2002 World Championship Greg Shaw DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS

2002 World Championship Greg Shaw DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS is the Light constructed list Greg Shaw posted on DeckTech after finishing 2nd at the 2002 World Championship.

Deck info

• Player: Greg Shaw
• Event: 2002 World Championship
• Stage: Published lists
• Finish: 2
• Published: 11 November 2002 (DeckTech)
• Published title: DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS
• Format: Premiere - Original VS3
• Side: Light
• Starting Card: There Is Good In Him
• Starting Interrupt: An Unusual Amount Of Fear · Heading For The Medical Frigate
• Starting Effect: Merc Sunlet
• Strategy: There Is Good In Him (variable start)

Decklist

Objective 1x There Is Good In Him Character 1x Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight 3x Qui-Gon Jinn With Lightsaber 1x Obi-Wan Kenobi 2x Leia With Blaster Rifle 2x Lando Calrissian, Scoundrel 1x Tawss Khaa 1x Corran Horn 1x Owen Lars & Beru Lars 1x Orrimaarko 1x Supreme Chancellor Valorum 1x Phylo Gandish 1x Threepio Weapon 1x Luke's Lightsaber Starship 2x Millennium Falcon

Location 1x Endor: Landing Platform (Docking Bay) 1x Endor: Chief Chirpa's Hut 1x Coruscant: Jedi Council Chamber 1x Dejarik Hologameboard Effect 1x Merc Sunlet 1x I Feel The Conflict 1x Colo Claw Fish 1x Your Insight Serves You Well & Staging Areas 1x I Can't Believe He's Gone 1x Draw Their Fire 1x Honor Of The Jedi 1x Goo Nee Tay 1x Scanner Techs Interrupt 1x An Unusual Amount Of Fear 1x Heading For The Medical Frigate 1x Don't Do That Again 2x Balanced Attack 3x Escape Pod 3x A Jedi's Resilience 1x Houjix 1x Grimtaash 1x On The Edge 3x Sense & Recoil In Fear 2x The Bith Shuffle & Desperate Reach 1x The Signal 1x Sorry About The Mess & Blaster Proficiency 1x Speak With The Jedi Council 2x Free Ride & Endor Celebration 1x Were You Looking For Me? 1x The beatdown tripler

Original post

DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS

• Author: Greg "TychoCelchu" Shaw
• Published: Nov 11, 2002
• Rating: 4.5
• Description: Repost so more people can see it. TIGIH with some mean tech to deliver huge beats.

Strategy

Props go to

Scott Lingrell for tech

Bill Kafer for lots of testing

Pete Flamini, Chris Gogolen, and Ted Pan…Ted P for helping test the deck and trying out new things with it.

The strat is divided into sections, hopefully it will make sense in the end.

The Lingrell Tech

When the last set of vcards came out, me, Bill Kafer, and Scott Lingrell tested a LOT of decks. One time we were spitting out ideas and scott was like ’You can use merc sunlet to put obi out of play and add use the jank ep1 card to add power.

A few weeks later, after not finding a good ls deck, i decided to try the obi tech. it works like this

Use Dont Do That Again to grab I Can’t Believe He’s Gone. Use Balanced Attack to get Obi (he’s a general, read his lore). Obi is usually the first card I lose. If your lost pile ever gets bigger than your opponents (some games you wont need to pull this off, you can get huge beats early on), save 2 force and put Obi OOP with Merc. Slam down ICBHG and add 5 to EVERY battle at a site. This is so huge, especially with Conflict on the table. MAD props go to Scott for this tech, even though he won’t play the deck.

Character Selection

These characters were chosen because they all get destiny by themselves, and most of them can do plenty of damage by themselves (esp. between ICBHG and the Fish). Valorum is just a random.mof, feel free to replace him with a different destiny-drawing character if you have to. Owen and Beru are HUGE against Watto (the ds deck of choice at DCon), because they DRAW DESTINY IF UNABLE TO OTHERWISE. Right in Watto’s eye. If unable… supercedes everything, so they will always draw. Most players wont (or at least, they didnt) barrier the Lars because they dont see a reason to. In my 4 games against watto (3-1 against it), I had to call the judge over each game to get the ruling.

