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Card Picture Card Description Quantity Albatross Despair; Cast on minion. At start of turn, every other member of minion's group takes 1 hit point of damage. 3 Atrophy Despair; Cast on group. At start of turn, each member of group has its maximum hit points lowered to its current hit points. 0 Auger of Strife Despair; Cast on globe. Caster gets +1 strife each turn. May be cast more than once. 8 Backlash Despair; Cast on recruit. Recruit takes 1 hit point of damage for each group or individual alteration on recruit. 0 Banshee Despair; H:4 A:0 HP:10 L:1 Territorial. At start of combat, kills one random opposing minion. 0 Bleak Isle Despair; Cast on town or colony. The four squares adjacent to to the town become water.On turn of casting, if any group occupies town group gains waterwalk. Every recruit created in town gets -1 level(which cannot be dispelled) and Waterwalk. 0 Bleak Isle II Despair; Cast on town or colony. The four squares adjacent to to the town become water.On turn of casting, if any group occupies town group gains waterwalk. Every recruit created in town gets -1 level(which cannot be dispelled) and Waterwalk. 0 Blight Despair; Cast on square. Forest becomes plains. Plains become barren land. Barren land becomes desert. Desert becomes lava. Mountain becomes volcano. 0 Blindness Despair; Cast on monster. Monster no longer deals hand or missile damage. 4 Changlings Despair; Cast on town or colony. Every recruit created in town gets changling (-1 hand and missile damage and - 3 hit points.) 0 Corrosion Despair; Cast on globe. All towns and colonies no longer generate mana. (Mana-generating spells are not affected.) Duration: Turn of casting +3. 0 Cruel Whim Despair; Cast on Recruit. A swordsman becomes an archer, while an archer becomes a swordsman. Has no effect on weapon Master or reakshasa. 1 Despond Despair; Cast on group. All members of group recieve +1 damage from shadows( before checking armor). Visions receive +2 damage instead. 20 Disorient Despair; Cast on group. A player controlled group moves in a random legal direction. Has no effect on computer controlled groups. 5 Dissolution Despair; Cast on globe. Next turn, opponent has all spell casting costs adjusted by +1 primary and +1 secondary mana per spell. 0 Fear Despair; Cast on Group not in structure. Groups movement orders are cancelled and it cannot be moved. Duration: turn of casting+1. 1 Forsaken Despair; Cast on recruit. recruit(and it's group) cannot enter structures. Duration: turn of casting +2 0 Freeze Despair; Cast on water. square becomes ice. (group's skate across ice onto next square, if possible. Collisionson ice can be unpredictable.) 2 Frost Dragon Despair; H:3 A:1 HP:13 L:2 Territorial, Flight. At start of combat, casts Frostbite (-3 maximum hit points, +1 maximum hit points per turn for 3 turns) on opposing group. When Frost Dragon damages an opponent, opponent does not attack in the next combat round. 0 Frostbite Despair; Cast on group. Every member of group gets -3 maximum hit points. At start of turn, every member of group gets +1 maximum hit point. Duration: Turn of casting +3. 0 Gorgon Despair; H:2 A:0 HP:7 L:2 Territorial. Gorgon's hits give Gorgon' Gaze (-1 damage and +1 armor, cumulative. A minion who geet three or more of any Gaze is killed). If killed by a recruit, recruit gets gorgon's head( owner's hits give Gorgon's gaze; Transfers to a recruit who kills it's owner. 3 Harrowing Cry Despair; Cast on group. All member of group get-1 level. 1 Ice Age Despair; Cast on globe. Before movement, all water squares become ice. 0 Immateriality Despair; Cast on globe. All groups gain Flight. (Groups may cross any terrain, and are immune to adverse terrain effects.) Duration: Turn of casting +1. 0 Insurrection Despair; Cast on town or colony. all novices in town are eliminated. Town no longer creates novices. Dispelled when entered. 0 Limbo Despair; Cast on square. Square becomes plains. Minions in square get -1 hand damage. At start of turn, if any recruit occupies square, caster gets+1 strife. 0 Makva Despair; H:3 A:1 HP:10 L:3 Nomadic, Flight. 4 Nihil Despair; Cast on globe. H:2 A:1 HP:7 L:2 Created in a random square. Nihil is a shadow Hero swordsman. Cannot join groups, add recruits or enter structures. When hit by a minion, minion gets nihil's Curse. (each hero may be cast only once per game.) 0 Nihil's Minion Despair; Cast on recruit. Recruit changes into a shadow, no longer deals hand or missile damage, and is set to 0 armor. Duration: turn of casting +1. 7 Oblivion Despair; Cast on recruit group. Each recruit in group no longer attacks. When each recruit is damaged by an attacker, that recruit resumes attacking normally at the start of next round. dispelled after next combat. 0 Pantagar's Curse Despair; Cast on minion. Minion gets -1 hand damage. 8 Paranoia Despair; Cast on globe. Recruit groups cannot join other groups or add any new recruits. Duration: Turn of casting +2. 0 Penumbra Despair; Cast on recruit group. Every member of a group changes into a shadow. 18 Phantom Despair; M:2 A:2 HP:14 L:2 Nomadic., Mountainwalk. Gets +3 missile damage against visions. Phantom's attack deals magical damage. ( Magical damage ignore armor, immunities and spells. 0 Revenents Despair; H:2 A:0 HP:4(x3) L:1 Nomadic. Creates three revenents 1 Shadow Friend Despair; Cast on recruit. Recruit has all individual spells dispelled, and changes into a Shadow. Recruit's group has all group spells dispelled. 0 Shadowmasque Despair; Cast on recruit. When recruit is hit by a swordsman, swordsman gets Shadow's chill (conjuration, 1 turn, -N hand damage, where N is the number of turns remaining. Duration increases by +1 turn every round for the initial fight only, to a maximum of swordsman's hand damage. 1 Siren's Song Despair; Cast on monster. Plains, forest, and desert in the four squares adjacent to monster attract enemy-controlled groups. (Groups adjacent to attracting squares before movement must move toward one of them.) 6 Spectre's Curse Despair; Cast on minion. At start of turn, minion takes 1 hit point of damage. 8 Stupify Despair; Cast on minion. Minion gets -1 level. 7 Trolls Despair; H:3 A:0 HP:10(x3) L:1 Territorial. Creates three Trolls. 1 Viscious Strength Despair; Cast on minion. Minion gets +1 hand damage. May be cast more than once on the same minion. 6 Whipping Boy Despair; Cast on minion. Minion gets +4 maximum and current hit points. When any other member of target's group is hit (before checking armor), target receives the damage instead, ignoring armor. Only one in a group. 8

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