The Best Ral Ops
Title: The Best Ral Ops
Author: Ryan "heinekin" Hase
Date: Jul 24, 2000
Rating: 4.5
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Cards:
‘Objective Ralltiir Operations/ In The Hands Of The Empire
Locations (10) Wakeelemui Endor Ralltiir Forest Swamp Desert Spaceport Docking Bay Executor Docking Bay Hoth Ice Plains Hoth Wampa Cave
Characters (16) Emperor Palpatine x2 Darth Vader Mara Jade Officer Evax Colonel David Jon Lieutenant Watts Lieutenant Arnet Lieutenant Cmndr Arden Major Marquand AT-ST Pilot x3 Admiral Ozzel Sim Aloo DS-61-2
Vehicles (7) Tempest 1 Blizzard 2 Blizzard Scout 1 Tempest Scout 1 Tempest Scout 2 Tempest Scout 5 Tempest Scout 6
Starships (5) Dengar in Punishing One Zuckus in Mist Hunter Boba Fett in Slave 1 Bossk in Hound’s Tooth Dreadnaught
Effects (14) Snadwhirl Secret Plans Battle Order There Is No Try Reactor Terminal Imperial Decree Blast Door Controls Oppressive Enforcement There’ll Be Hell to Pay Mobilization Points Imperial Arrest Order Come Here You Big Coward Security Percautions Overseeing It Personally
Interrupts (7) Prepared Defenses Imperial Barrier x2 Shut Him Up Or Shut Him Down Masterful Move Monnok Trample ‘
Strategy: ‘
It’s out there everywhere now, Ral Ops was one of the few objectives not to be destroyed by Death Star 2… Not only was it not destroyed, but it owns everything out there when built right. My version of the deck uses multiple effects (as you’ve probably noticed) to cover anything your opponent might try.
Start prepared defenses and of course get out Mobilization Points, Imperial Arrest Order, and Oppressive Enforcement. If your opponent start with the Main Power Generators then replace Oppressive Enforcement with Imperial Decree. On the first turn, search for Wakeelmui before you activate. Lay down Wakeelmui, deploy the swamp and executor docking bay from reserve, and deploy an imperial at the docking bay. Once you have the activation set up, lay out the four sites with chicken walkers and imperials. Get Palpatine on Raltiir and play Overseeing it personally making all of your drains +1 at every other site. With force drains -1, the opponent will have no choice but to come after you, or be quickly out-drained. This deck is extremely powerful since you can just isolate yourself and finish them off. Once you’re setup with the emporer, you drain for 7 and the rebels drain every -1. Once you set up the decree, rebel draining is brought down to almost nothing and they will have no choice but to confront you on your own planet.
Why it’s in there
Endor You drain 2, they drain 1. Rebel deploy +1. Satisfies Battle Order requirements.
Sandwhirl This card wins games. I set up the sites Forest, Swamp, Desert, D-Bay You basically isolate your opponent to one side of the planet.
Secret Plans Training and destiny 7’s are popular. Makes on the edge a real pain in the ass to play. If you know where your destiny are and you don’t like them, search for shocking revelation any time just to reshuffly your deck.
Blast Door Controls Rebel barrier has always been annoying, but this card kills profit.
Come Here You Big Coward Further destroys training retrieval, as well as retrieval under the shields of hoth (baragwins). Also stops drains on your twix sites.
Imperial Barrier Stop beatdowns in their tracks. This card is especially crucial if someone is playing I’m With You Too to make battle damage insane. Barrier Luke and stop the foursome from laying out a beatdown. Also plays great after your opponent spends 20+ force to deploy to Raltiir.
Shut Him Up Bacta Tank is evil and now you can cancel it with a huge destiny to boot.
Masterful Move Savrip wins games, stop it easy. You can also grab monnok.
And now for a breakdown of certain match-ups
Profit Profit goes down quick as you can outdrain them quite easily. Should they spread out on Tatooine to do more damage, then search for blast door controls with your objective, and deploy to Han’s site and take him out. With the effect on the table, they can no longer narrow escapr away from battles. Otherwise you’ll outlast them for sure.
Throne Room Mains This match will become very battle oriented and Ral Ops has the edge there. Use huge ammounts of attrition to take out their mains and keep using the imperial barriers to stop major beatdowns. Since they will have to beat you off of Raltiir, you should have the advantage from turn 1.
Echo Base Operations Like I said earlier, start decree as your third effect and get it in effect using quickly wakeelmui and raltiir. Later in the game it’s easier to enforce the decree using two rebel base locations. Arden and Cl. David Jon both do an excellent job of holding a site alone. You’ll quickly drain them to death without a problem.
MWYHL Training has been made a fairly solid theme with the way of things, but it sets up too slow still. I’ve playtested numerous matches with these two decks and Ral Ops just comes out too fast, especially with the extra two force on turn 1. Quick drains along with effects like Come Here You Big Coward and Secret Plans just destroy the deck.
Hidden Base If Hidden Base is even out there anymore, security precautions along with -1 draining from Ral Ops just about finishes off HB.
There’s Good in Him Simple, just don’t deploy an imperial to Luke’s site. If he should happen to wander over to Raltiir, then go ahead and deply Vader. The only way he is going to complete the objective is if he wins battles to add cards to I Feel the Conflict. Too bad he won’t be winning very many battles unless he comes to Raltiir… even then it doesn’t look so good.
Overall keep in mind that I have the deck meta’d to an extenet… one card that I found useful at one point was overload. X-Wing laser cannons can be a burden and a well timed overload is nasty. Another excellent addition to the deck is mosep. Drain for 6 off the top of your opponent’s reserve every turn. If you’d like to try him out then yank there is no try or shut him up. Have fun with it.’