recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Amazon Sloth

## Did You Know?

You may have heard a saying from your parents or guardians that goes, and I paraphrase, "you never go to the toilet in the same place you eat your food". That's a lesson that the Amazon Sloth has taken to heart - though slow moving, the only reasons that Sloths leave thier trees is to defecate or to find another tree.

And it cannot be understated just how slow moving these guys are - it would take one about fifty minutes to travel 100 metres. For comparison, the sprinter Usain Bolt currently holds the 100m world record with a time of 9.85 seconds.
Anhur

## Did You Know?

Given that there were over 2,000 deities in the Egyptian pantheon, it’s not totally surprising that some of them shared similar roles. Plus, since war is clearly such a big part of human culture, it figures that there’s a few different gods presiding over it.

**Anhur**, also known by the incredibly metal epithet “slayer of enemies”, was one of those. In Egyptian lore, Anhur defended his father, the sun God Ra, from Apep - the chaos demon.

The patron god of Egypt’s army, Anhur was worshipped in the region of Abydos, primarily in the city of Thinis. As part of his worship, people would stage mock battles before public audiences. This also made Anhur popular with the Romans, who built temples in Roman Egypt for him during Emperor Tiberius’ reign.
Arabian Sand Boa

## Ability

### Ability

**Peek-A-Boo****(Play)** Two random cards in either player's hand gain +18 Power this turn (reveal before scoring).

## Did You Know?

We’re all thinking it: the Eryx jayakari or **Arabian Sand Boa** looks just like a long sock puppet. But having eyes on the top of their heads allows this type of desert snake to remain hidden in the sand while still being able to see around them. Due to the high temperatures of their arid habitat, the Arabian sand boa spends most of the day sleeping semi-underground, only moving towards the surface at dusk and during the night to ambush passing prey.

Similar to other types of snake, this species has sexual dimorphism with females being larger than the males. Even so, the Arabian sand boa is still a very small snake with a stout round body, that grows to a total length of 40cm.
Bass Guitar

## Ability

### Ability

**Jazz Trio****(Draw)** If you have played Piano this game, this card gains +12 Power this turn. Repeat for Drum Kit. **(Play)** Your Piano and Drum Kit cards in hand gain +12 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

It’s often seen as expendable, but you’d immediately notice if it stopped existing. The **Bass Guitar** is a staple in almost every type of music, creating a link between the rhythm and the melody of a song to tie it all together. For the modern bass guitar musicians use today, we have Leo Fender to thank, who created his model in 1951.

He wasn’t the first to make an electric bass guitar - that invention came from Paul Tutmarc, 20 years prior, who wanted to create an instrument that was like the double-bass in sound but smaller and more portable. Despite its significance, the bass gets a bad rap, mostly because they live in the regular guitar’s shadow. After all, no one brings a bass guitar to a campfire sing along.
Arecibo Observatory

## Ability

### Ability

**The Hand that Rocks the Cradle****(Draw)** Your cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn and this card gains +80 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

For the best part of 57 years, the 305-meter-wide dish of the **Arecibo Observatory** was the largest in the world. Built into the hills of Puerto Rico, the Arecibo Telescope was a spherical reflector radio telescope designed by William E. Gordon and George Peter of Cornell University. Arecibo contributed to many a great discovery, including observations of pulsars that captured a Nobel prize.

Its sheer size and futuristic appearance would lead the observatory to land appearances in film, such as the iconic fight scene in the James Bond film Goldeneye (and, by extension, the final level of the N64 shooter Goldeneye 007).

In 2016, the newly completed five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope in Guizhou, China overtook Arecibo in size. Four years later, disaster struck: seemingly out of the blue, the 900-tonne suspended platform collapsed, destroying Arecibo, giving us another reason to hate 2020.
Andrewsarchus

## Did You Know?

Only the skull of the **Andrewsarchus** has ever been found. Measuring around 3ft long and featuring a set of large teeth, it was clear to the palaeontologists who discovered the fossil that they were dealing with a gigantic beast. Extrapolating the body based on the size of its head, researchers reckon that the Andrewsarchus was the largest meat-eating land mammal that ever lived. Maybe.

Considering its enormously powerful jaws, we can also assume Big Andy was a Big Problem for nearby herbivores.
Archegosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**What a Croc****(Play)** Your Amphibians , Fabulous Fish and Feisty Fish cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The long-extinct **Archegosaurus** decheni (or Archie to his friends) lived in the Permian period, around 299-253 million years ago. Its name means “founder of the reptile race”, because at the time of its discovery, it was thought to be the 'O.G.' crocodile. However, it turns out this ancient beast is no reptile at all, but a fully aquatic amphibian that reached around 2m in length and lived in tropical freshwater lakes.
Awilda

## Ability

### Ability

**Assume Command****(Draw)** Your cards in hand lose -25 Power this turn and this card gains +150 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When your father wants you to marry a prince you’re not interested in, your best bet is to make like **Awilda** and run off to become a pirate.

