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Blue Marlin

## Did You Know?

One of the biggest fish in the world, the Blue Marlin sports an awesome cobalt blue top and silvery underbelly. It's considered to be a holy grail for sport fishers, as it puts up a fight when hooked - you would too, if someone put a big sharp hook through your cheek.

"Pull the other one, CUE," I hear you saying, "That's a swordfish on the front of this card!" Yeah, they do look very similar, but the difference is that Marlins are sleeker and thinner, so as to cut through the water faster.

Literature buffs - and people who like their books short - may recognise the Blue Marlin from Hemingway's Pulitzer Prize-winning 'The Old Man and the Sea'.
Bots

Bots appear at all levels of the game, in both casual and league. You battle against them in the league practice mode or any time you try and find a human match and no players respond. The bots use decks taken from players at a similar level as the player, but may play them badly at lower levels. Many of the bot names are taken from slightly geeky pop culture characters and phrases.

## A to C

* ANNIEUNIVERSE
* ANSWER42 - Reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
* ARISTARCHUS
* ASTRO-ORBITER
* AUBADE
* AUDOIN2020
* AZIRAPHALE
* BADGERBADGERBADGER
* BALD-EAGLE
* BARBARELLA
* BATTLE-HACKERS
* BILBO-BAGGINS - Character in Lord of the Rings (JRR Tolkein)
* BLAZINGHAMSTER77
* BTLJUICE - Reference to Betelgeuse, home of key characters in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
* BOBBAFETT - Character in Star Wars (George Lucas)
* BOMBARDIER
* BUBBA\_SHRIMP
* BUCK-ROGERS - Title character in space opera comic strip started in 1929 (Philip Francis Nowlan) and later expanded to other media
* CAESARS\_GHOST - Exclamation made by Perry White in Superman (Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster) comics
* CAMERASCAPE
* CARLH1971
* CCGBRIGADE
* CHARLIEUNIFORMECHO - NATO alphabet for CUE
* CHILLIBURNS
* CHRONOTASTIC
* CLYDE\_74

## D to G

* DARRYLW1991
* DARTHVADER
* DASHINGDAVE
* DATA - Character in Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry) The Next Generation
* DEACON2003
* DEXTERS-LAB
* DJETTA19
* DOGSTAR\_SIRIUS
* DRSCIENCE
* ELVISLIVES99
* FIDDLEREE
* FRANKIE
* FRESHFROG
* GOTNOSOCKS
* GNOST1C
* GRAVITY\_FALLS

## H to L

* HALE-BOP
* HEAVENBUE
* HUBBA-HUBBLE
* HUGOLESTON
* HWITHERS
* I-AM-TITANIUM
* ISAACASIMOV
* ISMAELC1974
* ISSWATCHER
* JIMBO9
* JUDYJETSON
* KANGAROOSANDSTORM
* KINGCOBRA
* LAUGHING-DOVE
* LAZARUS
* LENNYLEMUR
* LIONHEART
* LYSITHEAMOON

## M to O

* MACBOY
* MAMMAMIMMA
* MARIA-THE-ROBOT
* MARIE-CURIE
* MARTINMARTIAN
* MATHS-MEDDLER
* MINTTULIP
* MOUSE232
* MR-TOM\_MORROW
* MRS-CAKE
* MORT
* MOSTLY\_HARMLESS - Reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
* MYCHROMIO
* NEONCLAWS
* NEILZZ
* NO-SCROPE
* OBI-WAN
* ONESHOT23
* OUTTA-ORBIT
* OVERDRESSED-SWIFT

## P to S

* PERCY-PARROT
* PHILLIP83
* PHONEY90
* PRESBARTLETT - Character in West Wing (Aaron Sorkin) TV series
* PROMETHEUS
* QUATERMASS
* R2D2
* RICK-MORTY
* RIP-RIP-FIZZ
* SANTIAGO\_99
* SILVERRIVER
* SCOOBY-JO
* SKYWALKER
* SLAYER-BUFFY
* SOULMUSIC
* SPOOKYG
* STARLETTE3
* STEVEMACK
* SWEEETPOTATO
* SWIFT-TUTTLE

## T to Z

* TERMITEFACTORY
* TICKO-MAN
* TRILLIAN
* WALKTHISWAY
* WALLOWMIR
* WAROFTHEWORLDS
* WINNERD
* YEETDREET
* YOGFYO
* ZAPHODB
Cave Bear

## Ability

### Ability

**Hiding Out****(Draw)** If your deck has 3 or more Natural Monuments cards, your Mammals and Ice Age cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you thought grizzly bears were scary, just be thankful you weren’t roaming the earth 24,000 years ago. See, during the Pleistocene era, there was a beast of a bear that made the grizzly look like a cuddly teddy. Weighing an average of 600 kilograms and standing 3.5 metres tall, the **Cave Bear** was one of the most common megafauna mammals of this Pleistocene Europe.

