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This faction doesn’t belong in a museum! They belong on bases! The Explorers use their fearless sense of adventure to move early onto new bases and establish their power there quickly. By controlling the flow of bases, they can nearly guarantee winning fortune and glory... or at least victory points.
Explorers are from the What Were We Thinking? set and have a Titan card - Very Large Boulder.
Complexity Level: MEDIUM
Mechanics
- Manipulating The Base Deck
- Moving Your Minions
Explorers focus on movements, base deck manipulation and playing extra minions on newly revealed bases.
The Explorers have the unique mechanic of knowing and influencing which will be the next bases drawn from the base deck, allowing you to look at the top cards of the base deck and selecting which base remains on top.
They also allow you to play an extra minion on a base when it's newly revealed, giving you a head start over the other players.
Finally, the Explorers are a movement-heavy faction, able to move their minions and other players' minions.
Strategy
Synergy
- Polynesian Voyagers: Idaho Smith provides another extra base. Guide powers up Wayfinder and any of your other Polynesian Voyagers that move around.
- Ultimates: Ultimates like any faction that provides more movement.
- Aliens
- Kitty Cats
- Superheroes
- Teddy Bears
Cards - Minions
1x Idaho Smith
Power 5 - You may play the top base of the base deck, and move this minion and any number of your other minions from here to there.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- The new base is replaced after it scores, so this permanently increases the number of bases in play.
2x Guide
Power 4 - Ongoing: After the first time each of your minions moves in a turn it gains +1 power until the end of the turn.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
3x Crypt Looter
Power 3 - Special: After a new base comes into play, you may play this minion on it as an extra minion.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- This triggers even when a base with minions on it changes (e.g. by Terraforming).
4x Glory Hound
Power 2 - Look at the top two cards of the base deck. Return them to the top and/or bottom of the deck in any order.
Errata: Yes, Functional (can put both on top or both on bottom)
Clarifications:
- None
Cards - Actions
1x Dr Livingstone, I Presume?
Choose a minion. If it is the only minion on its base, shuffle it into its owner’s deck.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
1x Forgotten Horrors
Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here or play a card that moves your minions to here, draw a card and transfer this action to another base.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- Actions that move multiple minions (e.g. X Never Marks the Spot, Full Sail) and minions that move other minions to their base (e.g. Twister) only get one card draw from this.
2x Fortune and Glory
Choose a base. You may move up to two minions from there to another base.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
1x I Said No Camels!
Choose a base. Place a +1 power counter on each of your minions there OR draw a card for each of your minions there.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
1x It Belongs in a Museum
Choose two minions on different bases. Move each one to the other’s base.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- If there’s only one eligible minion in play, you cannot move it with this card.
2x 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.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- Even if a different ability chooses the next base, Lost Cities can still let you play a minion on it.
1x X Never Marks the Spot
Move any number of your minions.
Errata: Yes, Functional (any number instead of all)
Clarifications:
- None
1x You Call This Archaeology
Move one of your minions. Special: You may play this before or after a base scores.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
Cards - Bases
1x Ancient Temple
Breakpoint 20 - VPs: 4 2 1 - At the start of your turn, if you have only one minion here, it gains +5 power while it is here until the end of the turn.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
1x City of Gold
Breakpoint 16 - VPs: 3 1 1 - At the start of your turn, if you have a minion here, gain 1VP.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
Card - Titan
1x Very Large Boulder
Special: Instead of your regular minion play, you may play this titan on a base that has no player's minions. Ongoing: Once per turn, after a minion moves from here, you may move this titan to the same base. Then destroy a minion at that base with less power than the number of +1 power counters on this titan. Ongoing: At the end of your turn, if this titan didn't move, place a +1 power counter on it.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- None
