There has been some ballyhoo over the KTOD profit deck that Steve ran at the MPC and I ran at PA States. So I’m going to break it down for everyone since that’s what I like to do with this blog but haven’t been able to do for some time what with a lack of events and new decks ran by the KTOD and more specificalyl me.

Since I actually had a pretty large hand in building this deck I have some good insigh into how everything came about and thusly changed over the course of the last few months when Steve decided to Lock In to it and play the profit at worlds.

It was over the summer. I wasn’t working (mostly by choice) and steve, justin and I made frequent trips down cape cod to chill at the beach and my parent’s cape house to play some cards and catan and all in all , relax. One night it was just steve and I heading down to the cape and it’s like an hour and a half drive so we got to talking.

We were thinking of new light decks. I had been running Hyperdrive with Don’t Forget the Droids V and we began to really sense that this card is certainly more powerful than it is goofy and surely there is another, better platform to run that strategy off of. A platform that doesn’t start with a three card hand and doesn’t struggle to put guys on the table. Both of us had, within the past week, been thinking about profit and the ideas came flooding out of us on the drive.

Seeking pulls 3po and r2 cheap for DFTDV. It also pulls good cheap guys. We could play destiny adders, two of each and depending on which adder was in your hand, you could pull that guy with seeking. Rebel leadership V with Obi Wan V8 is amazing, between that and DFTDV we should win every battle. Han’s blaster is br0ken! – were just some of the things we exclaimed while steve dug through boxes while we drove down to the cape. Of course, with 3 boxes of cards open and a ton of cards in his lap, we get pulled over by a cop because I had an expired registration on my license plate.

So the cop comes up to the window and is like “are those star wars cards?” And we were like uhhh, yeah. “I have a friend that collects those he makes a ton of money off them.” I had the correct sticker in my car I had just failed to put it on the plate, so the cop let us go and we were back to the wide world of profit.

We tried some different things in the original build and tweaked some things after each game. Tanks was very big in our area when we built this and we wanted things to help vs. that. A gift seemed awesome because of the -1 drain as much as the undercover spyness. We originally only liked one V8 obi wan until we saw the true power of Rebel Leadership V. We also quickly discovered that Han’s Blaster was kinda shitty and scrapped that pretty quick.

Here’s the original list that I played at the State Championship in Philadelphia, the first event that the deck was played in (and it ran up aganist tanks twice, which is pretty much why I shelved it following the event). Anyway, here’s the list with some more explanation/breakdown/cardchoices after.

Profit/Destroyed
An Unusual Amount of Fear
Tat: JP
JP: AC
Han V
Heading for the Medical Frigate
Seeking an Audience V
Wokling V
Quick Draw V

Hoth Warroom
Home1 Warroom
Yavin4 Warroom

3po with parts showing
r2d2
Master Luke x4
Obi Wan Kenobi V8 x3
Leia Rebel Princess
Boushh
Qui Gon w/ Lightsaber x2
Chewbacca, Protector
Lando, Scoundrel
Padme Nabarie V x2

Anakin’s Saber V
Luke’s Saber
Obi Wan’s Saber

Saltor Kal Fas V
Entrenchment V
Projection of a Skywalker x2
Imperial Atrocity V
A Gift

Dont Forget the Droids V x3
Rebel Leadership x2
Skywalkers x2
Rug Hug x2
Gift of the Mentor
A Jedi’s Resiliance x2
Escape Pod V
Clash of Sabers
Sorry About the Mess/Blaster Proficiency x2
Jedi Levitation V
Nabrun Leids x2
I don’t need their scum either V
We’re doomed
Inconsequential Barriers

Destiny in the deck isn’t bad but there are a lot of 1′s. Brian Fred turned me on to Jedi Lev V so I threw that in and really like it. Plus it’s another way to get han/anybody back when you’ve already blown seeking. Nabrun was a given. Entrenchment was there for Agents/alien protection, taking advantage of blaster proficiency V, luke’s game text, etc. Padme was in there for more damage, projections were in there to limit damage off planet (again mostly for tanks off endor).

One of the main drawbacks of the deck is that there are only seven different characters to go battle with. So you really have to have a good balance of protecting han, going and fighting, or spreading out. Resliance and Jedi Lev and Seeking V certainly help though.

Once tanks faltered at worlds, we started looking at this deck once again. We realized teh Rug hugs weren’t that good and lowered the destiny, so we put another Gift in. The gift was especially good when they made the new Yoda V who is absolutely a bomb in this deck and he went in for the quigons and we made room for one more saber, which, with it’s four destiny is rpetty damn good.

