recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Rotoscoping

## Ability

### Ability

**Trace Over****(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card gains +80 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Love animation but can’t draw a stickman to save your life? Don’t worry, there’s always **Rotoscoping**. Invented by animator Max Fleischer in 1915, the technique involves tracing over a live action sequence frame by frame to give a cartoon more realistic movement. Back then, it was known simply as the "Fleischer Process" and was essentially exclusive to Fleischer for several years.

While computers have sped up the process, rotoscoping still requires plenty of time. Of course, you could always call on the technique to add some larger-than-life elements to your movie. Take Star Wars, for example. To manufacture lightsabers would take technological advancement, which is a pretty big ask. Instead, the producers used rotoscoping to draw laser beams over wooden sticks and swords held by the actors in live footage.
The Library of Celsus

## Did You Know?

The Library of Celsus is an ancient Roman building in Ephesus, now part of Anatolia, Turkey, built in honour of the Roman Senator Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaenus ("Celsus" to his pals).

The library was built to store 12,000 scrolls and to serve as a monumental tomb for Celsus. The valuable texts were protected from temperature and humidity extremes by a 1m gap between the inner and outer walls.

Sadly, none of them survived the library’s destruction in 262AD and a wealth of knowledge from the ancient world was lost. This is why you back up your work, everyone!
Tenzing Norgay

## Ability

### Ability

**Reach the Summit****(Play)** Your Edmund Hillary card in hand gains +15 Power this turn and if you are winning the round, it gains an extra +10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Together with Edmund Hillary, Sherpa mountaineer **Tenzing Norgay** was the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest in 1953. It wasn’t his first Everest rodeo, though – at the age of 19, Tenzing Norgay had led a British expedition up the mountain, though they didn’t go all the way.

When they arrived at the summit of Mount Everest, Tenzing left some chocolates as an offering and became world-famous overnight (for the achievement, not the chocolate.) Nepal, Tibet and India all touted him as a symbol for national pride – yet, all he got from the Government of India was a civilian award. In 2013, Norgay’s grandson said he believed his grandfather should have been knighted, not just given “a bloody medal.” (We agree.)
Oyster Toadfish

## Ability

### Ability

**Ugly Camouflage****(Draw)** Your Omnivores cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Also known as the ugly toad, you probably gathered that the **Oyster Toadfish** isn’t much of a looker. But who cares about looks when you’re in space?!

That’s right, in 1998, NASA sent an oyster toadfish into the freezing darkness of space to investigate the effects of microgravity on the development of otolithic organs (structures in the inner ear that allow us to perceive acceleration).

Back on Earth, the male of the species uses sound-producing muscles attached to its swim-bladder to make a distinctive “foghorn” sound, which is – according to female oyster toadfish – irresistible. Upon hearing this alluring noise, the female goes to the nest, lays eggs and then leaves as fast as she arrived. Don’t worry about the male – there are plenty more fish in the sea.
Sliced Bread

## Ability

### Ability

**The Best Thing Since Regular Bread****(Draw)** Your Ingenious Inventions cards in hand gain +26 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When the machine to make **Sliced Bread** was invented, it was the best thing since… well, unsliced bread.

For the time (and fingers) saved slicing through a loaf each day, we can thank the American inventor Otto Rohwedder. On July 7th, 1928, a bakery in Chillicothe, Missouri, became the first to sell pre-cut bread using Rohwedder’s automatic bread slicing machine. Pretty soon, Americans became addicted to the convenience of sliced bread - so much so, that when World War II began and wartime conservation became essential, the ban on sliced bread provoked as much ire as gas rationing did.

It’s no wonder that the return of pre-cut bread was hyped up, and it wouldn’t be long before sliced bread became the point of comparison for greatness.
Scheele's Green

## Ability

### Ability

**Spectrum of Color****(Play)** If you have played Naples Yellow this game, your Egyptian Blue card, wherever it is, gains +40 Power permanently. **(Return)** If you have played Naples Yellow this game, your Egyptian Blue card, wherever it is, costs +2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Upon examination of Napoleon’s hair, it was found the French military leader had 100 times more arsenic in his bloodstream than we do today. Evidence that he was poisoned? Absolutely, but not how you might think. In fact, the culprit was hiding in the walls the whole time.

Apparently, while exiled on St Helena, his rooms were painted with **Scheele’s Green** - a bright green pigment made from arsenic-laced dye. Named after its discoverer, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, this toxic green pigment was an instant hit when it was introduced 1770s. Cheap to produce, it started showing up in clothes, toys, drapes, paints, wallpaper and soap. Thankfully, the number of people presenting with oozing sores led the pigment to be banned in 1845 before it could do more harm.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa

## Ability

### Ability

**3.9 Degree Tilted****(Play)** If you are losing the round, this card gains +39 Power.

## Did You Know?

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is, in this writer's humble opinion, a tribute to humanity's ability to battle through and just get something finished.

