In the summer of 2018 Scythe around the world were challenged to design 32 new encounter cards. The result was an outpouring of creativity and clever writing that Scythe designer Jamey Stegmaier distilled, honed, and added to. While these cards can and should be shuffled in with your other encounter cards, it's recommended that people play a few games just with this new promo deck, sight unseen.