recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Mjölnir

## Did You Know?

**Mjölnir**, which literally means 'grinder', is the enchanted and powerful hammer wielded by none other than the Norse god, Thor. When we say it was powerful, we mean the kind of power that destroys mountains, so sit with that for a minute. What made it even better was its boomerang-like properties which meant it always returned to the hand of Thor.

Thor used Mjölnir to defend Asgard from the giants with its ability to actually channel lightning. The sound of thunder is attributed to the mighty hammer, as the sound of thunder was caused when Thor crashed his hammer down on his unfortunate foes.

To help him wield the mighty weapon successfully, Norse mythology claims that Thor also possessed a pretty snazzy belt, named Megingdjord, which doubled his already mighty and impressive strength. He also had a set of iron gloves called Jarngreipr. Basically, Thor had swag, and definitely knew it.

As well as being an all-powerful and mighty weapon, the Vikings considered Thor’s hammer to be a ritual tool for rights of passage and big events like weddings and birth. The hammer essentially integrated and bound these big social changes into the established order, dispelling the possible chaos that could be caused by the change.

So, next time you get a wedding invite in the post, be sure to pack your hammer.
Orthrus

## Ability

### Ability

**Look Both Ways****(Play)** If played in the middle slot, your cards adjacent to this gain +8 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Does a two-headed dog mean double the cuteness?! One look at **Orthrus**, a two-headed dog from Greek mythology, would suggest not.

They say the apple never falls far from the tree, but Orthrus’ parents couldn’t be more different from this beast. His mother, Echidna, was half-woman and half-snake and Orthrus’ father was Typhon, a grisly monster with a hundred dragons' heads. So, by comparison, Orthrus is a playful puppy.

Sadly, this dog never got its day. While on duty guarding the red cattle in the “sunset” land of Erytheia, Orthrus was killed by Heracles who swung at the dog with his club. Later, Heracles killed Eurytion and Geryon and took the red cattle as part of his twelve labours.
Mothman

## Ability

### Ability

**Man-Sized Bird... Creature... Something****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Birds cards, this card gains +80 Power.

## Did You Know?

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Inside, a humanoid creature with glowing red eyes and ten foot wide wings stands. This is no man. This is something else. Something two couples will encounter on an otherwise innocent drive outside the sleepy town of Point Pleasant in West Virginia.

On this cold November night, Roger and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette will come face to face with a being that will come to be known as the **Mothman**. Later, a conspiracy connecting the creature with the collapse of the Silver Bridge will inspire folk tales, films and an annual festival. For now, the couples’ fate has been sealed: what began as a short drive past Point Pleasant will end with a sharp turn… into the CUE Zone.
No. 14 Chair

## Ability

### Ability

**Ahh, Bistro****(Play)** Your Coffee card, wherever it is, gains +22 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Since 1859 – the year when the first **No. 14 Chair** was introduced - more than 80 million units have been sold all over the world. You’ll recognise this chair from terraces and bistros across Europe or countless 19th-century paintings that have captured café culture on the continent ever since.

Also known as the Chair of Chairs, the design was born from the creative brain of designer and businessman Michael Thonet in Vienna. Not only was the manufacturing process of the beechwood revolutionary, but the No. 14 Chair was the first chair to be mass-produced on a production line. Unlike all other chairs of the epoch, this one was manufactured as separate parts and simply screwed together – a technique that is used worldwide in modern furniture construction.
Neon Tetra

## Ability

### Ability

**Shimmer****(Play)** Three random Oceans and Seas cards in your hand gain +17 Power this turn (reveal before scoring).

## Did You Know?

Among the most popular aquarium fish is the small and resilient **Neon Tetra** that originates from the tropical freshwater rivers and streams in South America. Once upon a time, this colourful fish was like a sentient Bitcoin – everybody wanted to own the miracle fish, as importing it promised #gains, but only the first to obtain them would make a lot of money as breeding would then cause the price to fall.

To get a hold of a Neon Tetra, one would have had to take on a perilous journey to Peru and risk contracting deadly tropical diseases in the process. After the adventurer Auguste Rabaut discovered the fish by accident, he sold all 13 that he brought home for a sum of $6,500 to two Germans. That’s a very large sum for a very tiny fish.
Nuclear Power

## Did You Know?

Did you know that air travel is around 100 times safer than travelling by car (and don't even get us started on motorcycles…)? And yet people get nervous about planes because when they \*do\* crash, it's big news.

Well, it's a similar story for Nuclear Power. According to NASA, Nuclear Power has prevented hundreds - potentially thousands - of times the number of deaths than it has caused. But everyone gets worried about another Chernobyl.

So what is Nuclear Power, exactly? Well, it uses rare Earth elements, typically uranium, as fuel to generate electricity. Within a nuclear reactor, atoms of the fuel are forced to break apart, known as fission. The energy released from fission is harnessed to produce heat, turning water to steam and driving turbines to produce electricity.
Norwegian Forest Cat

## Ability

### Ability

**The Vikings' Cat****(Play)** If your deck has 3 or more Vicious Vikings cards, your Vicious Vikings and Cute Cats cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

A word of warning: don’t look at pictures of a **Norwegian Forest Cat** while your own pet cat is around. It’s like gawking at pictures of supermodels in front of your other half. There’s no way a run-of-the-mill moggy can live up to the looks of this wild beauty.