Work began on the tower in 1173, and as they moved on to the second storey it was discovered that they were building on top of soft subsoil that couldn't support the weight of the structure. The tower was being built at a 5.5 degree angle and the architects needed to stop working to figure it out. At the same time, Pisa went to war with Genova and construction was halted for nearly a century.

An engineer named Giovanni de Simone looked at what was left of the tower and thought "well, it's a bit of a fixer-upper but I like a challenge" (paraphrasing) and continued construction. He built it up to its seventh tier, still at that 5.5 degree angle, when ANOTHER war broke out.

An architect named Tommaso Pisano looked at what was left of the tower and thought "here, that's nearly done, I can finish that!" (paraphrasing) and took it up to its eighth and final tier in 1372.

A dictator named Benito Mussolini declared in 1934 that the tower should stand up straight and had his men try to straighten it. It was a disaster, and the lean actually increased.

Intensive restoration work in the 1990's has reduced the lean of the tower to 3.97 degrees and, in 2013, it was observed that the tower is actually self-righting itself so it will eventually stand up straight. Well, kinda straight - it's been built in a banana shape, so it'll always be a weird monument to human persistence.
Six of Swords

## Ability

### Ability

**Time of Transition****(Draw)** If it's the first turn of a round, this card costs -3 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Tarot’s suit of Swords deals with intelligence, logic, truth and ambition, but the double-edged nature of the topics are reflected in the swords themselves.

Balancing good and evil on a sword’s edge can lead to great conflict, which is often found with this suit.

Upright, the **Six of Swords** is a card that represents changing environment in order to find new potential when leaving a place full of sorrow, as depicted on the card by the woman and child in the boat while carrying the burden of their swords.

Reversed, the read bears more weight to the difficulty of leaving any place behind - even when for the best, change is never easy.
Morphine

## Ability

### Ability

**Painkiller****(Draw)** If you are losing the round, gain +50 Power/Turn this turn. **(Play)** If you are losing the round, this card gains +20 Power permanently. **(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card gains +20 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

**Morphine** is a powerful painkiller that can make even the most severe pain feel like a mild inconvenience. It works by binding to specific receptors in the brain and spinal cord, reducing the perception of pain and producing a feeling of euphoria.

Morphine was first isolated from opium in 1804 by Friedruch Serturner, who named it after Morpheus - the Greek god of dreams. But let’s get real: morphine isn’t all rainbows and butterflies. A highly addictive substance, this painkiller can also make you drowsy and nauseous, like a bad hangover without the fun night out.

During the American Civil War, morphine was the go-to painkiller for wounded soldiers. It’s estimated that around 400,000 soldiers became addicted as a result.
Needlefish

## Ability

### Ability

**Divebomb****(Return)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -40 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Like a moth to a flame, the **Needlefish** leaps out of the water at a speed of 38 miles per hour when it catches sight of artificial light. A school of needlefish jumping out of the water at such speed could certainly do damage to the human body due to their sharp, pointed beaks, which can even break off inside the victim in the process.

For many traditional Pacific Islander communities, who fish on reefs from low boats, needlefish represent a greater risk of injury than sharks. However, considering their size ranges between 3cm and 95cm, it’s relieving to know that needlefish prefer smaller prey like shrimp and silversides. Like most predatory fish, they gorge one day and hardly eat anything the next.
Roadrunner

## Ability

### Ability

**MEEP! MEEP!****(Return)** Your Coyote card, wherever it is, gains +30 Power until played and if you won the turn, your Coyote card, wherever it is, costs -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Did somebody say “meep meep”? That would be the **Roadrunner**, a species of fast-running ground cuckoo with long tails and crests. Also known as chaparral birds, these speed-demons were born to run. As well as Wile E. Coyote, the Greater Roadrunner can easily outpace a human. They do this by holding their lean bodies nearly parallel to the ground and using their long plume-tail as rudders, effectively Naruto-running like the wind away from the threat of a predator.

But hold on to your seats, because this bird is capable of both fight and flight. When an opportunistic, hungry Rattlesnake approaches, the Roadrunner can grab the snake’s head in its beak and repeatedly body-slam the serpent until the life leaves its eyes. Thug life.
Smartdust

## Ability

### Ability

**Secret Detection****(Draw)** Two random opponent's cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

In the 1990s, researcher Kris Pister imagined a future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with trillions of tiny sensors like a technology-focused Salt Bae. Kris kept at his research, building on the concept of “**Smartdust**” - a wireless network of miniscule microelectromechanical sensors (MEMS) capable of collecting and communicating information about the world around them. By 2003, Smart Dust had entered the Gartner Hype Cycle on Emerging Technologies.

Although we’re not quite there yet, we’re close - and smart dust is now thought to be the natural next step for today’s Internet of Things market. Sure, the idea of a vast army of tiny “conscious” sensors is pretty freaky, but once ready, they might allow us to explore space, improve agriculture, diagnose diseases and help in surgery. #InGodWeDust
Saint Patrick

## Ability

### Ability

**Apostle of Ireland****(Play)** Three random cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn. Repeat if played next to Shamrock.

