Icebreath Plausible Deniability

icebreath Plausible Deniability is a Dark constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: icebreath
• Published: 6 April 2003 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Theme/Fun
• Format: Premiere - Original VS2
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi
• Strategy: Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits Commander Praji (V) (Virtual Set 2: Our Most Desperate Hour), General Tagge (V) (Virtual Set 2: Our Most Desperate Hour): not in GEMP)

Introduction

Deny your opponents drains and watch their frustration as you slowly ping away their life Force with Visage.

Decklist

Objective 1x Hunt Down And Destroy The Jedi Character 4x Darth Vader With Lightsaber 1x Keder The Black 1x Arica 1x U-3PO (Yoo-Threepio) 2x Chief Retwin 3x Sergeant Elsek 4x Captain Jonus 3x Corporal Avarik 1x Darth Maul 2x Commander Praji (V) (Virtual Set 2: Our Most Desperate Hour) 1x General Tagge (V) (Virtual Set 2: Our Most Desperate Hour) 2x Ephant Mon 1x SSA-719 1x OWO-1 With Backup 1x TC-14 1x Darth Sidious Starship 2x Scimitar 2 2x Maul's Sith Infiltrator

Location 1x Executor: Holotheatre 1x Executor: Meditation Chamber 1x Executor: Docking Bay 1x Dagobah: Cave 1x Hoth: Wampa Cave (7th Marker) Effect 1x Fear Is My Ally 2x Visage Of The Emperor 1x Crush The Rebellion 1x Combat Response 1x Imperial Arrest Order 2x After Her! 2x Reactor Terminal Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 2x Evader 4x Vader's Obsession 1x The Circle Is Now Complete 1x Imperial Command 2x I Have You Now

Strategy

Basically what you want to do early game is activate everything, and draw like hell. Play sites when you pull 'em, put high-destiny stuff back when you find it, etc. Once you get 2-3 Vaders in hand, you can start setting up the ultimate denial deck.

Here's how the "denial" works:

3 Undercover spies

2 characters who satisfy all battle damage & attrition

1 character who hides from battle

1 character with immunity to attrition

1 starship with immunity to attrition

You place these guys down at locations with big drains for your opponent, and block away. Sidious and the Infiltrator are the riskier pair to play on table (since you can still take battle damage), so hold them for last. While you're blocking all of their force drains, they'll be constantly losing force to Visage and your never-ending Vader's Obsessions. EPP Vader does a few hit-and-run assaults (don't forget to use Evader and I Have You Now!), the battle droids are another heavy-hitting combo, and Praji/Tagge pull out Elsek, Avarik, and Jonus whenever you need a spare.

Card choices -

TC-14; Play him as a prelude to a big strike against their Jedi. POOP him to cancel their immunity, them play the battle droids and watch their big Jedi guys die to attrition.

Vader's Obsession; More like my own obsession. I've always wanted to use this card mainly for retrieval purposes, and that's what I'm doing here. With a tracked 6 and 7, you'll be causing damage of (and retrieving) quite a bit. Sure the objective gets POOPed... it's not like I'm using it for anything important, anyways! >:)

After Her!; Extra retrieval. Let them have a site where they can drain for 1... as soon as they use it, play this card and drop your beatdown squad.

You don't have any drain sites of your own, so all the damage throughout the game is only going to be caused by Obsession, Visage, and battles. Have fun! >:)

David Kangas

Shadow 31

See also

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

Sources

• Plausible Deniability (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 30 (Wayback, 20050430203312)