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Genghis Khan

## Ability

### Ability

**Conqueror****(Return)** If this card matches the Arena, Steal 5 Energy from your opponent.

## Did You Know?

Mongol leader Genghis Khan (1162-1227), whose many 'trusted' generals were former enemies (go figure), rose from humble beginnings to establish the largest land empire in history.

He was originally named Temujin, which means “of iron” or “blacksmith.” He didn’t get the honorific name “Genghis Kahn” until 1206 when he was proclaimed leader of the Mongols at a tribal meeting known as a “kurultai.” “Khan” is a traditional title meaning “leader” or “ruler,” which makes us feel really down on our own extremely ordinary sounding names which lack any kind of powerful meaning whatsoever.

After uniting the nomadic tribes of the Mongolian plateau, he conquered some pretty massive chunks of central Asia and China. His descendants expanded the empire even further, advancing to faraway places such as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea.

We won't gloss over the grisly fact that many people were slaughtered in the course of Genghis Khan’s invasions, including one of his most famous campaigns of revenge, when in 1219, the Shah of the Khwarezmid Empire broke a treaty with the Mongols. Khan then unleashed the full force of his Mongol hordes on the Khwarezmid territories in Persia. The subsequent war left millions dead and the Shah’s empire in complete and utter ruin. Don't mess with the Mongols.

On the, err, flip-side he also granted religious freedom to his subjects, abolished torture and abolished trade. Swings and roundabouts.

Genghis Khan died in 1227 during a military campaign against the Chinese kingdom of Xi Xia. His final resting place remains unknown.

For such an influential figure, very little is known about Genghis Khan’s physical appearance. No contemporary portraits or sculptures of him have survived, and what little information historians do have is often contradictory or unreliable. Most accounts describe him as tall and strong with a flowing mane of hair and a long, bushy beard. Like Fabio with a beard.
Headless Horseman

## Ability

### Ability

**Heads Will Roll****(Play)** If played next to Jack O'Lantern, your Arthurian Legends and The Write Stuff cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

According to American folklore, the **Headless Horseman** haunts Sleepy Hollow every night, looking for his head. Obviously, that’s made a lot harder by the fact he has no eyes.

The story goes that the horseman was a Hessian trooper killed during the Battle of White Plains in 1776. Its most famous appearance is in Washington Irving's 1820 novel titled "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, but this creepy character appears in ancient tales from many parts of the world – from Germany’s Wild Huntsman to Scotland’s supernatural rider beheaded in battle.

In Indian folklore, the Headless Horseman is a heroic figure who lost his head defending his village and has returned to represent those wrongfully killed and protect the innocent from suffering a similar fate.
GJ 504 b

## Did You Know?

This planet’s colour, probably described by hardware store paint charts as a ‘dark cherry blossom’ or a ‘dull magenta’ was discovered using infrared data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

Several times the mass of Jupiter and similar in size, it's the lowest-mass planet ever detected around a star like the Sun using direct imaging techniques.

Located in the constellation Virgo and discovered around 1538, the star can be seen with the naked eye in most places around Earth.

Also, did we mention it’s pink?
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

## Ability

### Ability

**Curves and Curls****(Draw)** Your Arts & Culture cards in hand gain +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Designed by influential architect Frank Gehry, the **Guggenheim Museum Bilbao** is an awe-inspiring feat of architectural design and one of the most eye-catching landmarks in the world. That sets a huge bar for the art exhibited in it – but the collection certainly lives up to expectations, including a 12m puppy made of flowers and a 9m tall steel spider sculpture which sits outside the museum – that should ward off those pesky art thieves.

'Guggenheim Museum Bilbao designed by Frank Gehry' by Tony Hisgett (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under (original image resized, cropped and altered)
George Washington Carver

## Ability

### Ability

**The Peanut Man****(Play)** Your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

The Father of the Peanut Industry, **George Washington Carver**  is hailed as the most prominent black scientist of the early 20th century. An agricultural inventor, Carver developed over 300 products using the humble peanut.

The long list of products he created is astounding, ranging from chilli sauce to shampoo to writing paper and ink. He even helped make peanut rubber cannons for World War II. That would have sent soldiers with nut allergies running for the hills.
Galactic Collision

## Ability

### Ability

**When (Several Hundred Thousand) Worlds Collide****(Play)** Your The Solar System cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are hurtling towards each other at a speed of around 70 miles per second, and are due to collide in four billion years - there's a date for your diary!

Here's what's interesting about that - although hundreds of thousands of planets are heading towards each other, they are still so far apart that it's unlikely that any of them will actually make contact. All their gravitational fields will get entangled and it'll form one huge supergalaxy - "Milkdromeda", perhaps? We've got time to workshop that.
Harry Beck's Tube Map

## Ability

### Ability

**Going Underground****(Play)** Your Going Underground cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

The first London tube map, published in 1908, was a mess. It showed all the central stations, but names were written in small text and often at odd angles so they could be crammed in between lines. Stations further out of the centre were left out, so lines just trailed off the edge as if London stopped existing outside the centre.

**Harry Beck’s Tube Map** changed the way people move in the UK’s capital city, but when he first brought it to the transport authorities, they snubbed him. Two years later, it was tweaked and published for public use. Today, it’s the most iconic transit map in the world and has inspired similar designs in cities across the world.
Ganymede

## Ability

### Ability

**Jupiter Ascending****(Play)** Your Jupiter card in hand gains +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Ganymede** is a satellite of Jupiter and the most massive of the Solar System's moons. It's so large in fact that it's the ninth-largest object in the Solar System, with a diameter of 5,268 km, making it 26% larger than the planet Mercury by volume, if you're in the habit of competitively measuring planets.

Ganymede, which is named for a boy who was made cupbearer for the ancient Greek gods by Zeus, is also the only moon with its own magnetic field. Not just any old magnetic field though, oh no; this one causes auroras, which are ribbons of glowing, electrified gas, in regions circling the moon’s north and south poles.

Ganymede also has large, bright regions of ridges and grooves that slice across darker and much older terrains. These are a sign that the moon experienced dramatic upheavals in the distant past. Scientists have also found strong evidence of an underground ocean on Ganymede too!

If you're a Red Dwarf fan you may know it as one of the fancier of Jupiter's lunar colonies and home to the famous 'Ganymede Holiday Inn'! It's a colony where you can have a great time, as long as you don't leave your drink alone with Petersen.

Dedicated to the memory of Seb Patrick (1982 - 2020) - what a guy!
Fuzzy Logic

## Ability

### Ability

**Degrees of Truth****(Draw)** Your Mega Math cards, wherever they are, if you are losing the round, gain +12 Power, if you are tied in the round, gain +16 Power or if you are winning the round, gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

In classical or Boolean logic, everything is either true or false, black or white, ones or zeroes. Your age or today’s date, for example, are questions with answers that can be found through Boolean logic, because there is only one correct answer. But what about those questions that don’t have one definitive answer? Questions like “Am I tall?” or “Am I old?” or “Am I rich?” can’t be answered with a binary yes or no.

To describe these shades of grey and help computers to understand them, we need something called **Fuzzy Logic**. Developed by computer scientist Lotfi Zadeh, fuzzy logic is a mathematical framework which laid the groundwork for Artificial Intelligence, allowing the truth value to be anything in between ‘yes’ and ‘no’.
Friedrich Nietzsche

## Did You Know?

Influential German philosopher, musician, and poet Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) changed Western philosophy forever. He is known for his writings on good and evil, the end of religion in modern society and the concept of a "super-man." He impressively became a professor by the age of 24 but was alienated by his peers and was forced to retire at the age of 35.

The man behind the phrase “God is Dead,” now a widely quoted statement, argued that morals don’t exist and we shouldn’t pretend they do. His insights centered around the idea that we should break away from our emotional, institutional and social shackles that hold us back from becoming all that we can be. You can see how this might have alienated his peers.

It wasn’t until after his death that Nietzche’s work began to be read widely. Unfortunately his name became associated with German militarism and Nazism, although later 20th-century scholars have counteracted this conception of his ideas.

## Trivia

* The quote "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is the title of a philosophical novel written by Friedrich Nietzsche.
GPS

## Ability

### Ability

**Get in Position****(Play)** If you are winning the round, your cards gain +10 Power this turn. If you are losing, they gain +15 Power and if you are tied, they gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**GPS** (Global Positioning System) was inspired by the LORAN and Decca Navigation System used by planes and ships during WWII. However, the use of satellites in navigation came about after the Sovient Union’s Sputnik satellite was launched when two American physicists at MIT wanting to track its movements using the Doppler Effect to do just this. It became obvious to them that the reverse must be true. You could determine your location from a group of satellite beacons with known locations and velocities. And thus the theory of **GPS** was born. The first 10 satellites, originally called Navstar, were launched starting in 1978, of which 9 made it into orbit.

This was all intended to be used only by the US military but then a Korean Airlines flight was tragically shot down in 1983 after it strayed into Soviet airspace. Due to this, then President Ronald Reagan decided to make **GPS** available for civilian use.

Currently there are 34 active satellites in orbit for the US GPS service and other systems include the Beidou (China), Galileo (Europe), GLONASS (Russia), NavIC (India) and Michibiki (Japan) which are either in operation or will be shortly.
Green Sea Turtle

## Ability

### Ability

**Turtle Dominance****(Play)** If it matches the Arena, your Oceans and Seas cards in hand gain +60 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Green Sea Turtle** is one of the largest sea turtles around, weighing around 65-130kg and measuring between 1-1.2m long, and the only herbivore among the different species.

They have a strong, tear-drop shaped shell called a carapace which covers most of their body, except for their head and four flippers. Contrary to popular belief, they are not named for the green colour of their shells but for the greenish colour of their cartilage and fat... grim.

They're mainly found in tropical and subtropical waters and migrate long distances between feeding grounds and the beaches from where they hatched.

After about two months after hatching, baby green sea turtles will use a special “egg tooth” to break their shells and hatch from their eggs. Once they have broken free, the adrenaline pumps and the race is on, as they make a mad dash across the perilous sand, avoiding predators such as birds, crabs, lizards and wild dogs and back into the safety of the water. True heroes in a half shell!

Sadly green sea turtles are threatened by over-harvesting of their eggs, hunting of adults, being caught in fishing gear and loss of nesting beach sites - unfortunately, this awesome creature is classified as endangered.
Guinevere

## Ability

### Ability

**Forbidden Desire****(Play)** Your Sir Lancelot card, wherever it is, gains +36 Power until played and your Sir Lancelot card in hand loses -62 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Most good stories feature a love triangle – case in point: Casablanca, Bridget Jones’ Diary and the story of King Arthur. You see, Arthur was in love with **Guinevere**, the daughter of the King of Scotland and, according to the legend, the most beautiful woman in the kingdom.

The two were married, and she became a noble queen – but things took a turn for the worst when she fell in love with Arthur’s chief knight, Sir Lancelot. Most versions of events say Guinevere had an affair with Lancelot, an event which saw her condemned to be burnt at the stake. When Lancelot rescued the queen, he killed several of Arthur’s knights, bringing an end to the Round Table and Arthur’s reign.
Hedgehog

## Did You Know?

The name alone doesn’t exactly give off threatening vibes - but, unlike the nocturnal ouch-mouse that scurries through your garden, this **Hedgehog** was a deadly weapon that spelled disaster for enemy submarines.

Used by the Allies in World War II, the Hedgehog was the first anti-submarine weapon that did not require direct contact with a submarine to be effective. It could fire its explosive charges up to 250 yards, making it effective against submarines that were out of range of traditional depth charges. If it hit, the mortar bomb would punch a 3” to 4” diameter hole in the target boat’s pressure hull.

Of all places, inventor Lieutenant Frederick "Johnnie" Hodges got the idea for this destructive weapon from a children’s toy that looked like a hedgehog, hence the name.
Geoffroy's Cat

## Ability

### Ability

**On My Own Two Feet****(Play)** If you are winning the round, this card gains +50 Power this turn and your other cards in hand lose -50 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Ahhhhh, look at the totally-docile-and-not-at-all-wild **Geoffroy's Cat**, what a normal-looking cat, needs to be in the Cute Cats collection if anything...

Oh, what's that? It's a wild cat and it's got some of the sharpest claws of any cat in the world? Claws that it uses to climb trees and stab prey, which you best hope it doesn't consider you to be?

Yes, this deceptively-domestic-looking feline is in fact a wild cat, and you'll find it in the central-southern regions of South America. It's named after the French zoologist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, who has a tamarin, a spider monkey, a bat and a street in Paris named in his honour.

Between the 60s and 80s, it was hunted for its pelt, but legislation in 1980 made it illegal to trade them and poacher moved onto other targets. It's now against international trade law to trade the species, except for non-commercial purposes and... erm... sorry, the phrase "non-commercial purposes" inspires dread in certain members of the CUE team, and I lost my train of thought...
Haast's Eagle

## Ability

### Ability

**Haast To Be Perfect****(Return)** If you have won 1 round this game and if you won, gain +5:energy/turn: for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Once upon a time, the majestic bird known as **Haast’s Eagle** soared through the skies of the South Island of New Zealand. It is thought to be the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of 15kg.

Being the colossal bird that it was, Haast’s eagle preyed on large flightless birds like the moa – despite the fact that the moa was fifteen times the weight of the eagle. What’s more, due to the absence of other large predators in its stomping ground, a Haast’s eagle could have free roam to feed on a single kill for a number of days. This species of eagle became extinct around 1400, after the moa were hunted to extinction by the first Maori people.

'Giant Haast's eagle attacking New Zealand moa' by John Megahan (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.5 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Hagfish

## Ability

### Ability

**Slime Eels****(Return)** Your Common Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power and cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

They are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, and yet somehow, that’s not even the weirdest thing about the **Hagfish**. Instead of eating prey in the normal way (catch it, kill it, eat it / order a takeaway), Hagfish slither into the bodies of dead/dying fish and eat them from the inside out, using their rasping tongue to shovel food into their funnel shaped mouths. But hey, we all have our quirks, right?

Sure, they may tunnel into corpses, and yes, they can fill a 5-gallon bucket with their defensive slime in mere minutes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve love. That’s the message behind Hagfish Day, which occurs every year on the third Wednesday of October.

'Sixgill Hagfish (Eptatretus hexatrema)' by Peter Southwood (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Hands

## Did You Know?

Each containing 34 muscles, 27 bones, 5 digits and over 100 ligaments and tendons, most humans take their **Hands** for granted. However, other than our brains, it is our hands that set us apart from many animals. For our ability to grip objects, we have our opposable thumbs to thank – in fact, Isaac Newton even said the thumb alone could convince him of God’s existence.

