Talk:Jokes

Build log

• Jokes was built on 25–26 October 2026 from the Jokes, Easter eggs and Anagrams proposal that Bill approved. Six text rows moved here from Easter eggs: Major Bren Derlin, Furry Fury (lore line only; the bullwhip stays an egg), Smuggler's Blues, Swing-And-A-Miss, Leia Of Alderaan and Major Marquand. General McQuarrie is a joke here and a likeness row on Easter eggs.
• Word-for-word matches are written as "The lore matches X", citing the original work, with no claim about intent (Bill, 25 October 2026): Frozen Dinner, Bionic Hand, Sudden Impact and Hunchback.
• Through The Force Things You Will See and Polarized Negative Power Coupling are listed as jokes on Bill's call (25 October 2026). The upside-down text and image are stated from the card faces.
• Sabe was dropped (Bill, 25 October 2026): the resemblance to Amidala is film casting, and the lore restates the plot.
• Page 2 of the forum "Easter Eggs" thread holds 15 posts from December 2005 to June 2006. They cover visual eggs, packaging and anagrams, with no lore jokes.
• Bespin Motors Void Spider THX 1138 moved here from Easter eggs (26 October 2026): its joke is in the title, so it is text, not a visual egg. The row records that Decipher's Art Show listed it as an egg. Sonic Bombardment, with THX letters in its art, stays an egg. Comlink Cursor (talk) 03:09, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
• Virtual cards have an empty section for later, kept apart from Decipher cards. Comlink Cursor (talk) 03:05, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Candidates moved to Jokes

All 23 candidates listed here (31 cards) moved to Jokes on 26 October 2026, on Bill's call (25 October 2026). Sabe stays dropped. The earlier table is kept in the history of Talk:Jokes. Comlink Cursor (talk) 03:51, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Inclusion of the former candidates

• Bill's call (25 October 2026): every former candidate counts as a joke. Each row states the joke plainly and cites the work it refers to, with no claim about why Decipher wrote it.
• New types: Wordplay, Decipher in-joke and Film in-joke. Bravo Fighter is a Film in-joke, not a cast and crew nod, because it quotes Anakin in The Phantom Menace.
• Rows with no outside work to cite are stated from the card face: Tunnel Vision, Encampment, Light Maneuvers, Lift Tube Escape, Cyborg Construct, Jabba's Palace Sabacc and Ewok And Roll.
• Mandalorian Mishap now says only that Boba Fett is swallowed by the Sarlacc; the earlier reading of a scream was cut.
• Lieutenant Watts: Wookieepedia names Robert Watts's Return of the Jedi role Lieutenant Blanaid; the row says only that the card shares his name.
• Wayback rate limits on 26 October 2026 blocked some archived web copies. Those rows cite the film or law itself: High Noon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Empire Strikes Back, The Phantom Menace and the 1969 cigarette warning act. Comlink Cursor (talk) Comlink Cursor (talk) 03:51, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Rycar Ryjerd framing

• Bill's view (26 October 2026): "He's an idiot" on Rycar's Run is Decipher joking about the smuggler Rycar Ryjerd, not about his namesake. The same goes for "the terminally insane" on They'd Be Crazy To Follow Us.
• His reasons: Jerry Darcy was a Decipher employee through 1999, designed sets after Dagobah, including Special Edition, and came up with the idea for Objectives. A jab at him in print is very unlikely.
• Both entries on Jokes and both card pages now say the lore mocks Rycar, and mention Darcy only as the source of the anagram. No other entry reads as mocking a real person. Comlink Cursor (talk) Comlink Cursor (talk) 11:38, 26 October 2026 (UTC)
• Follow-up (26 October 2026): Bill asked for the anagram mention to be dropped. The Rycar's Run and They'd Be Crazy To Follow Us entries on Jokes, and both card pages, no longer name Jerry Darcy; they say only that the lore calls Rycar an idiot as a joke. Anagrams is unchanged. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:57, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Effective Repairs: the one-hand reading

Bill decided this entry on 26 October 2026, after rewatching the scene. The card's picture is from the short scene early in The Empire Strikes Back where the Millennium Falcon flees Hoth under attack and Han works on the damaged hyperdrive motivator with one hand. That scene comes before Luke lands on Dagobah, and long before Luke loses his hand at Cloud City. Dagobah Limited (April 1997) also came out before Cloud City Limited (November 1997). So the lore is not about Luke's hand or Bionic Hand. It turns the idiom "take matters into his own hands" into "his own hand" for a one-handed repair. The Jokes row and the Effective Repairs card page now say this, and the entry was removed from User:Comlink Cursor/Jokes candidates. Comlink Cursor (talk) 16:01, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Candidates from the 27 October 2026 card scan

A scan of Decipher cards from Premiere through Theed Palace, Coruscant and Reflections III (no Virtual cards), looking for jokes not yet on Jokes, Easter eggs or Anagrams and not already listed on this Talk page. Each row quotes the card itself, so no outside source is needed. Visual gags and anagrams were left out. Nothing here is on Jokes yet. Bill decides which rows move.

