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Blackbeard: Garnet Leader
Plunder and pressure. Strip their hand and sink their small crew.
- Color
- Garnet (Rebels, Pirates & War)
- Leader power
- 6
- Passive
Your Rebels get +1/+0.
When your Leader hits the enemy Leader, your opponent discards a random card.
- Command
- Broadside (5 crystals): Deal 2 damage to every enemy character.
- Signature cards
- Edward Teach "Blackbeard"; Bartholomew Roberts; The Queen Anne's Revenge
Game plan
Blackbeard leads the Garnet deck: plunder and pressure. His passive gives every Rebel you control +1/+0, and whenever his Leader hits the enemy Leader, your rival discards a random card. With a Leader power of 6, he can start that pressure from his second turn.
The plan is to attack early and often with Rebels, force your rival to block or lose cards, and keep their hand small so they run out of Counters and answers.
His Command, Broadside (5 crystals), deals 2 damage to every enemy character. It is your answer to a wide field of tokens or small characters, and it often opens the way for a big turn of charges right after.
His three Signature cards cost 1 less under him. Edward Teach "Blackbeard" is a 6/6 with Double Chapter whose charge makes your rival discard a random card. Bartholomew Roberts makes your rival discard when he arrives if one of your characters charged this turn, and draws you a card when he hits a Leader. The Queen Anne's Revenge equips +3/+2 and Explore, and makes your rival discard a random card if you control Blackbeard.
Play him like a raid: charge first, then add to the board. Count your rival's hand before you charge, and save Broadside for the turn it clears the most.
Strengths
- Every Rebel you control gets +1/+0.
- Each hit from his Leader on the enemy Leader makes your rival discard a random card.
- Broadside deals 2 damage to every enemy character, which clears tokens and small blockers.
Weaknesses
- Broadside costs 5 crystals, so it is a mid-game swing rather than an early answer.
- Life cards your rival loses go to their hand, so a long game can refill the hand you are emptying.
Starter deck
The Garnet Starter: 40 cards, all Garnet plus Blackbeard's Signature cards. Paste this code in the game (Decks, + New deck, Paste code):
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Show the deck list
- 2x Rebel, Two Sided Hound (1)
- 2x Charles Lee (2)
- 1x Parley (2)
- 2x Redcoats (2)
- 2x Susan B. Anthony (2)
- 1x Andrew Jackson (3)
- 1x Booker T. Washington (3)
- 1x Christopher Columbus (3)
- 1x Exploring the Land (3)
- 1x Lexington & Concord (3)
- 1x New Deal (3)
- 1x Alvin York (4)
- 2x Bartholomew Roberts (4)
- 1x Honest Abe Lincoln (4)
- 1x Spoils of War (4)
- 1x Teddy Roosevelt, Rough Rider (4)
- 1x Aaron Burr (5)
- 1x John Wilkes Booth (5)
- 1x The Flag (5)
- 2x The Queen Anne's Revenge (5)
- 1x Whiskey Rebellion (5)
- 1x Betsy Ross, American Dream (6)
- 1x Ulysses S. Grant (6)
- 1x Battle of Bunker Hill (7)
- 1x Benedict Arnold, Turncoat (7)
- 2x Edward Teach "Blackbeard" (7)
- 1x Siege of Yorktown (7)
- 1x The Boston Massacre (7)
- 1x Abrams Tank (8)
- 1x Marilyn Monroe, Infamous (8)
- 1x Battleship (9)
- 1x The American Dream (9)
The real Blackbeard
Edward Teach, known as Blackbeard, was one of the most feared pirates of the early 1700s. In May 1718 he blockaded the port of Charleston, South Carolina, with his flagship Queen Anne's Revenge and a small fleet, and released his hostages in exchange for a chest of medicine. Weeks later the Queen Anne's Revenge ran aground at Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina.
He accepted a royal pardon but returned to piracy. On November 22, 1718, he was killed at Ocracoke Inlet in a battle with sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the Royal Navy, in an expedition sent by the governor of Virginia. The wreck of his flagship was found in 1996, and divers and archaeologists have been recovering it ever since.
Sources
- Blackbeard the Pirate, NCpedia, State Library of North Carolina
- Blackbeard (aka Edward Teach), National Park Service
- Blackbeard's Shipwreck Discovered, Queen Anne's Revenge Project, North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources
In the game's story
A forty-gun ship sailed out of a rift into Errata Harbor, and the harbor master took early retirement.
Garnet cards
Blackbeard decks can use every Garnet card. Here are Blackbeard's Signature cards:
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