Deck ID: 18449

Author: Carl "Rei" Gravel

Title: Who likes Jedis they ain’t doing nothing but think

Side: Dark

Date Published: 2001-08-19

Description:
This is your Average aquarium deck: Maul stalks the babe, Ugly old pals at the senate, oil machines on the grassfieldsand fearful looking gramps on the holoscreen

Rating:
4.5

Cards:

'Starting (7)

My lord, is that legal? / I will make it legal.

Coruscant Galactic Senate

Tatooine Desert Landing Site

Prepared Defense

The Phantom Menace

I will find them quickly master

META CARD (see strategy)


Epic Event (1)

If the trace was correct


Podracer (1)

Sebulba’s Podracer (somebody is using a different??)


Locations (4)

Naboo Theed Palace Courtyard

Naboo Theed Palace Throne Room

Naboo Battle plains

Blockade Flagship Bridge


characters (28)

Darth Maul x2

Darth Maul, Young Apprentice x2

Sith Probe Droid x3

P-59

P-60

Destroyer Droid x6

Nute Gunray x2

Rune Haako

Keder The Black

Emperor Palpatine

Darth Vader with lightsaber

Lott Dod x2

Tikkes

Yeb Yeb Adem&þ

Edcel Bar Gane

Baskol Yeesrim

Orn Free Taa


Weapons (1)

Maul’s lightsaber


Starships (3)

Zuckuss in mist hunter

Dengar in punishing one

Ig-88 in IG-2000


Interrupts (13)

We must accelerate our plans x2

The point is conceded

Squabbling Delegates x2

This is outrageous

Limited Ressources x3

Nemoidian Advisor

Maul Strikes x2

Vote Now


Effects (2)

The Phantom Menace

Forced Servitude '

Strategy: '

Before going into more deep strategy, let’s look at the basepoints of the decks and the card choice.


About my location choices Locations are realy important as they are the ground where your forces

fight, chose your terrain well ^.^


Tatooine Desert landing site

I decided that doing (well almost overthemed but still powerful) EP1-kind deck would be cool

so here you have Maul hunting the queen (which can help great deal since Padme is so much used

these days, I’ve even faced a Hyperdrive deck based almost solely on padme and her handmaiden

in a local tourney, so this can turn to your advantage.

So by starting with the desert landing site you have a twix location giving no icons to the

lightside, one of the best start you can have since there is no other helper card to grab

this site once the game has started. It can also be REALY helpful to do quick and damaging

drains once you verified your opponent reserve deck and made sure he didn’t have any

SANDWHRIL, LOST IN THE WILDERNESS and AMIDALA personna left.


Blockade Flaship Bridge

twix location that can be gotten using We must accelerate our plans. Also cool to have

Nute Gunray here with some backup to have all your destroyer droids destiny +3 and power +1.


Naboo Locations These are good overall locations and one of your senator does an Occupation

like effect that can realy hurt your opponent (more on this strategy below). Also all of

these locations can be downloaded with Nemoidian Advisor (killer card).


Ok now after the locations, what do I do in a game?


General Thoughts

Having Maul running around protected by Phantom Menace is just lord, you can get

your nemoidians (lott dod, nute gunray, rune haako), you can get the bridge,

you get to have high destiny senators, high destiny destroyer droids, you are

ready to fight and do some high damage.


Hunt the queen

Why bother going after amidala? well since I use maul anyway to do some beatdown, jedi

suppression and lot of other useful stuff, why not use him for something else?

It is great, not card intensive at all (starting effect, epic event and 3 probe droids)

and These probe droids even have usefulness (forced servitude, crutial cards retrieval,

forfeit fodder) and you can get em from your reserve deck. doing a forfeit loop

with them is easy (lose 1, retrieve it by deploying another one, etc). And the

ability to do a Beggar-like thing is HUGE, shuffling is cool too if you are not

on tatooine and carrying the queen.


Senate why the senate?

Ok I’m not going to add all the details, beside playing limited ressources,

anti-force drain political effect loops and lot of other goods (tunnel vision)

but if you want to know why in deep, I suggest you go read my recent article

about dark side politics


http//decktech.net/swccg/articles/articledetail.php3?article=2735


NAboo Occupation, why bother?