Strong

Card(s)	Card text	The joke	Type
It Could Be Worse, It's Worse	It Could Be Worse: "Leia point out, 'It could be worse.' It soon was." It's Worse game text: "If It Could Be Worse was just played, it is canceled..."	The Light Side lore ends on a flat punchline, and a Dark Side card titled as the answer exists only to cancel it	Running gag
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!, Hypo	NOOOOOOOOOOOO! game text: "If you just answered 'no' to a Hypo question, opponent loses 3 Force." Hypo: "You may ask one yes-or-no question about cards in opponent's hand."	Luke's scream from the Cloud City duel pays off when a player answers "no" to the interrogation droid's truth-drug question	Design gag
Credits Will Do Fine	Lore: "'No, they won't!'"	The whole lore contradicts the title. Qui-Gon offers Republic credits and Watto turns them down.	Film in-joke
Lando System?, Lando's Not A System, He's A Man	Lando System? lore: "'Lando's not a system, he's a man.'"	A Dagobah card quotes the answer to its own title; the answer became a card title four years later in Reflections III	Film in-joke
Who's Scruffy-Looking?, Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder	Who's Scruffy-Looking? game text: "Cancel Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder or I'd Just As Soon Kiss A Wookiee..."	Han's comeback is the card that cancels Leia's insult, and the kiss card besides	Film in-joke
Joh Yowza	Lore: "Yuzzum musician and thief. Singer for The Max Rebo Band." Game text: "When opponent draws destiny, Joh may 'jam' (place that card face down under Joh)."	The band's singer "jams" the opponent's destiny draw	Wordplay
Trooper Utris M'toc, Trooper Jerrol Blendin	Utris M'toc lore: "Never accepts a bribe." Blendin lore: "Easily bribed." Game text: "Opponent may use 2 Force to 'bribe' (exclude) Blendin from battle."	Two Cloud City Wing Guard troopers in one set: the honest one and the corrupt one, whose bribe is a rule	Design gag
Wuher	Lore: "Gruff, surly, no-blasters-allowed bartender. Hates droids. 'We don't serve their kind here.'" Game text: "If in the Cantina, all weapons and droids there are immediately lost."	The bartender's house rules are the game text	Design gag
H'nemthe	Lore: "The females ritually kill their mates." Game text: "Adds 2 to deploy cost of each opponent's male Imperial when that Imperial is deploying to same or adjacent site."	Only male Imperials are slow to come near her. M'iiyoom Onith is the same species.	Design gag

Medium

Card(s)	Card text	The joke	Type
R2-D2 (Artoo-Detoo)	Lore: "Incorrigible counterpart of a mindless philosopher."	Threepio's own insult in A New Hope, "Don't you call me a mindless philosopher", used to describe Threepio	Film in-joke
Artoo & •Threepio	Lore: "Threepio's extensive experience 'talking' to the Falcon's computer allowed him to pilot the freighter... Artoo, an R-unit droid, provided moral support."	The astromech, the droid built to fly ships, is credited with moral support	Deadpan lore
Demotion	Lore: "Many officers prefer demotion to 'alternative' punishment from Darth Vader."	The quoted "alternative" is Vader's choke	Deadpan lore
Chewbacca	Lore: "Jabba has large bounty on this 'walking carpet.' Friends call him Chewie...or Fuzzball."	Leia's "walking carpet" and Han's "Laugh it up, fuzzball" from the films, filed as his nicknames	Film in-joke
Bowcaster	Lore: "Fires explosive 'quarrels' (which look like blaster bolts)."	The bracket owns up to the film's effects: the bowcaster shoots what look like ordinary blaster bolts	Film in-joke
Weapon Of A Fallen Mentor	Lore: "Darth Maul's complacency in what seemed like imminent victory over the Padawan was his downfall. That, and the lightsaber of Obi-Wan's fallen teacher."	The second sentence names the real cause as an afterthought	Deadpan lore
Lieutenant Venka	Lore: "One of the many noncommissioned personnel promoted to replace the vast number of officers lost during the Death Star disaster." Game text: "Power +2... if the Death Star has been 'blown away.'"	He gets stronger once the Death Star is gone, because that is how he got his job	Design gag
Commander Desanne	Lore: "Due to a political blunder, was stripped of most official duties. Relegated to shuttling dignitaries..." Game text: "Your shuttling, landing and taking off to or from same location is free."	His punishment is his game text	Design gag
Ortolan	Lore: "Squat, floppy-eared food lovers." Game text: "Power and forfeit +2 on Hoth or at Dining Room."	The food lovers are strongest in the Dining Room	Design gag
E Chu Ta	Lore: "'How rude!'" Game text: "One of your protocol droids 'insults' one character present, canceling that character's game text..."	A protocol droid's insult is a weapon, and the lore is Threepio's reply	Design gag

