Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse
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Pirates of Davy Jones' Curse is an expansion set for the constructible strategy game Pirates of the Spanish Main produced by WizKids. It expanded on The Cursed Faction and was released on May 31, 2006.
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[edit] Set Details
The set introduced Sea Monsters, The Cursed faction, and a new keyword - the Black Mark.
- The expansion includes cards for the following factions -
- America
- the Cursed
- Pirate
- England
- France
- Spain
- The die color in this set is red (d6).
- The Black Mark - This crew may start as if it belonged to the Cursed faction, play it face up if so. The ship that the crew is part of is now considered to belong to the Cursed Nation. If played face up in this way, the crew's point cost is increased by 1.
- The super rare cards - Mist Walker, Behemoth, Screaming Mimi and The Red Skull - are found in a single "Super Rare Pack" which is indistinguishable from a normal card pack. These packs appear approximately 1 per every 2 display boxes. In a first for this game line these cards are printed on a semi-translucent plastic stock, giving them a 'ghostly' appearance.
- Box Sets - Just as Revolution had "special edition" box-sets, WizKids returns to this product in Davy Jones' Curse. One of four special edition ships are pre-assembled in the window area of the box. The four ships are: The Boneyard, Electric Eel, Drowned Man, and Fool's Gold. Each box contains 6 ships and/or sea monsters, 3 crew and/or treasure, as well as 2 islands, and 1 full size (d6) die. A further four "special edition" boxes with new ships - The Black Diamond, Broken Key, Nightmare and HMS Richard - was released in October 2006.
- This set consists of 144 pieces in it base set, with an additional 18 Limited Edition Ships given as Tournament Prizes, and one convention exclusive ship for a grand total of 160 cards (Not including the different versions of islands).Game pieces are numbered 001-145, 200-217 and 300.
- 18 Limited Edition one or two masted ships are available as "Approved Play" prizes. One package of three LE ships is included in each Hobby Box with the idea that the game store will remove the package before selling the box or packs and give the LE ships to winning tournament players. Additional game packages were mailed to tournament envoys as well.
- The Guichuan - a 10-masted ghost junk, part of a special giveaway - twelve booster pack wrappers, a receipt from a 'brick and mortar ' store, and a small fee were required for the giveaway. The ship also included a crew called The Headhunter.
[edit] Sea Monsters
Ten pieces in the set are sea monsters (8 are rare, 2* are super rare), Leviathan, Calim, Calypsos, Mist Walker*, Behemoth*, Tiamat, Tsuro, Slarg Gubbit, Jormungandr, and Gog-Clocthoth. Controllers decide weather the Monster is submerged (movement only), or surfaced (move and attack). Two of the monsters have breath weapons, the others have game-changing abilities such as moving in and out of fog banks, and eliminating masts or crew in boarding actions.
[edit] Notable Ships
- The Flying Dutchman - A famous ghost ship.
- Harbinger - A ship captained by the pirate Jack Hawkins that can board other ships without having to ram them if the ship is in short distance away from her.
- The Pequod - Famous ship from the novel Moby Dick.
- El Raton - an error in printing shows this ship as a common (red color corner) card, it is actually a rare as shown on both the checklist and the WizKids card gallery.
[edit] Notable Crew
- Davy Jones - The Cursed captain of the Flying Dutchmen.
- The Inquisitor - (Black Mark) A mysterious figure around which many ships are centered.
