[COTD] Self-sufficient Settlement | 19 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Self-sufficient Settlement (#P29):
Prelude card | Prelude expansion
Tags: City, Building
Place a city tile. Increase your MC production 2 steps.
u/Enson_Chan — 21 hours ago
[COTD] Aerobraked Ammonia Asteroid | 18 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Aerobraked Ammonia Asteroid (#170):
Event card (Red) | Base game
Cost: 26 | Requirements: None | Tags: Space, Event
Increase your heat production 3 steps and your plant production 1 step. Add 2 microbes to ANOTHER card.
u/Enson_Chan — 2 days ago
[SHOTW] Week 34, 2026
##Useful Links
For information on how SHOTW works, please refer to the SHOTW Helper
##Pre-game information
Expansions: Prelude
| Players | Order |
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| 3 | 1st |
| 4 | 2nd |
| 5 | 1st |
##Board details
Board: Elysium
Milestones: Generalist (1 production of each), Specialist (10 of any production), Ecologist (4 eco tags), Tycoon (15 green/blue cards played), Legend (5 event cards played)
Awards: Celebrity (cards costing >=20 MC), Industrialist (steel and energy), Desert Settler (tiles on bottom 4 rows), Estate Dealer (tiles next to ocean tile), Benefactor (TR)
##Starting hand
- Corporations: United Nations Mars Initiative, Arcadian Communities
- Project cards: Olympus Conference, Deep Well Heating, Trans-Neptune Probe, Space Mirrors, Magnetic Field Dome, Steelworks, Self-replicating Robots, Asteroid Mining Consortium, Special Design, Power Supply Consortium
- Prelude cards: Metals Company, Metal-rich Asteroid, Research Network, Self-sufficient Settlement
##Extra project cards
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Card draws for specific tags:
- Space tags: >!Methane from Titan, Ice Asteroid, Asteroid Mining, Aerobraked Ammonia Asteroid, Comet!<
- Plant tags: >!Trees, Eos Chasma National Park, Arctic Algae, Mangrove, Ecological Zone!<
- Microbe tags: >!Industrial Microbes, Virus, Worms, Extreme-cold Fungus, Insects!<
- Extra prelude cards: >!Supply Drop, Loan, Acquired Space Agency, UNMI Contractor, Biolab, Huge Asteroid, Great Aquifer, !<
Gen 2 drafting hand: >!Lichen, GHG Producing Bacteria, Standard Technology, Underground City!<
[Program finished]
u/Enson_Chan — 3 days ago
[COTD] Space Mirrors | 16 Aug, 2026
Another project for the space! Today's card is Space Mirrors (#076):
Active card (Blue) | Base game
Cost: 3 | Requirements: None | Tags: Power, Space
Action: Spend 7 MC to increase your energy production 1 step.
u/Enson_Chan — 4 days ago
[COTD] Standford Torus | 15 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Stanford Torus (#X12):
Automated card (Green) | Turmoil Kickstarter promo
Cost: 12 | Requirements: None | Tags: City, Space
Place a city tile IN SPACE (outside and separate from the planet). 2 VP
Side question: Name the best place to put this city down on
u/Enson_Chan — 5 days ago
[COTD] Metal-rich Asteroid | 14 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Metal-rich Asteroid (#P19):
Prelude card | Prelude expansion
Tags: None
Raise temperature 1 step. Gain 4 titanium and 4 steel.
u/Enson_Chan — 6 days ago
[COTD] Giant Solar Collector | 13 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Giant Solar Collector (#X55):
Prelude card | Prelude 2 Kickstarter promo pack
Tags: Power, Space
Increase your energy production 2 steps. Raise Venus 1 step.
u/Enson_Chan — 7 days ago
[COTD] Atmospheric Enhancers | 12 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Atmospheric Enhancers (#P44):
Prelude card | Prelude 2 expansion
Tags: Venus
Raise temperature, oxygen, or Venus 2 steps. Draw 2 cards with floater icons.
Opinion: Even though these cards add a layer of skill via adaptation to the discarded cards, I just don't want to have a chance to reshuffle the deck mid game
u/Enson_Chan — 8 days ago
[COTD] Freyja Biodomes | 11 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Freyja Biodomes (#227):
Automated card (Green) | Venus Next expansion
Cost: 14 | Requirements: 10% Venus | Tags: Venus, Plant
Add 2 microbes or 2 animals TO ANOTHER VENUS CARD. Decrease your energy production 1 step and increase your MC production 2 steps. 2 VP
u/Enson_Chan — 9 days ago
[SHOTW] Week 33, 2026
##Useful Links
For information on how SHOTW works, please refer to the SHOTW Helper
##Pre-game information
Expansions: None
| Players | Order |
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| 1 | 1st |
| 2 | 1st |
| 3 | 1st |
| 4 | 2nd |
| 5 | 5th |
##Board details
Board: Elysium
Milestones: Generalist (1 production of each), Specialist (10 of any production), Ecologist (4 eco tags), Tycoon (15 green/blue cards played), Legend (5 event cards played)
Awards: Celebrity (cards costing >=20 MC), Industrialist (steel and energy), Desert Settler (tiles on bottom 4 rows), Estate Dealer (tiles next to ocean tile), Benefactor (TR)
##Starting hand
- Corporations: Saturn Systems, ThorGate
- Project cards: Energy Tapping, Trans-Neptune Probe, Nitrophilic Moss, Soletta, Asteroid Mining, Fuel Factory, Snow Algae, Protected Valley, Natural Preserve, Hackers
##Extra project cards
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Card draws for specific tags:
- Microbe tags: >!GHG Producing Bacteria, Industrial Microbes, Archaebacteria, Advanced Ecosystems, Decomposers!<
Gen 2 drafting hand: >!Giant Ice Asteroid, Robotic Workforce, Magnetic Field Dome, Shuttles!<
u/Enson_Chan — 10 days ago
[COTD] Mohole Lake | 9 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Mohole Lake (#X27):
Active card (Blue) | Big Box promo
Cost: 31 | Requirements: None | Tags: Building
Action: Add a microbe or animal TO ANOTHER CARD.