## Did You Know?

Who knew that the patron saint of Ireland was actually… British?! Yup, that’s right. Born in Britain in the 4th century, Patrick was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold as a slave to a Celtic priest in Northern Ireland. He was just sixteen at the time. Okay, so he wasn’t Irish, but he definitely banished the snakes from Ireland - right? Actually, no. Research suggests snakes never occupied the Emerald Isle, and there are no signs of snakes in the country’s fossil record.

However, **St Patrick** did work as a Christian missionary, spreading the word of God across the island, and he’s probably partly responsible for the Christianisation of the Picts and Anglo-Saxons. According to Irish legend, St Patrick used the shamrock as a metaphor for the Holy Trinity.

'Saint Patrick Catholic Church (Junction City, Ohio)' by Nheyob (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Roses

## Ability

### Ability

**Between two Thorns****(Return)** If played between two cards, increase their energy cost by +2 Energy permanently, and give this card +75 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

If we ever start running out of cards, a whole album could be based on the **Rose** alone, with over three hundred species and tens of thousands of cultivars.

The rose has existed for millions of years, with their earliest remains being found from the Late Eocene period, over 34 million years ago and thanks to their long cultural history, it has been used as a symbol throughout recorded time.

In Ancient Greece, it was the goddess Aphrodite with which the rose was associated, red for her blood that stained it, the Roman novel The Golden Ass tells the story of a man who has transformed into a donkey and had to eat rose petals to return to his human form, it was identified with the Virgin Mary and the Houses of York and Lancaster in the War of the Roses. You get the gist, they’re everywhere.

Nowadays, the red rose symbolises romance, love, beauty and courage, so it has a whole lot going for it!
Sagittarius A*

## Ability

### Ability

**Easy A\*****(Return)** Your Space cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

At the centre of our Milky Way galaxy is not nougat, nor caramel – but a region known as **Sagittarius A\***, home to a supermassive black hole. Also known as Sgr A\*, the region is 4.6 million times the mass of the sun and approximately 26,000 light-years from Earth.

Not so long ago, scientists discovered that we were in fact 2,000 light-years closer to Sagittarius A\* than we once thought. If aliens are binge-watching Earth like a TV show, our solar system getting pulled into the black hole in Sagittarius A would make for a great final episode. Unfortunately for them (but fortunately for us), we aren’t moving closer to it at all – rather, our map of the Milky Way is simply more accurate than before.
Sir Percival

## Ability

### Ability

**Seek the Grail****(Return)** Your The Holy Grail card, wherever it is, costs -6 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

According to Arthurian Legend, eavesdropping and creeping in the bushes is a sure-fire way to get yourself knighted. Well, kind of. Percival was 15 when he noticed some knights passing through the forest. He thought they were so noble that he left to join them, following the knights to King Arthur’s court. Before long, **Sir Percival** had proved himself a worthy knight and was made a member of the Round Table.

'Parsifal' by Rogelio de Egusquiza (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Serval

## Did You Know?

Servals, sometimes known as “savannah cats”, live in Sub-Saharan Africa. They resemble Cheetahs but are smaller, have shorter tails and significantly larger ears. Servals use these ears to listen for prey moving amongst long grass which gives the expression, "keep your ear to the ground" a whole new meaning!
Sitka Spruce

## Ability

### Ability

**Safe Shelter****(Play)** If your deck has 6 or more Tremendous Trees cards, your Mammals cards, wherever they are, gain +27 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Named after the city of Sitka in southern Alaska, the **Sitka Spruce** is one of tallest species of trees, right up there with Redwoods and Giant Sequoias. And it’s a hardy ol’ conifer, too. Even in poor soils and exposed ground, young trees of this species can grow up to 1.5 metres a year. By the time they’re fully grown, the Sitka Spruce can exceed heights of 90 metres, which is roughly the same size as the <link="https:> Conoco-Phillips Building</link>, Alaska’s tallest building.

Musical instruments, boats, pallets and packaging, fencing and paper - these are just a few of the uses for the timber of the Sitka Spruce, which explains why this species accounts for around 50% of commercial planting in the UK.
Rings of Saturn

## Did You Know?

Five Gold Rings? OK, not quite - but here are 5 quick facts about the Rings of Saturn. Close enough!

1. They are kept in place by 'shepherd moons' (another seasonal reference there) and other satellites.
2. They stretch over 120,000 km from the planet but are for the most part only around 20m thick!
3. The astronomical over-achiever himself - Galileo Galilei - discovered the Rings in 1610. However due to limited technology at the time he thought they were protrusions rather than rings.
4. The rings are believed to be the remains of asteroids, moons, or potentially even dwarf planets.
5. The largest ring is \*seven thousand\* times the diameter of Saturn itself!

## Trivia

* This card is available on Christmas specials.
Semachrysa jade

## Ability

### Ability

**Green and Pretty****(Draw)** Your [[Jade Emperor]] and Jade cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Whether or not fairies really exist, the **Semachrysa jade** lacewing is the closest thing you’ll get to Tinkerbell in the bug kingdom (if Tinkerbell had disturbingly big eyes and antenna, that is.)