Born in the 5th century to a Scandinavian king, princess Awilda was kept in a tower, protected by two poisonous snakes. One suitor – the young prince Alf of Denmark – managed to get past the snakes, but Awilda had already escaped, dressed as a man.

During her travels on the Denmark Sea, she encountered a pirate ship without a captain, and they elected Awilda as their leader. Meanwhile, Prince Alf had been sent to the Denmark Sea to rid it of pirates. Alf unknowingly boarded Awilda’s ship and defeated her entire crew. Awilda was so impressed that she married him on the spot.
Mysterious Journal Fragment Volume 1

**Mysterious Journal Fragment Volume 1** is a book by Unknown.

## History

Hoodie found the book in episode 17.

He found the book again in Henry's home in episode 27.

Hoodie found the book once more in episode 33.

He found another in episode 36.

Hoodie found yet another in episode 38.

He found the book again in Henry's Home in episode 44.
Bakunawa

## Ability

### Ability

**Sea Snakes****(Play)** Your Selma and Nāga cards in hand gain +15 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Eclipses, earthquakes, rains, and wind are all caused by one thing. If you said “science”, you’re wrong. But if you said the Great and Ferocious **Bakunawa**, congratulations: you’re a winner (according to Philippine mythology, that is.)

Legend has it that Bathala—a supreme being—created seven moons that illuminated the earth. This mesmerised all, including a giant dragon called Bakunawa who ruled the oceans. Bakunawa was so obsessed with the moons, that he swallowed each moon in a bid to possess them.

While the dragon was just about to chow down on the final moon, the people of earth shouted “Return our Moon” all at once. Bakunawa retreated to his underwater lair and is said to still be there, creating storms and waiting for the right moment to get that moon.
Archery

## Ability

### Ability

**LOOSE!****(Draw)** A random card in your hand costs +3 Energy this turn. **(Play)** A random card in your hand gains +38 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Historically used in hunting and combat, **Archery** made its debut in the Olympics as a competitive sport in the summer of 1900. As part of the competition, archers shot a bird from atop a pole. Fortunately, no real birds were harmed in the process as the “bird” was just a plastic tube with feathers. Phew. According to one study, an arrow released in competition flies at 150m/ph – a speed 2.5 faster than a sprinting cheetah, who maxes out at about 60mph.

With this in mind, you might assume that archery is one of the more dangerous sport, the National Safety Council says the sport is three times safer than golf, and much safer than bowling, with just one injury for every 2,000 participants.
Annie Jump Cannon

## Did You Know?

Nicknamed the "Census Taker of the Sky" for classifying 300,000 stellar bodies, the American astronomer **Annie Jump Cannon** played a leading role in the development of modern stellar classification. Her creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme marked the first attempt to properly classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types.

A trailblazer for women in science, she combined two models to make her own system that used the simplified classes: O, B, A, F, G, K, M. Annie’s model would go on to be adopted worldwide and was given the mnemonic device “Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me”. When three additional categories (R, N and S) were added to the scheme, students invented a new mnemonic: Oh, Beautiful and Ferocious Gorilla, Kidnap My Roommate Next Saturday.
Aries

## Ability

### Ability

**Sign of the Ram****(Play)** Your Bighorn Sheep and Battering Ram cards in hand gain +42 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Aries**, Latin for “Ram”, is the first astrological sign in the Zodiac. If you were born between March 20th and April 19th, we have some good news: according to astrologists, you’re a natural-born leader, highly competitive and full of energy. Of course, there’s no evidence for this, but they say Aries leads a double life: behind your fiery exterior is a mushy romantic who won’t hesitate to shout their love from the rooftop.

So, in a coming-of-age rom-com, you’re both the high school jock and the one with the boombox outside your crush’s house. Just like the Chumbawumba song, you get knocked down, and you get up again – whether it’s a high-stakes sports tournament or a friendly game of Monopoly.
Anne of Cleves

## Ability

### Ability

**Political Gambit****(Return)** Your Wives of Henry VIII cards, wherever they are, gain +5 Power until played. **(Draw)** A random card in your hand gains +8 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Anne of Cleves** was taking on a lot of baggage when she married Henry VIII. By this point, he’d already had a string of tumultuous marriages in his quest for a male heir. But, in 1539, negotiations began for Henry and Anne to be married, as Henry believed he needed an alliance with her brother William – a leader of the Protestants of western Germany – to strengthen his position against the Holy Roman Empire.

How did this strategic marriage go? Compared to the rest of Henry VIII's wives, Anne of Cleves came out relatively lucky. She escaped the marriage with her head intact by agreeing to an annulment on the grounds that the marriage was never consummated. Good for you, Anne.
Ankh

## Ability

### Ability

**Symbol of Life****(Draw)** Your cards in hand gain +5 Power permanently if you are winning the round but only for this turn if you are losing

## Did You Know?

The **Ankh** was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph meaning ‘life’. Tangible Ankhs were placed in sarcophagi to ensure a transition to the afterlife.

