Cards & Components

Every corporation, every project card, the reference cards, tiles and boards of the Terraforming Mars base game.

Card pictures come from the Tabletop Simulator module Terraforming Mars; Deimos Down, Great Dam and Magnetic Field Generators show the Big Box replacement cards. Boards come from FryxGames’ rulebook. Each row says what the card does; its cost, tags, requirement and victory points are on the picture.

Boards

Picture	Description
	Game board — tracks, the map of Tharsis, standard projects, milestones and awards. Board and Tiles.
	Player board (5) — resource boxes and production tracks. Player board.

Cards

Corporations

The 10 standard corporations, the Beginner Corporation and the 2 Corporate Era corporations. Starting resources are in addition to the standard game’s 1 production of each resource.

Picture	Description
	Beginner Corporation — 42 M€. Instead of the first research, you get 10 project cards for free. For players new to the game. Setup.
	CrediCor — 57 M€. Effect: after you pay 20 M€ or more for a card or a standard project, take 4 M€. Setup.
	Ecoline — 36 M€, 3 plants and 2 plant production. Effect: a greenery costs you 7 plants instead of 8. Setup.
	Helion — 42 M€ and 3 heat production. Effect: you may spend heat as if it were M€. Setup.
	Interplanetary Cinematics — 30 M€ and 20 steel. Effect: take 2 M€ each time you play an event. Setup.
	Inventrix — 45 M€; first action: draw 3 cards. Effect: your global requirements are 2 steps looser or tighter, as you choose. Setup.
	Mining Guild — 30 M€, 5 steel and 1 steel production. Effect: +1 steel production whenever a placement bonus gives you steel or titanium. Setup.
	PhoboLog — 23 M€ and 10 titanium. Effect: your titanium is worth 1 M€ more. Setup.
	Tharsis Republic — 40 M€; first action: place a city. Effect: +1 M€ production whenever any city is placed on Mars, and 3 M€ whenever you place a city. Setup.
	ThorGate — 48 M€ and 1 energy production. Effect: power cards and the Power plant standard project cost you 3 M€ less. Setup.
	United Nations Mars Initiative — 40 M€. Action: if your TR went up this generation, pay 3 M€ for 1 more TR. Setup.
	Saturn Systems — Corporate Era. 42 M€ and 1 titanium production. Effect: +1 M€ production whenever any player plays a Jovian tag, this one included. Setup.
	Teractor — Corporate Era. 60 M€. Effect: cards with an Earth tag cost you 3 M€ less. Setup.

Project cards

The 137 project cards of the standard game, A to Z.

