Smash Up Expansions Overview & Buying Guide

SMASH UP EXPANSIONS

Awesome Level 9000

The Obligatory Cthulhu Set

Science Fiction Double Feature

Monster Smash

Pretty Pretty Smash Up

It’s Your Fault

Cease and Desist

What Were We Thinking?

Big in Japan

That ’70s Expansion

Oops, You Did It Again

World Tour: International Incident

World Tour: Culture Shock

KILLER PLANTS: this faction revolves its strength on growing and getting better over time, which means that minions have to stay on the board as long as possible to fully benefit from their gameplay mechanics.
Cards examples:

• Water Lily
  Ongoing: draw a card at the start of each of your turns. Only use one Water Lily’s ability each turn.
• Sprout
  Ongoing: destroy this card at the start of your next turn. You may search your deck for a minion of power 3 or less, and play it here as an extra minion. Shuffle your deck.

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Robots, Zombies, Pirates, Werewolves and Superheroes.

GHOSTS: this is a unique faction that relies on having a very small amount of cards (2 or less) in your hand. They are really strong, but also very difficult to play, so I wouldn’t recommend using them to any beginner of this game.
Cards examples:

• Haunting
  Ongoing: If you have two or fewer cards in your hand, this minion has +3 power and is not affected by other players’ cards.
• Door to the Beyond
  Play on a base. Ongoing: If you have two or fewer cards in your hand, each of your minions here has +2 power.

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Zombies, Rock Stars and Killer Plants.

STEAMPUNKS: they are extremely powerful and straightforward to play, as they mostly rely on base actions. Absolutely my favourite faction of this expansion.
Cards examples:

• Aggromotive
  Play on a base. Ongoing: If you have a minion here, you have +5 power here.
• Rotary Slug Thrower
  Play on a base. Ongoing: Your minions here each have +2 power.

Suggested pairings: Dragons, Trickster, Elders, Kaiju and Ancient Incas.

BEAR CAVALRY: the most powerful faction of this expansion. They rely on the combination of moving the opponent’s minions from a base to another and destroy them.
Cards examples:

• Club Scout
  Ongoing: After another player’s minion moves here, if it has less power than this minion, destroy it.
• High Ground
  Play on a base. Ongoing: If you have a minion here, destroy any other player’s minion that moves here.

Suggested pairings: Pirates, Dinosaurs, Sharks and Tornados.

ELDER THINGS: this faction is great at sabotaging and manipulating the game by giving to the other players an insane amount of Madness cards. They are created with the only intention to drive your opponents crazy, and for this reason, most of the time this faction is banned from the table.
Cards examples:

• Shoggoth
  You can only play this minion on a base where you have at least 6 power. Each other player may draw a Madness card. Destroy a minion here belonging to each player who does not do so.
• Insanity
  Each other player draws two Madness cards.

Suggested pairings: Zombies, Time Travelers, Robots and Tricksters.

INNSMOUTH: the core mechanic of this deck is to get as much “The Locals” cards as possible on the board and later on boost them all. By the most, this is the weakest faction of the expansion, and that’s technically true. Although if paired with the right faction it can be fun… and you could even win!
Cards examples:

• The Locals
  Reveal the top three cards of your deck. Place any The Locals revealed into your hand. Put the rest of the cards on the bottom of your deck.
• The Deep Ones
  Each of your minions of power 2 or less get +1 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Grannies, Killer Plants, Rock Stars and Robots.

MINIONS OF CTHULHU: “embrace the madness” is their motto. This faction mechanic forces you to draw Madness cards to unlock powerful effects.
Cards examples:

• Corruption
  Draw a Madness card. Destroy a minion.
• The Seal is Broken
  Draw a Madness card. Gain 1 VP.

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Samurai, Tricksters, Robots and Super Spies.

MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY: the natural nemesis of the Elder Things faction. Miskatonic University uses the madness cards to your advantage before getting rid of them. Absolutely the best faction of this expansion and quite possibly one of the best faction of the game.
Cards examples:

• Jinkies
  Return up to 2 Madness cards from your hand or discard pile to the Madness deck.
• Professor
  Talent: Discard a Madness card. If you do, you may play an extra action and/or an extra minion.

Suggested pairings: basically anyone!! I found really interesting pairing them with Super Spies.

