Reflections Gold

Reflections Gold
Game/Set	Star Wars CCG
Expansion	Reflections Gold (cancelled)
Publisher	Decipher
Planned	December 2001
Cards Total	310
Card Size	63x88mm (playtest stickers on white-border stock)

Reflections Gold is the cancelled Decipher product that got closest to existing. CardGuide numbers it #37 (this wiki; CardGuide #36 before Death Star II starters were split out). Decipher had Lucasfilm-approved art for about 200 cards and wanted to print a last Reflections set before the Star Wars license ended. They ran out of time to playtest. After the license expired they asked Lucasfilm for permission to post the cards as a free PDF; Lucasfilm said no.

Warren Holland's public note, 25 January 2002:

As I previously announced, it was Decipher's desire to "give" players 200 Star Wars CCG cards (in PDF format on our web site) that had already been approved by Lucasfilm for Reflections Gold. We saw this as a gift to players for all their support throughout the years. We were not able to print these cards as we had hoped, but we didn't want to see all the art and gameplay go to waste.

I am sorry to announce that Lucasfilm has just rejected the idea of us releasing these cards for free on the web. Unfortunately, we will never be able to show these cards to the general public. We don't agree with this decision by Lucasfilm, but we have to abide by it. Sorry.

Warren Holland, Chairman & CEO, Decipher Inc.

Playtest copies still left Decipher: images printed on sticker stock and stuck to white-border cards. A near-complete set reached the secondary market in 2006, was partly destroyed in a household accident, and the remaining extras plus scans went to Category One Games and the Players Committee.

Three card types

Contemporary write-ups (Category One, CardGuide, and the first post of the PC forum thread) agree on three mechanics. None of them were playtested to a finished rulebook.

• Credits — a player would start with 4 or 5 credit points and could keep matching "wide vision" cards in the opening hand. Each of those cards showed a gold diamond value in the lower right. Category One describes them as existing cards with the image turned sideways.
• Combo cards — interrupt and effect pairs in the Reflections II / Coruscant style, widely described as overpowered because the two halves were already strong alone (the usual example on the forum is Beggar & Revolution).
• Blank cards — new frames with an empty text box. Decipher's idea was that the coming Players Committee could rotate printed text into those boxes every few months. That plan is the ancestor of virtual cards; after Lucasfilm refused the PDF giveaway, the PC built virtual cards without Decipher's pre-printed blanks.

How the copies survived

Category One's 2000s write-up: a former seller close to Decipher staff sold extras in late 2006, then reported that an accident destroyed most of a full set. Leftover extras went to Category One. The same source says the seller later gave the Players Committee a scan of each card. Printing quality on the sticker playtests is poor; because they were barely tested, surviving copies are often in good physical shape.

The PC forum thread (t=18282) is the messy original dump of those scans: Category One photobucket albums under Star Wars/Ref Gold/, mixed with Dagobah playtests and signed cards. That thread is the source Encyclopedia 3.2 cites for unreleased product.

A later Google document, Reflections Gold Remastered, rebuilds the frames as cleaned card images (blank text boxes, corrected layout) from those playtest stickers. Credit that reconstruction to its document author; it is not a Decipher print file.

Category One still lists singles. A 2026 r/starwarsccg thread tracks which physical copies collectors believe still exist.

Card list

Published lists run 310 titles (156 Light, 154 Dark). Spellings differ between Category One, CardGuide, and Encyclopedia 3.2 p.202 (Congradulations, Ewok Supersticions, Senator Organo, Talking On The Whole Empire Myself, In The Pitts, and similar). The table below follows CardGuide's public list and notes obvious typos in Sources rather than silently "fixing" playtest stickers.

