Deck ID: 15606

Author: Ryan "nameless" Bank

Title: Ninja-MWYHL

Side: Light

Date Published: 2001-04-27

Description:
A heavy-retrieval MWYHL with big Jedi after the flip.

Rating:
4.0

Cards:

'Mind What You Have Learned/Save You It Can

Dagobah

Heading for the Medical Frigate

The Way of Things

Wise Advice

Draw Their Fire


Jedi Tests (5)

A Jedi’s Strength

Domain Of Evil

Great Warrior

It Is The Future You See

Size Matters Not


Starships (7)

2 Artoo-Detoo In Red 5

2 Gold Leader In Gold 1

Gold Squadron 1

2 Red Leader In Red 1


Characters (13)

Chewbacca, Protector

Corran Horn

2 Daughter Of Skywalker

General Calrissian

2 Han With Heavy Blaster Pistol

2 Luke With Lightsaber

2 Obi-Wan With Lightsaber

Tawss Khaa

Yoda


Weapons (1)

X-wing Laser Cannon


Devices (3)

Bionic Hand

Electrobinoculars

Mercenary Armor


Effects (13)

Aim High

Battle Plan

Disarmed

2 Frozen Assets

Honor Of The Jedi

Ounee Ta

Reflection

Traffic Control

Yoda’s Hope


Interrupts (11)

2 Fallen Portal

Heading For The Medical Frigate

3 On The Edge

2 Out Of Commission & Transmission Terminated

Run Luke, Run

2 The Signal


Unknown Type

Cloud City Lower Corridor

Dagobah Bog Clearing

Dagobah Jungle

Dagobah Training Area

Dagobah Yoda’s Hut '

Strategy: '

This deck uses a lot of retrieval to outlast the opponent, while providing small but indefensible force losses each turn through Draw Their Fire and EPPs who deploy then get forfeit after killing two or more characters.


Getting a stacked 7 on Test 5 is crucial, so take an extra turn to get it setup. The best way in my experience is to isolate one of the 7’s at the bottom, then activate everything else. That way, if the opponent shuffles your deck, then the 7 is still there.


During the first six to eight turns, not much is gonna happen. They’ll drain you, you’ll lose force and train DOS. Big problems for this are direct damage, namely Court, Search and Destroy and Visage. Hunt Down overall is a horrible thing for this deck, so there are a lot of anti-HD cards included. It’s okay to take early force damage, since you’ll be retrieving 10 force once you flip. NEVER deploy any characters before you flip, even they drop a CHYBC on you (usually). If they do, you’re in a little trouble, and probably have to go without retrieval when you flip. I’ll repeat one of the basic tenets of the deck though. Get a 7 on Test 5, or you won’t win. Take extra time testing if it means you are guaranteed the 7. OTE will get you back all the force you lose if the flip doesn’t. The deck operates on the premise that you can cause a lot of attrition with EPPs, then forfeit them so they don’t get battled back. Mercenary Armor is essential for this, since Imperial Barrier hurts a lot.


TIEs and Big Blue are bad matchups for the deck. ZiMH and Executor (which are in a lot of DS decks) are also bad news. The good news is that with the large amount of time you give them early on, they’ll very likely overdeploy, and will probably be waiting for you to bring the ruckuss somewhere. Test 2 hurts ZiMH a lot, as does X-Wing Laser Cannon. Either use Gold Squadron 1 with 7 ability, or Red Leader with an X-Wing Cannon to take down Zuckuss. For Executor, it’s trickier. If Guri’s on it, it’s impossible to take down. To beat that, you’ll have to just keep retrieving what it drains away, and do your drains on the ground. Otherwise, try to get EPP Han on the Falcon with either Luke or Chewie. 14 attrition later (from two 7 draws), Executor drops dead. To beat TIEs, you need to use the X-Wing Cannon a lot, along with Aim High.


The deck is strongest against aliens. Court, MKOS and Black Sun all use a lot of aliens, and aliens have low forfeit. With a little luck, a lone Luke will retrieve you one force, make them lose one, and kill 4 guys. Even with Secret Plans out, you have enough force to retrieve and deploy at the same time. '