Earth: Abundance

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• Engine Building — Activate actions to grow your engine and generate growth tokens.
• Simultaneous Actions — Many actions occur concurrently; players stay engaged each turn.
• Simultaneous Play — Many actions occur concurrently; players stay engaged each turn.
• Tableau Building — Build a tableau of actions to create combos and synergy.

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• This is the first time we're doing it and I'm really excited.
• We're going to be mixing traditional standup with gameplay.
• This expansion adds six more of those round cards.

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• Wild actions — The expansion introduces 'seeds that are kind of wild actions that you can do all kinds of stuff'.

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• Planet Unknown is Planet Unknown in my top 10 of all time now.
• I'm generally not a fan of that, but the game is so good I'll allow it.
• I think Earth is near perfect as it is, but abundance for my wife makes the game even better.
• A musthave expansion for one of the 10 greatest games of all time, Earth Abundance.

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• Hey everybody, I'm Tom Vasel. Welcome to look back, a series where I take a look at games that I reviewed last year, 5 years ago, 10 years ago, and 20 years ago this week and tell you what I think about them now, if I think about them at all.
• So, let's jump back 20 years ago. I reviewed a game called Astro Plane, which was an abstract strategy game that almost required you to completely understand astrophysics to play it. It was not very good at all. I gave it a two out of 10 and it is one of the first times where the designer wrote me a very strong rant and went online and pretty much attacked me for being too stupid to understand this game, but it was pretty bad.
• I'm noticing games from 10 years ago didn't look necessarily great.
• And then surprisingly to me the game Face to Face. This is a two-player version of The Game. And I don't I think The Game is at best okay. But The Game Face to Face, that two-player version of it, I thought worked really well.
• So, this is a game where uh that Stonemaier Games did where I was like, "What is this Red Rising?" I went and read the the first trilogy so I could better play this game, which didn't matter because the theme is barely there.
• This is sort of like a Blackjack but with algebraic equations.
• Um algebra in a game, but I'm just amused by it.

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• Germination luck mitigation — The reviewer notes that this mechanic is 'actually pretty needed' and has grown on them over time.
• luck mitigation — This expansion allows players to mitigate the luck factor in finding certain cards and provides more ways to obtain 'sprout cubes.'

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• Win or lose, I'm going to be honest with you.
• It's just great to pull the game out, whether it's solo or group. I just get a kick out of it.
• The variety is off the freaking chain.
• I will happily play Earth in its base form without any of the expansions, and I'll still have a fantastic 10 out of 10 rated time. It's that good.
• Remember it's only a game, regardless of which one of these animals you want to take with you on your adventures

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• card expansion — additional cards and tokens
• deck-digging — ways to search the deck for a specific card
• deluxe components — improved game components

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• These are six expansions that I thought were pretty fantastic.
• Railroad Tiles World feels like a little bit of extra oomph.
• There's just a lot more of everything.
• The Marvel artwork is fantastic.
• SETI is a fantastic game about going off into space or looking for aliens.
• This is another one that I won't play the game without because it feels essential to me.

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