But despite its sheer size, the Cave Bear didn’t hunt or stalk large animals or humans. Quite the contrary. Genetic research actually shows that humans may have hunted cave bears to extinction. At the start of the 20th century, palaeontologists found stacks of Cave Bear skulls in a Swiss cave, while caves in Italy and France showed hints of early Cave Bear worship.
Bombay Cat

## Ability

### Ability

**Familiar Friends****(Draw)** If you have played Snowy Owl this game, this card gains +13 Power this turn. Repeat for Cane Toad. **(Play)** Your Snowy Owl and Cane Toad cards in hand gain +13 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Named after the city where this exotic feline is found, the **Bombay Cat** was bred in the 1950s with the goal of creating a domestic cat that resembled the black leopard.

Clearly, they succeeded: while the Bombay is a medium-sized domestic breed, it’s also stocky and very muscular compared to most.

Its all-black coat makes the cat a Halloween icon, but there’s more to this breed than meets the eye. Behind its intelligent, independent exterior is a big softy who wants nothing more than to be with its owner, 24/7. In fact, once bonded to their owner, the Bombay will follow them from room to room, just to be close. This clingy behaviour has earned the breed a suitable nickname of “the Velcro cat”.
Catatumbo Lightning

## Ability

### Ability

**Maracaibo's Fury****(Play)** An opponent's random card in hand loses -15 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

They say that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Lies, it definitely does - at the mouth of the Catatumbo River in Venezuela, where it empties into Lake Maracaibo, you'll find the delightfully-named 'everlasting storm' - aka, **Catatumbo Lightning**.

On average, this region has 260 storm days every year. We're not talking a short strike here and there - we're talking sustained, nine-hour long periods of Thor's wrath on every single one of those days. It's so much lightning that it's recognised by Guinness World Records as having the highest concentration of lightning in the world, with 250 flashes per square kilometre every year.

So what causes it? No one quite knows. It was thought in the 1960s that underground uranium deposits were attracting the lightning, but it's more likely to be the way the air moves in the area - the mouth of the river happens to be a place where cold and warm air currents collide.

The lightning tends to be less frequent during the dry months of January and February, and at it's most potent in October, although there was a period of four months in 2010 where the storms completely ceased.

Rather than giving the locals a bit of peace and quiet for a bit, the indigenous population was sad to see it gone. The storms hold symbolic meaning for them - it's mentioned in the state of Zulia's anthem, and legend has it that it exposed Sir Francis Drake's ships to the Spanish navy during a sneak attack on the city of Maracaibo in 1595.
Battle of Camlann

## Ability

### Ability

**Hurt to the Death****(Play)** For each Knight of the Round Table in your deck, your opponent loses -6 Power/Turn for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

The **Battle of Camlann** was the Endgame for Arthur. There may not have been an infinity gauntlet or a teaming up of superheroes, but the sorcerer Merlin did defeat his nemesis Morgana using Excalibur, which is pretty close. It was the battle that resulted in Arthur getting mortally wounded by his nephew Mordred, who also perished.

Although the two held standoff negotiations on the battlefield, neither side trusted the other and ordered their men to attack if they saw a single sword drawn. All could have been calm had a pesky adder hiding in the grass not bitten one of Mordred’s knights at the worst possible time. The knight reacted by drawing his sword, and so the bloody battle of Camlann ensued.
Buzz Aldrin

## Ability

### Ability

**Magnificent Desolation****(Play)** Your The Moon card in hand gains +50 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Fictional NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby once said "If you ain't first, you're last" in reference to not being first at something. We'd argue that when that something is "being on the Moon", that shouldn't apply (not least because it's a dumb thing to say in reference to anything).

**Buzz Aldrin** was indeed the second man to walk on the Moon. He, Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins were aboard the Apollo 11 mission that launched on July 16th 1969. He did have two liquid-related firsts up there though.

He was the first man to receive communion in space. A devout Presbyterian, **Aldrin** used a communion kit given to him by his pastor to serve himself wine and sacramental bread - he would later say that he "could think of no better way to acknowledge the enormity of the Apollo 11 experience than by giving thanks to God."

He is also the first man to urinate on the Moon. If you MUST know; he peed into a bag inside his space suit which was discarded later.

'Apollo 11' by GPA Photo Archive (Source: Flickr) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Birds Aren't Real

## Ability

### Ability

**Government Drones****(Draw)** If your deck has 4 or more Science cards, your Birds and Espionage cards, wherever they are, gain +24 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Wake up sheeple! **Birds Aren’t Real!!!** Why do you think we were kept locked down in 2020? So “they” could change the batteries in the birds, duh.

It all started in the 1970s, when the illuminati replaced birds with surveillance drones to watch us. Just ask the brains behind this theory, Peter McIndoe. He first alerted people to the truth about birds after witnessing events during Trump's presidency, including a clash between a women's march and pro-Trump counter-protestors.

McIndoe ripped a poster off a wall and wrote three words: Birds Aren’t Real. What, you think it’s some kind of a joke? An experiment in disinformation to poke fun at conspiracy theories? Wow, sounds like you’ve had one too many drinks of Kool-Aid.
Brocéliande

## Ability

### Ability

**Forest Dwelling****(Draw)** If your deck has 2 or more Tremendous Trees cards, your Arthurian Legends cards in hand gain +8 Power until played. **(Draw)** If your deck has 2 or more Plant Life cards, your Arthurian Legends cards in hand gain +8 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Whether you’re seeking guidance from the spirit of Merlin or a picturesque spot to have a picnic, **Brocéliande** Forest is the place for you. Featured in several mediaeval texts related to the Arthurian legend, Brocéliande Forest is a temperate forest located around the village of Paimpont in Brittany, France.