CYBORG APES: these cyber beasts are incredible at enhancing themselves with “on-minion” actions, therefore their minions can easily reach a really high power beyond their base value.
Cards examples:

• Furious George
  Ongoing: Has +1 power for each action played on it.
• Cyberevolution
  Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has +3 power.

Suggested pairings: Musketeers, Princesses, Pirates, Wizards, Dinosaurs and Fairies.

SHAPESHIFTERS: as you could image, this faction’s core mechanic revolves around copying the opponents’ cards, either minion or actions. The strength of this faction depends almost entirely on the opponent’s strength.
Cards examples:

• Copycat
  Choose another player’s minion in play. This card has the same ability as that minion until the end of the turn.
• Mimic
  Ongoing: This minion’s power is equal to the highest power printed on a minion card in play.

Suggested pairings: Teddy Bears, Rock Stars, Aliens, Vikings and Samurai.

SUPER SPIES: this faction has an amazing board control value thanks to their abilities to check the upcoming cards, disrupting the opponent deck and at the same time improving your deck.
Cards examples:

• Operative
  Reveal the top card of each player’s deck. Place any of those cards on the bottom of their owner’s deck. Return the other cards to the top of their decks.
• Secret Agent
  Ongoing: After another player plays an action, he or she must discard a card.

Suggested pairings: Grannies, Miskatonic University, Bear Cavalry, Mysthic Horses and Time Travelers.

TIME TRAVELERS: this faction is specialized in deck manipulation thanks to their ability to get cards back from the discard pile and replaying them, sometimes as an extra card in the same turn. Unfortunately is one of the weakest factions of the game.
Cards examples:

• 1.21 Gigawatts
  Shuffle all actions or all minions from your discard pile into your deck.
• Repeater Perfect
  Place an action from your discard pile on top of your deck.

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Giant Ants, Vikings, Kung Fu Fighters and Super Spies.

GIANT ANTS: this faction focuses on getting as many power counters as possible to be able to consequently boost all their minions. But not only that, you can also transfer these tokens from minion to minion making this faction extremely mobile and versatile.
Cards examples:

• Soldier
  Place two +1 power counters on this minion. Talent: Transfer a +1 power counter from this minion to another minion.
• We Will Rock You
  Each of your minions gains +1 power for each +1 power counter on it until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Musketeers, Pirates, Killer Plants, Mad Scientists and Wizards.

MAD SCIENTISTS: the core mechanic of this faction revolves around getting +1 power counters and successively use them to triggers powerful and useful abilities.
Cards examples:

• Überserum
  Play on a minion. Ongoing: At the start of your turn, place a +1 power counter on this minion. This minion cannot be destroyed.
• The Monster
  Talent: Remove a +1 power counter from this minion to play an extra minion.

Suggested pairings: Pirates, Giant Ants, Shapeshifters and Robots.

VAMPIRES: vampires’ core mechanic is to sacrifice or destroy weak minions in order to get +1 power counters and boost their strongest minions.
Cards examples:

• Nightstalker
  Destroy a minion of power 2 or less here to place a +1 power counter on this minion.
• Dinner date
  Place a +1 power counter on your minion. Destroy a minion of power 2 or less at that minion’s base.

Suggested pairings: Tricksters, Robots, Pirates, Giant Ants and Wizards.

WEREWOLVES: this faction is the only one that doesn’t use the +1 power counters. Instead, they get temporary strength boosts under certain circumstances, such as right before base scores or a boost until the end of the turn.
Cards examples:

• Pack Alpha
  Special: Before this base scores, each of your minions here gains +1 power until the end of the turn.
• Teenage Wolf
  Talent: This minion gains +1 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Shapeshifters, Princesses, Killer Plants and Mythic Horses.

FAIRIES: this is a faction that can really cause your opponents a strong headache. The focus of the deck revolves around the double choice of disrupting opponents’ actions in play or choosing to advantage yourself. Queens of board manipulation.
Cards examples:

• Magic Acorns
  Each other player discards a card at random, OR you draw a card and play an extra action.
• Titania
  Return an opponent’s minion to its owner’s hand, OR play an extra minion.

Suggested pairings: Pirates, Cyborg Apes, Sharks, Mythic Greeks and Dragons.

KITTY CATS: despite their cute look, Kitty Cats can be a real threat. Their core mechanic gameplay focuses on lowering opponent minions’ power and taking control of them. They also benefit from destroying minions they control.
Cards examples:

• Mr. Grumpers
  Choose a minion. It has -2 power until the end of the turn
• Cat’s Paw
  Take control of a minion of power 5 or less until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Mad Scientists, Tricksters, Ninja, Fairies and Shapeshifters.