No one knows for sure where they originated: some say they’re the descendants of ship cats used by Vikings, while other theories say they came from the long-haired cats brought to Scandinavia by the Crusaders.

As if being beautiful and mysterious wasn’t enough, the Norwegian Forest Cat is also the stuff of legend. One story tells of the ‘skogcatt’ - a “mountain dwelling fairy cat” beloved by Freya, the Norse goddess of love and beauty. Nowadays, this breed is domesticated, swapping mountains for laps and myths for Dreamies.
Old Tjikko

## Ability

### Ability

**World's (Fourth) Oldest Tree****(Play)** If you have played at least 3 Tremendous Trees cards this game, this card gains +80 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Age is a state of mind, dude. Just ask **Old Tjikko**, a Swedish-based tree believed to be over 9,550 years old. Growing high atop the Fulufajallet Mountain, this is thought to be one of the oldest known living trees in the world. Or is it?****

****Apologies in advance to Sweden’s tourism board, but Old Tjikko might be much younger than that - technically speaking. Because this Norwegian Spruce is actually a clonal organism that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age.****

****The tree we see today is likely no older than a few hundred years. Still, that does make it the oldest living Picea abies and the fourth oldest known clonal tree.****
Mixcoatl

## Ability

### Ability

**Personified****(Play)** Your The Solar System cards in hand gain +26 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

It’s hard to feel great about a god who goes around wearing a cloak made from human skin, but maybe **Mixcoatl**, the Medoamerican god of the hunt, was just insecure about his own skin, which was covered in red and white stripes.

Although he was often portrayed with his hunting equipment and worshipped as a deity who gave fire to mankind, Mixcoatl was more than a hunting god. He also served as god of the Milky Way, with multiple sources describing his face as having star-like speckles to reflect his celestial status. He could definitely have chosen a space-themed outfit rather than the flayed skin of a sacrifice victim, but we’ll forgive Mixcoatl for this fashion choice, given that he did bestow on us the ability to use fire, which has proven pretty important.
Ouroboros

## Ability

### Ability

**Life, Death and Rebirth****(Start)** This card gains +15 Power until played. **(Play)** This card loses -30 Power. **(Return)** This card gains +30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

The **Ouroboros** is a gnostic and alchemic symbol of a snake eating its own tail, continually devouring itself and being reborn from itself. The symbol is said to represent the cycle of birth and death and the unity of all things. This may be what your dog is trying to express when it chases its own tail (but probably not).

The earliest Ouroboros was found in a 14th century BCE Egyptian religious text in the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Much more recently, the psychiatrist Carl Jung used the Ouroboros as a psychological archetype, representing the subconscious desire to consume oneself and be reborn. Because we all feel the desire to consume ourselves... Right?!
Przybylski’s Star

## Ability

### Ability

**Exotic Elements****(Draw)** If your deck has 5 or more Excellent Elements cards, your cards in hand gain +21 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

Around 370 light-years from our Sun in the constellation Centaurus is a star that left scientists scratching their heads. First discovered by Polish astronomer Andrzej Przybylski in 1961, HD 101065 - also known as **Pryzbylski’s Star** - is laced with unlikely elements like europium, gadolinium, terbium and holmium. Iron and Nickel are present, but so are short-lived ultra-heavy elements like actinum, plutonium and einsteinium.

Unless you’re an expert in these matters, that won’t mean much. But to star specialists, the idea of such short-lived elements persisting in the atmosphere of a star is puzzling. Although the true cause of these odd properties remains unknown, Pryzbylski’s Star has attracted attention as a <link="https:>SETI</link> candidate because it aligns with theory that an advanced species may salt the photosphere of its star with unusual elements.

'The magnetic field lines rotate together with the Sun as a solid object.' by NASA Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres (Source: Wikimedia Commons) is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (original image resized, cropped and altered)
Mummy

## Ability

### Ability

**Wrap Culture****(Return)** Your Arts & Culture cards, wherever they are, gain +11 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

If you've played CUE for, like, ten minutes, you probably have the Mummies card; and, if you're a bit more experienced, you'll probably have Tutankhamun. These cards will tell you a lot about real-world mummies - the preserved and entombed remains of people to help their journey to the afterlife.

So why do we need a third **Mummy** card? Well, the idea of a millennia-dead corpse coming back to life and causing trouble for the living is a staple of the horror genre, dating all the way back to 19th Century. It helped that the Curse of the Pharaoh, supposedly unleashed by the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun, captured the imagination of horror writers.

We hear lots about Egyptian mummies, but mummification has happened all across the world through the centuries. New Zealand had a mokomokai tradition, where the tattooed heads of fallen Maori warriors were preserved.

Of course, the British came along and ruined that in the 1820s - they brought firearms to New Zealand, which they traded to the Maori in exchange for mokomokai that could be sold for high prices in the west.
Modular Synthesizer

## Ability

### Ability

**Patch****(Play)** For every Instrumental card in your deck, this card gains +5 Power.

## Did You Know?

A cacophony of cables, a million blinking lights and dials for days: to the uninitiated, a **Modular Synthesiser** looks like an impossibly complex device. But to music nerds, these customisable electronic instruments are a means of creative freedom and expression.

