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Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero: Gold Character

Andrew Carnegie (1835 to 1919) was a Scottish-born American industrialist who built Carnegie Steel into one of the largest steel companies in the world. He sold it in 1901 for $250 million and gave away about $350 million, including funds for more than 2,500 libraries.

Cost
6 crystals
Type
Character · Leader
Power / Health
3 / 5
Color
Gold (Inventors & Industry)
Rarity
Ultra-Rare (Legacy)
Set
Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)

On play: Build 3 Steel Golem Tokens.

Your tokens get +1/+0.

Rags-to-riches industrialist who forged America's backbone then gave away the profits.

Real history

The real history

Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. When he was 12, his family emigrated to Pennsylvania during an economic depression and settled in Allegheny, near Pittsburgh. He started work as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill, earning $1.20 a week, and studied at night school.

He then became a telegraph messenger. Colonel James Anderson opened his private library to working boys on Saturdays, and the experience left a deep mark on Carnegie. From the telegraph office he moved up in the railroad business, working for the superintendent Thomas Scott, and he made smart investments, including in a sleeping car company and a bridge company. After meeting the inventor Henry Bessemer in England in 1873, he put his money into steel.

He combined his holdings into the Carnegie Steel Company in 1899. His career has a dark chapter: the Homestead Strike of 1892, a bitter labor dispute at one of his mills near Pittsburgh between the company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers.

In 1901 Carnegie sold his company to J. P. Morgan's U.S. Steel for $250 million. In an 1889 essay called The Gospel of Wealth he had argued that rich people should give their fortunes away for the public good, and he did. He gave away about $350 million, nearly 90 percent of his fortune, and funded more than 2,500 libraries. He died in Lenox, Massachusetts, on August 11, 1919.

Sources

  1. Carnegie Libraries, The Future Made Bright, National Park Service, Teaching with Historic Places
  2. Andrew Carnegie Biography, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
  3. Andrew Carnegie, Topics in Chronicling America, Library of Congress

Checked against these sources on October 3, 2026. Spot a mistake? Report an error. How we check facts.

Game lore (invented)

In the game's story

In the game's invented story, Carnegie arrives in Marginalia and within a week finds the best iron ore in the Rimefold foothills and the Archive of Lost Histories, which moves him to tears. He offers to pay for the Archive's restoration, and the suspicious Inkbinders keep politely declining. His foundry outside Bindwell turns out the steel golems that Readers summon, the Bridgecrew call him the Iron Laird, and Captain Isguard questions him pointedly about the Homestead strike.

In Lost Chapters' frame story, history's heroes fall into an invented world called Marginalia. That story is fiction; the history on this page is real.

How the card plays

Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero costs 6 crystals and is a 3/5 Gold Leader. He is an Ultra-Rare, so he counts as a Legacy character. On play, Build 3 Steel Golem Tokens. Your tokens get +1/+0.

Carnegie is a whole board in one card: three tokens, plus a bonus that covers every token you control, not only the ones he makes. That makes every other token maker better. The Workshop, The Workshop, builds a Tinker Token at the end of each of your turns, and St. Augustine, First City, St. Augustine, builds a Steel Golem Token at the start of each of your turns. Marquis de Lafayette, Marquis de Lafayette, adds 2 more Steel Golems when he arrives. Play Carnegie early so every token you make afterward gets the bonus right away.

  • Playable in decks led by Nikola Tesla, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Gold.
  • In the Tesla starter deck (1 copy). Deck code: LC2-BV8BYAFhAWICYwFkAWUCZgFnAWgBaQFqAWsCbAFtAm4BbwFwAXEBcgFzAnQBdQF2AXcBeAJ5AnoBewF8AX0BfgF_AXiK
  • A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.

Questions about Andrew Carnegie

How many libraries did Andrew Carnegie fund?

More than 2,500 around the world. In the United States, his gifts paid for 1,679 library buildings between 1886 and 1919.

Card art

The standard version of Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero. The Full Art above is a rare version that can appear in packs.

Andrew Carnegie, Steel Hero card art from Lost Chapters (Gold, Character)

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