Being a symbol, of course, its meaning has been interpreted in different ways through history, including: a symbol of balance between forces; joy and energy; a precursor to the ghost from Scooby Doo Season 2, Episode 4; the meeting of male and female genitalia; and the cohesion of heaven and earth. It is frequently worn on necklaces by students ‘finding themselves’ during a year abroad.

Designed by Avid Games
Magic Mounts V2

**Magic Mounts V2** is a book by HorseNut77.

## History

Hoodie found the book in the hermit hut in episode 30.

## Pages

*"Magical Mounts" Vol 2 - The Nightmare*
*The Nightmare is a non fire-proof magical mount found in the Nether Realm. Born wild and with a Heart of Fire, they are not tameable. Be that is it may, there is a method of obtaining a Nightmare through...*
*the use of a certain alchemical process. This method is considered by some as an unethical "dark art" but for the purposes of science I shall outline the steps:*
*1) Obtain a Zorse (refer to my "Zorses 4 Dummies" guide, sold at a book store...*
*you!)*
*2) Obtain/brew an Essence of Fire. (ie Blaze Powder or Magic Fire, Heart of Fire, Bottle)*
*3) Feed Essence of Fire to the Zorse*
*4) The Zorse will transmute into a...*
*completely tame Nightmare after a few moments.*
*5) Slap a saddle on that bad boy and ride! NOTE that Nightmares cannot wear armor.*
*Impress your friends with a trail of fire by using a whip or feeding redstone to your Nightmare!*
*Remember, Nightmares are not intrinsically resistant to fire!*
*WARNING! WARNING! All Nightmares, tamed or not, have burning hearts, filled with evil! As such, even "pet" nightmares have been known to suddenly...*
*turn on their master and eat them up! To avoid becoming a Nightmare cupcake, many mages choose to convert their unstable pet into the much more honorable horny mount, the Unicorn! To find out how, refer to my "Magic Mounts, Vol 3: The Unicorn" sold at..*
*fine bookstores near you!*
*Follow me on TWizzer and MageToob*
*@HorseNut77*
Antlia

## Ability

### Ability

**Pump it Up****(Play)** Your Constellations cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power for 4 turns.

## Did You Know?

Roughly 130,000 light-years from Earth in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere is **Antlia**, a small constellation that gets its name from the ancient Greek word for “the pump”.

Originally, the constellation was called Antlia Pneumatica, to celebrate the invention of the air pump, an instrument invented by the French physicist Denis Papin. Fun fact – Papin also invented the steam digester, which preceded the steam engine and the pressure cooker.

But back to this constellation: Antlia was first catalogued by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. The catalogue included almost 10,000 southern stars, 42 nebulous objects, and 14 new constellations. Notable deep sky objects in Antlia include the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy and the Antlia Cluster of Galaxies.
Aeolus

## Ability

### Ability

**Wind Waker****(Play)** If your deck contains The Bag of Wind, your Riding the Waves! and Plundering Pirates cards in hand gain +35 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

When it comes to kings, **Aeolus blows**. We mean that literally of course, as he was the Keeper of the Winds.

In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus arrives at Aeolia, tired and eager to get home after an ordeal with a one-eyed-giant. Aeolus felt bad for Odysseus, so he gave him a west wind to carry them back to Ithica. He also gave them a bag containing all the winds but the west. After several days of sailing, Odysseus succumbed to sleep.

Meanwhile, his curious crew snuck a look in the bag, hopeful to find some valuable gifts. Out burst the winds with such force that the ship was pushed back to Aeolus’ island. Aeolus refused to give them any more help on the basis that the gods probably didn’t favour them.
Artemisia Gentileschi

## Ability

### Ability

**Baroque On****(Play)** This card loses -30 Power and gain +30 Power/Turn for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

One of the most accomplished seventeenth-century artists, **Artemisia Gentileschi** was already producing professional work at the age of 15. A great follower of the painter Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi used her profound talent to turn the horrors of her own life into brutal but beautiful biblical paintings, communicating an immensely powerful and personal message that stood firmly against the oppression of women.

In her painting titled ‘Susanna and the Elders’, which she produced at age 17, Gentileschi did what no artist before her had done: she depicted sexual harassment from the victim’s point of view. The painting was completed before her rape by Agostino Tassi, and the subject matter reflects the traumatic experiences she was already facing while training at his studio.
Accolon

## Ability

### Ability

**Morgana’s Lover****(Start)** Your Morgana card in hand gains +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When Meat Loaf said “I would do anything for love”, you’ve got to wonder whether he would go as far as Morgan Le Fay, King Arthur’s half sister. Morgan was so in love with Sir **Accolon** of Gaul that she went out of her way to kill both her husband, King Urien, and her half-brother in the hope that she could make Accolon king.

