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Smash Up: Disney Edition
WRECK-IT RALPH
Medium
Play and manipulate base modifiers, move your characters around and get rid of bases.
Description
Wreck-It Ralph is one of the 8 factions from the Smash Up: Disney Edition set.
They focus on base modifiers, moving from and to your base modifiers, and manipulating bases.
Their complexity rating is: Medium.
Other factions from the same set: Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Big Hero 6, Frozen, Mulan, The Lion King, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Cards Overview
Wreck-It Ralph has the usual 10 characters and 10 actions. The total character base power (not counting any abilities) is slightly lower than usual at only 29 or an average of 2.9 per character compared to the usual 30 and 3.
Among their actions, there are:
* 0 character modifiers,
* 7 base modifiers: Cy-Bug Infestation, I’m Gonna Wreck It! (2x), Kart Bakery, King Candy, Research Lab Beacon, Sugar Rush,
* 3 standard actions (2 that affect one or more characters, in bold): Escape Pod (2x), Mints Eruption,
* 0 actions that directly increase a character's power.
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1x Cy-Bug Infestation - Base modifier. Talent: Destroy this card and this base. Starting with the player to your left, each player chooses a base and moves all their cards here to there. Replace the base normally.
2x Escape Pod - Move up to two of your cards from one base to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores; move one of your cards from the scoring base instead of two.
2x I’m Gonna Wreck It! - Base modifier. Ongoing: This base’s breakpoint is reduced by 3. Talent: This base’s abilities are cancelled until the start of your next turn.
1x Kart Bakery - Base modifier. Talent: If you have a character here, draw a card.
1x King Candy - Base modifier. Talent: You may move this card to another base. Choose a character at this card’s base. Until the start of your next turn, the abilities of character modifiers on it are cancelled and power counters on it do not add to its power.
1x Mints Eruption - Choose a base. Swap it with a base in the discard pile. All cards from the original base remain.
1x Research Lab Beacon - Base modifier. Ongoing: If there are four or more characters here, destroy this card. Talent: Name a faction. Move all characters of that faction to here.
1x Sugar Rush - Base modifier. Talent: Move up to two of your characters from here to another base or from another base to here. They each gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
Actions
1x Cy-Bug Infestation - Base modifier. Talent: Destroy this card and this base. Starting with the player to your left, each player chooses a base and moves all their cards here to there. Replace the base normally.
2x Escape Pod - Move up to two of your cards from one base to another base. Special: You may play this before a base scores; move one of your cards from the scoring base instead of two.
2x I’m Gonna Wreck It! - Base modifier. Ongoing: This base’s breakpoint is reduced by 3. Talent: This base’s abilities are cancelled until the start of your next turn.
1x Kart Bakery - Base modifier. Talent: If you have a character here, draw a card.
1x King Candy - Base modifier. Talent: You may move this card to another base. Choose a character at this card’s base. Until the start of your next turn, the abilities of character modifiers on it are cancelled and power counters on it do not add to its power.
1x Mints Eruption - Choose a base. Swap it with a base in the discard pile. All cards from the original base remain.
1x Research Lab Beacon - Base modifier. Ongoing: If there are four or more characters here, destroy this card. Talent: Name a faction. Move all characters of that faction to here.
1x Sugar Rush - Base modifier. Talent: Move up to two of your characters from here to another base or from another base to here. They each gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
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Characters
1x Wreck-It Ralph - power 5 - Talent: Play a base modifier here as an extra action, OR destroy a base modifier here.
1x Fix-It Felix Jr. - power 4 - Place a base modifier from your discard pile into your hand. Talent: Place a base modifier here on top of its owner’s deck.
1x Vanellope Von Schweetz - power 3 - Talent: Move this character to another base and place a +1 power counter on it.
3x Sergeant Calhoun - power 3 - Talent: If you have a base modifier here, your other characters currently here gain +1 power until the end of the turn.
4x Sugar Rush Racer - power 2 - Ongoing: After you play a base modifier, you may move this character to or from that base to give it +1 power until the end of the turn.
Strategy
Good partner factions: Aladdin, The Lion King
Synergies
* Steampunks: Steampunks and Wreck-It Ralph both reward consolidation strategies; Captain Ahab and Sugar Rush Racer can converge on a base where you have or just played a base modifier (play-on-base action), which is quite strong in tandem with Rotary Slug Throw and Sergeant Calhoun. Kart Bakery is a faster Difference Engine. Fix-It Felix Jr. can help recur Aggromotive and Rotary Slug Thrower much like Mechanic, albeit to hand rather than play, and place base modifiers on the top of their owner's deck. Ralph can speed out extra base modifiers outright and destroy troublesome base modifiers like those deployed by Tricksters and Dragons.
* Dragons: Dragons provide some bite with effects that punish other players for playing or moving their characters to your bases. Dragon Lands can further power up your Sugar Rush Racers, Intimidating Presence reduces the power of rival characters, Bring Down The Walls let you play extra minions before a base scores, Ruins reduce other players' VP gained when the base scores, and most useful of all, Flank Attack lets you fetch a base modifier right out of your deck.
Tips
* Be clever in your use of your base modifiers, both for their direct effects, and the advantages they give your characters.
* Time your movements to build up characters’ power (Sugar Rush Racer, Vanellope Von Schweetz, Sugar Rush), break or flee bases (Research Lab Beacon, Escape Pod), and save cards to remain after a base scores (Escape Pod).
* You can use with Cy-Bug Infestation and Mints Eruption to destroy or replace bases where your opponents are doing well.
Mechanics
Play and manipulate base modifiers, move your characters around and get rid of bases.