Gain 3 plants. Raise temperature 1 step and place 1 ocean tile.
u/Enson_Chan — 11 days ago
[COTD] Deep Well Heating | 8 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Deep Well Heating (#003):
Automated card (Green) | Base game
Cost: 13 | Requirements: None | Tags: Power, Building
Increase your energy production 1 step. Raise temperature 1 step.
u/Enson_Chan — 12 days ago
[COTD] Protected Habitats | 7 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Protected Habitats (#173);
Active card (Blue) | Corporate Era
Cost: 5 | Requirements: None | Tags: None
Effect: Opponents may not remove your plants, microbes, and animals.
(Always hate to see this in solo)
u/Enson_Chan — 13 days ago
[COTD] Mons Insurance | 6 Aug, 2026
Today's corporation is Mons Insurance:
Corporation | Turmoil Kickstarter promo
You start with 48 MC and 4 MC production. ALL OPPONENTS decrease their MC production 2 steps (THIS DOES NOT TRIGGER THE EFFECT BELOW).
Effect: When a player causes another player to decrease production or lose resources, EXCLUDING THIS, pay 3 MC to the victim (or as much as possible).
(Imagine someone else plays Recession after you play this in a 5-player game)
u/Enson_Chan — 14 days ago
[COTD] Asteroid Hollowing | 5 Aug, 2026
Today's card is definitely better than yesterday's, but not by much - Asteroid Hollowing (#X15):
Active card (Blue) | Big Box promo
Cost: 16 | Requirements: None | Tags: Space
Action: Spend 1 titanium to add 1 asteroid to this card and increase your MC production 1 step.
1 VP per 2 asteroids on this card.
u/Enson_Chan — 15 days ago
[COTD] TerraLabs Research | 4 Aug, 2026
Today's card is TerraLabs Research:
Corporation | Turmoil expansion
Tags: Science, Earth
You start with 14 MC. Lower your TR 1 step.
Effect: When you buy a card, including your starting hand, you pay 2 MC less for it.
Seriously has anyone ever picked this corporation?
u/Enson_Chan — 16 days ago
[SHOTW] Week 32, 2026
##Useful Links
For information on how SHOTW works, please refer to the SHOTW Helper
##Pre-game information
Expansions: Prelude, Colonies
| Players | Order |
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| 2 | 1st |
| 3 | 3rd |
| 4 | 1st |
| 5 | 3rd |
##Board details
Board: Tharsis
Milestones: Terraformer (35 TR), Mayor (3 city tiles), Gardener (3 greenery tiles), Builder (8 building tags), Planner (16 cards in hand)
Awards: Landlord (tiles placed), Banker (MC production), Scientist (science tags), Thermalist (heat resources), Miner (steel and titanium resources)
Colonies: Pluto, Titan, Callisto, Europa, Enceladus, Luna, Ganymede (use leftmost first for less players)
##Starting hand
- Corporations: PhoboLog, Mining Guild, Recyclon
- Project cards: Nuclear Power, Land Claim, Quantum Communications, Magnetic Field Dome, Electro Catapult, Big Asteroid, Mining Area, Ants, Urban Decomposers, Permafrost Extraction
- Prelude cards: Smelting Plant, Business Empire, Self-sufficient Settlement, Loan
##Extra project cards
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- Space tags: >!Sky Docks, Imported Nitrogen, Import of Advanced GHG, Rim Freighters, Trans-Neptune Probe!<
- Plant tags: >!Tundra Farming, Protected Valley, Arctic Algae, Plantation, Algae!<
- Microbe tags: >!Worms, Virus, Advanced Ecosystems, Viral Enhancers, Nitrite Reducing Bacteria!<
- Extra prelude cards: >!Society Support, Orbital Construction Yard, Io Research Outpost, Dome Farming, Huge Asteroid, Mohole, Biofuels!<
Gen 2 drafting hand: >!Pioneer Settlement, Technology Demonstration, Soil Factory, Small Asteroid!<
u/Enson_Chan — 17 days ago
[COTD] Soil Bacteria | 2 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Soil Bacteria (#P61):
Prelude card | Prelude 2 expansion
Tags: Microbe
Effect: When you play a plant or microbe tag, including this, you gain 1 plant.
Draw 2 microbe cards. Gain 3 plants.
u/Enson_Chan — 18 days ago
[COTD] Breathing Filters | 1 Aug, 2026
Today's card is Breathing Filters (#114):
Automated card (Green) | Base game
Cost: 11 | Requirements: 7% oxygen | Tags: Science
2 VP
Hint: No one specifically stated that they found the secret from yesterday's COTD at the time of posting
u/Enson_Chan — 19 days ago
[COTD] Giant Ice Asteroid | 31 Jul, 2026
Today's card is Giant Ice Asteroid (#080):
Event card (Red) | Base game
Cost: 36 | Requirements: None | Tags: Space, Event
Raise temperature 2 steps and place 2 ocean tiles. Remove up to 6 plants from any player.
u/Enson_Chan — 20 days ago