During a hunting trip in the woods, Morgan tricked Accolon into a duel with a mystery swordsman (actually Arthur), giving him the upper hand through the power of Excalibur. Just when Accolon was on the verge of defeating his mystery opponent, the Lady of the Lake arrived to move Excalibur from Accolon’s hand to Arthur’s, who then unknowingly dealt his friend a fatal blow.
Atmospheric Layers

## Ability

### Ability

**Something in the Air****(Play)** Your Awesome Aviation and Forces of Nature cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Just like onions and ogres, the Earth’s atmosphere has layers. Moving upward from ground level, these **Atmospheric Layers** are named the troposphere (where we live) stratosphere (home of the ozone layer), mesosphere (meteors hate it here), thermosphere (satellites chill here), exosphere (the “final frontier” of our atmosphere) and ionosphere, which technically isn’t a layer at all, but a series of regions in the mesosphere and thermosphere. Yes, that’s right – there are layers within layers. Layerception.
Aussie Rules

## Ability

### Ability

**Coathanger****(Draw)** If you are leading by 150 Power or more, this card gains +80 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Aussie Rules** or to give it its full name Australian Rules Football, is in many ways similar to the more popular sport of Rugby, but with a rising inflection, shorter (tighter) shorts, tank tops and a faint whiff of lukewarm meat pies and beer.

Unlike Rugby where the ball has to go backwards in order to move forwards, Aussie Rules is incredibly fast-paced and generally more athletic with the ball being kicked or punched on the run to make passes or kick goals. A highlight of any match is the “Specky” mark where a player takes a mark high on the back of their opponent.

The object of the game is to kick the ball through the four goalposts. Kicking the ball through the outer posts gets you one point and kicking the ball through the centre posts gets you six - what a ripper! (that's Aussie for awesome).

'Ben Long Kicking' by Flickerd (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Archaea

## Ability

### Ability

**No-cleus****(Play)** If played in the left or right slot, your Science cards in hand gain +18 Power this turn and next.

## Did You Know?

Even some of the most hostile environments on Earth are home to life forms. Admittedly, **Archaea** are miniscule lifeforms not visible to the naked eye. But still, they really do thrive in extreme conditions - from the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park to the icy waters of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.

Their name means “old ones” in Greek, which makes sense, given that they’ve been kicking about on Earth for around 3.5 billion years. Still, for a commonly occurring organism that’s thought to make up around 20% of all ocean-based microbial cells, Achaea don’t get much press. That’s probably because none that we know of cause disease like bacteria does, and also because Carl Woese only discovered that Archaea were distinct from bacteria in the 1970s.
Amazon Milk Frog

## Did You Know?

Look at those **Amazon Milk Frogs** on the front of this card - adorable, no? But beware - that cute exterior betrays its true nature as a jumping stink bomb.

They get the "Milk" part of their name from the sticky white substance they secrete when threatened. This stuff smells absolutely rotten to deter predators - and if that doesn't work, it's poisonous too.

**Amazon Milk Frogs** are adept climbers as well - as an arboreal frog, they spend most of their time in trees. They have incredibly strong feet to help them climb; specially adapted with big pads to increase the surface area, but durable enough to support 14 times the frog's own weight!
American Curl

## Ability

### Ability

**If I May Bend Your Ear...****(Draw)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -5 Power this round and this card gains +10 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

If the ears of the  **American Curl** make you well up with tears of joy, congratulations – you’re officially a crazy cat person. However, they aren’t born like this – in fact, the American Curl has straight ears at birth that curl over within 3-5 days.

When it comes to their personalities, this breed is the Peter Pan of cats: even long into adulthood, the American Curl retains a playful kitten-like demeanour.
Barnacles

## Ability

### Ability

**Hanger-on****(Play)** Your opponent's Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, lose -18 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

We all like to have stability in our lives - elements of existence that are constant and reliable, like a home or a routine. **Barnacles** are... well... extremely stable, put it that way.

The baby **Barnacle** will swim around for a very short amount of time after hatching, in search of a hard surface to attach itself to. When it's found one, it stays there for life - a life which can last between five to ten years!

They've got a hard outer shell to protect them, and they tend to hang around with groups of other **Barnacles**. Most of the time they'll attach themselves to rocks, boats or shells, but they have been known to attach themselves to other sea creatures like whales or turtles.

A lot of the time those creatures don't even know they're there and leave them alone because they don't produce any negative effects. Unless you count "being really difficult to remove without doing damage to the surface" as a negative effect - if they're going to be there for a decade, they really make sure they're stuck down good.
Alcázar of Seville

## Ability

### Ability

**Sunspear****(Play)** If played next to Sunshine, the card opposite this loses -70 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

If you thought DIY was time-consuming, try building a royal palace. Judging by the **Alcázar of Seville**, you’ll need at least five hundred years. Featuring in Game of Thrones and Lawrence of Arabia, the Alcázar of Seville is Europe’s oldest royal palace still in use. And that’s a relief, given how long it takes to construct.

Also known as the Royal Alcazar, this feat of construction was once the site of a Roman settlement. Later, it became a fortress for Muslim authorities. But with the start of the Christian era in Seville, the Alcazar was converted into the residence of the Christian monarchs.

Naturally, a lot changed in the five hundred years that followed. That’s why the Alcázar of Seville combines elements of Muslim, Gothic, Rensaissance, Baroque and Romantic art.
American Alligator

## Ability

### Ability

**Gator Aid****(Draw)** If your deck contains Chinese Alligator, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

*O say, can you see, by the swamp’s early light…*  the**American Alligator**, native to the land of the free and the home of the brave. Thought to be the largest species of alligator, this big beast can grow up to nearly five metres long and weigh up to 560 kilograms.