Probably the closest thing to an enchanted forest, these woodlands are home to the Valley of No Return, where any knights unfaithful in love are imprisoned. According to the legend, Viviane (AKA Lady of the Lake) laid a trap for the sorcerer Merlin under a rock in this forest. Once under, Viviane magically sealed him in. Although a Neolithic dolmen structure was built at the site in his honour, it was sadly blown up with dynamite by pesky treasure hunters.
Buffing Collections: History

An important element of deck building is to include cards that buff other cards in your deck, either decreasing their energy cost or increasing their power. The strongest buffs apply to all the eligible cards wherever they are in your deck. If there are several cards buffing the same collection (or album) then the cards in that collection can be very powerful.

This table does not include cards that just buff for a turn where the buff card is played or drawn. Instead, they must apply either to all the cards in the deck (wherever they are) or at least to the five cards in hand for multiple turns or until they are played. See the separate page of album buff cards and buffs for collections in other albums.
Black Rat

## Ability

### Ability

**Rattus Rattus****(Play)** If you have played Brown Rat this game, this card gains +25 Power.

## Did You Know?

Possibly one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in history, the **Black Rat** has finally been exonerated. Once thought to be the culprit who brought the plague to Europe with everyone assuming the fleas that brought the disease hitched a ride on the black rat, researchers have now proven that the fleas were actually carried by gerbils. The scoundrels. (Humans were also partly to blame but the point is, the rats were cool.) Thankfully now the Black Rat’s name has been cleared, we can actually tell you some other cool stuff about them!

The Black Rat, or if we call it by its cute Latin name - Rattus Rattus - first came to Europe from Asia during Roman times. However, it’s now thought to be almost extinct in the UK, with only the occasional sighting since the 1980s. It’s thought that the fact that the Black Rat tends to nest in people’s homes or warehouses (as opposed to the brown rat who is pretty chill about staying outside) has led to its widespread extermination in the UK.

In areas where they do thrive, Black Rats prefer ports and coastal towns and have been nicknamed the Ship Rat because that’s how they managed to travel around so much - jump on ships that humans decided to go out and discover the world on.
Cat's Eye Nebula

## Ability

### Ability

**Feline Emission****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Cute Cats cards, your Nebulae cards, wherever they are, gain +17 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

So-named for its green hue when seen through backyard telescopes, ​​the **Cat’s Eye Nebula** is one of the most well-studied nebulae, yet one of the most perplexing. Oddly, this nebula hovers at the North Ecliptic Pole, the spot exactly 90° from the plane of our solar system. It gets weirder, though.

Outside of the Cat’s Eye is a series of faint spiralling rings with near-perfect symmetry. After decades of head-scratching on the subject, astronomers have finally discovered the reason: a double-barreled burst of energy known as a precessing jet. When the nebula’s central star died around 1,000 years ago, it released twin-bursts of gas in opposite directions at the same time. With that mystery solved, we can go back to focusing on why cats push objects off surfaces!
Catherine Howard

## Ability

### Ability

**Rise from Obscurity****(Return)** Your Wives of Henry VIII cards, wherever they are, gain +5 Power until played. **(Play)** If you are losing the round, your cards in hand gain +12 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

History has a way of repeating itself. Perhaps **Catherine Howard** should have heard the alarm bells when looking at Henry VIII’s track record in the marriage department. The daughter of Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper and cousin to Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard was just 17 when she married Henry VIII, just 19 days after his marriage with his 4th wife was annulled.

Things took a turn for the worst when her alleged secret affair with her distant cousin and Henry’s favourite male courtier, Thomas Culpeper, came to light. How did Henry react? Well, for a start, he had Culpeper and another of her exes impaled. Tragically, Catherine was arrested on the grounds of adultery and was beheaded like her cousin before her.
Braille

## Ability

### Ability

**Tactile Revolution****(Play)** Your Louis Braille card in hand gains +43 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

A revolutionary system of written communication for the visually impaired, the **Braille** alphabet, numerical system, punctuation and set of special characters are constructed from six dots. The braille dots are positioned in a grid of two parallel vertical lines of three dots each. From the six dots that make up the grid, a total of 64 combinations can be created.

Although it’s a skill to learn, Braille is not a language – it’s an alphabet, and there are braille versions of many languages including Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. Since the system consists of 64 characters, braille versions of books are much longer – for example, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is 10 volumes in braille!
Bielefeld Conspiracy

## Ability

### Ability

**Web of Lies****(Draw)** If your deck contains The Internet, your Weird World cards in hand gain +11 Power until played and if your deck contains Internet Protocol, your Weird World cards in hand gain +11 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Do you know anybody from Bielefeld? Have you been to Bielefeld yourself? Do you know anybody who has been to Bielefeld? If you answered no to all three, what evidence do you have to prove that this city is real?

