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Plotinus

## Ability

### Ability

**One, Intellect and Sole****(Play)** Your Mega Math, Pioneers of Science and Fabulous Fish cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

He was the founder of Neoplatonism and one of the most influential philosophers after Plato and Aristotle. **Plotinus** was born in Lycopolis, Egypt in 204 or 205. At the age of 28, he followed his passion for philosophy and headed to Alexandria to learn from one Ammonius Saccas, a self-taught philosopher who had abandoned his religion for the study of Plato.

Through his studies, Plotinus developed a complex spiritual philosophy involving three elements: The One, the Intelligence and the Soul. In addition to this, Plotinus developed a unique theory about sense perception based on the idea that the mind actively shapes and orders the objects in its perception, rather than passively receiving information.
Pizza

## Ability

### Ability

**Like a Big Pizza Pie****(Draw)** Your Curious Cuisine cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played and your Fangtooth Moray card, wherever it is, gains +50 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The first record of the word “**Pizza**” appeared in 997 AD - but no-one knows what the word was referring to. The earliest flatbread-referred-to-as-pizza was served in Naples around the 1600s, and finally the archetypal Margherita Pizza was *allegedly* created for Queen Margherita in 1889 (although some killjoy researchers with time on their hands have challenged this).

The most popular **Pizza** here at CUE is the controversial Pineapple & Ham. Let us know your favourite on Twitter. :)

The 'art of making pizza' is listed in UNESCO's delightful List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Give it a go with the following recipe...

(Makes 2 10inch pizzas. Maybe.)

355 ml warm water 40°C (105°F-115°F)
2 1/4 teaspoons of dried yeast
480g (3 3/4 cups) bread flour
2 tablespoons of olive oil
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon sugar
1 jar of Pasata to taste or pre-made pizza sauce (to taste)
120g (4 ounces firm mozzarella cheese) grated (shredded)
Thick slices of ham (to taste, or if you're feeling adventurous try bacon)
Diced pineapples (fresh or canned)
Black pepper (to taste)
Fresh Oregano to garnish

Add the dough ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly, then add the oil and knead for 1 minute.

Cover and leave to rest under the upturned bowl in a warm area for 1hr, while you get on with your pizza toppings.

Roll out your dough to the desired size, slap your toppings on it and stick it in the oven. Hey presto, you're done!

## Fusion

 Gulab Jamun | 1
Phaethon

## Ability

### Ability

**Joyride****(Play)** Your The Chariot (VII) card in hand gains +45 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Don’t know about you but if my name meant “The Radiant One”, I might wind up cocky enough to take the sun for a joyride on a chariot too. **Phaeton** son of the sun god Helios, did just that. Believe it or not, this was not a case of Grand Theft Auto: Mount Olympus. In fact, Helios promised Phaeton that he’d grant any wish of his and, of course, his wish was to drive his dad’s car - and by “car,” we mean “sun chariot.”

If you weren’t already aware, Helios was responsible for riding a chariot which pulled the sun across the sky and Phaeton was fairly convinced that this was an easy job and any old loser could pull it off. Well…I think you can see where this is going.

Filled with the kind of confidence that comes from being the child of a god, Phaeton took the reins of those fire-breathing horses that led the chariot. Helios hit mad panic mode and tried to talk his boy out of it but if you’ve just given him the keys to a Ferrari, do you think he’s going back to riding his e-scooter? Nope. The horses instantly panicked, the chariot ran wild and after some scorched earth and a lot of chaos, Zeus eventually stuck Phaeton down with a lightning bolt.
Red Fox

## Ability

### Ability

**Quickly Adapt****(Play)** If you are losing the round, this card gains +60 Power and if you are winning the round, this card loses -20 Power.

## Did You Know?

They can run at a speed of 31 mph, jump to a height of 6 feet and can even swim if they have to. On top of this, they can hear a little mouse squeak from 100 metres away.

Basically, if you’re being chased by a **Red Fox**, you can’t run, and you definitely can’t hide (although of course, unless you’re a small prey animal, you probably don’t need to worry too much).

They may have killer instincts, but red foxes are softies at heart. When they aren’t out hunting, you’ll find them snuggled up with their life partner and caring for their young. That’s right, foxes are monogamous – and should their mate get killed, they’ll refuse to take another. This level of faithfulness is rarely seen in wild animals.
Pato

## Did You Know?

Argentina may be the birthplace of footballing legends Messi and Maradona, but their national sport might surprise you. Known as **Pato** or “duck”, this sport is like a cross between polo and tug of war. The game is played on horseback and involves two teams of four, all battling to get the ball which has six handles and was, in the early days, just a dead bird (hence the name “duck”).

Players score by throwing the ball through a vertical ring. The player who has control of the ball must ride with their arm outstretched to give other players a chance to grab it. What follows is the “cinchada” – the tug between two players holding the ball. That’s bound to stirrup excitement!