The largest American alligator ever caught (named “Stokes Alligator”) had to be latched onto a boat’s hull because it could not fit on the 17-foot vessel.

You’re most likely to spot an American alligator in Florida and Louisiana, where they dwell in lakes, ponds, swamps and marshes. Although they’re clumsy on land, these reptiles are excellent swimmers, reaching a top speed of 20 mph. In other words, we wouldn’t recommend challenging one to a race.
Alessandro Volta

## Ability

### Ability

**Turn Up the Power****(Play)** Your André-Marie Ampère card in hand gains +30 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

You know when something is a fact and you think it's always been that way then realise there was a time it wasn't a thing until someone discovered it? Well, our case in point here is **Alessandro Volta**, an Italian scientist who proposed that electric current is generated by contact between two different metals and went on to construct the first battery. You know, those things that we are 100% dependent on...

It came about because Volta was skeptical of Luigi Galvani’s theory of animal electricity - as a brief explainer (as we don't like to harp on too much about individuals who don't feature on the front of the card\*), Galvani coined the term ""animal electricity"" to describe the force that activated the muscles of his specimens. He regarded their activation as being generated by an electrical fluid that is carried to the muscles by the nerves.

Volta didn't buy this at all and proposed that an electrical current is generated by contact between different metals - which makes a whole lot more sense.

Volta's battery was known as the Voltaic Pile, which created for the first time a sustainable source of electrical current. In the early 19th Century, a number of his contemporaries such as William Nicholson and Sir Humphry Davy went on to make hugely important scientific discoveries by using this completely innovative apparatus.

* (although we like to spend precious words going on about how we don't like to spend words on non-card subjects, apparently - Ed)

'1832-02' by ITU Pictures (Source: Flickr) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Ada Lovelace

## Ability

### Ability

**Logic Bomb****(Play)** Your opponent's Science cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

English mathematician Ada Lovelace, the daughter of poet Lord Byron, is considered the first computer programmer for writing an algorithm for a computing machine in the mid-1800s.

Lady Byron, her mother, worried that she would follow in her father's footsteps (that's a story for another card, let me tell you...) immersed her in mathematics from a young age. Lady Byron herself had a pretty cool moniker - the "Princess of Parallelograms"!

At age 17 Lovelace become the protege of Charles Babbage, the father of the computer. He contended that computers would only be able to crunch numbers, but Ada mused that virtually any piece of content - music, images, text, trading cards - could be translated into a unified digital form and manipulated by a computer.

Her vision could not be realised in her own time, but you can see the results of her ideas today. Like, right now - the device you're reading this on might not be displaying images and text, or even exist, if she hadn't dreamed it!

'Watercolor portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Ada Lovelace)' by Alfred Edward Chalon (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)

CRAFTING CLUE BELOW!

- A story of eating your greens.
Baku

## Ability

### Ability

**Hypnosis****(Return)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -96 Power next turn.

## Did You Know?

Drowzee, a psychic-type Pokemon, and Munna, a pink dream-eating Pokemon, have a common ancestor: **Baku**.

This strange old Yokai from Japanese mythology has the body of a bear, the head of an elephant, the eyes of a rhino, the tail of an ox and the legs of a tiger. Sure, that may not seem like an attractive combination, but these creatures are revered as benevolent forces of good and one of the protectors of mankind.

Plus, it didn’t choose to look this way. Legend has it that the Baku was put together from the leftover bits and pieces at the end of creation. Like Munna, the Baku feed on the dreams of humans - specifically, bad dreams, which apparently taste pretty good to this Yokai.
14-Bis

## Ability

### Ability

**Bird of Prey****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Fearsome Flyers cards, your Fearsome Flyers cards, wherever they are, gain +36 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

Time for a history face-off: in the blue corner, the Wright brothers and their ground-breaking Wright Flyer. In the red, the Santos-Dumont **14-Bis** – a fixed-wing canard biplane that some contend was the first true aeroplane.

Let’s look at the facts: in 1903, the Wrights made the first controlled, sustainable flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft. But there were no witnesses. By contrast, aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont’s flight of the 14-Bis in 1906 was the first public flight in the world. The aircraft flew for 197ft, winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon Prize for the first observed flight of more than 25 metres. Sure, the Wright Flyer may have come first, but if a plane flies in the sky and no one’s around to see it, does it really fly at all?
20 Fenchurch

## Ability

### Ability

**London Calling****(Play)** Your The Shard card in hand gains +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

20 Fenchurch Street is more commonly known as the 'Walkie-Talkie Tower' on account of its shape. While distinctive, the shape has been the cause of controversy (and some amusement) for two reasons:

- Soon after construction was completed, it was discovered that the concave structure and reflective surfaces were capable of melting cars parked outside (we assume this was an architectural 'first'). The building has subsequently been fitted with a sunshade.

