Throne Room Mains

Title: Throne Room Mains
Author: Sean "Kyle Katarn" Luhks
Date: Aug 17, 2000 Rating: 4.0

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Cards:

‘Objective (1) Bring Him Before Me / Take Your Father’s Place

Locations (6) Carida Cloud City East Platform Death Star II Docking Bay Death Star II Throne Room Endor Landing Platform Spaceport Docking Bay

Characters (16) 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle Admiral Chiraneau Boba Fett With Blaster Rifle Commander Igar Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith Dr. Evazan DS-61-2 Emperor Palpatine Grand Moff Tarkin IG-88 With Riot Gun Jabba The Hutt Lord Vader x3 Mara Jade, The Emperor’s Hand x2

Weapons (3) Mara Jade’s Lightsaber Vader’s Lightsaber x2

Vehicles (2) Tempest 1 Blizzard 2

Starships (5) Bossk In Hound’s Tooth Dengar In Punishing One Devastator Executor Zuckuss In Mist Hunter

Effects (11) Battle Order Crush The Rebellion Emperor’s Power First Strike Imperial Arrest Order Insignificant Rebellion Lateral Damage Mobilization Points Search And Destroy Secret Plans Your Destiny

Interrupts (17) Alter x3 I Have You Now x2 Imperial Barrier x2 Prepared Defenses Sense x4 The Circle Is Now Complete Twi’lek Advisor x2 You Are Beaten x2 ‘

Strategy: ‘

Replace Secret Plans with Imperial Decree, Devastator with the Chimaera, and one Twilek Advisor with a Force Lightning.

To begin, play Prepared Defenses to deploy Imperial Arrest Order, Crush The Rebellion, and Mobilization Points. On your first turn, pull Carida and Emperor’s Power before you activate. Deploy Carida and the Death Star II Docking Bay with the Emperor there from your Reserve Deck during your first deploy phase. Only pull I Have You Now with Crush The Rebellion if you are certain that they will be useful; otherwise, it’s best to keep the destiny 5’s in your Reserve Deck. With the threat of I Have You Now and Force Lightning, the Emperor should be completely safe. This first turn setup allows you to play Sense and Alter immediately and provides at least 9 Force activation on your second turn. On your second turn, you can deploy a second docking bay (usually Cloud City, for its immunity to Projection Of A Skywalker and Lost In The Wilderness) with Vader there and then move the Emperor to the Throne Room to put the Emperor’s Power into effect. With Carida (which becomes a nice drain of 2 with Chiraneau), Cloud City East Platform, and the Endor Landing Platform all being pulled from your deck, satisfying the conditions of Honor Of The Jedi is quite easy. However, you should spread out to drain and cause direct damage only when the opponent does not leave themself vulnerable to attack. We all know that Bring Him Before Me is much more effective when you initiate battles, draw tons of battle destinies, stack cards on Insignificant Rebellion, and drain away at the opponent’s locations. The text of the flip side of the objective is merely a bonus, and most of your wins should be in the conventional fashion. ‘