Don’t kill your dad in case his gold is cursed. Actually, just don’t kill your dad at all. And don’t get so greedy you turn into a dragon. Class dismissed.
Cotton-Top Tamarin

## Ability

### Ability

**The Mane Event****(Return)** Your Hair card, wherever it is, gains +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

With a hairstyle like Doc Brown, the **Cotton-Top Tamarin** turns heads – but its hair isn’t even the most interesting thing about it. Scientists found that the eccentric-looking monkey is the only non-human primate capable of whispering. When humans entered their enclosure at Central Park Zoo, it was noted that the monkeys seemed to fall silent. But spectrograms soon revealed they were simply whispering their alarm calls instead of shouting them. Great Scott!

Weighing less than 0.5 kg, this New World monkey is one of the smallest primates and can be found in tropical forest edges and secondary forests in north-western Columbia, where it spends its time chilling out in trees and feeding on insects.
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

## Ability

### Ability

**Comfort and Joy****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Katy Perry, Nat King Cole, Mariah Carey, Kenny Rogers and David Hasslehoff all have one song in common: "**God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen**". Yes, you read right: in 2004, “The Hoff” released <link="https:>his own version</link> of the traditional Christmas carol.

Hundreds of years before the lifeguard from Baywatch covered it, "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" was written on an anonymous manuscript, believed to date back to the 1650s. However, the original lyrics contain a slightly different version of the first line that was found in later texts. It reads: "Sit yow merry gentlemen” - as in, sit your a\*\* down, gentlemen, and enjoy some turkey.

Although its roots are ambiguous, the song was well known by the time it featured in Charles Dickens’ festive novel ‘A Christmas Carol’ in 1843.
Goldfish

## Ability

### Ability

**Memory Leak****(Return)** If it's before Round 3, this card loses -24 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

The antithesis of elephants, **Goldfish** always forget. Or do they? Ask anyone and they’ll tell you that these popular pets have a terrible short-term memory and a mere 3-second recall. In fact, this idea is a total myth, and was probably made up by someone with a grudge against a goldfish who forgot their birthday. Scientists have proven that this species of fish can actually remember information for at least five months.

For every year of a goldfish’s life, it develops a ring on its scaly body, and though most of them don’t live very long, the oldest living goldfish on record lived to age 43. Its name was Tish, and it was recognised in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Halley's Comet

## Did You Know?

**Halley's Comet**, named for the astronomer who first calculated its course, is the only short-period comet that can be seen with the naked eye from Earth. It comes close enough to see once every 74-79 years. It was last seen in 1986 and will next come close to Earth in 2061.

Part of the Comet's fame is due to its presence in history. The first known sighting was by the Chinese in 239 BC, and it has been recorded many times since without anyone - until Edmund Halley - realising that it was the same comet.

In 1066 William the Conqueror believed it was a sign that he would be successful in his invasion of England, and the comet even features on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Harry Houdini

## Ability

### Ability

**Final Act****(Start)** If it's before Round 5, this card **Lock**s this turn and gains +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

He escaped from ropes, handcuffs, chains and straitjackets. He could swallow 100 needles and 20 yards of thread with nothing more than a drink of water. But perhaps the most daring stunt performed by legendary escape artist **Harry Houdini** was breaking free from the belly of an 1,500 pound “sea monster” that washed up on Boston harbour. Historians still aren’t sure what the creature was, but Houdini escaped from its rotting corpse in 15 minutes.

While Houdini is remembered as one of the greatest illusionists, his tricks came in handy during the first World War. In a series of classes held at the New York Hippodrome, Houdini coached boys on how to escape sinking ships and break free from restraints in the event of capture by the Germans.
Great Emu War

## Ability

### Ability

**Unwieldy Army****(Play)** For every Birds card in your deck, your opponent's cards in hand lose -3 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Between World War I and World War II, a battle to reclaim land from an insurrection of rebellious birds took place in Australia. Known as the **Great Emu War**, this wildlife management operation was launched to tackle the rise in emus running amok in the Campion district. In 1932, the military was sent in with machine guns to make short work of the birds. But they underestimated the emus' resilience.According to Major G. P. W. Meredith who led the (human) troops, the emus “faced machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks.” By the end of a month, some 2,500 rounds had been fired, but only a couple of hundred emus had been killed. No human casualties were recorded, but the disappointing result saw the project curtailed. Long live the emus!
Green Screen

## Ability

### Ability

**Blockbuster****(Draw)** Your Natural Monuments, Stage and Screen, Super Structures and Wonders of Construction cards in hand cost -3 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Today, most blockbuster movies use a **Green Screen** (called a “chroma-key” by people in the biz) to transport audiences to other worlds. Even weather reporters are reliant on this technology to point to the map as though they were floating above the Earth.