'Throwing in for the goal' by Beatrice Murch (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- We're putting another destination into our travelogue, and you won't believe dis entry...
Plesiosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Early Swim****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Paleontology cards in hand gain +15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

You may have found a copy of the mythic Loch Ness Monster card while playing CUE (it might seem impossible to find, but it does happen!) - if Nessie is indeed real, it's likely to be a descendant of the **Plesiosaurus**. This has been determined by scientists humouring people who claim to have seen the beast.

The **Plesiosaurus**, whose name means "almost lizard", lived in the middle-to-late Mesozoic era. It probably shared a lot of behavioural characteristics of turtles - it would have come ashore to lay its eggs and buried them in the sand to hide them from predators.
Plutonium

## Ability

### Ability

**Extreme Caution****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands **Burn** (5) until this is returned to your deck. **(Play)** Your cards adjacent to this gain +20 Power this turn. **(Return)** The card opposite this loses -5 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

It’s one of the most exotic metals in the periodic table, but because of its potential, the discovery of **Plutonium** was kept a secret until after World War II. It may not be a good conductor of electricity or heat, but all of the more common isotopes of plutonium are “fissionable” - meaning the atom’s nucleus can be easily split apart if struck by a neutron. That makes it particularly useful in nuclear weapons - hence the war thing.

Not *all* Plutonium isotopes are used for big scary bombs, though - in fact, Plutonium-238 is commonly used to power batteries for heart pacemakers, as well as providing a long-lived heat source to power NASA space missions. Plutonium was deliberately given the intentionally puerile symbol ‘Pu’, rather than ‘Pl’, because of its memorability.
Portrait of a Young Man

## Ability

### Ability

**Lost to History****(Return)** All remaining History cards in both player's hands cost -1 Energy for 3 turns and all remaining Arts & Culture cards in both player's hands lose -15 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

During World War II, the Nazis looted over 516,000 individual pieces of art, at an estimated total value of 20 billion dollars. One of the greatest losses was the **Portrait of a Young Man**, an oil painting by Raphael, which was taken from the aristocratic Czartoryski family in Kraków, Poland in 1939.

If you do go looking for the painting, here are a couple of tips to get you started: although the painting’s location is unknown, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that it fully believes the artwork is stolen and not lost. Also, the rumours of its rediscovery in a bank vault 2012 are false. If you locate the painting, the National Museum of Krakow will reward you 100 million US dollars.
Quantum Immortality

## Ability

### Ability

**Idealized Circumstances****(Play)** If your deck contains Schrödinger's Cat and if played next to Quantum Theory, your Philosophy cards in hand gain +23 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

What if a person's consciousness could survive death and continue to exist in some form in the quantum realm? Before you get too excited about **Quantum Immortality**, it’s worth noting that there is no scientific proof that it’s possible. For now, it’s purely speculation.

But humor us for a second: if we die in this life, instead of eternal nothingness / heavenly paradise / reincarnation (delete as necessary), our consciousness would transfer to a universe where we narrowly escaped death. This idea is based on the concept of superposition, which states that subatomic particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously.

Brain melting from all that? Don’t worry, you’ll just awaken in another universe in which your brain survived the science overload.
Pieter Aertsen

## Ability

### Ability

**Lange Piet****(Return)** Your remaining Curious Cuisine cards in hand gain +14 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

He was known as “Lange Piet” to his friends, but **Pieter Aertsen** wasn’t just big in height - he was also massive in the art world. His style of combining still life and genre painting was so influential that it inspired Flemish Baroque painting, Dutch still life painting and even Italian art.

Aertsen is also credited with being one of the first artists to paint “inverted still lifes,” in which the still life elements sit in the foreground and the narrative elements are relegated to the background.

If you’re a vegetarian, we recommend steering clear of his famous ‘<link="https:>Meat Stall</link>’ painting. At first glance, it’s a shocking display of dead animals - but on closer inspection, this masterpiece is a biting commentary on the hypocrisy of churchgoers. Still, not one for the dining room.
Pyrite

## Ability

### Ability

**Fool's Errand****(Return)** If you won the turn, this card gains +1 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

"But wait CUE", I hear you shout at your screen. "don't you already have a Gold card? Why would you release a second card about Gold, the substance that definitely is on the front of this card?"

Well it appears you've been exposed as a mineralogical impostor! You see, that's not Gold - it's **Pyrite**, which looks an awful lot like gold, but isn't.

You may know it by its nickname, "Fool's Gold", although you would not necessarily be a fool for mining it. Even though it has a lower hardness and purity to gold, it's not uncommon to find traces of gold among Pyrite deposits
Pika

## Ability

### Ability

**...CHUUUUUUU!****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -7 Power permanently and this card gains +35 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Found in Asia and North America, the **Pika** is a rabbit-like animal which holds the obscure record of being the *highest*-dwelling mammal in the world (the Himalayan Large-Eared Pika, since you ask).

The Chinese government has had an extermination programme in place since 1958, as Pikas are considered a pest, damaging natural grassland. Research now suggests that Pika are a keystone species for biodiversity - so perhaps it’s a good thing the extermination effort wasn’t very successful.

