About the card gallery

About the Bauer card gallery

With the help of this gallery you can read the latest card rules, compare different editions, discover the origin of the art and read comments from the designers. You can also browse cards that have the same attributes. For example, here are all the Night cards or all cards featuring the Green Beast Theme tag.

When clicking a card in the gallery you enter the information page for that card (with different color scheme for Day/night). Here’s a break down of all the parts of the information page:

• Name. For the Character cards, the name is the actual name that appears on the card. The other card types doesn’t have any names on the cards though, so they were given names just for the purpose of this card gallery. These names are derived from the title of the painting that is featured on the card, or from the fairy tale that the painting was made for. Some of these names are will probably change as we track down more information about their original source.
• Card type. There are 8 different card types, since each of the 4 types have both day and night cards.
• Card id. Each card is also given a number to easier refer to them. So while the cards name might change the card id will remain the same.
• Card effect. A description of the cards effect. These might differ slightly from the rulebook since we have more space here or find a better solution to describe their effects.
• Origin of the illustration. Which year the painting was made, and for what purpose. Most paintings that Bauer made was for illustrations in fairy tale books, but there are some that he might have done for personal reasons or from a buyer.
• Image source. We strive to use the best possible representation of Bauers art for the cards. So many sources are from auction sites or museum archives that do a great job of reproducing John Bauers art. Feel free to contact us if you find a better source of an image or if you want to help improve the game and happen to own any of the original books that John Bauer illustrated or good reproductions (or even actual original art!).
• Designer comment. Some behind the scenes stuff for those who are interested in our work on designing the game and what goes into making the cards.
• Images. The featured image is the latest English edition of the card. Below you’ll find older versions and variants for different languages as well as an image of the original painting.

There is also the ability for you to comment on each card! Let us know what your favorite card is or if you find any mistakes or have ideas for things we can add.