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Smash Up Penguins
PENGUINS
Medium
Play random extra minions directly out of your deck and trigger abilities each time you play a minion that way.
Description
The Penguins were to be the single faction in the cancelled World Tour Event Kit. They are now available in the Smash Up Penguins set.
This faction has no official flavor text because the World Tour Event Kit would not have a rulebook.
They focus on playing random extra minions straight out of the deck and gaining benefits from doing so.
Other factions from the same set: (none).
Cards Overview
The Penguins have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. They are also one of the rare factions to have a titan. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is unusually low at only 27 or an average of 2.7 per minion compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 0 play-on-minion actions,
* 3 play-on-base actions: Ice Slide, Leaping Aboard, Pebble Gift,
* 7 standard actions (3 that affect one or more minions, in bold): A Wish for Wings That Work (2x), I Can’t Tell Them Apart, Secret Mission, The Hatching (2x), Under the Ice,
* 2 actions that directly increase a minion's power: A Wish for Wings That Work (2x).
2x A Wish for Wings That Work - Choose a base. Play Emperor Penguin there OR all of your minions there gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
1x I Can’t Tell Them Apart - Shuffle any number of your minions on a base into your deck. Play an equal number of minions there off the top of your deck as extra minions.
1x Ice Slide - Play on a base. Special: After this base scores, draw one card for each of your minions that goes to the discard pile from here.
1x Leaping Aboard - Play on a base. Special: After this base scores, play a minion off the top of your deck as an extra minion on the base that replaces it.
1x Pebble Gift - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here off the top of a deck, draw a card.
1x Secret Mission - Place any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck. Draw that many cards, then shuffle your deck.
2x The Hatching - Play a minion off the top of your deck as an extra minion.
1x Under the Ice - Reveal the top five cards of your deck. Play a random minion of them as an extra minion. Place the rest on the bottom of their owner’s deck in any order.
Actions
2x A Wish for Wings That Work - Choose a base. Play Emperor Penguin there OR all of your minions there gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
1x I Can’t Tell Them Apart - Shuffle any number of your minions on a base into your deck. Play an equal number of minions there off the top of your deck as extra minions.
1x Ice Slide - Play on a base. Special: After this base scores, draw one card for each of your minions that goes to the discard pile from here.
1x Leaping Aboard - Play on a base. Special: After this base scores, play a minion off the top of your deck as an extra minion on the base that replaces it.
1x Pebble Gift - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here off the top of a deck, draw a card.
1x Secret Mission - Place any number of cards from your hand on the bottom of your deck. Draw that many cards, then shuffle your deck.
2x The Hatching - Play a minion off the top of your deck as an extra minion.
1x Under the Ice - Reveal the top five cards of your deck. Play a random minion of them as an extra minion. Place the rest on the bottom of their owner’s deck in any order.
Characters
1x Command Penguin - power 4 - Play a minion off the top of your deck as an extra minion.
1x Dancing Penguin - power 4 - Special: When you play another minion, you may play this minion to the same base instead. Place the other minion on the bottom of its owner’s deck; it has no effect.
1x Disguise Penguin - power 3 - Talent: Place this minion on the bottom of your deck to play a minion off the top of your deck here as an extra minion. The Disguise Penguin ability can only be used once per turn.
1x Snazzy Penguin - power 3 - If this minion was played off the top of a deck, draw two cards.
1x Surfing Penguin - power 3 - You may move a minion from here to another base.
1x Regurgitating Penguin - power 2 - Reveal the top three cards of your deck. You may place an action revealed into your hand. Return the rest in any order.
4x Baby Penguin - power 2 - If this minion was played off the top of a deck, you may play an extra minion here of power 3 or less.
Mechanics
Play random extra minions directly out of your deck and trigger abilities each time you play a minion that way.