Treasures were introduced in the Smash Up: Munchkin set. They are minion and action cards that you get for various reasons. They can be played like any other minion and action. If they're ever discarded, they go to their own discard pile, not the discard pile of any player.
A common way to gain treasure is from monsters.
Cards[]
The treasure deck has 22 cards, 3 of which are minions and the 19 remaining ones are actions.
Among the actions, there are:
- 10 play-on-minion actions: Boots of Butt-Kicking, Boots of Running Really Fast, Buckler of Swashing, Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment, Chest of Holding, Jetpack of Anachronism, Kneepads of Allure, Magic Missile, Potion of Cowardice, Potion of Redundancy Potion,
- 1 play-on-base action: Bag of Caltrops,
- 8 standard actions (4 that affect one or more minions, in bold): Cross Bow, Dungeon Rule Book, Potion of Halitosis, Potion of Idiotic Bravery, Potion of Line Cutting, Potion of Paralysis, Wand of Dowsing, Wishing Ring,
- 6 actions that directly increase a minion's power: Boots of Butt-Kicking, Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment, Chest of Holding, Cross Bow, Kneepads of Allure, Potion of Idiotic Bravery.
Minions[]
1x Dwarf Hireling - power 2 - You may play a card from the treasure discard pile on this minion as an extra action. FAQ
1x Halfling Hireling - power 2 - You may play an extra minion. FAQ
1x Tiger Steed - power 3 - You may destroy a minion here of power 2 or less. FAQ
Actions[]
1x Bag of Caltrops - Play on a base. Ongoing: When another player’s minion of power 3 or less is played here, destroy this treasure and that minion. FAQ
1x Boots of Butt-Kicking - Play on a minion. You may play an extra action. Ongoing: This minion has +1 power. FAQ
1x Boots of Running Really Fast - Play on a minion. Talent: Move this minion to another base. FAQ
1x Buckler of Swashing - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion cannot be destroyed. FAQ
1x Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has +2 power. FAQ
1x Chest of Holding - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has +1 power for each treasure card on it. FAQ
1x Cross Bow - Choose a base and a faction. All minions there of that faction gain +2 power until the end of the turn. FAQ
1x Dungeon Rule Book - Destroy an action on a minion or base. Special: You may play this before a base scores. FAQ
1x Jetpack of Anachronism - Play on a minion. Ongoing: When this minion goes to the discard pile, place it into its owner’s hand instead. FAQ
1x Kneepads of Allure - Play on a minion. Ongoing: All minions here get +1 power. FAQ
1x Magic Missile - Play on a minion. Talent: Place this card on the bottom of the treasure deck. Destroy a minion here of power 3 or less. FAQ
1x Potion of Cowardice - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has -2 power and loses all abilities. FAQ
1x Potion of Halitosis - Choose a base and a player. That player moves one of his or her minions from that base to another. Special: You may play this before a base scores. You must choose that base. FAQ
1x Potion of Idiotic Bravery - One minion gains +3 power until the end of the turn. FAQ
1x Potion of Line Cutting - Special: Play after a scored base’s treasures are revealed, but before they are distributed. Place one of those treasures into your hand. FAQ
1x Potion of Paralysis - Special: Play before a base scores. Until the end of the turn, cancel the abilities of all cards on the base or on minions on the base. FAQ
1x Potion of Redundancy Potion - Play on a minion. Ongoing: This minion has the ability: “Talent: Use the talent ability of another minion.” FAQ
1x Wand of Dowsing - Draw 2 treasure cards. Shuffle this card and the treasure card discard pile into the treasure deck. FAQ
1x Wishing Ring - Gain 1 VP. Place this card on the bottom of the treasure deck. FAQ
Rules[]
- Main article: Rules
Setup[]
Prepare the Treasure Deck[]
Gather all the treasure cards together to form the treasure deck. There are twenty-two treasure cards in total. Shuffle them and set this deck face-down to the side within easy reach.
The deck has a discard pile with shuffle-on-demand rules similar to the base deck.
Drawing Treasures[]
Treasures are only obtained:
- When you destroy a monster.
- After the scoring of a base with (controlled and/or uncontrolled) monsters on it.
- When a card tells you to get a treasure, by either drawing one, placing one into your hand, or playing one from the treasure discard pile.
