Deck ID: 13940
Author: Ryan "Cradossk" Mathison
Title: Deceitful Duel Ver 2 0
Side: Dark
Date Published: 2001-02-22
Description:
A non-epic duel, that is what this deck is all about - it truely is a game breaker. Take a look
Rating:
4.5
Cards:
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Starting (8)
Set your course
Alderaan
Death Star
Death star Dock bay
Prep defenses
Secret plans
Battle order
Mob points
Locations (5)
Rendili
Kashyyk
Ds war room
Cantina
Judland wastes
Starships (5)
Executor
Zuckuss in MH
Dengar in push 1
Bossk in bus
Chimera
Weapons (3)
Jade’s saber
Darth vader’s saber x2
Effects(5)
Lateral damage
Search and destroy
There’ll be hell to pay
First strike
Reactor terminal
Interrupts(24)
Vader’s obsession x2
Masterful move x2
Weapon lev x2
Elis helrot x2
Imperial barrier x2
Focused attack x2
Counter assault x2
Alter/collateral damage x3
Sense/uncertain is the future x4
Evader/monnok
You are beaten
Ghhk/those rebels won’t escape us
Characters (10)
Emperor x2
Lord vader x2
Mara jade x2
Sim aloo
Janus greejatus
4-lom w/gun
GM Tarkin '
Strategy: '
OK onto the strat section, well I really love hunt down but sometimes visage hurts me more then the opponent. I also wanted a lot of activation - And Sycfa provides all of this. A guaranteed 9 force second turn and if I get the emperor in my opening hand- tack an extra 3 force onto that. So I decided to go with the non-epic duel, if you set this up properly, it can be a 12-17 force swing (the opponent loses 17force and you retrieve 17) so you basically want to set up early, get the emperor and his buddies at the DS docking bay and start to fortify in space - you can then drop Mara with stick at a ground site and bait the opponent. With the reactor terminal and janus you can very easily stack 3 sixes - inniate Vaders obsession and throw his light saber each 6 becomes a 7 - make sure and use sims game text to look at the top card of the LS reserve deck. Often I will lose the grimtaash, to view the opponents hand and make sure he has no duel protection. If the opponent doesnt bite, or he doesnt have a Luke in his deck - just start battling or draining at the cantina and judland. - Now onto some card selection.
Elis helrot - In order to inniate the vaders obsession, you have to move to lukes site - so if your opponent has insurrection out, play elis during your move phase and then start the duel. Also great if they dont play Insurrection
Counter assualt - This is a bit of anti-wys and anti-ebo swarm --- you can set up all of your high destinies, and then play your interrupts (very effective against an X-wing swarm) - also just a nice Jank card to fool with the opponent.
Weapon lev - get Lukes stick, thats about all.
Janus and sim - they are gods in this deck, sim and his viewing, Janus and his stacking - crazyyyyy
Sense/ Alter ---- stop you opponents stupid interrupts / basically save it and cancel their duel protection.
Now I will go onto deck matchups - I dont really like doing this because each Meta is sooooo different, but here goes.
EBO- save your space for a beat down - use your lat damage/ sense their dumb interrupts and set up for a mad counter assault. Can be a difficult match up.
Agents - most agents dont play insurrection, so you can have your way with Elis helrot - counter assault is cool against swarms - just use your big hitters - maybe keep the emp and his crew in the cantina. Easy match up
WYS - one of the tougher matchups, try and keep them from flipping - bait the opponent into playing their interrupts from the lost pile, and duel Luke - this can be a game breaker - I recently read a review in which a guy said " if vader s close enough to get Luke, I wont be dumb enough to use a interrupt from the lost pile" easier said then done - I played a game recently in which I sacrificed Mara, 4-lom and sim in a fight with Luke - my opponent played a interrupt from lost pile - I ghhhked, and then walked over, dueled and retrieved 12 force - so dont be afraid to lose some cards, you will get them back when you duel.
MWYHL - set up fast and get S&D going.
TIGIH - toughest match up - if played properly, you can win - the only problem with this match up, is Luke is out of the game - you cant duel, so you will have to use your other resources.
And there you have it - my Deck, extremely fun to play - used to be great when profit was big, Luke was usually out first turn and was the wimpy Master Luke -- --- The power of this deck is the fact you can be losing and turn the game around - no problem, with a nicely timed fight - props goes to Nick burke, who help me develop the first version. Any questions drop me a d-mail - I will gladly reply '