But when chroma keying was first used in 1940 by Larry Butler on *The Thief of Baghdad*, the green screen was originally blue. Realistically, either colour works because they are far away from skin tones, making it easy to replace the background without accidentally removing a part of the actor’s face.

Green screens can be made from cloth or paper, but whichever you choose, you must make sure it’s 100% wrinkle-free – a process which can take around two hours!
Giant GRB Ring

## Ability

### Ability

**Gamma Bursts****(Draw)** Your cards in hand **Burn** (15) for 2 turns and your opponent's cards in hand **Burn** (15) until played.

## Did You Know?

We will never know what lies beyond the observable universe, but astronomers are constantly uncovering the “largest” or “most distant” objects that can be seen from Earth. In 2015, they discovered a perplexing cosmic structure consisting of a ring of galaxies around 5-billion light-years across.

Known as the **Giant GRB Ring** (GRB meaning Gamma-Ray Bursts), the structure is located 9.1 billion light-years away from Earth and spans an area of sky thought to be 70 times the diameter of the full moon. GRB rings are usually thought to be the result of a massive star reaching the end of its life – but this super-structure is so big that it contradicts current models of the universe, leaving astronomers uncertain about how it even came to be.

'Giant GRB is a ring of 9...' by Pablo Carlos Budassi (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Great Pumpkin

## Ability

### Ability

**Halloween Asteroid****(Return)** For each Space card in your deck, up to a maximum of 6, your Horrible Halloween cards, wherever they are, gain +4 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Known as “Asteroid 2015 TB145”, we think the nickname **“Great Pumpkin”** is much more fun and gives you a much better idea of what to look for when it next passes through the sky. The Great Pumpkin was first spotted by Pan-STARRS at the University of Hawaii in October 2015 and was nicknamed as such, not just because of the spooky time of year it was discovered, but also because, on satellite images, it looks like a giant skull hurtling through space.

While the asteroid is technically classed as a Near Earth Object and potentially hazardous due to its size, it has passed us safely in both 2015 and 2018, with no effect on the moon or Earth’s tides or tectonic plates. In fact, when it last passed the Earth, it was 1.3 lunar distances away (around 480,000km). So, in spite of its terrifying appearance and spooky name, we’ve got nothing to worry about at all!
Giant Clam

## Ability

### Ability

**Coral Closer****(Play)** If it's after Round 2, your Molluscs, Worms and Water Bugs cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Picture a clam the size of a human child and as heavy as a pig. These are roughly the dimensions of the largest **Giant Clam** ever discovered, a species native to the shallow coral reefs of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans. Given their size, giant clams are unable to close their shells completely - part of the mantle is still visible, protruding like a clam-shaped car boot bursting with treasures from the ocean’s department store.

As humans know, finding a compatible mate isn't always easy. Being a hermaphrodite, the giant clam can't self-fertilise, but it can mate with literally any other member of their species, which definitely makes matters easier. It also boosts their baby-making potential because they can produce double the amount of offspring.
Galapagos Marine Reserve

## Ability

### Ability

**Marine Network****(Draw)** Your Galapagos Land Iguana, Galapagos Marine Iguana and Galapagos Tortoises cards, wherever they are, gain +23 Power and cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The **Galapagos Marine Reserve** which lies one thousand kilometres from the Ecuadorian mainland currently encompasses 51,352 square miles of protected, diverse marine landscape - and is the second largest reserve in the world!

Many unique creatures make this reserve their home, but it faces a number of environmental threats such as overfishing and non-native species such as cats and dogs posing a severe risk to the ecosystem.

In January 2022, Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso announced an expansion of almost 50% - by adding a massive 23,000 square miles of reserve to the northeast of the islands to protect the local submarine mountains, alongside reserves built by neighboring nations of Costa Rica and Panama.