Destroying Monsters[]
If a monster is destroyed, then the player who destroyed the monster draws that many treasure cards into their hand from the treasure deck, without revealing them. To determine who destroyed it, take a look at the card that caused the destruction when it was activated (i.e. the one with the word "destroy"). Usually, the card tells its controller to destroy the minion. In that case, it's the card's controller who gets credit for the destruction. If the card mentions that a specific player destroys it (e.g. Bear Hug, Ninja Dojo), then it's the designated player who gets credit for the destruction and gets the reward. If the destruction comes from an uncontrolled Plutonium Dragon, then reveal the appropriate number of treasure cards from the top of the treasure deck and discard them.[1]
Unlike normal minions, any ability that removes a monster from play (whether it's controlled or uncontrolled) sends it to the monster discard pile, nowhere else. E.g. taking control of a monster and then targeting it with Do Over! will send the monster to the monster discard pile, not to anyone's hand. Causing a monster to be discarded is not the same as destroying the monster, and only abilities that destroy the monster can earn the treasure reward.
Scoring a Base with Monsters[]
After a base scores, add up all the treasure numbers for the monsters there (whether controlled or uncontrolled[2]), and reveal that number of treasure cards from the treasure deck. Every player with a minion at that base takes turns placing 1 of the revealed treasure cards into their hand until all revealed treasures have been taken starting with the winner of the base, then the runner up, etc. If players are tied for winner or any other place, resolve ties clockwise starting with the Current Player or whichever player is left of the current player. Even a player in fourth place on a base gets to participate in the loot distribution (provided, of course, that there are at least 4 treasures revealed). Note that even if you control a monster when its base scores, its treasures are still to added to the stash and split between the players.
Playing Treasures[]
You can play treasures when an ability allows you to play one, or when it's one of the cards in your hand. When a treasure card is in your hand, you can play it by spending one of your minion or action play (depending on the type of treasure).
Just like "normal" minions or actions, the player who plays a treasure card gains control of it, though just like "normal" cards, their control can change. Each treasure is treated as if it was a "normal" card of its type (either a minion, or an action), with the following exceptions:
- They don't have any owners. So they can't be affected by cards that mention an "owner". E.g. Beam Up would do nothing to a treasure minion, since there is no "owner's hand" for the treasure to be returned to. Likewise Complete the Ritual wouldn't be able to affect any treasures on the base or on minions there by placing them "on the bottom of their owner's deck", although they would be discarded because the base and minions left play.
- They aren't a faction. So when a card tells you to name a faction, you can't say "treasures".
- If a treasure card ever leaves play, it goes to the treasure discard pile, not to any other discard pile, hand, or deck. For example, if a treasure minion is destroyed on Tar Pits, it is discarded, not placed under the treasure deck. Only the cards that explicitly designates treasures are the exceptions. Those cards are the Dwarf King, Strip Bare, Magic Missile, Wishing Ring, and Wand of Dowsing.
Although treasure cards cannot go to any player's discard pile, they can still end up in a player's deck (e.g. with Field Trip). It's possible for a treasure card to be discarded from a deck (e.g. with Walker). If this happens, the treasure card still goes to the treasure discard pile, not the player's discard pile.
Clarifications[]
Here are the official clarifications as they appear in the Smash Up: Munchkin rulebook:
Potion of Paralysis: This does not cancel the ability of the base, or of cards at other bases or in hands. It does cancel those of cards played to its base after it is played.
Tiger Steed: Despite its name, Tiger Steed is a separate minion, not played on or with any other minion.
Cross Bow: This does not affect minions played after this card. (added by The Bigger Geekier Box)
FAQ[]
Questions on Dwarf Hireling[]
Q: What treasures can I play on Dwarf Hireling?
A: Only treasure actions that say "Play on a minion" (or a similar wording). You cannot use its ability to play "play on a base" actions, nor standard actions.
Rule: Only "play on a minion" actions are played on a minion.
Questions on Halfling Hireling[]
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Questions on Tiger Steed[]
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Questions on Bag of Caltrops[]
Q: An opponent plays this card on a base and then plays a minion of power 3 or less there. Since they are another player from my point of view, their minion must be destroyed, right?
A: No. Your opponent played the action, so they control it, and therefore the action only addresses them and the ability must be interpreted from their point of view. So "another player" means "one of their opponents".
Rule: A play-on-base action doesn't give an ability to the base that any player can use.
Rule: "You" on a minion, action or titan means the controller of the card.
Q: I play a War Raptor on a base with an enemy's Bag of Caltrops and another War Raptor, so War Raptor should become power 4, is it immune to Bag of Caltrops?