MYTHIC HORSES: their gameplay is very straightforward. This faction relies on having multiple minions on the same base to get buffs and card draws.
Cards examples:

• Starlyte
  Ongoing: This minion has +1 power for each of your other minions here.
• Super Future Space Armor Power
  Each of your minions that is on a base with another of your minions gains +2 power until the end of the turn

Suggested pairings: Steampunks, Zombies, Wizards, Robots, Rock Stars and Killer Plants.

PRINCESSES: this faction is slightly unusual having only 5 minions in the deck (all power 5), but all of these Princesses have really strong talents that can change a game if used correctly and against the right factions.
Cards examples:

• Eliza
  Ongoing: Other players cannot play more than one extra card per turn.
• Sleeping Beauty
  Ongoing: If this minion would go to the discard pile, shuffle it into your deck instead.

Suggested pairings: Wizards, Fairies, Miskatonic University, Clerics and Super Spies.

DRAGONS: this faction lands on the table to create pure chaos on the bases, making them less desirable to the other players while making your plays stronger.
Cards examples:

• Imperial Dragon
  Ongoing: After another player plays or moves a minion here, draw a card.
• Great Wyrm
  Ongoing: Other players here are awarded 1 less VP from this base when it scores.

Suggested pairings: Steampunks, Pirates, Dinosaurs, Kaiju, Teddy Bears and Super Spies.

MYTHIC GREEKS: these mighty legends are all about playing actions, here known as “favours of Gods”. The more you play those cards the stronger their minions become!
Cards examples:

• Odysseus
  Choose a minion. It has -2 power until the end of the turn
• Favor of Athena
  Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. You may place one of the revealed actions into your hand, and return the rest to the top of your deck in any order

Suggested pairings: Wizards, Mad Scientists, Fairies, Sharks and Musketeers.

SHARKS: very simple mechanic, destroy every minion you encounter on your path and get stronger after each kill.
Cards examples:

• Hammerhead
  Ongoing: After a minion here is destroyed, place a +1 power counter on this minion.
• Blood in the Water
  Play on a base. Ongoing: After a minion is destroyed here, you may play a minion here of power 3 or less as an extra minion.

Suggested pairings: Kung Fu Fighters, Bear Cavalry, Fairies, Mythic Greeks and Rock Stars.

SUPERHEROES: as you can imagine, this faction’s core mechanic is to transform (destroy) your low-powered minions to search for your much stronger ones.
Cards examples:

• Mild Mannered Citizen
  Ongoing: At the start of your turn you may destroy this minion to search your deck for a minion of power 5 or more, play it here as an extra minion, and shuffle your deck.
• Justice Friends
  Each of your minions of power 5 or more gains +2 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Miskatonic University, Werewolves, Halfling, Shapeshifters and Killer Plants.

TORNADOS: another pretty easy-to-guess faction… they focus on moving minions around, either yours or other players’, to get advantages. If those minions are Sharks, that’s even better!
Cards examples:

• Gone with the Wind
  Special: Play after a base scores. You may move one of your minions from there to another base instead of the discard pile.
• Twister
  You may move a minion of power 3 or less from here to another base, or from another base to here.

Suggested pairings: Explorers, Bear Cavalry, Sharks, Dinosaurs and Cyborg Apes.

ASTROKNIGHTS: directly from a galaxy far far away… this faction excels in buffing their minions with +1 power counters and draw cards to play as extra actions.
Cards examples:

• Space Prince
  Talent: Play an extra action that directly increases the power of one of your minions.
• Block the Probe
  Choose a minion. It gains +2 power until the end of the turn. Special: You may play this card before a base scores.

Suggested pairings: Dinosaurs, Mega Troopers, Disco Dancers, Shapeshifters and Mythic Greeks.

CHANGERBOTS: robots that can transmorph into various forms? I’ll take it, please! The main mechanic of this faction is to give you the choice of switching between different status: higher power at the cost of useful abilities, or vice versa.
Cards examples:

• Bruiser
  Ongoing: This minion cannot be destroyed. Talent: This minion gains +2 power and loses its Ongoing ability and all other abilities until the start of your next turn.
• Change Into A Gun
  Play on one of your minions to destroy a minion of power 4 or less there. Ongoing: This minion has -2 power. Destroy this card at the start of your turn.

