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World Tour: Culture Shock
RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES
Medium
Replace any minions in play with other ones, usually random ones played off the top of their owner's deck.
Description
The Russian Fairy Tales are one of the 5 factions from the World Tour: Culture Shock set.
They focus on transforming minions (any minions!) into others, especially random ones played off the top of the deck.
Their complexity rating is: Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Anansi Tales, Ancient Incas, Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Polynesian Voyagers.
Cards Overview
The Russian Fairy Tales have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is unusually low at only 28 or an average of 2.8 per minion compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 2 play-on-minion actions: Bewitched, The Frog Princess,
* 1 play-on-base actions: Go See My Sister,
* 7 standard actions (3 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Fetch I Know Not What, Go I Know Not Whither, Mass Transformation, The Water of Life (2x), Transformation (2x),
* 1 actions that directly increase a minion's power: Bewitched.
1x Bewitched - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has +2 power. When this minion leaves play, transfer this action to another minion.
1x Fetch I Know Not What - Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two actions. You may place any number of those actions into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your deck.
1x Go I Know Not Whither - Choose a base. Shuffle a random minion there controlled by each other player into its owner’s deck.
1x Go See My Sister - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play or move one of your minions to here, you may draw a card.
1x Mass Transformation - Each player places their hand on the bottom of their deck and draws an equal number of cards.
1x The Frog Princess - Play on one of your minions. Talent: Place this minion on the bottom of its owner’s deck to play a minion off the top of your deck here as an extra minion and transfer this action to it, then shuffle your deck.
2x The Water of Life - Place a minion from your discard pile on top of your deck. You may play an extra action.
2x Transformation - Place a minion on the bottom of its owner’s deck to have them play a minion off the top of their deck there as an extra minion, then shuffle their deck.
Actions
1x Bewitched - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has +2 power. When this minion leaves play, transfer this action to another minion.
1x Fetch I Know Not What - Reveal cards from your deck until you reveal two actions. You may place any number of those actions into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your deck.
1x Go I Know Not Whither - Choose a base. Shuffle a random minion there controlled by each other player into its owner’s deck.
1x Go See My Sister - Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play or move one of your minions to here, you may draw a card.
1x Mass Transformation - Each player places their hand on the bottom of their deck and draws an equal number of cards.
1x The Frog Princess - Play on one of your minions. Talent: Place this minion on the bottom of its owner’s deck to play a minion off the top of your deck here as an extra minion and transfer this action to it, then shuffle your deck.
2x The Water of Life - Place a minion from your discard pile on top of your deck. You may play an extra action.
2x Transformation - Place a minion on the bottom of its owner’s deck to have them play a minion off the top of their deck there as an extra minion, then shuffle their deck.
Characters
1x Baba Yaga - power 5 - Talent: Place another minion here on the bottom of its owner’s deck to have them play a minion off the top of their deck here as an extra minion, then shuffle their deck.
1x Finist the Falcon - power 4 - Special: Before a base scores, you may move this minion to there, or return this minion from there to your hand and play it on another base as an extra minion.
1x The Birch Woman - power 4 - Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play, you may search your hand, deck, and/or discard pile for The Birch, and add it to your hand or play it as an extra minion.
1x The Gray Wolf - power 3 - Talent: Place this minion on top of its owner’s deck to play an extra minion here and place a +1 power counter on it.
1x The Birch - power 2 - Ongoing: At the start of your turn, you may destroy this minion to search your hand, deck, and/or discard pile for The Birch Woman, and add it to your hand or play it here as an extra minion.
1x Toad - power 0 - You may give control of this minion to another player to shuffle another one of their minions here into its owner’s deck.
2x Foolish Magician - power 3 - Draw three cards, then place three cards from your hand on the top and/or bottom of your deck in any order.
2x Tsar Eagle - power 2 - Draw a card OR place a minion from another player’s discard pile on top of their deck.
Mechanics
Replace any minions in play with other ones, usually random ones played off the top of their owner's deck.