Michael Sorrell SAD BUT TRUE

Michael Sorrell SAD BUT TRUE is the Dark constructed list Michael Sorrell posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Michael Sorrell
• Published: 2 August 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: SAD BUT TRUE
• Format: Premiere - Tatooine
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Tatooine: Jabba's Palace
• Starting Interrupt: Combat Readiness
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits Grabber: not in GEMP)
• Strategy: It's sad that a deck this cheesy can be effective, but it's true. Flat out...this deck simply wins.

Decklist

Character 3x Darth Maul 3x Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith 4x Emperor Palpatine 2x Janus Greejatus 1x Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand 1x IG-88 With Riot Gun 1x Dengar With Blaster Carbine 1x Guri 1x Grand Admiral Thrawn 1x Admiral Chiraneau Weapon 1x Maul's Lightsaber 1x Mara Jade's Lightsaber 1x Vader's Lightsaber Starship 2x Chimaera

Location 1x Tatooine: Jabba's Palace 1x Tatooine: Desert Landing Site 1x Jabba's Palace: Audience Chamber 1x Jabba's Palace: Lower Passages 2x Hoth: Echo Command Center (War Room) Effect 1x Blast Door Controls 1x Search And Destroy 1x No Escape 1x Something Special Planned For Them 1x Much Anger In Him 2x Responsibility Of Command Interrupt 1x Combat Readiness 5x Sense 2x Alter 2x Force Lightning 1x Sniper & Dark Strike 3x Twi'lek Advisor 3x Imperial Command 2x Force Field 2x Weapon Levitation 2x Omni Box & It's Worse

The post also lists 1x Grabber, which matches no known card; it is shown as posted and counted in the published total.

Original post

SAD BUT TRUE

• Author: Michael "choker" Sorrell
• Published: August 2, 2001
• Rating: 4.5
• Description: It's sad that a deck this cheesy can be effective, but it's true. Flat out...this deck simply wins.

Strategy

(PRE-CORUSCANT)

I'm not going to write much cause the decklist is pretty self-explanatory. Get the JP sites out using the Audience Chamber and play Mara w/ her saber to the Chamber first turn for a solid drain of 2. With the other characters just go to the opponent sites and beat him off them. That simple. If they play an interrupt you sense it. If they play an effect you alter it. Get the jedi with their matching sabers using weapon lev., combine this with dark strike, and smack the opponent around. If they are depending on barriers like most WYS decks or QMCs stick out Blast Door Controls and execute the beat down.

The cheesy part comes in with Responsibility of Command. Twi'lek for the Much Anger in Him and the ROC and get the war room out. Target one of the characters and block their drain (and make them lose 4) at a site for the rest of the game. Cheesy but extremely effective. Use Omni Box and Force Lightening to recirculate to guarantee high weapon destiny draws. Once you've got the ROC combo in action Twi'lek for all the nice helper effects. No Escape is great cause it will let you retrive a good battling card like Sniper & Dark Strike or even a saber.

This deck has no problem with activation cause you get an automatic 9 force on your own by turn three plus what the opponent provides. If you are playing Haye's Brilliant Pile you shouldn't have much problem because Force Field (the God card) lets you cancel their weapon targetings, and you'll win every SAC war, considering most of these decks only play with three senses.

Between your force drains and the ROC combo you should have more than enough damage to overwhelm the opponent. What also helps this deck is that it's not card intensive like WYS decks and other popular LS decks. If you play WYS and they cancel your SAC...so what. Play your game w/ Responsibility and you win. Stick Maul in space to negate their presence. Use your Imperial Commands to get your admirals and either draw three destiny or limit the opponent to one destiny. Better yet, stick Guri in the Chimaera against WYS and you will have space control of location of your choice (i.e. Kessel).

Have fun and enjoy the power of cheese. This deck's success is SAD but TRUE

Michael ”the Spider Monkey” Sorrell

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

START Tatooine JP Tatooine Desert Landing Site Combat Readiness CHARACTERS Maul x3 DLOTS x3 Emperor Palpatine x4 Janus Greejatus x2 Mara Jade IG-88 w/ Gun Dengar w/ Gun Guri Thrawn Admiral Chiraneau LOCATIONS JP Audience Chamber JP Lower Passage Hoth War Room x2 GREEN Maul's Saber Mara's Saber Vader's Saber RED Grabber Blast Door Controls Search and Destroy No Escape Something Special Planned For Them Much Anger in Him Responsibility of Command x2 Sense x5 Alter x2 Force Lightening x2 Sniper & Dark Strike Twi'lek x3 Imperial Command x3 Force Field x2 Weapon Levitation x2 Omni Box & It's Worse x2 BLUE Chimaera x2

See also

• Michael Sorrell
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Tatooine

Sources

• SAD BUT TRUE, decktech.net
• SAD BUT TRUE, stephenskilton.com
• SAD BUT TRUE (GitHub Pages)