At their essence, modular synthesisers are made up of components (or modules). Oscillators generate the tones; envelope filters affect the timing and dynamics of the tone. A sequencer can play a pattern automatically, and a host of processors and effects add modulation to the output.

Although the first modular synthesiser was developed by German engineer Harald Bode in the 1950s, it was inventor Bob Moog who brought them to the mainstream. In1964, Moog’s voltage controlled modular synthesiser forever changed the course of modern music.
Napoleon and Josephine

## Ability

### Ability

**War Paint****(Play)** Your Prominent Painters cards, wherever they are, gain +12 Power until played. **(Return)** Your Machines of War cards, wherever they are, gain +16 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Until meeting Bonaparte, Josephine was known as Rose, but Napoleon preferred to call her Josephine - the name she adopted from then on. Although they weren’t able to have children together, **Napoleon and Josephine** did have a pet orangutan that joined them for dinner and basically functioned as their hairy orange child. It was dressed in white cotton blouses, taught to eat with cutlery and even slept in their marital bed. Talk about pampered pets.
Orrery

## Ability

### Ability

**Model of the Night Sky****(Draw)** Your The Solar System cards, wherever they are, gain +14 Power this round.

## Did You Know?

When you’re living on Earth (we imagine you are), it does appear as if the sun and stars revolve around us. That was common knowledge until 4 centuries ago when it was discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun and not the other way around. Following this Earth-shattering discovery, progress was made in our understanding of the structure of the solar system.

By the 18th century, models like the **Orrery** were being made to help spread that knowledge. An early form of the planetarium, this model gets its name from the Earl of Orrery, who owned one of the earliest versions of the device. Since Neptune hadn’t been discovered, it didn’t make it onto the model (sorry Neptune.)
Prince Rudolf and Baroness Vetsera

## Ability

### Ability

**Roots of War****(Play)** Your Treaty of Versailles card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Before **Prince Rudolf and Baroness Vetsera** were found dead in a hunting lodge, Rudolf had led a life that anyone with a conscience would call disturbing. Apparently, he carried a little black book of his “conquests”, colour-coding his affairs for which were virgins. Yikes.

After his womanising led him to his wife contracting a disease, he became depressed and embarked to Mayerling with his lover Mary Vetsera, where they enacted a suicide pact that would change the course of history forever.

Their deaths ended the Austro-Hungarian bloodline. The throne was eventually assumed by Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination started off the chain of events that began World War I.
Nekyia

## Ability

### Ability

**Shades of the Dead and Gone****(Play)** If your deck has 8 or more History cards, this card gains +40 Power.

## Did You Know?

In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus takes part in a cult practice called **Nekyia** – an ancient Greek ritual used to summon ghosts and question them about the future. In Book IX, we learn all about his spooky visit to the underworld and his involvement in this eerie Nekyia ceremony, where he meets several ghosts.

The first is his dead mother, Antikleia. Odysseus didn’t know she was dead, so finding this out through the ghost of his mother herself was pretty traumatising. Next, he summons the ghost of a blind prophet.

This ghost gives Odysseus a warning (and the reader a spoiler): if he is to see his native land again, it will be after a long and painful journey where he will lose all of his comrades. Well, he wasn’t wrong.
Psyche

## Ability

### Ability

**Passion and Soul****(Start)** Your History of Heartbreak cards in hand gain +6 Power until played. **(Play)** If played next to Eros, give it +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Being just as beautiful as Aphrodite might not actually be a good thing. For **Psyche**, the Greek goddess of the soul, it put her life in danger. The youngest daughter of a Greek king and queen, Psyche began her life as a mortal. Adored for her beauty, Psyche was often compared to Aphrodite, while others even mistook Psyche for the goddess of love.

Pretty soon, Aphrodite’s temples were a ghost town as people worshipped Psyche instead. Outraged, Aphrodite sent a plague and warned that the only way back to normality was to sacrifice Psyche. Blinded by the trick, Psyche’s father tied his daughter up and left her to her death. Psyche was saved by Eros, but would face plenty more trials and tribulations at the hands of Aphrodite.
Koala

## Ability

### Ability

**Eucalyp-toss!****(Play)** Your opponent's cards in hand lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

You might hear the term ‘koala bear’ being tossed around when it comes to these fluffy animals. Ok, look- we want to come clean and not be hypocritical here, we actually got a slap on the wrist from a koala enthusiast for calling them ‘Koala bears’ in a published fact of the day.

But we did in the process drop a FASCINATING fact that baby koalas are fed poo by their parents, as it helps them to digest eucalyptus leaves later In life! See- that fact is so good you've already forgotten our faux-pas.

Koalas definitely look bear-like with their round ears and big black nose but they actually share more characteristics with other marsupials like the wombat. These magnificent and cute as heck mammals get their name form an Aboriginal term meaning, ‘no drink’. It’s believed this is because koalas get almost all their moisture from the leaves they eat, and seldom drink water.

