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ALADDIN

The Aladdin deck can get the cards you need, whether from your own deck and discard pile, or from other players. Some cards give other kinds of help: extra plays from Jasmine, strength from Palace Guard, and movement from Carpet. But the card that helps the most is Genie, which can fetch three Wishes of phenomenal cosmic power!

Description

Aladdin is one of the 8 factions from the Smash Up: Disney Edition set.

They focus on finding the Genie and making use of the Wish cards, three powerful one-time-use actions, as well as discarding actions for benefits.

Their complexity rating is: Medium-High.

Other factions from the same set: Beauty and the Beast, Big Hero 6, Frozen, Mulan, The Lion King, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wreck-It Ralph.

Cards

Aladdin has the usual 10 characters and 10 actions. The total character base power (not counting any abilities) is unusually low at only 27 or an average of 2.7 per character compared to the usual 30 and 3.

Actions

Among their actions, there are:

  • 0 character modifiers
  • 0 base modifiers
  • 10 standard actions (3 that affect one or more characters, in bold): A Friend Like Me (2x), Cave of Wonders, Jafar, Magic Carpet Ride, Street Rat, The Lamp, Wish (3x),
  • 3 actions that directly increase a character's power: Wish (3x)

Gameplay

Actions

  • 2x A Friend Like Me - Reveal the top four cards of your deck. Draw all actions and shuffle the rest into your deck.
  • 1x Cave of Wonders - Place an action from your discard pile into your hand.
  • 1x Jafar - Each other player discards an action from their hand or reveals their hand to show it has no actions. You may play one of the discarded actions or an action from your hand as an extra action. 
  • 1x Magic Carpet Ride - Search your deck, hand, and/or discard pile for Carpet, shuffle your deck if you searched it, and play Carpet as an extra character.
  • 1x Street Rat - Play an action from another player’s discard pile as an extra action.
  • 1x The Lamp - Search your deck and/or discard pile for Genie, reveal it and draw it. Shuffle your deck if you searched it. Place this card on the bottom of your deck. 
  • 3x Wish - If you have Genie in play, choose one effect and place this card into the box:
    • Play two extra non-Wish cards.
    • Give a character +5 power until the end of the turn.
    • Draw four cards.

Characters

  • 1x Aladdin - power 5 - Search your deck and/or discard pile for The Lamp, reveal it, and draw it. Shuffle your deck if you searched it. Talent: Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal an action. Draw it and shuffle the rest into your deck.
  • 1x Jasmine - power 4 - Talent: Discard an action to play an extra action.
  • 1x Abu - power 3 - Place an action from your discard pile on top of your deck.
  • 1x Genie - power 3 - Talent: Search your deck and/or discard pile for a copy of Wish, reveal it, and place it into your hand. Shuffle your deck if you searched it.
  • 1x Rajah - power 3 - Talent: Discard an action to give this character +2 power until the end of the turn. Special: Before this base scores, you may use this character’s talent.
  • 1x Carpet - power 1 - Talent: Move this character and up to two of your other characters here to another base.
  • 4x Palace Guard - power 2 - Talent: Discard an action to place a +1 power counter on each of your Palace Guards here.

Strategy

To help beginner players, the Smash Up: Disney Edition set gave a few tips and tricks to play this faction, as well as partner recommendations within the set.

Synergy

  • Beauty and the Beast
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tips

  • Be wise but bold in using your precious Wish cards. They can help you break and win bases, but don’t be afraid to use one to fill out a weak hand if needed.
  • Several cards require discarding an action to work. Wish cards are great for that since Genie can fetch them back.
  • A Friend Like Me and other cards can help restock your hand.

Additional Info

Mechanics

You have three powerful actions, the Wishes, that give you a choice between three interesting options. But in order to use them, you must have Genie in play, and on use, those actions go back to the box, making them one-time-use cards. To help you set up that play, you have The Lamp that allows you to retrieve the Genie, as well as several ways to get to The Lamp, such as Aladdin that give it on play and whose talent help you sift your deck, or Abu and Cave of Wonders that allow you to retrieve discarded actions. The Wishes themselved can easily be fetched once Genie is in play.

As a secondary mechanic is that the "palace" characters (Jasmine, Rajah and the Palace Guards) require discarding actions to use their talents. Wishes are great for that purpose because you can retrieve them later with Genie. You can also use A Friend Like Me and Aladdin to help you fill your hand with actions to discard.

Expansion

Smash Up: Disney Edition

Playstyle

  • Support
  • Snowball