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

Image columns are labeled by source. Forum post is the original Category One Photobucket dump in t=18282 (the album JPEG linked from each postimage, not the on-page thumb). Current Photobucket responses overlay a Groupsy watermark on those files. Category One is the current buylist photo for that title (buylist). Remastered is the later cleaned reconstruction from Reflections Gold Remastered (blank text boxes; not a Decipher print file).

Reflections Gold card list

Forum post	Category One	Remastered	Title	Side
			2-1B	Light
			A Few Maneuvers	Light
			A Few Maneuvers & Han's Dice	Light
			A Gift	Light
			Ackbar's Assault Plan	Light
			Aim High	Light
			All Wings Report In	Light
			Anakin Skywalker	Light
			Armed And Dangerous & Ambush	Light
			Attack Pattern Delta	Light
			Away Put Your Weapon & Put That Down	Light
			Bad Lifters And Faulty Wings	Light
			Beggar & Revolution	Light
			Bickering At Its Finest	Light
			Biker Scout Down	Light
			Blaster Deflection	Light
			Bring Me The Hydrospanners!	Light
			Brisky Morning Munchen	Light
			Careful Planning & Heading For The Medical Frigate	Light
			Chewbacca	Light
			Choke & Blaster Deflection	Light
			Clash Of Sabers	Light
			Clinging To The Very Edge	Light
			Close Air Support	Light
			Close Air Support & Commando Training	Light
			Commander Myron Konkle	Light
			Congradulations	Light
			Corellian Retort & Fly Casual	Light
			Corellian Slip	Light
			Crack Shot & Quick Draw	Light
			Crash Site Memorial	Light
			Credits Will Do Fine & We're Leaving	Light
			Drem Redins	Light
			Droid Overboard	Light
			Effective Repairs & Punch It!	Light
			Either Way, You Win & Eventually You'll Lose	Light
			Entering The Arena	Light
			Eventually You'll Lose	Light
			Ewok Tribesman	Light
			False Past	Light
			Father, Please!	Light
			Fly Casual	Light
			Gift Of The Mentor & Skywalkers	Light
			Glancing Blow	Light
			Goldenrod	Light
			Gungan Celebration Trumpet	Light
			Gungan Energy Shield	Light
			Han's Back & Leia's Back	Light
			Help Me Obi-Wan Kenobi & Double Agent	Light
			Hiding In The Garbage	Light
			How Did We Get Into This Mess?	Light
			Hyper Escape	Light
			I Have A Really Bad Feeling About This	Light
			I Hope She's All Right	Light
			I Must Be Allowed To Speak	Light
			I Must Be Allowed To Speak & Goo Nee Tay	Light
			I Thought He Was Blind	Light
			I Used To Live Here, You Know?	Light
			I Will Not Defer & Plea To The Court	Light
			Inconsequential Barriers	Light
			Insertion Planning	Light
			Insertion Planning & Critical Error Revealed	Light
			Inspecting The Garbage	Light
			Is Your Strike Team Assembled?	Light
			Jar Jar	Light
			Jedi Leap & Clinging To The Edge	Light
			Jedi Presence	Light
			Jedi Tactics	Light
			Keep Your Eyes Open & Shoo! Shoo!	Light
			Lapti Nek	Light
			Launching The Assault	Light
			Light Maneuvers & Jedi Levitation	Light
			Looking To The Future	Light
			Losing Track	Light
			Losing Track & A Step Backwards	Light
			Lost In The Wilderness & Yub Yub!	Light
			Luke! We're Going To Have Company	Light
			Might Of The Republic	Light
			Mindful Of The Future & Inconsequential Barriers	Light
			Mission Briefing	Light
			My Loyal Bodyguard & Might Of The Republic	Light
			Naboo: Ceremonial Chamber	Light
			Nabrun Leids & Quite A Mercenary	Light
			Narrow Escape	Light
			Neck And Neck	Light
			Neck And Neck & Changing The Odds	Light
			Nice Of You Guys To Drop By	Light
			Nice Of You Guys To Drop By & Visored Vision	Light
			No Giben Up, General Jar Jar	Light
			No Giben Up, General Jar Jar & Gimme A Lift!	Light
			Obi-Wan's Cape & Lightsaber Proficiency	Light
			Off The Edge	Light
			Old Ben & Noble Sacrifice	Light
			Old Ben Kenobi	Light
			Old Smoothies	Light
			On The Edge & Surprise Assault	Light
			Ouch Time	Light
			Out Of Commission	Light
			Owen	Light
			Palpatine, Senator To Naboo	Light
			Perimeter Scan & Under Attack	Light
			Podrace Prep & Too Close For Comfort	Light
			Prisoner Transfer	Light
			Projection Of A Skywalker & Yarna d'al' Gargan	Light
			Quite A Mercenary	Light
			Rakes Jevorik	Light
			Rebel Leadership	Light