Picture	Description
	Adaptation Technology — Effect: every global requirement on your cards is 2 steps looser or tighter, as you choose. Effects.
	Adapted Lichen — +1 plant production. Production.
	Advanced Ecosystems — Needs a plant, a microbe and an animal tag in play. Its value is the VP printed on it. Resources on cards.
	Aerobraked Ammonia Asteroid — +3 heat production and +1 plant production; put 2 microbes on another of your cards. Resources on cards.
	Algae — Needs 5 oceans. Take 1 plant and +2 plant production. Ocean tile.
	Ants — Needs 4 % oxygen. Action: move 1 microbe from any card to this one. 1 VP per 2 microbes here. Blue-card actions.
	Aquifer Pumping — Action: pay 8 M€ (steel may help) to place an ocean. Blue-card actions.
	Archaebacteria — Only at −18 °C or colder. +1 plant production. Production.
	Arctic Algae — Only at −12 °C or colder. Take 1 plant. Effect: whenever anyone places an ocean, take 2 plants. Effects.
	Artificial Lake — Needs −6 °C or warmer. Place an ocean on a land area, not an ocean area. Ocean tile.
	Artificial Photosynthesis — Choose +1 plant production or +2 energy production. Production.
	Asteroid — Temperature +1 step and take 2 titanium; remove up to 3 plants from one player. Red border.
	Asteroid Mining — +2 titanium production. Production.
	Beam from a Thorium Asteroid — Needs a Jovian tag. +3 heat production and +3 energy production. Production.
	Big Asteroid — Temperature +2 steps and take 4 titanium; remove up to 4 plants from one player. Red border.
	Biomass Combustors — Needs 6 % oxygen. One player loses 1 plant production; you get +2 energy production. Red border.
	Birds — Needs 13 % oxygen. One player loses 2 plant production. Action: add 1 animal here. 1 VP per animal here. Blue-card actions.
	Black Polar Dust — Place an ocean; −2 M€ production and +3 heat production. Ocean tile.
	Breathing Filters — Needs 7 % oxygen. Its value is the VP printed on it. Global parameters.
	Bushes — Needs −10 °C or warmer. +2 plant production and take 2 plants. Production.
	Capital — Needs 4 oceans. −2 energy production, +5 M€ production. Place the Capital city: it also scores 1 VP per adjacent ocean. Ocean tile.
	Carbonate Processing — −1 energy production, +3 heat production. Production.
	Cloud Seeding — Needs 3 oceans. −1 M€ production, one player loses 1 heat production; +2 plant production. Ocean tile.
	Colonizer Training Camp — Only while oxygen is 5 % or less. Its value is the VP printed on it. Global parameters.
	Comet — Temperature +1 step and place an ocean; remove up to 3 plants from one player. Ocean tile.
	Convoy from Europa — Place an ocean and draw 1 card. Ocean tile.
	Cupola City — Only while oxygen is 9 % or less. −1 energy production, +3 M€ production; place a city. City tile.
	Decomposers — Needs 3 % oxygen. Effect: each animal, plant or microbe tag you play (this one too) adds a microbe here. 1 VP per 3 microbes here. Effects.
	Deep Well Heating — +1 energy production and temperature +1 step. Production.
	Deimos Down — Temperature +3 steps; place this tile away from any city; take 4 steel; remove up to 6 plants from one player. City tile.
	Designed Microorganisms — Only at −14 °C or colder. +2 plant production. Production.
	Domed Crater — Only while oxygen is 7 % or less. Take 3 plants, −1 energy production, +3 M€ production; place a city. City tile.
	Dust Seals — Only with 3 oceans or fewer. Its value is the VP printed on it. Ocean tile.
	Ecological Zone — Needs a greenery of yours. Place this tile next to any greenery. Effect: each plant or animal tag you play (its own two too) adds an animal here. 1 VP per 2 animals here. Effects.
	Energy Saving — +1 energy production per city in play, anyone’s. City tile.
	Eos Chasma National Park — Needs −12 °C or warmer. Add 1 animal to one of your animal cards, take 3 plants, +2 M€ production. Resources on cards.
	Equatorial Magnetizer — Action: lose 1 energy production for +1 TR. Blue-card actions.
	Extreme-Cold Fungus — Only at −10 °C or colder. Action: take 1 plant, or put 2 microbes on another of your cards. Blue-card actions.
	Farming — Needs +4 °C or warmer. +2 M€ production, +2 plant production and take 2 plants. Production.
	Fish — Needs +2 °C or warmer. One player loses 1 plant production. Action: add 1 animal here. 1 VP per animal here. Blue-card actions.
	Flooding — Place an ocean; you may take 4 M€ from the owner of one adjacent tile. Ocean tile.
	Food Factory — −1 plant production, +4 M€ production. Production.