When it comes to handedness, only 10% of people are lefties – something which was seen in the Middle Ages as a sign of someone practising witchcraft. Even in some parts of Scotland, it’s still considered bad luck to meet a leftie at the start of a journey. Left-handed stigma just isn’t right.
Green Anaconda

## Ability

### Ability

**Constricting****(Draw)** A random card in your hand **Lock**s and a different random card in your hand costs +5 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Ophidiophobia sufferers look away now!
Sometimes we all exaggerate a little, but in this case no exaggeration is required. The Green Anaconda is huge. They can grow up to 9 meters (over 29ft) - approximately the length of 53 bananas end to end or 1 double decker bus - yes it’s the largest snake in the world!\*

Living in swamps, marshes and slow moving water they feast upon deer, eggs, peccaries, turtles, fowl, with internet favorite the capybara being one of its favored meals. They have even been known to eat the odd South American jaguar.

Interestingly, the size difference between the male and female of the species (sexual dimorphism) is extreme. It’s not uncommon for breeding females to be twice the length of the males.

* there are longer snakes, fatter snakes, but when taking into account a range of measures including weight, it’s widely agreed the Green Anaconda is the largest.
Gigantomachy

## Ability

### Ability

**Sons of the Earth****(Play)** For every The Roman Empire card you have played this game, up to a maximum of 15, this card gains +10 Power. **(Return)** Your The Roman Empire cards, wherever they are, lose -10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Who will win in the ultimate fight between the Giants and the Olympian Gods to take control of the cosmos? Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets on the legendary **Gigantomachy**, a one-time epic event from Greek Mythology.

In the blue corner we have the Giants, invincible by the gods alone - only the help of a mortal could see their defeat. In the red corner, we have the gods including all your favourites: Zeus, Athena, and Apollo. Let the battle commence!

In a power play, it looks like the Giants have attempted to seize heaven. But wait, who’s that? The gods are using Heracles! The mortal son of Zeus and a demi-god with superhuman strength, Heracles shoots arrows at the giants and the gods emerge victorious!
Großglockner

## Ability

### Ability

**Gross und Klein****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands with 9 or more Base Energy cost -3 Energy this round and all cards in both player's hands with 1 or less Base Energy gain +14 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

If you aren’t afraid of heights, you’ll love the views from the top of **Grossglockner**, Austria’s highest mountain and centrepiece of the Hohe Tauern National Park. But be warned: it’s a tricky climb to the peak, which rises 3,798 metres high.

According to local legends, there is a pitch-black crystal that concentrates the mountain’s energy hiding inside of Grossglockner. Luckily, you don’t have to climb the mountain itself to feel its awe-inspiring energy. Instead, you can drive down the Grossglockner High Alpine Road, probably the most famous panoramic road in Europe. The scenic road steers you into the heart of the national park and directly to the base of the Grossglockner. There’s a toll, but it’s a small price to pay for unforgettable views of the alpine landscape.
Great Mosque of Djenné

## Ability

### Ability

**Stick in the Mud****(Play)** Your Mudslide card in hand gains +24 Power this turn and if you are losing the round, it gains an extra +24 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Behold the largest mud-brick structure in the world and one of the most outstanding examples of Sudanese and Sahelian architecture: **The Great Mosque of Djenné**. Located in the city of Djenné, Mali, the structure we see today was built in 1893 after French forces led by Louis Archinard captured Djenné and saw the crumbling remains of an abandoned, 13th-century mosque, overrun by thousands of swallows. Archinard had the mosque demolished and a school built in its place, while the original mosque was reconstructed to its current form.

Over the years, the Great Mosque has become the epicentre of religion and culture in Mali. It is also the site of an annual festival called the Crepissage de la Grand Mosquée (Plastering of the Great Mosque), where the community comes together to maintain it.
Hail

## Did You Know?

Hail occurs when strong updraughts of air lift water droplets up into cooler parts of cumulonimbus clouds where they rapidly cool and freeze. This process repeats until the ice crystals are too heavy for the updraught and they fall to Earth as hail.

The biggest hailstone ever recorded was eight inches in diameter, which is about the size of a bowling ball - and about as heavy. YIKES.
Groundhog

## Ability

### Ability

**Rise and Shine****(Play)** Lose -2:energy/turn: this round. **(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +5:energy/turn: this round.

## Did You Know?

Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinaire, the common **Groundhog** is associated with the North American tradition that calls on this mammal to determine when winter will end.

Beyond meteorology and making Bill Murray’s life a misery, the Groundhog could host an underground version of Grand Designs: their burrows are so complex that they have multiple rooms and even a designated bathroom chamber.
Gnome

## Ability

### Ability

**You've Been Gnomed****(Draw)** If your deck contains Elf, your cards in hand gain +19 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Before they made their cultural transition to garden decoration status, **Gnomes** were known as mythological goblin-like creatures, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and soon adopted into fantasy literature. Back then, they were said to be the nocturnal protectors of the Earth and were depicted as little old men who lived underground, guarding the land and their stash of buried treasure.