Koalas also have a very supportive butt... Living in eucalyptus trees and being literally wedged between rough branches requires a hell of a lot of support, don’t panic though as they have strong cartilage at the end of their spine meaning they can literally sit on their behinds in supreme comfort - just peachy!
Red Diamond

## Ability

### Ability

**Beauty Under Pressure****(Return)** If you are losing the round, gain +100 Power/Turn next turn.

## Did You Know?

The **Red Diamond** is the rarest form of diamond ever discovered - it's estimated that there are fewer than 30 true gem quality Red Diamonds in the entire world.

They get their natural red colour from... erm... somewhere? It's kind of unclear, which is ironic because where other coloured varieties of diamond get their hues from impurities, Red Diamond is pure carbon and it turns red because of a rare deformation in its atomic structure.

Prices fluctuate over time, hovering between "really obscenely expensive" to "very obscenely expensive". In 2001, the 5.11-carat Moussaieff Red Diamond sold for 8 million dollars. But why have one gem, when you could spend the same amount in the CUE store and have 1.17 billion Gems?

(No? Ok, well, we tried.)
Proboscis Monkey

## Ability

### Ability

**Lord Nose****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, your Common Primates cards, wherever they are, gain +30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Our inability as a species to distinguish between a book and its cover has led to very real problems for the **Proboscis Monkey**: fundraising efforts to protect this critically endangered primate have been undermined by people’s reactions to its absurd nose. In fact, researchers have even market-tested different approaches to counter this. The solution? Use memes, of course.

It’s odd that we are repulsed by the Proboscis Monkey’s face, when we should *really* be repulsed by its digestive system. After eating, it regurgitates the food and then eats it again. Mmm… vomit.
Penghou

## Ability

### Ability

**In Search of the Supernatural****(Draw)** If your deck has exactly 6 Chinese Folklore cards, your Tremendous Trees cards, wherever they are, gain +28 Power until played, and vice versa.

## Did You Know?

A tree spirit from Chinese folklore, the **Penghou** was first recorded in manuscripts dating way back to the 3rd century. These early writings say Lu Ching Shu, the First Ruler of Wu, decided to dispatch a man to cut down a gigantic camphor tree. After only several strikes of the axe, blood flowed from the trunk.

When the camphor tree fell, a creature with the face of a man and the body of a dog appeared. The woodcutter, apparently hungry from all that tree-chopping, steamed the Penghou and ate it in its entirety, noting that the flavour was similar to dog meat. Clearly, this woodcutter made a habit from eating canines - but to eat a mythical dog-like tree-spirit still seems wrong.
Postosuchus

## Ability

### Ability

**What A Croc****(Play)** Your American Crocodile, Saltwater Crocodile and Mugger Crocodile cards in hand gain +25 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Postosuchus** fossils have been mostly found in Post Quarry in Texas. One of the largest reptiles of the Triassic, it was until recently considered the rootstock of that most famous of dinosaurs, the T-Rex.

The ‘truth’ - at least until someone proves otherwise - is that Postosuchus wasn’t a dinosaur at all, but a Rauisuchian (pronounced phonetically as… um… ‘aɪ gɪv ʌp’ (we type, hoping that the font we use here can handle those characters)). This creature was more closely related to crocodiles, hence the name Postosuchus: the ‘crocodile from Post’.
Ra

## Ability

### Ability

**Power of the Gods****(Play)** Your Osiris card in hand gains +40 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

The Egyptian god of the Sun, Ra, is frequently depicted looking awesome - a man with the head of a falcon, with a huge circular crown that's surrounded by a snake. Impractical, but WICKED.

He also has a totally rad boat, called the "Barque of Millions of Years", which he uses to traverse the sky and the underworld. This is how the ancient Egyptians explained the coming and going of the sun every day - Ra flies through the sky during the day, then dies at night and goes to the underworld. There he defeats Apep, a giant snake deity, and escapes the underworld to start a new day.
Pohutukawa

## Ability

### Ability

**Iron Wood****(Draw)** Your Excellent Elements and Riding the Waves! cards, wherever they are, gain +19 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Since Christmas in New Zealand falls during their summer, it figures that they wouldn’t have fir trees as their festive timber. Instead, their tree of choice is the **Pōhutukawa**, an evergreen tree of the myrtle family that can be found in the coastal forests of New Zealand’s North Island.

In Maori mythology, its red flowers are said to represent the blood of a young warrior who died trying to avenge his father’s death. But this species of tree has significance beyond symbolism. These trees can withstand powerful ocean winds and drought, with some Pōhutukawa trees living for up to 1,000 years!

Since its timber is hard and durable, it’s been used for shipbuilding, and parts of the tree even served to make medicines for the Maori people.
Planck Length

## Ability

### Ability

**Short on Space****(Return)** Your Space cards, wherever they are, gain +20 Power and cost -2 Energy next turn.

## Did You Know?

Get your mind out of the gutter: **Planck Length** doesn’t refer to Max Planck’s manhood. Actually, it’s expected to be the smallest possible unit of measurement in the universe. Make of that what you will!

Any attempt to investigate shorter distances would inevitably result in black hole production. In 1899, German physicist Max Planck proposed a universal set of units for length, time, mass, temperature and other physical qualities that depended only on constants of the universe.