That’s the basis of the satirical conspiracy theory known as the **Bielefeld Conspiracy** - a theory that states the German city is a hoax invented by the CIA. It started as a joke on an internet forum. But it quickly snowballed, gathering momentum and hilarious speculations on its way: is Bielefeld hiding an alien spaceship? Is the city home to a very-much-alive Elvis Presley? Did the CIA use Bielefeld to prevent JFK from revealing the truth about the moon landings? Unless you’ve been to Bielefeld, can you really be sure?!
Bell-Bottoms

## Ability

### Ability

**Style At The Time****(Draw)** For every round completed, give this card -5 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

It took over a hundred years, but **Bell-Bottoms** finally found their way from the legs of sea-farers to mainstream fashion. Originally, the flared ends were a functional design, worn by those who worked on boats as it was easier to snag a man in bell bottoms who had fallen overboard.

However, by the 1960s, they had become a symbol of the counterculture as hippies turned away from fashion outlets and started buying their clothes from charity shops and army surplus stores. Here, they found the Navy’s old denim bell bottoms, and what better way to stick it to the man than subverting what was a military clothing item and turning it into a symbol of peace? In a society saturated with straight-leg trousers, flares were a way of life, maaaan.
Blood Moon

## Ability

### Ability

**Totally Eclipse****(Draw)** If you are leading by 150 Power or more, this card costs -6 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

For many ancient civilisations, the sight of a **Blood Moon** was startling: the Incas interpreted it as a jaguar attacking the moon, while in ancient Mesopotamia, a lunar eclipse was thought to be a direct assault on the king.

In Hindu folklore, the lunar eclipse came as a result of a demon drinking the elixir of immortality. In reality, the Blood Moon isn’t dark magic - it’s a trick of the light caused by a total lunar eclipse. While the sunlight passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, the light gets filtered, scattered, refracted and directed towards the moon.

From earth, that makes our pale moon appear brick red in colour. In fact, it’s this same process of light scattering that causes sunrises and sunsets to have that warm red glow.
Celebes Crested Macaque

## Ability

### Ability

**Copyright Dispute****(Play)** If you are losing the round, your Life on Land cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Celebes Crested Macaque** is native to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. They have striking red eyes set into a face that's entirely jet black, which means they take very striking photographs - OF THEMSELVES!

In 2011, British photographer David Slater was documenting the Macaques on Sulawesi but found it difficult to get decent close-ups. He discovered that they were interested in his camera, so he set it up on a tripod with a remote shutter trigger for them to take pictures with.

He estimates that they took hundreds of photos of themselves looking into the lens; he picked the best ones and the story was picked up by the press, who embellished the story (YOU DON'T SAY) claiming that the monkeys had stolen the camera and taken a bunch of selfies.

The images were uploaded to Wikipedia, which doesn't use any content that isn't under a free license or in the public domain, asserting that they couldn't be copyrighted because they were taken by non-human animals.

This would lead to *Naruto et al v. David Slater*, a case in which PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) argued that a macaque named Naruto should be assigned the copyright as it was the one that pushed the shutter button. The case was thrown out in 2018 because Naruto himself wasn't party to the settlement, so PETA couldn't represent him.
Caloris Planitia

## Ability

### Ability

**Calor Basking****(Draw)** If your deck contains The Sun, your Space cards in hand gain +20 Power this turn. **(Start)** Your The Sun card in hand gains +25 Power for 3 turns.

## Did You Know?

Mercury is covered in craters, but none is as impressive as **Caloris Planitia** – a huge basin that stretches around 1,525 kilometres wide which is ringed by mile-high mountains. This is, without a doubt, one of the largest impact basins in the solar system.

First discovered by the Mariner 10 probe in 1974, the Caloris Basin is situated on the terminator. No, not the Arnie variety, but the line that divides the daytime and nighttime hemispheres on the planet. Hence the name - Calor is Latin for “heat”, reflecting the position of the sun directly overhead every second time Mercury passes perihelion (those are the points at which a plant is either closest to or furthest away from its star during its orbit).

It was only in 2008 that the MESSENGER robotic space probe captured a photo of the impact crater in its entirety. Based on MESSENGER’s pictures, it’s thought that the impacting body that caused Caloris Planitia would have hit the planet between 3.8 and 3.9 billion years ago.
Cavall

## Ability

### Ability

**Pack Leader****(Draw)** Your Dogs cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy permanently.

## Did You Know?

Every man deserves a best friend, including King Arthur. And while Lancelot was busy betraying him with Guinevere, at least his trusty dog **Cavall** was by his side.

Cavall was a hunting dog (Arthurian scholars speculate that he was a Mollosus, a war dog from Southern Europe) who was instrumental in bringing down Twrch Trwyth - the enchanted (and on first glance, unpronounceable) wild boar.

In doing so, legend has it, Cavall left his footprint in a stone which Arthur saved and displayed outside Camelot. Even though it was later stolen – repeatedly – it always returned to its original place. Because man’s best friend, doesn’t leave his side.
Caterpillar Tracks

## Ability

### Ability

**Tread Softly****(Play)** If you are losing the round, this card gains +7 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

There have been a number of patents filed for continuous tracked vehicles since the 1830’s and the inventor is still disputed. The term **Caterpillar** came up during the Hornsby (another patent holder) crawler trials by the British Military in Aldershot, England. Soldiers there dubbed the 70bhp No.2 machine as the “caterpillar’. This caught on and future crawler tractors had “caterpillar” incorporated into their name and then Holt, the owner of the company who purchased the patent from Hornsby, formed the Holt Caterpillar Company in 1910.