In 2012, a photograph of this lacewing was posted to Flickr by an amateur photographer who had spotted it in the woods of Selangor State Park. The photo of the lacewing was seen by an entomologist (someone who studies insects) and shared among their colleagues, but none of them could identify the species. Eventually, the entomologist obtained a specimen, and after further testing at the natural History museum in London, it was confirmed to be an entirely new species. If anything, the Semachrysa jade is proof that the Internet can be a good place (from time to time.)

'Female Semachrysa jade' by Guek Hock Ping (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Scottish Fold

## Ability

### Ability

**Welcome Tae The Fold****(Play)** Your Caber Toss, Haggis, Loch Ness Monster and Mary Queen of Scots cards, wherever they are, gain +28 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

As their name implies, **Scottish Fold** cats come from Scotland: that means, you can take away their lives, but you’ll never take their freedom. Apparently, they can all trace their ancestry back to one singular barn cat named Susie, who had folded ears and worked as a mouser. Susie had kittens, and one of those kittens was bred with a British shorthair – and so came about the lop-eared breed recognised today as the Scottish Fold.

After their ears, the most notable thing about this breed is their habit of sitting in odd positions. Often, they can be found sitting like a human or lying on their backs, paws in the air - which is quite alarming the first time you see it!

(It should be noted that the way this species is bred can cause ear and breathing problems in babies and CUE does not condone the methods used to breed them.)

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- First Verses.
Scarab Beetle

## Ability

### Ability

**Sacred Scarab****(Play)** Your Ancient Egypt cards in hand gain +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

In ancient Egypt, Scarab Beetles were seen as representations of the sun god, Ra - he was believed to push the sun across the sky every day, not unlike the way a Scarab rolls balls of dung.

That's not classic CUE facetiousness, by the way. Scarabs will roll up perfectly spherical balls of animal waste, then insert their eggs in there for incubation. It's understood that the ancient Egyptians saw these baby beetles emerging from balls of dung and decided it was sacred.

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- Look up, look sharp.
Snow Globe

## Ability

### Ability

**I'm Shook****(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card and a random card in your hand gains +35 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Who would have thought shaking a ball of fake snow could bring such joy? Specifically, Erwin Perzy – a mechanic of surgery instruments who came up with the idea whilst attempting to increase light bulb luminescence.

In his search for inspiration, Perzy noticed that local shoemakers had started filling glass globes with water and placing them in front of candles to create tiny spotlights in their shops. Perzy tried the lightbulb trick but didn’t have much success. So, he added semolina flour for the light to bounce off of.

As he watched the small white flakes float to the bottom, Perzy had his Eureka Moment. Instead of a bright bulb, he would make a **Snow Globe**. Today, the company he founded is still going strong and is run by his grandson, Erwin Perzy III.
Rosetta Stone

## Ability

### Ability

**Lost in Translation****(Return)** If you lost the turn, gain +20 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

Sadly not the desperately-wanted third installment of The Jewel of the Nile and Romancing the Stone film franchise, the Rosetta Stone is, in fact, one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs—a script made up of small pictures that were used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts...

But what do the hieroglyphs actually say? It's thought to be part of a much larger stone tablet called the Memphis Decree - extolling the virtues of the young king Ptolemy V. A press release, essentially, but sent out on a massive lump of rock instead of through a PR agency.
Sagittarius

## Ability

### Ability

**Sign of the Archer****(Play)** Your Artemis and Archery cards in hand gain +32 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

What happens when you put Pope Francis, Nicki Minaj and Judi Dench in a room together? According to some astrologists, a clash of personalities would be on the cards. Since all of these celebrities were born under the Zodiac sign of **Sagittarius**, their fiery competitive streak may just get the better of them.

Born between November 22nd and December 21st, Sagittarians are spontaneous, hilarious, brutally honest and have zero filter. Like, none at all. You know those moments when everyone’s thinking something but doesn’t dare utter a word? Sagittarians will happily say the thing.

Adventurers by nature, Sagittarians won’t let rules restrict them, labels define them, or boundaries stop them: they march to the beat of their own drum, even if that beat is not in time with that of their friends or colleagues.
The Knights Templar

## Ability

### Ability

**Poor Fellow Soldiers****(Return)** Your Common cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power and cost +1 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

They are the inspiration behind the Night's Watch in Game of Thrones, Warhammer 40,000's Space Marines and the Jedi Knights in Star Wars: **The Knights Templar** were a group of crusading knights who fought in some of the bloodiest battles in the Middle Ages. Rather than Eat, Pray, Love, the Knights Templar were more like Don’t Eat, Pray, Fight.