- Melting cars not enough for you? Well, it has also knocked over pedestrians, on account of the powerful wind tunnel effect produced from downdraught - where the wind hits the building and is pushed downwards and out into the street.

Other than that though - it's a lovely building!
Africanised Honey Bee

## Did You Know?

Africanised Honey Bees are hyper-aggressive and tend to travel in big swarms. They are otherwise known as KILLER BEES, which is definitely not a name you give to something docile.

They're also pretty passive-aggressive and have been observed to integrate themselves into normal honey bee hives, producing cross-species hybrids that are equally aggressive. Frankenstein's monster had nothing on these hellish Honey Bee monsters...
Atlantic Walrus

## Did You Know?

The scientific name for the Walrus is "Odobenus rosmarus", which is latin for "tooth-walking seahorse", although this time The People That Name Animals had a good reason for calling it that - Walruses have been known to use their tusks to climb up onto ice sheets. It's not a seahorse though, so we'll call it even for now.

Walruses are awesome at withstanding cold temperatures. As well as multiple layers of insulating blubber under their skin (up to 10cm of it!), they can also divert blood away from the skin to the organs that need it most and which won't lose heat. You can tell when they're doing this as their skin almost turns white!
Arctic Rewilding

## Ability

### Ability

**Reintroduction****(Draw)** Your Permafrost Thaw card, wherever it is, costs -7 Energy and loses -70 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

With global temperatures on the rise, scientists have racked their brains for ways to slow down permafrost thaw. One technique that shows promise is **Arctic Rewilding**. The theory behind it is this: during the Pleistocene period (2.5 million years ago), the Arctic was covered with grassland which was naturally grazed by mammoths, bison and woolly rhinos. When humans started moving into these areas, they hunted these animals, causing their numbers to drop and the grassland to give way to boggy vegetation.

By releasing herds of large animals onto the tundra such as bison and horses, we could stimulate grass growth which would, in theory, reverse the process. Plus, with grazing animals stomping on the snow in winter, colder temperatures could help freeze the soil to a deeper level.
Aker

## Ability

### Ability

**Devouring Three Hearts****(Draw)** 3 random Egyptian Mythology cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Egyptian Mythology cards, wherever they are, gain +33 Power next turn.

## Did You Know?

At night, the sun passes through a tunnel to the Underworld that exists in the earth, emerging in the morning to bring the day. That’s according to ancient Egyptian beliefs, anyway. Given the importance of night and day, it figures that each entry to the tunnel would be guarded by a powerful entity

First mentioned in the Pyramid Texts, these two protector gods took the form of lions, known as the Akeru, or ‘**Aker**’. Later, these lions were given names: Sef and Tuau - ‘yesterday’ and ‘today’ respectively, and people would place statues of the lion god at the doors of their houses and tombs to protect the living and the dead from evil spirits.
Amur Leopard

## Ability

### Ability

**That's Amur-e****(Play)** If you are winning the round, one of your random cards from each Album, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

No one likes alone time more than the **Amur Leopard** - this solitary mammal has territories of up to 116 square miles. For context, that’s half the size of Chicago.

Sadly, with fewer than 100 individuals left in the wild and 200 or so in captivity, the Amur leopard is one of the rarest of the species. Most are found in Russia and China, and given how endangered this species is, Russia’s got some pretty strict laws about hunting it.

If you kill an Amur Leopard, you could be fined 1,100,000 rubles and face two years in jail. If the crime is committed by an organised group, the fine can be as high as two million rubles with a jail term of five to seven years.
Basilosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Strike From the Deep****(Play)** Your opponent's Oceans and Seas cards in hand lose -10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Basilosaurus is a genus of large, predatory, prehistoric archaeocete whale from the late Eocene, approximately 41.3 to 33.9 million years ago.

First described in 1834, it was the first archaeocete and prehistoric whale known to science which is kind of a big deal. Also known as 'Zeuglodon', it was found in Middle and Late Eocene rocks in North America and northern Africa.
Anime

## Ability

### Ability

**UwU****(Play)** If your deck has exactly 3 Stage and Screen cards, your Japanese Folklore cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Since its inception in the early 1900s, **Anime** has evolved into a globally adored phenomenon, watched by an estimated 2.88 billion people worldwide. That’s a third of the world population.

The distinctive style of Anime we know today first emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka, and it quickly gained a global following. The longest running Anime is Fuji TV’s Sazae-san, which was first broadcast in 1969. The series boasts over 7500 episodes, but each are only about six minutes in length.

If you want something more substantial, Manga Nippon Mukashibanashi has a staggering 1400 episodes, each about 25 minutes long. Whichever series you choose to watch, it would take you more than three weeks of non-stop viewing to complete either one.
Adélie Penguin

## Ability

### Ability

**Recklessly Curious****(Play)** Your Sea Birds cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power permanently. **(Return)** If you lost the turn, this card loses -100 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

When the **Adélie Penguin** dives into the Antarctic Ocean, it shoots to Krill. Given that 100% of its diet comes from the sea, this bird’s swimming abilities are second to none - plus, it can dive to depths of up to 175m in search of prey.

