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Setup
(LIBERATOR) [ PT (Escape) ] (2)
(Once per challenge you may look at the top four cards in the deck  \
and hand them out to any combination of players, giving yourself 0 or 1.  \
Each card is worth one vote from the player you give it to \(who may look at  \
it\), whether to keep the cards or discard them.  You break ties. )
(No vote is taken on the tokens, they automatically stay on the  \
planet where you put them. )
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(AUCTIONEER) [ PO (Sale) ] (L2)
(As a main player or as an ally, you may auction off your own hand,  \
one card at a time, until either no one bids on a card or until you decide  \
to stop.  You may, if you wish, not tell exactly what you are offering and  \
simply announce it \(face down on the table\) as \252an Edict\272 or \252a challenge  \
card\272.  )
(If no one bids for the card, keep it \(free of charge\) or, after  \
looking at the card, discard it. )
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(CRAVEN) [ PO (Retreat) ] ()
(When someone draws consolation from your hand, you choose which cards \
he takes. )
(You may end the challenge just after challenge cards are revealed. \
If you are an ally, you may pull out of the challenge just after challenge  \
cards are revealed. )
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(GEMINI) [ PO (Double Attack) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, you may double the value of any  \
attack card you play.  You must announce that you intend to do this before \
cards are played.)
(You may always attack 2 bases, whether or not a player has tokens \
on both.  The two bases must still be adjacent. )
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(GHOST) [ PT (Steal Life) ] ()
(If you are a main player and you lose, you may ring your lost  \
tokens around your opponent's star disc.  These tokens subtract from  \
your opponent's totals in subsequent challenges.  At the start of each  \
challenge, remove one token from the star disc and place it in the warp. )
(If you are asked to ally, your dead may ally also with up to  \
four tokens \(giving you a possible 8 tokens involved in the challenge\) or,  \
if you wish, your dead may join the alliance alone. )
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(INDUSTRIALIST) [ PT (Build) ] ()
(As a main player, you may play as many attack cards in a challenge  \
as you wish.  Their total, however, may not exceed forty.  Play all the cards  \
at the same time, face down.  After cards are revealed, discard all of the  \
cards you played.  )
(You need never discard your stack, even if you lose the  \
challenge or fail to deal.  Add each challenge card you play to your stack. )
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(MIMIC) [ PO (Duplication) ] ()
(If someone plays a Wild Flare, you immediately play this card as if  \
it were the same Wild Flare.  He gets to use his Flare first.  Use once per  \
challenge. )
(You may mimic the use of someone's power just after that player  \
has used it.  You may not, however, mimic those powers that cannot be used  \
with the Insect or Plant. )
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(SCAVENGER) [ PO (Recovery) ] ()
(If another player loses his power, you may use it.  You may not use  \
your own power if you are usini his and you must keep his power until he  \
regains use of it again or until you lose this flare.  You may not use this  \
flare again until the player regains use of his power.  )
(At the start of each challenge, you may take one card from  \
anywhere in the the discard pile and put it in your hand.  )
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(TRAITOR) [ PT (Betray) ] ()
(You do not have to keep your end of a deal.  If no deal is made, you  \
do not have to put three tokens into the warp.  )
(If you are uninvolved in a challenge, after challenge cards are  \
played but before they are revealed, you may ally with both sides of the  \
challenge.  After the win is determined, your losing tokens go to the warp  \
and your winning tokens take the base or rewards along with the winning main  \
player and any of his other allies. )
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(WEED) [ PT (Grow) ] ()
(Whenever a base becomes vacant on any system, regardless of the  \
reason, you may place a token on it.)
(You can take one token from the warp at the start of each \
challenge in addition to bringing a new one in.  You may do this even after  \
you have reached your maximum. )
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(WRETCH) [ PO (Misery) ] ()
(Every time you lose tokens to the warp, take one card from the deck  \
as consolation.  )
(The challenge is determined as an overkill if your opponent's  \
total is 5 or more points above \(or below if Anti-Matter is a main player\)  \
your total. )
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(MODERATOR) [ PO (Moderation) ] (2)
(Before challenge cards are played, you may permit the main player  \
with the lesser number of cards to draw from his opponent's hand until he has \
at least as many cards as his opponent.  Play only once per challenge.)
