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Evolution cards give the monsters new powers during play, with each monster having their own unique deck of eight cards. To start the game, players draw two evolution cards, then discard one. Whenever they roll three hearts during play, they draw two and keep one, in addition to using the hearts for whatever else they want. Players can play an evolution card whenever they want to gain the power, with some powers being one-shot effects and others being permanent.
• In other IELLO news, the publisher normally releases titles only in French and English, but at SPIEL 2016 it debuted some of its line in German, including King of Tokyo, Kanagawa and Oceanos. These releases were so well received at the show that those three titles, along with Sea of Clouds and The Mysterious Forest, have now been picked up for release in Germany by distributor Hutter Trade, with the titles to be available as of mid-December 2016.
• The English-language rights for Andreas Steiger's Targi have reverted back to KOSMOS, so Thames & Kosmos, that company's North American branch, has added a new printing of Targi to its release schedule for early 2018, which T&K's marketing coordinator Lili DeSisto says was their first open slot. As for Targi: Die Erweiterung, the expansion that debuted solely in German at SPIEL 2016, DeSisto says that they're still making plans for 2018.
• Gekido: Bot Battles takes a Fel Barros and Romulo Marques design about young dragons battling in the stomach of their father, originally released by Brazlian publisher Ace Studios in 2014, and transforms it into a futuristic arena-battle game with giant plastic bots. Here's an overview of the game, due out in May 2017: