Hunt Down before Coruscant
Title: Hunt Down before Coruscant
Author: Jason "azreal6" Herrin
Date: Aug 5, 2001
Rating: 4.0
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Cards:
‘Locations (5)
Tatooine Docking Bay 94
Cloud City East Platform
Endor Landing Platform
Executor Docking Bay
Rendili
Characters (18)
Lord Vader
Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith
Darth Vader With Lightsaber
Darth Maul X2
Mara Jade, The Emperor’s Hand X2
Grand Moff Tarkin
Grand Admiral Thrawn
Janus Greejatus
J’Quille
Guri
4-LOM With Concussion Rifle
Dr. Evazan & Ponda Boba
Aurra Sing
Sebulba
E-3PO
U-3PO
Weapons (5)
Darth Vader’s Lightsaber
Mara Jade’s Lightsaber
Maul’s Lightsaber
Maul’s Electrobinoculars
Intruder Missile
Starships (6)
Chimaera
Bossk In Hound’s Tooth
IG-88 In IG-2000
Boba Fett In Slave I
Dengar In Punishing One
Zuckuss In Mist Hunter
Effects (3)
Secret Plans
Bad Feeling Have I
Lateral Damage
Interrupts (14)
Vader’s Obsession
The Circle Is Now Complete
Put All Sections On Alert
Release Your Anger
You Are Beaten X2
Weapon Levitation X2
I Have You Now X2
Force Field X2
Alter & Colateral Damage X2
Starting (9)
Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi
Epic Duel
Holotheater
Meditation Chamber
Visage Of The Emperor
Imperial Arrest Order
Mobilization Points
Crush The Rebellion
Prepared Defenses ‘
Strategy: ‘
How it plays-
It plays fairly straightforward. To start pull Rendili from your deck before you draw. Pull a docking bay first turn and play Rendili too, so youll have some place for your bounty hunter ships to drain. Protect your docking bays and utilize the extra generation to fill your hand often enough to get Vader down. Flip and drain, wait for them to come to you.
Card specific strategies
Honor Of The Jedi-No Escape isnt included in the deck because this decks point is to battle. So you wonder , how do you get rid of Honor? Simple, its only immune to alter while they occupy a battleground. So battle them off thier site and Alter Honor off the table. This serves two purposes, first you cause them battle damage and attrition, next you return to causing them direct damage every turn.
Why E-3PO?- Well Im glad you asked. It will help ruduce your opponents Threepio WHPSs usefullnes drastically. For one used force every turn they cant use that little creep That is reason enough to use the droid in my book.
Why not Executor?- Well for one reason alone, if I were to run the Executor and lose it in space Id lose all my E-sites and my Visage.
JQuille- Hes there to take Chewbacca out of a fight before I have to deal with something like Wookie Strangle. The more times I can Keep a character from contributing to a battle the better off Ill be.
Darth Maul- Blocks drains almost as well as an undercover spy, but with the added benefit of adding to a drain and draining right through your opponents charaters at a site. This dudes a total hoser when it comes to WYS or RST.
Why no Emperor Papatine?- Sure hed beef Mara way up, but then Id have to lose something more usefull. Say like Guri who limits battle destinies. This a heavy battle version of Hunt Down, not a heavy dueler. Youll see the latter after coruscant is out. Trust me.
Sebulba?- Hes here to hose just like JQuille. With these two at a site against scouts and Vader or Maul backing them up you know whos going to win. Plus he kills Da Bomb (A.K.A. Jar Jar).
Darth Vaders and not Vaders Lightsaber?- I know, I had to agonize over this one myself. It all came down to the decks purpose,win. And to do that I might occasionally have to duel and this saber will aid that duel. Thats the only reason.
Matchups
Watch Your Step- This deck comes looking for a Hunt Down. Traditionally Hunt Down isnt much of a battler early on, but this one is. Most WYS are slighted to deal with Visage in one of two ways. The first is they run or start Honor. The second is Transmission Terminated. You can deal with these pretty well, all except Trans. Term. that is. JQuille and Sebulba with Mara at the cantina are very tough to get rid of for your opponent. Also Set up your bounty hunter ships at Rendili before you move on to controlling Corelia, Kessel, or Tatooine. Dont sparead your forces too thin either, theyll rape you if you do. Just take it slow and beat them inch by inch.
EBO- This one could give you problem with drains. Work on controlling space early and get Vader and your other heavy hitters down at docking bays to drain fast. If it turns into a drain race you should be the one left standing in the end.
Profit- Very similar to WYS, except expect many more jedi. This will make duelling them out of play much easier, just watch out for jedi pressence.
MBO- Cool. Invade and kill everything you see. Then turn to space in force. Remember to keep your drains going on the ground. In the end youll take the game by an average of +15.
There Is Good In Him- Much the same as WYS, but expect to see a lot of sense. They get to start with a jedi on the table after all, way too much power if you ask me.
Hidden Base- X-wing swarm will be tough to contend with, but possible. Get to the ground and drain like a mad man. Hold your bounty hunter ships until you can deploy en-masse. If they start slow it s okay to drop Rendili and your guys there as soon as you get them. Just be watchful for anything cute like a new variant Ive just seen. Its Hidden Base With Kirdo III. They pull deserts, sandwhirls, and play matching operatives to sandspeeders The first time I saw this it spanked me hard. The second time I knew what was coming and still lost, but have changed the deck since to contend a little more with it. Beware this creative variant by Chocobo93.
Quiet Mining Colony- The Lift Tube Escape version of this deck can be a little hard to deal with because they keep running away. Use your bounty hunter ships to clip the Falcons wings and control the system. Look to control a site or two at Cloud City and shut down thier deck as fast as you can. If they flip be in store for a much harder game than you imagined. Against an experienced player youll need to be very careful. Just set up your drains and be prepared for the unexpected.
As more decks become tested Ill update the strategy and matchups sections. Thanks for reading and reviewing the deck. ‘