Attack card

An attack 08.

Attack cards __ are encounter cards with double-digit numbers on them. When played in an encounter, an attack card's value is added to the number of ships on the player's side, and the higher total wins the encounter (with the defense winning in case of a tie). Attack cards in the cosmic deck have values from 00 to 40, with most being even numbers and over half being between 04 and 10. In some editions, attack cards can even be negative.

Distribution

• Cosmic deck: 00 to 40.
• Cosmic Alliance large group deck: 00 to 30.
• Cosmic Incursion reward deck: -07 to -01 and 10 to 23.
• Cosmic Dominion reward deck: 02/20 to 21/12 - the large-printed value is used at all times except when revealed during an encounter in which a hazard warning was drawn, in which case the small-printed value is used instead.
• Cosmic Odyssey reward deck: 08
• Cosmic Odyssey ultra reward deck: Two unique attacks (see below)

For the exact distribution of attack cards in each deck, see: Encounter card.

Unique attacks

Cosmic Odyssey introduced two unique attack cards in its ultra reward deck:

• O(Overkill)
  • Opposed by  M : Both sides lose.
  • Opposed by anything else: Wins, but opponent collects compensation.
• 20(Sneak Attack)
  • Works like a normal attack. In addition, if the offense uses it and wins by 4 or more, they may also land some of their attacking ships on another planet in the same system.

Trivia

Single-digit attack cards

In the FFG edition, attack cards less than 10 are printed with a 0 for their tens digit, e.g. 06 rather than 6. In previous editions, these cards were printed with single digits, and all game effects that referenced the separate digits of attack cards, such as Mirror, explicitly stated that the tens digit of a single-digit card was treated as 0. The design choice to add 0s to the beginning of single-digit attack cards in the FFG edition was made mainly to simplify the text of these aliens' powers, but also because double-digit numbers have more of a sci-fi look and feel to them.

Flavor text

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