Enhanced Jabba's Palace

Enhanced Jabba's Palace
Game/Set	Star Wars CCG
Expansion	Enhanced Jabba's Palace
Publisher	Decipher
Country	USA
Date	January 2000
Language	English
Cards Total	12
Card Size	63x88mm

Enhanced Jabba's Palace is the 22nd Star Wars CCG product, published by Decipher in January 2000. It is twelve premium cards in four unique die-cut packs (4 Light Side, 8 Dark Side).

Each pack has three premiums (the first visible through the window) plus four Jabba's Palace Limited boosters. MSRP $14.95; 12 packs per box. The four Jabba's Palace boosters are reprints.

The four window cards are See-Threepio, Master Luke, Boushh, and Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand.

Some Enhanced Jabba's Palace cards leaked into Star Trek CCG The Trouble with Tribbles packs. Decipher offered replacement boosters if those cards were returned.

Promotion

Decipher marketed the set around Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand. Model Shannon Baksa is the photographic likeness. The publisher's summary opened "Can you say Mara Jade? Finally, the fabled character (from the Timothy Zahn novels and 'Tales From Jabba's Palace') comes alive as one of the 12 new Premium cards for this enhanced set." Each of the four die-cut tuck boxes revealed its face card so buyers knew which three premiums they were getting.

Justin Pakes's Decipher Product Spotlight began its card-by-card preview on 17 December 1999 with "Are You Ready To Return To The Palace?" It opened with Mara: "Where else could you start your examination of EJP but with the renowned Mara?" He called her "nothing less than a Dark Side main character" on statistics alone, then walked duel text, spy/Undercover, and the first Dark Side dual Alien/Imperial persona. Attendees at DecipherCon 1999 had already seen some EJP cards in the Art Gallery.

On 10 January 2000, two days before the 12 January street date, Pakes listed all twelve premiums. Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand is the visible facing card of her pack, with You Can Either Profit By This... / Or Be Destroyed and Bossk With Mortar Gun.

Star Wars Insider 47 (January 2000), Lucasfilm's official fan magazine, put Baksa on the cover. It ran Scott Chernoff's six-page feature Mara Jade: Flesh and Blood (pages 52–57) on the photoshoot. Decipher creative director Dan Burns told Chernoff that because Mara was a Power Card in Enhanced Jabba's Palace, he thought of "fleshing her out". He called the shoot "a really big production for just a little card" that had to pass through Lucasfilm. The magazine printed the finished Mara card on page 54 and listed "STAR WARS CUSTOMIZABLE CARD GAME: JABBA'S PALACE ENHANCED (1999, Decipher)" in its Mara bibliography.

Packaging

Display

Die-cut pack

Print sheets

Premiums print 11×11 (121 cards). Dark Side: 9 titles 13× plus 4 blanks.

See also

• Enhanced Cloud City
• Jabba's Palace Limited
• Shannon Baksa
• Mara Jade: Flesh and Blood
• Oversized and undersized cards

Card list

Packs are listed by window card. The Jabba's Palace Limited boosters are not listed.

Boushh pack

Image	Card	Type	Rarity	Destiny	Game text
	Boushh	Character	PM	1	Deploys only to a site (-2 on Tatooine or Coruscant) as an Undercover Spy. While undercover at an opponent's site, prevents opponent from modifying or canceling your Force Drains at opponent's related sites. Immune to Attrition < 3.
	Zuckuss In Mist Hunter	Starship	PM	1	May add 1 pilot and 3 passengers. Permanent pilot is •Zuckuss, who provides ability of 4 and adds 2 to power. Unless opponent has total ability > 6 piloting here, may reset opponent's total battle destiny here to 0.
	Court Of The Vile Gangster/I Shall Enjoy Watching You Die	Objective	PM	0	Deploy Audience Chamber, Great Pit Of Carkoon and Dungeon. {While} this side up, once during each of your deploy phases, may deploy one docking bay or [Independent Starship] starship from Reserve Deck; reshuffle. Bounty Hunters are forfeit +2 and immune to Goo Nee Tay. You may not play Scanning Crew. Each player loses 1 Force at end of each of their deploy phases unless that player has a non-droid character at a Tatooine battleground site. {Flip} this card if you have two captives (or a captive of ability > 2) at any Jabba's Palace site(s).
	Court Of The Vile Gangster/I Shall Enjoy Watching You Die	Objective	PM	7	{While} this side up, once during each of your deploy phases, may deploy Sarlacc, Rancor or Rancor Pit from Reserve Deck; reshuffle. Captives targeted by trap door are immediately relocated to Rancor Pit (do not draw destiny) and Trap Door may not be canceled. Opponent loses Force equal to forfeit value of each opponent's character eaten by a Rancor or Sarlacc (place that character out of play). {Flip} this card if you have no captives at Tatooine sites and opponent has no character at same site as Rancor.

Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand pack

Image	Card	Type	Rarity	Destiny	Game text
	Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand	Character	PM	1	Adds 2 to power of anything she pilots. Power +2 if Emperor on table. May be targeted by Vader's Obsession and Epic Duel instead of Vader. Once per game, may deploy a weapon on her from Reserve Deck; reshuffle. Immune to attrition < 4.
	Bossk With Mortar Gun	Character	PM	1	Adds 2 to power of anything he pilots. Permanent weapon is •Bossk's Mortar Gun (may fire for free; draw destiny; may subtract or add 1 if at same site as a bounty; choose one character with that destiny number present to be captured.)
	You Can Either Profit By This.../Or Be Destroyed	Objective	PM	0	Deploy Tatooine:Jabba's Palace and Audience Chamber (with Han frozen there, he may not be moved when frozen). Opponent may deploy up to two aliens at Audience Chamber. {While} this side up, opponent may not Force Drain at Audience Chamber and you may not Force drain at Tatooine locations. You may not play Frozen Assets. Luke, C-3PO and R2-D2 are deploy -2 at Jabba's Palace sites (Master Luke deploys for free instead). {Flip} this card if Han is on Tatooine and not a captive. {Place} out of play if Tatooine is 'blown away.'
	You Can Either Profit By This.../Or Be Destroyed	Objective	PM	7	{Immediately} retrieve 5 Force (or 10 if Han has power < 4) once per game. {While} this side up, cancels game text of Bad Feeling Have I. Your unpiloted starfighters may deploy to exterior Tatooine locations. During your control phase, opponent loses 1 Force for each battleground location occupied by Han, Luke, Leia, Chewie, or Lando. {Flip} this card if Han is captured or not on table. {Place} out of play if Tatooine is 'blown away.'

Master Luke pack

Image	Card	Type	Rarity	Destiny	Game text
	Master Luke	Character	PM	1	Deploys -2 on Tatooine. Power -2 when present with Vader. Adds 2 to power of anything he pilots. When in battle, may target one opponent's alien present. Draw destiny. Target returns to opponent's hand if destiny > ability. Immune to attrition < 4.
	Dengar With Blaster Carbine	Character	PM	2	Adds 2 to the power of anything he pilots. Permanent weapon is •Dengar's Blaster Carbine (may target a character, creature or vehicle for free; draw destiny; target hit, and its forfeit = 0, if destiny +1 > defense value; may be fired twice per battle).
	IG-88 In IG-2000	Starship	PM	1	May add 2 passengers. Permanent pilot is •IG-88, who adds 2 to power and 3 to maneuver. May initiate battle. When in a battle you initiate, adds one battle destiny. Ion Cannon may deploy aboard.

See-Threepio pack

Image	Card	Type	Rarity	Destiny	Game text
	See-Threepio	Character	PM	2	Deploys only to a Jabba's Palace site. Once per game, when replacing another C-3PO, retrieve 3 Force. When in battle with your other droid and a Rebel, adds one battle destiny. R2-D2 deploys and moves for free to same location.
	Jodo Kast	Character	PM	2	When in battle, if opponent draws more than one battle destiny, may cancel one. Once per turn, when firing a rifle or blaster, may target for free and add 2 to total weapon destiny. May be targeted by Hidden Weapons. May 'fly' (landspeeed = 3).
	Mara Jade's Lightsaber	Weapon	PM	1	Use 1 Force to deploy on Mara Jade. May add 1 to Force Drain where present. May target a character or creature for free. Draw two destiny. Target hit, and its forfeit = 0, if total destiny > defense value.