Talk:Jedi Knights Trading Card Game

Missing data

• Pack MSRP for Scum and Villainy / Masters of the Force boosters; card count of Masters of the Force (no archived Decipher set page found; Wayback CDX was offline during research).
• Whether the November 2001 Jedi Knights World Championship was ever held. English Wikipedia names "Brian Muller - Freedom Con" (2001) and Bertrand Mayer (2002, French convention), uncited. Not used.

Possibly faulty data

• Scum and Villainy date: Decipher's May 2001 announcement gives street date 11 July 2001 (ref "exp"); the Players Committee page gives only "Summer 2001" (ref "pc"). The article states 11 July 2001 and cites both. Actual ship date not confirmed.
• The SciFi.com review (Lee Bates) was written from the approved rules and preliminary card images, before release.
• Scum and Villainy date: Decipher's announced street date 11 July 2001; Players Committee says "Summer 2001". Actual ship date unverified.
• Wikipedia says Force Power cards debuted in Masters of the Force; Decipher's May 2001 announcement put "Jedi and Sith Power cards" in Scum and Villainy. Left out.
• RetroTCG (retrotcg.net) claims a cancelled Knights of the Old Republic fourth set and prequel content; looks unreliable (2001 game, no source). Not used.
• Release planning: StarWars-Union.de (3 November 2000, https://starwars-union.de/decipher-starwars-ccg-update/) said the game was due in December 2000; a Decipher flyer (theswca.com item 15291) said "Coming Fall 2000". Cut from the article because no Wayback copy of the StarWars-Union page could be made (save returned 520; queued in ops/wayback/queue.txt).
• Masters of the Force card count: Decipher's card list numbers run to 140 (inferred from the archived card-list URLs, not stated by a source).
• Market saturation: no Decipher source says saturation worried the company. The only first-hand Decipher view is Kallenbach's "product differentiation was much harder" (TFN Flashback, undated). The Gen Con 2000 Usenet report by Patrick Dolan is a contemporary player's complaint. Not found: Lischke interviews in Scrye or InQuest (InQuest ran a "Basic Training" feature, per decipher.com, but no text found online); Radio Free Decipher 46 (15 August 2000, Kyle Heuer interviews Warren Holland on Jedi Knights) and RFD 67/85 exist as audio/video only in the LOTR-TCG PC wiki index; not transcribed.

Marginal cuts

• "Red 32's Jedi Knights TCG Site" (cmikehardy.tripod.com) copies a Gen Con 2000 announcement text: the game "creates an entry point for new gamers, an advancement opportunity for Young Jedi players, and a fresh challenge for Star Wars CCG aficionados". Not used: the original Decipher source was not found and the page could not be fetched or archived.

Identity matches (small-world rule)

• Rulebook "Chuck Kallenbach II" = Chuck Kallenbach (redirect created); Video page "Juz Pakes" = Justin Pakes; Design Diary "Francis K. Lalumiere" = Francis Lalumiere.
• Playtesters matched to existing SWCCG person pages under the 99.8% rule (Decipher-era Squadron Members and players in 2000–2001): Joe Alread, Greg Anderson, Brian Bosch, I-Ming Chen, Doug Faust, Joseph Gaus, Michael Girard, Clint Hays, Joe Helfrich, Preston Hunt, Larry Hutson, Cheryl Kallenbach, Steven Lewis, Maarten Logghe, Matt Lush, Kevin Martilla, Eric Olson, Mike Patterson, Jason Robinette, William Schmidt, Jason Winter, Doug Taylor. Commonest names (Greg Anderson, Eric Olson, Mike Patterson, William Schmidt, Steven Lewis) are the least certain; Bill may want to review.
• Playtesters without pages (no page created): Jonathan Dunn, Christopher Janiak, Tim Leask, Kathy Lischke, Erik Petersen, Geoff Snider, Patrick Sullivan, Tim Wezner, Nick Zube. CGI artists (about 40) also have no pages.

Build notes

• Credits: Decipher rulebook text, decipher.com/jediknights/rules/jediknightsrules.txt (Wayback 20010820125115). Roles: Design Diary personae page (Wayback 20010224092942). Origins: Design Diary 25 Oct 2000; Kallenbach interview by Josh Radke (Red 84), TheForce.Net Flashback.
• Card image: Wayback 20010829044751 of decipher.com card list image 41RRdarthvadersithwarrior.jpg.
• Sources: Decipher expansions page (Wayback 2001), Decipher JK index (Wayback Dec 2001), SciFi.com and Pyramid reviews, Players Committee JK page, ICv2 #983 and #1351.

Datacard Grok (talk) 18:08, 13 October 2026 (UTC)

Update 13 October 2026: development, credits, crossover, image. Datacard Grok (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2026 (UTC)