The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant. It’s equal to 1.616255(18)×10−35 m. At this scale, all classical ideas about spacetime as predicted by general relativity breaks down, and quantum effects take over.
Paper Fortune Teller

## Ability

### Ability

**Playground Prophecies****(Draw)** If you are losing the round, your Life on Land cards in hand gain +20 Power until played. **(Play)** If you are losing the round, your History cards in hand gain +15 Power until played. **(Return)** If you are losing the round, your remaining Space cards in hand gain +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Who knew that the art of divination was as simple as unfolding paper to reveal your destiny? Sure, the **Paper Fortune Teller** is a children’s game, but the sense of choice we’re given reflects the idea that the smallest decisions alter the course of our lives.

The design dates back to the 1928 American origami book ‘Fun with Paper Folding’, where it was introduced as a “Salt Cellar” for holding seasoning. By the 1950s, this device had become a staple of school playgrounds in England - not for salt holding, but for revealing one’s future.

Also known as the cootie catcher, chatterbox, whirlybird or paku-paku, the Paper Fortune Teller requires some paper, a little bit of origami know-how, a pen or pencil and a willing victim (ahem - client.)
Phoenix

## Ability

### Ability

**From the Ashes****(Draw)** Your opponent's cards in hand **Burn** (14) until played and if you are losing the round, **Burn** (14) them again.

## Did You Know?

If you thought cats having nine lives was impressive, wait ‘til you hear about the **Phoenix**. According to ancient writers, the legendary bird was born out of fire, lived for 500 years, then burst into flames and was reborn again.

Said to be the size of an eagle, the phoenix is depicted with rich red and golden feathers. In Egyptian mythology, the phoenix is associated with the worship of the sun but was also said to symbolise wealth and the fertility of the land, making it an essential part of their culture. In Greek mythology, the sun god would stop his chariot every morning at dawn to listen to the beautiful song of the phoenix while it bathed in a cool well in Arabia.
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Palau Nautilus

## Ability

### Ability

**Logarithmic Spirals****(Play)** Your Fibonacci Spiral card in hand gains +33 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

$50\* to whoever can guess where the **Palau Nautilus** is found.

Although looking almost identical to the chambered nautilus, it’s a slightly larger cephalopod with a heavier shell. Think of it as the chambered nautilus’ intimidating older brother.

The Palau nautilus’ shell develops throughout its life. At the juvenile stage it is covered with thick bands, which becomes mostly white at the sub mature phase, and develops a black layer when mature.

* not legally binding.
Paper Nautilus

## Ability

### Ability

**Argo-nought****(Draw)** Your The Argo card, wherever it is, costs -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Like an origami creation come to life, the **Paper Nautilus**’ name is a bit of a misnomer, in that this creature isn’t a nautilus at all – it’s an octopus. Found in the open ocean and tropical waters, the Paper Nautilus uses a paper-thin shell to protect its eggs. The expecting mother then carries her eggs – up to 170,000 of them – around with her until they hatch!

Aside from serving as a floating nursery, their shells also help the Paper Nautilus to trap bubbles of air as thin as the shell, which keeps them buoyant in the water column and save energy as they drift along. A mollusc of the genus Argonauta, the Paper Nautilus has a rounded body, eight tentacles, and no fins.
Ocelot

## Ability

### Ability

**Thanks a 'lot!****(Play)** Your Margay card in hand gains +20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

Remember that time your Mum rang the fire brigade because your cat got stuck up the neighbour's tree? Now imagine said fireman climbing a tree to find a sharp-toothed Ocelot up there ready to pounce...

It’s ok though, firemen can relax because this small wild cat, which is about twice the size of a domesticated pet cat, may climb trees but it hunts mainly rabbits, rodents, iguanas, fish, and frogs. Ocelots can deliver a particularly nasty bite with their razor-sharp teeth and are mainly nocturnal.

Moral of the story; don’t climb trees in the dark. Don’t climb trees at all, it's dangerous.
Organ Transplantation

## Did You Know?

We're all born with all the organs we're ever going to get, but sometime we need replacements. You know what it's like - if you're kettle stops working you order a new one from Amazon, but if your lung breaks down you can't get a replacement tomorrow with Prime one-day delivery.

Organ Transplantation is a procedure where an organ is extracted from a donor's body and placed inside a patient who needs it. Doctors have been able to transplant hearts, lungs, kidneys, skin, wombs, genitalia and more.

One girl in China even hand a hand transplanted onto her LEG! She was involved in a tractor accident, and her hand was severed right off. Doctors at the hospital she was rushed to said that it was too damaged to reattach to her wrist, so they grafted it onto her leg to allow it to heal. It was reattached three months later and regained function over the next couple of years. AMAZING!
Red Titi Monkey

## Did You Know?

With their distinctive orange fur, the more vibrant **Red Titi Monkeys** stand out against the greenery of the Amazon rainforest. The example on the front of this card looks very much like it could blend into Ed Sheeran's hair, but their colours can vary between that bright orange and more brownish-black.

