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The Shifting Sands


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A New Challenge

A New Challenge

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
After you replace this story, take all success tokens for each player and redistribute them between the revealed stories. No more than 4 success tokens can be assigned to any story on either player's side.
Illustrator: Matt Stawicki
Set: TSS
****- 2 Comments
Aziz Chatuluka

Aziz Chatuluka

A Danger to all Mankind
Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) Skill: 1
Cultist.
Villainous.
Action: Sacrifice Aziz Chatuluka and drain all your undrained domains to put an Ancient One character into play from your hand. At the end of the phase, if the Ancient One character is still in play, place it on top of your deck.
Illustrator: Caravan Studio
Set: TSS
****- 1 Comments
Canopic Jar

Canopic Jar

Vessel of Souls
Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Relic.
After Canopic jar leaves play shuffle it into its owner's deck.
Response: Exhaust Canopic Jar to attach a character just destroyed to it.
Response: Exhaust Canopic Jar and discard a card attached to it to trigger that card's ability without paying any cost.
Illustrator: Carolina Eade
Set: TSS
***-- 4 Comments
Chaos Unleashed

Chaos Unleashed

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Choose 1 domain you control. Take all resources attached to it and place them in your hand. Replace those resources with an equal number of cards from the top of your deck.
Illustrator: Michal Milkowski
Set: TSS
***** No Comments have been made.
Come the Dreamtime

Come the Dreamtime

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
After you replace this story, rearrange any revealed stories, leaving all success tokens on the board in place.
Illustrator: Drew Whitmore
Set: TSS
****- 1 Comments
Congress of the Keys

Congress of the Keys

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player must shuffle his hand into his deck and then draw the same number of cards. Then the player who won this story draws 1 card.
Illustrator: Tom Garden
Set: TSS
***-- 1 Comments
Desertification

Desertification

Type: Support Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 1
Attachment.
Attach to a Location support card.
Forced Response: After the attached Location ability is triggered, the controller of that card must destroy a resource he controls.
"Be wary when the All-Mother removes her favor."
Illustrator: Dimitri Bielak
Set: TSS
**--- No Comments have been made.
Federal Vault

Federal Vault

Type: Support Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Location.
Action: Pay 1 to choose a non-Location support card in your discard pile and place it on top of your deck.
It held evidence deemed too dangerous to handle even by the local police.
Illustrator: Drew Whitmore
Set: TSS
*---- No Comments have been made.
Guardian Beast

Guardian Beast

Servant of Serapis
Type: Support Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Attachment. Servitor.
Attach to a character. Attached character gains Invulnerable. While attached character is committed to a story, that story gains: Terror
Illustrator: Peter Tikos
Set: TSS
***-- 1 Comments
Heart of the Labyrinth

Heart of the Labyrinth

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player names a card type. The player to his left must then choose a card of that type he controls and return it to hand.
Illustrator: Tom Garden
Set: TSS
**--- 1 Comments
John & Jessie Burke

John & Jessie Burke

Relentless in Pursuit
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(A)(I) Skill: 2
Government.
Response: After a character committed to a story is wounded, exhaust John & Jessie Burke to wound a character committed to the same story.
Dead or alive... but mostly dead.
Illustrator: Ignacio Lazcano
Set: TSS
***-- 3 Comments
Khopesh of the Abyss

Khopesh of the Abyss

Manifested Malice
Type: Support Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 2
Attachment. Relic.
Attach to a character you control. Attached character gains Toughness +1.
After Khopesh of the Abyss leaves play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.
Action: Choose a character. That character and attached character each take 1 wound.
Illustrator: Aurelien Hubert
Set: TSS
***** 8 Comments
Magarta Kiss

Magarta Kiss

Starry-eyed Lover
Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) Skill: 1
Servitor.
Villainous.
Action: Pay X to reveal the top X cards of your deck. Place any Ancient One cards into your hand and the remaining cards on the bottom of your deck in any order.
Illustrator: Brynn Metheney
Set: TSS
**--- 1 Comments
Master of Amulets

Master of Amulets

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 3
Icon: (T) Skill: 1
Cultist.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to choose an insane character. Restore and ready that character, and take control of it until the end of the phase.
The strings of a weakened mind are easily pulled.
Illustrator: Ilich Henriquez
Set: TSS
****- No Comments have been made.
Nassor

