Feel like building a unicorn army, betraying your friends, and having a lot of fun in the process?

Then you’ll need to learn how to play unstable unicorns with us first.

Unstable Unicorns is a card game designed by Rami Badie. Designed to appeal to the generation of card-game players in love with things like Fluxx and Cards Against Humanity, Unstable Unicorns is a unique approach to competitive gaming.

From the moment you open the box, you’re sure to fall in love with the cute and playful artwork, the fast-paced rules and the replay-ability of this modern title. We’d wager that you’ll want to share this game with as many of your friends as possible as soon as you can!

Let’s take a look at the basics of playing Unstable Unicorns

How to Play Unstable Unicorns: Setup

The Unstable Unicorns box comes packed with 105 cards in total, and a rule book to guide you through the game.

There are seven distinct types of card included in the bundle including:

• 13 baby unicorn cards
• 30 magical unicorn cards
• 22 basic unicorn cards
• 23 magic cards
• 8 downgrade cards
• 14 upgrade cards
• 14 instant cards

If all of those unique kinds of cards sound overwhelming at first – don’t worry; it’s really easy to get the hang of this game.

Essentially, you start with a baby unicorn in your stable and start building a unicorn army from there.

Every single unicorn in your deck will have its own special power – even basic unicorns have their appeal.

To win, all you need to do is get the right number of unicorns in your magical stable.

Once you’ve won, everyone else needs to bow down to you, as the Righteous Ruler of all things magical.

Once you’re ready to play, start by gathering all the baby unicorns from your deck, and giving one to each player.

That baby unicorn will join the player’s stable. You can place the rest of the baby unicorns into a stack known as the “nursery.”

The remaining cards then need to be shuffled, before you hand 5 at random to each player. The remaining cards are your draw pile.

The person wearing the most colors will go first.

How to Play Unstable Unicorns: Game Play

With your game set up, each player will draw a card, then either play a card from their hand or draw another card.

While a magical unicorn or a magic card can have immediate effects on the game, stable upgrades need to be in the stable at the start of a turn for players to see their benefit.

Additionally, it’s worth noting that there’s a hand limit of seven cards.

If you end up with too many cards, you’ll need to discard some.

Ultimately, the aim of the game is to collect 7 unicorns in total – but it’s more complicated than it seems.

You can’t have two of the same unicorn, for instance, and each card has its own unique effect to think about.

For instance:

• Instant cards can stop other people from playing their cards or putting down their unicorns
• Upgrade cards allow you to add positive effects to your stable
• Downgrade cards allow you to add a negative effect to someone else’s stable
• Magic cards create mayhem in the game. One might allow you to discard your card and draw a bunch of new ones, for instance.
• Magical unicorn cards: Magical unicorns count towards your total and have a magic power
• Basic and baby unicorns: These have no magic powers, but they still add to your total, and take you closer to winning the game.

If you run out of cards, the game can end, or you can reshuffle the discard pile and keep going.