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Amelia, Test Pilot: Emerald Character

Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas, in 1897 and did not fly until she was 23. After working as a nurse's aide in Toronto during World War I, she took her first airplane ride in December 1920, began lessons with pilot Neta Snook in January 1921, and in 1922 flew her own small yellow biplane, the Canary, to a women's altitude record of 14,000 feet.

Cost
2 crystals
Type
Character · Free Spirit
Power / Health
2 / 2
Color
Emerald (Frontier & Explorers)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
Keywords
Explore

Explore

Courageous aviator in skirt form, proving new aircraft designs might fly if you're brave enough not to calculate the odds.

Real history

The real history

Amelia Mary Earhart was born on July 24, 1897, in Atchison, Kansas, to Amy Otis Earhart and Edwin Stanton Earhart. Her family moved often, living in Kansas City, Des Moines, St. Paul and Chicago, and she graduated from Chicago's Hyde Park High School in 1915.

During World War I she left the Ogontz School near Philadelphia and went to Toronto, where she became a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse's aide at the Spadina Military Convalescent Hospital. Caring for wounded soldiers, she heard pilots' stories and attended her first flying exhibition. After the war she started pre-medical studies at Columbia University but left in 1920.

That December, in California, she paid $10 for a short ride with the air racer Frank Hawks. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, she later said that by the time the plane was a few hundred feet up, she knew she had to fly. To pay for lessons she worked as a photographer, a truck driver and a stenographer for a telephone company. In January 1921 she began training with Anita "Neta" Snook, one of the few women flight instructors of the day, and she soon made her first solo flight.

She also bought her first airplane, a bright yellow Kinner Airster biplane she nicknamed the Canary. In 1922 she climbed it to 14,000 feet, an unofficial women's altitude record and the first of her many aviation records. In May 1923 she earned her pilot's license from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, only the 16th woman to receive one. The ocean flights that made her famous were still years ahead.

Sources

  1. Amelia Earhart Biographical Sketch, Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
  2. Amelia Earhart, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
  3. A Pilot of Many Firsts: Amelia Earhart's Enduring Legacy, Federal Aviation Administration

Checked against these sources on October 2, 2026. Spot a mistake? Report an error. How we check facts.

How the card plays

Amelia, Test Pilot costs 2 crystals and is a 2/2 Rare Emerald Free Spirit with Explore. That is the whole card: a cheap character that only Explore characters can block, so she can start taking Life cards early.

She is a Free Spirit, not an Adventurer or a Pilot, so Earhart's Leader passive and the cards that boost Adventurers don't affect her. She doesn't need them, because she has Explore on her own. That makes her a simple two-cost play in any deck that can use Emerald cards.

Up a River gives her +1/+0 as a character with Explore. Daniel Boone is another two-cost explorer, and he gets +1/+1 if you play him after she charges. Hound Treats gives her +2/+2 so she survives a trade.

  • Playable in decks led by Amelia Earhart, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Emerald.
  • In the Earhart starter deck (2 copies). Deck code: LC2-Ax8CIAEhASIBIwIkAiUBJgEnASgCKQEqAisBLAEtAS4BLwEwATEBMgEzATQBNQE2ATcBOAE5AToBOwE8AT0BZQJ0Anuc
  • A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.

Questions about Amelia

Who taught Amelia Earhart to fly?

Her first instructor was Anita Snook, known as Neta, one of the few women teaching flying at the time. Earhart started lessons with her in January 1921.

Was Amelia Earhart a test pilot?

Not as a job title. The card's name nods to her appetite for new machines and records: besides her altitude record in the Canary, she later became the first woman to fly an autogiro, an early kind of rotorcraft.

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