Light Side

2-1B; A Few Maneuvers; A Few Maneuvers & Han's Dice; A Gift; Ackbar's Assault Plan; Aim High; All Wings Report In; Anakin Skywalker; Armed And Dangerous & Ambush; Attack Pattern Delta; Away Put Your Weapon & Put That Down; Bad Lifters And Faulty Wings; Beggar & Revolution; Bickering At Its Finest; Biker Scout Down; Blaster Deflection; Bring Me The Hydrospanners!; Brisky Morning Munchen; Careful Planning & Heading For The Medical Frigate; Chewbacca; Choke & Blaster Deflection; Clash Of Sabers; Clinging To The Very Edge; Close Air Support; Close Air Support & Commando Training; Commander Myron Konkle; Congradulations; Corellian Retort & Fly Casual; Corellian Slip; Crack Shot & Quick Draw; Crash Site Memorial; Credits Will Do Fine & We're Leaving; Drem Redins; Droid Overboard; Effective Repairs & Punch It!; Either Way, You Win & Eventually You'll Lose; Entering The Arena; Eventually You'll Lose; Ewok Tribesman; False Past; Father, Please!; Fly Casual; Gift Of The Mentor & Skywalkers; Glancing Blow; Goldenrod; Gungan Celebration Trumpet; Gungan Energy Shield; Han's Back & Leia's Back; Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi & Double Agent; Hiding In The Garbage; How Did We Get Into This Mess?; Hyper Escape; I Have A Really Bad Feeling About This; I Hope She's All Right; I Must Be Allowed To Speak; I Must Be Allowed To Speak & Goo Nee Tay; I Thought He Was Blind; I Used To Live Here, You Know?; I Will Not Defer & Plea To The Court; Inconsequential Barriers; Insertion Planning; Insertion Planning & Critical Error Revealed; Inspecting The Garbage; Is Your Strike Team Assembled?; Jar Jar; Jedi Leap & Clinging To The Edge; Jedi Presence; Jedi Tactics; Keep Your Eyes Open & Shoo! Shoo!; Lapti Nek; Launching The Assault; Light Maneuvers & Jedi Levitation; Looking To The Future; Losing Track; Losing Track & A Step Backwards; Lost In The Wilderness & Yub Yub!; Luke! We're Going To Have Company; Might Of The Republic; Mindful Of The Future & Inconsequential Barriers; Mission Briefing; My Loyal Bodyguard & Might Of The Republic; Naboo: Ceremonial Chamber; Nabrun Leids & Quite A Mercenary; Narrow Escape; Neck And Neck; Neck And Neck & Changing The Odds; Nice Of You Guys To Drop By; Nice Of You Guys To Drop By & Visored Vision; No Giben Up, General Jar Jar; No Giben Up, General Jar Jar & Gimme A Lift!; Obi-Wan's Cape & Lightsaber Proficiency; Off The Edge; Old Ben & Noble Sacrifice; Old Ben Kenobi; Old Smoothies; On The Edge & Surprise Assault; Ouch Time; Out Of Commission; Owen; Palpatine, Senator To Naboo; Perimeter Scan & Under Attack; Podrace Prep & Too Close For Comfort; Prisoner Transfer; Projection Of A Skywalker & Yarna d'al' Gargan; Quite A Mercenary; Rakes Jevorik; Rebel Leadership; Rebel Leadership & Throw Me Another Charge; Recoil In Fear; Return Of A Jedi & Luke's Back; Revolution; Sabotage & Slight Weapons Malfunction; Scramble; Scramble & Hiding In The Garbage; See You At The Rendezvous; Senator Organa; Skull & Mandalorian Mishap; Smoke Screen; Smoke Screen & It's A Trap!; Solo; Sorry About The Mess; Speak With The Jedi Council & Vote Now!; Stay Here; Strangle; Strike Blocked; Taking On The Whole Empire Myself; That's The Real Trick; The Force Is Strong With This One & Jedi Presence; The Signal & Jedi Mind Trick; They All Broken; This Is More Like It & I Have A Bad Feeling About This; This Is Your Father's Lightsaber; Through The Planet Core; Tiinn; Too Close For Comfort; Traffic Control; Traffic Control & Crash Site Memorial; Under Attack; Vote Now!; Walker Sighting; We Are Brave, Your Highness; We Can Still Outmaneuver Them; We Don't Need Their Scum; We Don't Want To Cause Any Trouble; We Wish To Board At Once; We Wish To Board At Once & Are You Brain Dead?!; Wedge; Were You Looking For Me? & I Know; Wookiee Strangle & We'll Find Han; Yoda I Must Know; Yoda, Jedi Master; You Must Complete The Training; You Will Take Me To Jabba Now; You Will Take Me To Jabba Now & Strangle; Young Skywalker; Yousa Guys Bombad!

