Wild Herd: how to play

Everyone starts with a Hatchling 🥚 in their herd and 5 cards. First to a herd of 7 creatures wins (6 with six or more players).

Your turn

1. Draw a card.
2. One action: play a card, or draw another.
3. Discard down to 7 cards.

Card types

• Creatures join your herd. Some have powers when they join.
• Magic: one-off effects, then discarded.
• Upgrades stay in front of you and help you.
• Downgrades go in front of another player and hurt them.
• Instants (Veto) are played when someone else plays a card, to cancel it.

Creatures

🐾 Wild beast	A plain creature.
🦅 Griffin	Draw 2 cards.
🦁 Sphinx	Take a random card from a player's hand.
🐙 Kraken	Destroy a creature in another herd.
🐉 Hydra	Counts as 2 creatures.
🦊 Fox spirit	Steal a creature from another herd.
🗿 Golem	Can't be destroyed or stolen.
🔥 Phoenix	If destroyed, returns to your hand.

Magic, upgrades and downgrades

⚔️ Raid	Destroy a creature.
🪤 Lure	Steal a creature.
🔁 Swap	Trade hands with a player.
📯 Reinforcements	Draw 2.
🐣 Hatchery	Take a Hatchling from the nursery.
⛈️ Storm	Everyone else discards a random card.
💰 Bounty (upgrade)	Draw an extra card each turn.
🛡️ Fence (upgrade)	Your creatures can't be destroyed.
⚡ Rush (upgrade)	Two actions per turn.
🧿 Curse (downgrade)	Can't play Magic.
🟫 Mud (downgrade)	Can't play Upgrades.
🥀 Blight (downgrade)	Their herd counts one fewer.
✋ Veto / 🛑 Super veto	Cancel a card as it's played. A Super veto can't be vetoed.

Destroyed Hatchlings go back to the nursery.

Chaos pack (expansion)

🐍 Basilisk (everyone else destroys one of their creatures) · 🥷 Thief (steal an Upgrade) · 🌠 Wish (take the top discard) · 🌪️ Tornado (everyone passes their hand on).