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All 106 factions from the Smash Up universe — find yours, explore their playstyle, and build the perfect combo.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

ALADDIN

Draw actions, discard actions for benefits and wisely use the Wish actions, three powerful but one-time-use cards.

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Core Set

ALIENS

Return minions in play to their owners' hands, gain a bonus for returning your own, and manipulate bases.

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World Tour: Culture Shock

ANANSI TALES

Give cards to other players for benefit, gain benefits when they play or discard them, and give away actions that are continuously passed between players.

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Oops, You Did It Again

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

Bury cards for use in the future and gain benefits from burying and uncovering cards.

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World Tour: Culture Shock

ANCIENT INCAS

Draw, play and replay play-on-base actions that activate abilities that trigger each time you play a play-on-base action, especially on the same base.

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Cease and Desist

ASTROKNIGHTS

Play with a cast of ten unique minions that focus on drawing and playing actions that directly increase minion power.

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Smash Up: Marvel

AVENGERS

Play with a reduced number of characters in your deck, but with a cast of six power-5 characters with useful abilities, and each associated with a unique action with two abilities.

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Excellent Movies, Dudes!

Action Heroes

Gain benefits for having only one minion on a base.

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Half the Battle

Adolescent Epic Geckos

Tag your minions in and out and play strong two-action turns with big payoffs.

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Awesome Level 9000

BEAR CAVALRY

Move other players' minions on their base to other bases, and also destroy minions that move to their base.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Gain benefits for discarding cards, especially cards that become playable when they are discarded from the hand.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

BIG HERO 6

Generate and move +1 power counters among your characters, and play with a team of six power-3 characters, whose abilities get better if they have +1 power counters.

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Excellent Movies, Dudes!

Backtimers

Place cards in stasis in order to play them later.

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Cease and Desist

CHANGERBOTS

Play play-on-minion actions, use talents to switch your minions between a powerful form and a weaker form with a useful ability, and move your minions around.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

CLERICS

Retrieve your discarded cards, usually random cards, and move your minions away after their bases score.

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Oops, You Did It Again

COWBOYS

Start duels with other players' minions to get rid of them, and greatly boost your own power to win duels.

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Science Fiction Double Feature

CYBORG APES

Power up your minions with powerful play-on-minion actions.

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Smash Up Clowns

Clowns

Pull actions out of your discard pile and replay them for some strong tricks.

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Core Set

DINOSAURS

Play high-powered minions, boost your minions' power, and destroy weaker minions.

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That '70s Expansion

DISCO DANCERS

Duplicate the effects caused by standard actions on minions, thus increasing the number of affected minions.

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It's Your Fault!

DRAGONS

Play minions and play-on-base actions that manipulate their bases to make them unattractive for other players.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

DWARVES

Draw treasure cards, usually from the treasure discard pile, and gain power boost from play-on-minion treasures.

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The Obligatory Cthulhu Set

ELDER THINGS

Terrorize other players into Madness with minions that are difficult to play, and actions that ensure they are penalized for drawing Madness cards.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

ELVES

Help other players with card draw and power boosts, while helping yourself in exchange.

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What Were We Thinking?

EXPLORERS

Take a peek and choose which base will come next, play extra minions on new bases to take early leads, and move minions all over the place.

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Excellent Movies, Dudes!

Extramorphs

Play minions off the top of your deck, usually by choosing a set power.

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Pretty Pretty Smash Up

FAIRIES

Play cards with a choice between two effects and mess with other players' non-standard actions, especially play-on-minion actions.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

FROZEN

Play with a team of minions that can fetch each other from the deck and the discard pile.

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Half the Battle

G.I. Gerald

Use your fusions in versatile ways for some big bursts of power.

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The Bigger Geekier Box

GEEKS

Use your knowledge of the game to disrupt other players' plans.

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Awesome Level 9000

GHOSTS

Gain benefits for discarding a lot of cards and having very few cards left in your hand.

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Monster Smash

GIANT ANTS

Generate a lot of +1 power counters and flexibly transfer them among your minions.

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Smash Up Goblins

GOBLINS

Flip coins to determine what benefits you can get, such as power or card draws, and manipulate the outcome of your coin flips.

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What Were We Thinking?

GRANNIES

Manipulate your deck, draw/play actions from the top of your deck and draw/play minions from the bottom of your deck.

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World Tour: Culture Shock

GRIMMS' FAIRY TALES

Play with a team of several pairs of minions who can only work when they are together with their partner.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

HALFLINGS

Draw and retrieve a lot of minions and play them as extras on bases where you're lagging behind other players.