While you can see the resemblance, the Pika is quite different from the Pokemon it inspired. Lacking any kind of lightning attack (I know, disappointing, right?), it prefers instead to run, hide and shout when under threat.
Piet Mondrian

## Ability

### Ability

**Primary Colours****(Return)** If your deck has 6 or more History cards, your Gorgeous Graphic Design cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played. Repeat for Oceans cards and Arts & Culture.

## Did You Know?

Famous for his abstract art, painter **Piet Mondrian** founded the De Stijl (meaning “The Style”) magazine in 1917 alongside Theo van Doesburg. This publication was synonymous with Neoplasticism – a movement that celebrated the use of primary colours, basic forms, shape and composition. Perhaps you’ll recognise Piet Mondrian’s art from the Yves Saint Laurent cocktail dress that made for Vogue magazine’s most iconic cover.

However, if you’re looking for an easy way to remember Piet Mondrian’s painting style, the clue is in his name, which can be rearranged to spell “I Paint Modern”. This anagram is no accident. Like his forms, Mondrian simplified his name from Pieter Cornelius Mondriaan to ‘Piet Mondrian’, distancing himself from his Dutch roots.
Pioneering Spirit

## Ability

### Ability

**Oil Be There For You****(Play)** Your Offshore Oil Platform card in hand gains +70 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Pioneering Spirit is the largest construction vessel in the world. It was built in 2014 and sails under a Maltese flag.

You can tell just by looking at it that it's a chunky piece of machinery (check out that tiny helicopter pad in the top right of the picture on the other side!), but here are some specifics;

324 metres long
124 metres wide
48,000-tonne capacity
Accomodation for 571 crew members

It's used for transporting oil platforms and, since 2017, laying oil pipelines. It was designed by Allseas Group in Switzerland, who have committed to building an even larger version called the Amazing Grace, due for delivery in 2022. We'll keep an eye out, might have to make a card for that too!

'Pioneering Spirit' by kees torn (Source: Flickr) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)

## Fusion

 USS Constitution | 3
Paul Bunyan

## Ability

### Ability

**Lumbering Lumberjack****(Draw)** For every Tremendous Trees card played this game, up to a maximum of 35, this card gains +10 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you’re a tree, **Paul Bunyan** is the stuff of nightmares. American tradition says this giant lumberjack cleared the forests from the northeastern United States to the Pacific Ocean. Of course, this is just a story, but since trees can’t run or hide, it’s a pretty terrifying image for them.

Since Paul Bunyan was a giant, he was always hungry. As a child, his parents needed 10 cows to supply milk for his meals. Before long, he was eating 50 eggs and 10 containers of potatoes every day.

On one occasion, Paul rolled over in his sleep, and the sheer weight of his body caused an earthquake. Often depicted with his companion, Babe the Blue Ox, Paul Bunyan can be seen in statue form in several sites across North America.

 *by Dennis Jarvis (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)*
Parasaurolophus

## Ability

### Ability

**Simply the Crest****(Play)** Your Tupuxuara card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Yeah - that big weird crest thing on its head? That's almost certainly a trumpet. Or a clarinet. Or more accurately - and obscurely - a European Crumhorn. The point is, they could make some very loud, distinctive calls to communicate with the rest of the herd. It's also believed they could switch between running on four legs to running on two.

For Star Trek fans only: The race of Voths found in Star Trek: Voyager were supposedly descendants of the **Parasaurolophus**.
Pixel Art

## Ability

### Ability

**Sprite-ly****(Draw)** If your deck has 6 or more Arts & Culture cards, your Ingenious Inventions cards, wherever they are, gain +11 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Way back at the dawn of the first video games, developers weren’t able to render highly detailed graphics. So, visual animations were made solely out of little blocks of colour known as pixels. Creating iconic characters like Pac-Man while confined to a grid made up of tiny square blocks and a limited colour palette was certainly a challenge – however, in the process, a whole new art style was created.

The term **Pixel Art** was first published in 1982 and would continue to be the mainstay for game animations throughout the 80s. With the rise of 3D graphics in games, pixel art became less prevalent over the decades until it finally earned its place in the game designers’ arsenal as a way to create nostalgia.
Portuguese Man O' War

## Did You Know?

Anyone unfamiliar with the biology of the venomous **Portuguese Man 'o War** would likely mistake it for a jellyfish. Not only is it not actually a jellyfish, but it isn’t even an 'it'; it’s a ‘they’. They're a siphonophore, which is an animal made up of a colony of organisms working together. Teamwork makes the dream work right?

The **Man 'o War** comprises four separate polyps. Why does it have such a bizarre name? Well, It gets its name from the uppermost polyp, a gas-filled bladder (nice) which sits above the water and somewhat resembles an old warship at full sail. **Man 'o Wars** are also known as bluebottles for the purple-blue colour these bladders!

The tentacles are the **Man 'o War's** second organism. These long, thin tendrils can extend 165 feet in length below the surface, although 30 feet is the average. They are covered in venom-filled nematocysts used to paralyze and kill fish and other small creatures.

For humans, a **Man 'o War** sting is, to put it mildly, excruciatingly painful. It's rarely deadly, but if you're stung by one, expect extreme paint, swelling, welts and possibly blisters. Also, word to the wise - even dead **Man 'o Wars** can deliver a hefty sting.

