Icebreath Invasion!

icebreath Invasion! is a Dark constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: icebreath
• Published: 27 November 2003 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Standard
• Format: Premiere - Reflections III
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Invasion
• Strategy: Invasion
• GEMP Importable deck: Download

Introduction

A lot of people have been looking for a halfway decent Invasion deck design, so here ya go! I'll put up my Destroyer Droid version in the near future.

The published list has 62 cards.

Decklist

Objective 1x Invasion Character 1x Darth Maul 2x Nute Gunray 2x Rune Haako, Legal Counsel 1x Captain Daultay Dofine 1x P-59 1x P-60 4x Destroyer Droid 1x 3B3-10 1x 3B3-1204 1x 3B3-21 1x 3B3-888 1x SSA-306 1x SSA-719 1x SSA-1015 1x OOM-9 1x OWO-1 With Backup Weapon 6x Battle Droid Blaster Rifle Starship 1x Blockade Flagship 1x DFS-327 1x DFS-1015 1x DFS-1308 1x Trade Federation Droid Control Ship 1x IG-88 In IG-2000 1x Maul's Sith Infiltrator

Vehicle 1x TT-6 Location 1x Naboo 1x Naboo: Swamp 1x Naboo: Battle Plains 1x Naboo: Theed Palace Throne Room Effect 1x Fear Is My Ally 1x Droid Racks 1x An Entire Legion Of My Best Troops 1x Crossfire 1x You Cannot Hide Forever & Mobilization Points 1x Activate The Droids 1x Inconsequential Losses 1x Security Precautions 1x Expand The Empire Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 3x Oh, Switch Off 3x Imperial Artillery 1x Cease Fire! 1x Take Them Away 1x Master, Destroyers! 3x Rolling, Rolling, Rolling

Strategy

Been a while since I've done an Invasion deck... I thought I'd give the destiny 8 blasters version a try, so here it is!

Strat is fairly simple. Pull the sites (keeping the Swamp as the center site), pull Security Precautions (V) and play it on the center site to boost generation, Expand The Empire on the Swamp to increase your drains at the other two sites. Use the Battle Droids to hold Naboo, while the Destroyers and Maul go on some hit-and-run missions. The Battle Droid Blaster Rifles have three main uses: they're destiny +2 from AELOMBT for weapon or battle destiny, firing a couple in a battle gives you +5 power from Crossfire, and they can be used for forfeit fodder with Inconsequential Losses. Oh yeah, and you can use the Artilleries to do some extra damage.

Space, as is always the case with Invasion, is weak as hell. Against a dedicated space deck like Hidden Base or Massassi Base Ops, you're gonna get creamed... but not without putting up one hell of a fight. With battle destiny adders like IG in IG-2000 and the Droid Control Ship, as well as the tech stuff that the droid starfighters can do, you've got a decent chance of keeping the system occupied long enough to stay on the flipside and do some damage. If nothing else, you can throw some battle droids on board the capitals as never-ending forfeit fodder.

Card choices:

Maul's Infiltrator - A great ship to probe with... or you can just toss OOM-9 aboard as the pilot for a bit of extra power. Destiny 6 doesn't hurt, either.

TT-6 - pulls a couple of the Battle Droids, and helps reduce the cost a bit on Droid Racks to pull stuff back.

Cease Fire! - keeps your battle droids at a site from having their forfeit reduced from weapons fire. A cool alternative to Oh, Switch Off.

Take Them Away - anti-UC spy card.

Enjoy!

David Kangas

Shadow 31

Ophidian Agent

Vancouver, WA

See also

• Game Players Network decks
• icebreath
• Game Players Network
• GEMP importable decklist

Sources

• Invasion! (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 15 (Wayback, 20050430203312)