Unreleased cards
Unreleased cards are Decipher Star Wars CCG cards that were photographed, designed, or named in print and then never sold as a finished English card. Cancelled expansions are listed on Cancelled Expansions. This page is the leftover: individual cards and mechanics that never got a retail sheet.
Light Side Mara Jade
Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand was printed Dark Side in Enhanced Jabba's Palace. At the same photo shoot, model Shannon Baksa was also photographed in a green suit for a Light Side Mara Jade. That card was never an official Decipher release. The Players Committee shared the archive photograph at MPC 2008. Photograph on this page is the Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2 scan of that unreleased card (p.201).[1]
Forum search on starwarsccg.org for Shannon Baksa, "Mara Jade unreleased", "Mara Jade green", and "MPC 2008 Mara" did not turn up a higher-resolution original of this Light Side card. Baksa hits are about signed Dark Side oversized Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand cards at events. Guest search works; the local Edge profile used for forum logins is currently logged out, so a manpc-session search may still find a better scan.
Fixer and other named-but-unprinted characters
Some printed cards talk about characters who never received their own Decipher card. The usual example is Fixer, Camie's boyfriend from Tosche Station in A New Hope: he is part of the film and of SWCCG table talk, but Decipher never printed a Fixer character card. The same gap applies to other film extras who show up in lore or in "search for a card named…" effects that point at a title that does not exist yet.
Treat those references as evidence that Decipher planned or at least named a card, not as proof a sheet was printed.
Lichtenstein
Lichtenstein cards for Skywalkers, Jedi Masters, and Scoundrels would have given new abilities to existing Luke, Leia, Vader, Yoda, Obi-Wan, Emperor, Han, Lando, Boba Fett, and Jabba cards instead of printing new versions of those characters. None reached retail.[1]
Reflections Gold
Reflections Gold got furthest: Lucasfilm-approved art, sticker-on-white-border playtest copies, and a ~310-card list. Lucasfilm refused a free PDF release after the license ended. See that article for the list, mechanics (Credits, combos, blanks), and scans.
Other language versions that never shipped
Encyclopedia 3.2 notes planned language editions beyond the Japanese Takara sets, and that anime-style cards were considered for Japan. None of those additional languages were released.[1]
See also
Sources
- SWCCG Collecting Encyclopedia 3.2 (p.201)
- After Death Star II at Decipher.com (archive, 7 March 2005)