	Fueled Generators — −1 M€ production, +1 energy production. Production.
	Fusion Power — Needs 2 power tags. +3 energy production. Production.
	GHG Factories — −1 energy production, +4 heat production. Production.
	GHG Producing Bacteria — Needs 4 % oxygen. Action: add 1 microbe here, or remove 2 to raise the temperature 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Ganymede Colony — Place a city on its reserved area off Mars. 1 VP per Jovian tag you have. City tile.
	Geothermal Power — +2 energy production. Production.
	Giant Ice Asteroid — Temperature +2 steps and place 2 oceans; remove up to 6 plants from one player. Ocean tile.
	Giant Space Mirror — +3 energy production. Production.
	Grass — Needs −16 °C or warmer. +1 plant production and take 3 plants. Production.
	Great Dam — Needs 4 oceans. +2 energy production; place this tile next to an ocean. Ocean tile.
	Greenhouses — Take 1 plant per city in play, anyone’s. City tile.
	Heat Trappers — One player loses 2 heat production; you get +1 energy production. Red border.
	Heather — Needs −14 °C or warmer. +1 plant production and take 1 plant. Production.
	Herbivores — Needs 8 % oxygen. Add 1 animal here; one player loses 1 plant production. Effect: each greenery you place adds an animal here. 1 VP per 2 animals here. Effects.
	Ice Asteroid — Place 2 oceans. Ocean tile.
	Ice Cap Melting — Needs +2 °C or warmer. Place an ocean. Ocean tile.
	Immigrant City — −1 energy production, −2 M€ production; place a city. Effect: +1 M€ production whenever any city is placed, this one included. Effects.
	Immigration Shuttles — +5 M€ production. 1 VP for every 3 cities in play, anyone’s. Production.
	Import of Advanced GHG — +2 heat production. Production.
	Imported GHG — +1 heat production and take 3 heat. Production.
	Imported Hydrogen — Place an ocean; then take 3 plants, or put 3 microbes or 2 animals on another of your cards. Resources on cards.
	Imported Nitrogen — TR +1, take 4 plants, put 3 microbes on one of your other cards and 2 animals on another. Resources on cards.
	Industrial Microbes — +1 energy production and +1 steel production. Production.
	Insects — Needs 6 % oxygen. +1 plant production per plant tag you have. Production.
	Insulation — Move any number of steps (at least 1) from heat production to M€ production. Production.
	Ironworks — Action: spend 4 energy to take 1 steel and raise oxygen 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Kelp Farming — Needs 6 oceans. +2 M€ production, +3 plant production and take 2 plants. Ocean tile.
	Lake Marineris — Needs 0 °C or warmer. Place 2 oceans. Ocean tile.
	Large Convoy — Place an ocean and draw 2 cards; take 5 plants or put 4 animals on another of your cards. Resources on cards.
	Lava Flows — Temperature +2 steps; place this tile on one of the four volcanic areas. Special tiles.
	Lichen — Needs −24 °C or warmer. +1 plant production. Production.
	Livestock — Needs 9 % oxygen. −1 plant production, +2 M€ production. Action: add 1 animal here. 1 VP per animal here. Blue-card actions.
	Local Heat Trapping — Spend 5 heat to take 4 plants or put 2 animals on another of your cards. Resources on cards.
	Lunar Beam — −2 M€ production; +2 heat production and +2 energy production. Production.
	Magnetic Field Dome — −2 energy production, +1 plant production, TR +1. Production.
	Magnetic Field Generators — −4 energy production, +2 plant production, TR +3; place this tile. Special tiles.
	Mangrove — Needs +4 °C or warmer. Place a greenery on an ocean area, ignoring the normal rules, and raise oxygen. Ocean tile.
	Martian Rails — Action: spend 1 energy to take 1 M€ per city on Mars. Blue-card actions.
	Methane from Titan — Needs 2 % oxygen. +2 heat production and +2 plant production. Production.
	Micro-Mills — +1 heat production. Production.
	Mining Expedition — Oxygen +1 step; remove 2 plants from one player; take 2 steel. Red border.
	Mining Rights — Place this tile on an area with a steel or titanium bonus; +1 production of that metal. Special tiles.
	Mohole Area — +4 heat production; place this tile on an ocean area. Ocean tile.
	Moss — Needs 3 oceans; lose 1 plant. +1 plant production. Ocean tile.
	Natural Preserve — Only while oxygen is 4 % or less. Place this tile next to no other tile; +1 M€ production. Special tiles.
	Nitrite Reducing Bacteria — Put 3 microbes here. Action: add 1 microbe here, or remove 3 for +1 TR. Blue-card actions.
	Nitrogen-Rich Asteroid — TR +2 and temperature +1 step; +1 plant production, or +4 if you have 3 plant tags. Production.