			Rebel Leadership & Throw Me Another Charge	Light
			Recoil In Fear	Light
			Return Of A Jedi & Luke's Back	Light
			Revolution	Light
			Sabotage & Slight Weapons Malfunction	Light
			Scramble	Light
			Scramble & Hiding In The Garbage	Light
			See You At The Rendezvous	Light
			Senator Organa	Light
			Skull & Mandalorian Mishap	Light
			Smoke Screen	Light
			Smoke Screen & It's A Trap!	Light
			Solo	Light
			Sorry About The Mess	Light
			Speak With The Jedi Council & Vote Now!	Light
			Stay Here	Light
			Strangle	Light
			Strike Blocked	Light
			Taking On The Whole Empire Myself	Light
			That's The Real Trick	Light
			The Force Is Strong With This One & Jedi Presence	Light
			The Signal & Jedi Mind Trick	Light
			They All Broken	Light
			This Is More Like It & I Have A Bad Feeling About This	Light
			This Is Your Father's Lightsaber	Light
			Through The Planet Core	Light
			Tiinn	Light
			Too Close For Comfort	Light
			Traffic Control	Light
			Traffic Control & Crash Site Memorial	Light
			Under Attack	Light
			Vote Now!	Light
			Walker Sighting	Light
			We Are Brave, Your Highness	Light
			We Can Still Outmaneuver Them	Light
			We Don't Need Their Scum	Light
			We Don't Want To Cause Any Trouble	Light
			We Wish To Board At Once	Light
			We Wish To Board At Once & Are You Brain Dead?!	Light
			Wedge	Light
			Were You Looking For Me? & I Know	Light
			Wookiee Strangle & We'll Find Han	Light
			Yoda I Must Know	Light
			Yoda, Jedi Master	Light
			You Must Complete The Training	Light
			You Will Take Me To Jabba Now	Light
			You Will Take Me To Jabba Now & Strangle	Light
			Young Skywalker	Light
			Yousa Guys Bombad!	Light
			Alert My Star Destroyer!	Dark
			Always Thinking With Your Stomach & Scout Recon	Dark
			Aratech Corporation	Dark
			Atmospheric Assault	Dark
			Back On Schedule	Dark
			Battle Plains Victory	Dark
			Begin Landing Your Troops & Activate The Droids	Dark
			Begin Retreat!	Dark
			Ben?	Dark
			Blast Door Controls & Reactor Terminal	Dark
			Blizzard Scout 4	Dark
			Blow Parried	Dark
			Boba Fett	Dark
			Boba Fett? Where?!	Dark
			Boonta Eve Wagering	Dark
			Brief Loss Of Control & Imperial Supply	Dark
			Cannon Fire	Dark
			Coilen	Dark
			Cold Feet & He Hasn't Come Back Yet	Dark
			Combat Readiness & Prepared Defenses	Dark
			Counter Surprise Assault	Dark
			Crossfire	Dark
			Dark Collaboration & Charming To The Last	Dark
			Dark Jedi Presence	Dark
			Dark Jedi Presence & Vader's Eye	Dark
			Dark Maneuvers	Dark
			Darth Maul, Sidious' Apprentice	Dark
			Dioxis	Dark
			Dioxis & They're Still Coming Through!	Dark
			Disciplinary Actions	Dark
			Drop Your Weapons & Halt!	Dark
			Elis Helrot & Oo-ta Goo-ta Solo?	Dark
			Emperor	Dark
			Emperor's Power & Overseeing It Personally	Dark
			Emperor's Royal Guard	Dark
			Entry Denied	Dark
			Establish Secret Base & Ominous Rumors	Dark
			Ewok Supersticions	Dark
			Expand The Empire	Dark
			Flag Emblems	Dark
			Flagship Operations	Dark
			Force Lightning	Dark
			Force Lightning & Rise, My Friend	Dark
			Governor Tarkin	Dark
			Great Interest	Dark
			Griff Mirtong	Dark
			Gweeta	Dark
			Hidden Weapons & Twi'lek Advisor	Dark
			Hit Racer	Dark
			I Didn't Mean To!	Dark
			I Had No Choice	Dark
			I Have You Now & Your Powers Are Weak, Old Man	Dark
			I Will Find Them Quickly Master	Dark
			Imbalance & Shocking Revelation	Dark
			Imperial Command	Dark
			Imperial Command & It's An Older Code	Dark
			Imperial Compensation	Dark
			Imperial Data Network	Dark
			Imperial Decree & The Dark Path	Dark
			Imperial Detachments	Dark
			Imperial Firepower	Dark
			Imperial Justice	Dark
			Imperial Supply	Dark
			In The Pits	Dark
			Informant & Takeel	Dark
			Is There Something Alive Down Here?	Dark
			I've Got A Problem Here & Physical Choke	Dark
			Jabba's Droid Pool	Dark
			Jabba's Through With You	Dark
			Jabba's Through With You & Nevar Yalnal	Dark
			Jedi Rocks	Dark
			Krayt Dragon Bones & Imperial Justice	Dark
			Local Trouble	Dark
			Locked Door	Dark
			Look Sir, Droids & Counter Assault	Dark
			Lord Vader, Lord Of The Sith	Dark
			Master, Destroyers! & Rolling, Rolling, Rolling	Dark
