Joshua Huffman A Machiavellian Scheme

Joshua Huffman A Machiavellian Scheme is the Dark constructed list Joshua Huffman posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Joshua Huffman
• Published: 9 August 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: A Machiavellian Scheme
• Format: Premiere - Coruscant
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Agents Of Black Sun
• Starting Interrupt: Prepared Defenses
• GEMP Importable deck: Download
• Strategy: This AOBS deck uses docking bays and mob points to set up a lot of force activation and force drain locations. Able to beat the crap out of many popular light side decks.

Decklist

Objective 1x Agents Of Black Sun Character 3x Prince Xizor 4x Emperor Palpatine 2x Guri 2x 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle 2x Boba Fett With Blaster Rifle 2x Dengar With Blaster Carbine 1x IG-88 With Riot Gun 1x Jodo Kast 1x Snoova 2x Vigo 1x P-60 1x P-59 Weapon 1x Vibro-Ax Starship 1x Bossk In Hound's Tooth 2x Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 1x Stinger 1x Virago

Location 1x Coruscant (Dark) (Special Edition) 1x Coruscant: Imperial City 1x Death Star: Docking Bay 327 1x Endor: Landing Platform (Docking Bay) 1x Coruscant: Docking Bay 1x Cloud City: East Platform (Docking Bay) 1x Rendili Effect 1x Imperial Arrest Order & Secret Plans 1x Crush The Rebellion 1x You Cannot Hide Forever & Mobilization Points 2x Presence Of The Force 1x Reactor Terminal 1x Security Precautions 1x Allegations Of Corruption Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 1x Evader & Monnok 2x Force Lightning 3x Sense 2x Projective Telepathy 3x Jabba's Through With You 3x Hidden Weapons 1x They're Still Coming Through!

Original post

A Machiavellian Scheme

• Author: Joshua "Tarkin" Huffman
• Published: August 9, 2001
• Rating: 4.0
• Description: This AOBS deck uses docking bays and mob points to set up a lot of force activation and force drain locations. Able to beat the crap out of many popular light side decks.

Strategy

Quite a fun deck to play.

On your first turn before you activate, grab Evader/Monnok. During deploy grab a docking bay from deck. If you have Guri in your hand and enough force to deploy her set her down with the Prince. Guri is very important to this deck as she keeps the Prince safe (in case you didn't know). Note if Guri is in your force pile. In any case, move prince to docking bay and try to draw Guri if you didnt have her. From here, grab docking bays, activate mad force, and defeat your opponent where ever he may be. Get your objective flipped as soon as you can and protect the prince. Try to get you opponent to Endor so it becomes very expensive for him to run away. The deck is light on space so choose your battles carefully and make sure you have a significant force before attacking.

Card Choices

One must remember the wisdom of Machiavelli, “By arming your subjects, you make their arms your own” from The Prince. Nine of the character cards in this deck have build in weapons, one can get an axe, three can use hidden weapons, and four use lightning. It is always wise to go into battle armed.

3 Princes? I find three necessary to keep the objective flipped. Fallen portal, weapons, Jar Jar, and other evil tactics cause tremendous trouble.

Destroyer droids- Most likely some of the best characters in Coruscant. Use the objective to set up the hits and make you opponent lose one or two force each time.

Hidden Weapons- This card is great fun. If your objective is flipped you can easily capture a character or better yet, cause them to be immediately lost. Tracking isn't that hard either if Luke is at a battleground. A good amount of threes and twos in the deck. I find two Bobas and a Jodos are needed to maximize the use of this card.

Projective Telepathy- It has saved me many times. The opponent drops an early spy + a character w/ a weapon against the prince, but usually will not have enough force to continue the battle. Bonus- also cancels Anger, Fear, Aggression.

Secret Plans- Many people use this card, but against podracing, I like to hold this card in my hand until they are about to win the podrace. Seldom do people save 6 force to retrieve.

They're Still Coming Through- Fallen portal is bad, really, really bad. Use this once and you opponent will think twice about playing it again. Also cancels smoke screen, nasty with all the new Jedi. Recycles if you cant play it.

Presence of the Force- In my opinion, one of the best cards in the card. The ability to create battlegrounds is huge, and adds to both force drains and activation. Best of all, crush stops Clash from canceling Presence.

Emperor Palpatine

Everyone loves the emperor, but getting more than four is difficult

without a wad of cash.

Give this deck a try. You too can see the power of the mighty prince.

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Starting (8) AOBS Coruscant Imperial City Prince Xizor Imperial Arrest Order/Secret Plans Crush the Rebellion You Can not hide forever/Mob Points Prepared Defenses Characters (21) Emperor Palpatine x4 Guri x2 Prince Xizor x2 4-Lom w/ gun x2 Boba w/ gun x2 Dengar w/ gun x2 Ig-88 w/ gun Jodo Kast Snoova Vigo x2 P-60 P-59 Starships (5) Bossk In Hound's Tooth Zuckuss In Mist Hunter x2 Stinger Virago Locations (5) Death Star Docking Bay Endor Docking Bay Coruscant Docking Bay Cloud City Docking Bay Rendili Weapons (1) Vibro-Ax Effects (5) Presence of the Force x2 Reactor Terminal Security Precautions Allegations of Corruption Interrupts (15) Evader & Monnok Force Lightning x2 Sense x3 Projective Telepathy x2 Jabba's Through With You x3 Hidden Weapons x3 They're Still Coming Through

See also

• Joshua Huffman
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Coruscant

Sources

• A Machiavellian Scheme, decktech.net
• A Machiavellian Scheme, stephenskilton.com
• A Machiavellian Scheme (GitHub Pages)