Paul Merrian Anti-AOBS Celebration

Paul Merrian Anti-AOBS Celebration is the Light constructed list Paul Merrian posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Paul Merrian
• Published: 24 May 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: Anti-AOBS Celebration
• Format: Premiere - Reflections II
• Side: Light
• Starting Card: Coruscant
• Starting Interrupt: Careful Planning
• GEMP Importable deck: Download
• Strategy: A Coruscant Celebration deck to counter Agents of Black Sun.

Decklist

Character 1x Admiral Ackbar 1x Boushh 1x Chewbacca Of Kashyyyk 1x Colonel Cracken 1x Corporal Delevar 1x Corporal Kensaric 1x Corporal Midge 1x Corran Horn 1x General Crix Madine 1x General Solo 1x Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian 1x Lando With Vibro-Ax 1x Lieutenant Blount 1x Lieutenant Greeve 1x Lieutenant Page 1x Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight 1x Obi-Wan Kenobi 1x Orrimaarko 1x Sergeant Brooks Carlson 1x Sergeant Bruckman Weapon 1x A280 Sharpshooter Rifle 1x Anakin's Lightsaber 1x Luke's Lightsaber 1x Obi-Wan's Lightsaber 1x X-wing Laser Cannon Starship 1x Liberty 1x Home One 1x Red Squadron 4 1x Tala 2

Location 1x Coruscant 1x Spaceport Street 1x Spaceport City 1x Cloud City: Platform 327 (Docking Bay) 1x Home One: Docking Bay 1x Hoth: Echo Docking Bay 1x Spaceport Docking Bay 1x Tatooine: Docking Bay 94 Effect 1x Bacta Tank 1x Close Air Support 1x Coruscant Celebration 1x Do, Or Do Not & Wise Advice 1x No Disintegrations! 1x Strike Planning 1x Insurrection Interrupt 1x Careful Planning 2x Houjix & Out Of Nowhere 1x I Don't Need Their Scum, Either 3x Insertion Planning 2x Out Of Commission & Transmission Terminated 3x Take The Initiative 3x The Signal 2x We Don't Need Their Scum

Original post

Anti-AOBS Celebration

• Author: Paul "Ultima 1" Merrian
• Published: May 24, 2001
• Rating: 4.0
• Description: A Coruscant Celebration deck to counter Agents of Black Sun.

Strategy

I have noticed that AOBS are becoming very popular in my area and decided to look for a strategy to counter it. While I was looking through my binder, I noticed Coruscant Celebration and saw its potential. This deck has a lot of anti-bounty hunter tech. I decided on a scouts and spies base because of the versatility of its support cards and the characters' abilities when combined. hile No Escape is a problem, Kensaric mostly makes up for it.

I decided not to use Local Uprising/ Liberation for this deck because the upswing of flipping SYCFA as a result of AMVCO would make Coruscant vulnerable to a quick CPI.

Anti-bounty hunter tech

No Disintegrations is tech against bounty hunters, as each battle you lose characters in, your opponent takes 3 direct damage (and loses a bounty hunter from the battle if Vader is on the table).

The Scum interrupts provide bonuses when your opponents have bounty hunters in battle against you.

Usual Signal order

Strike Planning

Insurrection

DODN/WA

Bacta Tank

Coruscant Celebration or CAS (depending on if you have Tala 2 out yet)

other of the two above

No Disintegrations can fit in anywhere above, depending on what you are playing against.

Counters

AOBS- Take over Coruscant and use your anti-hunter tech well, pull No Disintegrations second. Keep after your opponent without letting up.

ISB

Use Madine to pull Blount as fast as you can to make your opponent unable to get to the 7 side. Put him in Tala 2 or keep him well guarded.

Hunt Down

If your opponent is dueling, keep Obi away from Vader, while risking Luke, since he reduces his chances of being crossed and improves your dueling. Otherwise, react to what your opponent does while canceling Visage ASAP.

Space anything A tough matchup. Try to keep Coruscant Celebration out, but rely on drains at your Coruscant sites. Try to use Out of Nowhere combo with Tala 2 to get some big destiny draws.

Any single-planet deck (TDIGWATT, COTVG, Endor Ops, etc.)- Keep scrubs on Coruscant to keep celebration retrieval going while using the rest of your characters to take the battle to your opponent's planet. Your scouts have a lot of Endor-specific text, so if you are playing Endor Ops, take advantage of that text and leave Obi, Boushh, etc. for celebration retrieval.

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Starting (4) Coruscant Careful Planning Spaceport Street Spaceport City Characters (19) Admiral Ackbar Boushh Chewbacca of Kashyyyk Colonel Cracken Corporal Delevar Corporal Kensaric Corporal Midge Corran Horn General Crix Madine General Solo Hobbie Lando w/Ax Lieutenant Blount Lieutenant Greeve Lieutenant Page Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi Orrimaarko Sergeant Brooks Carlson Sergeant Bruckman Effects (7) Bacta Tank Close Air Support Coruscant Celebration Do, Or Do Not & Wise Advice No Disintegrations Strike Planning Insurrection Interrupts (15) Houjix & Out Of Nowhere x2 I Don't Need Their Scum, Either Insertion Planning x3 Out Of Commission & Transmission Terminated x2 Take The Intiative x3 The Signal x3 We Don't Need Their Scum x2 Locations (5) Cloud City Platform 327 (Docking Bay) Home One Docking Bay Hoth Echo Docking Bay Spaceport Docking Bay Tatooine Docking Bay 94 Starships (4) Liberty Home One Red Squad 4 Tala 2 Weapons (5) A280 Sharpshooter Rifle Anakin's Lightsaber Luke's Lightsaber Obi's Lightsaber X-wing cannons

See also

• Paul Merrian
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Reflections II

Sources

• Anti-AOBS Celebration, decktech.net
• Anti-AOBS Celebration, stephenskilton.com
• Anti-AOBS Celebration (GitHub Pages)