Something that really screwed me against tanks was their ability to start Arica. If you couldn’t find your blaster proficiency or if you could and they cancelled it with Cease Fire, they eliminated a drain of 2-3 for most if not all of the game, so A Padme had to come out for a corran horn, who also helped you set up a beatdown if arica was stranded there and couldn’t get off planet.

I hadn’t ever looked at steve’s list til just this moment but the changes are actually extremely slight from his list and mine. I’m looking at his day 1 deck for the MPC. I know the day 2 deck had some differences because of meta calls going into a final confrontation style matchup, but I’ll note the changes and make the final list.

He put in scrambled transmission V for the Escape pod and put in A second Gift of the Mentor and a second I Don’t need their scum either V for the two rug hugs.

The most major/subtle change to the deck happened the morning of the MPC. We’d been running an Unusual amount of Fear because of all the pulls this deck uses at the start of the game. But While I was in the shower, I decided to tell steve that I was running a tatooine system in my senate and that he should play Planetary Defenses or else he would auto lose to me. Since he really couldnt fit all the shields under Fear he decided to go with Drop, which really worked a lot better for the deck, you just have to be a little more economical with your pulls early on but all in all he said it was a great improvement.

The most profound impact was cleary yoda V. cheap immunity main with a dope weapon of destiny 4 and a dope gametext. this guy was a huge addition and what made this deck shoot up to tier 1 for sure. To clear up a spot for this, he took out the 2 qui gons and the we’re doomed for 2 yoda’s and his saber.

so the MPC list looked like this:

Profit/Destroyed
Drop V
Tat: JP
JP: AC
Han V
Heading for the Medical Frigate
Seeking an Audience V
Wokling V
Quick Draw V

Hoth Warroom
Home1 Warroom
Yavin4 Warroom

3po with parts showing
r2d2
Master Luke x4
Obi Wan Kenobi V8 x3
Leia Rebel Princess
Boushh
Yoda MOF x2
Chewbacca, Protector
Lando, Scoundrel
Padme Nabarie V
Corran Horn

Anakin’s Saber V
Luke’s Saber
Obi Wan’s Saber
Jedi Lightsaber V

Saltor Kal Fas V
Entrenchment V
Projection of a Skywalker x2
Imperial Atrocity V
A Gift
Scrambled Transmission V

Dont Forget the Droids V x3
Rebel Leadership x2
Skywalkers x2
Gift of the Mentor x2
A Jedi’s Resiliance x2
Clash of Sabers
Sorry About the Mess/Blaster Proficiency x2
Jedi Levitation V
Nabrun Leids x2
I don’t need their scum either V x2
Inconsequential Barriers

So the game plan is to drop a quick beatdown against their aliens if they put them down. In testing when Agents starts lando/random alien, and drops emperor first turn you’re still able to get off a beat down with a free luke and whoever, bounce an alien, hopefully blaster proficiency or clash someone, and clear the audience chamber. If you’ve got destiny adders the possibilities are endless. It’s tough to not be able to clear this out, you really need to not get a luke to do this since the whole deck revolves around him, but it’s not that hard to do massive overflow especially if you can get a DFTD V off too.

Tanks is still a tough matchup for the deck because it does so much damage. You’ll usually have to go fight them off a site. Rebel leadership V works almost as good as DFTD and Anakin’s saber can deflect blasts from the tank cannons as well. You’ll wanna go in there with destiny adders, but they can’t have the assault leader at both sites so go where he isn’t. You just have to watch out for outflanked or have yoda ready if they play it.

Most matchups play the same, you try and maximize your drains and control both tatooine sites and get the ping going. If you end up in a battle, chances are you can end the game right there. I only had problems fighting A DS deck similar to the profit, with massive character elimination in Drew Scott’s BHBM that can capture luke, you are beaten and dark strike guys. He was able to overflow me for a decent amount twice and I still ended up winning the game by a narrow margin.

Steve really doesn’t like entrenchment and rarely uses it, not wanting to pay three to get it and also citing that people rarely come and fight him at the audience chamber. I know on day 2 he ran an escape pod and a grimtash. The grimtash is mainly a joke b/c chu knows we never, ever play that card so he will often draw up against us to get what he needs and it was a good meta call though I don’t know I’d throw it in there. I like we’re doomed. I think it’s too good in close matchups i/e fear and other damage races that can really really win you the game.

The deck is really solid. Another suggestion would bea third rebel leadership since you always throw the first one to getting a war room. Otherwise try it out. I think you’ll see the true power of don’t forget the droids and just having a droid at each site is pretty bomb. If you happen to get r2 at a scomp link his text is awesome AND he’s heroic, so even if you don’t have the DFTD they have to swing at r2d2.

So post up some commentary, let me know what you think what you’d change and if you play it especially.

gemmesizzle, bobby sapphire, out.