These soldiers were tough beyond belief, and they enforced discipline with some pretty harsh punishments. Misdemeanours such as disobeying orders could lead to a knight being forced to eat his meals on the floor with the dogs. The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades, and when the Holy Land was lost, support for the group soon faded. Plus, rumours about their secret initiation ceremony didn’t really bode well with people.
Nicolas Flamel

## Ability

### Ability

**Alchemical Secrets****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Excellent Elements cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power until played. If it's the second turn of a round, your Excellent Elements cards, wherever they are, gain +19 Power until played and if it's the third turn of a round, your Excellent Elements cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

You may know him as the only known maker of the Philosopher's Stone, and you would be right. Harry Potter lore aside, there really was an alchemist called **Nicolas Flamel** who lived in 14th century Paris.

One night, Flamel dreamed of an angel who brought him a book that contained a hidden secret. Later, that same book was presented to him in real life by an old traveller. Being encoded, it took 21 years for Flamel to decipher the secret: the recipe to make the Elixir of Life.

Did it work? Given that Flamel died in 1418, apparently not. Still, it did make him extraordinarily wealthy, and he used that money to help the poor and support the church. *Perhaps the real Philosopher’s Stone is the friends he made along the way.*

'Nicolas Flamel, Line Engraving' by Wellcome Library (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Black Knight

## Ability

### Ability

**’Tis but a Scratch****(Return)** If you are trailing by 100 Power or more, gain +150 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

Before **The Black Knight** became etched in our collective consciousness as the guy with no limbs from the iconic Monty Python sketch, he was a recurring stock character across all manner of Arthurian tales.

Like Sean Bean, the Black Knight dies in many of these stories - sometimes as the hero, sometimes as the evil villain. In Richard Johnson's Arthurian romance, Tom a’ Lincoln, a Black Knight is the grandson of King Arthur who kills his mother after hearing from his father’s ghost that she had murdered him.

In Sir Perceval of Galles (written in the early 14th century), the Black Knight ties his wife to a tree after hearing she had exchanged rings with Perceval. Perceval then defeats the Black Knight and reassures him it was an innocent exchange.
Sun Tzu

## Ability

### Ability

**Art of War****(Return)** Your Innovations of War, Machines of War and History cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

It was the Chinese military strategist and philosopher **Sun Tzu** who said: “if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperilled in a hundred battles.” This, along with a long list of motivational war quotes, can be found in his book ‘The Art of War’, which the most well-known military text in the world. Little is known of Sun Tzu, but according to mythology, his original last name was “Chen,” not “Sun.”
Standard Candle

## Ability

### Ability

**Known Luminosity****(Play)** If played between two Exploring the Stars cards, your Exploring the Stars cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Determining distances in space is an incredibly difficult task. However, astronomers have developed a method called the cosmic distance ladder, which relies on **Standard Candles**, a term coined by Henrietta Swan Leavitt. These standard candles are specific astronomical objects with known inherent brightness, or luminosity. By comparing the observed brightness of these objects to their known brightness, astronomers can calculate their distances.

Think of it this way: if we both had identical flashlights, and we stood far away from each other, you could compare the brightness of my flashlight to yours and calculate the distance between us.

In space, two commonly used types of standard candles are Cepheid Variable stars and RR Lyrae stars. They have predictable brightness variations, allowing astronomers to calculate their distances and unlock the secrets of the vast cosmos.
Temperance (XIV)

## Ability

### Ability

**The Middle Path****(Play)** If played in the middle slot, your cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Life in the fast lane can get pretty tiring. If you don’t take a break, you’ll end up on a one-way train to burnout town. That’s what the **Temperance** card is all about: finding balance and harmony to manage the demands of daily life. You don’t have to be a superhero all the time - even Batman doesn’t fight crime every day. Some days he just hangs upside down in his batcave, thinking about revenge.

You’ll notice the Temperance card shows an angel with one foot on dry land and the other in the stream. This imagery signifies your ability to hustle in the real world (the dry land) while still being in touch with the needs of your inner self (the stream).
Seven Bridges of Königsberg

## Ability

### Ability

**A Bridge Too Far****(Return)** Your Golden Gate Bridge card, wherever it is, costs -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

The **Seven Bridges of Königsberg** is a famous mathematical problem based on the city of Königsberg, now Kaliningrad, set on both sides of the Pregel River along with two islands.

The city is connected by 7 bridges and the challenge is to devise a walk through the city that uses each bridge once and only once. Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler proved it was not possible to accomplish this, and proved an even number of bridges would be required for the problem to have a solution.
Rowing

## Ability

### Ability

**STROKE!****(Play)** Your Raging Rivers cards in hand gain +27 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Although we’ve been using boats as a mode of transport for hundreds of years, the sport of **Rowing** only began in England in the 17th and early 18th centuries. The first Oxford / Cambridge boat race took place in 1829 and was won by the Oxford crew, whose boat can still be seen in the River & Rowing Museum in Henley.

In a rowing crew, the coxswain\* is the person responsible for steering the boat and coordinating the rhythm of the rowers. When a race is won, it’s rowing tradition to throw the coxswain into the water. There are several ways to do this: the one-two-three heave, the high-flyer and the surprise throw that sends the flying coxswain face first into the water.

