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Star Realms is a multiplayer, space-themed deckbuilding card game.

Star Realms is a multiplayer, space-themed deckbuilding card game.

Each game begins with all players having the same deck. Players spend resources to acquire new cards. Cards often belong to factions, and each faction is geared towards a particular strategy (deck-thinning, acquiring currency, gaining life, damage output, etc). Players combine these strategies in order to sustain their own life total while depleting that of their opponents. The last player alive wins.

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Can "Stealth Tower" copy your opponent's bases?

If I play a "Stealth Tower" base on my turn, can it copy a base that my opponent still has in play? The text says any base in play, but are your opponents bases considered in play during your turn? Bonus question: If I destroy the base that…
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Does it matter what faction Mech World is?

I'm playing the core set of Star Realms and I find myself picking up the Stealth Needle and Mech World whenever I can afford them. Because of their abilities to mimic other factions, I really don't care what faction(s) I'm focused on. The Stealth…
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Can you use an ability and scrap a card in the same turn?

I'm pretty sure you can do this with my understanding of the rules, but my friend keeps arguing that you can't. When you play a card like an "Explorer" for example. Can you in the same turn, use the 2 units to buy in the trade row and then scrap…
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Are there any rules in Star Realms for when you have no deck?

I play the Star Realms app (against a not-super-intelligent computer) periodically. Today, I found an interesting situation. The AI has only Machine Base in play and I am forcing him to discard ~5 cards a turn. This means that the AI is consistently…
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Would it matter if I mark a Star Realms deck on the front?

I bought a pair of Star Realms decks to allow play with up to 4 people. To make it easier to separate the decks for 2-player play, I was thinking I'd mark one of the decks on the front, with a small mark. However, does this somehow convey any…
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Can you use a base's ability twice by returning it to your hand with Mega Mech?

I'm playing the card version (not online) of Star Realms. So here is how I believe you could play things out. Is this legal or not? Play a base from your hand such as "Fighter Base" Use the base ability and force an opponent to discard a…
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Star Realms: scrapping a card in your hand

Do I still get the actions of a card that I plan to scrap during that turn? For example, if I have the Brain World in play, I am allowed to scrap up to two cards from my hand or my discard pile. I have a Viper and a Scout that I want to get rid of.…
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For Star Realms, what's the appropriate ratio of Wealth-per-Card-per-Faction?

I have lots of cards for Star Realms (2 decks of the standard game, 1 expansion deck), and I'm trimming everything down to fix balance issues and the overall deck size. However, the tricky part is adjusting for the viability of certain Factions…
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What are my odds of drawing the rest of my deck

Do to the deterministic nature of the game, if I have a decent memory I can easily know what cards are left in my deck, if not their order. I have two cards in my hand that let me draw a card (1 each) and I know there are 4 cards left in my deck,…
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Is it OK to mix Colony Wars and Frontiers for a 2 player game?

Is it OK to mix Colony Wars and Frontiers for a 2 player game? Would there be any balance issues? One main worry is that the trade row might just have high value cards for a while and you are just sitting there buying explorers for a long time
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You may destroy target base - can this destroy outposts before combat damage is done?

Some cards have an ability - 'you may destroy target base'. The rules say that a ships primary ability is triggered immediately when it is played. If I use a ship with that ability and combat points, can I destroy an opponent's outpost using this…
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Discard a card not working?

Ok so I was playing against the AI (Star Realms Android app) today and every time I played a card that should have had my opponent discarding ( Imperial Fighter), it instead made ME discard as I played the card. In addition, the AI still drew 5…
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do all players win star realms pirates co-op

OK, with the Star Realms Pirates of the Dark Star co-op challenge, if a player dies but at least one other remaining team member still beats the Pirates, is it a team win or an individual win? e.g. if Bob and Sally play, and Bob is eliminated, but…
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