Questions tagged [smash-up]
Smash-Up is a card game with pirates, wizards, ninjas, aliens, dinosaur and robots.
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Control & Abilities
I have a question about control & abilities: if you take control of a minion, you can use it's talent; if a card has a 'standard' ability, it happens only once when the minion is played (not when ...
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Smash up Sprout and Weed eater
Played special ability of Sprout (On your turn you may search a minion of power 3 or less on your deck and play it here as an extra minion).
So I choose Weed eater she has 5 power but has an ability (...
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Smash up question [duplicate]
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got in one base Game guru card a 3 power minion (ongoing this minion is not effected by other player's abilitis )
and in another base got a 4 power minion
and my wife play's Bear Hug action {...
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Smash Up - Treasure Card Question
Treasure Card pictured.
If used as a special as noted. A base is scoring off. Can someone use this card to move a minion TO that base? They currently do NOT have a minion on the base about to be ...
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Smash Up - Teddy Bears “Group Hug” Card
"Group Hug" card in Teddy Bears Faction reads:
Give one of your minions +1 power for each other minion at the same base until the end of the turn.
Player A (owner of Teddy Bear faction who is ...
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Can Actions Be Played on 1 base and “jump” to affect play on other bases?
Can you play an action on one base ("Base A") (e.g., Hidden Ninja Special Action "before a base scores, you may play a minion there") and thereby affect play on another base ("Base B") where there is ...
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When does Rainbow's talent activate?
Rainbow's talent says, "If you have played another minion here, draw a card."
Does this mean that any other minion I have played on the same base, regardless of which turn it was played on, allows me ...
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Timing of ability when Control Minion used
When the Geeks use "Control Minion" on a played minion (a Shoggoth in the case in question), who gets the benefit of making other players draw Madness or destroy a minion?
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When I buy expansions, should I take out duplicate bases?
The title says it all,
I recently bought the base set + expansion awesome level 9000. I now have duplicate bases. Should I play with duplicates or take them out?
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Multiple War Raptors on a Base
If there are three War Raptor minions on a base, how do you count them? Would it be 15 or 9? Each has a base power of 2, and the following ability:
Ongoing: Gains +1 power for each War Raptor on ...
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A good counter faction to Ninja-Zombies
I just played Smash up with the second edition and the first as Bear Cavalry-tricksters against my Dad who played as Ninja Zombies And he kicked my butt,
I'm aware that there are counter ...
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What gets Destroyed?
Given
Hang in There - Play on one of your minions. Ongoing: If this minion would be destroyed, move it to another base and destroy this action instead.
Nukebot - power 5 - Ongoing: After this minion ...
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Can poison action card destroy Warbot?
In the Smash Up game, Ninjas have a poison action card. Will it have any effect on Warbot, who is a minion which cannot be destroyed?
Poison - Play on a minion. Destroy any number of actions on it. ...
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When does a Leprechaun's Ongoing ability activate?
Consider the following scenario:
Leprechaun (Tricksters Minion):
Ongoing: After another player plays a minion here with less power than this minion's power, destroy it (resolve its ability first).
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Smash up: First mate with ongoing actions attached to it. Do the actions follow him?
I'd like to hear peoples opinion on this.
The text on the cards mentioned below:
First Mate: "Special: After this base i scored, you may move this minion to another base instead of the discard pile"....
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Scoring Bases in Smash Up
On my turn, I had tripped a base so it would score. The other player played a special card that let him play any action as a special. He chose to play an action card that blocked the base from ...
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I missed scoring a base
I played my first game last night and on several occasions I missed scoring a base - miscounting, forgetfulness, etc. My daughter, ever vigilant, noticed the missed scoring and brought it to my ...
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Smash Up Question about Werewolves
LET THE DOG OUT
Destroy any number of minions at your minion's base whose total power is less than or equal to your minion's power.
Is this referring to the total power of all minions that are to ...
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What is the power of 'Mimic' while it is in the deck?
Mimic's text:
Ongoing: This minion's power is equal to the highest power printed on a minion card in play.
What is the power of 'Mimic' while it is in the deck?
I.E. can a G.E.L.F. or Sprout pull ...
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Does Microbot Archive Apply to all Bases?
The Microbot Archive minion states:
Ongoing: After one of your Microbots (including this one) is destroyed, draw a card.
I assume, since it doesn't specify, that this applies to all Microbots on ...
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Can Non-Robot Minions be Reclaimed via Microbot Reclaimer? [duplicate]
When a Microbot Alpha has been played, it gives an ongoing action of
[...] All of your minions are considered Microbots.
Does this include minions in your discard pile?
The question came up in a ...
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Does affecting an action card affect the Minion it has been played on?
Can an ongoing action card played on a minion be destroyed when an action played on a base is preventing minions from being affected?
For example:
A minion has Tooth and Claw... and Guns applied to ...
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Order of Operations on Actions
If a First Mate (power of 2) has been poisoned
[...] Ongoing: This minion has -4 power. (Minions have minimum power of 0.)
Also, if a Howl action card has been played
Each of your minions gains ...
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Can a Tenacious Z be Played After Drawing Two Cards?
In the scenario where a player has 9 cards at the end of their turn and drawing two more cards gives them a Tenacious Z, can they discard it and play it if one hasn't already been played?
In step #5 ...
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Doubts with the “before a base scores” part
I don't fully get the "before a base scores" mechanic. When a base is about to score, can I use EVERY card I have in my hand that allows me to do something before a base scores? And if that card ...
