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What Were We Thinking?
ROCK STARS
Low-Medium
Collect Groupies, gain advantages from bases with high breakpoints, play and move many minions at once to break bases.
Description
The Rock Stars are one of the 4 factions from the What Were We Thinking? set.
The Rock Stars gain advantage from bases with a high breakpoint (typically 21 or higher) and also focus on searching and playing Groupies, their power-2 minions.
Their complexity rating is: Low-Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Explorers, Grannies, Teddy Bears.
Cards Overview
The Rock Stars have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is slightly lower than usual at only 29 or an average of 2.9 per minion compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 0 play-on-minion actions,
* 2 play-on-base actions: Hot Venue, Turn Up to 11,
* 8 standard actions (2 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Guest Star (2x), Power Ballad, Reunion Tour, Rock of Luuv, Total Sellout (2x), Tour Bus,
* 2 actions that directly increase a minion's power: Hot Venue, Power Ballad.
2x Guest Star - Search your deck and/or discard pile for a Groupie and reveal it. Place it in your hand or play it as an extra minion. Shuffle your deck if you searched it.
1x Hot Venue - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here have +1 power. If this base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, draw a card at the end of any turn that you play a minion here.
1x Power Ballad - Choose a base. Your minions there gain +1 power until the end of the turn. Special: If the base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, you may play this card before the base scores.
1x Reunion Tour - Shuffle any number of your minions from your discard pile into your deck.
1x Rock of Luuv - Search your deck for up to three minions with power 2 or less and the same name. Reveal them, place them into your hand and shuffle your deck.
2x Total Sellout - Special: Play after a base scores where you have a minion. Draw two cards. Draw another card if the breakpoint was 21 or higher.
1x Tour Bus - Choose a base. Move up to three of your minions from bases with lower breakpoint to there.
1x Turn Up to 11 - Play on a base. Ongoing: If this base’s starting breakpoint is less than 21, it is increased to 21.
Actions
2x Guest Star - Search your deck and/or discard pile for a Groupie and reveal it. Place it in your hand or play it as an extra minion. Shuffle your deck if you searched it.
1x Hot Venue - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here have +1 power. If this base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, draw a card at the end of any turn that you play a minion here.
1x Power Ballad - Choose a base. Your minions there gain +1 power until the end of the turn. Special: If the base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, you may play this card before the base scores.
1x Reunion Tour - Shuffle any number of your minions from your discard pile into your deck.
1x Rock of Luuv - Search your deck for up to three minions with power 2 or less and the same name. Reveal them, place them into your hand and shuffle your deck.
2x Total Sellout - Special: Play after a base scores where you have a minion. Draw two cards. Draw another card if the breakpoint was 21 or higher.
1x Tour Bus - Choose a base. Move up to three of your minions from bases with lower breakpoint to there.
1x Turn Up to 11 - Play on a base. Ongoing: If this base’s starting breakpoint is less than 21, it is increased to 21.
Characters
1x The Monarch - power 5 - Talent: Search your deck and/or discard pile for a Groupie, reveal it and place it into your hand. Shuffle your deck if you searched it.
2x Classic Rocker - power 4 - Talent: If this base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, draw a card. Use only one Classic Rocker ability per turn.
2x Rick Roll - power 3 - Move up to three of your minions from bases with lower breakpoints to here.
5x Groupie - power 2 - Play another Groupie here as an extra minion.
Mechanics
Collect Groupies, gain advantages from bases with high breakpoints, play and move many minions at once to break bases.