The decree was noted as an “incredible precedent” by Norman Way from the Governing Council of the Galapagos, with Matt Rand of Pew Charitable Trusts complimenting the new reserve which was designed in tandem with the local fishing industry.

“That’s how it should be. A healthy ecosystem is going to produce fish. It’s good for biodiversity and it’s good for a sustainable fishing fleet.”

Source: LA Times, "Ecuador expands protected area around Galapagos Islands, providing safe passage for marine life"
Grauman's Chinese Theater

## Ability

### Ability

**Picture Pagoda****(Play)** If played next to a Chinese Folklore card, this card gains +30 Power.

## Did You Know?

Now home to the biggest IMAX auditorium in the world, **Grauman’s Chinese Theatre** on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame is probably the most iconic movie palace in the world. The theatre’s creator, Sid Grauman, can effectively take credit for moving Hollywood to… Hollywood.

Before his Egyptian Theatre was built in 1922, the centre of entertainment was in Downtown LA. Five years later, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre was opened, inspired by the architecture that Grauman saw in China during a round-the-world trip. Since it opened, the theatre has hosted some of Hollywood’s biggest premieres.

Every year, around 5 million visitors come to snap pictures at the Chinese Theatre’s signature Forecourt of the Stars, where the hand and footprints of stars have been memorialised in cement.

'A panorama of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood' by Samantha Decker (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Fritz Joubert Duquesne

## Ability

### Ability

**Man of Many Faces****(Return)** Your Espionage cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played and if your deck has 5 or more Espionage cards, your Espionage cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when reading the story of Frederick 'Fritz' Joubert Duquesne's life, since many historians agree that this confidence trickster crafted outright lies about himself and embellished many details of his life.

Here’s what we do know: **Fritz Joubert Duquesne** was a South African Boer and German soldier, a big-game hunter, a journalist, and a spy who had a life-long hatred of Britain. During the Second Boer War, Duquesne was captured and imprisoned three times by the British and once by the Portuguese but escaped each time. On one occasion, he pretended to be a British officer and led an attempt to sabotage Cape Town and assassinate the commander-in-chief, Lord Kitchener.

Decades later, he lead the infamous Duquesne Spy Ring, a group of 33 agents for Germany that infiltrated the United States before it entered the Second World War. They passed information to and from Germany for years before the attack on Pearl Harbour, until all 33 agents were found and convicted for espionage. They racked up 300 years of imprisonment, between them, with Duquesne himself sentenced to 18 years and a $2,000 fine (about $33,000 in today’s money).
Guard Crab

## Ability

### Ability

**True Crabs****(Play)** If your deck has 16 or more Crustaceans cards, your Crustaceans cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Guard Crabs**, assemble! We courageous crustaceans must renew our commitment to fiercely defending the coral reef we call home. In exchange for the shelter and nutrients it gives us, we must fend it from corallivores, especially those pesky coral-eating snails and worst of all, our arch nemesis - the Crown-of-Thorns Seastar!

You know the drill! If you see a seastar, get into your assigned pairs and get to work pinching its arms and nipping off its tube feet. Show no mercy! Humans think these funny shaped critters are cute but we Trapezia know the damage they can do to our home and we will not stand for it. And anyway, on looks alone, we’re much more attractive than starfish - our exquisitely patterned carapace is straight fire.
Goths

## Ability

### Ability

**Roman Raider****(Draw)** Your The Roman Empire cards in hand, excluding this card, lose -10 Power for 2 turns and this card gains +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

No, they weren’t covered in white make-up, too much eyeliner and backcombed hair. But rather the **Goths** were a group of Germanic nomads who raised all kinds of hell for the Roman Empire around the 3rd and 4th Century AD.

Originally hailing from Scandinavia (well, possibly, as this is still a bit fuzzy in the history books), the Goths travelled throughout Europe, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. Their raids on the Roman Empire began around the 3rd Century, although their greatest victory was the sack of Rome in 410 AD. The Romans saw them as barbarians and even the name Goth because synonymous with chaos and bloodshed.