WW1 spurred the British to develop tanks inspired by the use of Holt tractors to tow their heavy artillery. The first prototype to include caterpillar tracks was called the Little Willie. After improving and ironing out technical issues with the prototype, in 1916 the Mark I was born and first in action at the Battle of the Somme. Due to the inexperience with tanks and poor terrain destroyed by years of shelling, the performance was disappointing. However after two more years of technical improvements, increased numbers and with help from tanks developed by the French, the trench war stalemate was finally broken.
Cards, the Universe and Everything Wiki

**Welcome to the Cards, the Universe and Everything Wiki!**

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In case you just randomly stumbled upon us, **Cards, the Universe and Everything (CUE)** is a mobile card-collecting and battling game that features a bit of everything from across our universe! The game is downloadable on both Android and iOS devices.

Our goal at the **CUE Wiki** is to create pages for each card in the game (over 4000!), share information needed to effectively play the game such as card interactions and deck lists, and create guides on other aspects of CUE. In the longer term, we are also hoping to support discussion about strategy. There are many ways to enjoy CUE, from deckbuilding to collecting. This Fandom should be a useful resource for all types of players but we will focus on deckbuilding and strategy since that is the most difficult to work out yourself.

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Candy Crab

## Did You Know?

Also known as the **Candy Crab**, the Hoplophrys oatesii looks like it rolled out of Willy Wonka’s factory. In fact, this species of crab calls the soft coral reefs of the Indo-Pacific region home and is an expert in camouflage techniques. To blend in, the crab changes the colour of its thorn-like extensions on its legs and body to match with the colour of the coral, which could be purple, pink, yellow, red or white.
Belle Star

## Ability

### Ability

**Outlaw Queen****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +12 Power/Turn this round and if you lost the turn, this card gains +12 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The unsolved mystery of **Belle Starr**’s murder continues to perplex historians. Some say it was her son; some believe it was her new husband; there’s a theory about a gunman whom Belle Starr turned down at a dance getting his own back.

What we do know is this: Belle Starr, born Myra Maybelle Shirley, was a strong woman able to withstand hardship and function independently as an American outlaw of Texas and the Oklahoma Indian Territory. She ruled gangs with her guns, was convicted of horse theft and, following her mysterious death, gained national notoriety.

Known as the Bandit Queen and the Female Jesse James, Belle Starr was shot in the back while on horseback in 1889, and her killer was never identified.
Boeing 747

## Ability

### Ability

**Flight Path****(Play)** Your Awesome Aviation cards in hand gain +10 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The global demand for air travel grew so big in the 1960s that the American manufacturer Boeing developed the 747 to handle many more passengers than existing models. The very first 747 model, the 747-400, could hold a maximum of 660 passengers (although it was more commonly used in configurations that allowed them to have separate class sections) - such capacity helped make commercial flight more accessible for normal people, where previously it had been the glamourous preserve of the moneyed

(note to self - start a band called Glamourous Preserve of the Moneyed)

The plane was easily recognisable by its long fuselage and distinctive bump on the top which housed the first-class section, an iconic design that is influential to this day. Unfortunately, the rising costs of running and replacing 747's means their use is in steep decline, but it will always be the plane that kicked off the age of accessible flight.
Bloodstone

## Did You Know?

**Bloodstone** is instantly recognisable by the blood-red speckles inside its green exterior. You may also know it as a *"Heliotrope"* but "Bloodstone" is waaaaayyyyyy cooler.

How does it get those red speckles? They're hematite (an iron compound) that was caught up in the formation of jasper (a bit like how your kids get bits of dirt and crumbs in their play-doh when they drop it on the floor, am I right, parents? Kids - don't do this.)

Those red inclusions resemble spots of blood, and throughout the ages, the stone has been associated with healing and longevity. Roman soldiers would carry it into battle because they believed it would slow bleeding and yes; it does contain some iron which would strengthen the blood over time, though that's not particularly useful if you're gushing blood from a severed arm in the middle of a battlefield.
Buffing Albums

An important element of deck building is to include cards that buff other cards in your deck, either decreasing their energy cost or increasing their power. The strongest buffs apply to all the eligible cards wherever they are in your deck. If there are several cards buffing the same collection (or album) then the cards in that collection can be very powerful. The tables do not include cards that just buff for a turn where the buff card is played or drawn. Instead, they must apply either to all the cards in the deck (wherever they are) or at least to the five cards in hand for multiple turns or until they are played.

Some cards do not buff a specific album but instead buff the album of the adjacent card(s) or other chosen albums and can therefore be used as generic buffs in game. These are listed first. The buffs for specific albums are below. See also pages for cards that buff collections.

## Arts and Culture

See also the cards that buff collections in the Arts and Culture album.

## History

See also the cards that buff collections in the History album.

## Life on Land

See also the cards that buff collections in the Life on Land album.

## Oceans

See also the cards that buff collections in the Oceans (and Seas) album.

## Paleontology

See also the cards that buff collections in the Paleontology album.

## Science

See also the cards that buff collections in the Science album.