Suggested pairings: Cyborg Apes, Wizards, Shapeshifters, Explorers and Kitty Cats.

IGNOBLES: this faction’s core mechanic revolves around betrayal. To mimic this sentiment, your cards have the ability to give someone else control of your minions and then take them back at the right time.
Cards examples:

• Repaying Debts
  Give control of one of your minions to another player to draw two cards and play an extra minion.
• Foot of the King
  Ongoing: At the end of your turn, you may take control of a minion you own.

Suggested pairings: Elves, Shapeshifters, Itty Critters, Kitty Cats, and Bear Cavalry.

STAR ROAMERS: these guys join us as a powerful defensive faction. While defending your minions from other players’ attacks, they can also manipulate the board by returning minions to owner’s hand, triggering extra abilities. Create chains between minions and actions is the way to go here!
Cards examples:

• Protector Fields
  Play on a base where you have a minion. Ongoing: Your minions here are not affected by other players’ cards.
• Ship’s Engineer
  Ongoing: If another one of your minions would be returned to your hand, you may move it to another base instead.

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Shapeshifters, Ninja, Elder things and Ignobles.

EXPLORERS: this faction has the unique ability to manipulate the bases deck, choosing which base will be drawn from that deck. They can also play an extra minion on the new base revealed.
Cards examples:

• Crypt Looter
  Special: After a new base comes into play, you may play this minion on it as an extra minion. 
• Lost City
  Special: After a base scores, reveal the top two cards of the base deck. Choose one to replace the scored base and discard the other. Play a minion on the new base as an extra minion.

Suggested pairings: Mythic Greeks, Miskatonic University, Tornados, Changerbots and Mythic Horses.

GRANNIES: these differently-young women know very well how to manipulate cards. Their core mechanic is to move minions at the bottom of your deck, and actions at the top of it, and then play those cards as extra minion or action.
Cards examples:

• Hush, My Stories are On
  Reveal the bottom card of your deck and draw it. If it is a minion you may play it as an extra minion.
• Granny’s Purse
  Reveal the top card of your deck. If it is an action, you may draw it or return it. Otherwise, place it on the bottom of your deck. Play an extra action.

Suggested pairings: Halflings, Mythic Greek, Super Spies, Mythic Horse and Mages.

ROCK STARS: this faction gets advantages when the bases have a breakpoint of 21 or higher to trigger their ability to draw extra cards. They are also the number one faction at swarming bases thanks to their second mechanic that revolves around Groupies.
Cards examples:

• 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.
• Classic Rocker
  Talent: If this base has a breakpoint of 21 or higher, draw a card. Use only one Classic Rocker ability per turn.

Suggested pairings: Mythic Horses, Explorers, Robots, Dinosaurs and Innsmouth.

TEDDY BEARS: these cute bears have a wide range of abilities at their disposal, such as drawing extra cards, playing extra minions and getting power from other players’ minions.
Cards examples:

• Lovely Bear
  Ongoing: This minion’s starting power is increased to the highest starting power of an opponent’s minion here.
• Care Package
  Draw a card and play an extra minion. 

Suggested pairings: Aliens, Shapeshifters, Ninja, Elder things and Ignobles.

ITTY CRITTERS: this faction focuses on temporarily playing extra minions (with power 2 or less) directly from the deck, that will stay on the board just until the end of your turn. These low-power creatures have a wide range of valuable abilities.
Cards examples:

• Critter Coach
  You may search your deck for a minion of power 2 or less and play it here as an extra minion. If you control it at the end of the turn, place it on the bottom of your deck.
• Krakatoad
  You may choose another minion here to gain +2 power until the end of the turn

Suggested pairings: Elder things, Ignobles, Robots, Shapeshifters and Time Travelers.

KAIJU: summoned to bring destruction to the table, Kaiju are specialized in using their powerful actions to destroy opponents’ cards and gain massive power.
Cards examples:

• Kaijookey
  Ongoing: This minion has +1 power for each of your actions played on this base
• Tail Smash
  Play on a base. Destroy a minion you don’t control here of power 3 or less. Ongoing: You gain +4 power here.

Suggested pairings: Steampunks, Dragons, Bear Cavalry and Wizards.

