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The great trickster Anansi the Spider and the other amazing characters of West African folklore bring their fantastic stories to Smash Up. Anansi collected stories, but also traded them as he traveled. And he nearly always got the better part of any deal. If you are as clever as Anansi, you can benefit both from playing your cards and from giving them away.
Anansi Tales are from the World Tour: Culture Shock set and do not have a Titan card.
Complexity Level: HIGH
Mechanics
- Giving Cards To Players
They are all about sharing your cards with the other players.
Some cards allow you to place any of your cards from your hand into the hand of other players for a benefit, mainly card draws, +1 power counters or the opportunity to play a standard action of your choice. Others give you a benefit if those other players play or discard any card they don't own, so not just the cards you've given them. In particular, their power-2 minions can be played for free each time another player plays or discards such a card. And if your opponents want to keep your cards in hand, they have Collecting Stories that allow you to play them straight from their hands.
Additionally, to ensure that your cards get played, half of their actions must be passed to another player after being played instead of being discarded.
Strategy
Synergy
- Mythic Greeks: Anansi Tales can easily play multiple actions in a turn, which allows Heracles and Odysseus to trigger repeatedly.
- Big Hero 6: Pot of Beans are great for placing counters on multiple minions and getting Big Hero 6's characters online quickly. Honey Lemon embraces the sharing attitude of Anansi Tales, letting you play even more actions.
- Mulan: Chien Po, Ling, and Yao can trigger off of Pot of Beans, effectively stapling Let it Be Full and Eat's effect onto Pot of Beans. Mulan herself lets you play an extra action if a counter was placed on her that turn.
- Dinosaurs
- Killer Plants
- Shapeshifters
- Kitty Cats
- Itty Critters
- Mounties
- Polynesian Voyagers
- Avengers
- Knights of the Round Table
- Frozen
Cards - Minions
1x Anansi the Spider
Power 5 - Talent: Search your deck for a standard action and play it as an extra action. Then place it into another player’s hand instead of where it would normally go. You cannot play any copy of that action again this turn.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- The action is placed into the player’s hand instead of the discard pile or any other location specified by the card itself.
- Cards that specify how to choose the extra card require you to play it immediately.
1x Onini the Python
Power 4 - Ongoing: After another player plays or discards a card they don’t own from a hand or deck, you may place a +1 power counter on one of your minions.
Errata: Yes, Functional
Clarifications:
- Playing or discarding madness cards doesn’t count for these since the controller of a madness card is also considered its owner. Playing or discarding monsters or treasure cards does count.
1x Osebo the Leopard
Power 4 - Ongoing: After you place a card into another player’s hand, place a +1 power counter on this minion.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
3x Akye the Turtle
Power 3 - You may place a card from your hand into another player’s hand to draw two cards.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
4x Mboro Hornet
Power 2 - Special: After another player plays or discards a card they don't own from a hand or deck, you may play this minion as an extra minion.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- Playing or discarding madness cards doesn’t count for these since the controller of a madness card is also considered its owner. Playing or discarding monsters or treasure cards does count.
- Cards that specify how to choose the extra card require you to play it immediately.
Cards - Actions
2x Collecting Stories
Look at another player’s hand. You may play a card you own from their hand as an extra card.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- Cards that specify how to choose the extra card require you to play it immediately.
1x Ear of Corn
Shuffle up to three actions from your discard pile into your deck and play an extra action. Place this card into another player’s hand
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
1x Feather Gifts
Move one of your minions to another base. Place this card into another player’s hand.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
1x Let it be Full and Eat
Draw two cards. Place this card into another player’s hand.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
2x Pot of Beans
Place two +1 power counters total on minions. Place this card into another player's hand.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
1x Pot of Wisdom
Draw a card for each other player, then place a card from your hand into each other player’s hand. Play an extra action.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
1x The Perfect Gift
Search your deck for a standard action and play it as an extra action. Then place it into another player’s hand instead of where it would normally go.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- The action is placed into the player’s hand instead of the discard pile or any other location specified by the card itself.
- Cards that specify how to choose the extra card require you to play it immediately.
1x Trading Stories
You may place up to three cards from your hand into other players’ hands. For each one placed, draw a card.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- None
Cards - Bases
1x Anansi's Web
Breakpoint 17 - VPs: 3 2 1 - If you have a minion here, after the first time each turn you play a standard action, you may place it into another player’s hand instead of the discard pile to draw two cards.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- This is not triggered by cards that explicitly place themselves somewhere after being played, e.g. Anansi Tales cards like Ear of Corn.
1x Storyteller's Hut
Breakpoint 24 - VPs: 4 2 1 - On your turn, you may play an extra action to place a counter on this card. This base’s breakpoint is reduced by 2 for each of those counters.
Errata: No
Clarifications:
- The counters for this base are different from +1 power counters, and neither one counts as the other. You may wish to use a different kind of token for this counter.