By 1872, they made it to the surface and became good-luck charms in Germany for farmers who believed gnome statues could help their fields yield more produce and keep pests away. Clearly, that belief is still going strong, as there are an estimated 25 million gnomes in gardens across the country. Well, you know what they say: go big or go gnome.
Giant Squid

## Ability

### Ability

**Spineless Trap****(Draw)** A random card in your hand **Lock**s this round and your cards in hand gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When this card was suggested I thought it was a made-up thing, probably owing to some movie based on Jules Verne that I watched as a kid.

But no, the **Giant Squid** is real, and it's big - the largest (known) invertebrate on earth in fact - with one specimen recorded at 59 feet in length, weighing nearly a ton.

In December 2005, the Melbourne Aquarium in Australia bought an intact body of a 23ft (7 meter) Giant Squid, preserved in a block of ice. The price? AUS $ 100,000 (around $75,000 USD). And that's before buying the freezer.
Great White Pelican

## Ability

### Ability

**Pelican Brief****(Draw)** Gain +2 Energy. **(Return)** Your Brown Pelican and Pelecanimimus cards, wherever they are, cost -4 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

With a wingspan second only to the Great Albatross, the **Great White Pelican** is a bird to be reckoned with. It will typically eat around 1.4kg of fish every day, meaning that the largest colony (around 75,000 pelicans in Tanzania) gets through about 33,000 tonnes of fish per year.

And that’s not all they’ll eat. If fish are hard to come by, Great White Pelicans will tuck into turtles, crustaceans, and the eggs and chicks of other birds. They have even been known to eat grown seagulls, which they achieve by holding them underwater to drown first. Nice.

And what have the Pelicans of St James Park in London taken to eating?

Pigeons, of course.
Glass Frog

## Ability

### Ability

**Transparency****(Return)** Your Amphibians cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The **Glass Frog** is so named because of its translucent skin, and I know it's basic to start with the most obvious fact about a creature but it really is remarkable - you can see the creature's internal organs working away through it!

As you might expect it's a form of camouflage; having translucent skin allows the frog to blend into the leaves it resides on (it's an arboreal creature, meaning it lives mostly in trees). It looks for all the world like a... pile of organs on a leaf, I guess? I mean, I don't fancy eating that so it must work.
Guy Fawkes

## Ability

### Ability

**... Treason...****(Play)** Your The Houses of Parliament card in hand gains +25 Power this turn. **(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand **Burn**s (20) until played.

## Did You Know?

**Guy Fawkes** is still known as one of Britain’s most infamous villains, which is pretty OTT considering he didn't murder anyone and his attempt to blow up Parliament failed. Over the top, we have gone on to collectively celebrate his death for more than 400 years!

Most of you will be familiar with this tale but, for those who aren't, the Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt by Fawkes and 12 other conspirators to blow up Parliament along with the King of the day, James I, using barrels of gunpowder smuggled into the cellar. A search was conducted after a tip-off and shortly after midnight on 5 November 1605 **Fawkes** was found and arrested while attempting to leave the location. The search team led by Sir Thomas Knyvet went on to discover the barrels of gunpowder buried under firewood.

It was a simple mistake that led to the plot's failure. Concerned for fellow Catholics, conspirators had warned Lord Monteagle against attending Parliament. Monteagle showed the letter to the King who ordered increased security and searches of the premises. Proving once again, if you're a baddie, you should never share your plans!

Poor **Fawkes**, who wasn't even the leader of the group, paid a high price for his treason; tortured to obtain a confession then hanged, drawn and quartered and, to add insult to injury, his effigies are still burned every year on 5 November.

Time and politics have moved on and many people now view his legacy more sympathetically. Noted Professor of History, James Sharp, said that **Fawkes** was "the last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions".

One last thing; the **Guy Fawkes** mask used in V for Vendetta and adopted by Anonymous (the hacker collective) is copyrighted, meaning Warner Bros get a significant cut of every mask sale - cha-ching! We have not reached out to Alan Moore for comment, and even if we did, we suspect the answer would be a no.
Glühwein

## Ability

### Ability

**Mull It Over****(Start)** Your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, gain +4 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Glühwein** is the German name for mulled wine, a warm festive drink found at Christmas markets that blends heated red wine with cinnamon, cloves, star aniseed, orange, sugar and vanilla pods.

Despite the name and its popularity in the country, Glühwein doesn’t have its origins in Germany. It was the Romans who were the first to make mulled wine to use up any extra wine they had that was going off.

Nevertheless, the Germans have been honing their mulled wine recipe for centuries: the oldest record of Glühwein in Germany is attributed to Count John IV of Katzenelnbogen, a German nobleman who was the first grower of Riesling grapes. Count John IV’s silver mug, specially designed for drinking mulled wine, dates back to 1420!

## Playing Notes

**Glühwein** is a hold card so keep it in your deck as long as possible and only use it round 5, turn 3 or use it as a last ditch effort.

You can use Century Egg as also another hold card but this makes for a high risk high reward gameplay, if you do manage to make it to the late game. You can use both of them with another powerful Curious Cuisine card (I.E Sunday Roast) you will easily deal 800+ damage.