## Space

See also the cards that buff collections in the Space album.
Brazilian Cottontail

## Ability

### Ability

**Solitary Creature****(Play)** When played by itself, this card gains +30 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

Bounding in the forests of Brazil lives a distant cousin of the domestic bunny. Known as the common tapeti, the **Brazilian cottontail** or simply the forest cottontail, this species of rabbit is medium in size but maximum in cuteness.

Like all rabbits, the tapeti is quadrupedal and moves by hopping or walking. They can also swim if necessary, but it’s unlikely you’ll catch them doing lengths in their leisure. When chased by predators, these rabbits will move in an erratic, zig-zag fashion to confuse larger animals.

They can also reach speeds of up to 45 mph, which - for context - is almost twice as fast as Usain Bolt. The burrows they dig serve only as a nest for their young, which they guard by sitting over the entrance.
Burrowing Owl

## Did You Know?

This little renegade decided (evolutionarily speaking) to set about redefining what being owly was all about, with an array of unique traits.

Let's start with the obvious one. These things live in burrows; sometimes they dig them but, a bit like a hermit crab, they often occupy the former homes of other animals like prairie dogs and badgers.

They hunt in the day, and when I say hunt, it's not way up in the sky using typical owl-like skills; they hop, walk or jog in search of their meals which are often insects, lizards and small mammals. They are also known to 'seed' the area around their burrows with poop thus attracting the particularly delicious dung-beetles straight to the dinner table.
Blue Clipper

## Ability

### Ability

**Feeling Blue?****(Draw)** Your non-Oceans and Seas cards with "Blue" in their name, wherever they are, gain +13 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Like all Clippers, the **Blue Clipper** butterfly hates the Lakers.

When they aren’t watching basketball, though, this species flies around quickly in a stiff-winged fashion. You’ll find the Blue Clipper, a species of nymphalid butterfly, in south and southeast Asia. It spends its time feeding on nectar in forested areas, usually in the vicinity of rivers. If you disturb them, the blue clipper will fly up immediately, circle around at a height of around 3 metres and resettle nearby.

Tiger-like striping on their brilliant lilac-blue wings is what distinguishes the blue clipper, or Parthenos sylvia, in appearance from others – although, with a wingspan ranging between 8.5-9.0 cm, this species is bigger than the average butterfly.
British Rail Class 40

## Ability

### Ability

**TOPS and Robbers****(Play)** Gain +30 Power/Turn this turn and a random card in your hand loses -30 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

On August 8th, 1963, the **British Rail Class 40** became famous for all the wrong reasons. Once the pride of British Rail's early diesel fleet, the diesel electric locomotive made headlines when a gang of 15 attacked the Royal Mail train on its way to London and escaped with £2.6 million.

Oddly, it wasn’t the only drama to befall the engine. Great Train Robbery aside, the D326 had been called a “jinxed loco” by some railwaymen - and they turned out to be right. Just one year later, a secondman was electrocuted when washing the D326’s windows, and in August 1965, it suffered a total brake failure with a maintenance train at Birmingham New Street and hit the rear end of a freight train.

'40104 - Ayr' by Jim (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Bird of Paradise

## Ability

### Ability

**Bird of Paradise Lost****(Play)** If it's before Round 4, this card gains +80 Power.

## Did You Know?

If any plant can be said to have charisma, it’s the **Bird of Paradise**. So-named for the orange crane-like flowers that they produce, these regal plants can reach a height of up to 10 metres. Although they are native to the subtropical provinces of South Africa, they also thrive in the warm climate of Hawaii where their name means “Little Globe” and represents magnificence.

If you’re looking for an anniversary gift for your significant other but want to save your cash for the big 10-year mark, the bird of paradise is actually the official flower for a ninth wedding anniversary. Your spouse will either think you’re a sophisticated botanist or they’ll suspect that you got a gift idea from CUE. And so what if you did?!
Candy Corn

## Ability

### Ability

**Trick or Treat?****(Return)** If you won the turn, gain +10 Power/Turn for 3 turns but if you lost the turn, lose -5 Power/Turn for 3 turns. **(Return)** your Horrible Halloween cards, wherever they are, gain +9 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A staple in American Halloween tradition, **Candy Corn** is a small pyramid-shaped piece of candy that tastes like honey, sugar and vanilla.

The iconic stripes on the candy are created by pouring the food colouring on in three phases: first the white, followed by the yellow and finally the orange. Each piece of candy is then glazed to give it its characteristic shine. Although far from being a healthy snack, each piece of candy corn is only seven calories!

While these sweet treats are typically eaten as part of a trick-or-treating stash, candy corn actually has its own holiday in the U.S. October 30th is the day for making your own candy corn by hand, just like confectioners did before it was mass-produced.
Beefalo

## Ability

### Ability

**Got Beef?****(Play)** Your opponent's Life on Land cards in hand lose -30 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

You’ve heard of cows, buffalo and bison, but have you ever seen a **Beefalo**? Probably not, but if you did, you wouldn’t want to start a fight with one. This hybrid creature didn’t skip leg, chest, arm or back day.

The result of crossbreeding between a female bison and a bull, the beefalo was created by a farmer in the 1970s as a way to help the beef industry bounce back from breeding problems with cows. In a way, it worked: not only does the beefalo provide farmers with an ample supply of meat, but the animal is also safe from cattle-related diseases and joint problems that cows face.