Dark Side

Alert My Star Destroyer!; Always Thinking With Your Stomach & Scout Recon; Aratech Corporation; Atmospheric Assault; Back On Schedule; Battle Plains Victory; Begin Landing Your Troops & Activate The Droids; Begin Retreat!; Ben?; Blast Door Controls & Reactor Terminal; Blizzard Scout 4; Blow Parried; Boba Fett; Boba Fett? Where?!; Boonta Eve Wagering; Brief Loss Of Control & Imperial Supply; Cannon Fire; Coilen; Cold Feet & He Hasn't Come Back Yet; Combat Readiness & Prepared Defenses; Counter Surprise Assault; Crossfire; Dark Collaboration & Charming To The Last; Dark Jedi Presence; Dark Jedi Presence & Vader's Eye; Dark Maneuvers; Darth Maul, Sidious' Apprentice; Dioxis; Dioxis & They're Still Coming Through!; Disciplinary Actions; Drop Your Weapons & Halt!; Elis Helrot & Oo-ta Goo-ta Solo?; Emperor; Emperor's Power & Overseeing It Personally; Emperor's Royal Guard; Entry Denied; Establish Secret Base & Ominous Rumors; Ewok Supersticions; Expand The Empire; Flag Emblems; Flagship Operations; Force Lightning; Force Lightning & Rise, My Friend; Governor Tarkin; Great Interest; Griff Mirtong; Gweeta; Hidden Weapons & Twi'lek Advisor; Hit Racer; I Didn't Mean To!; I Had No Choice; I Have You Now & Your Powers Are Weak, Old Man; I Will Find Them Quickly Master; Imbalance & Shocking Revelation; Imperial Command; Imperial Command & It's An Older Code; Imperial Compensation; Imperial Data Network; Imperial Decree & The Dark Path; Imperial Detachments; Imperial Firepower; Imperial Justice; Imperial Supply; In The Pits; Informant & Takeel; Is There Something Alive Down Here?; I've Got A Problem Here & Physical Choke; Jabba's Droid Pool; Jabba's Through With You; Jabba's Through With You & Nevar Yalnal; Jedi Rocks; Krayt Dragon Bones & Imperial Justice; Local Trouble; Locked Door; Look Sir, Droids & Counter Assault; Lord Vader, Lord Of The Sith; Master, Destroyers! & Rolling, Rolling, Rolling; Maul Strikes & No Match For A Sith; Name The System!; None Shall Pass; Not Worth The Trouble; One Arm's Frozen Lunch; Oo-ta Goo-ta Solo?; Open Fire!; Operational As Planned & Wounded Warrior; Our First Catch Of The Day; Overwhelmed & A Dark Time For The Rebellion; Perfect Hibernation; Performing Under Pressure; Perimeter Patrol; Pit Crews; Podracer Collision; Podracer Collision & Hit Racer; Point Man & Slip Sliding Away; Presence Of The Force & Dark Waters; Projective Telepathy; Put All Sections On Alert & Full Scale Alert; Quick Reflexes & All Wrapped Up; Quietly Observing; Release Your Anger & Unexpected Interruption; Relentless Tracking; Responsibility Of Command; Rolling, Rolling, Rolling; Sarlacc Tentacles; Scum And Villainy; Scum And Villainy & Information Exchange; Search And Destroy; Security Activators; Security Precautions; Security Sweep; Short Range Fighters; Shut Him Up Or Shut Him Down & Voyeur; Sniper; Something Hit Us! & Why Didn't You Tell Me?; Speeder Downed; Squabbling Delegates; SSA-33; Star Destroyer Executor; Start Your Engines! & Pit Crews; Surprise & E Chu Ta; Tactical Support; Tallon Roll; Tatooine Resale Operations; Tatooine Underground Operations; The Circle Is Now Complete; The Circle Is Now Complete & Vader's Obsession; They're Still Coming Through; This Is Outrageous! & Motion Supported; Those Rebels Won't Escape Us; Through The Corridor; TK-420; Trade Federation Tactics; Trample & Lightsaber Deficiency; Trap Door; Trooper Assault & Tactical Support; Twilight Fading; Uncertain Is The Future; Unexpected Interruption; Visage Of A Viceroy; Vote Now!; Watto, Junk Dealer; Watto's Box & Quietly Observing; Watto's Chance Cube & You Swindled Me!; We Have A Prisoner; We Must Accelerate Our Plans & Vote Now!; We Would Be Honored If You Would Join Us; Weapon Malfunction; Well Guarded & Security Precautions; Well-Earned Command; Where Are You Taking This Thing!; Worry; You Are Beaten; You Will Meet Your Destiny; Your Destiny & Insignificant Rebellion

See also

• Cancelled Expansions
• Unreleased cards
• Reflections
• Reflections II: Expanding the Galaxy
• Reflections III: A Collector's Bounty

Sources

• Warren Holland, Reflections Gold announcement, 25 January 2002 (archive, 7 February 2008)
• SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2 (p.201–202)
• Reflections Gold, Playtest, Signed, Cards etc at forum.starwarsccg.org — original scan dump; work through every page of the thread
• Reflections Gold Remastered (Google Doc; cleaned reconstructions, not Decipher print files)
• Reflections Gold at Category One Games
• Reflections Gold (expansion) at CardGuide Wiki (archive, 22 February 2025)
• Category One Games Reflections Gold buylist
• Reflections Gold history tracker on Reddit
• Discord note on lost original copies (SWCCG Discord, 16 November 2024)