## Trivia

* This card is obtained from the Oceans Level Up Pack in Master Journeyman level.
Richard Worley

## Ability

### Ability

**Eight Man Crew****(Draw)** If your deck has exactly 8 Plundering Pirates cards, your Plundering Pirates cards, wherever they are, gain +8 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

A mere 6 months after **Richard Worley** committed his first act of piracy, he and his crew were captured and executed. If his pirate career could be summed up in one phrase, it would be “here for a good time, not for a long time.”

But before he was a pirate, Richard was a sailor on a privateer ship in the Atlantic during Queen Anne’s War. However, seeing the riches that pirates Edward ‘Blackbeard’ Teach and Stede Bonnet were making at the time, Worley quickly followed suit. Equipped with a ship complete with a crew, he embarked on several successful missions - he was even part of the crew led by Charles Vane that broke the blockade of Nassau. Unfortunately, this earned Worley a reputation that would ultimately be his downfall.
Pegomastax

## Ability

### Ability

**Strong Jaw****(Return)** Your remaining Herbivores cards in hand gain +24 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Who knew that some of the first dinosaurs to spread across the earth looked like parrots and weighed less than a housecat? Hardly a fearsome beast, the **Pegomastax** was a genus of heterodontosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic of South Africa.

Judging by the fossil remains of the only known specimen found, the Pegomastax had a small parrot-shaped beak, a pair of sharp canines and tall teeth tucked behind for slicing up plants like scissors of the mouth. It measures less than 2 feet in length and was covered in bristles; its skull only measured 3 inches and was adapted to plucking fruit. In short, Pegomastax africanus was the kind of dinosaur that simply wouldn’t require the excellent herding skills of Chris Pratt.

'An artistic reconstruction of Pegomastax africana' by Todd Marshall (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Polygraph

## Ability

### Ability

**Call Your Bluff****(Return)** If you won the turn, your remaining cards in hand gain +42 Power until played and if you lost the turn, your remaining cards in hand cost +2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Invented in 1906 by cardiologist Sir James McKenzie, **Polygraph** testing is nothing like what Hollywood movies makes it out to be. Testing actually takes hours and can only start after the test has been specifically designed and structured for the subject.

Most of us know the Polygraph as the lie detector test; a device that measures blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and skin conductivity to deduce whether or not a person is telling the truth. But they have another use: to tell whether or not sharks are about to leap out from the ocean and terrorise the beaches.

ou might think that’s a total lie – and hey, maybe it is, but unless you have a polygraph to hand for us to take, you can’t prove anything.
Placodus

## Ability

### Ability

**Placate****(Return)** If you won the turn, your opponent gains +14 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

Think Godzilla, but smaller, stockier and more docile: this is the **Placodus**, a marine reptile that lived during the Triassic period, about 240 million years ago. From snout to tail, this ancient beast measured about six feet on average. Its name ‘Placodus’ means ‘flat tooth’ because its teeth were indeed flat – making them perfect for crunching shellfish.

Running down the middle of its back was a row of small bony plates, a physical trait that palaeontologists suspect was used to break up its shape as a form of camouflage, or perhaps to impress potential mates and intimidate rivals.

Placodus could have probably hauled its body onto dry land and clumsily walked around but destroying cities Godzilla-style was definitely way above its paygrade.
Pixie

## Ability

### Ability

**Little Fairy****(Play)** Your cards, wherever they are, with 1 or less Base Energy gain +1 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Like Chihuahuas, **Pixies** are small and cute in theory but quite annoying in practice. Depicted in folklore as a tiny elf-like creature or fairy dressed in green, a pixie’s favourite pastimes include leading travellers off their path, frightening young maidens and dancing to the sounds of crickets deep in the woods where they live. In short, they just love a bit of mischief.

According to old English folklore, pixies and fairies are said to have had a fight at Buckland St. Mary in Somerset. Here, the pixies were victorious and chased the fairies away. Legend has it that the pixies frequent the area to this day - so if you’re visiting, don't ask directions from anyone with wings.
Poison Dart Frog

## Did You Know?

Poison Dart Frogs belong to the family Dendrobatidae. They got their name because Native Americans used their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blow darts.

Although there are over 170 different species of Poison Dart Frog, only 4 were actually used for Poison Darts - but "Mostly Non-Weaponised Frogs" doesn't sound as impressive.
Power of 0

## Ability

### Ability

**There's Always One****(Draw)** Your opponent's cards in hand with 50 or more Base Power lose -49 Power and cost -1 Energy for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

The **Power of 0** is a mathematical rule that says any number raised to the power of 0 equals 1. So, what is zero to the zero power? Surely, no matter how many times you multiply nothing by nothing, you still have nothing?

On the other hand, any number raised to the power of 0 is 1. Sorry to disappoint, but mathematicians can’t settle it either: zero to the zero power can either be 1, or “undefined, depending on the context.
Retinal Projection

## Ability

### Ability

**Heads Up****(Play)** If you have played any Brilliant Human Body card this game, your Ingenious Inventions cards in hand gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Who needs screens when you can project light directly into your retinas? Sure, it sounds like a fast track to blindness, but the reality is that photons bounce off objects and into our retinas every day - it’s how we’re able to see. The futuristic technology that is **Retinal Projection** simply uses this natural process to project virtual experiences.