Although Krill is the Adélie Penguin’s primary food source, it’s also partial to crustaceans, fish and squid. They may be the smallest penguin in the Antarctic, but don’t let their adorable appearance fool you: the Adélie penguin is not to be messed with.

If, for some obscure reason, you attempt to make your way into their colony to eat their eggs or young, they will act with extreme aggression - which is fair enough, really.

They’re also a law unto themselves, with Apsley Cherry-Garrard, from Robert Falcon Scott’s crew saying about the penguin: "They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children or like old men, full of their own importance”, with their dangerous curiosity being a particularly pain point for Scott himself, who noted “their whole attitude expressed devouring curiosity and a pig-headed disregard for their own safety”.
Algae

## Ability

### Ability

**Green Energy****(Draw)** Your Life on Land cards in hand cost -1 Energy this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Algae**, or more correctly, microalgae, are very small aquatic organisms that convert sunlight into energy. Some of these **Algae** store energy in the form of natural oils and the great news is that under the right conditions, **Algae** can make a lot of oil that can be converted into biofuels. Hurrah for that.

Unlike traditional oilseed crops, which produce 10 to 100 gallons of oil per acre, **Algae** take it to the next level completely - they are capable of producing 1,000 to 5,000 gallons of oil per acre. Oil collected from **Algae** looks very similar, chemically, to crop oils and can be converted to renewable fuel using existing technology.

Another positive is that it does not compete with food sources and can grow in non-potable (non-drinkable) and saline water on otherwise nonproductive land.

The question, dear CUEniversers, remains that if **Algae** are so phenomenal, why aren't we using them to produce biofuels on a large-scale today?

Although great strides have been made, **Algae** production remains a challenge. Many challenges to large-scale **Algae**-derived renewable fuel exist and span the entire process from algae strain selection, through harvesting, to fuel conversion.

Research is ongoing to find ways to more efficiently collect oil and algae solids from their waterborne state.
Ankole-Watusi Cow

## Ability

### Ability

**Bullhorn Blast****(Draw)** This card gains +20 Power this turn and if you are losing the round, it gains +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Named after the Watusi tribe of Africa, the **Ankole-Watusi Cow** is often called the Cattle of Kings by the Banyankole people of Western Uganda, who believe the breed was created by God. Given their show-stopping horns, it’s easy to see why - but these majestic horns aren’t just a regal crown that gives the cow clout. Filled with blood vessels, the horns of the Ankole Watusi regulate the animal’s heat in hot climates.

In 2004, an Ankole-Watusi Cow called CT Woodie won the Guinness World Record for the largest horn circumference, mearing 40.75 inches! As seen in the hieroglyphs of the ancient Egyptians, these creatures have formed part of the longhorn cattle tribes for more than 6,000 years.
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## The first village

The battle plan was set and the party proceeded to attack the village. First some civilians kicked the bucket then heads started flowing in the water. The adventurers fell but were raised by the remaining companions. The Kuo-toa brought in their arch-priests but were defeated. In the aftermath some civilians were captured and the spoils were gathered: Larimar of the Battle-Mage, some pieces from a bowl and a haxagon gemstone that could not be identified not even with magic.

The party moved top the next two village and found it devastated by the dragon turtle. At the last one the turtle was there hurt badly, after getting the needed healing it left accompanied by the Gynosphinx. In the last two villages they found more parts of the bowl.

## Demons in the water

Close to the last village there was a foulness in the water and the bones of sea creatures, this has to be a Wastrilith. Fulgerica went in the water but was hurt badly and had to retreat. Back at the ship the party rested and was thinking about their next move.
Achilles

## Ability

### Ability

**Heel Turn****(Return)** If you lost the turn, your opponent loses -30 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

**Achilles** was the mortal son of King Peleus of the Myrmidians and the sea nymph Thetis. Raise your hands at the back if anyone else's mother is a sea nymph? Anyone? Thought not.

Achilles was a hero of the Battle of Troy in the Trojan War, and super handsome and pretty generally great at everything, apparently. There are a huge number of stories about Achilles, including Homer's Iliad.

You've all heard about the Achille's Heel right? That saying comes from mythology. After Achilles was born, his mother wanted to protect him from harm. So, what's the basic, parenting 101 thing a mother does to protect her baby from harm? That's right, she held him by the heel and dipped him into the River Styx. In Greek Mythology, the Styx was located in the Underworld and had extremely special powers. From the day of the dipping, Achilles became invulnerable everywhere but at his heel where his mother held him. Could have just dipped the heel in afterwards and got a full covering, but mythology's full of little mysteries like that.

So what was the deal with Achilles and The Trojan war? When Helen, the wife of the Greek King Menelaus, was taken by the Trojan Prince Paris, the Greeks went to war to get her back. Achilles joined the battle and brought along some pretty powerful soldiers - the Myrmidons.

Achilles was on fire during the war, killing many of Troy's greatest warriors with the battle raging on for years. After a scuffle over a princess named Briseis, Achilles got all melodramatic and depressed, refusing point-blank to fight.