	Nitrophilic Moss — Needs 3 oceans; lose 2 plants. +2 plant production. Ocean tile.
	Noctis City — −1 energy production, +3 M€ production; place a city on the Noctis City area. City tile.
	Noctis Farming — Needs −20 °C or warmer. +1 M€ production and take 2 plants. Production.
	Nuclear Power — −2 M€ production, +3 energy production. Production.
	Nuclear Zone — Place this tile; temperature +2 steps. Special tiles.
	Open City — Needs 12 % oxygen. −1 energy production, +4 M€ production, take 2 plants; place a city. City tile.
	Optimal Aerobraking — Effect: each space event you play gives you 3 M€ and 3 heat. Effects.
	Ore Processor — Action: spend 4 energy to take 1 titanium and raise oxygen 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Permafrost Extraction — Needs −8 °C or warmer. Place an ocean. Ocean tile.
	Peroxide Power — −1 M€ production, +2 energy production. Production.
	Pets — Add 1 animal here. Effect: an animal here whenever any city is placed. 1 VP per 2 animals here. Effects.
	Phobos Space Haven — +1 titanium production; place a city on its reserved area off Mars. City tile.
	Plantation — Needs 2 science tags. Place a greenery (oxygen +1). Greenery tile.
	Power Grid — +1 energy production per power tag you have, this one included. Production.
	Power Plant — +1 energy production. Production.
	Predators — Needs 11 % oxygen. Action: move 1 animal from any card to this one. 1 VP per animal here. Blue-card actions.
	Protected Valley — +2 M€ production; place a greenery on an ocean area, ignoring the normal rules (oxygen +1). Ocean tile.
	Rad-Chem Factory — −1 energy production, TR +2. Production.
	Regolith Eaters — Action: add 1 microbe here, or remove 2 to raise oxygen 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Release of Inert Gases — TR +2. Global parameters.
	Research Outpost — Place a city next to no other tile. Effect: every card you play costs 1 M€ less. Effects.
	Rover Construction — Effect: take 2 M€ whenever any city is placed. Effects.
	Search for Life — Only while oxygen is 6 % or less. Action: pay 1 M€ to reveal and discard the top card; a microbe tag adds a science resource here. 3 VP if there is at least one. Blue-card actions.
	Shuttles — Needs 5 % oxygen. −1 energy production, +2 M€ production. Effect: space cards cost you 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Small Animals — Needs 6 % oxygen. One player loses 1 plant production. Action: add 1 animal here. 1 VP per 2 animals here. Blue-card actions.
	Soil Factory — −1 energy production, +1 plant production. Production.
	Solar Power — +1 energy production. Production.
	Solar Wind Power — +1 energy production and take 2 titanium. Production.
	Soletta — +7 heat production. Production.
	Space Mirrors — Action: pay 7 M€ for +1 energy production. Blue-card actions.
	Special Design — The next card you play this generation may ignore 2 steps of a global requirement. Play a card.
	Steelworks — Action: spend 4 energy to take 2 steel and raise oxygen 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Strip Mine — −2 energy production; +2 steel production, +1 titanium production; oxygen +2 steps. Production.
	Subterranean Reservoir — Place an ocean. Ocean tile.
	Symbiotic Fungus — Needs −14 °C or warmer. Action: put 1 microbe on another of your cards. Blue-card actions.
	Tectonic Stress Power — Needs 2 science tags. +3 energy production. Production.
	Towing a Comet — Take 2 plants; oxygen +1 step and place an ocean. Ocean tile.
	Trees — Needs −4 °C or warmer. +3 plant production and take 1 plant. Production.
	Tundra Farming — Needs −6 °C or warmer. +1 plant production, +2 M€ production, take 1 plant. Production.
	Underground City — Place a city; −2 energy production, +2 steel production. City tile.
	Underground Detonations — Action: pay 10 M€ for +2 heat production. Blue-card actions.
	Urbanized Area — −1 energy production, +2 M€ production; place a city next to at least 2 other cities. City tile.
	Water Import from Europa — Action: pay 12 M€ (titanium may help) to place an ocean. 1 VP per Jovian tag you have. Blue-card actions.
	Water Splitting Plant — Needs 2 oceans. Action: spend 3 energy to raise oxygen 1 step. Blue-card actions.
	Wave Power — Needs 3 oceans. +1 energy production. Ocean tile.
	Windmills — Needs 7 % oxygen. +1 energy production. Production.
	Worms — Needs 4 % oxygen. +1 plant production per 2 microbe tags you have, this one included. Resources on cards.
	Zeppelins — Needs 5 % oxygen. +1 M€ production per city on Mars. City tile.

