Cheat card

Pirates may want to Swap cards while playing Blackjack or Poker in the taverns to move the odds in their value.

These cards can be obtained several ways.

There is a man Black Mack in the Rowdy Rooster tavern in Port Royal who will give you quest to win 150 gold. Luckily, you don't have to play, until you're up 150 gold, just win 150 gold, and hopefully not lose much in the process! Return to him and he'll give you another quest to kill a skeleton. Run back over behind the town, kill any low-level skeleton you see, and return to him once more.

He'll give you a random card. You can repeat the quest and keep collecting as many cards as you like! Yes, you could potentially have all 52 cards up your sleeve at once! And you may have more than one copy of the same card.

Shane McGreevy in Port Royal's Royal Anchor bar gives out three different quests, each of whose payoff is a cheat card.

Sometimes when you kill an enemy (often an EITC, Royal Navy or Skeleton), you find "plunder" of one playing card. Normally, the tougher the enemy - the better the card. You can an Ace? Better take out an Officer or an Undead Raider.