dub3 card · www.schlockmercenary.com
Schlock Mercenary (2000)
Space mercenaries, a shapeless blob of a sergeant, and a new strip every day for 20 years.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 1
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
Each round end: If this is your only card here, +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 2000
Howard Tayler's comic space opera about Tagon's Toughs, a for-profit mercenary company in the 31st century, and their amorphous sergeant, Schlock.
It debuted on 12 June 2000 and ran daily until it ended on 24 July 2020, earning Tayler his living and five Hugo Award nominations.
In 2000: Launched on 12 June as a daily strip, the start of 20 years without a missed day.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2000 page.
Put it on your site
Run Schlock Mercenary, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 2000. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2000, then plays a short scene. Want Schlock Mercenary in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