			Maul Strikes & No Match For A Sith	Dark
			Name The System!	Dark
			None Shall Pass	Dark
			Not Worth The Trouble	Dark
			One Arm's Frozen Lunch	Dark
			Oo-ta Goo-ta Solo?	Dark
			Open Fire!	Dark
			Operational As Planned & Wounded Warrior	Dark
			Our First Catch Of The Day	Dark
			Overwhelmed & A Dark Time For The Rebellion	Dark
			Perfect Hibernation	Dark
			Performing Under Pressure	Dark
			Perimeter Patrol	Dark
			Pit Crews	Dark
			Podracer Collision	Dark
			Podracer Collision & Hit Racer	Dark
			Point Man & Slip Sliding Away	Dark
			Presence Of The Force & Dark Waters	Dark
			Projective Telepathy	Dark
			Put All Sections On Alert & Full Scale Alert	Dark
			Quick Reflexes & All Wrapped Up	Dark
			Quietly Observing	Dark
			Release Your Anger & Unexpected Interruption	Dark
			Relentless Tracking	Dark
			Responsibility Of Command	Dark
			Rolling, Rolling, Rolling	Dark
			Sarlacc Tentacles	Dark
			Scum And Villainy	Dark
			Scum And Villainy & Information Exchange	Dark
			Search And Destroy	Dark
			Security Activators	Dark
			Security Precautions	Dark
			Security Sweep	Dark
			Short Range Fighters	Dark
			Shut Him Up Or Shut Him Down & Voyeur	Dark
			Sniper	Dark
			Something Hit Us! & Why Didn't You Tell Me?	Dark
			Speeder Downed	Dark
			Squabbling Delegates	Dark
			SSA-33	Dark
			Star Destroyer Executor	Dark
			Start Your Engines! & Pit Crews	Dark
			Surprise & E Chu Ta	Dark
			Tactical Support	Dark
			Tallon Roll	Dark
			Tatooine Resale Operations	Dark
			Tatooine Underground Operations	Dark
			The Circle Is Now Complete	Dark
			The Circle Is Now Complete & Vader's Obsession	Dark
			They're Still Coming Through	Dark
			This Is Outrageous! & Motion Supported	Dark
			Those Rebels Won't Escape Us	Dark
			Through The Corridor	Dark
			TK-420	Dark
			Trade Federation Tactics	Dark
			Trample & Lightsaber Deficiency	Dark
			Trap Door	Dark
			Trooper Assault & Tactical Support	Dark
			Twilight Fading	Dark
			Uncertain Is The Future	Dark
			Unexpected Interruption	Dark
			Visage Of A Viceroy	Dark
			Vote Now!	Dark
			Watto, Junk Dealer	Dark
			Watto's Box & Quietly Observing	Dark
			Watto's Chance Cube & You Swindled Me!	Dark
			We Have A Prisoner	Dark
			We Must Accelerate Our Plans & Vote Now!	Dark
			We Would Be Honored If You Would Join Us	Dark
			Weapon Malfunction	Dark
			Well Guarded & Security Precautions	Dark
			Well-Earned Command	Dark
			Where Are You Taking This Thing!	Dark
			Worry	Dark
			You Are Beaten	Dark
			You Will Meet Your Destiny	Dark
			Your Destiny & Insignificant Rebellion	Dark
			Trade Federation Tactics & We're Hit Artoo	Dark

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 (t=18282). Forum post column. Thread pages saved 27 September 2026: start=0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 220, 240. Photobucket album JPEGs under Star Wars/Ref Gold/ (open the postimage as a link; HTTPS i76.photobucket.com). Current Photobucket responses overlay a Groupsy watermark. The same thread mixes Dagobah playtests, e.g. Millennium Falcon and Executor. Page 4 attaches development PDFs (RG1, RG2.1–RG2.4, RG3) that require a logged-in forum session.
• Category One Games Reflections Gold buylist (310 titles; pages 1–13). Category One column. C1 title typos kept on their files (Governer Tarkin, Kraty Dragon Bones) and mapped to the wiki titles. Extra combo vs the older CardGuide dump: Trade Federation Tactics & We're Hit Artoo. C1 splits Vote Now! as Light Side and Dark Side photos.
• Reflections Gold Remastered (Google Doc; cleaned reconstructions, not Decipher print files)
• Reflections Gold at Category One Games
• Star Wars CCG Reflections Gold (Category1Games, 19 September 2013) — physical copies then for sale
• Star Wars CCG Super Collector (Darth Grader; Andy Talaga; Reflections Gold discussion at 1:09:04)
• Reflections Gold (expansion) at CardGuide Wiki (archive, 22 February 2025)
• Reflections Gold history tracker on Reddit
• Discord note on lost original copies (SWCCG Discord #card-collecting, 16 November 2024)
• Andy Talaga, Discord (#card-collecting, 12 December 2022)
• Discord message (same channel and day; public YouTube above)