You know, a lot of the clones have taken up playing the trading card game, Card Commander. If you'd like to give it a shot, I'm sure we'll be able to find you a match! What do you say, boss?
—Cards, to a prospective Card Commander player
Cards was the nickname of an Advanced Recon Commando who served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars.
Biography[]
Jedi Temple[]
A clone of the Mandalorian bounty hunter Jango Fett, Cards was an Advanced Recon Commando who served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. While positioned at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Cards was in charge of tournaments of the card game, "Card Commander", which was popular among clone troopers during the war.
Defense of Kamino[]
Later in the war Cards was on Kamino when the Separatists attacked the planet. Cards along with CC-2009 was fighting battle droids with Cody, Fives, Echo and Rex. When a battle droid squad led by General Grievous broke into the facility, Rex, Cards, Typhuss, Cody, Echo, and Fives immediately gunned down the initial forces at the entrance. They were unable to drive back all of the droids, however, and the clones were forced to retreat into the barracks, stampeding back along the main corridor with the battle droids in close pursuit. Rex, Cards, Typhuss, Cody, Fives, and Echo quickly took up cover positions behind several crates to return the approaching droids fire. As the droids pushed Echo, Cards, Fives, Typhuss and Cody back toward Rex's position, 99 tossed Rex a thermal detonator, which the captain launched at the approaching B1 battle droids. He missed, however, hitting an adjacent crate instead. Just after the droids had passed the cadets' hiding places, Rex radioed the young trainees to open fire on the droids, which they did to great effect. While the clones continued to gun down the surrounded droids, Cody used up the last of the thermal detonators. Although 99 opted to get more explosives from the armory, his decision to forsake his cover in spite of Rex's and the others' shouted warnings cost him his life, as he fell to droid fire. Cody shortly thereafter received word from Ti that the droids had been pushed back to the Military Complex's main hangar, and the Republic forces were eventually able to defeat the remainder of the droids, forcing Grievous and Ventress to retreat. However, the damage had been done, and Rex, Cards, Ben, Typhuss, Cody, Fives, and Echo all lamented the loss of 99, whom they believed, despite the challenges of his natural malformations, had been a true soldier.
Equipment[]
Cards wore modified Phase II clone trooper armor of the ARC trooper variant, which included addition chest armor, a pauldron with extra ammunition pouch, and a leather kama, all painted in the color black. Cards' helmet featured an advanced heads-up display, and side-mounted rangefinder.