In literature, Shakespeare featured the Goths in his play *Titus Andronicus* (which is his bloodiest and most deranged, and frankly my favorite). Titus, a general in the Roman army, captures Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and gives her to the Roman emperor who takes her as his wife. Tamora swears revenge and bloody chaos ensues. It’s wild and there’s even a point where people are cooked into pies. 12/10, would Goth again.
Fuxi

## Ability

### Ability

**Father of Humanity****(Play)** Gain +8 Power/Turn this round and your Nüwa card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Whether you’re jamming out to your favourite song, cooking up a storm in the kitchen, fishing, hunting or even just existing, you have **Fuxi** and his sister Nuwa to thank. That’s according to Chinese folklore, anyway. In their stories, Fuxi is a divine being with a serpent’s body who, along with his sister, is credited with the creation of humanity and the invention of all the above.

Together, they also invented the Cangjie system of writing Chinese characters around 2000 BC. Some representations show Fu Xi as a lead-wreathed head growing out of a mountain or as a man clothed with animal skins. In any case, Fu Xi (meaning “The Great Bright One”) is the first mythical emperor of China.
Greenhouse Gases

## Ability

### Ability

**Is it Hot in Here?****(Draw)** All Life on Land cards in both player's hands lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Just like the glass walls of a greenhouse keep the plants inside warm, the gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the heat from the sun and keep us (and all life on Earth) thriving. Earth needs a balance of **Greenhouse Gases** like carbon dioxide and water vapour to keep the temperature just right. They also help in protecting our planet’s surface from harmful solar radiation.

Unfortunately, human activities such as burning fossil fuels like coal and oil are changing Earth’s natural greenhouse effect by releasing more gases like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The more gases in our atmosphere, the more heat gets trapped in and the warmer our Earth becomes. The result? Rising sea levels and unpredictable weather events.
Hector's Dolphin

## Did You Know?

If you ever see a **Hector's Dolphin**, count yourself lucky: these are the smallest and rarest marine dolphins in the world. Named after Sir James Hector, who was the curator of the first Colonial Museum in Wellington, Hector's Dolphins have so far only been spotted in the coastal waters of New Zealand.

A particularly playful species, their favourite hobbies include bubble blowing, leaping, playing with seaweed, lobtailing (slapping the water surface with the ends of their tails) and spy-hopping (holding their bodies upright with their heads above the water). Since their eyesight is only a little bit better than ours, these dolphins use echolocation to judge distances and locate their prey, which ranges from flounder and cod to mackerel, squid and crab.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- Like Two Lovers.
Gaia

## Ability

### Ability

**Life Itself****(Draw)** Your Oceans and Seas and Life on Land cards in hand cost -3 Energy this round. **(Play)** Your Oceans and Seas and Life on Land cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Gaia**, Gaea, or Ge is the Greek personification of Earth, as a Goddess, and ruled over the universe before anything existed. Everything came from Gaia, (including, but obviously not limited to); the rivers, plants, mountains and the heavens themselves. Her oaths were considered unbreakable, and she presided over the weddings of the Greek Gods.

According to the myths, ‘Chaos’ was alone in the universe, made from Void, Mass and Darkness, until Earth, in the form of Gaia, came to exist. Their Union created Uranus, but her allegiance with her son broke when Uranus imprisoned his children in her womb, and he was subsequently overthrown by Gaia and her other son, Cronus.

As is too often the case when too many Gods come together and apparently unlucky with choosing her allegiances, before long Cronus’ cruelty caused Gaia to switch her allegiance once again to Zeus, but in the end, in this soap opera of Greek Gods and Goddesses, she tried repeatedly to dethrone him, although her attempts were ultimately unsuccessful.

An all nourishing, all-producing mother, Gaia is often represented as a woman inseparable from the earth, or lying in the grass surrounded by flowers and fruit.

Although not often mentioned in Greek Mythology she is obviously considered to be one of the most important goddesses - and her lack of a starring role is due only to the fact that she predated the Titans - as well as everything else.

## Fusion

 Cosmic Dust | 3
German Shepherd

## Did You Know?

The **German Shepherd** is a loyal breed, often used as a Guide, Police or Guard Dog. It was also the first animal to become a major Hollywood star: a German Shepherd named Rin Tin Tin, rescued from a battlefield in World War I, starred in 27 motion pictures before his death in 1932.

