IN THE BEGINNING

There was only you, a formless being in a vast sea of cosmic dust. Slowly... you grew in power and found the ability to concentrate the dust into forms. Massive gas clouds began to form around you, as well as stars and planets. The more you created the more powerful you became. Even learning to master the mysterious forces.

Then you noticed something strange. Distant points of light...

You were not alone.

Your siblings had also been busy, building there own sections of the Universe. Now it is a race to build the stars and become the most influential being in the Galaxy.

Overview

Cosmos is an engine-building / hand management card game for 2-4 players. Players race to create enough celestial objects into their area of space to complete a common goal, which takes the form of a randomly selected Galaxy card. Once the goal is achieved by any player, the player with the most points wins.

NO MATERIAL TOKENS are included with this version of the game. You will need to provide your own. You really only need 2 different types because there are cards that can have two different tokens at once.

A box big enough to house the future expansion!

Want this game with Material Tokens

The Dust deck contains 33 different celestial "objects" from 5 Classes;

Stars, Planets, Nebulae, Asteroids and Anomalies.

All objects are duplicated and dispersed across the 5 Material Types;

Energy, Gas, Liquid, Rock and Metal.

There is also a hidden material in the Universe. Dark

So you don't know what you might find while collecting Dust!

Setup

-Seperate the Galaxy cards from the Dust cards. Shuffle the Galaxy cards and draw one randomly, display it so all players can see.

-Shuffle the Dust cards together to form the draw deck and deal each player 5 cards. Place the deck face down so all players can reach it and deal 5 cards face down out in a line from the deck. This creates 6 draw options.

-Place the Material Tokens aside so all players can reach them.

-Designate a spot for the discard pile.

And you are ready to start building!

All cards in the deck are multi-use.

They may be played from your hand, discarded as payment for another card or discarded to activate their special ability.

Play Overview

-At the beginning of your turn you will draw 2 cards from any of the draw choices, replacing cards from the top of the deck as you do. When drawing cards, you can not look at any of those cards until all cards have been drawn. (If you have 1-0 cards in your hand at the beginning of your turn, you will draw 3 cards instead of 2.)

-Next you will add a Material Token to each card you control that doesn't already have one.

-Play or Pass. Either way you must discard down to 8 cards in your hand at the end of your turn.

The more you control.

The more powerful you become!

End Game

Players take turns until one player meets the Galaxy card condition.

This ends the game immediately.

Players then add up the points from all cards they control. The player meeting the Galaxy condition also adds points from the Galaxy card.

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