MAGICAL GIRLS: these cute girls can be really strong if you let them occupy a base with a large number of minions, in fact, their core mechanic revolves around some abilities that are proportionally strong to the number of minions on a base.
Cards examples:

• Technomagical Lass
  Talent: Destroy a minion you don’t control here with power less than or equal to the number of your minions here.
• Lunar Captain
  Talent: Choose a minion in your discard pile with power less than or equal to the number of your minions here, and place it into your hand

Suggested pairings: Robots, Fairies, Sharks, Mythic Horses and Shapeshifters.

MEGA TROOPERS: this faction’s core mechanic is to trigger their special abilities just right before a base scores, giving you the chance to manipulate the scoring to your advantage.
Cards examples:

• Lightning Rescue! 
  Special: Before a base scores, play an action as a special action.
• Green Trooper
  Special: Before a base scores, you may play this minion there as an extra minion

Suggested pairings: Astroknights, Ninja, Rock Stars, Robots and Miskatonic University.

DISCO DANCERS: this faction has the power of duplicate the effect of their actions card, increasing the minions those particular actions would normally affect.
Cards examples:

• Dancing King
  Ongoing: When a standard action directly affects one or more minions here, you may choose another minion here to be affected the same way.
• Diva
  Ongoing: Once each turn, when a standard action directly affects one or more of your other minions here, you may choose this minion to be affected the same way.

Suggested pairings: Astroknights, Dinosaurs, Aliens, Innsmouth and Time Travelers.

KUNG FU FIGHTERS: these bunch of fighters are specialized in working as a team to generate +1 power counters and destroy opponents’ minions.
Cards examples:

• Lady Whirlwind
  Talent: If this minion has no +1 power counters on it, destroy a minion here with less power to place a +1 power counter on this minion.
• Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting
  Choose a base. Each player with a minion there destroys another player’s minion there.

Suggested pairings: Mad Scientists, Giant Ants, Warriors, Sharks and Itty Critters.

TRUCKERS: their core mechanic revolves around playing mostly “on-base” actions and moving cards around.
Cards examples:

• “El Bandido”
  You may take control of an action on this base. Talent: Play an extra action on a base, OR transfer an action from one base to another.
• Fixin’ to Fix It
  Choose an action in your discard pile that can be played on a base, and play it as an extra action. 

Suggested pairings: Kaiju, Tricksters, Dragons and Steampunk.

VIGILANTES: they have an unusual set of 4-power minions (similar to the Princesses) and their core mechanic is based on the abilities of those minions, very aggressive and powerful such as power boost and minions destruction.
Cards examples:

• Death Wisher
  Ongoing: Once per turn, after another player destroys a minion they don’t control, you may destroy one of that player’s minions.
• Jacky Bill
  Ongoing: After another player plays an action, you may have this minion gain +2 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Shapeshifters, Bear Cavalry, All Stars and Elves.

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS: they have the unique ability to bury some of their cards, to then uncover them at the right time with the purpose of scoring more points.
Cards examples:

• Pharaoh
  Ongoing: After another buried card is uncovered, draw a card. Special: Before this base scores, you may uncover one of your buried cards here.
• Lost Knowledge
  Bury a card from your hand OR uncover one of your buried cards. Special: You may play this card before a base scores.

Suggested pairings: Ghosts, Faries, Killer Plants, Dragons and Superheroes.

COWBOYS: this faction’s main gameplay is built around the newly introduced mechanic of Duel. They have a bunch of cards that boost their minions’ power and help them win duels against the other players.
Cards examples:

• Sheriff
  Special: Before this base scores, this minion may duel another player’s minion here. Destroy the losing minion.
• Deputy
  Special: On your turn or during a duel involving your minion, you may discard this card from your hand to give a minion +2 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Steampunks, Wizards, Disco Dancers, Astroknights and Sharks.

SAMURAI: This is the other faction that uses Duels, although their core mechanic revolves around getting benefits and boosts when their minions go to the discard pile.
Cards examples:

• Bushi
  Ongoing: After this minion goes to the discard pile from play while it has 5 or more power, gain 1 VP.
• Way of the Warrior
  Until the end of the turn, one of your minions gains +3 power, and if it goes to the discard pile from play, draw a card.

Suggested pairings: Shapeshifters, Mad Scientist, Minions of Cthulhu, Zombie and All Stars.

VIKINGS: pillage is the only word they know. The core mechanic of this faction revolves around stealing cards from other players and gaining power by placing cards from your hand to the top of your deck.
Cards examples:

• Huscarl
  Talent: Place a card from your hand on top of your deck to give this minion +2 power until the end of the turn.
• Berserk
  Place a card from your hand on top of your deck to give one of your minions +3 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Time Travelers, Werewolves, Rock Stars, Ghosts and Robots.

