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Cursed Pirate

Playstyle: Offensive · Complexity: 4/6 · Season 2

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Who is this character?

A cursed buccaneer: manage the doubloon clock, tax enemy CP – or deliberately flip into the stronger cursed form.

How to play Cursed Pirate

If after roll 1 5× Skull for Pirate's Touch! are reachable. Keep 5× Skull and reroll all dice not needed, aiming at Pirate's Touch! (5 dice). If fewer than 5 matching dice remain after roll 1, switch to Black Spot. Pirate's Touch! deals a documented 12 damage and applies Parlay/Parlay/Powder Keg, so the 5 committed dice stay on the table.

Mid game: Combine Light the Fuse / Walk the Plank to keep Powder Keg up consistently.

If after roll 1 4× Skull for Black Spot are reachable. Keep 4× Skull and reroll all dice not needed, aiming at Black Spot (4 dice). If fewer than 4 matching dice remain after roll 1, switch to Pirate's Touch!. Black Spot deals a documented 7 damage and bypasses the defence roll and applies Parlay/Parlay, so the 4 committed dice stay on the table.

Powder keg explodes on 1–2 in upkeep (3 undefendable) – a second keg detonates the first immediately: Light the Fuse twice in a row is real burst.

Shiver Me Timbers removes any number of your own doubloons – your escape hatch when you do NOT want the flip.

Ignoring the clock and flipping unplanned on turn 4 – the 4-per-upkeep drain eats you alive without a lead.

Burning Black Spot as a pure damage turn while the opponent is not preparing anything dangerous.

Strengths

  • Lots of undefendable damage: Black Spot 7, Shiver Me Timbers 7, X Marks the Spot 2 per cutlass
  • Parlay stops all attack damage of one enemy turn
  • Cursed doubloons tick 1 damage per token in the enemy upkeep
  • The cursed form hits harder (5/7/9) and punishes non-attacks with powder kegs

Weaknesses

  • The doubloon clock runs: without restock you flip irreversibly after 3 turns
  • The cursed form costs 4 unpreventable damage per upkeep

Key attacks

  • Cutlass Strike
    Standard route

    Reliable damage route for turns without special setup.

    Take it as soon as 3× 🗡 Cutlass is mostly on the table after roll 1 (98% across all three rolls): safe damage beats rerolling working dice for a harder route.

    3× 🗡 Cutlass · 5 damage · powder keg

  • X Marks the Spot
    Standard route

    Reliable damage route for turns without special setup.

    Take it as soon as 3× 📦 Booty is mostly on the table after roll 1 (84% across all three rolls): safe damage beats rerolling working dice for a harder route.

    3× 📦 Booty · 2 per 🗡 Cutlass (roll 3 dice)

  • Walk the Plank
    Standard route

    Reliable damage route for turns without special setup.

    Take it as soon as 1× 🗡 Cutlass + 2× 📦 Booty + 1× 💀 Skull is mostly on the table after roll 1 (72% across all three rolls): safe damage beats rerolling working dice for a harder route.

    1× 🗡 Cutlass + 2× 📦 Booty + 1× 💀 Skull · 7 damage

  • Light the Fuse
    Control

    Control route: damage plus an effect against the opponent's next turn.

    Worth it when the opponent is hunting their strong route next turn (59% across all three rolls): the effect beats a few extra damage points there.

    Small straight (4 in a row) · 7 damage · powder keg

  • Black Spot
    Control

    Control route: damage plus an effect against the opponent's next turn.

    Worth it when the opponent is hunting their strong route next turn (10% across all three rolls): the effect beats a few extra damage points there.

    4× 💀 Skull · 7 damage · parlay

  • Shiver Me Timbers
    Burst

    High single-turn damage that locks several dice.

    Only go for it when at most one symbol of 1× 🗡 Cutlass + 3× 💀 Skull is missing after roll 1 (24% across all three rolls); otherwise you give up an already safe route.

    1× 🗡 Cutlass + 3× 💀 Skull · 7 damage

  • Pirate's Touch!
    Finisher

    Ultimate: the board's highest damage value with the hardest requirement.

    Do not force 5× 💀 Skull (1% across all three rolls): only when the requirement is reachable after roll 1 is giving up the safe route worth it.

    5× 💀 Skull · 12 damage · parlay, powder keg

Key statuses & resources

  • Powder Keg: negative, triggered by Cutlass Strike (conditionally), Light the Fuse and Pirate's Touch!.
  • Parlay: negative, triggered by Black Spot and Pirate's Touch!.
  • Cursed Doubloon and Wither: negative; per the setup notes the Cursed Pirate starts with 3 Cursed Doubloons.
  • Cursed Doubloons: X Marks the Spot per skull, Black Spot +1, Ahoy Matey (2 cutlasses + skull), ultimate +2.
  • Cursed Doubloons: Decide early: refill the clock and stay human OR let it run out and race in the stronger form from mid-game.

