AMNH Pterosaur Starter Deck

2014 – (See Cards | Deck Info | Download | Purchase)…

This deck uses images and information from the vast collections of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, especially the 2014 special exhibition Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs. The game consists of 38 different cards, includes “extinct” organisms, and utilizes a simplified version of the game to compensate for unavailable facts.

I Don’t Think So!

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Event

Play: this card on your opponent’s turn when they use an event card against you.
Effect: Stop the effect of their event card and discard both event cards.

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Therapod Attack

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Event

In Morocco, scientists found the tracks of a therapod (a type of carnivorous dinosaur) among those of pterosaurs. Did dinosaurs pose a threat to pterosaurs? Evidence is scarce, but some fossils suggest they did.
Play: on any pterosaur SPECIES card.
Effect: Discard the SPECIES card and leave this card in its place.

Graphic by AMNHwww.amnh.org/
Theropoda (theropod /ˈθɛrɵpɒd/; suborder name Theropoda /θɨˈrɒpɵdə/, from Greek meaning “beast feet”) is both a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs, and a clade consisting of that suborder and its descendants (including modern birds). Dinosaurs belonging to the suborderTheropoda were primarily carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory,omnivory, and insectivory. Theropods first appeared during […] read more

Climate Change

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Event

The climate has shifted.
Play: on any SPECIES card.
Effect: Discard the SPECIES card and leave this event card on the table, permanently occupying this space.

Graphic by AMNHwww.amnh.org/
Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme […] read more

Dead Pterosaur

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Event

Pterosaurs aren’t immune to this fact of life: death!
Play: on any pterosaur SPECIES card and leave it there.
Effect: The pterosaur SPECIES card can be left on the table – the population survives but has been reduced in number. Point value of the card is reduced by 2.

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Migration

Event Card
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Event

The season has changed. Time to move!
Play: on any level 3 SPECIES card.
Effect: Turn this level 3 SPECIES card around and take control of it.

Graphic by AMNHwww.amnh.org/
Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individuals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans.[1] The trigger for the migration may be local climate, local availability of food, the season of the year or for mating reasons.[2] To be […] read more

Volcano

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Event

A volcano has erupted, wiping out larger reptiles in this land or water area.
Play: on any level 1 or 2 SPECIES card.
Effect: Discard the SPECIES card and freeze movement of all adjacent cards (horizontal and vertical) for one round.

Graphic by AMNHwww.amnh.org/
A volcano is a rupture on the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. Earth’s volcanoes occur because its crust is broken into 17 major, rigid tectonic plates that float on a hotter, softer layer in its […] read more