Shewski Hyperdrive Shopping (THGG)

Shewski Hyperdrive Shopping (THGG) is a Light constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: Shewski
• Published: 20 May 2004 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Standard
• Format: Premiere - Original VS6
• Side: Light
• Starting Card: The Hyperdrive Generator's Gone
• Starting Interrupt: Heading For The Medical Frigate
• Starting Effect: An Unusual Amount Of Fear
• Strategy: The Hyperdrive Generator's Gone
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits Han (V) (Virtual Set 3), Chewbacca (V) (Virtual Set 3), Lobot (V) (Virtual Set 6), Han's Heavy Blaster Pistol (V) (Virtual Set 1), Wokling (V) (Virtual Set 3), Sai'torr Kal Fas (V) (Virtual Set 1), Imperial Atrocity (V) (Virtual Set 6), Into The Garbage Chute, Flyboy (V) (Virtual Set 2), Escape Pod (V) (Virtual Set 2), Surreptitious Glance (V) (Virtual Set 6): not in GEMP)

Introduction

This deck aims to win via establishing large drains on Tatooine and keeping them established. All the man wanted to do was buy a hyperdrive!

Decklist

Objective 1x The Hyperdrive Generator's Gone Character 1x Jar Jar Binks 2x Obi-Wan Kenobi, Padawan Learner 1x Padme Naberrie 2x Qui-Gon Jinn 2x Captain Panaka 1x Threepio With His Parts Showing 1x Senator Palpatine 1x Phylo Gandish 1x Yarua 1x Jerus Jannick 1x Queen Amidala 2x Lando With Vibro-Ax 1x Han (V) 1x Chewbacca (V) 1x Lobot (V) 1x Tawss Khaa Weapon 1x Qui-Gon Jinn's Lightsaber 1x Obi-Wan's Lightsaber 1x Panaka's Blaster 1x Han's Heavy Blaster Pistol (V)

Location 1x Tatooine: Watto's Junkyard 1x Tatooine: City Outskirts 1x Coruscant: Jedi Council Chamber 1x Tatooine: Mos Espa Docking Bay Effect 1x Credits Will Do Fine 1x Security Control 1x Wokling (V) 1x Sai'torr Kal Fas (V) 1x An Unusual Amount Of Fear 1x A Remote Planet 1x Lightsaber Proficiency 1x Imperial Atrocity (V) 1x Colo Claw Fish Interrupt 1x Heading For The Medical Frigate 1x Rebel Artillery 1x Speak With The Jedi Council 1x We Wish To Board At Once 2x Sorry About The Mess & Blaster Proficiency 1x Into The Garbage Chute, Flyboy (V) 1x Escape Pod (V) 1x Houjix 1x Surreptitious Glance (V) 1x Weapon Levitation 1x Slight Weapons Malfunction 1x Were You Looking For Me? 2x Noble Sacrifice 1x Sense 1x Sense & Recoil In Fear 1x Alter 1x Control & Tunnel Vision 1x Inconsequential Barriers 1x Blaster Deflection 1x We Don't Have Time For This

'An Unusual Amount of Fear +10'; no shields named.

Notes

• Posted 'Padme Amidala' dested Padme Naberrie (the draft had Queen Amidala, Ruler Of Naboo); Queen Amidala is posted separately. Uncertain.
• Original-era (V): Sai'torr Kal Fas (V) and Han's Heavy Blaster Pistol (V) (Virtual Set 1); Into The Garbage Chute, Flyboy (V) and Escape Pod (V) (Virtual Set 2); Wokling (V), Han (V) and Chewbacca (V) (Virtual Set 3); Surreptitious Glance (V), Imperial Atrocity (V) and Lobot (V) (Virtual Set 6). The draft had dropped the (V) on Into The Garbage Chute and read Han (V) as Han Solo.
• Posted 'Obi Wan Kenobi's Lightsaber (Prem)' dested Obi-Wan's Lightsaber; 'Qui Gon Jinn's Lightsaber (Tat)' Qui-Gon Jinn's Lightsaber.

Strategy

Ok, so this is my first crack at this much-maligned objective. Here's hoping that the PC will give it some help in the future so it does just collect dust.

First off, you want to search for a DB to check to make sure Qui Gon and his saber is in reserve. You will activate just enough to pull him using the City Outskirts to move him into the Junkyard. I prefer having the Junkyard in the middle since it is the most important site.

On turn 2 you activate some more, and remember to drain at the Junkyard and then stack. Always remember to stack- it's like a free +1 to your drain. It's ok to pay the drain tax, you should be doing enough damage to your opponent.

On this turn I like using Wokling (V) to pull LS Prof to beef up Qui/drains. From there, you will want to look for A Remote Planet to enhance your drains, as well as the JCC to bump up meager activation. I like using Lando/Lobot or Panaka/Padme to hold one site, and Obi Wan to hold the other.

Eventually, you will flip and your Republic characters will be boosted. I have included many interrupts that give you means of drawing multiple destinies to maximize your retrieval. Continue draining out and hope you win the race. You do have a few good uses for your scrubs with Noble Sacrifice. I deploy most of my charcters to lock down the sites and to have many valid NS targets in play. Republic characters are forfeit +4, so you will get plenty back if you can pull it off once per game, let alone twice.

No space… yeah, well, this objective doesn't let you deploy planets for the first 5 turns. I'm in no hurry to fit in a space package based on that horrendous bit of GT, so I'm hoping that the opponent will not realize I have no blue for a few turns before he spreads and drains.

EDIT---------------------

I've got to disagree about my activation potential. On turn 2, assuming I get out the DB, I am generating 10 Force, and if I get the JCC out, it goes to 13. Were you perhaps not counting my Qui icon and the GT on the Junkyard? Thanks for the review!

See also

• Game Players Network decks
• Shewski
• Game Players Network
• GEMP importable decklist

Sources

• Hyperdrive Shopping (THGG) (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 7 (Wayback, 20050430203312)