Mark Kloida Slow Poison

Mark Kloida Slow Poison is the Dark constructed list Mark Kloida posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Mark Kloida
• Published: 15 February 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: Slow Poison
• Format: Premiere - Reflections II
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Bring Him Before Me
• Starting Interrupt: Prepared Defenses
• GEMP Importable deck: Download
• Strategy: 'It is a very interesting poison. The 1st half settles into the blood stream & intestinal walls. When the second part enters the body the 2 meet, have a little party in your cardiovasculer system, and suddenly you are quite dead.'

Decklist

Objective 1x Bring Him Before Me Character 1x The Emperor 2x Prince Xizor 1x Guri 2x Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand 2x Grand Moff Tarkin 2x Lord Vader 2x Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith 1x Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 1x Janus Greejatus 1x IG-88 With Riot Gun 1x Dengar With Blaster Carbine 1x 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle 1x Sim Aloo 1x M'iiyoom Onith Weapon 2x Vader's Lightsaber 1x Mara Jade's Lightsaber Starship 1x Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 1x Thunderflare 1x Bossk In Hound's Tooth 2x Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser 1x Dengar In Punishing One 1x Boba Fett In Slave I

Location 1x Death Star II: Throne Room 1x Endor: Landing Platform (Docking Bay) 1x Death Star II: Docking Bay 1x Carida 1x Sullust 1x Endor: Back Door 1x Cloud City: Downtown Plaza Effect 1x Insignificant Rebellion 1x Your Destiny 1x Imperial Arrest Order 1x Mobilization Points 1x You Cannot Hide Forever 1x Lateral Damage 1x Disarmed 1x Secret Plans 1x Search And Destroy 1x Emperor's Power Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 2x Imperial Barrier 1x Sense & Uncertain Is The Future 2x Sense 2x Alter 2x Omni Box & It's Worse 1x The Circle Is Now Complete 2x You Are Beaten

Original post

Slow Poison

• Author: Mark "yodarth" Kloida
• Published: February 15, 2001
• Rating: 4.5
• Description: 'It is a very interesting poison. The 1st half settles into the blood stream & intestinal walls. When the second part enters the body the 2 meet, have a little party in your cardiovasculer system, and suddenly you are quite dead.'

Strategy

NOTE Change 1 Ommni Box/It's Worse to a Battle Deployment. Anti-WYS and you've got the ships for it too.

Responses to reviews

Ooryl_909 You bet it can beat ya )

Palleon, spirajira Just couldn't think of a better title. It's actually fast enough to sit a couple turns saving up Force for beatdowns against some decks )

pakkratt Yes it is. Thanks.

Josk Gatrez I agree.

deadbeat Um...ok. Take out characters and key interrupts and put in more ground to cover with less characters and more unessessary effects. Do you know how to play BHBM? At least this one doesn't do that.

Harbinger I love BHBM too. Since D*II its the only deck I've played, I just keep finding new versions. It's just an awesome deck. The Emperor is really needed at the Throne Room when I start battling. With Xizor with him I should be safe, if I really feel in danger one of his aides can drop by. Anyone know if like say I put the D*II Emperor down then if later on I can pull him from the deck and replace the D*II one? Miyoom can come in handy, not a big deal if she does or doesn't hit. It could be a good spot to take her out though. Thanks for a VERY helpful review

waid Most BHBMs only have 4 Vaders. You don't need more. You don't depend on him EVERY second of the game like Hunt Down. With 2 battle destiny in every battle you should easily get 5-6 battle destiny total, meaning 7-8 attiriton at least. With slices, dices, and chokes it works out fine. Emperor's Power and Xizor allow you to keep some beef while still drawing good destiny and getting in a fair amount of attrition.

End Review Responses

Start Secret Plans if you suspect retrieval, like against WYS especially. First turn, before activating pull Carida and Emperor's Power. Theres 2 more Force for you the entire game and the opponent can only drain you at Carida for 1 and a key effect.

Then pull the Death Star II Docking Bay. Drop The Emperor there. Next turn go get the Endor Docking Bay. Unless you're really afraid of a beatdown drop Xizor or one of Palpy's aids there for some quick Force. You'll be activating plenty early. Now you'll start getting people ready to fight. When you know Xizor or an Emperor's Aide isn't going to hold the Endor Docking Bay move him to the Death Star II one. Move Palpy over and Emperor's Power will be in effect.

Get Xizor with the Emperor and you have at least 2 battle destiny in EVERY battle (unless you know you dont need it) and are adding +2 attiriton. Sweet. A DVDLOTS with a stick can YAB, choke, swing, and has 2 battle destinies with +2 attrition. A LV loses the choke ability but has a huge defense value and is almost a sure hit with his stick. With Dr. E and Disarmed you're getting rid of the mains, Miyoom can be a docking bay dropper, especially good mid-late game at the docking bay, and gets rid of good characters. Mara, Tarkin, what not. Excellent beatdowns with enough Force to do it. Circles, Barriers, YABs, plenty of defenses. Ommni Box & It's Worse is a nice used 5 that makes sure they're not tracking and can really hurt those who use It Could Be Worse. Carida is great. Mid game while they're concentrating on the ground just drop a ship or 2 there and you're hitting them for 2.

