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{{Hatnote|Printed Decipher archive face. Default: [[Black 4 (PC Errata)]]. Bare: [[Black 4]].}}
{{Card
|title=Black 4 (Original)
|card_uid=2_151o
|image=ANH-D-black4-decipher-archive.gif
|side=Dark
|type=Starship
|subtype=Starfighter
|subtype_link=Starfighter
|model=TIE/LN
|set=A New Hope
|rarity=U2
|rarity_link=Rarity#Uncommon
|uniqueness=Unique
|destiny=2
|power=2
|deploy=2
|forfeit=3
|maneuver=3
|version_label=printed (Decipher archive)
|set_band=Decipher
|prev=Bespin Motors Void Spider THX 1138
|next=Captain Khurgee
|lore=TIE fighter flown by DS-61-4 at the Battle of Yavin. Scored a hit on Red 5 during the confrontation.
|game_text=May add 1 pilot. May deploy with a pilot as a 'react' to a battle initiated against a TIE (for free if TIE is Black 2 or 3). Must have pilot aboard to use power or maneuver.
|printings='''Printed Decipher face''' — this page (<code>2_151o</code>)<br />
[[Black 4 (PC Errata)]] — PC AR 2023 Appendix A<br />
[[Black 4]] — bare/default
|sources=* [https://web.archive.org/web/20081225225012/http://www.decipher.com/starwars/cardlists/index.html Star Wars CCG cardlists index] at Decipher.com (archive, 25 December 2008)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014432/http://www.decipher.com/starwars/cardlists/swallcards.pdf Complete Card List] (Decipher PDF, archive 28 September 2007) — Dark Starship: Black 4, A New Hope, U2
|strategy=By [mailto:d_holmes@hotmail.com Dan Holmes], Red 31<ref name="decipher-strategy">https://web.archive.org/web/20040811123219/http://www.decipher.com/starwars/cardlists/anewhope/dark/small/black4.html</ref>

[[Black 4]]. Just another TIE that is no more useful than the others, right? Wrong! [[Black 4]] should be considered one of the best secret weapons that the Imperial Navy has.

Just imagine this. Both sides are playing space. You have [[Grand Moff Tarkin]] on [[Black 2]] alone at [[Kessel (Dark){{!}}Kessel]]. The Light Side plays [[Han Solo]] on the [[Millennium Falcon{{!}}Falcon]] and initiates a battle. Normally, [[Grand Moff Tarkin{{!}}Tarkin]] would get beaten up, but not today. Because he is on [[Black 2]], [[Black 4]]'s game text allows it to deploy with a pilot for free. So now [[Darth Vader{{!}}Vader]] comes out of nowhere against the [[Millennium Falcon{{!}}Falcon]] for a change. The tide of the battle has turned and the universe is one step closer to eliminating the Rebel threat.
|rulings=* To use the react text, you must have a piloted TIE there. It's even possible that other TIE was itself just deployed as a react a moment earlier.<ref name="scomp">https://scomp.starwarsccg.org/?s=Black%204</ref>
* When using the react text to deploy for free, the pilot is also free.
* When using [[Black 4]]'s text to deploy it and a pilot for free, and Goldenrod on table, must use 2 Force for the pilot (but 0 for [[Black 4]]).
|pulled_by=* [[Commander Brandei]]
* Short Range Fighters & [[Watch Your Back!]]
|matching=* [[DS-61-4]]
* [[Reserve Pilot]]
|characteristics=* No Hyperdrive
* Imperial (starship)
|has_refs=1
|notes=* Decipher.com cardlists archive face (Wayback). Game text from printed archive GIF.
* PC rewrite: [[Black 4 (PC Errata)]]. Side-by-side: [[Errata#PC_Errata|Errata — PC Errata]].

|see_also=* [[Errata]]
* [[Black 4]]
* [[Black 4 (PC Errata)]]
}}

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