Shewski This Little Piggy Wants to Battle! (MKOS)

Shewski This Little Piggy Wants to Battle! (MKOS) is a Dark constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: Shewski
• Published: 29 January 2003 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Standard
• Format: Premiere - Theed Palace
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: My Kind Of Scum
• Strategy: My Kind Of Scum
• GEMP Importable deck: Download

Introduction

This deck aims to use Gammoreans to make Jabba's Palace a truly unfriendly place- but they have to come in if they want to stop some steady force loss.

Decklist

Objective 1x My Kind Of Scum Character 1x Mosep 1x Bib Fortuna 1x Gailid 8x Gamorrean Guard 1x Ortugg 1x Boelo 1x Jabba The Hutt 1x Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 1x Prince Xizor 1x Thok & Thug 1x Ghana Gleemort 1x Boba Fett, Bounty Hunter 1x P-59 1x 4-LOM With Concussion Rifle 1x Ephant Mon 1x Danz Borin Starship 1x Bossk In Hound's Tooth 1x Jabba's Space Cruiser 1x Dengar In Punishing One 1x Zuckuss In Mist Hunter 1x IG-88 In IG-2000

Location 1x Tatooine: Desert Heart 1x Tatooine: Jabba's Palace 1x Jabba's Palace: Audience Chamber 1x Jabba's Palace: Entrance Cavern 1x Jabba's Palace: Lower Passages 1x Tatooine Effect 1x No Bargain 1x His Name Is Anakin 1x Power Of The Hutt 1x Fear Is My Ally 1x Expand The Empire 1x Den Of Thieves 1x Scum And Villainy 1x Search And Destroy 1x Hutt Influence 1x Ability, Ability, Ability 1x Presence Of The Force 1x Tatooine Occupation Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 3x Stunning Leader 4x None Shall Pass 3x Twi'lek Advisor 1x Abyssin Ornament 1x Neimoidian Advisor

Strategy

Ok, this is basically a Gammorean deck that I think can hold its own either battling or draining on the way to victory.

From the start, you are making it difficult to enter the palace. Rebels are +2 (No Bargain), while Aliens are also +2 (His Name Is Anakin).

Use T: JP's GT to pull out the other Jabba's Palace sites. A key to this deck is using the multiple Twilek Advisors to pull Expand The Empire. You'll want to use it on the AC to make it so you can download any alien to the three JP sites once per game. There are so many aliens in the deck that you should be able to have a few in your hand and you can use the expanded GT of the site to get what you need at that time. Also, try to get the Den of Theives out early to absorb drains.

POTH is a nice card that lets you get 5 cards in this deck, the most handy being Hutt Influence, which makes your Force Drains unmodifiable and uncancellable where you have two different aliens. That shouldn't be too hard in this deck!

Mosep and Gailid crank the hurt up drain-wise- It's very nice to be able to park them in the AC and let them do their thing. Ephant Mon is good to sit there as well, as his forfeiture can help against a hit & run on the dynamic duo.

The bane of this deck would be Leia, Rebel Princess (thanks Chief!) and to counter her, I have 4-Lom and P-59.

The Gammoreans can become pretty fun cards after you get some of their helpers out. Ortugg makes them forfeit +2, No Bargain +1 more, Jabba gives them +2 forfiet and -1 deploy, and S & V makes them another deploy -1. If by some sheer miracle you are playing another Tatooine deck, once you flip the Piggy's are another forfeit +2.

All in all, if you have the above and Bib on the table and some extra force, you can react by deploying Gamorreans for 2 force who are forfeit 8. Nice =)

S & D is nice- you know you will have people out- but will your opponent? Make him pay if he doesn't. AAA also brings the hurt out. I think I could easily take anyone on in a AAA race with 21 characters w/ ability.

POTF is in to add to the Entrance Cavern, which makes at least 3 JP battlegrounds, nicely letting Tatooine Occupation be effective.

Stunning Leader works in any JP site- Somehow I don't think Gamorreans pack stun blasters, but who's complaining =) NSP instead of Barrier since many pack anti-barrier stuff.

I was thinking that Profit would be a tough deck for both of us. Start the AC instead of the Palace, they will replace but you still can use Nemoidian to pull your T:JP get the sites out that way. I'd start with Jabba and Boelo, then bring out Ephant on your turn. Hopefully you can bounce out enough Rebels to get a foothold and then just fight fight fight! On the plus side, it will be easier to flip and your Gammoreans are +2 forfeit from the get go!

Please rate and let me know what you think!

EDIT1- Great call on r3 Leia, chief. I TOTALLY forgot about her. I think that I will have to add in P-59 to try and take evil Leia out. I have another copy of Ortugg, but I have more of Ghana. Maybe I will make him the rep, but 1 copy of Orty might be ok. I'll playtest and see how it goes. I've edited my strat due to your suggestions.

Thanks for the comments, PEGD! I was hoping you would find this deck helpful. I think this deck can be fun with some more tweaking.

EDIT 2- Yeah, I need to revamp this with some more copies of the Rep.... I know that Skrillings work better, but I always wanted to do Gamorreans =)

EDIT 3- Occupation has always been hard to get out with this deck. I think I'll just switch it out with an Abyssin ornament.

See also

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

Sources

• This Little Piggy Wants to Battle! (MKOS) (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 39 (Wayback, 20050430203312)