A: No. Bag of Caltrops is triggered when another player plays a minion of power 3 or less. War Raptor is a minion of power 2, even though its ability changes its power once it's in play, but when you played it, it started at power 2.
Rule: If it's not in play, a minion's power is equal to its printed power.
Q: I play a Weed Eater on a base with an enemy's Bag of Caltrops. Its ability lowers its power to 3. Is it destroyed by Bag of Caltrops?
A: No. Bag of Caltrops is triggered when another player plays a minion of power 3 or less. Weed Eater is a minion of power 5, even though its ability changes its power once it's in play, but when you played it, it started at power 5.
Rule: If it's not in play, a minion's power is equal to its printed power.
Q: When I play a Flower Child on a base with an enemy Bag of Caltrops and choose to give it to that player, does it still trigger Bag of Caltrops?
A: Yes. Bag of Caltrops is triggered when another player plays a minion of power 3 or less, which you did, even if the minion changed controller.
Q: If I play an Argonaut instead of an action on Bag of Caltrops's base, is it still destroyed?
A: Yes. Playing an Argonaut, whether as a minion or instead of an action, still counts as playing a minion. It IS a minion after all.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Bag of Caltrops says "Play on a base", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Boots of Butt-Kicking[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Boots of Butt-Kicking says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Boots of Running Really Fast[]
Q: Based on the wording, I can play this card on another player's minion. If I do, who can use the action's talent?
A: The action's controller. By default, an action's controller is the player who played it. Even if they play it on another player's minion, they are still the action's controller and only they can use its talent.
Rule: If you play an action on another player's minion, you're still the action's controller.
Rule: A card's talent can only be used by that card's controller.
Q: Can I play this card on a minion that already has a talent? Can a minion have several talents?
A: You sure can play this card on any minion, with or without a talent. Also, the minion doesn't gain the action's talent, the talent belongs to the action and can only be used by the action's controller, not the minion's controller (if they were different).
Rule: A play-on-minion action doesn't give an ability to the minion it is attached to.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Boots of Running Really Fast says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Buckler of Swashing[]
Q: Choking Vines is on a minion. I play Buckler of Swashing on it. What happens?
A: At the start of Choking Vines' controller's turn, Choking Vines is activated and tries to destroy the minion, but Buckler of Swashing prevents it. Both cards remain on the minion. At the start of each of the Choking Vines' controller's turns, Choking Vines keeps trying to destroy the minion. Who knows? Maybe it will succeed eventually.
Rule: "Can't" trumps "can".
Q: One of my cards tells me to destroy one of my minions (e.g. Sacrifice), or an opponent's card forces me to destroy one of my minions (e.g. Bear Hug), or a base's ability allows me to destroy one of my minions (e.g. R’lyeh), can I target my minion with Buckler of Swashing played on it? If so, is it destroyed? If not, does it stop the rest of the ability if there were more to it?
A: Short answer: Yes, no and it depends. Firstly, you can indeed choose any of your minions as long as it fits the card's requirement (e.g. if your minion is on R’lyeh, you can target it with R’lyeh's ability, but you can't if it was on another base, obviously), but you must choose one if you have any in play and if it's a mandatory ability (i.e. there's no "you may"). Secondly, because it is targeted for destruction, Buckler of Swashing's ability protects it, so your minion will not be destroyed. Lastly, you must finish resolving the card that was originally invoked. If the card was the kind of card that says "Destroy a minion to do Y" or "Destroy a minion. If you do, do Y", then the effect stated as "Y" can't be done at all, simply because in the end your minion isn't destroyed. If the card says something else, such as "Destroy a minion. Do Y", "Destroy a minion and do Y", etc., the destruction isn't a pre-requisite so you resolve the rest of the card's ability.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Buckler of Swashing says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Chainsaw of Bloody Dismemberment says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Chest of Holding[]
Q: It doesn't say "including this one" like some other cards (e.g. War Raptor, Juiced Up, Microbot Archive), so it doesn't give +1 power to the minion by itself, right? Otherwise, they would have said so.
A: Yes, it does give the minion +1 power by itself. The "including this one" was just there to clarify that those cards counted themselves toward their own abilities, but if you interpret Chest of Holding's ability literally, you must count how many treasures are attached to the minion (so including Chest of Holding), that minion gets that many +1 power. Otherwise, they would have used the wording "for each other treasure card".