Nassor

Alamut Operative
Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(C)(C) Skill: 3
Criminal.
Response: After all players have finished committing characters to stories, choose a non-Ancient One character committed to the same story as Nassor. That character's controller chooses to either uncommit that character or sacrifice it after all stories resolve.
Illustrator: Magali Villeneuve
Set: TSS
***-- 3 Comments
Nigel St. James

Nigel St. James

Lodge Recruiter
Type: Character Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 3
Icon: (A)(A)(A) Skill: 3
Lodge. Sorcerer.
Disrupt: When a character you control would be destroyed, ready Nigel St. James to instead attach that character to a domain you control as a resource.
"Trust me, I know best how you may serve the Lodge."
Illustrator: Brynn Metheney
Set: TSS
**--- 6 Comments
Professor Sam Campbell

Professor Sam Campbell

Erudite Archeologist
Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 4
Icon: (A)(A)(I) Skill: 3
Faculty. Investigator.
When Professor Sam Campbell is committed to a story, Terror struggles at that story are resolved by counting Arcane icons.
"We only fear the unknown. Knowledge can be your guiding light through the darkness."
Illustrator: Nicole Cardiff
Set: TSS
***-- 1 Comments
The 9th Plague

The 9th Plague

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player sacrifices all of his characters committed to this story.
Illustrator: Drew Whitmore
Set: TSS
*---- 2 Comments
The Cthonian Stone

The Cthonian Stone

Stygian Waymark
Type: Support Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 3
Relic.
After the Cthonian Stone leaves play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.
Response: After a character you control is destroyed, exhaust The Cthonian Stone to put a character into play from your hand with a lower printed cost than the destroyed character.
Special Attribute: Steadfast x1 Shub-Niggurath
Illustrator: Matt Zeilinger
Set: TSS
***-- 1 Comments
The Deodand

The Deodand

Cutting Threads
Type: Support Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 2
Attachment. Relic.
Attach to a non-Ancient One character.
After The Deodand leaves play, shuffle it into its owner's deck.
Forced Response: At the end of the phase in which attached character is committed to a story, destroy that character.
Illustrator: Tim Durning
Set: TSS
****- No Comments have been made.
The Heirloom

The Heirloom

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player may search his deck for a support card, reveal it, and put that card into his hand. Then each player shuffles his deck.
Illustrator: Sara Biddle
Set: TSS
**--- No Comments have been made.
The Large Man

The Large Man

Shorn But Patient
Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 4
Icon: (C)(A)(A)(I) Skill: 3
Servitor.
Forced Response: After a player succeeds at a story, he must discard 2 card from the top of his deck.
Action: Exhaust The Large Man to put the topmost event card in your discard pile into your hand.
Illustrator: Tiziano Baracchi
Set: TSS
***-- 2 Comments
The Opened Door

The Opened Door

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player may take any number of cards from his hand and exchange them with an equal number of resources attached to a single domain he controls.
Illustrator: Michal Milkowski
Set: TSS
***-- No Comments have been made.
The Second Dragon

The Second Dragon

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player may choose a non-unique character he controls and search his deck for any number of cards with the same title. Put those cards into play. Then each player shuffles his deck.
Illustrator: Ignacio Lazcano
Set: TSS
****- 1 Comments
The Seventh Gate

The Seventh Gate

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Search the story deck and choose 1 story card. resolve that story's effect and then place into your won pile. Then shuffle The Seventh Gate into the story deck.
Illustrator: Angela Sung
Set: TSS
***** 4 Comments
Village of Ash

Village of Ash

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Each player chooses one story card that he has won (except this one) and shuffles it into the story deck. Then shuffle all Relic cards in play into their owners' decks.
Illustrator: Chun Lo
Set: TSS
----- 1 Comments
Within the Ice

Within the Ice

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols:
Return all characters committed to this story to their owner's hands.
Illustrator: Anna Ignatieva
Set: TSS
*---- No Comments have been made.
Written in Blood

Written in Blood

Unbreakable Contract
Type: Support Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 2
Attachment. Relic.
Attach to a non-Ancient One character.
After Written in Blood enters your discard pile, shuffle it into your deck.
Action: Pay 1 to uncommit attached characterif you control any Syndicate characters at the same story.
Illustrator: Carolina Eade
Set: TSS
***-- No Comments have been made.


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