(If you played the moderate card, you may take a base on the system \
of the the player that you declare to be the winner of the challenge.)
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(CHAMELEON) [ PO (Transformation) ] ()
(If you are a main player, you may randomly draw one alien power and  \
use it instead of your main power for that challenge.  This power is discarded  \
at the end of the challenge even if you do not use it. )
(You may pick a new power, from those not used in the game,  \
instead of drawing randomly.   )
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(SPONGE) [ PT (Absorb) ] ()
(Once per challenge you may draw one card from the deck.  You may keep \
the card or discard it immediately to the discard pile.)
(You cannot lose any base.  If you lose all of your tokens from any  \
of your bases replace those bases immediately using tokens from other bases.)
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(ZAPPER) [ PO (Nullification) ] ()
(Once per turn you may use this card as a Cosmic Zap.  An Un-Zap will \
stop your Cosmic Zap \(you do not discard this flare\), and you may not Cosmic \
Zap another player that turn.)
(You lose no \252zap points\272 when you win a challenge or make a deal, and \
you get two points when you lose a challenge or fail to deal.)
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(BATTERY) [ PO (Reserves) ] ()
(As a main player you may add the number of your bases \(including home \
bases\) to your total in the challenge.)
(Each base of your own and your allies adds two to your total in the \
challenge.)
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(CENSOR) [ PT (Ban) ] ()
(Once per challenge you may use this card to stop a player from  \
playing any one card.  The card is returned to his hand and a different  \
card may be played instead.  If the player is one of the main players, \
and the card stopped is the players last  \
challenge card then he can still play it by showing all of the other players \
that it is his last challenge card.)
(You call out two classes of cards that cannot be used for the  \
remainder of the challenge.  You cannot ban both Attack Cards and Compromise \
Cards in the same challenge.)
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(VISA) [ PT (Send Home) ] ()
(As a main player or an ally in a challenge, you may make your  \
opponent keep the challenge card he just played \
rather than discarding it.)
(You may return one of your opponents bases home even if he already \
has five home bases.)
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(MARTYR) [ PT (Sacrifice) ] ()
(As the offensive player in a challenge, before you play your card,  \
you may sacrifice any or all of your tokens in the cone to the warp, drawing \
one card from the deck for each.)
(You may sacrifice your allies' tokens.)
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(MEDUSA) [ PO (Paralysis) ] ()
(If you win a challenge as a main player, your opponent may not use  \
his power for the next two challenges.)
(Your opponent must lose his next challenge regardless of whether \
you win or lose the current challenge.)
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(SATELLITE) [ PT (Orbit) ] (2)
(Once per challenge, you may make all players pass all of the Flares \
in their hand clockwise or counter-clockwise.)
(You may make all of the other players reveal their highest and lowest \
attack cards before deciding the \252orbit\272.)
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(COLLECTOR) [ PT (Tax Edicts) ] (L)
(You may discard any Edict\(s\) in your hand and collect two Lucre for \
each one discarded.  This does not count as having played the Edict\(s\).)
(Whenever another player plays an Edict, he must pay you two Lucre.)
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(COUNT) [ PT (Count) ] ()
(If the sum of the Attack cards in your regular hand is greater than \
50, you may take a base anywhere.  Discard after use.)
(You may take a base at multiples of 100.)
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(DEBTOR) [ PT (Owe) ] (L)
(You need not pay taxes or fees of Lucre or tokens.)
(You need not accept the terms for destroying IOU's.)
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(DUPLICATOR) [ PT (Copy) ] (2)
(Once per challenge, you may repeat the effect of an Edict that was  \
just played by another player.)
(You may copy challenges that you make as the main offensive player.)
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(GOLEM) [ PV (Moons) ] (M)
(You may look at an unexposed moon before deciding whether to  \
challenge it.)
(You may add a moon to your home system on every challenge in  \
which you are a main player, and occupy it if you wish.)
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(MIRROR) [ PT (Invert) ] ()
(As a main player, once challenge cards are revealed you may use  \
this card to make your challenge card match the card played by your  \
opponent.  Resolve the challenge as if you had played that card. )
(You may call \252reverse\272 as an ally.)
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(MYSTIC) [ PT (See) ] (F)
(Once per challenge, you may look through the Destiny pile.)
