A few weeks ago, Team Ohio posted on one of the MPC threads that to train for worlds they bought a bunch of OTSDs and got back to the basics; basic combos, basic force draining, basic everything with the four packs of premiere, one A new Hope pack, and the fixed premium cards balancing out the bombs like it’s worse and elis/nabrun.

One of the favorite pasttimes of the KTOD is OTSD playing, often times throughout our vs. career and before, Justin and I picked up OTSD really cheap at cons or online and duked it out OTSD style. Truth be told, I beat him more often than not (I did pull vader AND tarkin once), but that would prove to be some noice training for our grudge match with Team Ohio.

After seeing Eier’s post, I shot him a PM about having a grudge match and maybe putting some money on the line. We didn’t end up putting cash up (hell, team ohio didn’t even pay me for the two otsd’s I bought them!!), but we did have stakes: The losers had to wear the winner’s clothes for a tournament round. This would be funny either way because either eier/booker who are larger than us would be wearing tight, tiny clothes, or justin and I would have huge t-shirts on that are a few sizes too big for us. Hilarity!

So I’m going to analyze my card pool and go through my deck progression, just for fun, and do a mini tournament report featuring one game against the bane of my star wars card existance: Brad Eier.

We ordered the OTSDs from Wholesalegaming.com, decipher’s main distributor, I found them cheap on that site. Cheaper than cat1, which also only sends you jabba boxes when you buy OTSDs from them. I really want a new boba fett, so I took a chance on wholesalegaming.com. We planned on doing this all saturday night, but we got REALLY bored on friday waiting for people to show up and run the EJP tournament, so we decided to open, sort and start deckbuilding friday night.

Justin and I sat at a table on one side of the room and TO sat across the room directly to our left and we busted our boxes. We all ripped Luke boxes, which actually look pretty mint. I used a luke box when I won origins in ’02 and had no luck with them since. I used Leia at worlds ’03 and top eighted, and boba fett in 07 when I hit the top 8 again. The real commodity here is box BOTTOMs which get wrecked pretty easily and two shiny new ones are dope.

Okay so here’s the original pool:

LOCATIONS

Tatooine
Corlag x2
Raltiir
Kessel
Kashyyyk
Tat: Dbay 94
Tat: Judland wastes x2
Tat: dune sea
Tat: Mos Eisley
Tat: Lars’ Farm
DStar: Trench (!)
Dstar: Dbay 327
Y4: Dbay x2
Y4: War Room

CHARACTERS

Ariel Schouss x2
Beru Lars
Boshek
C-3PO
Cz3
Corellian
Commander Evram Lajerie
Garouf Lafoe
Jawa
Jek Porkins
Nalan Cheel
RA-7
Rebel Gaurd
Rebel Pilot
Rebel Trooper Recruit x2
R2-D2
R2-X2
Rebel Tech x2
Shistavven Wolfman
Wioslea

GREEN STUFF

Vaporator x2
Fire Extinguisher
Electrobinoculars
Leia’s Sporting Blaster
Fusion Generator Supply Tanks
Caller
Blaster
Blaster Rifle
Remote
Proton Torpedoes
Timer Mine

EFFECTS

Eyes in the Dark
Faithful Service x2
Beggar
Ellors Maddak x2
Saltor Kal Fas
Logistical Delay

INTERRUPTS

Bith Shuffle
Beru Stew
Friendly Fire
Han’s dice
Hear me baby hold together x2
How did we get in to this mess?
Hyper escape x2
I’ve got a bad feeling about this
I have a very bad feeling about this
It’s a hit x2
It could be worse
Leia’s back x2
Narrow Escape x2
Old Ben
Panic
Quite a Mercenary
Radar Scanner
Rebel Barrier
Solo Han
This is all your fault
Warrior’s courage

SHIPS

Gold Squadron Y wing x2
Red Squadron Xwing x2
z-95 headhunter x2
Xwing
Ywing

My card pool was pretty rough, I got really bad rares and one good character in Boshek. Dark is way stronger than light in space in this format, but I had nobody to hang on the ground, so I knew going into this that I was just going to try and lose by as little as possible and try to win some key battles.

I decided to use Kashyyyk as my starting local, knowing that if he didn’t have it I’d have a huge advantage, and if we starting local bounced, I had the war room as a solid backup. To round out the locals I used tatooine (for it’s a hit), kessel (for the drain) and corulag (for the 2 icons, -1 drain), the aforementioned war room, Judland wastes and Mos Eisley. I chose mos Eisley over the moisture farm because of the darkside moisture farm gametext, even though the farm has a scomp link for r2d2 AND How did we get into this mess.

