Brainiac
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| Title | Brainiac |
|---|---|
| Side | Light |
| Type | Character — Alien |
| Set | A New Hope |
| Publisher | Decipher |
| Era | Decipher era |
| Rarity | R1 |
| Uniqueness | Unique |
| Destiny | π |
| Power | * |
| Ability | 3 |
| Deploy | Y |
| Forfeit | X |
| Icons | Nav Computer |
| GEMP ID | 2_2 |
| Versions | Decipher — this page (2_2)Decipher (Japanese) - Brainiac (Japanese) ( 1302_2o), A New Hope (Japanese), September 1997Virtual Original — Brainiac (V) (Virtual Set 15: Galactic Frontier) ( 1115_8)Virtual Legacy — Brainiac (V) ( 1210_90) |
Brainiac is a Light Character (Alien) from A New Hope.
Card Text
* Power = v(3(X-Y)+2(A-B)+ p) (minimum power = 1). X = Dark Side hand cards; Y = Light Side hand cards; A = total number of Dark icons in play; B = total number of Light icons in play; π = 3.141592653589793238462643383...
Lore
BoShek nicknamed this male Siniteen ‘Brainiac’ due to his ability to calculate hyperspace coordinates in his head. “He’s the brains, sweetheart!”
Joke
Brainiac is a DC Comics supervillain; the card's power formula ends "+ π", with π printed to 27 decimal places, and its destiny is π.[1] See Jokes.
Combos
- Brainiac + Mantellian Savrip Brainiac's forfeit is equal to the total number of cards in your opponent's hand, so he may often be sacrificed to the Mantellian Savrip to cover all battle damage and attrtion against you.[2]
Rulings
- Counts as a card in hand for determining value Y.[2]
- Is not an astromech.
- Cannot occupy astromech capacity slot.
- Square root of a negative number uses his minimum power of 1.
- Square root must take the positive root.
- Do not round unless required to do something that requires a whole number, in which case round to nearest whole number.
- Modifiers are applied after calculating Brainiac's power and other stats (e.g. calculate his power and forfeit normally, then add +2 to each for Tatooine Utility Belt).
- If Brainiac's game text is canceled, then his power, deploy, and forfeit are all an unmodifiable 0. His destiny is still pi (3.14...)
Characteristics
- Force-Attuned
Underlying card for
Sources
- Original printed face: Brainiac, Decipher (archived 1 June 2002).
- Complete Card List (Decipher PDF, archive 28 September 2007) — Light Character: Brainiac, A New Hope, R1
References
- ↑ Brainiac, Wikipedia. Preserved copy: Internet Archive, 10 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Scomp: Brainiac; card data swccg-card-json Light.json (commit d4e661e). Preserved copy: Internet Archive