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5,555 pirate cards. 20 tiers. A real game you can play.
Beyond the harbour of Apepixel City the ink runs into the sea, and the sea does not stay still. When the old press ran out of paper, it started printing on whatever the tide brought in: sailcloth, maps, the backs of wanted posters. That is how the Inkbit Tides were born.
Every sheet that came out was a card: a crew member with a cost, a power and a trick up their sleeve. Sailors started trading them in the harbour taverns, then playing with them.
Eight crews sail the Ink Sea: the Ink Tide Pirates, the Crimson Gull Crew, the Iron Anchor Fleet, the Moonfin Raiders, the Sunken Bell Crew, the Storm Kraken Fleet, the Navy of the Capital, and the Free Sailors who belong to no flag at all.
Captains, first mates, swordsmen, gunners, navigators, cooks, doctors, shipwrights, musicians, brawlers, snipers and lookouts: 444 of them, printed in twenty tiers of rarity and six elements, Flame, Tide, Gale, Stone, Bolt and Shadow. The top five tiers are printed in shimmering foil. Only one card of the very top tier exists: the Sovereign, whose crown is said to calm a storm.
They play. Every card has Cost, Power, Counter and Abilities, and the full rules of the Inkbit Tides card game are printed right here on Inkbit News. Build a 40-card deck around one Captain and sail.
Pick one Captain and a 40-card deck from the Captain's Element plus one more.
Each turn: draw a card, take 2 Ink, pay Ink to put crew on the field.
Attack with higher or equal Power. Hit the enemy Captain when their Life is gone and you win.
Both of last night's openings sold out. All 5,555 Inkbit Tides cards have left the harbour for 547 households, and all 2,999 Inkbit Shinobi have been registered in the Ink Village by 584 households.
Both collections now trade at about $0.03. Card players are already comparing pulls, and somewhere out there is a single Sovereign. Prices are as shown on OpenSea; this is a newspaper, not financial advice.
The harbour taverns are clearing their tables. Tonight at 21:00 the first Inkbit Tides packs go on sale: 5,555 pirate cards from 444 designs in twenty tiers, and every pack is free, ten per wallet.
The packs are only on the docks for four hours, until 01:00. Somewhere inside are 55 animated foil cards and a single Sovereign. Cards are revealed right after the mint, and the full game rules are already printed on Inkbit News. The Ink Village opens its gate the same night at 20:36.
Sailors in the harbour of Apepixel City have been trading strange cards printed on sailcloth. They call them the Inkbit Tides: 5,555 pirate cards from 444 designs, in twenty tiers, with one Sovereign card at the very top.
Unlike anything the old press has printed before, these cards come with a game. Inkbit News has printed the full rules, from building a 40-card deck around your Captain to the twelve ability keywords. The mint date will be announced here first.