* stop snickering at the back.
Sanakht

## Ability

### Ability

**Broadly Egyptian****(Play)** If your deck has 10 or more Ancient Egypt cards, your non-History cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Move over, NBA players. Ancient Egyptian pharaoh **Sa-Nakht** was the original Shaquille O'Neal of his time. Measuring an estimated height of 6 feet, 1.6 inches, he could have easily dunked his way through the Pyramid Playoffs. While other pharaohs might have been eye-level with commoners, Sa-Nakht stood head and shoulders above them all.

As part of ongoing research into mummies, scientists investigated a skeleton found in 1901 in a tomb near Beit Khallaf in Egypt. Prior work suggested that the remains may have belonged to Sa-Nakht, a pharaoh during the Third Dynasty. Now thought to be the first known giant, Sa-Nakht would have towered over the 5 '9 Ramesses II, the tallest recorded ancient Egyptian pharaoh who lived more than 1,000 years after him.
Snowflakes

## Ability

### Ability

**Special and Singular****(Play)** Your cards adjacent to this lose -70 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Bad news: that fact about us being unique like **Snowflakes** isn’t technically true. In fact, identical snowflakes have been found before, and each snowflake has exactly six sides because the molecules that they are made from are hexagon-shaped.

Still, that doesn’t mean you aren’t unique. (Unless you have a twin.) Plus, not all snowflakes are alike. Their shape and size are actually determined by the temperature. Long, needle-like crystals form at around -2 °C, while a lower temperature of -5 °C will lead to flat crystals.

Although snow is white in appearance, snowflakes themselves are actually translucent. However, since the snowflake has such a small surface area, the light is scattered in so many different directions that it can’t reflect consistently, so the colour just appears as white.
Struthiomimus

## Did You Know?

**Struthiomimus** means ‘ostrich mimic’\*, and, like the ostrich, it’s primary defence against predators would have been its speed. Thanks to long and powerful hind legs it is likely to have reached speeds of 30-50 mph.

Are we going to get challenged for putting Struthiomimus in the **Omnivores** collection? Almost certainly. Its prevalence, as well as the straight edge of its beak, are supporting evidence for its inclusion. However, palaeontologists have also made the case for it being a carnivore, filter feeder (so kind of pescatarian…?), or herbivore.

Sometimes this all feels a bit too much like guesswork.

* Legal Note: This disregards the order of precedence in copyright. It’s incontrovertible that the ostrich is the ‘derivative work’ here, and if **Struthiomimus** was mimicking anything, it wasn’t a species that had yet to evolve.
Tennis

## Ability

### Ability

**You Got Served!****(Return)** If you won the turn, an opponent's random card in hand loses -40 Power next turn. **(Draw)** Your Table **Tennis** card, wherever it is, gains +19 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Whoever said love makes the world go round clearly never played **Tennis**, where the word “love” means “zero”, “nothing” or “zilch”. The first person to use the term must have been scorned from a recent romance.

The rules are simple - two players (or four in Doubles) stand either side of a net that divides a large court. They use racquets to hit a bouncy green ball between each other, and if either of them manages to hit it past their opponent (or force the ball to bounce twice in their opponent’s half of the court), they win the rally. Win a whole bunch of rallies, and you win the match!

Tennis is thought to have originated from monks in France in the 12th century, they didn’t use racquets back then. Instead, the ball was struck with the palm of their hands, which sounds like it could get pretty painful.

Historians think the tradition of strawberries and cream being served at Wimbledon can be traced back to the court of Henry VIII – in any case, an average of 24 tons of Kent strawberries are ordered every year for the Championships at Wimbledon.
Sacagawea

## Ability

### Ability

**Symbol of Suffrage****(Return)** If you are losing the round, your Shake Up The System cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

One does not simply walk through the American West. This in mind, explorers Lewis and Clark asked a native woman named **Sacagawea** to guide them through the lands and help them interpret the language.

During the expedition, she gave birth to her son – but persevered, carrying her baby on her back. When the group reached the Shoshone lands, she and her child were seen as a symbol of peace by the Native Americans.
Stephan's Quintet

## Ability

### Ability

**Bunched Up****(Draw)** Your cards in hand with 7 or more Base Energy gain +22 Power and cost -3 Energy this turn.

## Did You Know?

About 300 million light-years from Earth is a group of five galaxies known as **Stephan’s Quintet** (or Hickson Compact Group 92). The name ‘quintet’ is a bit of a misnomer. Four of the galaxies form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. But the fifth group member is actually a foreground galaxy about seven times closer to Earth than the rest of the group.

First seen by (and named after) French astronomer Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory, Stephan’s Quintet is thought to be involved in a cosmic dance that will likely end with the galaxies merging. Visible in the Pegasus constellation, the group is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups.
Sulphur

## Did You Know?

Ah, the sweet and intoxicating scent of sulphur; Eau de raw eggs, a perfume that Chanel will definitely not be manufacturing any time soon.

This bright yellow element, known in the Bible as "brimstone," (coolest name ever) was used for a variety of purposes in ancient times. It's a component of gunpowder and is believed to have been used in the ancient flamethrower weapon called Greek Fire.