Abilities & board

Health: 50 · Starting CP: 2

Dice symbols

🗡 Cutlass · 3/6 (faces 1, 2, 3)📦 Booty · 2/6 (faces 4, 5)💀 Skull · 1/6 (faces 6)

Level I abilities

  • Cutlass Strike
    Normal
    Dice requirement:
    3× 🗡 Cutlass
    Damage/healing:
    5 damage
    Key effects:
    powder keg
  • X Marks the Spot
    Undefendable
    Dice requirement:
    3× 📦 Booty
    Damage/healing:
    2 per 🗡 Cutlass (roll 3 dice)
  • Walk the Plank
    Normal
    Dice requirement:
    1× 🗡 Cutlass + 2× 📦 Booty + 1× 💀 Skull
    Damage/healing:
    7 damage
  • Light the Fuse
    Normal
    Dice requirement:
    Small straight (4 in a row)
    Damage/healing:
    7 damage
    Key effects:
    powder keg
  • Black Spot
    Undefendable
    Dice requirement:
    4× 💀 Skull
    Damage/healing:
    7 damage
    Key effects:
    parlay
  • Shiver Me Timbers
    Undefendable
    Dice requirement:
    1× 🗡 Cutlass + 3× 💀 Skull
    Damage/healing:
    7 damage

Ultimate

  • Pirate's Touch!
    Ultimate
    Dice requirement:
    5× 💀 Skull
    Damage/healing:
    12 damage
    Key effects:
    parlay, powder keg

Defense

Ahoy Matey The defense roll is made whenever you are attacked. It does not prevent damage directly. Ahoy Matey: no blanket prevention; Cutlass creates retaliation, Booty refills Cursed Doubloons, and Skull remains a separate other-defense effect.

Special mechanics

  • Human Form
    Board mechanic
    Human Form uses the Cutlass/Booty/Skull dice, builds Cursed Doubloons, and controls the timing of the form change.
  • Cursed Form
    Board mechanic
    Cursed Form is the second board with its own statline: stronger 5/7/9 attack tiers, Wither as defensive weakening, and Powder Keg pressure when the opponent does not attack. The complete form statline is not separately itemised in the generated dataset.
  • Doubloon transformation
    Token mechanic
    The own Doubloon clock starts at 3, falls at the end of the own turn, and permanently transforms at 0 into Cursed Form; Shiver Me Timbers can prevent the change while Doubloons can be removed. · Maximum: 5

Resources

  • Cursed DoubloonsOn you: a countdown (start 3, max 5) – you remove one at turn end; with none left you flip permanently. On opponents: 1 damage per token per upkeep, only you can remove them. · X Marks the Spot per skull, Black Spot +1, Ahoy Matey (2 cutlasses + skull), ultimate +2. · Decide early: refill the clock and stay human OR let it run out and race in the stronger form from mid-game.

Upgrades & cards

What changes?

  • Cutlass Strike
    Level II
    • Damage: 6 damage instead of 5 damage
    • Dice requirement: 4× 🗡 Cutlass instead of 3× 🗡 Cutlass
  • Cutlass Strike
    Level III
    • Damage: 7 damage instead of 5 damage
    • Dice requirement: 5× 🗡 Cutlass instead of 3× 🗡 Cutlass
  • Light the Fuse
    Level II
    • Damage: 9 damage instead of 7 damage
    • Dice requirement: Large straight (5 in a row) instead of Small straight (4 in a row)

Hero-specific cards

Not sufficiently verified

Works well with

  • Seraph

    Seraph adds the healing that Cursed Pirate lacks.

  • Tactician

    Tactician takes over support and fills the open team role.

  • Shadow Thief

    Shadow Thief adds the attack avoidance that Cursed Pirate lacks.

Good matchups

  • Gunslinger

    Cursed Pirate keeps Gunslinger tied up with Cursed Doubloon and Powder Keg, and Gunslinger already needs tight rolls.

  • Loki

    Cursed Pirate keeps Loki tied up with Cursed Doubloon and Powder Keg, many of Loki's effects get cancelled that way.

  • Psylocke

    Cursed Pirate keeps Psylocke tied up with Cursed Doubloon and Powder Keg, and Psylocke already needs tight rolls.

Tough matchups

  • Druid

    Druid pushes damage through that Cursed Pirate barely stops with Ahoy Matey.

  • Huntress

    Huntress keeps Cursed Pirate tied up with Bleed, and Cursed Pirate already needs tight rolls.

  • Forgemaster

    Forgemaster keeps Cursed Pirate tied up with attack denial, and Cursed Pirate already needs tight rolls.

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