This is an optionnal goodies, like I said naboo’s locations are great to generate

forces, drain and play on (not lot of junk against the locations like sandwhril or

whatever). You only bother to go control the site if you are in total control of

the game situation (for example when playing against mwyhl) your destroyer droids

are well able to hold the sites if you play carefully and evaluate your opponent’s

beatdown forces. I chose to have these three locations but if you decide to build

a variant much more deviated in the occupation genre you could also add the Theed

Palace docking bay and play some Etablished Control for more damage. You don’t

even have to fear HONOR OF THE JEDI since you have Power TIKKES in at the senate.


Only 2 effects, Am I crazy?

Not realy, sure there is lot of killer effects out there, but not much are

THAT neccessary, I decided to play more characters than characters support.

Your opponent will be exasperated to see your droids come over and over

and Maul getting back to life. Another The phantom Menace because it is neccesary

(I prefer having a second than putting an Endor Occupation & Masterful Move in

since you can get it back with We must accelerate our plans and it is not crutial

to have it on table AT ALL TIME. Forced Servitude Just plain rocks with all the

droids you have, you might want to add in a second one if you wish.


Only 3 Ships ??

Right, I know my space is weak, but do I realy need to add more? these

three ships are more than enought (you might also add in Boba Fett in ship

if you are used to play against LS space) to act as a reactive forces since

all your damage (drains, naboo damage, limited ressources) comes from

ground, so you realy only need those to get rid of some annoying dash on

kessel and the like or to probe an hidden base.


4 Mauls?

Yes I need him fast to have TPM working to get my nemoidians

and also if you know your opponent don’t have amidala, have him drain

mad on tatooine if you know it’s safe (see DESERT LANDING SITE).


Emperor Palpatine? Destiny 6 and He helps hold your naboo sites, enought said.


META CARDS


Imperial Arrest Order & Secret plans

Every deck should have Secret plans to stop the LS retrieval. This could easily be

your 3rd Starting Interrupts. Even more if you chose to concentrate more on the

Naboo Occupation by Getting the docking bay earlier to play etablished Control


There is no try & Oppressive Enforcement

If SAC is strong in your area, don’t hesitate to play this, you have lot of crucial

interrupts out there (squabbling delegates, maul strikes, etc)


You cannot hide forever

Don’t waste your time with the combo, you realy just want this to kill more

jedis and protect yourself against these damn annoying numbers. Since most

ppl using numbers caught up quickly and start don’t do that again to suspend the

combo (and since you don’t have any BG planets) it’ll be rendered useless and

since you don’t need mob points at all, DON’T PLAY THE COMBO.


61st cards


Another Nemoidian Advisor


Another Maul’s lightsaber


Naboo Docking Bay + Etablished Control


A second EPP Vader for some beatdown, character removal.


Droid protections (Oh, Switch OFF and Self Destruct Mecanism) but these

are too cards intensive I think.


Well I sure am conscious that this deck is not perfect, but in my opinion is

realy good because it is extremely well balanced and since lot of ppl

underestimate the damage done by destroyer droids, it’s juste getting better.

It doesn’t look like it but you can do some serious DIRECT DAMAGE early on


limited ressources loop (thanks to your objective and sith probe droids)

naboo occupation

Destroyer droids hitting ppl (scouts or smuggler for that matter)

Yeb Yeb removing cards

And I’m not even talking about the draining here.


Well that should be it, I won’t go into doing matchups since not two decks

are made alike, just be sure to VERIFY your opponent deck whenever you get

the chance to KNOW WHAT YOU ARE FIGHTING AGAINST, this help a GREAT GREAT

DEAL. Also be cautious not to let him verify yours early on too for that

matter.


If you have any questions just D-EMAIL me, I’ll be glad to help you build

your decks, answer your questions and debating some points. I also hope

to receive some *CONSTRUCTIVE* reviews, Thanks a lot.


Oh and Aquarium deck because you are playing fish and the red fish king ^.^ '