(You may ask for both an Edict and a Flare in a challenge.)
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(SUPERHERO) [ PO (Powers) ] ()
(You may exchange this Flare for any Flare from the unused Flare \
deck.)
(You may choose a new power to replace your alien power at the end  \
of each of your turns.  The new power cannot conflict with any power that \
is already in the game.)
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(WIMP) [ PT (Save Yourself) ] (L)
(Whenever another player is supposed to draw consolation from your hand, \
you may prevent him from doing so by paying him one Lucre per card he would  \
have drawn.)
(You may use Lucre from the box to pay off your attacker.)
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(COMPUTER) [ PT (Process) ] (2)
(Once per challenge each player gives you one Attack card from their  \
regular hand.  If any players do not have Attack cards they give you a  \
Compromise card instead \(if they have neither they do not give you anything\). \
After looking at the cards you may redistribute them as you wish \(no more \
than one card per player\). )
(You may arrange the two stacks as you wish, but must deal them out \
in the usual way.)
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(CONSPIRATOR) [ PO (Conspiracy) ] ()
(As long as this card is in your hand, you must play Compromise  \
cards whenever possible.)
(You may use your secret ally's power in the challenge, if  \
appropriate.)
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(DEVIL) [ PO (Evil) ] (L2)
(Whenever another player gains a second \(or higher\) base they must pay \
you 1 Lucre or give you a base also. )
(Your guarantee with a player remains open as long as you have this  \
card and your power, not just until the end of his turn.)
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(LUNATIC) [ PO (the Moon) ] (M)
(As a main player in a moon challenge, your tokens are each worth two \
for that challenge \(except for taking consolation\).)
(If you occupy a moon in the system where the challenge is occuring,  \
your attack total is tripled.)
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(NECROMANCER) [ PT (Revive Life) ] ()
(If you win a challenge as a main player, you may take a number of  \
your own tokens out of the warp equal to the number of tokens that your  \
opponent lost.)
(Winning revived tokens return to the warp and do not get the base \
or rewards.)
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(BOOKIE) [ PT (Place Bets) ] (L)
(You may bet on challenges without the Bookie.  Before cards are  \
revealed pay any amount of Lucre to the box and announce the side that you \
have bet on.  If the side that you bet on wins, take double the amount of  \
Lucre that you placed in the box back.  If they deal, \
take the original amount of Lucre that you placed in the box back.)
(You may bet regardless of whether others have bet or not, and you  \
receive payment in the same manner as other players \(0 to 3 Lucre, depending \
on the result\).)
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(ENTREPREUNEUR) [ PT (Invest) ] (L)
(Each time you buy cards from the deck, you may get 1 Lucre from the \
box for each newly purchased card that you show to the other players.)
(You may invest with up to 3 Lucre if you have tokens in the  \
challenge, or up to 5 Lucre if you do not.)
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(FEDERALIST) [ PO (Representation) ] (2)
(Whenever you must lose a group of tokens to the warp from one  \
immediate cause, you only need to lose one token as a representative of the \
group.  The remaining tokens stay on or return to bases.)
(You may look at each of the opposing side's cards before deciding \
which to choose.)
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(KRYPTON) [ PW (Super) ] (F)
(You may play this card as if it were your power's Wild Flare, even if \
you still have your power.)
(At the start of each of your turns you can draw a card at random  \
from the unused Flares and add it to your hand.)
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(SPIDER) [ PT (Entangle) ] ()
(If you win as a main player, take one card from your opponent's hand, \
look at it and return it to him.  He places it back in his hand, but must keep  \
it upside-down for as long as this card is in play.  He cannot use this card  \
unless he gets your permission.  \(If it is his last challenge card then it is  \
as if he is out of challenge cards.\)  Such cards lost to other players may be  \
used by the new owner normally. )
(Your power extends to planets adjacent to the planet that you occupy, \
without crossing system boundaries.)
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(TORTOISE) [ PT (Hibernate) ] (2)
(At the start of any challenge, you can flip over all of your tokens  \
on one planet.  No tokens may be moved on or off of this planet, and it  \
cannot be challenged until they are flipped back.  You may flip your tokens \
back at the start of any challenge, and must do so immediately when you lose \
this card. )
(You may return tokens from the warp to your system, and use your  \
Lucre while you hibernate.)
