Playtest cards

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Playtest cards are non-retail Star Wars CCG pieces used while Decipher designed the game, plus later collector copies of those tests. They are not the same object as Reflections Gold playtest stickers (a cancelled 2001 product). English retail cards are 63×88 mm; playtest pieces vary (photocopies, line-art sheets, stickers on white-border stock, early color layouts).

This page inventories the scans in the community MPC print-ready Drive Playtest folder (Lightside / Darkside), linked from r/starwarsccgalters.[1][2] Category One's 2008 forum thread also posted Dagobah-era playtests (Millennium Falcon, Executor, Emperor).[3]

What the tests show

Several prototype languages never reached retail:

  • Influence — a card type that deployed under a character or location (examples: Saturday, Bullseye Womp Rats).
  • Sidegame Effect — Dejarik Hologame (#1), a mini-game on the table.
  • Special New Category — an unprinted interrupt-stacking piece filed as "grabber" on the Drive.
  • Early stat lines used Battle instead of Power, and Force Energy stars instead of Ability.
  • Identity lines that later became characteristics (Jedi Knight printed on a Vader test; Dark Knight on an earlier Vader sheet).

Joke and unpublished concepts sit in the same Drive folder (Skywalker Ranch; a Dark-framed Millennium Falcon).

Inventory

Titles below are the title printed on the piece, not the Drive filename.

Scan Title on piece Side Notes
Anakin's Lightsaber Light Character Weapon. Deploy on a Skywalker with ability > 3 (for free); Force drain +1 or two-destiny hit.
Asteroid Sanctuary Light Effect with placeholder "Create" art. Deploy on a sector; opponent loses Force equal to unoccupied sectors.
Bullseye Womp Rats Light Influence prototype. Move Luke and the T-16 to Beggar's Canyon; Luke's pilot skill +2.
Commander Luke Skywalker Light Hoth-only deploy (may move elsewhere). Power 4, Ability 4, Force-Sensitive. Adds 3 to power of starships he pilots.
Commander Wedge Antilles Light Lore: "The real Wedge. Smuggler." Power 3, Ability 2. Adds 3 to power of starships he pilots; on Rogue 3 or Red 2 also +2 maneuver and may draw one battle destiny.
Millennium Falcon Light Dagobah-era C1G sticker (also in forum t=18282). "Deploy for opponent to use. May replace any Falcon." Power 2, Maneuver 2, Hyperspeed 1.
[multiple Interrupt Inhibitor] Light Unprinted "Special New Category". Stacks copies of an interrupt; later copies cost more Force.
Dejarik Hologame (#1) Light Unprinted Sidegame Effect. Dejarik cards must challenge; both draw destiny; loser is lost.
Skywalker Ranch Light/Dark site Joke two-sided location. Game text on both sides: "If you occupy, Decipher gets the CCG license here."
AT-AT Walker Dark Combat Vehicle. Power 6, Armor 8, Landspeed 1. Permanent pilot ability 1.
Millennium Falcon Dark Dark-frame Falcon prototype (Drive filename dark falcon). Power 2, Armor 3, Hyperspeed 1. Opponent may move to same location as a 'react.'
Death Star (proxy) Dark Earliest layout: Location • Moving. Deploy 8, Battle 2 for each Death Star location, Forfeit not allowed. "Behaves like a starship." Crew: any.
Emperor Dark Dagobah-era C1G scan also in forum t=18282. Power 2, Ability 7, Jedi Master. Deploy only on Death Star; if both sides have presence, both must initiate battle.
Executor Dark Capital: Super Star Destroyer. Power 12, Armor 12, Hyperspeed 2. May add 10 pilots, 12 passengers and 1 Star Destroyer. Also in forum t=18282.
Image Of The Dark Lord Dark Effect. Deploy (4 Force) if opponent generates at least 3 more Force than you. At that site, adjacent sites, and Vader's site, players activate only if they have presence.
Imperial Commander Dark Leader. Power 2, Ability 2. Other Imperials (except leaders) are forfeit +1 with him.
Saturday Dark Influence prototype (blank art box). "Your own personal force is increased to 2 when it is Saturday." Deploy under any Imperial location.
Stormtrooper Dark Earliest layout: line art, Deploy 0, Battle 1, Forfeit 3, Force Energy 1 star.
Darth Vader Dark Photo layout closer to Premiere. Power 6, Ability 5, printed identity Jedi Knight. Lore names Anakin Skywalker and the Clone War. Losing-battle destiny 5 loses another Dark character.
Darth Vader Dark Earlier sheet: line art, Deploy 5, Battle 4, Forfeit 8, Force Energy 4 stars. Keywords: Pilot skills, Force Sensitive, Dark Knight.

Reflections Gold playtests

Cancelled 2001 stickers on white-border stock. Full title list and photos: Reflections Gold. Those scans are not repeated here.

Card backs and size

Retail backs are shown on Light Side and Dark Side. The Drive also has no-text template backs for print-and-play. Printed English cards are 63×88 mm (Euro poker).

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ Playtest (Lightside / Darkside) in the MPC print-ready Drive
  2. ↑ MPC Print Ready Cards — links to drives, r/starwarsccgalters (11 January 2021)
  3. ↑ t=18282, forum.starwarsccg.org