## Trivia

* This card is obtained from the Life on Land Level Up Pack in Journeyman level.
Frost

## Did You Know?

Frost is formed when water vapour freezes on a surface. You've probably seen the effects of frost on a winter morning when your parent or guardian is frantically trying to scrape it off their car to get you to school on time (or perhaps, when you're frantically scraping it off your car to get your kids to school on time.)

Have you heard about hoar frost? That's a kind of frost that is formed when it's windy - the vapour freezes in thin wisps, looking a bit like a greying beard. Which, incidentally, is what will happen to your dad's beard if you don't hurry up in the mornings.
Golden Eyelash Viper

## Ability

### Ability

**If Looks Could Kill...****(Play)** If your deck contains Mascara Wand, an opponent's random card in hand loses -62 Power for 2 turns **(Play)** Your Grand Designs cards in hand gain +22 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Native to the rainforests of Central and South America, the **Golden Eyelash Viper** can be recognised by its vibrant superciliary scales that protrude above its eyes.

What does superciliary mean? Well, it means it pertains to the area above the eyes. Ask a superciliary question, get a superciliary answer.

These eyelash-like scales give the viper a constant look of rage (or bewilderment), but it's not really got anything to be upset about. It's your typical ambush predator, but it's been known to return to certain spots during the spring, to hunt the birds that have migrated there.

According to local myth, the Golden Eyelash Viper will wink at you before it strikes and delivers its venom. A terrifying prospect, until you remember that snakes cannot physiologically close their eyes.
Grant Wood

## Ability

### Ability

**Inspiration in the Mundane****(Play)** Your Innovations of War and Grand Designs cards, wherever they are, gain +21 Power until played. If your deck has 6 or more Arts & Culture cards, give them an additional +21 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A three-hundred-dollar prize and instant fame: these were the spoils that **Grant Wood** received for his iconic painting, American Gothic. It became one of the most famous images in 20th-century American art, and the name Grant Wood became synonymous Midwestern Regionalism, a movement that flourished in the United States during the 1930s.

But Wood did more than paint portraits. Throughout his life, he lent his talents to many businesses based in his hometown of Iowa. From advertisements to hotel décor and even sketching the rooms of a mortuary house for a promo flyer, Grant Wood hustled to make his artistic capabilities a steady source of income. As well as this, he helped found the Stone City Art Colony to help artists get through the Great Depression.
Helium

## Ability

### Ability

**What a Gas!****(Play)** Your Excellent Elements cards in hand gain +5 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Helium (He) is probably best known as the gas used to make balloons float and that, if inhaled, can make voices higher-pitched. It's also used in cooling the Large Hadron Collider and superconducting magnets in MRI scanners.

Scientists warn that Helium is the ultimate non-renewable resource as it is hard to find, difficult to keep and impossible to recycle. So our plans for Helium batteries are out of the window...
George Cukor

## Ability

### Ability

**A Star is Born****(Play)** If played between two Stage and Screen cards, gain +15 Power/Turn for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

His father expected him to study law, but **George Cukor** had other plans. With his sights set on the arts, George Cukor took a string of jobs in the theatre, striving towards his dream of becoming a director. In 1925, Cukor made his Broadway directorial debut with the play 'Antonia.' But that was just the beginning.

When Hollywood started recruiting New York theatre talent for the “talkies,” Cukor answered the call. By the mid-1930s, he was a prominent director and the unofficial head of Hollywood's gay subculture. His lifestyle may have cost him the 'Gone with the Wind' director role, but Cukor went on to direct some of the greatest films of the 20th century like 'Gaslight,' 'A Star Is Born,' and 'My Fair Lady,' which earned him an Academy Award.
Great Conjunction

## Ability

### Ability

**Alignment****(Draw)** Your The Solar System cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played. **(Play)** If played next to Saturn, this card gains +30 Power permanently. Repeat if played next to Jupiter.

## Did You Know?

Every 20 years, Saturn and Jupiter pass each other like ships in the night sky. When they do, we call it a ‘**Great Conjunction**’, because it’s by far the rarest of the conjunctions between planets we can see with the naked eye. It last happened in December 2020 and lasted for two weeks.

During this time, Jupiter and Saturn were the closest they’ve been since 1623, back when Galileo was still alive, a little more than a decade after he first used a telescope to discover Jupiter’s four largest moons that now collectively bear his name. The Great Conjunction of 2020 was also the closest observable one for 800 years. So, if you missed it, that’s too bad - you’ll be waiting a while for the next one.

