There Are Those Droidekas
Title: There Are Those Droidekas
Author: Peter "marvin" Jurcovic
Date: May 14, 2002
Rating: 4.5
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Cards:
‘Objectives(1)
This Deal Is Getting Worse All The Time/Droid Manufacturing Platform
Locations(6)
Bespin
Bespin Cloud City
Cloud City Casino
Cloud City Incinerator
Cloud City West Gallery
Cloud City East Platform
Characters(21)
P59 (The Rep)
P60
4lom w/gun
IG88 w/gun
Guri
Destroyer Droid x7
Owo1 w/backup
Battle Droid Officer x2
U3PO
Darth Maul x2
Emperor
Darth Sidious
Darth Vader,DLOTS
Starships(7)
Maul’s Sith Infiltrator x2
Zuckuss In Mist Hunter
Bossk in Buss
Boba Fett In Slave1
Dengar In Punishing One
Chimaera
Interrupts(15)
Prepared Defenses
Oh, Switch Off x2
Abyssin Ornament
Stunning Leader
Master, Destroyers
I Have You Now x2
Masterful Move & Endor Occupation
Ghhhk
We Must Accelerate Our Plans x2
Evader & Monnok
Omni Box & It’s Worse
Sniper & Dark Strike
Effects(10)
Fear Is My Ally (st)
Combat Response (st)
IAO & SP (st)
I’m Sorry (st)
Crush The Rebellion (st)
Where Are Those Droidekas?
Precision Targetting
Dard Deal x2
Cloud City Occupation ‘
Strategy: ‘
The Background
Destroyer droids are cool and we all love them (”we would make holes in them,
so we could…” you now the story), but tell me who actually plays with them (and
now I DONT mean making holes in them, so we could… you now what). I mean,
everybody has good ol P59 in deck, but thats the point.
But lets go serious. This is the deck I built together in aproximatly 15
minutes when I returned home from a tournament, where I got a ”Where Are
Those Droidekas?” card from one R3 prize pack. And I accidentally took
a look at the ”Cloud City Incinerator” card as well and there was it.
This is basically a ”fun” deck (and it hasnt been actually tested yet),
because it plays with non-standard cards (like non-unique destroyers) just
because theyre cool and interesting. I wont try to convince anybody that
this is the ”DarkDealDoneRIGHT”, but I guess it surely is
”DarkDealDoneDIFFERENT” and hopefully also ”DarkDealDoneFUN”. And since
its a quick-n-dirty deck, I would suggest you to take it just like an
inspiration for your own amazing creation(s).
The Idea
The deck is obviously built around destroyers and other kinds of droids
and Incinerator. If you happen to forget, then the gametext of Incinerator
says ”If you control, during your control phase, may use 2 Force to retrieve
one droid.”. And so thats what you do. You deploy your droids, let them rock
(and die) and retrieve them for another rock (and die) session. You have fun.
You (maybe, even) win.
The Strategy
…is pretty straightforward here. The deck should be played partly in a control
way, since you can set-up massive damage quickly, but almost all of the
characters youve got here may be used to battle your opponent.
And since you are able to respawn your droids in Incinerator, you should have
an edge in hit-n-run battles, so go, hit and run (to lost pile).
Card choices
Most of your characters (at around 76%) are droids. This is the incinerator
droid deck, so dont complain. The rest are Dark Jedies, because having
a few of them is a good idea for any dark deck.
Your space consists of some bounty hunter ships and Maul (and yeah, Chimaera).
Mauls Infiltrator is just too good to be true, especially in conjunction
with ”I Have You Now”, which works nice with ”Crush The Rebellion”, which
is just very good idea for any dark deck and a must for any dark-deal deck.
Just throw Maul in his Infiltrator in front of virtual Luke and friends and make
them loose their precious ships to attrition. Not funny. Or just use it to
protect your occupation and to satisfy Battle Plan (you would loose those
two for their Bespin drain anyway, right?). ”Not too bad for guy with
a silly makeup.”
There is no Mobilization Points/Executor/They Must Never Again Leave This City
combo here, because people are expecting it and are prepared for it and it
would require quite different character/interrupt selection. If you like it
more, then be my guest.
The interrupt and effect selection is also mostly pretty standard, even those
droid support/abuse interrupts are quite common in droid decks. But theyre
broken, so why should we fix them?
High destiny easy recyclables include Omni Box & Its Worse (can be used to
disrupt their effort to take down cloaking Maul with a tracked six,
Sorry About The Mess and X-wing cannon), Masterful Move combo,
Master Destroyers and two
We Must Accelerates which can be used to pull another copy of itself out
from the deck and thus allowing you to take a look at your reserve and
set up destiny simultaneously.
Abyssin Ornament is here for eventual late-game retrieval (it can target those
destroyers).
Lesser-known effects include ”Precision Targeting” and ”Where Are Those
Droidekas?”, and I guess theyre self explanatory as well, just read the cards
and you should have the idea.
The End
The deck most probably needs some work yet and most probably is not the best
dark deck out there, but its different and its funny, so take it and tweak it
and enjoy it. (And yeah, always start the game by revealing your P59 and
declaring him (it) as The Rep.)
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