Cancelled Expansions
| Cancelled expansions | |
|---|---|
| Game | Star Wars CCG |
| Publisher | Decipher |
| Planned | 2000–2001 |
Cancelled expansions are Star Wars CCG sets Decipher announced after Death Star II and never published. CardGuide lists five of them as items 33–37, immediately after Theed Palace in the product order used on this wiki.[1]
Decipher's own preview, After Death Star II, said the classic trilogy on cards would keep growing after Death Star II as character-themed expansions rather than a straight walk through the films.[2] The Death Star II Starter Deck rulebook carried a full-page ad for the first two of those sets.
Death Star II starter ad
The Star Wars Customizable Card Game continues with Shadows of the Empire and Skywalkers, the next two expansion sets, coming soon!
Shadows of the Empire includes exciting new cards from the best-selling novel. Prince Xizor and Dash Rendar will be featured, along with their starships and a host of other characters and images in stunning photo-realistic detail!
Skywalkers will be the next full expansion in the Star Wars CCG. Not tied to the timeline of the film trilogy, it will be free to explore many aspects of the entire Star Wars universe. Many cards and themes will concentrate on Luke, Leia and… of course… Darth Vader.
The page is copyright 2000 Decipher Inc., Norfolk, Virginia, used under Lucasfilm authorization.
Planned sets
| # | Expansion | Planned | Cards | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | Shadows of the Empire | August 2000 | 20 | Novel between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi; photo-realistic art. Decipher placed the story arc between Cloud City and Jabba's Palace.[2] |
| 34 | Skywalkers | November 2000 | First character-themed set: Luke, Leia, Vader, and a new mechanic then code-named "Lichtenstein".[2] | |
| 35 | Jedi Masters | February 2001 | Second character-themed set: Yoda, Obi-Wan, the Emperor, and further "Lichtenstein" cards.[2] | |
| 36 | Scoundrels | September 2001 | Third character-themed set: Han, Lando, Boba Fett, Jabba, and their allies and enemies.[2] | |
| 37 | Reflections Gold | December 2001 | 310 | Premium/foil product announced later on Decipher.com.[3] |
What shipped instead
Lucasfilm asked Decipher to mix The Phantom Menace into the original-trilogy game. Tatooine (May 2001) was originally framed as a Skywalker-family set and was rebuilt around podracing and Episode I characters.[4] Coruscant, Reflections III, and Theed Palace followed; Theed Palace (12 December 2001) was the last Decipher expansion.
The Players Committee later published virtual cards, beginning in 2002. Those sets are listed on the Main Page under Virtual Legacy (2002–2014) and current virtual sets (2014 Reset onward). They are not these cancelled Decipher expansions.
Sources
- Death Star II Starter Deck rulebook advertisement (file on this page)
- After Death Star II at Decipher.com (archive, 7 March 2005)
- Reflections Gold announcement at Decipher.com (archive, 7 February 2008)
- Star Wars CCG at CardGuide Wiki
- SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia at starwarsccg.org
References
- ↑ https://cardguide.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars_CCG
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20050307015419/http://www.decipher.com/starwars/whatisit/afterdeathstar.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080207033202/http://www.decipher.com/starwars/reflectionsgold.html
- ↑ https://cardguide.fandom.com/wiki/Tatooine_(expansion)