### Is this a good card to use?

Yes, It definitely is!

It might not be versatile but, for the late game where it probably has 300+ power it can pack some serious punch.

Sure, you lose 1 card of cycle, Which means you can only cycle 4 cards but that power boost overtime coming in is way too good to be ignored.

Overall, it is just a great hold/buff card which will benefit you in the late game.
Hellhound

## Ability

### Ability

**Servant of Hell****(Return)** If your deck has exactly 3 Greek Mythology cards, your Dogs cards, wherever they are, gain +27 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

They say there’s no such thing as bad dogs, just bad owners. Case in point: the **Hellhound**. Given that this dog’s owner is literally Satan, its chances of becoming a loveable lap dog were non-existent.

Stories of hellhounds from the underworld have been circulating for centuries - from Cerberus in Greek Mythology to the Black Dogs of English folklore. In Belgium, sightings of a demonic dog with red eyes were reported in Flanders in the 18th century, while stories from Lower Brittany talk of a ghost ship crewed by the souls of criminals endlessly tortured by a pack of hellhounds. The creature even inspired the character design for Houndour and Houndoom.

By now, you’ve got the gist: if you see this doggo, back away. Your boops and pats are no good here.
Hans Holbein the Younger

## Ability

### Ability

**Homage to Henry****(Draw)** Your Henry VIII card, wherever it is, costs -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Renaissance painter, draftsman, and designer, **Hans Holbein the Younger** is best known for his famous paintings of the Tudor Court. It’s through his eyes that we see Henry VIII – however, in absence of Instagram filters, Hans kindly depicted the King to be more imposing, young and healthy. Born in Augsburg, Germany, the painter was trained by his father Hans Holbein the Elder.

By the time he was in his 20s, Hans Holbein the Younger had established himself as an independent master. Aside from his Tudor portraits, Holbein is famed for his painting ‘The Body of Christ in the Tomb’, for which he is believed to have used a corpse dragged from the Rhine as a model. There’s dedication, and then there’s this…

'Noli me tangere, possibly 1524–26. Oil and tempera on oak, Royal Collection.' by Hans Holbein the Younger (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Grimoire

## Ability

### Ability

**Book of Spells****(Draw)** Your The Occult cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Thinking about a career change into witchcraft? Above the cauldron, black cat and cloak on your shopping list should be a **Grimoire**. Like a textbook for the magically inclined, a Grimoire includes spells, instructions for creating charms and summoning spirits as well as top tips on using crystals, candles and more.****

****The oldest surviving grimoires date back to Ancient Mesopotamia, when people inscribed clay tablets with magical incantations. But you don’t need to go back that far to find useful spells. Some of the most well-known grimoires were penned much later, such as The Magis, the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy, The Grand Grimoire, the Key of Solomon and the relatively new Book of Shadows. Of course, advanced sorcerers could always go rogue and make their own.****
Heaven's Gate

## Did You Know?

Who would have thought that the journey to the gates of heaven would include the world’s longest passenger cableway, a perilous bus-ride and a man-made staircase with 999 daunting steps at an incline of 45 degrees? Okay, so technically they aren’t really the gates of heaven. However, it’s probably as close as you’ll get on Earth.

Set into the limestone of Tian Menchan National Park in the north-western province of Hunan, China, **Heaven’s Gate** is thought to have formed during a cataclysmic event as the back of a huge cave collapsed in 263 AD. The arch on Tianmen Mountain is the highest known instance of this natural phenomenon in the world, sitting at almost 5,000 feet above sea level.
Giraffe

## Ability

### Ability

**Stick Your Neck Out****(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card loses -50 Power permanently and if you won the turn, this card gains +15 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

**Giraffes** are the tallest animals on Earth. A record-breaking Masai bull called George stood 5.8m - That's meter taller than a double-decker bus, or 32 average-sized bananas stacked on top of each other.

You probably know quite a bit about **Giraffes** already so here are some things you may not know. Both the male and female **Giraffes** have two distinct, fur-covered horns called ossicones. These are used for asserting dominance and resolving petty squabbles with other **Giraffes** particularly during mating season.

Amazingly, they only need around 30 minutes sleep over a 24hr period; the shortest sleep time of any mammal. Its sleep is generally made up of power-naps lasting as little as two minutes. These short naps give it one of the few advantages it has over predators, as it can stay continuously alert. Another reason for these short sleeps is because giant long bodies require a lot of calories and **Giraffes** have to spend 16 to 20 hours actively feeding.

**Giraffes**, like cows and sheep, are ruminants and have a set of stomachs that digests their diet of leaves. When they aren't actively feeding they are generally chewing cud, partly digested leaves returned from the first stomach.
Galapagos Tortoises

## Ability

### Ability

**Darwin’s Pet****(Draw)** If your deck has 6 or more Life on Land cards, your Science cards, wherever they are, gain +13 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Weighing over 900 pounds (400 kg) and living more than 100 years, the **Galápagos Tortoise** is the largest turtle alive on the planet today. Even more importantly, they have evolved slight differences in the shell shape, so Charles Darwin could see that those living on the wetter Galápagos Islands had the normal round shape, while those living on drier islands had a high saddle-shaped peak on the front of the shell, so their necks could reach higher and obtain food during droughts.