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Smash Up: Marvel

HYDRA

Destroy your characters to play a bunch of low-power characters and gain various other benefits.

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Cease and Desist

IGNOBLES

Give control of your minions to other players for benefits, and take back control of them when the time is right.

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The Obligatory Cthulhu Set

INNSMOUTH

Keep playing and refilling your hand with the same power-2 minions and gain benefits for having several minions with the same name on bases.

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Big in Japan

ITTY CRITTERS

Summon small minions directly from your deck just for their effects and return them to the bottom of your deck at the end of the turn.

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Big in Japan

KAIJU

Play with fewer minions than normal, but gain power through your play-on-base actions, destroy other players' cards, manipulate bases and summon a giant freaking titan.

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Awesome Level 9000

KILLER PLANTS

Play extra minions frequently straight from your deck, and play cards with delayed effects that usually benefit you further as turns go by.

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Pretty Pretty Smash Up

KITTY CATS

Weaken other players' minions, temporarily take control of weak minions, and destroy your own minions for effects, whether minions you played or minions you took control of.

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Smash Up Knights of the Round Table

KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE

Play with a reduced number of minions in your deck, but with a team of seven strong minions, move them around, and have them end their movement on a base with your play-on-base actions to trigger various benefits.

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Smash Up: Marvel

KREE

Play extra actions, draw actions and gain great power from playing several actions on the same turn.

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That '70s Expansion

KUNG FU FIGHTERS

Generate +1 power counters, drain them from any minions, even other players', and destroy weaker minions.

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World Tour: International Incident

LUCHADORS

Search for and play actions on other players' minions, especially Set-Up actions, as a requirement to activate or play cards with much greater effects.

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Monster Smash

MAD SCIENTISTS

Generate a lot of +1 power counters, especially when one of your minions is destroyed, and remove them to gain benefits.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

MAGES

Discard cards for benefits, such as power gain, minion destruction, extra cards, and monster manipulation.

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Big in Japan

MAGICAL GIRLS

Use abilities that get better the more minions you have on the same base.

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Smash Up: Marvel

MASTERS OF EVIL

Fulfill the varied objectives of your cards to gain victory points outside base scoring and get benefits from having a lot of victory points.

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Big in Japan

MEGA TROOPERS

Wait until a base scores to use all kinds of strong Special abilities.

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10th Anniversary

MERMAIDS

Move other players' minions to your minions' bases and reduce their power contribution to their total power.

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The Obligatory Cthulhu Set

MINIONS OF CTHULHU

Play many powerful actions that penalize you with Madness cards, and recover cards from the discard pile, often at the cost of destroying your own minions.

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The Obligatory Cthulhu Set

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY

Draw and discard Madness cards to gain powerful effects, and play cards that relieve you of them afterward.

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World Tour: International Incident

MOUNTIES

Move to bases where there are other players' minions and buff your minions on bases where other players' minions are present.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

MULAN

Generate +1 power counters and trigger the abilities of your characters each turn they get a counter.

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World Tour: International Incident

MUSKETEERS

Chain a lot of extra actions that can directly affect your own minions and gain even more power, card draw and extra action as a benefit.

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It's Your Fault!

MYTHIC GREEKS

Get power boosts each time you play an action.

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Pretty Pretty Smash Up

MYTHIC HORSES

Gain benefits for playing or simply having minions on the same base as another one of your minions.

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Core Set

NINJAS

Destroy minions and actions, switch your minions in play with those in your hand, and sneak onto scoring bases at the last second.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

ORCS

Make your minions insensitive to actions and gain benefits for having more power or more minions than other players.

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Smash Up Penguins

PENGUINS

Play random extra minions directly out of your deck and trigger abilities each time you play a minion that way.

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Core Set

PIRATES

Move around from base to base, especially during base scoring, and destroy weak minions, usually several at a time.

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World Tour: Culture Shock

POLYNESIAN VOYAGERS

Move to bases where you don't already have a minion, gain power and +1 power counters from play-on-minion actions, and put additional bases into play.

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Pretty Pretty Smash Up

PRINCESSES

Play with a reduced number of minions in your deck, but with a cast of six power-5 minions with useful abilities, and support your deck with movement, card draw and minion retrieval.

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Half the Battle

Pearl and the Images

Bring everyone together, reinforcing even your opponents' minions for some better benefits.

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Core Set

ROBOTS

Play extra minions, including a whole lot of weak ones that support each other.

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What Were We Thinking?

