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
This set had a notable number of quality issues in the first run, mainly damaged cards from the factory - scratches, dings and card clipping are common in the first run of this set. Dirt, pebbles and assorted debris were also commonly found inside the wrappers. Later print runs changed the booster pack wrapper artwork and seem to have addressed these quality issues, but the cardstock and inks used in this set are still notably inferior to other sets.
The set introduced Sea Monsters, The Cursed faction, and a new keyword - the Black Mark.
- The expansion includes cards for the following factions -
- American
- Cursed
- Pirate
- English
- French
- Spanish
- 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.
- Value Box Sets - Just as Revolution had "special edition" box-sets, WizKids returns to this feature 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 is the first set to feature 'two runs' of Value Box sets. A known packaging issue led to buyers being able to see into the box without opening it, and tell if the Super Rare pack was a part of a particular Value Box or not. This was corrected in following sets.
- 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" tournament prizes. One package of three LE ships is included in each 36-count Booster Box (apparently 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). In practice, many of these packs ended up thrown away or auctioned on eBay. Additional game packages were mailed to tournament envoys as well, but this new distribution method for tournament prize cards led to these particular cards being much harder to collect, and they still command large prices when they appear at auction.
- The Guichuan - a 10-masted ghost junk, part of a special giveaway - twelve pack wrappers, receipt from the store the packs were purchased at, and a shipping and handling fee were required for the giveaway. It also included a crew called The Headhunter, on the ship card.
[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, Slarge Gubbit, Jormungandr, and Gog-Clocthoth. Controllers decide whether the Monster is submerged (movement only), or surfaced (move or attack). Two of the monsters have breath weapons,Tiamat has rank breath that works like a firepot.Leviathan has rank breath that works like a chainshot. The others have game-changing abilities such as moving in and out of fog banks(Mist walker), and eliminating masts ,or crew in boarding actions.Behemoth can copy crew ability.While Tsuro may move an opponents ship,(Dice roll).
[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 Dutchman, Davy Jones is a separate legend, but was linked by Wizkids to the Dutchman. (This was done to tie it in with the films, The Pirates of the Caribean.) The Dutchman was either the name of the ship, or a nickname for her Captain. Depending on which myth you hear.
- The Inquisitor - (Black Mark) A mysterious figure around which many Spanish ships are linked,he can remove crew if a boarding action is won!.
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