My original idea was to use all the droids and forced services to handle big drains. 5 droids all with good destiny (except cz3 which just has noice game text), how did we get into this mess and forced services seemed liek a solid idea. R2D2 + Fire Extinguisher is just too good so that was obviously the first two cards I put in the deck. I also threw in the vaporator for the judland waste drain of 3 combo.

Because I went with mostly systems I decided to put in every ship I had, even those shitty Z-95s. Even though they have no hyperspeed, I figured with all the systems and 2 hyper escapes I could make the most of the other ships and use the z95s if I absolutely had to.

As for characters I had to play basically everything I had that was remotely decent. THe Rebel Trooper guard would’ve made the cut if he was a warrior, but I only wanted to play a few rebels because of Solo han. I threw the warrior’s courage in there even though I only had four warriors (two of which were the same unique card). Rebel Techs, the Jawa and Beru didn’t make it either.

I played zero effects. I had beggar in the original list but TJ convinced me that it just cost too much and there’s just no reason for anyone to save force in this format other than to drop a beatdown and the chances of it all working out are just too slim. Though when Eier dropped the Dark Jedi Lightsaber on Chilsden for 6 I REALLY wanted that beggar.

Interrupts were basic, Hyper escape x2 liek I said, barrier, it’s a hit, solo han, it could be worse, and old ben. The good stuff.

Then I started talking with TJ and showed him my list. we both decided that the droids part of the deck just sucked. c3po blows, those other droids are doing nothing for me, and I should jsut run r2 and cz3 with the fire extinguisher, that cleared up 4 more slots for me to throw in bith shuffle, the rebel pilot, another system in corulag and the second it’s a hit. Here’s the final list:

Kashyyyk (starting)
Corulag
Kessel
Tattooine
Tat: Mos Eisley
Tat: Judland Wastes
Y4: War room

R2D2
Jek
Boshek
CZ3
Corellian
Ariel Schouss x2
Nalan Cheel
Garouf Lafoe
Wioslea
Rebel Pilot
Cmmdr Evram Lajerie
SHistavven Wolfman

Gold squadron ywing x2
Red Squadron Xwing x2
Z95 Headhunter
Xwing
Ywing

Vaporator
Fire Extinguisher

Hyper Escape x2
Bith Shuffle
Barrier
Warrior’s courage
It’s a hit x2
Solo Han
It could be worse
Old Ben

TO decides to match me up with Brad because since the MPC last year brad has owned me. I had brad dead to rights, my combat vs. his rops when I got bored battled with Obi Wan and got beatdown for 20+ force. I ended up winning the next game vs. his dick hat but we tied and the tiebreaker was cards in lost pile and I lost. Eier also beat me at east nats and I’m 1-3 vs. him lifetime.

Eier starts Raltiir to my kashyyyk and first turn dropds lars moisture farm and prophetess and says go. I’ve got dick in my opening hand but I did rip R2 AND the fire extinguisher, so I draw up some cards and say go. He drains me and draws.

I drop r2 and the fire extinguisher and save force for boshek. He goes to kashyyyk and I drop a little beatsquad there and activate a force with R2 when he draws odd.

I end up dropping mos eisley and some dudes there and move r2 over to drain for 1 and move over to kessel to get some drains there. He ends up following me and some space battles ensue. It seems like he’s not getting a lot of space so I send an Xwing over to raltiir to even out the drain race while we battle at kessel. At one point I’m holding a barrier and he drops blast door controls to obsolete it. Boshek ends up owning space and never dies, and he is my beacon of light in this game. I’m still destined to lose but because of my raltiir drain I’ve really evened things up. I moved my guys over to the farm to block that drain of 2 and force him to battle the fire extinguisher which really slowed the game down for him. He ended up clearing off jek and evram lajerie and retrieving some force with prophetess, but the shistavven wolfman got some drains in at Mos Eisley and forced brad to move in front of him.

I end up relinquishing kessel and the drain of one for a drain at kashyyyk. At the end I had 3 cards left and not enough to do anything but i knew it could be worse was in there. I drew one card and it was the ICBW! so that saved me for a turn and I was able to drain for 2 more, only losing by 6. Justin beat booker by 21, so we had already won the ‘grudge match’ but I wanted to keep it close, especially after brad spent the first four turns draining for 2 at the farm, a giant chunk of my life force.

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