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Henry Ford, Vehicle Visionary: Gold Character

Henry Ford (1863 to 1947) was an American industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company in 1903. His Model T, introduced in 1908, and the moving assembly line he began using in 1913 made cars affordable for millions of people. He also used his own newspaper to spread antisemitic propaganda in the 1920s.

Cost: 5 crystals
Type: Character · Founder
Power / Health: 4 / 5
Color: Gold (Inventors & Industry)
Rarity: Legendary (Legacy)
Set: Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)

On play: Build 1 Tinker Token. Enemy characters get -1/-1 this turn.

Assembly-line architect who put America on wheels and workers on timecards.

Real history

The real history

Ford was born on July 30, 1863, on his family's farm in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. He became a skilled machinist and in 1893 was promoted to chief engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company in Detroit. On June 16, 1903, he founded the Ford Motor Company.

The Model T went into production in 1908 at Ford's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. In 1910 the company opened a much bigger factory in Highland Park, Michigan, designed by architect Albert Kahn. There, in 1913, Ford began using a moving assembly line to build whole cars, bringing the work to the workers. In 1914 he started paying a $5 wage for an eight-hour day, far more than most factory jobs paid. By 1927, when the 15 millionth Model T rolled off the line, cars had become an ordinary part of American life.

Ford also had a dark side. In 1918 he bought a weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. From May 1920 to January 1922 it ran a series of antisemitic articles called "The International Jew," drawn largely from a forged text. Ford dealers were told to hand out copies, and the articles were collected into books and translated into many languages. In 1927 Ford signed a public apology, but the books kept circulating, and leaders of Nazi Germany praised him.

Ford died on April 7, 1947.

Sources

Ford, Henry, Encyclopedia of Detroit, Detroit Historical Society
Ford Highland Park Plant, Encyclopedia of Detroit, Detroit Historical Society
Antisemitism and Henry Ford's The International Jew, Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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How the card plays

Ford costs 5 crystals and is a 4/5 Legendary Founder with the Legacy tag. When he arrives, Build 1 Tinker Token, and every enemy character gets -1/-1 until the end of the turn.

That shrink is his real power. Enemy characters with 1 health are destroyed, which clears out rival tokens and small early plays, and everything else hits softer while you charge that turn. Play him on a turn when you already have characters ready to charge.

Washington, Nation Builder gains +0/+2 for each other Founder, and Ford counts. Cornelius Vanderbilt adds +1/+1 to your other characters when it charges, so the two together swing combat hard. With Nikola Tesla, Father of Electricity on your field, Ford gets +1/+1 as a Legacy character.

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 Henry Ford

Did Henry Ford invent the assembly line?

No, but he is credited with bringing the moving assembly line to car making. Ford began using one to assemble whole automobiles at his Highland Park plant in 1913.

What was Henry Ford's $5 day?

In 1914 Ford began paying workers $5 a day for an eight-hour shift, a famous jump in factory pay that helped him keep workers on his demanding assembly lines.

Card art

The standard version of Henry Ford, Vehicle Visionary. The Full Art above is a rare version that can appear in packs.

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