Character Spotlight: Black Knight
The steadfast bearer of the Ebony Blade — The Black Knight — Forges his way into MARVEL SNAP!
Burdened by a heavy past and wielding the Ebony Blade, Dane Whitman forges a new legacy as the Black Knight…
After you discard a card, add the Ebony Blade to your hand with that card’s Power. (once per game)
Dane Whitman grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts as a brilliant scientist with a Master’s degree in physics. He took an oath to continue his lineage as a Black Knight and uphold the legacy of his super-criminal uncle Nathan Garrett, AKA Black Knight. In his uncle’s dying breath, he urged Dane to redeem the family name and the Black Knight guise by using it in the service of justice. Dane devoted himself to mastering his late uncle’s weapons and technology, creating a winged horse he named Aragorn.
Highly intelligent, Dane is a trained unarmed combatant, superb swordsman and expert horseman. Though specializing in physics, he is proficient in a wide array of advanced sciences and technologies, including genetic and mechanical engineering. He has strong strategic and tactical skills.
Dane wields the Ebony Blade — An indestructible, enchanted sword that cuts through any substance. It can also deflect, disrupt, absorb or penetrate energy fields and energy beams, including mystical energies; however, long-term use of the Blade can have negative mental or physical effects, especially if the Blade is used to shed blood or kill, in which case the blade usually compels its user to seek more bloodshed.
Long-term wielders of the blade develop a mystical connection with it, and under certain conditions can transport themselves through space and even time to the Blade’s location if they have been separated from it. The spirits of people slain by the Blade are sometimes trapped within an astral realm linked to the sword. The Blade is said to render its wielder unkillable, though its sister weapon, the Ebony Dagger, can overcome this mystical protection.
The extraordinary powers of the Black Knight and his mystical Ebony Blade are represented in MARVEL SNAP by his effect:
After you discard a card, add the Ebony Blade to your hand with that card’s Power. (once per game)
The Ebony Blade loves to absorb the spirits of your discarded cards and has the potential to become a very powerful 4-cost play!
Similar to Ghost Rider, who returns your discarded cards to play, Black Knight’s Ebony Blade can absorb the power of massive characters like Giganto or Infinaut! The Ebony Blade also serves as a good option for Dracula to discard at the end of the game.
Black Knight synergizes especially well with Hela and Ghost Rider, effectively doubling up on the power of the cards you discarded, which Ebony Blade absorbed the value of.