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Chest of Holding says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Cross Bow[]
Q: Which factions can I name?
A: You can name any faction, one of yours or one of your opponents', or even one that isn't used in this game. There's no limitation.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: - If Diva copies it (and it can only copy it if the named faction doesn't match its faction), Diva is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +2 power.
- If Dancing King copies it onto a minion (it can be itself and it can only copy it if the named faction doesn't match the minion's faction), that minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +2 power. Note that if more than one minion were directly affected, Dancing King only triggers once, not once per affected minions.
- If We are Family copies it (and it can only copy it if the named faction doesn't match the faction of the minion it is on), the minion it is on is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +2 power.
- With Funky Town, you can only copy it if you're the one who played the action and if it affects one of your minions, but if Funky Town does copy it (and it can only copy it if the named faction doesn't match the minion's faction), the minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +2 power. Note that if more than one minion were directly affected, Funky Town only triggers once, not once per affected minions.
Questions on Dungeon Rule Book[]
Q: When used as a Special, do I have to destroy an action attached to the scoring base or to a minion on the scoring base?
A: No, there's no limitation, so it can be any action on any minion or on any base.
Q: If destroying the action changes one's total power while the base is being scored, does it change anything at all? Don't we only get VPs based on the power we had at the start of scoring?
A: Actually, the amount of VPs each player gets is determined by the power each player currently has when you are handing out VPs, so any before-scoring abilities (including this one) that affect how much power you have on the base will affect the amount of VPs you'll eventually get.
Rule: VPs are awarded according to the current power totals.
Q: Before a base scores, I play this card and destroy an action that contributed power, reducing the total power below the breakpoint. This ends the scoring, right?
A: You're mistaken here. Once a base has been chosen to score, you keep scoring it even if the total power on it drops below its breakpoint because of before-scoring abilities. (Only a couple of things can really prevent a base from scoring, but this isn't one of them.)
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Dungeon Rule Book doesn't affect any minions in play and so its effect can't be copied. Yes, destroying an action affects that action, but not the card (minion or base) it is on.
Rule: Definition of "affect".
Questions on Jetpack of Anachronism[]
Q: Is Jetpack of Anachronism also placed in the player's hand as well?
A: No. It's discarded into the treasure discard pile.
Q: I already have ten cards in hand. Something happens (a base scores, the minion with Jetpack of Anachronism on it is destroyed, etc.) that allows me to place that minion into my hand. What happens? Is it discarded anyway? Or do I get it and then immediately choose a card to discard?
A: You get it back and you don't discard any card until your next Draw 2 Cards phase (so not any Draw 2 Cards phase!). At that point, you will indeed need to draw two cards and discard down to 10 if you have more than 10. That's the only moment where you must discard down to 10. At any other time, you keep your hand of cards. So, if it happens during another player's turn, you keep all the cards and can therefore play your next turn with more than ten cards in hand.
Q: If I use Gimme! to destroy a minion with Jetpack of Anachronism, is the minion placed to its owner's hand or not?
A: Yes. You destroy the minion before transferring the action, so the action still applies and the minion is placed in its owner's hand.
Rule: Multiple parts of a card’s ability must be done in their stated order.
Rule: Check the Card Resolution Order.
Q: Can I destroy an action on a minion while Sneaksy protects it?
A: Yes, removing actions from a minion doesn't count as affecting the minion.
Rule: Definition of "affect".
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Jetpack of Anachronism says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Kneepads of Allure[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Kneepads of Allure says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Magic Missile[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Magic Missile says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Potion of Cowardice[]
Q: It doesn't say that minions have a minimum power of 0 like other cards (e.g. Glymmer, Poison, Sleep Spores). So a minion's power can go negative with this card, right?
A: No. Those other cards only reminded you of the general rule that "minion power is never reduced below zero". Even if the card doesn't remind you of it, it's still one of the rules of Smash Up that you must keep in mind.
Q: Does the minion also lose the abilities of actions on it?
A: No, a minion's abilities are the ones printed on the card and those given to it by certain abilities (e.g. Copycat, Potion of Redundancy Potion, Flighterizer, The Touch, Passengers). The abilities of actions on it are separate from the minion's abilities. Besides, if that was the case, Potion of Cowardice would also lose its abilities, which would make it useless.
Rule: A play-on-minion action doesn't give an ability to the minion it is attached to.
Q: An opponent has Elder Thing in play. Can I play Potion of Cowardice to remove its immunity?
