Mutants: Incubator Overload
Mutants: Incubator Overload Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Second Wave Advanced Mutants
The Second Wave Advanced Mutants give you 36 new Advanced Mutants to bring to the Arena - explore new tactics and strategies to dominate your opponents!
Components
- 72 Second Wave Advanced Mutant cards
Set Up
Second Wave Advanced Mutants are used in exactly the same way as Advanced Mutants from the Core Set. Use them to play the Draft or the Constructed variant as described in the base game rulebook by mixing them with the Core Set or as a standalone set.
Sorting the Cards
If you want to separate your Advanced Mutants by set, each of the new cards has "Second Wave" printed along its bottom edge to denote which set they belong to.
Buildings Module
The Buildings module offers many unique twists on gameplay, forcing players to rethink their strategies.
Components
- 4 Building tokens
- 6 Challenge tokens
Set Up
Before the game starts, choose one Building to play with and place it beside the Main Board in view of all players. You may choose the Building at random or pick your favorite one. The selected Building alters the rules of the game for all players, creating new possibilities and constraints.
Building Token Clarifications
Breeding Center (printed text: "Players may have up to 2 Mutants in their Incubators.")
- The Incubate action still places a single Mutant in a player's Incubator. A player may place a second Mutant in their Incubator by performing a second Incubate action in a round or by using a card ability.
- If a card's ability affects a Mutant in the Incubator and a player has 2 Mutants there, that player picks which Mutant is affected.
- At the end of the round, players place all Mutants from their Incubators face-down on top of their decks, in whichever order they choose.
Exchange Office (printed text: "When a player breeds for a Mutant, instead of discarding a second card they may knock down one of their Mutants in play to use its genes to breed.")
- Only 1 card may be replaced when using the Exchange Office; 1 card must still be discarded for breeding.
- When using Exchange Office, both genes of the bred Mutant must still be matched.
Gold Furnace (printed text: "The Crush the Competition phase happens at the end of a player's turn instead of at the beginning.")
- There is still only a single Crush the Competition phase each turn. It happens at the end of the turn, instead of at the beginning.
Challenge Hall (printed text: "Setup: Shuffle the six Challenge tokens and make a face-up stack on this Building. At the end of a player's turn, if they completed the Challenge on the top of their stack, they gain 3 Victory Points, move that Challenge to the bottom of the stack.")
- All Challenge requirements have to be fulfilled in a single turn.
- A player may complete only the topmost Challenge in the stack (the only visible one).
- A player may complete a maximum of 1 Challenge per turn.
- Since Challenges are put at the bottom of the stack when completed, it is possible to complete the same Challenge more than once during a single game.
Note: We recommend playing the game without modules first. After that, we recommend using at most two modules at a time. When playing with modules, the general set up order goes as follows:
- Choose Building
- Draft Psy Captains
- Draft Heroic Mutants
- Draft Advanced Mutants
- Choose Basic Mutants
Glubber and Heimdall
Two new Solo Bosses to test your might!
Components
- 19 Glubber cards
- 19 Heimdall cards
Set Up
To battle Glubber or Heimdall, set up the Solo Boss battle as described in the base game rulebook.
Do not use any modules when playing against a Solo Boss.
Transcriber's note: the Glubber card's printed SETUP text (shuffle the base form cards to make the boss deck, and the shapeshift pile arrangement) is too small to read reliably in the source scan and is not transcribed here; consult the printed card.
Special Power Clarifications
Glubber
- If there are no cards remaining in a power slot and Glubber would gain a Shapeshift card from that slot, nothing happens.
Heimdall
- Edicts that are placed in your deck can be used to incubate and to breed - they do not match any genes, however.
Extra Challenges
As with Solo Bosses from the Core Set, you can try to complete a set of extra challenges that ramp up the difficulty!
The printed extra challenge tracker has a "+10 life" space followed by six challenge spaces (one per challenge icon) for each boss, with rows labelled Glubber and Heimdall.