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Author: John "Scythykins" Mullarkey
Title: terryville-coruscant-party-8-8-01
Date Published: 2001-08-08
Well seeing as how my week to date has been horrible, with Superman: Ride Of Steel at Six Flags New England crashing and me being sick as a dog, hopefully the release of Coruscant can save the day. Red84 Josh Radke is running a non-sanctioned Sealed Deck tournament and of course I’m ready to go. I get there at about 5:30 after getting sadly lost trying to sneak around rush hour traffic in Bristol. I hear it from everyone, I get over it, get my boxes, begin opening. Look at the bottom of this thing for my list of pulls. While I’m here I decide to get a box of Raw Deal: Backlash. Turns out to be a good idea. But I digress. 6:00 rolls around, people come to order. It turns out that there’s 12 players and this is gonna be a short tournament, since people have to leave at nine. I pull light side out of a hat (rather, an empty box of Coruscant) and sit down with Josh, Charlie Hoffman, and a few other guys to draft. 12 players, 6 people per table, it just worked out. Notable at the other table were Dan and Pat Long, Steve Brentson, and Frank, our local supplier. We had 2 Tatooine packs each, 4 Coruscant.
First pack, Tatooine, it’s a dark side rare that I laughed at, I think it was A Million Voices Crying Out. I mumble something about bad quality and grab Mos Espa. Get my next choice from Charlie (I’m between Charlie and Josh) He gives me a Padme. I smile, take it, pass. As the packs dwindle, I notice no one taking the podrace stuff. I decide to mop some of it up, at the very least the high destiny stuff. Good plan, or so it seemed. Next Tatooine pack I open I pull Anakin’s, and pray Charlie gets the podrace. He doesn’t, in fact, no one did. So that strat is dead. Somewhere in here I remember to get characters with ability regardless and end up grabbing Caldera Righim, Grugnak, Loci, plus some sites and the more useful interrupts. I ended up getting stuck with 4 rule cards. Oh well.
First Coruscant pack, Josh hands me the Jedi Council Chamber. Bingo, I have a starting location. I had grabbed Ki-Adi-Mundi from my pack, so I was beginning to get a good feeling. Got a sense, couple other goodies including Mindful Of The Future and Security Control. This gives me a bad feeling, if people are passing these, what are they pulling??? Hm. Oh well. Next pack, I pass P-60 to Josh. Even trade I’d say. I get passed Madakor, then two consecutive packs with a Republic Cruiser in it. So I grab those, and I coulda sworn I grabbed Coruscant, but I didn’t because I’m a scrub like that.
Third pack, I open it up and see Shaft himself staring back at me, which of course gets me all giddy, so everyone demands to see what I got, so I flash him, and people don’t care, because only Josh and I know I have the Chamber, and only I know I have Padme hidden away. I remember getting Tatooine and Malastare while I was in there, but I don’t remember much else. 4th pack, I kindly ask Josh for a Qui-gon, but he tanks the play and pulls a Panaka’s Blaster that he needs for the set. So of course I grab it to trade it to him later. I flesh out my deck with some senators, Odin Neslour, and a card which I later learned was 100% tech, Thrown Back. Traffic control during your opponent’s turn, I love it. We customize, which is easy for me, I toss all the duplicate locations, podracing stuff with low destiny, and I end up with about 45 cards for a 40 card deck, which is easy to cut. I’m the first one ready, and a little scouting reveals that no one pulled a Maul, so the Padme/Mace trick is gonna work. Now I didn’t really look at anyone’s cards, just yelled over to the other table “Anyone pull a Maul?” They responded with a unanimous “NO!” so I assumed it was safe. Here’s my decklist:
Coruscant: Jedi Council Chamber(SL)
Mindful Of The Future (SI)
Security Control (SI)
Caldera Righim
Captain Madakor
Grugnak
Horox Ryyder
Ki-Adi-Mundi
Lieutenant Williams
Loci Rosen
Mace Windu