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Can two bases be scored in one turn?
If a base scores and a minion moves to another base, like First Mate or Flying Monkey, and the new base has more power than the breaking point, does the new base score on this turn or next turn?
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How is 'The Homeworld' played correctly?
In a recent Smash Up match we had the base 'The Homeworld', that has the following ability:
After each time a minion is played here, its owner may play an extra minion of power 2 or less.
I played ...
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Can I stack ongoing action cards on the same base in Smash Up?
In Smash Up, can I play multiple actions on a base?
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In Smash Up, do I have to execute an effect when a card is played or can I choose to do it later in the turn?
Fairy Circle from Pretty Pretty Smash Up says
After the first time you play a minion here each turn, you may play an extra minion here or play an extra action
Do I have to play that minion ...
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In Smash Up, can you “destroy” a card from your hand?
Here are the definitions from their rulebook located here: Smash Up Rules
Discard: When a card gets discarded, it goes to the discard pile of the player whose deck it came from, no matter who ...
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Can minions have negative power?
For instance Mr. Grumpers from the Kitty Cat faction says
Choose a minion. It has -2 power until the end of the turn
Can a minion be rendered with negative power, or is it always at least zero as ...
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Can I resolve all special effects or just 1 at a time in turn with other players before and after bases score
The rules say that special effects are resolved starting with the current player and in turn clockwise. Can I resolve all of my multiple special effects when it is my turn, or do I only resolve 1, ...
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Microbot Alpha: how far does it consider others Microbots?
Microbot Alpha says "All of your minions are considered Microbots."
Does this mean while this card is in play, every single minion in play and in discard and in my hand are considered Microbots?
For ...
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Do I only discard down to 10 after drawing 2 cards on my turn?
If at any time outside of my turn I end up with more than 10 cards, for instance from having cards returned to my hand by another's action, do I keep and play from them on my turn only to discard down ...
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Zombies/Robots, Can you combine they're coming to get you and zapbot?
I was playing zombies/robots and near the end game had all of my zapbots in the discard pile. If I use "they're coming to get you" (you may play a minion on this base from your discard pile instead of ...
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smash up? run out of cards
Recently I was playing ninja-mages deck. After I gained 14 points my deck run out of cards.
What should I do when I can't draw cards anymore? (because my deck is empty)
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Order of extra actions/minions?
So far, we have always played under the assumption that you can play an extra action/minion before playing the standard one. Another player just challenged that interpretation claiming, "it's not an '...
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The Homeworld base
I have this question about the Homeworld base ability. The text says: After each time a minion is played here, its owner may play an extra minion of power 2 or less". I was just wondering if I ...
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Why would I want negative effects?
In the board game smash up some cards state that if someone destroys a card, that card will have negative effects on them. Therefore, why would I want to destroy the card? I don't know if I'm not ...
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Smash Up: Microbot Fixer + Microbot Alpha
The Microbot Fixer has the ability:
If this is the first minion you played this turn, you may play an extra minion. Ongoing: Each of your Microbots gains +1 power.
If the Microbot Fixer is already ...
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Using Copycat with one-shot abilities
In the Science Fiction Double Feature expansion, the card Copycat allows you to copy the ability of another's player minion for a turn.
Choose another player's minion in play. This card has the ...
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The Nexus - when does its ability resolve?
I'm confused about the base from the Science Fiction Double Feature expansion.
The Nexus (19; 3, 3, 2): The winner replaces this base with a base of his or her choice from the base discard pile, if ...
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Does the order that cards are played have any effect? (Specifically poison)
If I play a Poison card (from the Ninja faction) on a 3 power minion that minion now has 0 as that is the minimum.
Poison: Play on a minion. Destroy any number of actions on it. Ongoing: This ...
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In Smash Up, is the Zeppelin action ongoing?
The Zeppelin action, from the SteamPunk faction, has a talent to move a minion to or from the base on which it was played. It does not specify "ongoing" in its text, but it seems that this has to be ...
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What are the original 16 base cards in Smash Up?
A friend loaned me Smash Up with all the expansions but I'd like to start out playing just the "base" set. Which 16 bases should I use?
(He already removed the duplicate bases from Level 9000 so I ...
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May I play only one Tenacious Z or all of them from discard pile in my turn?
The card text of "Tenacious Z" says:
Special: During your turn you may play this card from your discard pile as an extra minion. You may only use the ability of one Tenacious Z each turn.
I'm not ...
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Can you get actions in another players turn with Hidden Ninja and Chronomage?
The card text of "Hidden Ninja" says:
Special: Before a base scores, play a minion there.
Chronomage says:
You may play an extra action this turn.
Do I have the possiblity to play an arbitrary ...
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Survival of the Fittest
Please clarify I am playing Survival of the Fittest properly.
Two of the bases in play both have two creatures on them, one is strength 3 and one is strength 2. I play Survival of the Fittest and ...
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Do creature effects trigger every time they move base?
Do creature effects trigger every time they move base, or just the first time they enter play?
For example, if I play Invader, gain 1 VP, then play Invasion and move it to a second base, do I gain ...
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Can Bear Hug force a player to destroy an Incorporeal minion?
The wording on Bear Hug states:
Each other player destroys his or her minion with the least power
(owner chooses in case of ties).
The wording on Incorporeal states:
Play on one of your ...