Corporate Era project cards

The 71 project cards with the red-and-white Corporate Era icon, used in the extended game and in solo.

Picture	Description
	AI Central — Needs 3 science tags; −1 energy production. Action: draw 2 cards. Blue-card actions.
	Acquired Company — +3 M€ production. Production.
	Advanced Alloys — Effect: your titanium and your steel are each worth 1 M€ more when you pay. Effects.
	Anti-Gravity Technology — Needs 7 science tags. Effect: every card you play costs 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Asteroid Mining Consortium — Needs titanium production. Move 1 titanium production from any player to yourself. Red border.
	Bribed Committee — TR +2. Global parameters.
	Building Industries — −1 energy production, +2 steel production. Production.
	Business Contacts — Look at the top 4 cards: keep 2 in hand, discard the other 2. Play a card.
	Business Network — −1 M€ production. Action: look at the top card and either buy it for 3 M€ or discard it. Blue-card actions.
	CEO’s Favorite Project — Add 1 resource to one of your cards that already holds at least one. Play a card.
	Callisto Penal Mines — +3 M€ production. Production.
	Caretaker Contract — Needs 0 °C or warmer. Action: spend 8 heat for +1 TR (the temperature doesn’t move). Blue-card actions.
	Cartel — +1 M€ production per Earth tag you have, this one included. Production.
	Commercial District — −1 energy production, +4 M€ production. Place this tile: 1 VP per adjacent city. City tile.
	Corporate Stronghold — −1 energy production, +3 M€ production; place a city. City tile.
	Development Center — Action: spend 1 energy to draw a card. Blue-card actions.
	Earth Catapult — Effect: every card you play costs 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Earth Office — Effect: cards with an Earth tag cost you 3 M€ less. Effects.
	Electro Catapult — Only while oxygen is 8 % or less; −1 energy production. Action: spend 1 plant or 1 steel to take 7 M€. Blue-card actions.
	Energy Tapping — Move 1 energy production from any player to yourself. Red border.
	Fuel Factory — −1 energy production; +1 titanium production and +1 M€ production. Production.
	Gene Repair — Needs 3 science tags. +2 M€ production. Production.
	Great Escarpment Consortium — Needs steel production. Move 1 steel production from any player to yourself. Red border.
	Hackers — −1 energy production; one player loses 2 M€ production and you gain 2. Red border.
	Hired Raiders — Steal up to 2 steel or up to 3 M€ from one player. Red border.
	Indentured Workers — The next card you play this generation costs 8 M€ less. Play a card.
	Industrial Center — Place this tile next to a city. Action: pay 7 M€ for +1 steel production. Blue-card actions.
	Interstellar Colony Ship — Needs 5 science tags. Its value is the VP printed on it. Play a card.
	Invention Contest — Look at the top 3 cards: keep 1 in hand, discard the other 2. Play a card.
	Inventors’ Guild — Action: look at the top card and either buy it for 3 M€ or discard it. Blue-card actions.
	Investment Loan — −1 M€ production; take 10 M€. Production.
	Io Mining Industries — +2 titanium production and +2 M€ production. 1 VP per Jovian tag you have. Production.
	Lagrange Observatory — Draw 1 card. Play a card.
	Land Claim — Put your marker on an area that isn’t reserved: only you may place a tile there. Special tiles.
	Lightning Harvest — Needs 3 science tags. +1 energy production and +1 M€ production. Production.
	Mars University — Effect: each science tag you play (this one too) lets you discard a card from hand to draw one. Effects.
	Mass Converter — Needs 5 science tags. +6 energy production. Effect: space cards cost you 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Media Archives — Take 1 M€ per event ever played by all players. Play a card.
	Media Group — Effect: take 3 M€ after you play an event. Effects.
	Medical Lab — +1 M€ production per 2 building tags you have, this one included. Production.
	Mine — +1 steel production. Production.
	Mineral Deposit — Take 5 steel. Play a card.
	Mining Area — Place this tile next to one of yours on an area with a steel or titanium bonus; +1 production of that metal. Special tiles.
	Miranda Resort — +1 M€ production per Earth tag you have. Production.
	Olympus Conference — Effect: each science tag you play (this one too) adds a science resource here, or removes one to draw a card. Effects.
	Physics Complex — Action: spend 6 energy to add a science resource here. 2 VP per science resource here. Blue-card actions.
	Power Infrastructure — Action: turn any number of energy (at least 1) into the same number of M€. Blue-card actions.
	Power Supply Consortium — Needs 2 power tags. Move 1 energy production from any player to yourself. Red border.
	Protected Habitats — Effect: opponents can’t remove your plants, animals or microbes. Effects.
	Quantum Extractor — Needs 4 science tags. +4 energy production. Effect: space cards cost you 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Rad-Suits — Needs 2 cities in play. +1 M€ production. Production.
	Research — Counts as two science tags when played. Draw 2 cards. Play a card.
	Restricted Area — Place this tile. Action: pay 2 M€ to draw a card. Blue-card actions.
	Robotic Workforce — Repeat the production box of one of your building cards. Production.
	Sabotage — Remove up to 3 titanium, 4 steel or 7 M€ from one player. Red border.
	Satellites — +1 M€ production per space tag you have, this one included. Production.
	Security Fleet — Action: spend 1 titanium to add a fighter here. 1 VP per fighter here. Blue-card actions.
	Space Elevator — +1 titanium production. Action: spend 1 steel to take 5 M€. Blue-card actions.
	Space Station — Effect: space cards cost you 2 M€ less. Effects.
	Sponsors — +2 M€ production. Production.
	Standard Technology — Effect: take 3 M€ after each standard project you pay for, except Sell patents. Effects.
	Tardigrades — Action: add 1 microbe here. 1 VP per 4 microbes here. Blue-card actions.
	Technology Demonstration — Draw 2 cards. Play a card.
	Terraforming Ganymede — TR +1 per Jovian tag you have, this one included. Global parameters.
	Titanium Mine — +1 titanium production. Production.
	Toll Station — +1 M€ production per space tag your opponents have in play. Production.
	Trans-Neptune Probe — No effect; its value is the VP printed on it. Play a card.
	Tropical Resort — −2 heat production, +3 M€ production. Production.
	Vesta Shipyard — +1 titanium production. Production.
	Viral Enhancers — Effect: each plant, microbe or animal tag you play (this one too) gives 1 plant or 1 resource on that card. Effects.
	Virus — Remove up to 2 animals or up to 5 plants from one player. Resources on cards.