A: If you try, it will be discarded without effect. That's because their Elder Thing cannot be affected by your cards, and playing an action on it counts as affecting it, so it won't work.
Rule: Definition of "affect". Playing an action on a minion counts as affecting the minion.
Rule: If conditions prohibit playing a chosen card, discard it instead.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Potion of Cowardice says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Potion of Halitosis[]
Q: Does moving a minion away before a base scores change anything at all? Don't we only get VPs based on the power we had at the start of scoring?
A: Actually, the amount of VPs each player gets is determined by the power each player currently has when you are handing out VPs, so any before-scoring abilities (including this one) that affect how much power you have on the base will affect the amount of VPs you'll eventually get.
Rule: VPs are awarded according to the current power totals.
Q: Before a base scores, I play this card and have a minion move from that base, reducing the total power below the breakpoint. This ends the scoring, right?
A: You're mistaken here. Once a base has been chosen to score, you keep scoring it even if the total power on it drops below its breakpoint because of before-scoring abilities. (Only a couple of things can really prevent a base from scoring, but this isn't one of them.)
Q: It tells me to move "one of my minions". Can I move a minion I own that I don't control? I don't control it but I "own" it, so it's "my" minion, right?
A: No. "Your minions" are minions you control, whether or not you own them. A minion you own but don't control isn't yours.
Q: A base is scoring and I don't have a minion there. Can I play this as a Special and use it to move one of my minions from another base to there?
A: No, when played as a Special, you must choose the scoring base. Then if you choose yourself, you must do exactly what the card says, i.e. move one of your minions from that base to another, not the opposite. And since you don't have a minion on the scoring, you move none.
Q: Is this still a standard action if I play it through its Special ability for the Disco Dancers and Funky Town?
A: Yes. A standard action is an action that doesn't remain in play after being played. Potion of Halitosis doesn't remain in play, whether it's played normally or as a Special, so it IS a standard action no matter what.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: - If Diva copies it, Diva is considered as indirectly affected by the action and is moved to the same base as the minion that was directly affected by the action.
- If Dancing King copies it onto a minion (it can be itself), that minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and is moved to the same base as the minion that was directly affected by the action. Note that the moved minion doesn't have to be one controlled by the chosen player.
- If We are Family copies it, the minion it is on is considered as indirectly affected by the action and is moved to the same base as the minion that was directly affected by the action. Note that the moved minion doesn't have to be one controlled by the chosen player.
- With Funky Town, you can only copy it if you're the one who played the action and if it moves one of your minions away from Funky Town, but if Funky Town does copy it, the minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and is moved to the same base as the minion that was directly affected by the action.
Questions on Potion of Idiotic Bravery[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: - If Diva copies it, Diva is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +3 power.
- If Dancing King copies it onto a minion (it can be itself), that minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +3 power.
- If We are Family copies it, the minion it is on is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +3 power.
- With Funky Town, you can only copy it if you're the one who played the action and if it affects one of your minions, but if Funky Town does copy it, the minion is considered as indirectly affected by the action and gets +3 power.
Questions on Potion of Line Cutting[]
Q: When a base scores, Potion of Line Cutting is revealed as one of the treasure rewards. If I take it, can I immediately use it to get another treasure among the remaining ones?
A: No, Potion of Line Cutting says "before they are distributed", if Potion of Line Cutting has been distributed, that means the treasure distribution process has already started, so Potion of Line Cutting cannot be used.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Potion of Line Cutting doesn't affect any minions in play and so its effect can't be copied.
Questions on Potion of Paralysis[]
Q: Does it only cancel the abilities of cards on the base OR cancel the abilities of cards on minions? Not both?
A: It cancels both cards on the base AND cards on minions. The "or" is inclusive.
Q: Does cancelling card abilities before a base scores change change anything at all? Don't we only get VPs based on the power we had at the start of scoring?
A: Actually, the amount of VPs each player gets is determined by the power each player currently has when you are handing out VPs, so any before-scoring abilities (including this one) that affect how much power you have on the base will affect the amount of VPs you'll eventually get.
Rule: VPs are awarded according to the current power totals.
Q: Before a base scores, if cancelling card abilities leads to the reduction of the total power on the base to below the breakpoint. This ends the scoring, right?
A: You're mistaken here. Once a base has been chosen to score, you keep scoring it even if the total power on it drops below its breakpoint because of before-scoring abilities. (Only a couple of things can really prevent a base from scoring, but this isn't one of them.)