They have long furry tails but, unlike many other monkey species, they are not prehensile; that means they cannot be used to grasp things or to aid in climbing. What they do use them for is intertwining - they twist them around their mates tail while sitting or sleeping. AWWWW!
Queen of the Night

## Ability

### Ability

**Medicinal Flower****(Play)** Your Common and Rare Marvellous Medicine cards, wherever they are, gain +15 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

It produces the most expensive flower in the world, but you’ll have to be really lucky to see the **Queen of the Night** cactus in bloom. For only one night a year, this succulent produces beautiful white flowers that wilt by morning like the Cinderella of the plant world.

Like any Queen, this succulent should choose its royal court carefully. Because, although it can grow up to 10 foot tall, the Queen of the Night uses other plants for support. But wait: how can a flower that blooms only 6 hours in a whole year survive and reproduce? Bats, apparently.

Since the Queen only blooms at night (hence the name), bats are its main pollinators; the intoxicating smell and full-moon-esque appearance draw these nocturnal animals into its white petals.
Poseidon

## Ability

### Ability

**Sea Change****(Play)** All Oceans and Seas cards in both player's hands lose -20 Power this turn.

## Did You Know?

**Poseidon** is a god in Greek mythology and one of the Twelve Olympians. He is one of the three most powerful Greek gods (along with Zeus and Hades) and rules over the ocean and all bodies of water. He was especially important to Greek sailors and fisherman, and lived in a palace under the sea that was made from jewels and coral.

Usually pictured with a three-pronged spear called a Trident, he is often shown riding his chariot which is pulled by the hippocampus (horses that have fish tails, found in the Mythical Creatures collection!).

Poseidon had complete power and control over the ocean. He was the kingmaker of the seas and could create storms to sink ships or clear weather to help them along. Stay on the right side of Poseidon and your journey would be plain sailing, but upset him and you would be headed towards a certain shipwreck.

Poseidon and his brothers, Zeus and Hades, went to battle with the Titans. They overthrew the Titans and took control of the world. They divided up the world by basically getting all artistic and drawing lots. Poseidon drew the ocean and took control of the sea (Zeus drew the sky and Hades the Underworld). We just drew ourselves winning the lottery and are still waiting for it to come to fruition.

One of Poseidon's most famous deeds is the creation of the horse (...of course). After falling in love with the goddess Demeter, he wanted to impress the object of his affection and decided to create the world's most beautiful animal. However, it took him so long to make the horse that he was no longer in love with her at the end of it.

He did, however, use his creation to attempt to beat Athena in becoming the patron god of the Greek city-state of Athens. They each presented a gift to the leaders of Athens. Athena created the olive tree which would produce wood, olives, and olive oil. Poseidon presented his much-anticipated horse, a valuable animal that could help in work, battle, and transportation

Much to Poseidon's horror, Athena won the contest and became the patron goddess of Athens. From that time forward they were bitter rivals, which plays out in the story of the Odyssey where Poseidon tries to thwart Odysseus while Athena tries to help and protect him on his journey.
Physiognomy

## Ability

### Ability

**Looks Can Be Deceiving...****(Play)** If you have played **Physiognomy** this game, this card gains +137 Power.

## Did You Know?

Think you can judge a book by its cover? Pythagoras did. As early as 500 B.C, he was accepting students based on how gifted they *looked*. Even Aristotle wrote that large headed people were mean and people with broad faces were stupid. Was he right? Absolutely not.

But the now-debunked pseudoscience of **Physiognomy** persisted. In the 1600s, Italian scholar Giambattista della Porta became known as an “expert” in the subject, conducting alchemical experiments in an attempt to boil down a person’s “pure essence”. In the 1800s, writer Johann Caspar Lavater published essays on physiognomy full of sweeping statements linking looks with personality.

The term ‘stuck up’ comes from this time, as people believed that someone with a nose bending upwards would possess a superiority complex.
Profile Page

Your Profile Page, reached by tapping/clicking on your Avatar picture on the main screen shows several different bits of information:

* Number of cards owned, these are all your cards, duplicates included.
* Unique cards, this way you know how many of your total are duplicates.
* Complete Collections, the only other way to find out your how many complete collections you have, and what they are, is by scrolling through your entire collection.
* Packs opened, these are from all packs, anything with a wrapper animation is a pack.
* Wins, your total wins in League and Casual games.

At the bottom are tabs to go to your Avatar and Background collections.
Red Spider Nebula

## Ability

### Ability

**Space X****(Draw)** If your deck has 6 or more Space cards, this card gains +20 Power until played. **(Draw)** If your deck has 12 or more Space cards, this card gains +20 Power until played. **(Draw)** If your deck has only Space cards, this card gains +20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Grab the cup, I’ll get the cardboard: this spider is a big one.

On the plus side, it doesn’t run very fast. Located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, the **Red Spider Nebula** is home to one of the hottest stars known to man, and its powerful stellar winds generate waves that are 100 billion kilometres high.

These winds flow along the nebula's walls, causing waves of hot gas and dust to collide. It’s this cosmic phenomenon that gives the nebula its distinctive spider shape, while the atoms that get trapped in the shock are responsible for the glow of the Red Spider Nebula. Its colour comes from hydrogen and ionised nitrogen emissions.
Nile Crocodile

## Ability

### Ability

**In a While...****(Draw)** This card **Lock**s for 5 turns. **(Start)** If you are not tied in the round, this card gains +35 Power for 5 turns.

