Y2K Bird-Of-Prey V 2 0
Title: Y2K Bird-Of-Prey V 2 0
Author: Keith "Gen" Watabayashi
Date: Feb 6, 2001
Rating: 4.0
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Cards:
‘Objective(1)
WYS/TPCBALR
Locations(6)
Kessel
Home OneDocking Bay
Corellia
TatooineDocking Bay 94 (SL)
TatooineCantina (SL)
Tatooine (SL)
Characters(12)
Captain Han Solo x2
Chewbacca x2
Mirax Terrik
Jedi Luke x2
Melas
ECC Lando
Talon Karrde
Wedge Antilles
Dash Rendar
Effects(14)
DODN/WA (SE)
Insurrection (SE)
Squadron Assingments (SE)
Grabber x2
Battle Plan
AFA x4
Legendary Starfighter
POAS x2
Order to Engage
Admiral’s Orders(2)
I’ll Take the Leader x2
Interrupts(19)
Rebel Barrier x2
OOC/Trans. Term x2
Cantina Brawl
The Signal x2
It’s a Hit x2
On the Edge x2
Local Defense
A Few Maneuvers
Punch It x2
Out of Nowhere
Life Debt
Hyper Escape
HFTMF (SI)
Starships(5)
Falcon x2
Outrider
Pulsar Skate
Red Squad 1
Weapons(1)
Luke’s Lightsaber
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Strategy: ‘
First off, a few choices I have made with this deck
Starting WA/DODN I understand no sense/alter may be played, but I also understand the power of grabbers playing for free. So, why not discourage my opponent from playing early SA at the same time?
No Kessel Runs By giving my opponent a drain-2 location right at the start of game along with 2 force icons, I dont have the time for Kessel Runs, especially if Secret Plans is out.
I’ll Take the Leader Great against BH ships because it almost guarantees me victory in battle, or I get to kill some characters.
A New Hope Chewbacca Deploying for 4 rather than 5 makes all the difference
Old School Super-Falcon Leia Cost 10, First Strike for “I Know”, Barrier after “I Know”. Nuff Said.
On the Edge So much Tech with 7 side of Objective. Track 2 6s and retrieve 25 cards in incrimants of 5, whenever you want (Play both from hand on your turn, retrieve 10, 1 left in lost pile. On opponents turn or yours, play the one in lost pile to retrieve 5 more cards, making it 15 cards retrieved. Then, draw the remaining one, play it again for 5, 20 cards. Now in lost pile, play it again for 5, making that a total of 25 cards retrieved with 2 On the Edges in 3-4 turns.
Its Hit All good players know a REAL BIG problem with this deck is giving your opponent the Cantina with no real way to defend it. Dont try. Just put a ship at Tatooine and play Its a Hit to cancel the drain. Should they actually want to drain there now, they will have to fight you space and you WILL crush them.
Anger, Fear, Agression Soooo much tech. WYS has a problem with ground, they will do waaaaay too much direct damage and force drains, and your Kessel/Tat/Corellia drain will look pitiful because they wont battle you in space. AFA evens the odds. Dont battle 4 times and lose a quarter of your deck, or deploy in space to battle and get barriered, lose 4 (REALLY brutal with Order to Engage). Or, should you be in space, come fight me, or lose 4. This card single-handedly helps this deck to win, it causes direct-damage, or battle damage.
Okay, next
RESPONSE TO REVIEWS
“What about Jabbas Prize I know I know, but if you look again you will find that there are 2 Punch Its as opposed to 2 Life Debts. There is also an ECC Lando, matching pilot of the Falcon, (make sure you use the ship with Squassin). So, should Han be frozen, Lando steps up with Chewbacca as copilot, with the same ability, still 2 smugglers for TPCBALR, and still a target for Punch It and Legendary Starfighter.
“Not Enough Ground” Well Duh Not being able to effectively use Obi, Orrimaarko, Leia, Tawss, etc. GROUND IS NOT AN OPTION (Excluding Palace Raiders). This deck focuses on space with ground-counters. I don’t understand why people think a deck with a rag-tag crew of smugglers, Luke, then a bunch of little P-1 A-2 aliens is enough ground to take on MKOS, Huntdown, Court, etc. It has never worked before, why now? Because you get 2 destiny? What about choke, Snoova, ECC Iggy, You are Beaten, and Dr. Evanzan? If I play a good ground deck, I expect to see those cards, and Palace Raiders (not in patrol crafts), Raltiir Freighter Captains, and unique smugglers just don’t cut it.
“Not Enough Space”This deck has never lost to a space deck, the multiple destiny draws combined with barrier, Hyper Escape, and the ability to play them all from lost pile, has always given me the edge. Imperial Command sucks, so I just grab it. Now my opponent has decide carefully when and how to use them because they won’t recycle, but my interrupts will, even from lost pile.
Next.
AGAINST
(Your starting effects never change)
HUNTDOWN Since your opponent will no doubt deploy Vader to Cantina first turn (not fearing Ben, and having I Have You Now for Luke), so get set up at Kessel ASAP to even the drain race, then cancel Visage ASAP. From here, you race, boring, but winnable with Its a Hit, Projection, AFAs, and OTE.
BHBM Just set up like its Huntdown, only give them Luke early.
MKOS Get some power to Tatooine so you can play Its Hit to survive early-mid game, then use AFAs combined with Order to Engage to give the Bounty Hunters headaches
Court Read Above.
Any Kind of Space Fight Fight Fight Barrier ZiMH then either avoid or kill, whatever you can do, Fighters coming in will help against Ties, make good use of all the destiny adders you have, and use OTE to seal the win (Getting out Legendary Starfighter helps too).
Those are all the decks this deck is prepared for, I feel it could hold its own against This Deal, ISB, Black Sun, whatever. Its solid and fun that requires some skill. ‘