Establish Control
| Title | Establish Control |
|---|---|
| Side | Dark |
| Type | Effect |
| Set | Coruscant |
| Rarity | U |
| Uniqueness | Unrestricted |
| Destiny | 4 |
| card_uid | 12_134 |
| Version | printed |
| Printings | Coruscant — this page |
Establish Control is a Dark Effect from Coruscant.
Card Text
Deploy on a docking bay you control. No Force drains here. Fallen Portal may not target a character at this site. Your Force drains are +2 at adjacent non-docking bay battleground sites. Place Effect in Used Pile if opponent controls this location.
Lore
Keeping supply routes clear allows rapid distribution of resources to where they are most required.
Strategy
By Martin Arlt[1]
Establish Control provides support for Mobilization Points and Begin Landing Your Troops while encouraging you to maintain control of several sites on a planet. When you control a docking bay with Mobilization Points, you are already activating +2 Force. Now just play Establish Control on that docking bay to get the Force drain bonuses at adjacent battlegrounds. Best of all, your characters at the docking bay are protected from Fallen Portal, so you don't have to worry about the Light Side trying to clear out the site with interrupts. The best planet to use this card would have to be Tatooine, which has two unique docking bays (Mos Espa Docking Bay and Docking Bay 94), and possibly the Spaceport Docking Bay as well. Since Establish Control is non-unique, you can deploy copies on all of these docking bays, as long as you have at least two sites in between them (because the cumulative rule would prevent one site from getting a +4 Force drain bonus from this card on two adjacent docking bays).
Combos:
Use Begin Landing Your Troops to get out those docking bays early.
Control these three sites for a total Force drain of 8 each turn, not including any bonuses from lightsabers or other cards. For added protection, use His Name Is Anakin to make it more difficult for your opponent to deploy aliens to Tatooine.
Combos
- Establish Control + Begin Landing Your Troops[2]
- Establish Control + Tatooine: Mos Eisley + Tatooine: Docking Bay 94 + Tatooine: Cantina Control these three sites for a total Force drain of 8 each turn., not including any bonuses from lightsabers or other cards. For added protection, use His Name Is Anakin to make it more difficult for your opponent to deploy aliens to Tatooine.
Pulled by
Cancels
- Force drain at a docking bay you control
- Fallen Portal targeting a character at that site
Underlying card for
See Also
Sources
- Star Wars CCG cardlists index at Decipher.com (archive, 25 December 2008)
- Complete Card List (Decipher PDF, archive 28 September 2007) — Dark Effect: Establish Control, Coruscant, U
References