Mason Johnson Death in Pitch Blackness

Mason Johnson Death in Pitch Blackness is the Dark constructed list Mason Johnson posted on DeckTech.^[1]

Deck info

Player: Mason Johnson
Published: 15 February 2001 (DeckTech)
Published title: Death in Pitch Blackness
Format: Premiere - Reflections II
Side: Dark
Starting Card: Set Your Course For Alderaan
GEMP Importable deck: Download
Strategy: Darkside mains beatdown that is strong in all areas. It's Old School with a New Age twist.

Decklist

Objective 1x Set Your Course For Alderaan Character 2x Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith 1x Darth Vader With Lightsaber 2x Grand Moff Tarkin 1x Captain Gilad Pellaeon 1x Grand Admiral Thrawn 1x Janus Greejatus 2x Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand 1x Prince Xizor 1x Guri 2x Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 1x Snoova 1x IG-88 With Riot Gun 1x Dengar With Blaster Carbine 1x 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle Starship 1x Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruiser 1x Chimaera 1x Executor 1x Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 1x Avenger 1x Boba Fett In Slave I 1x Devastator Vehicle 1x Blizzard Scout 1 1x Blizzard 2 1x Tempest 1 1x Tempest Scout 1 1x Tempest Scout 6	Location 1x Death Star 1x Death Star: Docking Bay 327 1x Endor 1x Kiffex 1x Alderaan 1x Endor: Forest Clearing 1x Endor: Back Door 1x Endor: Dark Forest Effect 2x Disarmed 1x Imperial Arrest Order 1x Battle Order 2x Lateral Damage 1x Resistance 1x A Bright Center To The Universe 1x First Strike 1x Secret Plans 1x Oppressive Enforcement 1x Imperial Decree 1x Reactor Terminal Interrupt 2x Twi'lek Advisor 2x Control & Set For Stun 2x Trample 2x Imperial Barrier

Original post

Death in Pitch Blackness

Author: Mason "Palleon" Johnson
Published: February 15, 2001
Rating: 4.0
Description: Darkside mains beatdown that is strong in all areas. It's Old School with a New Age twist.

Strategy

Basics You wait until your opponet deploys on the ground or in space then you lay a huge beatdown and take over his sites and drain. You have good forfiet so don't woory to mauch about being attacked. Just drain and battle the game away.

Matchups

Yavin 4 Mains

Revo types are dead. SAC types have already wasted plenty or cards. You WILL have more of a hold on space. More than likely he won't play a battleground in space. This is the fun part. Drop that Presence on the Death Star. for the LS as well, and with all of the walkers, you should be able to keep those high forfiets in tact away from the guns. Use Vader and Tarkin, and Guri and Xizor to deliver huge amount of direct damage.

Ops

Start Battle Order instead of the norm, get out the secret plans later. Five walkers and a couple of tramples should help immensely. No way will they control their planet. Use the Lateral Damage effectively. If needed, drop a drain site with Mara, POF, her stick and a walker. Drain for quite a bit. Ops are dead anyway so you rally dont have to worry.

EBO

Sit on the last marker with Igar, they will have a tough time with the Search and Destroy, and the Battle Order. As a plus you are packing 7 ships super high forfeit character-pilots and Lateral Damage. The scout can prove very valuable here. They will more than likely come to the Death Star or Alderaan, If they play swarm, resistance will keep them down to 2 per system and you can stack on one or two.

I playtested against these decks the most because I thought I would see a lot of them a regionals, and it does very well. Most don't pack enough ships to keep a grip on space anyway. If an oppurtunity comes up beat them down. Cancel their force drain bounuses and this game is easy.

Dagobah mains

If they have an only battle deck, that will be the more interesting of all the decks you will play against. Drain away at the endor sites with walkers abound. Your force generation should be too much for them.

Hidden Base

It looks as if we are finally seeing the end of this as a major deck archtype. Battle Order and Lateral Damage along with Search and Destroy should be key cards against them. You have plenty of ships, and again they can never resist the Death Star.

Profit

Bring the walkers to tatooine. It will be a knock down drag out fight, but they won't have Han and he (EPP Han) is the scariest of all the mains against you (he connects with EPP Leia and Luke to provide 3 destinies.) Set up those high destinies and you should be fine. Destoy them on the ground and in space.

15-3 in local tournamnet play.

Thanks for Reading and Reviewing

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech
Objective(1) SYCFA/TUPITU Locations (8) Death Star Death Star Docking Bay Endor Kiffex Alderaan Endor Forest Clearing Endor Back Door Endor Dark Forest Characters (18) Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith x2 Dath Vader w/lightsaber Grand Moff Tarkin x2 Captain Gilead Pealleon Grand Admiral Thrawn Janus Greejatus Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand x2 Prince Xizor Guri Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba x2 Snoova IG-88 with Riot Gun Dengar with Blaster Carbine 4-LOM with Concussion Rifle Starships (7) Dreadnaught-class Chimera Executor Zuckuss In Mist Hunter Avenger Boba Fett In Slave I Devastator Vehicles (5) Blizzard Scout 1 Blizzard 2 Tempest 1 Tempest Scout 1 Tempest Scout 6 Interrupts (8) Twi'lek Advisor x2 Control and Set For Stun x2 Trample x2 Imperial Barrier x2 Effects (13) Disarmed x2 Imperial Arrest Order Battle Order Lateral Damage x2 Resistance A Bright Center To the Universe First Strike Secret Plans Oppressive enforcement Imperial Decree Reactor Terminal

Sources

Death in Pitch Blackness, decktech.net
Death in Pitch Blackness, stephenskilton.com
Death in Pitch Blackness (GitHub Pages)
Death in Pitch Blackness (Wayback of decktech.net)

References

↑ Death in Pitch Blackness, DeckTech (Mason "Palleon" Johnson, 15 February 2001). Preservation copies: Stephen Skilton; GitHub Pages; Wayback Machine.

[dt-13689-1] Death in Pitch Blackness, DeckTech (Mason "Palleon" Johnson, 15 February 2001). Preservation copies: Stephen Skilton; GitHub Pages; Wayback Machine.

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