While the beefalo isn’t as popular for farmers compared to traditional cattle, there are still a handful of beefalo farms around today.
Cannon

## Ability

### Ability

**Light the Fuse****(Draw)** Your cards in hand cost -1 Energy until played. **(Play)** Your Napoleon Bonaparte card in hand gains +36 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The invention of the **Cannon** was a turning point in military history. It was also a turning point for circus performers, but that’s a story for another time.

Although castles were not immediately made obsolete by the cannon, they did decline in popularity. Machiavelli famously said, “there is no wall, whatever its thickness, that artillery will not destroy in only a few days.” Suffice to say cannons were a big blow to castle-owners at the time.
Bryce Canyon

## Ability

### Ability

**Cut Deep****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand with 70 or more Base Power lose -50 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

To be pedantic, **Bryce Canyon** is not a canyon, since it was not formed from erosion initiated from a central stream. The national park is named after Ebenezer Bryce, who constructed a logging road in the Bryce Amphitheater. Ebenezer Bryce reportedly described his canyon as a “hell of a place to lose a cow” – so do think twice before bringing your cow on your trip to the canyon (not a canyon.)
Carnations

## Ability

### Ability

**Stress Reducer****(Play)** If you are trailing by 50 Power or less, this card gains +50 Power.

## Did You Know?

The **Carnation** is steeped in symbolism with a history lasting across millennia, so it is no surprise that its Latin name, Dianthus, takes from “Dios”(Divine) and “Anthos”(flower). The name carnation is thought to have come from the Latin name for wreath, as it was a popular flower for Greek and Roman ceremonial crowns.

The carnation can symbolise devotion, hence its common appearance in engagement scenes from fifteenth century Renaissance paintings. Oxford university students wear carnation boutonnières to their examinations and of course they’re a hugely popular gift for Mothering Sunday!
Bauhaus

## Ability

### Ability

**Form Follows Function****(Draw)** Your Science cards in hand gain +10 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +10 Power next turn.

## Did You Know?

A legendary school of art, architecture and design, **Bauhaus** (literally “school of building”) inspired a movement. Although it only lasted for 14 years (the Nazis shut the school down for its “degenerate art”), Bauhaus’ influence reverberates in every corner of modern-day design – just take a look at basically everything in IKEA. What looks like a weird-shaped chair is a descendent of the Bauhaus movement that married art with functionality.

'Poster for the Bauhausaustellung' by Joost Schmidt (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under Public Domain (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Catherine Parr

## Ability

### Ability

**Parr for the Course****(Return)** Your other Wives of Henry VIII cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power and cost -1 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

A keen patron of the arts, **Catherine Parr** was the first English queen to write and publish her own books. She was also the last of Henry VIII’s six wives and acted as a loving stepmother to his three children. She remained loyal to Henry throughout their five years of marriage until his death in 1547.

Known as “the wife who survived”, Catherine was also one of only eight women who had books published in the sixty-odd years of the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. When Henry died, Catherine married her former suitor Thomas Seymour just several months later – too soon after the king’s death in the minds of many. Just a year later, Catherine passed away after giving birth to their daughter.
Bendy Straw

## Ability

### Ability

**Slurp****(Return)** Your opponent's remaining cards in hand lose -18 Power next turn.

## Did You Know?

In 1937, the inventor Joseph Friedman set out to solve a small but persistent problem. When sat up at a tall counter at the Varsity Sweet Shop in San Francisco, he noticed his daughter Judith was unable to drink her milkshake out of the too-tall straw. This gave Joseph an idea: he couldn't make his daughter taller or the counter smaller, but perhaps he could alter the shape of the straw to adapt to the situation.

Joseph Friedman set about crafting his prototype, inserting a screw into the paper straw and wrapping dental floss around the paper, tracing grooves made from the screw. When he removed the screw, there was an accordion-style ridge in the straw that could bend without stopping liquid from passing through. Behold: the **Bendy Straw**.
Blanket Octopus

## Ability

### Ability

**Sleep Mode****(Start)** Your cards with "Octopus" in the name in hand gain +7 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you’re a sea creature looking for a long-term relationship, it’s best to steer clear of the **Blanket Octopus**. Unlike all other octopuses, the four species in the genus Tremoctopus never settle down. That is to say, they don’t ever make a home on the seafloor. Instead, they spend their lives wandering the open ocean, and the jury is still out as to why.

What we do know about these invertebrates is pretty amazing. For a start, the blanket octopus can unfurl its superhero cape-like appendages when threatened to around 2m long. If this doesn’t scare off a potential predator, the octopus can ditch the blanket at a moment’s notice and make a mad dash for safety, leaving a predator hungry, sad and confused.
Brísingamen

## Ability

### Ability

**Brising Star****(Draw)** Your Freya card, wherever it is, gains +40 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

What would you do to get your hands on the most beautiful necklace in the cosmos? When the goddess Freyja first laid her eyes upon **Brisingamen**, a dazzling golden necklace, she just knew she had to have it. Because this was no ordinary bling.

Like all treasures of Norse mythology, Brisingamen was hand-made by the dwarves, who were the master craftsmen of the Norse cosmos. According to the events told in a short story called Sörla þáttr, the four dwarves who made the necklace refused any form of payment other than the opportunity to lie with Freyja for one night.