Reference cards

Picture	Description
	Reference card 1 — Generation: the four phases and the seven actions. How to Play.
	Reference card 2 — Tiles: placement bonuses and the rules for ocean, greenery, city and special tiles. How to Play.
	Reference card 3 — General: TR, icons, the asterisk, the red border and production. How to Play.
	Reference card 4 — Game end and scoring. How to Play.

Tiles

Picture	Description
	Ocean tiles (9) — placed on ocean areas; +1 TR each. Ocean tile.
	Greenery tiles — part of the 60 greenery/city tiles; 1 VP each. Greenery tile.
	City tiles — part of the 60 greenery/city tiles; the white Capital tile is for the Capital card. City tile.
	Special tiles (11) — placed by specific cards. Special tiles.

Tokens & pieces

Icons

The symbols from the rulebook’s symbol pages, as used on these pages. Meanings: Resources and Cards.

Icon	Name
	Victory points
	Terraform rating (TR)
	Temperature
	Oxygen
	Ocean tile
	MegaCredits (M€)
	Steel
	Titanium
	Plants
	Energy
	Heat
	Production box
	Card
	Greenery tile
	City tile
	Special tile
	Building tag
	Space tag
	Power tag
	Science tag
	Jovian tag
	Earth tag
	Plant tag
	Microbe tag
	Animal tag
	City tag
	Event tag