## Did You Know?

Like a sentient military tank, the **Nile Crocodile**  is armed to the teeth with… well, teeth. This breed has the most powerful bite of the animal kingdom and razor-sharp teeth that can sink into flesh, making for a true death grip that is near impossible to escape from.

The largest crocodiles in Africa, these beasts can reach up to six metres long and weigh over 680 kilograms. However, although they are apex predators, Nile Crocodiles are unusually attentive parents. Compared to other reptiles, mothers really go out of their way to protect their young, using their massive jaws to transport newly hatched babies to a nursery pool where she guards them from potential predators.
Red Rectangle Nebula

## Ability

### Ability

**Stairway to Heaven****(Play)** If it's the second turn of a round, this card gains +11 Power and if it's the third turn of a round, this card gains +22 Power.

## Did You Know?

Thought to be 4.61 times bigger than the Sun, the **Red Rectangle Nebula** is a mysterious X-shaped nebula that lies about 5,000 light-years from the Earth in the constellation of Serpens. In the middle, there’s a star. If you stick around for 5 billion years, you might just get to see it become a full-blown planetary nebulae. Once the expulsion of mass is complete a very hot white dwarf star will remain, and it’s ultraviolet radiation will cause the surrounding gas to glow - much like our sun.

If X marks the spot, there could be some space treasure left by a time-travelling astronaut for us to find… Either that, or it’s just a cloud of thick dust pinching the otherwise spherical outflow of gas into an ‘x’ looking shape.
Paradox of the Court

## Ability

### Ability

**Injustice****(Play)** If you are winning the round, this card loses -20 Power and if you are losing the round, your cards in hand lose -5 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

When the famous sophist Protagoras agreed to teach Euathlus, it was on the condition that the student would pay him after winning his first court case. But when Euathlus decided to pursue politics instead of law, Protagoras felt robbed. So, he sued Euathlus for the owed amount. Now here’s where it gets paradoxical.

See, to Protagoras, the outcome of this case didn’t matter: if Protagoras won, he would be paid, but if Euathlus won, it would count as his first court victory, fulfilling the original payment agreement.

However, Euathlus saw the case as a separate matter, believing that a win would exempt him from paying. Known as the **Paradox of the Court**, this legal battle is enough to put anyone off the profession.
Pride Flag

## Ability

### Ability

**Raise the Colours****(Draw)** If 6 cards in your deck are from different Albums, gain +15 Power/Turn for 2 turns.

## Did You Know?

The six-stripe rainbow **Pride Flag** that continues to be an immensely powerful symbol for the LGBT community was first popularised by San Francisco artist and gay activist Gilbert Baker in 1978. It was the politician Harvey Milk who had commissioned Baker to make the flag ahead of the city’s annual pride parade.

Looking at the American flag with its stars and stripes and the Tricolor from the French Revolution, Baker remarked on how both flags owed their beginnings to a riot, a rebellion or a revolution. He felt the gay nation should have a flag too – one that was natural and “from the sky”. In 1994, a mile-long rainbow flag was created by Baker and later cut into sections that were distributed around the world.
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

## Ability

### Ability

**Alert the Troops****(Play)** If you are losing the round, 5 of your random The American Revolution cards, wherever they are, gain +30 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

*“Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere / On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive / Who remembers that famous day and year.”* As told by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his poem of the same name, **Paul Revere’s Ride** saw the American patriot ride to Lexington, Massachusetts to warn the town that the British were coming.

At around 11pm (after stopping by his house to pick up his boots and overcoat), Revere set off on horseback. By midnight, he rode through Lexington, but was met by a request from the guard outside the house of Samuel Adams and John Hancock to keep the noise down. “Noise!” cried Revere, “You’ll have noise enough before long. The regulars are coming out!”
Pumpkinseed

## Ability

### Ability

**Fall Growth****(Return)** Your Jack O'Lantern card, wherever it is, gains +10 Power permanently.

## Did You Know?

We’ll never know whether the **Pumpkinseed** is just incredibly gullible or really enjoys trolling fishermen. In any case, their willingness to take the bait whenever a line is dropped in search of something bigger has given this species a reputation as a “nuisance fish”.

But it isn’t just the fishing community who have a problem with them: in Europe, the pumpkinseed is considered an invasive species. When they were introduced to European waters, they immediately started outcompeting the natives, earning their species a place on the List of Invasive Alien Species of Union Concern.

As a result, the pumpkinseed cannot be imported, bred, transported or released internationally into the environment across the whole of the European Union. That’s a pretty badass reputation for a little fish the size of a popsicle stick.
Pegasus

## Ability

### Ability

**Springs of Oceanus****(Return)** Your Mythical Creatures cards, wherever they are, gain +25 Power for 3 turns. If your deck contains Poseidon, your Mythical Creatures cards, wherever they are, cost -1 Energy for 3 turns. Repeat if your deck contains Medusa.

## Did You Know?

Topping Black Beauty, Artax and even Shadowfax in the list of famous fictional horses, **Pegasus** is the poster child/horse of Greek mythology. According to legend, this winged horse was born from the blood that sprayed from Medusa’s neck when she was slain by Perseus.