Against space lose YCHF, get S&D. Simple. The Endor Docking Bay is 1 battleground, get one more and they're really screwed. Your space is great, trust me. Lateral Damage + anything. You won't need all your mains on the ground, and some make excellent fodder.

Reasons for using certain cards

The Emperor, 2 Xizors, Emperor's Power

It can be surprising. But you can easily add 2 destiny in every battle with +2 attrition. It really has a lot of advantages. And it is MUCH more stable against Rebel Scout Luke. If he forces you to the Throne Room you have a lot of help instead of having a stranded Vader and a lot of problems.

Thunderflare

You probably won't be using its hyperspeed half the time anyways, so its not an issue. Look 7 deploy for 9 power. Nice. You'll have a bounty hunter in ship of someone for backup. If you want 2 more ability and 3 more power you can use the Executor, but you're paying over double for it. This can REALLY come in handy, trust me...7 deploy for 9 power.

Non-Combo Sense and Alters

They don't cancel each other out. Can't win SAC wars that way.

2/2 sites/system

MWYHL and Menace Fades can't stop your drain of 2 unlike the drain +2 systems. No Cantina because half the light decks are WYS and they'll have one anyways. Sullust is pretty sweet mid-late game.

Deck match-ups

Profit

Your choice wheather to drop Mara and Dengar or Dr. E and Ponda there or not. If you do, make sure you reinforce. You have to deal damage somewhere else also, otherwise you're screwed. By the time they free Han they have to not have enough Force left to survive, IF they can free Han at all. If you don't drop your aliens, set up Emperor's Power with Xizor there. In each battle you should be able to gun or destiny down 2 mains. That'll hurt. And unless they're really packing space you should easily be able to rule it.

WYS Guri is good. Battle Deployment hurts them big time. In space Battle Deployment will help, but don't be stupid and go after the Superfalcon. On the ground, even with the +2 forfeit to smugglers, forfeit=0 guns vs. low ability smugglers are great. Your destinies and attiriton with your high forfeit will overwhelm them. The SA is useless, unless you sneak it in early, but YABs, taking away Luke, this shouldn't be too hard of a win. If they go all space its bad for them. You get sticks on Vader and Mara and S&D working, drain them for huge amounts they're dead. If you want add in Death Mark....Han or Dash could have problems if they're sitting in space.

MWYHL

All your drain sites are 2/2s, so cancelling your drain mods isn't doing anything but taking away stick additions. If they're in space, Lateral Damage and DiPO whips swarms, the rest just kill mains ships. Against ground

drain in space. Your people should be able to respond to any mains by whipping them. Barriers, YAB, Circle, what not.

Eloms Oh please. They're not a problem. You have tons of non-Imperial characters that do major damage. And if I must say, non-unique aliens tend to die in large numbers. DVDLOTS + stick chokes 1, slashes another, battle destiny kills 2 more. Nuff said.

EBO S&D set up, Lateral Damage, in space they will have to have a lot of stuff not to be taken down. Your S&D and ground drains will hurt them as it is.

This deck can beat anything. Its awesome. Try it. It's 11-1 in tourney play, besides a few minor adjustments that have been made throughout the time, and its beaten all kinds of players with all kinda of decks.

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Starting Stuff (8) Bring Him Before Me/TYFP Death Star II Throne Room Insignificant Rebellion Your Destiny Prepared Defenses Imperial Arrest Order Mobilization Points You Cannot Hide Forever Locations (6) Endor Landing Platform (Docking Bay) Death Star II Docking Bay Carida Sullust Endor Back Door Cloud City Downtown Plaza Characters (19) The Emperor Prince Xizor x2 Guri Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand x2 Grand Moff Tarkin x2 Lord Vader x2 Darth Vader, DLOTS x2 Ponda Baba & Dr. Evazan God (aka Janus Greejatus) IG-88 With Gun Dengar With Blaster Carbine 4-LOM With Rifle Sim Aloo Miyoom Onith Starships (7) Zuckuss In Mist Hunter Thunderflare Bossk In Bus Dreadnaught x2 Dengar In Punishing One Boba In Slave I Weapons (3) Vader's Stick x2 Mara's Stick Effects (5) Lateral Damage (Japanese) Disarmed Secret Plans Search & Destroy Emperor's Power Interrupts (12) Imperial Barrier x2 Sense & Uncertain Is The Future Sense x2 Alter x2 Ommni Box & It's Worse x2 The Circle Is Now Complete You Are Beaten x2

See also

• Mark Kloida
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Reflections II

Sources

• Slow Poison, decktech.net
• Slow Poison, stephenskilton.com
• Slow Poison (GitHub Pages)
• Slow Poison (Wayback of decktech.net)