The differences are so striking that many people could tell which island a particular tortoise came from. The only explanation that made sense to Darwin, and to scientists today, is that they must have evolved from a common ancestor about 5 million years ago, then began to diverge in genes and in shape as they adapted to the conditions of their local environment. Today, they are considered one of the first great examples of evolution in action.

Learn more at donaldprothero.com.

Donald Prothero has taught college geology and paleontology for 35 years at Caltech, Columbia among others. He earned his B.A. in geology and biology from the University of California Riverside in 1976, and his M.A. (1978), M.Phil. (1979), and Ph.D. (1982) in geological sciences from Columbia University.

He is the author of over 40 books and over 300 scientific papers, mostly on the evolution of fossil mammals (especially rhinos, camels, and horses) and on using the earth's magnetic field changes to date fossil-bearing strata. He has also been on the editorial boards of journals such as Geology, Paleobiology, Journal of Paleontology, and Skeptic magazine.

In 2015 he received the Joseph T. Gregory Award for service to vertebrate paleontology and in 2016, he received the "Friend of Darwin" award from the National Center for Science Education.

He has been featured on numerous TV documentaries, including Paleoworld, Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, Prehistoric Monsters Revealed, Monsterquest, Prehistoric Predators: Entelodon and Hyaenodon, Conspiracy Road Trip: Creationism, as well as Jeopardy!
HMS Revenge (06)

## Ability

### Ability

**Emerged Unscathed****(Return)** If you are losing the round, your Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

**HMS Revenge (06)** made her big debut in World War I, joining the Grand Fleet for the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. A Royal Navy battleship, Revenge lived up to her name, damaging two German cruisers and emerging from the battle unscathed.

Measuring 620 feet and 7 inches in length, this behemoth of a battleship was twice the size of Big Ben and came equipped with eight breech-loading 15-inch Mk I guns in four twin gun turrets. Later, she was fitted with anti-torpedo bulges and flying-off platforms from which fighters and reconnaissance aircraft could launch.

By the time World War II rolled around, Revenge formed part of the Channel Fleet based at Portland. At one point, the merchant ship SS Pakeha was disguised as HMS Revenge to trick German aircraft.
Goseck Circle

## Ability

### Ability

**You're Pointless****(Draw)** Your cards in hand cost -1 Energy until played. **(Return)** Your remaining cards in hand cost +1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

It took well over 6,000 years to be discovered, but in 1991, a season of drought revealed a mysterious circular structure in the farmland near Goseck, Germany.

Captured by archeologist Otto Braasch via aerial photography, the mysterious circle was found to stretch 75 metres across, with two palisade rings containing entrances aligned with sunrise and sunset on winter solstice days and two smaller entrances aligned with the summer solstice. Clearly, this structure was no accident.

One of the best preserved solar observatory structures, the **Goseck Circle** dates back to 4900 B.C and appears to have remained in use until around 4700 B.C. On closer inspection, excavators also found evidence of ancient animal and human bones, indicating burial rituals took place on the site.
Halftone

## Ability

### Ability

**Join the Dots****(Play)** Your Common and Rare Prominent Painters cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Even if you haven’t heard of **Halftone**, you’ve definitely seen it used. In fact, if you dig out a newspaper and look at any of the images through a magnifying glass, you will see that the picture is made up of a collection of dots of various sizes, colours and distances from one another. This printing technique is used to reproduce images and is known in the graphic design world as ‘Halftone’.

Together, the collection of small dots creates an optical illusion of continuous tone. William Henry Fox Talbot, an English scientist, inventor and photography pioneer is credited with the invention of halftone printing, which allows printed images to show shadows and highlights that look like a gradient to the human eye.
Helicoprion

## Ability

### Ability

**Into the Jaws of Defeat!****(Draw)** Your Sharks! cards in hand gain +40 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Oh boy, look at this thing. Look at that JAW.

Now you're reading this let's get one thing out of the way, we've probably click-baited you and it didn't look like this at all. The image on the front was an early interpretation of a fossilised tooth-whorl. While the fossils of Helicoprion indicate that it had a spiral configuration of teeth on its lower jaw, no one can agree on how that could work. Some interpretations have it as a kind of rolling tongue with teeth, others believe that it had a full-on organic buzz saw going on. Understanding the structure's configuration is made significantly more difficult because the rest of the Helicoprion was cartilaginous and no preserved fossil records have yet been discovered leaving the boffins to make educated guesses.
We're just glad it's not around today!
Giorgione

## Ability

### Ability

**Mysterious Artist****(Play)** If your deck has 12 or more Prominent Painters cards, this card gains +60 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Almost nothing is known of his life and only a handful of paintings can be confidently attributed to him, yet **Giorgione** (who’s name means ‘big George’) had a major impact on 16th-century Venetian art.