ROCK STARS

Collect Groupies, gain advantages from bases with high breakpoints, play and move many minions at once to break bases.

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World Tour: Culture Shock

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

Replace any minions in play with other ones, usually random ones played off the top of their owner's deck.

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Half the Battle

Rulers of the Cosmos

Grant talents to your minions with play-on-action weapons and transfer them around to increase their usage.

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Smash Up: Marvel

S.H.I.E.L.D.

Play extra characters on the same base and get power boosts for having/playing characters on the same base.

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Oops, You Did It Again

SAMURAI

Get various benefits whenever your minions go to the discard pile from play.

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Science Fiction Double Feature

SHAPESHIFTERS

Copy other players' power and abilities, boost your minions' power, and destroy and replace your minions with other minions, especially from your deck.

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It's Your Fault!

SHARKS

Move around and destroy weaker minions to get +1 power counters and extra minion plays.

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10th Anniversary

SHEEP

Move your minions around, especially after another minion moves, gain benefits for moving your minions and repeat other players' actions.

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Smash Up: Marvel

SINISTER SIX

Play base modifiers, reduce the breakpoint of bases and gain advantages from bases with low breakpoints.

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10th Anniversary

SKELETONS

Bury cards, especially minions from your discard pile, and boost them with +1 power counters when you uncover them.

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The Bigger Geekier Box

SMASH UP ALL STARS

Draw and retrieve cards from your deck and discard pile to get your best cards out as soon as possible and keep them around for as long as possible.

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Smash Up: Marvel

SPIDER-VERSE

Play with cards that can be played either normally, or as Specials during base scoring but with weaker effects.

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Cease and Desist

STAR ROAMERS

Return your minions to hand for benefits, and manipulate how your minions are affected, like moving them instead of returning them or having your power-2 minions be affected instead of others.

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Awesome Level 9000

STEAMPUNKS

Their play-on-base actions synergize with their minions, both gaining power, mobility, and rescue from your discard pile.

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World Tour: International Incident

SUMO WRESTLERS

Discard cards to gain power, move other players' minions away from bases where you have minions and draw a lot of cards.

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Science Fiction Double Feature

SUPER SPIES

Sort your deck, take a peek and manipulate the top of each player's deck, force your opponents to discard cards, and play specials while bases are scoring.

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It's Your Fault!

SUPERHEROES

Protect your minions from destruction and morph your weak minions into power-5-or-more minions.

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Smash Up Slashers

Slashers

Use the five strong Slashers with their own weapons to massacre low-power minions.

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What Were We Thinking?

TEDDY BEARS

Play low-power minions as extras, gain benefits from the presence of other players' minions on their bases, and play actions that neutralize strong opposing minions.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

THE LION KING

Replace your characters after they go to the discard pile from play and power up your cards for having Mufasa in your discard pile.

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Smash Up: Disney Edition

THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Gain power for having character modifiers in play and distribute character modifiers whose ability can either benefit you, or severely hinder your opponents.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

THIEVES

Draw treasures, gain benefits for having treasures in hand, usually discarding them for the benefits, and steal things from other players, such as cards or VPs.

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Science Fiction Double Feature

TIME TRAVELERS

Repeat the abilities of your minions in play, retrieve cards from your discard pile, especially actions, and manipulate bases.

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It's Your Fault!

TORNADOS

Move all minions, move your own minions, move other players' minions, even during base scoring.

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Core Set

TRICKSTERS

Irritate your opponents and make bases undesirable to play on with actions that penalize them and minions that are difficult to destroy.

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That '70s Expansion

TRUCKERS

Transfer play-on-base actions around in order to move your minions, and mess with other players' play-on-base actions, either by transferring them elsewhere or taking control of them.

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Smash Up Teens

Teens

Gain benefits for playing minions of printed power 3 and for playing minions with specific names on the same base.

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Smash Up: Marvel

ULTIMATES

Move your characters around, trigger abilities that activate on movement and converge your characters to the same base to gain great power.

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Monster Smash

VAMPIRES

Destroy weak minions and generate +1 power counters, especially from the destruction of minions.

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That '70s Expansion

VIGILANTES

Play with a reduced number of minions in your deck, but with a team of seven power-4 minions with powerful and oppressive abilities, including hard removal, power boost and retaliation.

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Oops, You Did It Again

VIKINGS

Steal other players' cards and gain power at the cost of placing cards from your hand on the top of your deck.

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Smash Up: Munchkin

WARRIORS

Play and destroy monsters on bases to manipulate their breakpoints and gain treasures, and gain power boosts from the presence or the destruction of monsters.

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