Current VR headsets use special lenses to adjust the visual distance of small screens placed near the eyes, while Retinal Projection would allow us to see virtual landscapes without all the hardware. And if you’re worried about the psychological implications of blurring the real with the virtual, rest assured that creating indistinguishable photo-realistic copies of reality is many years out. In other words, that’s a problem for future us!
Pearl

## Ability

### Ability

**Iridescence****(Return)** Your Light Bulb and Speed of Light cards, wherever they are, gain +35 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The only gemstone to come from a living creature, Pearl is made by marine oysters and freshwater mussels as a natural defence against damage to their fragile bodies. It is their soft, iridescent appearance and their scarcity that makes real pearls so valuable - on average, less than 1 in every 10,000 wild oysters contains pearls.

The world’s most expensive pearl is valued at $100 million – and with good reason. It’s the largest pearl ever known to exist, measuring 26 inches in length. For almost a decade, it was kept under the bed of its owner as a good luck charm. When the house burned down, the pearl was found by a fisherman off the coast of the Philippines.
Puss Caterpillar

## Did You Know?

We at CUE are not the sort to make jokes about the **Puss Caterpillar** looking like Donald Trump’s hair. We are above that. We would prefer instead to suggest you google ‘Trumpillar’, and move on.

On the plus side, this resemblance may give you pause before you decide to stroke one of these creatures - because really, you do *not* want to touch one. The **Puss Caterpillar** is the most venomous caterpillar in the US, and contact from one of its spines (that sit just beneath that ‘toupee’) will hurt like an extremely vicious bee sting.

If you *do* touch one, then the best course of action is to apply sellotape to the affected area and pull it off, to ensure that no spines remain on/in the skin.
Reforestation

## Ability

### Ability

**The Seeds of Victory****(Draw)** Your Slash-and-'''Burn''' card, wherever it is, loses -63 Power and costs -7 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Can planting billions of trees save the planet? That’s the hope fuelling **Reforestation** projects, the process of planting trees in a forest where the number of trees has been decreasing. By absorbing carbon dioxide, forests help to lower the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and reduce the effects of climate change.

Planting trees is expensive, and you’ve got to make sure you’re planting the right trees so as to not upset the ecosystem. However, the advantages far outweigh the drawbacks. A less well-known advantage of reforestation, for example, is that it can help to prevent landslides. When trees mature, the roots can stabilise the soil and reduce the risk of it collapsing after heavy rain.
Pentagram

## Ability

### Ability

**Five Points****(Draw)** Your cards in hand gain +5 Power until played and your opponent's cards in hand lose -5 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A five point star can conjure images of cloven hooves, evil demons and Satan himself. But, at its core, the **Pentagram **is not a sign of evil. In fact, its origins lie in ancient Sumerian, where the symbol was used to represent the human physical body.****

****Later, occult groups like the Golden Dawn held that the point-up pentagram symbolised the rulership of Spirit over the physical elements, and the upright pentagram was used in rituals to drive away evil and other unwanted energy.****

****But it was 20th century Hollywood that propagated the pentagram as a symbol of Satan-worshipping. Although the Church of Satan uses the upside down pentagram with a goat head as their official symbol, they aren’t actually devil worshippers - just atheists.****
Piñata

## Ability

### Ability

**A Fair Whack****(Start)** If you have won 1 round this game, your other cards in hand gain +5 Power until played and this card loses -5 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Compared to the **Piñata**, the donkey who gets its tail pinned to its body by blindfolded children has it easy. Meanwhile, guests take turns to swing a stick at the Piñata, a paper-mâché container that is decorated and filled with candy, in order to break it open and enjoy its tasty innards.

The original piñata has seven points to symbolise the seven deadly sins: envy, sloth, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and pride. The treats falling from the broken piñata are meant to represent God's blessings. However, the more traditional design takes the shape of yet another donkey (honestly, kids seem to have a vendetta against the creatures).

Although they’re a staple of Mexican culture, it’s thought that Piñatas originated in Italy during the Renaissance.
Potoo

## Ability

### Ability

**... I say Potoo****(Play)** Your Potto card in hand gains +39 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Beloved by the internet for its goofy looks and insanely huge mouth, there’s more to the **Potoo** than meets the eye. Officially known as nyctibiids, this group of nocturnal, big-eyed birds are masters of disguise when they want to be. Their cryptically coloured brown plumage makes them look like part of a branch at first glance, which is ideal for hiding from predators.

