Yehuda Berlinger
Israel
Raanana
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Flares turned CE from a great game into the best game ever. The flares wer so much fun, that the complaints about every other version of CE was that the flares were not as good as Eon's. This expansion commands the most money on eBay.
Flares are play as many times as you like, once per challenege, until you discard your hand. Some were very powerful (Sorcerer: swap planet hexes with opponent), some weaker, and one a nightmare (Filch: you can cheat when other players aren't watching).
Mayfair's famous change to make flares one-shot is the biggest complaint about their otherwise excellent and comprehansive reprinting.
Expansion 8 saw the remaining flares printed for powers in sets 5-9.
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Yehuda Berlinger
Israel
Raanana
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Re:User Review
Shade_Jon (#68831),
Let me just add the rules: there is one flare corresponding to each power, e.g. a Filch power has a corresponding Filch flare. The matching flares of chosen power went into the main deck, as well as some more random flares (not the whole deck, "Cosmos forbid").
Each flare has two texts: Wild and Super. Whenever you had a flare for which you did not have the corresponding power, you read and applied the "Wild" part of the flare. The wild part was often something that was a lesser version of the actual power, or countered the power to some extent. If you also had the power of the flare, you used the "Super" part of the card. The super part augmented the power, usually to an extent that you needed to be stopped pretty soon. The more powerful the actual power, the less powerful the super flare.
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Gary McCammon
United States
Columbia
South Carolina
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"Cosmos Forbid"??
I used to play games with the ENTIRE flare set and three or four powers per player... with VERY liberal interpretations of the rules (one person used the Wild Filch to win by stealing the entire game).
What can I say? We were young and insane... 
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Yehuda Berlinger
Israel
Raanana
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I think "Cosmos forbid" is an actual quote from the rules regarding including all the flares in the deck.
Yehuda
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