Born in Castelfranco, Giorgione likely trained as an apprentice under the Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini. At just 23, he was selected to paint portraits (since destroyed) of the Doge Agostino Barbarigo and the condottiere Consalvo Ferrante. Other than that, it’s a bit of a blur.

Part of the problem is that his work is so similar to that of Titian, another great Venetian painter of the time. Plus, since Big George died young, his work became so coveted that bogus attributions began to be made. Today, Giorgione’s life is largely a mystery, as is his work.
Flower Urchin

## Ability

### Ability

**Don't Touch It!****(Play)** Your cards adjacent to this lose -7 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Ageing getting you down? Don’t worry – compared to the **Flower Urchin**, you’re still a baby. These ocean-dwelling organisms are amongst the longest living creatures on the planet, boasting a lifespan between 100-200 years! Found in the shallow bays and coral reefs of the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, the flower urchin should be admired from a distance, as one touch could lead to an extremely painful and medically serious sting.

When they need to get somewhere, flower urchins simply hail a crab, hitching a lift on the back of their carapace. In return, the urchin gives the carrier crab protection from predators. After the journey, both the urchin and the crab will give each other a rating out of five starfish.
Grand Archer Yi

## Ability

### Ability

**Sun Killer****(Play)** Your opponent's Space cards in hand lose -30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

In Chinese mythology, **Grand Archer Yi** was tasked by the mythical King Yao to save the Earth from being scorched by 10 suns. It was a big ask, but who better for the job than God’s gift to archery?

Giving them a fair chance, Yi tried to reason with the suns. When that didn’t work, he aimed and shot each sun out of the sky, sparing only one. It’s just as well he didn’t get carried away!
Halloween Pennant

## Ability

### Ability

**Deceptive Naming****(Play)** Your Fearsome Flyers and Horrible Halloween cards, wherever they are, gain +6 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

With their dark-brown banded orange wings, the **Halloween Pennant** dragonfly was born ready for the spooky season – no costume needed.

These carnivorous insects are native to eastern North America and Canada, spending their days perched on vegetation in wet habitats like ponds, marshes and lakes. Unlike most dragonflies, male Halloween pennants aren’t territorial towards each other at all. They may even perch on twigs and at the edges of ponds together, scouting the premises for potential mates.

When both Halloween pennants proverbially swipe right, the female will lay its eggs on open water with the male still attached at the head. This method is known as exophytic egg-laying. If you thought that was strange, these insects only engage in sexual activity between the hours of 8:00 am and 10:30 am.
Friar Tuck

## Ability

### Ability

**Tuck In!****(Draw)** For every Curious Cuisine card in your deck, up to a maximum of 4, your Merry Men, wherever they are, gain +8 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

One of the legendary Merry Men, **Friar Tuck** is said to come from Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire or Fountaindale in Nottingham. Although he isn't mentioned in the earliest stories, Friar Tuck has become one of the most iconic characters in Robin Hood Lore.

However, he wasn't always the comic relief to the tale that he has been in recent versions. Originally, Friar Tuck was depicted as a physically fit man, a skilled swordsman and archer with a hot-headed temper.

Somewhere along the way, his character evolved to become a fat, bald and jovial monk who loves nothing more than a nice pint of ale. So, apparently, the "fat funny friend who likes food" trope is centuries old.
Goliath Birdeater

## Ability

### Ability

**Arachnophobia****(Play)** Your Green Lynx Spider card in hand gains +50 Power this turn and all Birds cards in both player's hands lose -40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Goliath Birdeater** is the kind of thing Tolkien and Rowling probably had in mind when they created Shelob and Aragog. It’s the largest spider in the world, and - at a foot wide (from toe to toe), with inch-long fangs - it’s an arachnophobe’s nightmare.

If you were bitten by one, you’d likely be fine - the sting would be like that of a wasp. But if you were a mouse, frog or (very occasionally) a bird - the neurotoxin it injects would be enough to render you defenceless while the spider liquefies your insides. Nice.

The **Goliath Birdeater** has an impressive defence system - by rubbing its legs together it creates a cloud of tiny hairs that have stinging barbed tips. This is usually enough to put off a predator…

…but not humans, of course. In some regions of South America, the Goliath Birdeater is a delicacy. Eugh.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

## Ability

### Ability

**Crime and Punishment****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -90 Power until played and this card **Lock**s for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

How fast can you write a novel? For **Fyodor Dostoevsky**, it was 26 days. Sadly, it wasn’t out of choice. Months prior, he agreed to writing a novel to pay off his hefty gambling debts. The contract gave the publisher the rights to all of Dostoevsky’s previously published work for nine years if he failed to write a novel by November 1st.

So, FD set aside his work on ‘Crime and Punishment’ to meet the fast-approaching deadline. The result was the aptly titled ‘The Gambler’, which he finished in just under a month. For the record, that’s still five days slower than Jack Kerouac’s writing of On the Road. But it’s still pretty damn impressive.