When they’re not playing defence, the common Potoo sings a distinctive, haunting song at night composed of whistled notes that drop down in scale. According to Brazilian folklore, the Potoo’s cries symbolise a sad lament from the reincarnation of a pair of lovers who were separated, or a lost child calling for their mother.
Potto

## Ability

### Ability

**You say Potto...****(Play)** Your Potoo card in hand gains +39 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Potto** is the only species in the genus Perodicticus. It spends its days resting and nursing the young, but when night falls, it takes to the rainforest to source food and potential mates. This slow-moving tropical African primate is a small tree dweller who lives in the rainforests of Sierra Leone. Apparently, the natives told foreigners in Sierra Leone, “softly softly catchy monkey”, meaning that the Potto, nicknamed the “softly softly”, the “bush bear” or the “tree bear” catches and kills monkeys since it’s carnivorous. The foreigners, never having heard of the softly softly bit, seized on the phrase to mean something clever. Whether or not this really happened, it’s the closest thing we have to an origin of the phrase!
Pismis 24-1

## Ability

### Ability

**Stars of the Show****(Draw)** Your non-Space cards with "Star" in their name, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Pismis 24-1** is the brightest star of the open cluster Pismis 24, sitting in the emission nebula NGC 6357, about 6,500 light-years away. At one time, Pismis 24-1 was thought to have an incredible mass of 200 to 300 solar masses. Were this the case, it would have been without a doubt the most massive star in the Milky Way.

Alas, New NASA/ESA Hubble measurements of the star revealed that Pismis 24-1 is actually part of a multiple star system comprising at least three objects. Still, each of these would still remain near 100 solar masses, making them some of the most massive stars known. Here’s where it gets crazy: for every star with 65 solar masses that is born, another 18,000 solar-mass stars are produced!
Raccoon

## Ability

### Ability

**Rocket Powered****(Play)** If you have played Radical Rockets this game, your Life on Land cards in hand gain +34 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The common **Raccoon** may have a reputation as a trash panda, but there’s more to this mammal than inner-city bin-foraging. In fact, one raccoon even lived in the White House as Calvin Coolidge’s pet for part of his presidency! Her name was Rebecca, and she accompanied the president on walks around the building.

Long before we even had cities, raccoons roamed the Earth – we’re talking 40,000 years ago! These creatures have some of the most dextrous and sensitive hands in nature. Just like our tongues have taste buds, Raccoons’ hands have a bunch of nerves that send information to their brain. Native Americans were the first to notice their unusual paws and gave them the name “aroughcun”, which means “animal that scratches with its hands.”
Rangoli

## Ability

### Ability

**Welcome Luck****(Draw)** If it's the first or last turn of a round, gain +40 Power/Turn this turn.

## Did You Know?

Designed to welcome the Hindi Goddess Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth and good luck) into the home, **Rangoli** is a sacred Hindu art form passed down through generations. The vivid colors used to create these symbols are deliberate - in fact, the word Rangoli comes from the Sanskrit word ‘rangavalii’, which means showing your happiness through various patterns and colours.

Often made on special occasions like Diwali, Rangoli patterns can take different forms depending on the occasion, but are always made at daybreak before sunrise. Beyond their beauty, they also have a function, representing a harmonious coexistence between all creatures. Patterns are made with rice powder to make food accessible for ants, while some Rangoli are designed to attract birds to the garden (sorry, ants).
Recycling

## Ability

### Ability

**Waste Not, Want Not****(Draw)** Your Pacific Trash Vortex card, wherever it is, loses -82 Power and costs -9 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The basic principle behind **Recycling** is simple: by using materials that already exist to make new products, we reduce the need for new products to be made. In turn, we bring down our greenhouse gas emissions by lowering our energy consumption. Did you know that 80% of what ends up in waste disposal could be recycled? It may not be enough to save the planet, but it can definitely make an impact.

For example, the energy saved from recycling just one single aluminium drinks can is enough to power a television for three hours. While we still have a long way to go in changing our behaviours, the glass recycling level in the UK currently saves enough energy to launch 10 space shuttle missions.
Polaris

## Did You Know?

If you're up visiting Santa at the North Pole, and you look straight up in the sky, the star above you is Polaris - otherwise known as the Pole Star or the North Star. It's not the brightest star in the sky, but it's probably the most important for humans as it has helped people navigate for centuries - wherever you are, if you can find this star in the sky then you have found due North.

## Trivia

* This card is available on Christmas specials.
Proclamation of Rebellion

## Ability

### Ability

**Open and Avowed Rebellion****(Play)** If you have lost 1 or more rounds this game, your History cards in hand gain +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

In a final attempt to stop war between the British and the Thirteen Colonies in America, the Second Continental Congress signed the “Olive Branch Petition”. That should have settled it, but King George III wasn’t prepared to make any concessions. In fact, he didn’t even read the petition. Instead, he responded with the **Proclamation of Rebellion**, which declared the colonies to be in a state of rebellion and called for revolutionary leaders to be called to justice.

Given that this document literally transformed loyal subjects into traitorous rebels, it’s not really surprising that delegates of Congress started to rethink their allegiance to the king. In lieu of these events, the movement towards independence became a reality, resulting in America’s Declaration of Independence on the 4th of July 1776.
Prosthetics

## Ability

### Ability

**Out on a Limb****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, this card gains +40 Power.

## Did You Know?

**Prosthetic** is a Greek word which, when translated to the English language, literally means ‘addition’. In medicine, a prosthesis or prothetic implant is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or a condition present at birth. Prostheses are intended to restore the normal functions of the missing body part.