She agreed, but naturally, Freyja planned to keep the exchange a secret. That all went out the window when Loki found out and immediately told Odin.
Card Overview

The core of CUE is the cards - over 4000, with more released every day. Each card has a name, identifying code, description, album, collection, rarity (and type), energy cost, and power value. Most cards, though not all, have a special ability that can affect the course of the game when they are drawn into one's hand or played.

## Albums

Cards are organised into seven albums, each of which contains multiple collections.

Arts & Culture Collections

History Collections

Life on Land Collections

Oceans & Seas Collections

Palaeontology Collections

Science Collections

Space Collections
Bismarck

## Ability

### Ability

**Leave a Marck****(Return)** Your opponent loses -20 Power/Turn and loses -2:energy/turn: next turn.

## Did You Know?

Described by historians as an ocean-bound castle, the **Bismarck** was the first full-scale battleship constructed by the German navy since World War I. Named after the Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck, it was the biggest battleship the Germans had ever built, with a 30+ knot speed, 15-inch guns and almost 2,200 men on board.

The Bismarck’s fatal flaw was a failure by design: sure, she had big guns that could fire over 36,000 metres, but the belt armour was thin and both the upper and main armoured decks weren’t strong enough either. Defensively, she was pretty weak. After about 100 minutes of fighting, the British navy sank the Bismarck with torpedo hits and shellfire in the North Atlantic near France.

'Schlachtschiff Bismarck, Indienststellung' by Bundesarchiv, Bild 101II-MN-1361-16A / Winkelmann (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Bionic Contact Lens

## Ability

### Ability

**Eye Robot****(Return)** If you have played The Eye this game, gain +5 Power/Turn permanently.

## Did You Know?

20/20 vision is so last century. The future is all about the **Bionic Contact Lens**. All it takes is a painless, 8-minute procedure and your eyesight will be enhanced for life!

As well as correcting your visual impairment, your new lenses will let you take immersive video gaming to the next level! But that’s not all! These lenses use 1/100 the amount of energy that our natural lens does, making strained eyes a thing of the past!

Okay, realistically speaking, none of that is technically available at the moment. But development is underway, and engineers have tested finished lenses on rabbits and the animals showed no problems. Of course, rabbits don’t need their eyes to drive cars or fly planes, so it’s not really the same.
Brachiosaurus

## Ability

### Ability

**Wind Your Neck In****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -5 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Brachiosaurus is one of the longest, and tallest, known dinosaurs - aided by a long, giraffe-like neck. The name means 'arm lizard', reflecting the fact that its front limbs ('arms') are longer than its rear limbs - in contrast with most of its Sauropod predecessors.
Cassandra

## Ability

### Ability

**Unbelievable****(Draw)** Your Greek Mythology cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until this is returned to your deck. **(Play)** This card loses -100 Power.

## Did You Know?

Of all the curses you could have placed on you, uttering true prophecies but having no one believe you might just be the worst. Let’s say you knew a pandemic was coming, but everyone you told said it wasn’t real - now you know how **Cassandra** felt.

After a smitten Apollo gave Cassandra the gift of seeing the future as a way into her heart, she still rejected him. Enraged, Apollo added a torturous caveat to the gift he had bestowed upon Cassandra - that nobody would ever believe her.

After getting gaslighted on a mass scale, Cassandra foretold that Troy would fall - she even predicted the whole Trojan Horse method. Of course, no one listened, and the city fell to the Greeks. It was probably the single greatest Told You So moment in Cassandra’s life.
Biodiesel

## Ability

### Ability

**Diesel do the Trick****(Play)** Your Science cards in hand gain +16 Power until played and your Energy cards in hand gain +7 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

It can be produced by combining alcohol with straight vegetable oil, animal fats and waste cooking oil. **Biodiesel** is an alternative to ‘fossil’ diesel and is capable of powering engines while producing 60% less carbon dioxide emissions. Plus, since it’s sulphur-free and biodegradable, a biodiesel spill doesn’t result in pollution.

The idea behind biodiesel is to replace traditional fuels with those made from plant material, like corn and sugarcane, which is used to make ethanol. The first flight using blended biofuel took place in 2008 and since then, more than 150,000 flights have used biofuels. However, the amount of aviation biofuel produced in 2018 still accounted for less than 0.1 percent of total fuel consumption.
Black Arrow

## Ability

### Ability

**Carrier Rocket****(Return)** If your deck contains Prospero Satellite, your remaining Space Technology cards in hand gain +20 Power for 4 turns.

## Did You Know?

The 1960s and ‘70s saw many firsts in the world of space technology and exploration – from the first man in space to the first footsteps taken on the moon. Then, in 1971, the satellite carrier rocket **Black Arrow** achieved a first of its own: launching the first British designed and built space satellite into Earth’s orbit. Although it was built on the Isle of Wight, the Black Arrow was launched from Woomera in South Australia.

Black Arrow was the first and, so far, only successful British rocket to put a satellite into orbit. However, this was both “the beginning and the end” of the country’s activity in this area: even as the rocket climbed skyward, the government had already decided to cancel the programme for being too costly.

'A Black Arrow launch vehicle' by artg55 (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)