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Smash Up: Munchkin
HALFLINGS
Medium
Draw and retrieve a lot of minions and play them as extras on bases where you're lagging behind other players.
Description
The Halflings are one of the 8 factions from the Smash Up: Munchkin set.
The Halflings focus on playing extra minions, a lot of extra minions! Especially on bases where you're behind.
Other factions from the same set: Clerics, Dwarves, Elves, Mages, Orcs, Thieves, Warriors.
Cards Overview
The Halflings have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is unusually low at only 24 or an average of 2.4 per minion compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 1 play-on-minion action: Small But Tough,
* 3 play-on-base actions: Lunch Run (2x), Sneaksy,
* 6 standard actions (2 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Last Call, Out Of Nowhere, Rude Awakening, Spoiled Brats, Unexpected Party (2x),
* 0 actions that directly increase a minion's power.
1x Last Call - Special: Play before a base scores. Play a minion there. Cancel that minion’s ability until the end of the turn.
2x Lunch Run - Play on a base. Ongoing: After each time you play a minion here, draw a card.
1x Out Of Nowhere - Reveal cards from the top of your deck until two minions have been revealed. Place those minions into your hand. Shuffle the rest of the cards back into your deck.
1x Rude Awakening - Choose a base. Reveal your hand and play all minions in it onto that base as extra minions; cancel their abilities until the end of the turn.
1x Small But Tough - Play on your minion. Ongoing: When this minion goes to the discard pile, place it on top of your deck instead.
1x Sneaksy - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here are not affected by other players’ actions.
1x Spoiled Brats - Choose any number of minions from your discard pile, shuffle them, and place them on top of your deck.
2x Unexpected Party - Play an extra minion on a base where you have no minions.
Actions
1x Last Call - Special: Play before a base scores. Play a minion there. Cancel that minion’s ability until the end of the turn.
2x Lunch Run - Play on a base. Ongoing: After each time you play a minion here, draw a card.
1x Out Of Nowhere - Reveal cards from the top of your deck until two minions have been revealed. Place those minions into your hand. Shuffle the rest of the cards back into your deck.
1x Rude Awakening - Choose a base. Reveal your hand and play all minions in it onto that base as extra minions; cancel their abilities until the end of the turn.
1x Small But Tough - Play on your minion. Ongoing: When this minion goes to the discard pile, place it on top of your deck instead.
1x Sneaksy - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here are not affected by other players’ actions.
1x Spoiled Brats - Choose any number of minions from your discard pile, shuffle them, and place them on top of your deck.
2x Unexpected Party - Play an extra minion on a base where you have no minions.
Characters
1x Shire Marshal - power 4 - Talent: Play an extra minion on a base where another player has more power than you.
2x Pestling - power 3 - You may play an extra minion here.
3x Bardling - power 2 - If another player has more power here than you, you may play an extra minion here.
4x Quarterling - power 2 - If this is your only minion here, you may play an extra minion on this base.
Mechanics
Draw and retrieve a lot of minions and play them as extras on bases where you're lagging behind other players.