Most prosthetics are constructed with lightweight carbon fibre, aluminium and titanium components, so they are extremely light and useable. The average prosthetic lasts three to five years and all prosthetics are custom-made to each individual patient, taking several factors into consideration such as health, lifestyle, age and weight.

The oldest known prosthetic was found in Cairo, Egypt in 2000 - it was estimated that the wood and leather prosthetic toe was nearly 3000 years old!

The most famous Ancient Roman with a documented prosthesis was General Marcus Sergius. He lost his right hand in the Second Punic War and was given a prosthesis made from iron that allowed him to properly hold his shield and keep fighting. The loss of his hand occurred very early in his military career, but it didn’t stop him from escaping both times when he was later captured *twice* by Hannibal.
Radioactivity

## Ability

### Ability

**Radiate Brilliance****(Return)** Your Marie Curie card, wherever it is, costs -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

**Radioactivity** is a process of decay by which a nucleus of an unstable atom loses energy by discharging particles of ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation is essentially radiation with enough energy to remove electrons from the orbit of an atom, causing them to become ionized. As the nucleus (the centre of an atom consisting of protons and neutrons) disintegrates it emits a charged particle that is capable of penetrating solid materials.

Radiation was first discovered by mistake in 1896 by Henri Becquerel who was attempting to use fluorescent minerals to study x-rays. After exposing uranium to the sunlight, he placed it on to photographic plates wrapped in black paper, erroneously believing that uranium absorbed the sun’s energy. After one of his experiments failed due to poor Parisian weather and a distinct lack of sunshine, he decided to develop the photographic plates anyway. The images came out bold and clear, proving that uranium radiated without an external energy source (the sun).
Pixiu

## Ability

### Ability

**Expensive Tastes****(Draw)** If your deck has 5 or more Hidden Gems cards, this card gains +70 Power permanently and your Hidden Gems cards, wherever they are, lose -10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

In Chinese mythology, the **Pixiu** is an ancient creature with a dragon’s head, a horse’s body and the overall form of a lion. Their whole MO is to aid and protect their masters’ wealth, and according to the Chinese zodiac, they are especially helpful for those who are going through a bad year.

However, the story behind the Pixiu is fairly odd as far as mythology goes. Apparently, this creature defecated on the floor of Heaven (not a great start.) As a punishment, the Jade Emperor spanked the Pixiu hard enough that it caused its anus to seal up permanently. The Jade Emperor further declared that the diet of the Pixiu would be restricted to gold, silver, and jewels, which they would regurgitate into the hands of their masters. Thanks, I guess?
Retrofuturism

## Ability

### Ability

**The Past and the Future Combining****(Return)** If you have played at least 6 History cards this game, your Futurology cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Flying cars, intergalactic tourism, robot servants and the first-ever space-based Olympics: boy, people in the past really had wild predictions of the future. The best bit? They drew plenty of pictures to show what the world might look like in the decades to come.

Characterised by a blend of old-fashioned "retro styles" with futuristic technology, retrofuturist art typically draws from the factories, buildings, cities, and transportation systems of the machine age but with a sci-fi twist. If futurism is the science of anticipating what will happen, **Retrofuturism** is about remembering that anticipation and the artistic representations of the time.

In the 1900s, technological advancement moved fast - and this period of rapid change was a strong influencing factor of how people imagined the future would turn out.
Rain

## Ability

### Ability

**Don't Get It Wet!****(Play)** Your Mogwai card in hand gains +35 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

OK, we all know what rain is. But did you know that raindrops take between two and seven minutes to fall from cloud to ground. Try setting a timer for that long, close your eyes and imagine you're a raindrop. That's a long time to be falling.

Also, raindrops start off spherical and change to their droplet shape due to air resistance.
Portolan Atlases

## Ability

### Ability

**Port in a Storm****(Play)** If played in the middle slot, your cards with "storm" in their name in hand gain +18 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Back in the day (we’re talking the 13th century), navigating the sea wasn’t a simple case of booting up some swanky GPS technology. In order to get around the Mediterranean basin (and eventually other regions), seafarers created **Portolan Atlases**.

These were effectively nautical charts that mapped a coastal outline of the area and included specific features like reefs and islands, ports and their names as well as the shapes of coves that the ships would not be able to enter. The word ‘Portolan’ comes from the Italian word ‘Portulano’ meaning “related to ports or harbours”.

The earliest surviving portolan chart dates from around 1300 and is known as “the carte pisane” because it was thought to have come from a family archive in Pisa, while the one pictured, by Battista Agnese from the 16th century fetched $2,770,500 in a 2012 auction!
Pistol Pete

## Ability

### Ability

**Fast on the Draw****(Draw)** Your Legends of the Old West cards in hand gain +35 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When your dad gets killed in cold blood and you’re told by his close friend that you’ll have “an old man’s curse” upon you if you don’t try to “avenge your father”, it doesn’t set you up for a normal upbringing. This was the childhood of Frank Eaton, who would come to be known as **Pistol Pete**.