Interestingly, Sulphur dioxide was used to fumigate homes from ancient times. An 1889 paper by the New York City chief health inspector described how officials burned alcohol and sulphur in homes afflicted with scarlet fever and smallpox. It is also found in the antibiotic penicillin and used for fumigation against diseases and pests.

A nonmetal, sulphur is the 10th most abundant element in the universe, according to the Jefferson National Linear Accelerator Library.

Hot springs full of dissolved sulphur compounds may stink to high heaven but have long been prized for their medicinal properties. The town of 'Hot Sulphur Springs' in Colorado emerged in 1860 after settlers discovered sulphur springs that Ute Indians had been soaking in for centuries... get with the programme guys, they've been doing it for ages.
The Periodic Table

## Ability

### Ability

**In Your Element****(Play)** Your Excellent Elements cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminium, selenium and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium… and so on and so forth. Before the elements were memorialised in a catchy song, they were organised into the **Periodic Table** by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev according to their atomic mass.

Today, the modern periodic table arranges the elements in order by atomic number rather than mass, lined up so elements with similar properties are arranged in the same row or column as others.
The Grand Canyon

## Ability

### Ability

**Prehistoric Depths****(Draw)** Your Paleontology cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

Every year, an estimated 5.9 million tourists flock to see Arizona’s awe-inspiring formation, **The Grand Canyon** - for which the Colorado River is long overdue a Lifetime Achievement Award. Stretching for almost 500km, it reaches 29km wide and nearly 2km (or nearly 2 billion years, in geological terms) deep.

This world-famous natural monument is home to an array of wildlife including mountain lions, vultures and huge venomous lizards. However, based on local emergency room visits, the most dangerous animal in the Grand Canyon is… the common rock-squirrel, which has been described by park rangers as “unforgiving” and “absolutely ferocious”.
Sandro Botticelli

## Did You Know?

A pioneer of the early Renaissance era, **Sandro Botticelli**’s depictions of female subjects in his iconic paintings have been likened to a 15th-century Photoshop. When painting women, he tended to lengthen their arms, narrow their shoulders and paint them in positions that no human model would have been able to sustain for that long. So, for the beauty standards set by the media today, we have Sandro to blame, whose real name was Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi.
The Cosmic Engine

## Ability

### Ability

**Star Reveal****(Play)** 3 of your random History cards and 3 of your random Oceans and Seas cards, wherever they are, gain +13 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

In 1092 AD, when the mechanical clock was just a twinkle in Europe’s eye, the brilliant Su Song created **The Cosmic Engine**. Powered by a special water wheel with more parts than a Rube Goldberg machine, this 12-metre tall apparatus was a remarkable innovation and proof of the technological prowess of China during the Northern Song Dynasty.

The Cosmic Engine featured a unique design with a pagoda-like configuration, adorned with carefully painted mannequins ringing bells like they were hosting happy hour. It also used a celestial bronze globe and an armillary sphere to simulate the motions of the stars, allowing for astronomical observations.

Though destroyed by invading armies, a reconstructed version can now be seen at the Science and Technology Museum in Beijing.
The Linux Kernel

## Ability

### Ability

**Monolithic****(Play)** If played next to any Science card, your Science cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power for 3 turns. Repeat for each Album. **(Return)** If your deck has only Science cards, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

In 1969, Bell Labs developers launched a project called 'Unix' with the aim of creating a universal software for all computers. Unix was designed to be straightforward and efficient; it was written in the 'C' programming language instead of assembly language and featured reusable code, known as a “kernel” (as in corn.) This kernel could be used to develop various operating systems and functions. It was great, but it was expensive.

Then, in 1991, 21-year-old Linus Torvalds changed the game. While still a student at the university of Helsinki, Torvalds wrote a “Unix Compatible” kernel and gave it away for free. He called it the **Linux Kernel** (Unix + Linus, in case that wasn’t obvious). As of 2023, Linux is the third most popular desktop OS.
Star of India

## Ability

### Ability

**Almost Flawless****(Draw)** If your deck has 9 or more cards with Star in the name, this card gains +120 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

With an estimated age of over 2 billion years and a carat weight of 563 carats, **The Star of India** is the world's largest gem-quality blue star sapphire. If that wasn’t enough to inspire an elaborate gem-thieving heist, the perfectly-centred star marking against its milky blue colouring will certainly do the trick.

For inspiration, check out Jack ‘Murph the Surf’ Murphy and his crew, who brazenly stole the gem along with others from the American Museum of Natural History. The thieves found the sapphire totally unprotected by an alarm with no batteries. One thief even swore he heard the sapphire saying *“Take me to Miami”.*

Soon after the heist, the gems were found in a Miami bus station locker where they had been stashed. Hey, maybe the sapphire set them up.

'Star of India' by Daniel Torres, Jr. (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
TODO: Card database source

This page is to keep track of issues in the underlying Avid card database that must be resolved by Avid so that the uploaded card details in Fandom match the cards in game.

