ISB - Force Choke

Title: ISB - Force Choke
Author: Jeremy "jerome" LaMere
Date: May 18, 2000 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

‘Objective ISB Operations/Empire’s Sinister Agents

Locations (9) Coruscant Coruscant Imperial Square Dagobah Cave Death Star Death Star War Room Executor Meditation Chamber Hoth Defensive Perimeter Hoth Ice Plains Hoth Wampa Cave

Characters (14) 5D6-RA-7 (Fivedesix) Admiral Ozzel Colonel Wullf Yularen Commander Igar Corporal Oberk Darth Vader With Lightsaber Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith Grand Moff Tarkin IG-88 With Riot Gun Lieutenant Renz Lt. Pol Treidum Navy Trooper Vesden Officer Evax Sergeant Tarl

Vehicles (3) Blizzard 2 Dune Walker Tempest 1

Starships (5) Avenger Boba Fett in Slave I Bossk In Hounds Tooth Devastator Zuckuss in Mist Hunter

Interrupts (14) Evader x2 Masterful Move x2 Monnok Point Man Shut Him Up Or Shut Him Down Torture x2 Trample Twi’lek Advisor x4

Effects (14) A Bright Center To The Universe Battle Order Come Here You Big Coward Crush The Rebellion First Strike Imperial Arrest Order Oppressive Enforcement Presence Of The Force Reactor Terminal Secret Plans Security Precautions There Is No Try There’ll Be Hell To Pay Undercover ‘

Strategy: ‘

Like I said, this deck is very similar to a deck I originally saw used last year by James Lafferty that did very well for him at Decipher Con in the three events listed and eventually used it to get 4th place at the 1999 World Championships.

General Strategy

The deck doesn’t give up hardly any force and uses control methods to win the game. The control is set up by activating a lot and setting up a blanket of effects that are harmful to the opponent. The ISB agents just keep coming back for more and more. High destinies are set up through the use of Reactor Terminal and recycling Twi’leks and Masterful Moves.

Deck by Deck Strategy

vs. Throne Room Start Start with Coruscant and Crush The Rebellion because Revolution can have a devastating effect on this deck. Hold out with the 2rd Evader as long as possible. Use the ISB agent spy ability to get set up at the Farm and control the game from that location. If they are playing TR Numbers, use your Tortures and put Vesden inside a walker to keep him safe. And don’t forget, Avenger and Devastator can drain at Coruscant (every extra drain counts).

vs. HB Start with the Imperial Square and Oppressive Enforcement. Try to determine what kind of HB you are up against ASAP and then get the effects that you need with your 3 other Twi’leks. Track the Defensive Perimeter and set up your solid ground drain at that location or put Presence on some other location if you can’t track the DP. Five ships with recyclable forfiet fodder along with Security Precautions should be enough to probe and get rid of a lot of their forces.

vs. Operatives Start Coruscant and Battle Order. Try to control the Farm ASAP. Battle Order should control the amount of drains and allow you to get setup. Between ISB Ops/ESA and ABCTTU, they should have no drains. Play smart and you should win. If they go above 12 cards, punish them with Monnok. Avoid the Speeder beatdown.

vs. Profit Start Coruscant and Imperial Arrest Order. The IOA start to prevent the Nabrun beats and increase forfiet values. Flip as soon as possible. This probably the toughest matchup for the deck. Battle, use your walkers to Trample and hide in, choke with Vader, and capture with Iggy. Get key effects and track Point Man because you are going to have to cancel Order To Engage.

Those cover the major deck archtypes that you are going to see.

Also the deck is tight but can easly be modified for your meta. If numbers is big, find room for a Torture. If space swarm or Super Falcon is big, put in Denger In Punishing One. Revo big? Add another Evader. Not too hard to modify. The version posted above is the one that I felt was the most solid versus a wide variety of decks.

Have a good one.

Later, J

New (5/19/2000)

As far as needing more characters go, once the Objective flips, it is really hard to flip back. So characters just keep on getting recirculated in this deck. However, if were to add a couple more character, the only ones I would really consider are ECC 4-LOM, Mara Jade, or some teched out guy.

Also being able to track destiny is huge with this deck. Iggy can abuse it, DLOTS can abuse it, walkers with Trample can abuse it.

Bentley brings up some good comments. Blast Door Controls is one of those meta choices. It could easily be added into the mix. Also, I don’t use Executor because I usually find it sitting in my hand. It is huge, but it just costs a lot. Other ships to consider are Dengar In PO, Dreadnaughts, Vader’s Shuttle, and maybe Executor (if you don’t mind paying the huge cost).

In respone to pakkratt’s review. Nearly every deck you come up against is going to give you a battleground that you can control. Some are harder than others to control, but they do give you one. Even Throne Room gives you two right off the bat, granted they are a little harder to take over, but they are there eventually. A solid HB space deck is about the only deck I can think of that doesn’t give you a BG. That is why I included one BG of my own and a Presence so that I can create a BG if need be.

New (5/23/2000)

On Decree I only have two systems or 3 Rebel base locations. Just not a solid foundation to get set up for Decree. With ISB text and ABCTTU (which is a sure thing since I can start with Coruscant) you should have no need for Decree.

pizzaman says to add a few DBs. Why? I don’t always start with IAO which means that I am going to have to draw into them, I would rather draw into a twix location rather than a 1/1 DB. Also if I did start with IAO everytime the DBs I would add would be Hoth and Yavin IV DBs so that I could get a very quick flip. ‘