UU Game Terminology - Cards

Cards

There are 5 types of cards in the game.

• Instant cards can be played any time any other player plays a card (unless otherwise stated). If an Instant card is played in response to a card you played, you may respond with an Instant card of your own (even though you already played a card this turn). Any number of Instant cards can be chained during a single turn.
• Upgrade cards grant positive effects. You can play an Upgrade card in any player’s Stable. An Upgrade card in your Stable affects only your Stable (unless otherwise stated).
• Downgrade cards impose negative effects. You can play a Downgrade card in any player’s Stable. A Downgrade card in your Stable affects only your Stable (unless otherwise stated).
• Magic cards have one-time effects. When you play a Magic card, it immediately takes effect and is then discarded.
• Unicorn Cards You can play a Unicorn card in any player’s Stable. There are 4 sub-types of Unicorn cards:
  • Baby Unicorn Cards are Unicorns that only enter a Stable from the Nursery. They are never added to the deck, a player’s hand, or the discard pile.
  • Basic Unicorn Cards are Unicorns. They don’t have any effects, but they might have a special place in your heart.
  • Magical Unicorn Cards are Unicorns that have effects. Some have triggered effects, while others have continuous effects.
  • Ultimate Unicorn Cards are Unicorns that have effects. Some have triggered effects, while others have continuous effects.

• Some cards specify that they can’t be "affected" by certain things. Cards can be "affected" directly or indirectly. Direct effects target a card individually or as part of a group. Indirect effects require a player to target a card or perform an action that affects a card. If a card states "this card cannot be affected," it is immune to both direct and indirect effects.

• "Play" specifically refers to playing a card from your hand during your Action phase or playing an Instant card at any time.

• If you "bring a card directly into your Stable," you do not "play" that card. This means that any card that is brought directly into your Stable cannot be Neigh’d.

• Some card effects allow you to search the deck or the discard pile for a card. Once you have retrieved that card, you must reveal the card you chose to each other player before adding it to your hand.

• All cards are by definition a singular "Card". Effects are NOT cards.

• Cards designated as Baby Unicorn Card, Basic Unicorn Card, Magical Unicorn Card and Ultimate Unicorn Card All count as a Unicorn when in a Stable unless otherwise stated.

• When a card is resolved (not neigh'd) The player may choose any Stable to place a Unicorn, Upgrade or Downgrade CARD.

• An Instant card is played targeting another card, they do not target players.

• When a Magic card resolves (not neigh'd) The player resolves all effects listed in order on the CARD.

Physical Appearance

• January 2018 Unstable Unicorns is published by Breaking Gamesâ„¢ an AD MAGICâ„¢ company. This change in publisher has given the card back a lighter appearance and a larger black border than the previous releases.

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Refer other Terms for more Information.

• Action (phase)

• Baby Unicorn (card)

• Basic Unicorn (card)

• Beginning of Turn (phase)

• Cards

• Choose (a card)

• Continuous (effect)

• Deck

• Destroy

• Directly

• Discard

• Discard Pile

• Downgrade (card)

• Draw

• Draw (phase)

• effect

• End of Turn (phase)

• Enter

• Hand

• Hand Limit

• Impossible Actions

• Immunity

• Instant (card)

• Instant Pile

• Magic (card)

• Magical Unicorn (card)

• Mandatory (effect)

• Neigh

• Nursery

• Optional (effect)

• Phase(s)

• Play

• Player

• Pull

• Replace

• Requirement

• Sacrificed

• Search

• Shuffle

• Stable

• Steal

• Target(s)

• Triggered (effect)

• Turn

• Upgrade (card)

• Unicorn (cards)

• Ultimate Unicorn (card)

• (unless otherwise stated) (effect)

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