By age 15, Frank Eaton could handle a gun better than John Wick and was competing with the best marksmen. Driven by revenge, Frank set out on the trail to take out his father’s killers. And he did it - all six of them. Well, technically, five, as one of the killers was shot by someone else for cheating at cards. Still, Frank went to his funeral, just to make sure he was dead.
Quantum Teleportation

## Ability

### Ability

**Time Travel****(Return)** If your deck contains Psychometry and Hysterical Strength, a random card in your hand costs -5 Energy next turn.

## Did You Know?

Sadly, **Quantum Teleportation** has nothing to do with the type of teleportation depicted in Star Trek. Despite recent advances in this field, we’re no closer to getting you to work on time by effectively killing you and reassembling you elsewhere. Instead, the process works at the level of individual quantum particles: photons, electrons, atoms etc.

Rather than transferring physical objects from one location to the next, quantum teleportation only transfers quantum information in its simplest possible unit: the qubit. The main components needed include a sender, the information (a qubit), a traditional channel, a quantum channel, and a receiver. Think of it like a fax machine for quantum information. And if you’re too young to know what a fax machine is, you probably won’t get that Star Trek reference either.
Posidonius

## Ability

### Ability

**Learned Philosophy****(Draw)** If your deck has 2 or more Philosophy cards, your Watching the Skies cards in hand gain +15 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Earning the reputation of the most learned man of your time doesn’t happen by accident - especially in Ancient Greece, where people had a lot more time to just sit and think. A master of philosophy, astronomy and mathematics, **Posidonius** was known as a genius on all fronts, attracting flocks of students hopeful to follow in his footsteps. He even attempted to estimate the size of the Sun and Moon, which was no mean feat in the 90s (90s BC, that is.)

During his life, Posidonius brushed shoulders with the upper class and even took part in political life, being appointed to the highest political office in Rhodes. Under Posidonius, Rhodes eclipsed Athens to become the new centre for Stoic philosophy in the 1st century BC.
Plains Zebra

## Ability

### Ability

**Earn Your Stripes****(Return)** Gain +3:energy/turn: and gain +10 Power/Turn this round.

## Did You Know?

When you’re a **Plains Zebra** trying to survive in the grasslands of Africa, you’ve got to have a good defence strategy. If one spots a predator, it lets out a two-syllable call (think “help me”, or “oh no”.) That’s the signal for the young and female zebras to run while the males defend the group. Plains Zebras operate on a “no zebra left behind” mentality: if one is injured, the others form a circle to protect it from predators.
Poison Ivy

## Ability

### Ability

**Leaves of Three****(Play)** If played between two Plant Life cards, your Plant Life cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Formerly considered a single species, **Poison Ivy** is actually a complex of three separate species: Toxicodendron radicans, Toxicodendron rydbergii, and Toxicodendron orientale. Unlike the plant/human hybrid from the Batman comics, the actual Poison Ivy can’t control all plant life. In fact, it’s not even a “true” ivy, but rather a member of the cashew and pistachio family.

Unlike its nutty cousins, it doesn’t produce tasty snacks. But it can cause a nasty rash if the sticky oil it contains touches your skin - hence the name. If a blistering rash isn’t appealing to you, keep this in mind: “Leaves of three, let them be.” If you fail to heed that advice, look out for jewelweed - a plant that grows near poison ivy and is said to act as a cure.
Parka

## Ability

### Ability

**All Mod Cons****(Return)** Your Grand Designs cards, wherever they are, cost -3 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Times change. Societies evolve. Cultures shift and fashion trends come and go. But if you can count on one item to remain popular forever (besides sliced bread), it’s the **Parka**. For this timeless garment, we have the Caribou Inuit to thank.

Of course, much has changed since the original design, which was fashioned from seal skin for hunting and kayaking in the freezing Arctic. The word ‘Parka’ actually comes from the Nenets language, translating as ‘animal skin’.

Parkas were soon adopted by the US military for soldiers stationed in cold climates. The fur-lined hoods helped to keep them warm and the large pockets were a practical way of storing food or ammunition. Nowadays, you’ll be glad to know that parkas are made of synthetic material rather than seal skins.
Red Kangaroo

## Ability

### Ability

**How Roo-de!****(Return)** If you lost the turn, Steal 1 Energy from your opponent.

## Did You Know?

Let’s give It up for the world’s largest marsupial! Which makes it even weirder that their joeys are born smaller than a cherry. The young don’t tend to emerge for a few months though; it must be tough being cherry-sized when your elders are the largest marsupials out there…

Red kangaroos hop along on their supremely powerful hind legs and do so at absolutely epic speed. A red kangaroo can reach speeds of over 35 miles an hour and their super charged bounding means they can cover 25 feet in a single leap and jump over 6 feet high. We can confirm that no Red Kangaroos are entered into the Olympics 2021 - YET.

Larger male kangaroos are built like a TANK and quite often get into turf wars over their females, fighting off potential mates in a pretty aggressive manner. You may have seen them boxing each other and tipping back on their strong hind legs and bopping each other.

Did you know that Kangaroos can also bite and have super strong claws which they aren’t afraid to use when fighting the enemy, such as those pesky dingos? The dark side of our favourite hoppy pals...