LUCHADORS: they focus on playing their unique “Set-Up” actions (and not only those) on the opponents’ minions to fulfil the requirement for triggering their abilities or getting power boosts.
Cards examples:

• Capa Roja
  Special: Before this base scores, you may destroy a minion here with printed power 3 or less controlled by each other player.
• Cheap Pop
  Give one of your minions +2 power until the end of the turn, or +4 power instead if a minion there has a Set-Up action on it. 

Suggested pairings: Zombie, Fairies, Cyborg Apes, Wizards and Ancient Egyptians.

MOUNTIES: this faction’s main gameplay is built around movement and power boosts, in fact, they can move from base to base and gain temporary power in presence of opponents’ minions.
Cards examples:

• Mountie Major
  Ongoing: This minion has +1 power for each minion here controlled by the other player with the most minions here
• Move Aboot
  Choose a base with another player’s minion. Move one of your minions from another base to there to give it +2 power until the end of the turn.

Suggested pairings: Explorers, Disco Dancers, Werewolf and Polynesian Voyager.

MUSKETEERS: these soldiers specialize in combining actions, mostly the ones played “on a minion”, and gain benefits after playing them such as power boosts or card draws.
Cards examples:

• Athos
  Ongoing: After you play an action that directly affects one or more of your other minions here, those minions each gain +1 power until the end of the turn
• D’Artagnan
  Ongoing: After you play an action that directly affects this minion, draw a card

Suggested pairings: Dinosaurs, Disco Dancers, Mythic Greeks, Astroknights and Cyborg Apes.

SUMO WRESTLERS: this faction has two main mechanics; the first one is to be able to move opponents’ minions away from bases where you have minions. The other mechanic is the ability to gain +1 power counters at the cost of discarding cards.
Cards examples:

• Bulking Stew
  Discard any number of cards. For each card discarded, place a +1 power counter on one of your minions.
• Third Tier
  You may move another player’s minion with power 3 or less from here to another base to draw a card

Suggested pairings: Bear Cavalry, Vampires, Wizards, Mad Scientists and Zombie.

ANANSI TALES: they focus on placing their cards into other players’ hands gaining some benefits, such as +1 power counters and extra card draws.
Cards examples:

• Osebo the Leopard
  Ongoing: After you place a card into another player’s hand, place a +1 power counter on this minion
• Trading Stories
  You may place up to three cards from your hand into other players’ hands. For each one placed, draw a card

Suggested pairings: Minions of Cthulhu, Ghosts, Ignobles, Tricksters and Miskatonic University.

ANCIENT INCAS: the main mechanic of this faction revolves around playing “on-a-base” actions to trigger abilities, such as extra card draws.
Cards examples:

• Child of the Sun
  Ongoing: After the first time you play an action on this base each turn, you may play an extra action
• Temple of the Sun
  Play on a base. Draw a card. Ongoing: After you play another action on this base, draw a card

Suggested pairings: Steampunks, Kaiju, Tricksters, Dragons and Truckers.

GRIMMS’S FAIRY TALES: this faction focuses on having their pair of minions placed together on the same base to trigger very useful benefits, such as playing extra minions/actions or gaining power counters.
Cards examples:

• Hansel
  Ongoing: This minion has +2 power if Gretel is here.
• Gretel
  Ongoing: This minion has +2 power if Hansel is here.

Suggested pairings: Itty critters, Wizards, Killer Plants, Shapeshifters and All-Stars.

POLYNESIAN VOYAGERS: this faction is specialized in moving minions around and they focus on having their cards spread on all the bases to gain benefits. They also have the unique ability to increase permanently the number of bases on the table.
Cards examples:

• Unity of the Tribes
  Choose a base where you have a minion. Gain +2 power there for each base where you have at least one minion until the end of the turn
• Volcanic Uprising
  Play the top card of the base deck and you may move one of your minions to it, OR destroy a base with no player’s minions on it and replace it with two bases.

Suggested pairings: Pirates, Cyborg Apes, Bear Cavalry and Explorers.

RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES: they have the unique power of transforming any minions into random others, usually played off the top of the deck.
Cards examples:

• 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.
• 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.

Suggested pairings: Vikings, Teddy Bears, Astroknights, Dragons and Tricksters