## Capitalisation inconsistencies

Several have hyphenated word starting with lower case, these are probably okay: Red-lipped Batfish, Yellow-bellied Sea Snake, Short-nosed Unicornfish, Red-spotted Box Crab, Red-eyed Tree Frog,

These are probably wrong: Duck-Billed Platypus, Śmigus-dyngus,

Should the second word be capitalised for: Syracosphaera azuureaplaneta, Elysia marginata, Waigeou cuscus

One word or two? Angel Shark, Venezuelan Rollerblading

Tardis

51 pegasi b

Leonardo Da Vinci - Da should be da

Thinking About The Immortality of the Crab (The should be the)
Rüppell's Fox

## Ability

### Ability

**Fox Trot****(Play)** For every card with "Fox" in the name you have played this game, up to a maximum of 5, this card gains +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

120 days: that’s all the time it takes for **Rüppell’s Fox** to break free from the chains of parental care and become an independent mammal. The big wide world awaits, full of small animals, insects, fruit and human trash to eat, and the fox isn’t about to waste any time. That’s pretty impressive given that young Rüppell’s Foxes are born blind.

After reaching independence, they may travel up to 48 kilometres in search of their perfect home. Named after the German collector Eduard Ruppell, this species lives in North Africa and the Middle East, from Morocco and the Sahel region to the Afghanistan hills. Like its other desert-dwelling cousin the Fennec Fox, Ruppell’s fox have large ears to keep them cool in warm climates.
The Hierophant (V)

## Ability

### Ability

**Learn From Convention****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 3 Tarot cards, give them, wherever they are, +27 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Whether you’re facing struggles in health, finances, relationships or work, **The Hierophant (V)** card is a signal not to go rogue. Before you go down the rabbit hole of “doing your own research”, this card urges you to learn the fundamental principles from a trusted or more conventional source.

You’ll notice that The Hierophant card features a religious figure sitting between two pillars of a sacred temple: that’s significant, as this card generally speaks to group membership. Maybe you’ve joined a choir, a gym or the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (yes, that’s actually a thing!)

Either way, this card is encouraging you to continue on that path, surrounding yourself with people who have a well-established set of values, goals and ambitions.
Tengu

## Ability

### Ability

**Heavenly Sentinel****(Draw)** Your Birds and Primates cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Japanese folklore is abundant with mythical creatures and powerful spirits, and one of the most well-known of these is the **Tengu**. A form of Yokai in the Shinto religion, the Tengu’s image has definitely softened over the centuries. Originally seen as crow-like demons who opposed Buddha, caused destruction, were unbearably arrogant and even kidnapped people, the Tengu somehow became associated with good luck and prosperity. Some stories tell of their tendency to protect the forest and mountain environment, using their powers for good.

Nevertheless, these shape-shifting deities haven’t totally shaken off their bad image - in fact, to “act like a tengu” in Japan means to be arrogant - a term that refers to the protuberant noses of the Tengu that are symbolic of snootiness.
The Diamond Planet

## Ability

### Ability

**Precious Heart****(Draw)** Your Excellent Elements and Hidden Gems cards, wherever they are, cost -2 Energy this round.

## Did You Know?

In 2004, a so-called “Super-Earth” was discovered around a star in our Milky Way galaxy. Officially named 55 Cancri e, the planet is two times the size of Earth, and scientists suspect a third of its mass is made up of diamonds.

But before you pack your bags and ready your pickaxe, keep in mind that **The Diamond Planet** is forty lightyears away, and a year on this planet is only 18 hours long.

'Artist’s impression of 55 Cancri e' by ESA/Hubble (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
The Odd Fellows

## Ability

### Ability

**Oddly Charitable****(Return)** Your opponent's remaining cards in hand gain +7 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

It would be justifiable for you to assume that **The Odd Fellows** is about Avid Games, but, thus far we have lacked the conceit to write a card about ourselves.

The Odd Fellows is, in fact, a fraternal organisation set up to encourage philanthropy, charity and the ethic of reciprocity otherwise known as 'the Golden Rule' (the idea that you should treat others as you would like to be treated, often attributed to Confucius).

The structure of the organisation is divided into lodges with the earliest records going back to 1730, mentioning lodge number 9, so unless its early founders were innumerate, it likely dates back further.

It's not known for sure how they ended up with the name, but one of the most plausible theories is that 'odd' in this case means miscellaneous and fellows, fellow tradesmen. So basically a group of miscellaneous tradesmen setting up a club. Another simply suggests that at the time of its establishment it was an 'odd' thing to promote philanthropy and charity, particularly among everyday business owners.

Embodying its raison d'être, in 1898 the organisation even established female lodges in the UK, granting them equal membership status to men.

Doubtless having a few odd members, the organisation has also had more than its fair share of illustrious ones, including influential politicians Ulysses S. Grant and John Wilkes (radical, journalist and politician). Rumour also has it that King William IV stumbled across a meeting in a pub and insisted on immediately becoming both a member and the lodge's chairman simultaneously.