Interrupts & Effects

Sense and Bith Shuffle get rid of their defensive stuff. Recoil can get rid of Ghhhk as well. Threepio is good, so the card to get him is in there. Escape Pod is good, especially to get Grimtaash when they arent expecting it. SATM leads to amazing beats. I’ve won plenty of games because my opponent leaves vader + bliz 4 or some backup chaacter, and I come down with somebody to mess vader and get my luke back.

Goo is one of the best cards in the game, especially when you give up a max of 2 icons. HotJedi stops the TINT shield as well as other annoying stuff.

Merc is good for putting Obi OOP, but also for saving youragainst drains or direct damage that would otherwise massacre you.

Activation

Activation isnt as consistent as I would like it to be. Most games you active around 15 while giving up 2. Sometimes it just plain sucks, like if they capture Luke and you cant find either site or a card to get it. However I’ve been able to win enough games with only 8 or so force a turn for the majority of the game that I’m not too worried about it.

Winning

I still havent figured out how, but this deck wins. It wins a lot, by a lot, and it can turn around almost any certain loss. Part of the reason is probably due to the fact that it’s TIGIH. Nobody plays TIGIH, so nobody knows how to play against it.

Most games are won by a nice beatdown, or enough beatings that your opponent is either out of characters, or they dont have enough cards to do what they need, and you can sneak by with your drain of two with Luke and a drain at one of their sites. Sometimes Luke can run into Palpy and make your opponent lose 2 force a turn from the 7 side. I have yet to win by crossing Vader, but it can be done with 3 cards stacked. Just flip a six and you win.

That’s all for now. If I think of something else or feel like doing matchups, I’ll add an update. For now you can look at the deck’s record

12-2 in sanctioned/finals games, including wins against Praskac (COTVG beats + Watto), Eric Hunter (watto) and Brian twigg (Hunt Down). The losses were to Graham Neal’s senate with one bg site (he took to space) and to Angelo Consoli’s Watto (couldnt find good cards, when I did, he had force field x2 -P).

Cards I would like to add

Spiral

Another Sense

Nabrun

Plo Kloon

another battleground site

another character that draws if unable…

Constructive criticism is welcome

-Greg Shaw

DCon2k2 Runner Up

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Don’t review this deck until you read the strat section, otherise you won’t understand why a lot of cards are in here Starting crap 11 Unusual Amount of Fear There Is Good in this Obj Endor DB Endor Chirpa’s Hut Jedi Luke Luke’s Stick I Feel The Conflict HFTMF vMerc Sunlet (always start) -start 2 of the following- Don’t Do That Again Colo Claw Fish YISYW + Staging Areas Locations 2 Jedi Council Chamber Dejarik Gameboard Characters 15 Jedi Luke EPP Qui Gon x3 Premiere Obi EPP Leia x2 Lando Scoundrel x2 Twass Khaa Corran Horn Owen + Beru (HUGE anti-watto tech) Orrimarko Chancellor Valorum Phylo Threepio Ships 2 HCFalcon x2 Effects 6 whatever you dont start I Can’t Believe He’s Gone Draw Their Fire HotJedi Goo Scanner Techs (start against senate) Interrupts 24 Balanced Attack x2 Escape Pod x3 Resilience x3 Houjix Grimtaash On The Edge Sense + Recoil x3 Bith Shuffle + Reach x2 The Signal SATM + BP Speak with the Jedi Free Ride + EC x2 Were You Looking For Me? The beatdown tripler

See also

• 2002 World Championship
• Greg Shaw
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists

Sources

• DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS, decktech.net
• DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS, stephenskilton.com
• DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS (GitHub Pages)
• DCon2k2 Runner Up - LS (Wayback of decktech.net)
• World Championship Results announced, theforce.net (3 November 2002)