Naboo Fighter Pilot
Padme Naberrie
Tendau Bendon
Yarua
Naboo Security Officer Blaster
A Tragedy Has Occurred
Baseless Accusations
Changing The Odds
Either Way You Win
Entering The Arena
I’ve Decided To Go Back
Odin Nesloor
Rebel Artillery
Reveal Ourselves To The Jedi 2x
Sense
Thrown Back
We’re Leaving
Republic Cruiser 4x
Malastare
Tatooine
Coruscant: Docking Bay
Coruscant: Galactic Senate
Tatooine: City Outskirts
Tatooine: Mos Espa
Tatooine: Watto’s Junkyard
First game is against Charlie. He starts the Junkyard (I think, Tatooine site that’s 2 for dark, one for light) I draw Ki and Mace opening hand, plus a location. He activates, he draws. I activate, dive for a docking bay (Coruscant one) and pop my location, City Outskirts. I draw 2 of my 5 force, Thrown Back and Padme respectively. He saves force this time, but deploys the Senate. I groan. My turn, activate a bunch, pop Shaft to the Chamber, deploy Thrown Back which he spends a long time reading while I draw up. I throw back the 7 destiny and a couple other things on his turn. He pops some senators and TC-14. We are not amused. Long story short, Shaft and TC hang out in the council chamber while he drains at the senate and I drain in space after deploying Tatooine, plus Ki-Adi at Watto’s hood with Padme. I win the drain war
FW 2(+12)
The good: Free drain at Tatooine
The bad: Beating a friend
The ugly: Shaft held at bay by a freakin 3PO clone. ::sigh::
Josh’s game ends up going to time, so we decide there’d only be one more game. Which is good and bad, since I’m tied for top seed, but I wanna play more too. But I’ll be content with having cake, but not being able to eat it. I play against Jeremy Dallaire, another good friend.
Same start on my end, he starts Senate. I begin to cry, since I have a total of 3 senators in the deck. But I draw Ki again, and get Mace on my first draw phase. I get all the effects out, end up grabbing squabbling delegates, he was using it too much. I’m retrieving like mad, ‘cuz I eventually win the senate war and retrieve with the force drain at Malastare/Wookiee senator, also retrieving with Ki at the Marketplace. I also have Thrown back out. This one is short, though a possible comeback was afoot when he deployed Naboo and two trade federation ships with some pilots. I pop Madakar and her copilot, and a Naboo pilot for fodder and hack away, tracking my 7 each time. I eventually win that war too, don’t have a lot of cards on table, keep retrieving, painful win.
FW +26 4(+38)
The good: Retrieval does happen in Ep 1 Sealed?
The bad: Half my retrieval came from his card.
The ugly: I won by 26 in a 40 card sealed deck. I rubbed it in, didn’t have to retrieve as much, etc.
I come in first, one of two undefeateds. I get my 5 packs, get a Qui-gon out of it, toss a Panaka’s at Josh, seeing as how I now have three. Always good to help friends out. Everyone had fun, we gotta do more of these. Now, as promised, my pulls from two boxes, 5 packs, and some trades (not the sealed though):
LS (36)
Captain Madakor 2x
Captain Panaka 2x
Depa Billaba
Mace Windu AI
Master Qui-Gon 2x
Murr Danod 3x
Plo Koon 2x
Phylo Gandish
Queen Amidala, Ruler Of Naboo 2x
Ric Olie
Senator Palpatine
Supreme Chancellor Valorum
Yoda, Senior Council Member 2x
Panaka’s Blaster 2x
All Wings Report In/Darklighter Spin
Are You Brain Dead?! 2x
Free Ride/Endor Celebration 2x
Insurrection/Aim High
Might Of The Republic
Vote Now!
You’ve Got A Lot Of Guts Coming Here
Your Insight Serves You Well/Staging Areas 2x
Coruscant: Jedi Council Chamber 3x
DS (32)
Aks Moe 2x
Darth Maul, Young Apprentice 2x
Daultay Dofine 2x
Destroyer Droid
Grotto Werribee
Keder The Black
Lott Dod
Nute Gunray
P-59 2x
P-60 2x
Rune Haako 2x
Televan Koreyy
Battle Order/First Strike
Dioxis
Do They Have A Code Clearance 2x
Imperial Arrest Order/Secret Plans
Masterful Move/Endor Occupation
Maul Strikes
Short Range Fighters/Watch Your Back
Squabbling Delegates
The Phantom Menace
You Cannot Hide Forever/Mobilization Points 2x
Maul’s Sith Inflitrator
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