Evergreen: Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo
Evergreen: Cherry Blossoms and Bamboo Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 7 Biome cards with a Cherry Tree Growth Power
- 7 Biome cards with a Plant Small Bamboo Power
- 30 Cherry Tree treeples
- 20 Small Bamboo pawns
- 20 Big Bamboo pawns
- 4 "Cherry Tree Growth" Power tokens
- 4 "Plant Small Bamboo" Power tokens
- 2 Player aid cards
Playing Evergreen with an Expansion
Each modular expansion introduces a new Power. There must always be 6 Powers in the game, so if you want to play with a new Power, another must be removed. But you can play with more than 1 Expansion module at a time if you so desire.
For each expansion you want to add to your game, follow this procedure during setup:
- Choose or randomly select the Power you want to replace, then browse the Biome deck and pull out of it all of the cards with the corresponding icon in the lower right corner. Put these cards back into the box, they will not be used in this game.
- Take the 7 cards showing the Power you want to add to the game and shuffle them into the Biome deck.
- Place a Power token corresponding to the expansion module that you are adding to the game on each player's board, on top of the Power that it replaces.
After this setup, you can start a game using the same rules as the core game. The effects of the Cherry Trees, Bamboo, and their related Powers are described on the next pages.
Cherry Trees
World-renowned for their poetic charm, Cherry Trees have vibrant inflorescences that enrich the fertility of your Biome, and they also collect large quantities of light.
When playing with Cherry Trees, apply the following changes to the core rules:
Fertility Multiplier Icons
Biome cards with the Cherry Tree Growth Power come with 1 Fertility Multiplier icon. Whenever a Biome card with a Fertility Multiplier icon is left unchosen at the end of the Draft Phase, place it in the Fertility Zone and add it to the stack for the corresponding Biome.
When calculating the Fertility value of the Biome, each card with a Fertility Multiplier icon is treated as having a Fertility value equal to the total number of cards above and below it in the stack, including face-down cards (if any).
If a card with a Fertility Multiplier icon is revealed during the setup of the Fertility Zone, shuffle it back into the deck.
The Fertility value of the Swamp Biome is 4 (the card with the Fertility Multiplier icon has a Fertility value of 2 because there are 2 other cards in that stack).
The Fertility value of the Wheat Biome is 7 (the card with the Fertility Multiplier icon has a Fertility value of 4 because there are 4 other cards in that stack).
Power Activation
This is the effect of the Cherry Tree Growth Power:
Cherry Tree Growth: Replace 1 Sprout treeple on your Planet board with 1 Cherry Tree treeple from the pool.
Collecting Light
Cherry Trees have a height of 1 and cast a 1-space shadow (like a Small Tree). Cherry Trees are worth 2 points when hit by light.
Biggest Forest
You gain 1 point for each Cherry Tree that is part of your Biggest Forest.
Fertility
Cherry Trees do not score any points for Fertility. However, each Cherry Tree adds 1 to the Fertility value of the Biome where it is located. This increase in Fertility value only applies to the player with the Cherry Tree on their Planet board and does not benefit the other players.
The Fertility value of the Snow Biome is 3; Daisy has 3 Big Trees and 2 Cherry Trees in the Snow Biome. The Fertility value of the Snow Biome for Daisy increases to 5, granting her 15 points instead of 9.
Bamboo
Bamboo spreads easily, making your Forests expand quicker, but they also grow rapidly, with the risk of overshadowing your Trees. Make sure they remain in shadow at the end of the Season; otherwise, they will grow further and cast a larger shadow.
When playing with Bamboo, apply the following changes to the core rules:
Negative Fertility Icons
Biome cards with the Plant Small Bamboo Power come with 1 Negative Fertility icon. Whenever a Biome card with a Negative Fertility icon is left unchosen at the end of the Draft Phase, place it in the Fertility Zone and add it to the stack for the corresponding Biome.
Each Negative Fertility icon counts as -1 towards the Fertility value of that Biome. This can reduce the Fertility value of a Biome below 0.
Negative Fertility icons are special Fertility icons that count towards the threshold of 5 icons during the setup of the Fertility Zone.
In this example, the Snow Biome has 3 [icon] and 1 Negative Fertility icon. The total Fertility value of the Snow Biome at the end of the game is 3 - 1 = 2. (The first glyph is the Fertility icon as drawn in the example; the printed text uses a picture, not a word.)
Negative Fertility icons count towards the threshold of 5 icons during setup.
Power Activation
This is the effect of the Plant Small Bamboo Power:
Plant Small Bamboo: Place 1 Small Bamboo pawn from the pool into an empty space of your Planet board.
Collecting Light
Small Bamboo have a height of 1 and cast a 1-space shadow (like a Small Tree).
Big Bamboo have a height of 2 and cast a 2-space shadow (like a Big Tree).
Neither Small Bamboo nor Big Bamboo score points when hit by light.
Unless otherwise specified, each plant that is hit by Light collects points. Plants are not hit by Light when they are in the shadow of plants of equal height or taller.
Special Rules
Before the Collect Light step of the End of Season procedure, all Small Bamboo that are hit by light must be immediately replaced with Big Bamboo pawns.
Note: All Small Bamboo that were hit by Light before the Collect Light step grow into Big Bamboo, even those that become overshadowed by new Big Bamboo placed during this step.
Biggest Forest
You gain 1 point for each Bamboo (either Small or Big) that is part of your Biggest Forest.
Fertility
Bamboo do not score any points for Fertility. However, you gain 2 points for each Biome on your Planet board that contains at least 1 Bamboo (either Small or Big).
Height Summary
The printed Height Summary is a chart with rows for height 0, 1 and 2, each row showing the plant icons of that height (Trees and Bamboo). The icons are not transcribed here; the height and shadow of each plant are given in the Collecting Light sections above.
Unless otherwise specified, each plant that is hit by Light collects points. Plants are not hit by Light when they are in the shadow of plants of equal height or taller.
Icon Summary
- Plant Small Bamboo (Power icon)
- Cherry Tree Growth (Power icon)
- Fertility Multiplier
- Negative Fertility
- Height
- Shadow