Johannes Kepler observed that a similar conjunction would have occurred in 7 BCE, hence the theory that it was the famous “Christmas Star” that guided the three wise men in the Biblical story about the birth of Jesus Christ.
Galatea

## Ability

### Ability

**Brought to Life****(Play)** If played next to any History of Heartbreak card, your History of Heartbreak cards in hand gain +24 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Artificial Intelligence may be improving by the day, but if you can’t wait any longer for sentient robots, pray to Aphrodite. That’s what Pygmalion did in the famous Greek story of the same name.

To sum it all up, Pygmalion was so devoted to his art that he shunned women and vowed never to marry. One day, he created a statue of a woman so beautiful and lifelike that he fell in love with his own creation, naming her **Galatea**.

Driven by his deep desire, Pygmalion prayed to the goddess Aphrodite to bring his ivory figurine to life - a perfectly normal thing to do, apparently. This isn’t a sci-fi story, so Galatea doesn’t rise up to enslave man. Instead, they went on to have children and lived happily ever after.
Giacomo Casanova

## Ability

### Ability

**Be the Flame****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -30 Power until played and this card **Burn**s (9) this round. **(Play)** Your History of Heartbreak cards in hand gain +13 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

He may be history’s most famous ladies’ man, but **Giacomo Casanova** was more than a serial womaniser. He was an Italian adventurer, author, scam artist, alchemist, spy and a church cleric - that’s a lot for one lifetime. Unsurprisingly, Casanova’s autobiography is one of the most authentic sources of customs in European social life during the 18th century. He’s even got a whole museum dedicated to his escapades in Venice. You go, Giacomo.
Gold-ringed Cat Snake

## Ability

### Ability

**Raining Cats and Gems****(Return)** If your deck has 5 or more Hidden Gems cards, your Cool Cats and Cute Cats cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Like most venomous snakes, the **Gold-ringed Cat Snake** has sharp, hollow fangs that help inject its poisonous toxin to its prey like a hypodermic syringe. Named after its yellow markings, the gold-ringed cat snake is the largest species of cat snake, measuring 2.5m in length on average.

Although the species is nicknamed the Mangrove Snake, it is more commonly found in lowland rainforests than mangrove swamps. During the day, it hangs motionless on branches. At night, the gold-ringed cat snake awakens, taking to the forest floors to feed on rodents, small birds, bats and sometimes even other snakes. Aquatic prey isn’t safe from the snake in the water, either, since the gold-ringed cat snake is a proficient swimmer.
Freshwater Butterflyfish

## Ability

### Ability

**Fresh Water****(Draw)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Oceans and Seas cards in hand gain +3 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

**Freshwater Butterflyfish** are diddly little things, measuring in at about 5 inches, but they boast massive pectoral fins. They are also carnivores, with a very impressive hunting technique.

These fish’s eyes are constantly trained to the surface of the water to capture small prey - but with enough speed (and by wiggling its fins!) it can glide above the water - giving the fish its name.
Ghost Head Nebula

## Ability

### Ability

**Spooky Space Time****(Play)** Your Skull Nebula card in hand gains +60 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Eggs, necklaces, lemon slices and soccer balls - when it comes to nebulas, it seems space can be a bit of a Lost-and-Found. So, it’s not all too surprising that within the dark reaches of space is a **Ghost Head Nebula**.

So-named for the two white patches that look like ghost eyes, we suspect that this head once belonged to Anne Boleyn, William Wallace or Louis XVI of France. The western patch, called A1, has a bubble at the centre which was created by intense radiation and powerful stellar winds from a single massive star. The eastern patch is less defined as it has more dust and several hidden stars.

Located in the “Large Magellanic Cloud”, fortunately the Ghost Head Nebula is too far from earth (168,000 light years) to haunt us.
Galagadon

## Ability

### Ability

**Mopping Shmup****(Return)** Your Space cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

If you’re old enough to remember the iconic 80s arcade game Galaga, you’ll take one look at the teeth of the **Galagadon**, a genus of extinct sharks, and know exactly how it got its name. When examined side by side, its teeth look a lot like the spaceships in this retro video game.

This species of small carpet shark once called the rivers and wetlands of South Dakota home, some 67 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period. We know this solely because of the analysis that palaeontologists carried out on the teeth, which are the only trace of the Galagadon’s existence.

What’s crazy is that the teeth are only the size of a grain of sand. Without a microscope, you’d never know they were teeth at all.

Image by VELIZAR SIMEONOVSKI, FIELD MUSEUM
Hathor

## Ability

### Ability

**Bovine Intervention****(Play)** Your cards in hand gain +17 Power this turn. **(Return)** If you won the turn, your remaining cards in hand cost -3 Energy this round and if you lost the turn, your remaining cards in hand cost +1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

It’s not hard to see how **Hathor** was one of the most popular among the gods and goddesses of Egypt. She was the goddess of so many great things: love, beauty, music and dancing to name but a few. She was also the protector of women, and men worshipped her too.

Although she was later considered the ultimate personification of love and kindness, Hathor didn’t always hold this reputation. Initially, Hathor was a blood-thirsty deity who, under Ra’s command, toppled cities and unleashed death and destruction as punishment for human ingratitude and evil.

So, why the total 180? It seems Ra felt Hathor had gone too far and gave her a big pint of specially brewed beer that transformed her into a benevolent God.
Ghost Moth

## Ability

### Ability

**Flight Night****(Draw)** If your deck has 4 or more Beautiful Butterflies cards, gain +8 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

Fun fact: if you say Hepialus humuli humuli in the mirror, a **Ghost Moth** appears. Don’t worry – your clothes will be safe: these moths have no functioning mouthparts so cannot feed.

At night, the males take part in an elaborate dance routine that involves swaying in the air (in a ghostly fashion - hence the name). To the females (yellow in colouring unlike their all-white male counterparts) this is the moth equivalent of a good chat-up line.
Knights of Pythias

## Ability

### Ability

**Loyalty, Honor and Friendship****(Play)** A random adjacent card gains +36 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The name alone makes them sound like a nefarious group up to all sorts of shady shenanigans, but the **Knights of Pythias** are actually just a fraternal organisation founded in 1864 by Justus H. Rathbone in Washington, D.C.

Rathbone hoped that the nation, torn apart by violence, could begin to heal once renewed by the spirit of brotherhood. And clearly, people vibed with this as by the early 20th century, the Knights of Pythias had close to 1 million members. The organisation takes its name from the friendship of Damon and Pythias from ancient Greece, but you don't have to be an ancient Greek to join. In fact, the Knights of Pythias was one of the first fraternal organisations in the United States to welcome members of all races and religions.
Hayflick Limit

## Ability

### Ability

**Cell Division****(Draw)** Your cards in hand lose -10 Power permanently and 5 random Dizzying Discoveries cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we humans - and all living organisms - have a molecular clock that’s winding down from the moment we’re born. In other words, there’s only a certain number of times a human cell can divide and replicate itself. After doing so around 40-60 times, it reaches the **Hayflick Limit** and is broken down by programmed cell death.

The discovery of this limit by anatomist Leonard Hayflick signalled a radical change in the way we viewed cellular reproduction. Until 1961, it was believed that cells could be capable of immortality. Thanks to ol’ Lenny, we know now that’s not true. But that hasn’t stopped the science community from searching for ways to extend the limit or remove it altogether.
Gliese 581c

## Did You Know?

Gliese 581c is a planet just over 20 light-years away. It is tidally locked, meaning that the same side is always facing its sun. You'd be melted if you stood on one side, and frozen on the other.

Lovingly referred to as, 'The Planet of HELL,' Gliese 581c has ghastly crimson skies and black vegetation - probably not one for a holiday bucket list, although it isn't that far away...
Harp Seal

## Did You Know?

The **Harp Seal**, also known a saddleback seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean.

Harp Seals are extremely agile swimmers, able to catch a wide variety of fish and crustaceans. They can impressively stay underwater for 15 minutes and can dive as deep as 270 metres.

When underwater, their nostrils shut so they can't smell anything, however this is made up for by the use of their whiskers which are sensitive to touch. Just like the good old Beach Boys picked up good vibrations, the Harp Seal can pick up vibrations caused by the movement of prey, leading nicely to their next snack.

