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If you love Ark Nova and crave more depth and variety, Marine Worlds is a perfect dive that cleverly expands the game.
- New marine animals
- Strategic aquatic enclosures
- Cascading abilities
- Alternate actions
- Increased asymmetry
- Requires base game
- Increases complexity
- Longer playtimes
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To ensure the deck doesn't get 'diluted' with so many new cards, marine cards come with a wave icon. Whenever one appears in the display, the first card in the row is discarded and a new one is replenished, keeping the flow of options always fresh. On the association board, a fourth university appears, and by choosing it, you can pick one of six special universities from the reserve. These universities not only offer a research icon but also an animal icon, allowing you to reveal cards from the top of the deck and take the first one that matches your chosen animal icon. This adds an extra strategic layer in the hunt for specific animals.
But the novelties don't stop there! The expansion also introduces four alternate versions for each of the five original action cards. At the start of the game, players select two of these new cards to replace the standard ones, increasing asymmetry and strategic possibilities in each game. Imagine a build card that allows you to build over water or rock, or an animal card that ignores certain conditions! New bonus tiles and final scoring cards are also included, as well as custom wooden markers for the tracks and cute animals to mark your conservation projects. Ark Nova: Marine Worlds is an invitation to expand your vision and build the zoo of your dreams, now with an ocean of possibilities!
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