With Achilles not fighting, the Greeks began to lose the battle. Hector was unstoppable so enter Patroclus, Achille’s BFF, who came up with a plan and convinced Achilles to lend him his armour to enter the battle dressed as Achilles. This was a call to arms and The Greeks went hard, invigorated by the return of the false Achilles.

All did not go as planned though and with the help of the god Apollo, Hector killed Patroclus and took Achilles' armour. Achilles rejoined the battle to avenge his friend's death and finally defeated Hector. Don't let off the party poppers yet though because Apollo was back to screw it all up.

Apollo knew Big A’s only weakness - yep, that godforsaken heel. When Paris of Troy shot an arrow at Achilles, Apollo guided it so that it struck Achilles on the heel. Achilles eventually died from the wound and the rest is history.

Well, the rest is *mythology*, but you know what we mean.
100m Sprint

## Ability

### Ability

**Ten Seconds of Speed****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

The shortest common outdoor running distance, the **100m Sprint** is thought to be the modern equivalent of the prestigious Stadion sprinting race in ancient Greece, which was about 180m. The current record holder at 100 metres generally is considered to be “the fastest human”.

When African American sprinter Jesse Owens equalled the world record (10.3 seconds) in the 100m sprint at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he struck an embarrassing blow to Hitler and the Nazi party, who had hoped the games would be a display of supposed Aryan superiority. The latest record is held by Usain Bolt, who won the race in 9.58 seconds at the world championships in Berlin, beating his own previous record of 9.69 seconds.

'Christine Arron (left) of France wins the women's 100m' by Beat (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Ares 1

## Ability

### Ability

**Constellation Program****(Draw)** Your Constellations cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

**Ares 1** was the crew launch vehicle that was being developed by NASA as part of the Constellation program. The Ares I would have launched the Orion spacecraft with four astronauts to the ISS and the Moon.

However, like the Cat Translator or the 2020 Olympic Games, Ares 1 was never to be. In 2010, the Constellation program was cancelled in favour of funding research on commercial flights to the ISS. We’re still holding out hope on the cat translator, though.

'Ares I-X launch 08' by NASA/Sandra Joseph and Kevin O'Connell (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Alp Arslan

## Ability

### Ability

**Heroic Lion****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Battle! cards, wherever they are, gain +22 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

When you’re the second Sultan of Seljuk and the great grandson of Seljuk himself (the founder of the dynasty), there’s a lot riding on you to do well. But **Alp Arslan** (‘the Lion-Hearted’) did not disappoint.

On the 26th of August, 1071, he and his forces defeated the Byzantines in the Battle of Manzikert, accelerating the decline of the Byzantine Empire and paving the way for both the Ottoman Empire and the modern Republic of Turkey.

He even captured Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes himself, marking the first and only time in history that a Roman emperor became a prisoner of a Muslim commander. He died a year later when mortally wounded by a prisoner during a quarrel.
Antechinus

## Ability

### Ability

**Torpor****(Start)** If you are losing the round, this card costs -2 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

They may look like mice, but **Antechinus** are in fact a species of small carnivorous marsupials with suicidal sex habits. Yes, you read that right.

You see, just before the mating season at 11 months old, the male Antechinus stops making sperm. At that point, he’s got all the sperm he ever will have. So, he sets out on a mission: to pass on his genetic code or die trying.

For two to three weeks, the Antechinus will mate with as many females as he can in frenetic encounters that can last up to 14 hours. By the end of mating season, males are beyond recognition; they’re tired, disintegrated but still running around frantically in search of a final encounter before their untimely death. RIP you crazy love rat.
Arrow of Time

## Ability

### Ability

**Progressive Entropy****(Draw)** For every card played this game, a random card in either player's hand gains +2 Power for 5 turns.

## Did You Know?

What’s the difference between the past and the future? For a start, we no longer spend our days drawing pictures of fat horses on cave walls. But more precisely, the particles that make up our universe were more orderly then and are growing more disorderly with time.

That’s according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that every difference between the past and future can be traced back to the fact that the entropy was lower in the past and continues to grow. Of course, that means that the universe must have been in a highly ordered state (or “low entropy” state) after the big bang - and cosmologists want to know why.

Because once we know that, we’ll know why the **Arrow of Time** stretches in one direction: from the past all the way to the future.
African Wildcat

## Ability

### Ability

**Neolithic Pet****(Play)** Your Stone Tools and The Wheel cards, wherever they are, gain +38 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Don’t gossip about an **African Wildcat** if there’s one nearby: their hearing is so fine that they can locate prey to a tee. By night, the African wildcat searches for its next meal, patiently crawling through the grasslands in pursuit of mice, rats, birds, reptiles and insects. Just like domestic cats, African wildcats raise their hair when confronted with a danger to make themselves seem larger.

That makes sense since these felines are the closest living relatives of our pet cats – in fact, the first African wildcats were domesticated about 10,000 years ago by Ancient Egyptians, who tamed the Near-Eastern African wildcat to protect their granaries by reducing rat populations. Hybrids between domestic cats and African wildcats are still common today!