These cute bush baby eyed furry seals may look innocent but don't be fooled; the course of true love never did run smooth and when it comes to finding a mate and consummating the relationship, Harp Seals can get nasty, with male seals fighting for mating rights by biting and beating each other with their flippers. Don't hate the playa, hate the game...
Howell Davis

## Ability

### Ability

**The Pirate Pretender****(Draw)** Your other cards in hand lose -10 Power this round and this card gains +60 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Where most pirate captains relied on arms and power to get what they wanted, Captain **Howell Davis** took a different approach. A master of disguise, trickery and deception, this Welsh pirate used his intelligence to his advantage.

Although his piratical career lasted just 11 months before he was ambushed and killed, he managed to capture 15 known English and French ships in his time. The lies and trickery caught up with Davis when he disguised himself as a Royal Navy pirate hunter to kidnap the governor of the Portuguese island of Principe. The governor saw through it, and Howell Davis was shot dead on 19 June 1719. His death was avenged by his protégé Bartholomew Roberts - AKA Black Bart - who stormed the fort and killed the Portuguese troops.
Giuseppe Arcimboldo

## Ability

### Ability

**Fruit-iful****(Play)** Your Johnny Appleseed, Orange Peel Doris and Lemon Shark cards in hand gain +23 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Ever wondered what you would look like with fruit or veg in place of your facial features? No, us neither, but the imagination of Italian painter **Giuseppe Arcimboldo** clearly had no bounds. Born in Milan in 1527, Arcimboldo started his career as a painter working on stained glass windows. In 1562, he became the court painter to Ferdinand I of Vienna, and later, for Maximilien II and his son. The painting on the front of this card is of Rudolf II - hey, we’ve got a card of him too!

Most of his works are portraits that comprise collected objects such as fruit, flowers, vegetables, meat, fish and books, arranged in such a way as to capture his subject’s likeness. His strange approach to portraits has led some art historians to wonder whether Arcimboldo was even of sound mind, or whether he was just fascinated by the bizarre.
Great Dam of Marib

## Ability

### Ability

**Hold the Rivers****(Play)** If your deck has 4 or more Raging Rivers cards, this card gains +37 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Raging Rivers cards, wherever they are, cost +2 Energy for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Measuring 58 metres in length and 4 metres high, the **Great Dam of Marib** sustained the largest city in ancient southern Arabia for more than a thousand years. According to inscriptions, the dam was built by a ruler named Sumhu’ Alay Yanuf and his son Yatha’-Amar Bayyin in central Yemen, and was essential for the survival of the Sabaean Kingdom, as it provided water for its people.

The Great Dam is easily one of the most spectacular engineering feats of all time – in fact, the collapse of the Great Dam and the destruction of Marib was such an important event in the history of the region that it even finds a place in the Quran.

'Great Dam of Marib' by H. Grobe (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Green Flash

## Ability

### Ability

**Flash of Light****(Draw)** Your The Sun card in hand gains +35 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Ah, what a romantic evening, strolling along the beach before sitting down and watching the bright green sun sink into the ocean. Wait, what?

Yup, you read right: sometimes (admittedly very rarely), a phenomenon known as the **Green Flash** occurs at sunrise or sunset, causing a distinct green spot to appear at the upper rim of the Sun’s disk. It might look like extraterrestrial activity, but don’t worry - aliens aren’t trying to steal our sun. Yet. For now, count yourself lucky.

Some say that seeing a green flash is a sign of good fortune to come. Others say it’s just astrological refraction of sunlight by the atmosphere, an optical phenomenon that occurs when the sun dips over the horizon. In any case, you’re probably not getting abducted (for now.)
Hammerhead Shark

## Ability

### Ability

**Vision of a Hunter****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Most of us have been taught at some point that we have 5 senses: touch, hearing, smell, taste and sight. And like so much of what we are taught… it's not quite true. There are at least a few others, including proprioception and balance.

EXCUSE ME. HAMMERHEAD SHARK FACT PLEASE.

Ah. OK. Hammerheads (like other sharks) have an extra sense called Electroreception, which detects electricity emitted by other living creatures. The pores that detect this - known as 'Ampullae of Lorenzini' - are distributed over the considerable width of its hammer-shaped head, making it a more efficient hunter.

## Trivia

* This card is obtained from the Oceans Level Up Pack in Explorer level.