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(CANNIBAL) [ PT (Devour) ] (2)
(Whenever your color is flipped in the destiny pile, you may remove \
to the warp one token of any other player from a base that you share with  \
that player.)
(You may cannibalize all planets in any one system.)
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(FUZZY) [ PO (Cuteness) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, no one can ally against you.)
(\252Mascot\272 tokens that end the challenge in the warp may be returned \
to your bases.)
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(GLITCH) [ PO (Indecisiveness) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, you may play two challenge cards  \
face down.  When challenge cards are revealed, you show one of the two cards \
that you played \(your choice\).  After challenge cards are revealed, including \
your first card, you may elect to use your second card instead of the first  \
card you revealed.  You may retain unrevealed cards at the end of the  \
challenge.)
(You may allow another player to take back or change a game action \
instead of yourself.)
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(LAWYER) [ PT (Regulate) ] (L2)
(If you pay a player who is involved in a deal two Lucre, you replace \
that player in the deal.  You make the terms with the other player\(s\), and  \
gain any benefits or lose three tokens to the warp if no deal is reached.)
(Even if you are paid, all deals must have your approval or the  \
players involved are considered to have failed to deal.)
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(MERCENARY) [ PO (Risk) ] (L)
(As an ally in a challenge, you may offer \(for Lucre\) to replace the \
main player you are allied with.  You become the main player and he becomes \
your ally.)
(If the player wins the challenge, all your tokens gain benefits as  \
if you were an ally.  Winning offensive tokens move onto the planet and winning \
defensive tokens gain cards from the deck or tokens from the warp.)
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(FEINT) [ PT (Mislead) ] ()
(As a main player you do not have to point the cone until after  \
alliances have been made.)
(The two planets you attack need not be adjacent.)
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(LYCANTHROPE) [ PO (Lunar Change) ] (M)
(You may replace any moon in the game for a new randomly drawn moon. \
Any tokens currently occupying the moon must return to bases.)
(You may change a moon occupied by another player to one randomly \
drawn from the unused moons.  You may do this, once per challenge, instead of \
changing your own moon.)
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(VENTRILOQUIST) [ PO (Ventriloquism) ] (2)
(If you are not one of the players in a deal situation, you may speak \
for one player and accept or decline the deal proposed by the other player\(s\).)
(You may use your power as a main player.)
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(JAMMER) [ PT (Disrupt) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, you may remove 3 tokens from the \
cone after cards are played, but before they are revealed.  They are returned \
to bases if possible, or else go to the warp.  You can not remove your own  \
tokens.)
(Cards lost to your disruption power are added to your hand.)
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(NOMAD) [ PT (Wander) ] ()
(You may reverse the direction of play starting at the end of the  \
current player's turn.  Discard after use.)
(At the end of each challenge, you may freely exchange tokens between \
any ships that you still have tokens on and any bases you have in the system  \
that such ships occupy.  You may do this in addition to transfering tokens  \
between ships.)
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(QUANTUM) [ PO (Probability) ] (M)
(Once per challenge, you may declare any one voluntary action of any \
player to be improbable.  Then flip a coin, if the player calls it wrong  \
he can not take that action.)
(As losing main defensive player, if the difference was between 0 and  \
3, you may move your tokens which would ordinarily go to the warp to another \
planet \(if you were defending a planet\) or unoccupied moon \(if you were  \
defending a moon\) in the same system.  This replaces whatever move you would \
normally have made.)
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(SENTINEL) [ PT (Cohabit Moons) ] (M)
(You may send any one moon to the warp.  Any tokens on the moon  \
are dislodged in the warp.  The moon will reappear in the system of the  \
next player to play a Mobius Tubes.  Discard after use.)
(As a main player in a moon challenge, you may have allies.  You may \
also act as an ally in other moon challenges.)
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(BUSHWHACKER) [ PT (Ambush) ] (2)
(As offensive player, you may point the cone at any base of the player \
whose color was revealed, not necessarily in his home system.)
(After you reveal your target, all players other than your opponent who \
played cards discard them.)
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(BUSYBODY) [ PT (Meddle) ] ()
(Once per turn, when you are not a main player, you may switch the \
regular hands of two other players who currently have cards \(they keep the \
new hands\).)
