Lost Chapters
Martin Luther King Jr.: Cobalt Character
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 to 1968) was a Baptist minister who became the best-known leader of the American civil rights movement. He led nonviolent campaigns from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Selma voting rights march, won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.
- Cost
- 7 crystals
- Type
- Character · Leader
- Power / Health
- 4 / 7
- Color
- Cobalt (Thinkers & Dreamers)
- Rarity
- Legendary (Legacy)
- Set
- Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)
- Keywords
- Protest
Eloquent dreamer whose powerful oratory and nonviolent resistance transformed moral conscience into legislative change.
The real history
King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, into a family of Baptist pastors. He studied at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary and Boston University, and in 1954 he became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
In December 1955, after Rosa Parks was arrested for keeping her bus seat, Montgomery's Black community launched a boycott of the city buses and chose King to lead it. The boycott lasted 382 days and ended after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled bus segregation unconstitutional. King was arrested and his home was bombed, but he came out of it a national leader.
In 1957 he was elected president of the new Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In the spring of 1963 he led a massive protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, and wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail. On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people joined the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he gave his most famous speech.
In 1964, at age 35, King received the Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest man to win it up to that time. In March 1965 he led thousands of marchers on a five-day, 54-mile walk from Selma to the Alabama capitol in Montgomery to demand voting rights. That August, with King present, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
On April 4, 1968, King was in Memphis, Tennessee, to support striking sanitation workers. That evening, while he stood on the balcony of his motel room, he was shot and killed. He was 39 years old.
Sources
- Martin Luther King Jr., Biographical, The Nobel Prize (Nobel Prize Outreach)
- Selma to Montgomery March, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
In the game's story
In the game's invented story, King picks up a glowing violet stone in his hotel room the night before the March on Washington and arrives in the royal garden of Spinehold, where he walks and talks with Queen Clarise for two hours. He travels the frightened realm listening to people on every side, then stands beside the Reader against the Echo of the Dreamer, a hollow voice that wants every other voice to become its own. He stays a while to lead the thinkers and dreamers of Cobalt, knowing he will return to the very moment he left.
How the card plays
Martin Luther King Jr. costs 7 crystals and is a 4/7 Legendary Cobalt character, so he counts as a Legacy card. He has Protest: your rival can't choose him as the target of a charge, though he can still block. While he is on the field, your other characters get +0/+2. When he enters play, Recover 1, so the top card of your deck goes into your Life, up to 5.
This is the character card, separate from the Dr. King Leader, and it works in decks led by Dr. King or Neil Armstrong. Play him once you have a few characters out, so the health boost matters right away.
Malcolm X Malcolm X gets +1/+1 and Protest while you control him. Rosa Parks Rosa Parks becomes a 1/6 Guard blocker under his aura.
- Playable in decks led by Martin Luther King Jr., Neil Armstrong, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Cobalt.
- In the Dr. King starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-BAABAQICAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAQkCCgILAQwBDQIOAg8BEAIRARICEwIUAhUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAEdAR4B3v4 - In the Armstrong starter deck (1 copy). Deck code:
LC2-AQABAQECAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAgkCCgILAQwBDQIOAQ8BEAERARICEwIUARUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAIdAR4BfQK1eQ - Works with Malcolm X.
- A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.
Questions about Dr. King
How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he won the Nobel Peace Prize?
He was 35 when he received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. When he learned he had been chosen, he announced he would give the prize money, $54,123, to the civil rights movement.
What happened at Selma?
On March 7, 1965, state troopers attacked voting rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, a day that became known as Bloody Sunday. King called on religious leaders nationwide to join the cause, and a federally protected march from Selma reached Montgomery on March 25.
Card art
The standard version of Martin Luther King Jr.. The Full Art above is a rare version that can appear in packs.
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