In another story, Pegasus carried the hero Bellerophon on his mission to defeat the fire-breathing, human-eating Chimera. After his victory over the monster, Bellerophon rode his horse to Mount Olympus, the home of the gods.

This didn’t sit well with Zeus. As punishment for his cockiness, Zeus sent a gadfly to sting Bellerophon’s noble steed, causing Bellerophon to fall back to Earth. Everything came up Pegasus in the end, as the winged horse went on to carry thunderbolts for Zeus.
Pinwheel Galaxy

## Ability

### Ability

**Pin Down****(Return)** Your Ursa Major card, wherever it is, costs -3 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Adding to the steadily (but not quickly) growing list of Space Things That Look Like The Thing They're Named After, the **Pinwheel Galaxy** bears an unmistakable resemblance to a pinwheel.

Its distinctive arms are the result of it merging with other smaller galaxies in the wake of a massive tidal event that caused it to spin around on a cosmic level.

But there are loads of spiral galaxies out there - what makes it truly special among those is that it doesn't appear to have a supermassive black hole at the centre. The black holes of those absorbed galaxies are there, but it's currently unclear what massive cosmic object is keeping the whole thing together...

It probably IS a supermassive black hole and we just haven't seen it yet.
Pillars of Creation

## Did You Know?

The Hubble Space Telescope got off to a rocky start. Carried aboard the space shuttle Discovery it was years behind schedule, way over budget and when it finally reached orbit a manufacturing error meant that its 8 foot mirror was distorted.

It wasn’t until years later in 1993 that a repair mission saw the telescope capture the big money shot and an image of the universe so clear and beautiful that it became known as Pillars of Creation. What was photographed was the Eagle Nebula, a star forming patch 6,500 light years from Earth. The smokestacks you see on the front of this card are vast clouds of interstellar dust shaped by the high winds of nearby stars (no, we didn’t know stars were windy either), and they're each about 30 trillion miles long.
Petronas Towers

## Ability

### Ability

**Two of a Kind****(Play)** If it's the first turn of a round, both players gain +6:energy/turn: this round

## Did You Know?

When the **Petronas Towers** were completed in 1998, they were declared the tallest buildings in the world. Although they can no longer claim this world record, the 452-metre towers in Kuala Lumpur are still the world’s tallest twin structures and resemble two silver rockets.

The design is heavily influenced by Islamic tradition, with the five tiers of the two skyscrapers representing the five pillars of Islam, and they reportedly took a total of six years and $1.6bn to construct. Since the 899,000 sq ft of stainless steel used in construction would attract a lot of heat, 590,000 sq ft of laminated glass was installed to reflect UV rays. Cleaning every single glass panel – the equivalent of 10 football fields – would take almost two months!
Prince John

## Ability

### Ability

**Tyranny****(Start)** Your [[:Category:The Legend of Robin Hood|The Legend of Robin Hood]] cards in hand lose -3 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

Now one of the classic villains in adaptations of the **Robin Hood** legend, Prince John is usually portrayed as the conniving and manipulative younger brother of King Richard. And yet, in the earliest mediaeval texts such as A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (c. 1400), Prince John doesn’t even get a mention.

So where did this slander come from? Ruling in Richard the Lionheart’s shadow doesn’t help, and apparently, John wasn’t the most pleasant of people. To the Victorians, King John was the perfect punch-bag: he wasn’t chivalrous, he wasn’t statesmanlike, and he wasn’t Richard.

Seizing on the opportunity, Sir Walter Scott turned John into a pantomime villain for his novel "Ivanhoe" in 1819. Then, in 1973, Disney made John a thumb-sucking lion with a snake for an advisor.
Quantum Theory

## Ability

### Ability

**Quantum Leap****(Play)** Your Max Planck card in hand gains +27 Power this turn. **(Return)** Your Max Planck card, wherever it is, costs -4 Energy until played.

## Did You Know?

Quantum physics deals with the world of the super small – specifically, the behaviour of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale. Just like shoes come in multiples of half a size, in **Quantum Theory**, energy comes in multiples of one “quanta.”

The problem with subatomic bits of matter is that they don’t follow the same rules as objects we can see or hold. Quantum theory describes this behaviour, and states that particles can be found in many places at one time - you can never know for certain where they are.

Neils Bor and Max Planck are considered the founding fathers of quantum theory, but Einstein is considered the third, as he described light as quanta and won the Nobel Prize for his theory in 1921.
Red Lanterns

## Ability

### Ability

**Boxer Uprising****(Draw)** All cards in both player's hands with 70 or more Base Power lose -20 Power until played.

## Did You Know?

During China’s Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rules for the men’s fighting groups were strict: there was to be absolutely no contact with women, and even looking at a woman was banned for fear that the female’s ‘yin’ would destroy their rituals. That didn’t stop the women from organising their own parallel unit: **The Red Lanterns**, a fighting group of women who ranged in age from twelve to eighteen.

According to villagers of the time, the Red Lanterns had supernatural powers including walking on water, flying, throwing swords through the air at enemies with perfect accuracy and standing still while sending their souls into battle, and while these accounts are... um... *potentially unreliable*, there’s no denying that the Red Lanterns were some badass women.