[[[((Thunder s Undefeated Rumors))]]]
Title: [[[((Thunder s Undefeated Rumors))]]]
Author: Mike "Thunder" Rebman
Date: Mar 30, 2000
Rating: 4.0
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Cards:
‘Objective (1) Endor Operations/Imperial Outpost
Locations (9) Coruscant Death Star Endor Endor Bunker Endor Landing Platform (Docking Bay) Kashyyyk Kessel Kiffex Nal Hutta
Characters (13) Admiral Motti Admiral Ozzel Captain Needa Colonel Dyer Commander Igar Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith x2 Ephant Mon General Tagge General Veers Grand Moff Tarkin Mara Jade, The Emperor’s Hand x2
Devices (1) Homing Beacon
Vehicles/Starships (11) Tempest 1 Boba Fett in Slave I Bossk In Hounds Tooth Conquest Dengar In Punishing One Devastator Executor IG-88 in IG-2000 Stalker Vengeance Zuckuss in Mist Hunter
Interrupts (8) Main Course x2 Ommni Box Set For Stun x2 Twi’lek Advisor x3
Effects (17) A Bright Center To The Universe Ability, Ability, Ability Battle Order Broken Concentration First Strike Imperial Arrest Order Lateral Damage x2 Ominous Rumors x2 Oppressive Enforcement Perimeter Patrol Resistance Secret Plans Security Precautions There Is No Try There’ll Be Hell To Pay
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Strategy: ‘
This deck was designed to lockdown the two Endor sites while you dominate the sky with the hunters in ships and the destroyers. It contains counters for all/most popular deck types, and can fair well against everything it comes up against. Here’s y gameplan vs. certain deck archetypes
Hidden Base -Hidden Base withers and dies against this deck. anything they throw into space can be demolished without much trouble. Security Precautions and a high number of starships ensures you a quick probe and ensure the most for lossed with Sec. Precautions. X-Wing/B-Wing swarm doesn’t do much. X-Wings and B-Wing are no match for the big ships of the dark side, especially with Lateral Damages and a Homing Beacon. Spread, beat and drain. First Strike gets its full effect when against Hidden Base so be sure to take advantage of it.
Training -Training doesn’t do much. Broken Concentration combined with an Omni box basically kills/slows there training. Once you get it into hand, Set For Stun will send the trainee back to their reserve.
Revo/Choke -There’s plenty of force provided by the locations in this deck that choke doesn’t hurt. This deck is packed with 2/2 + 2/1 sites which also prevent the full effect, and that allows you to drain as much as possible in space.
Numbers -Resistance. That is all…
Profit -Ignore them entirely throughout the game and make them come to you. Battle Order/ABCTTU/Resistance = no/low drains for them. If they dare enter space, dominate’em
Ops -Once again, make them come to you. ABCTTU/Battle Order/Resistance will keep their drains in check, while you drain/battle in space.
QMC -Send some fighters to the clouds, while dominating space with the destroyers.
EPP Beats -I was most concerned about this archetype when I constructed this deck. I needed to keep a tight lockdown on Endor while still being able to kills in space. I added a high compliment of high powered Imps. Main Course vs. Frozen Assets. Omni Box vs. tracked destinies. And Set For Stun will keep some of there characters off the table for a spell. Perimeter Control discourages deployment directly to Endor, and if they want to get there any other way, their either going to have to use Nabrun or Docking Bay Transit. Both of which won’t be very effective (IAO for Nabrun. Transit +9 force to the landing platform). Keep in space and use the drain hindering effects to hault their drains.
Anything else -It’s your call really. Start proper effect. Drain in space, lockdown Endor, ect…
Now the cards.
Locations For this deck I chose the required locations, asked for by the objective, and locations with high activation for myself, where I could get a fairly good drain going. That’s about it.
Characters High powered Imps to defend the forest moon. Of course the usual Vader/Mara package. Ephant Mon prevents spy deployment to the Bunker/Landing Platform. Dyers great in this deck. While he’s at the Bunker Ominous Rumors cannot be cancelled. Kick ass
Devices Homing Beacon is for anti-claw and spacial beatdown.
Vehicles/Starships Tempest 1 is excellent backup at the landing platform. Starships are all extremely powerful. Whether it be gametext, power, or forfiet, all are the difinitive vision of my space fleet.
Interrupts Simple. Main Course is for Frozen Assets. Omni Box for tracked destinies. Twi’lek to pull vital effects. Set For Stun is anti-mains 9and anti-training).
Effects ABCTTU is great against the opponent’s single system drains. Ability, Ability, Ability is a game winner and can turn the tides of a game in an instant. Battle Order is used to bring them into space, as it also slow there drains greatly. Broken Concentration will help slow training. First strike is for retrieval (you’d be surprised to see how much you can actually retrieve in a game). IAO is Nabrun defense. Lateral Damage is great space beats. Rumors, well duh Oppressive Enforcement is great SAC defense, allowing you to keep those vital cards from being lost. Perimeter Patrol is for site defense. Resistance is #’s and high drain defense. Secret Plans is for high retrieval based LS decks. Security Precautions is a destiny 5, un-revolvable 1/0 location, which kills Hidden base. There Is No Try also helps kill SAC. And There’ll Be Hell To Pay kills any vital interrupts your opponent migh be playing.
Overall, I think, this deck is a machine. Defense for most LS archetypes (has defense modified to fit my local meta), is pretty versatile, has a high winning potential, is extremely fun to play, is very inter-active when you want it to be, and can cause a high amount of damage. Please send feedback
-Thunder
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