Justin Alfs Navy Trooper Odds

Justin Alfs Navy Trooper Odds is the Dark constructed list Justin Alfs posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Justin Alfs
• Published: 11 April 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: Navy Trooper Odds
• Format: Premiere - Reflections II
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Set Your Course For Alderaan
• Starting Interrupt: Prepared Defenses
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits other D sites: not in GEMP)
• Strategy: Raw power meets cheese.

Decklist

Objective 1x Set Your Course For Alderaan Character 1x Death Star Trooper 12x Navy Trooper Weapon 3x SFS L-s9.3 Laser Cannons Starship 1x Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 1x Dengar In Punishing One 1x Bossk In Hound's Tooth 1x Boba Fett In Slave I 1x Executor 5x TIE Interceptor

Location 1x Death Star 1x Death Star: Docking Bay 327 1x Alderaan 3x Raithal 1x Death Star: War Room Effect 1x Battle Order 1x Mobilization Points 1x Secret Plans 5x 3,720 To 1 1x Strategic Reserves 1x Lateral Damage 1x Come Here You Big Coward Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 5x Trooper Assault 2x Projective Telepathy 1x Abyssin Ornament 2x Twi'lek Advisor

The post also lists 4x other D sites, which matches no known card; it is shown as posted and counted in the published total.

Original post

Navy Trooper Odds

• Author: Justin "MoffWicket" Alfs
• Published: April 11, 2001
• Rating: 4.0
• Description: Raw power meets cheese.

Strategy

This was originally a killer deck pre-DSII. With the invention of Insight, it's now classified as a "fun" deck in my book. But if you think you can go through a tournament without seeing Insight, by all means try out this deck.

Always start Battle Order and Secret Plans no matter what deck you face. These are the two most important supporting cards in any odds deck because they force your opponent to activate and use force. Projective Telepathy helps too. It also gets you around Order to Engage.

Typical first turn

Deploy the at least 3 Navy Troopers to the DB. They're nice and cheap there. If you don't have 3, deploy what you have and use the objective to deploy the Death Star Trooper. If you don't use it to deploy the DS Trooper, get out the war room. Insert odds. If you got one of the 3 Raithals in your opening hand, put that out too. When your opponent activates on his first turn and the odds pop up, laugh maniacally and mock him. Your three troopers with Raithal=12 to his 0.

If your opponent starts with Insight, you probably shouldn't deploy any troopers. Do not let him see the 37201. Deploy a TIE to the DB and maybe you'll fool him into thinking that you're playing monkey TIEs. He'll prolly ditch Insight for Aim High or the LS Search & Destroy. Try to hold back your smile as he seals his doom.

Guard Raithal with your life. If the Big E and bounty hunter ships aren't enough, the TIE cannons should do the job. If your opponent tries to occupy their own system, kill them. Keep Battle Order working.

No more than 3 troopers should be on the Death Star. The rest go to your opponent's sites. Interior are preferable, as your guys defend at power 3 each there. Trooper assault makes them 5 each, so 4 can pretty much hold a site. The only way the opponent can take a site away from you is with mains, and they mostly suck against numbers.

Vs. WYS

Take over the cantina and maintain control of Raithal. Insert like mad. If they try to retrieve, SP makes odds pop. If they're light on space, control the Tatooine system too.

Vs. Jedi testing

Pray you don't see Insight. If you don't, you stand a good chance. Spread out on the D*, and their mains can't kill all your guys. Odds will hurt them bad. Dengar/Bossk/LatDamage should kill the Super Falcon. Projective Telepathy stops the cheesy Dagobah decks.

Vs. EBO/Hidden Base

Hope you can kill EBO with odds before the drains kill you. Battle Order should help a ton. Hidden Base doesn't matter because you have no drains anyway. Just keep control of Raithal. Cancel drains with Strategic Reserves.

Vs. Mains

If they put out a battleground site, dump your guys there. Keep control of Raithal. By owning 1 site and 1 system you should be able to drain for a little and odds for a lot. Let 'em have the Super Falcon at Kessel as long as you can cancel that one big drain.

This was one of my favorite decks before DSII killed it. Nothing beats watching your opponent flip 12 cards off the top before they finish activating for the first time. Or explaining how your 6 characters at the site are now power 5 each and all immune to attrition. Make sure to giggle a lot. This is one of those "Tee-hee" decks.

-Justin "MoffWicket" Alfs

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Starting SYCFA D DDB Alderaan Prepared Defenses Battle Order Mob Points Secret Plans Locations Raithal x3 DWar Room other D sites x4 Characters Death Star Trooper Navy Trooper x 12 Starships Zuckass Dengar Bossk Fett Big E TIE Interceptor x5 Effects 37201 x 5 Strategic Reserves Lateral Damage CHYBC Interrupts Trooper Assault x 5 Projective Telepathy x2 Abyssin Ornament Twilek Advisor x2 Weapons Interceptor Cannons x3

See also

• Justin Alfs
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Reflections II

Sources

• Navy Trooper Odds, decktech.net
• Navy Trooper Odds, stephenskilton.com
• Navy Trooper Odds (GitHub Pages)