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Faction
The Yssaril Tribes
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Abilities

  • STALL TACTICS: ACTION: Discard 1 action card from your hand.
  • SCHEMING: When you draw 1 or more action cards, draw 1 additional action card.  Then, choose and discard 1 action card from your hand.
  • CRAFTY: You can have any number of action cards in your hand.  Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability.


Promisorry Note(s)

Spy Net

At the start of your turn:

Look at the Yssaril player's hand of action cards.  Choose 1 of those cards and add it to your hand.

Then, return this card to the Yssaril player.


Technologies

Transparasteel Plating

During your turn of the action phase, players that have passed cannot play action cards.

Prerequisites:

Mageon Implants

ACTION: Exhaust this card to look at another player's hand of action cards.  Choose 1 of those cards and add it to your hand.

Prerequisites:


Breakthrough

Deepgloom Executable
You can allow other players to use your STALL TACTICS or SCHEMING faction abilities; when you do, you may resolve a transaction with that player. During the action phase, that transaction does not count against the once-per-player transactions limit for that turn.
Synergy


Flagship

Name Cost Combat Move Capacity Abilities
Y'sia Y'ssrila 8 5 (x2) 2 3 Sustain Damage

This ship can move through systems that contain other player's ships.


Mech

Blackshade Infiltrator
2Cost6Combat
DEPLOY: After you use your STALL TACTICS faction ability, you may place 1 mech on a planet you control

Sustain Damage


Leaders

Agent
Ssruu
Unlock At Game Start
Ability This card has the text ability of each other player's agent, even if that agent is exhausted.
Commander
So Ata
Unlock Have 7 action cards
Ability After another player activates a system that contains your units:

You may look at that player's action cards, promissory notes, or secret objectives.

Hero
Kyver, Blade and Key
Unlock Have 3 Scored Objectives
Ability GUILD OF SPIES

ACTION: Each other player shows you 1 action card from their hand. For each player, you may either take that card or force that player to discard 3 random action cards from their hand.

Then, purge this card.


FAQ

Q: Does the “Neural Motivator” technology give an additional action card with the Yssaril’s “Scheming” faction ability?

A: Yes, "when you draw action cards" so you would draw 3 cards.

Trivia

  • The Yssaril Mech "Blackshade Infiltrator" is likely a reference to the Blackshades trojan horse