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What Were We Thinking?
GRANNIES
Medium-High
Manipulate your deck, draw/play actions from the top of your deck and draw/play minions from the bottom of your deck.
Description
The Grannies are one of the 4 factions from the What Were We Thinking? set.
The Grannies focus on arranging the top and bottom of your deck, allowing them to draw and play minions from the bottom, and to draw and play actions from the top.
Their complexity rating is: Medium-High.
Other factions from the same set: Explorers, Rock Stars, Teddy Bears.
Cards Overview
The Grannies have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is the usual 30 or an average of 3 per minion.
Among their actions, there are:
* 0 play-on-minion actions,
* 2 play-on-base actions: Don’t Mess With My Babies!, Family Reunion,
* 8 standard actions (1 that affects one or more minions, in bold): Always Room at Granny’s, Attic Treasures (2x), Chicken Soup, Granny’s Purse (2x), Hush, My Stories are On, Knitting Circle,
* 0 actions that directly increase a minion's power.
1x Always Room at Granny’s - Special: Play after a base scores. Place up to three of your minions there on the top and/or bottom of your deck in any order.
2x Attic Treasures - Place up to three cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck in any order. Draw that many cards.
1x Chicken Soup - Place up to two cards from your discard pile on the top and/or bottom of your deck.
1x Don’t Mess With My Babies! - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here cannot be affected by other players’ cards.
1x Family Reunion - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here, reveal the bottom card of your deck. If it is a minion, draw it, otherwise place it on top of your deck.
2x Granny’s Purse - Reveal the top card of your deck. If it is an action, you may draw it or return it. Otherwise place it on the bottom of your deck. Play an extra action.
1x Hush, My Stories are On - Reveal the bottom card of your deck and draw it. If it is a minion you may play it as an extra minion.
1x Knitting Circle - Destroy up to three actions played on minions and/or bases. Draw a card for each one destroyed.
Actions
1x Always Room at Granny’s - Special: Play after a base scores. Place up to three of your minions there on the top and/or bottom of your deck in any order.
2x Attic Treasures - Place up to three cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck in any order. Draw that many cards.
1x Chicken Soup - Place up to two cards from your discard pile on the top and/or bottom of your deck.
1x Don’t Mess With My Babies! - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here cannot be affected by other players’ cards.
1x Family Reunion - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here, reveal the bottom card of your deck. If it is a minion, draw it, otherwise place it on top of your deck.
2x Granny’s Purse - Reveal the top card of your deck. If it is an action, you may draw it or return it. Otherwise place it on the bottom of your deck. Play an extra action.
1x Hush, My Stories are On - Reveal the bottom card of your deck and draw it. If it is a minion you may play it as an extra minion.
1x Knitting Circle - Destroy up to three actions played on minions and/or bases. Draw a card for each one destroyed.
Characters
1x Matriarch - power 5 - Talent: Reveal the bottom two cards of your deck. Draw any minions revealed, and discard the rest.
2x Granny - power 4 - Talent: Look at the top card of your deck. Place it on the top or bottom of your deck.
3x Nana - power 3 - Reveal the top card of your deck. If it is an action, draw it or play it as an extra action. Otherwise place it on the bottom of your deck.
4x Grandma - power 2 - Look at the top card of your deck. Place it on the top or bottom of your deck.
Mechanics
Manipulate your deck, draw/play actions from the top of your deck and draw/play minions from the bottom of your deck.