(If you interfere with a player and he loses, you do not lose any \
tokens.)
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(CAPACITOR) [ PT (Store and Release) ] ()
(As a main player, if both sides play Attack Cards, you may draw one \
card from the deck for every 10 points \(or fraction thereof\) that their \
final totals differ by.  Thus if their totals differ by 7, you may draw one \
card; if they differ by 22, you may draw three.)
(When you release, you do not have to decrease your charge.)
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(ENTROPY) [ PO (Inevitability) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, you may disorder your opponent's tokens \
by redistributing them among his bases before the cone is pointed.  You must \
leave at least one token on each of the player's bases.  If you still have \
this card after the challenge is completed, you must give it to your opponent.)
(You may add your points divided by 10 \(round down\) to your side's total \
as an ally.)
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(GROVEL) [ PT (Plead) ] ()
(When you are not a main player, if the offensive player does not invite \
you to ally, you may show him this Flare and ask him to invite you.  if he \
still refuses, put two of the tokens he has in the cone into the Warp.)
(You may use your power to plead as an ally in a challenge.)
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(KNOT) [ PT (Bind) ] (2)
(You and your opponent may obtain obligations from one another as part of \
a deal.  The obligations are limited to the same types that the Knot can \
obtain.)
(As the offensive player, you may continue to ask for obligations until \
you get up to three each challenge.)
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(LEECH) [ PT (Drain) ] ()
(You may take a card at random from each other player's regular hand and \
discard them along with this card.)
(When you leech, your opponent must put a token in the Warp and give you \
two cards of your choice from those you could normally take.  If he doesn't \
have a card of a particular type, he still gives you the other.)
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(PAVLOV) [ PT (Condition) ] ()
(As a main player in a challenge, before cards are played, you may name \
a Challenge Card \(Compromise or specific Attack Card\).  If your opponent \
reveals such a card, after the challenge is resolved he receives a reward of \
three tokens from the Warp or three cards from the deck.)
(Your punishment for disobedience is two tokens from bases to the Warp; \
You select both tokens.)
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(PROLONG) [ PT (Protract) ] ()
(You may reveal this card whenever a player gets his last base needed to \
win the game.  Then, as long as you hold this Flare in your hand, the number \
of outer bases needed to win is increased by one for all players.)
(You may use your power to protract even as an ally.)
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(SHIELD) [ PO (Disarmament) ] ()
(Each challenge, you may make all other players keep their highest Attack \
Card face up in front of them.  Each player returns the card to his hand only \
to play a Challenge Card or when another player must draw from his hand.)
(When you call disarm, you may name any number up to the number of \
Attack Cards you have.  You and your opponent must then discard that many \
Attack Cards if possible; your opponent discards his highest Attack Cards and \
you discard any Attack Cards you choose.)
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(TOADY) [ PT (Kowtow) ] (2)
(If any player wins the game by winning a challenge in which you were his \
ally, you share in the win.  You do not share the win if the player won by \
making a deal.)
(At the start of your turn, you may change lords.  Announce the change \
to all players.)
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(TURNCOAT) [ PT (Doublecross) ] ()
(As an ally in a challenge, if your side has been determined to have won \
the challenge, you may exchange one of the revealed Challenge Cards with a \
Challenge Card from your hand such that your side will now lose the challenge.)
(You may use your power to doublecross as an ally in a challenge.)
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(ULTIMATUM) [ PT (Threaten) ] ()
(If you lose as an ally in a challenge, you may draw two cards from the \
regular hand of the main player you were allied with.  You must announce the \
use of this Flare before cards are played in the challenge. )
(You may use your power as an ally, threatening your side's opponent.)
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(WASTREL) [ PT (Discard) ] ()
(At the start of your challenges, you may discard one card from your \
regular hand to the discard pile.)
(You do not have to forfeit a challenge to discard your hand.  You may \
discard your hand once at any point during your challenge.)
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(ZERO) [ PO (Naught) ] ()
(Upon receiving this card, you must discard your entire hand \(except for \
this card, which you must keep\).  If you are the offensive player, your turn \
ends immediately, all tokens in the cone return to bases, and play passes.)
(If your opponent plays an Attack Card after you zero, he must play his \
lowest Attack Card.)
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