Q: Shielding is played on a minion, as well as other actions, so Shielding protects the minion and its actions from being cancelled, but Shielding doesn't protect itself. Another player plays Potion of Paralysis, and since it cancels the effect of several cards at the same time, the current player decides the order, right? So they can choose to cancel Shielding first to remove its protection, then cancel the minion's ability and finally the other actions' abilities in any order, right?
A: No. Potion of Paralysis's cancellation ability happens simultaneously to all the cards, so there's no order to decide. You first evaluate which abilities can be cancelled, then cancel them all at the same time. Shielding was protecting the minion and its actions during that step, so Shielding's ability is cancelled, but not the minion's, nor the other actions'.
Rule: When a single effect makes one player affect multiple cards, they are all affected at the same time.
Q: I play Potion of Paralysis. During the same scoring, if any player later plays or moves/transfers a card there or on a minion there, is its ability also cancelled?
A: Yes, once you play Potion of Paralysis, from that moment and until the end of the turn, any card on the scoring base or on a minion on the scoring base has its ability cancelled, including cards that are later played or moved to there.
Q: I play Potion of Paralysis. Before the end of the turn, if a card on the scoring base or on a minion there is moved/transfered to elsewhere, is its ability still cancelled?
A: No, because Potion of Paralysis is worded as "until Z do X", the condition of its application must be continously checked. So, until the end of the turn, if any card is no longer on the scoring base, nor on a minion on the scoring base, its ability is no longer cancelled.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: While being a standard action and one that affects minions, Potion of Paralysis won't interact with the Disco Dancers, nor with Funky Town, because Potion of Paralysis already directly affect all minions on the base, and copying the effect can only be applied to minions that aren't already directly affected by the action.
Questions on Potion of Redundancy Potion[]
Q: Can I choose the talent of any minion? Including one on a minion in another player's hand/deck/discard pile or even on a minion from a faction that's not even used in the game?
A: No, the minion you choose must be one in play.
Q: How does this work? If I use the talent of a Baboom, where is the extra action played, on Baboom or the minion with the Potion? If I use the talent of a Teenage Wolf, which minion gets the +1 power, Teenage Wolf or the minion with the Potion?
A: You resolve the talent exactly as if the talent belonged to the minion with the Potion of Redundancy Potion, so with Baboom, the extra action must be played on the minion with this card, and with Teenage Wolf, the minion with this card gets +1 power.
Q: When I play this card on a minion, does it overwrite the minion's original abilities?
A: No. The minion will keep its original abilities and will gain an additional one.
Q: If played on a minion with a talent, can you only use one of its talents per turn or can you trigger each talent separately?
A: If played on a minion with a talent, the minion will then have two talents. Each talent can be activated once per turn, independently from each other, unless one of the talents makes the minion lose its other abilities (e.g. Bruiser).
Rule: Each talent can be activated once on each of your turns.
Q: If I play this on another player's minion, who can use this action's talent?
A: You're still the action's controller, but in that case, it's the minion that has the talent, not the action. This means that it's only the minion's controller who can use the new talent.
Rule: A card's talent can only be used by that card's controller.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Potion of Redundancy Potion says "Play on a minion", which means that it is not a standard action.
Rule: Definition of "standard".
Questions on Wand of Dowsing[]
Q: After playing this card, I have more than 10 cards in hand, do I immediately discard down to 10?
A: You don't discard any card until your next Draw 2 Cards phase (so not any Draw 2 Cards phase!). At that point, you will indeed need to draw two cards and discard down to 10 if you have more than 10. That's the only moment where you must discard down to 10. At any other time, you keep your hand of cards.
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Wand of Dowsing doesn't affect any minions in play and so its effect can't be copied.
Questions on Wishing Ring[]
Q: How does this interact with the Disco Dancers' mechanic and Funky Town's ability?
A: It doesn't interact with them at all, because Wishing Ring doesn't affect any minions in play and so its effect can't be copied.
Trivia[]
- The artists are John Kovalic, who is well-known for drawing the art of many boardgames, including Munchkin and several of its expansions, and Gong Studios, who also designed the art of many other factions.
- Their divider features Chest of Holding.
- The font used for the Treasure cards is Quasimodo.
- Potion of Redundancy Potion is the first card to add an ability to a minion.
- Potion of Paralysis is the first card that allows a player to cancel the abilities of an action in play and the abilities of titans.
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