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What Were We Thinking?
TEDDY BEARS
Medium-High
Play low-power minions as extras, gain benefits from the presence of other players' minions on their bases, and play actions that neutralize strong opposing minions.
Description
The Teddy Bears are one of the 4 factions from the What Were We Thinking? set.
The Teddy Bears focus on getting power from other players' minions and messing with other players' minions.
Their complexity rating is: Medium-High.
Other factions from the same set: Explorers, Grannies, Rock Stars.
Cards Overview
The Teddy Bears have the usual 10 minions and 10 actions. The total minion base power (not counting any abilities) is unusually low at only 22 or an average of 2.2 per minion compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 2 play-on-minion actions: Cuddle (2x),
* 3 play-on-base actions: Bear Picnic, Tea Party, Too Cute
* 5 standard actions (2 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Care Package (2x), Group Hug, Love Overload, Square Deal,
* 1 action that directly increases a minion's power: Group Hug.
1x Bear Picnic - Play on a base. Ongoing: If other players can play minions they own of printed power 2 or less here, they cannot play them on other bases.
2x Care Package - Draw a card and play an extra minion.
2x Cuddle - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion’s abilities are cancelled.
1x Group Hug - Give one of your minions +1 power for each other minion at the same base until the end of the turn.
1x Love Overload - Special: Before a base scores, destroy the minion there with the most power. If tied, destroy all tied minions.
1x Square Deal - Draw cards until at least one player has fewer cards in their hand than you.
1x Tea Party - Play on a base. Talent: If there are two or more minions here and at least one is yours, draw a card.
1x Too Cute - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here cannot be destroyed by other player’s cards.
Actions
1x Bear Picnic - Play on a base. Ongoing: If other players can play minions they own of printed power 2 or less here, they cannot play them on other bases.
2x Care Package - Draw a card and play an extra minion.
2x Cuddle - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion’s abilities are cancelled.
1x Group Hug - Give one of your minions +1 power for each other minion at the same base until the end of the turn.
1x Love Overload - Special: Before a base scores, destroy the minion there with the most power. If tied, destroy all tied minions.
1x Square Deal - Draw cards until at least one player has fewer cards in their hand than you.
1x Tea Party - Play on a base. Talent: If there are two or more minions here and at least one is yours, draw a card.
1x Too Cute - Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here cannot be destroyed by other player’s cards.
Characters
1x Sir Squeezes - power 5 - Play up to three minions of power 3 or less, whose total power is 5 or less, as extra minions here.
2x Fun Bear - power 2 - Ongoing: After another player plays or moves a minion to here, you may place a +1 power counter on a minion here.
3x Lovey Bear - power 3 - Ongoing: This minion’s starting power is increased to the highest starting power of an opponent’s minion here.
4x Snuggly Bear - power 1 - Special: After you play your first minion in a turn, you may immediately play this minion there as an extra minion.
Mechanics
Play low-power minions as extras, gain benefits from the presence of other players' minions on their bases, and play actions that neutralize strong opposing minions.