Weak

Card(s)	Card text	The joke	Type
Cease Fire!	Lore: "The amount of time it takes for a subcommand to transfer to an officer battle droid, and then to the rest of his regiment, is .396 of a second."	An oddly exact figure as the whole lore	Deadpan lore
Dianoga	Lore: "'Garbage squid'... Changes color to match last meal. When unfed, turns transparent."	The squid's color shows what it ate	Deadpan lore
Imperial Command	Lore: "Despite this apparent lack of trust, many turn out to be fine commanders."	"Many", not all	Deadpan lore
Lobel	Lore: "Powerful magnetic fields in the Lobel physiology make the operation of nearby navigation devices impossible. Pilots claim these fields also produce headaches."	A headache as a side effect, added last	Deadpan lore

Comlink Cursor (talk) 12:38, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Promoted to Jokes (Bill's picks): It Could Be Worse and It's Worse (Running gag), NOOOOOOOOOOOO! and Hypo (Design gag), Credits Will Do Fine (Film in-joke), Joh Yowza (Wordplay, explaining all three senses of "jam": musician, stuck card, thief) and Trooper Utris M'toc and Trooper Jerrol Blendin (Design gag). Each card page now has a matching joke text. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:25, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Also promoted to Jokes (Bill's picks, items 10 to 19): Bowcaster (Film in-joke), Cease Fire! (Film in-joke), Commander Desanne (Design gag), E Chu Ta (Design gag), Lieutenant Venka (Design gag), Lobel (Design gag), Ortolan (Design gag), Dianoga (Deadpan lore), Imperial Command (Deadpan lore), Weapon Of A Fallen Mentor (Deadpan lore). Each row has the card at 350px, the card text, a full explanation, and a joke= line on the card page. Cease Fire! moved from Deadpan lore to Film in-joke and has a still from the film; Lobel moved from Deadpan lore to Design gag. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:35, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Also promoted to Jokes (Bill's picks, items 6 to 9): R2-D2 (Artoo-Detoo) (Film in-joke, as written above), Artoo & Threepio (Deadpan lore, rewritten around how often Artoo saves the heroes: the Death Star garbage masher, Cloud City and the Falcon's hyperdrive, and the blockade of Naboo), Demotion (Deadpan lore, compared with the other cards where Vader kills his own officers) and Chewbacca (Film in-joke: only one friend, Han, ever calls him "fuzzball"). Each card page's joke= now links to its block. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:46, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Bog-wing removed from Jokes

Bog-wing has been removed from Jokes on 27 October 2026. This was Bill's call. The block compared its lore with the swallow and coconut "weight ratios" scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The card page's joke text was cleared at the same time. The block is in the page history at revision 166700 if anyone wants to bring it back. Comlink Cursor (talk) 12:36, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Film stills for Sudden Impact and This Is Just Wrong (27 October 2026)

Sudden Impact now shows a frame of the Grail Knight saying "He chose... poorly." (File:Joke reference - Grail Knight says He chose poorly in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.jpg, from the Movieclips YouTube clip) in place of the film poster. This Is Just Wrong / This Is Still Wrong now shows the Hoth medical-center kiss (File:Joke reference - Leia kisses Luke in The Empire Strikes Back.jpg). Build notes: the knight's warning "But choose wisely..." is cited to the film itself, since Wikiquote does not carry that line; the kiss frame comes from a fan YouTube clip (Kaotiqx), the cleanest copy of the shot found. Comlink Cursor (talk) 12:45, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Prepare The Chamber and Slayn & Korpil Facilities: sources checked

Prepare The Chamber: Bill asked whether the card refers to laughing gas or drugs.

• The lore says the TCF32's coolant "is rumored to have a mildly euphoric effect on Ugnaughts" and that "Individuals on TCF32 duty are regarded with envy". It does not name a gas or a drug. The art shows the carbon-freezing pit filled with white vapour.
• The title matches a stage direction in the script, "Six Ugnaughts frantically prepare the chamber for use." In the script's dialogue Vader says "Reset the chamber for Skywalker"; nobody says "prepare the chamber".
• Wookieepedia's article on the TCF32 cites only this card. No Wayback copy could be made of it (Save Page Now returned 520), so it is not linked here.
• The Usenet groups rec.games.trading-cards.misc and rec.arts.sf.starwars.games were searched in full. The card appears in about 125 posts, all about decks, rules or trades. No post mentions the coolant, euphoria, gas or drugs.
• Saved copies of DeckTech posts and of Decipher's website have no design comment on this lore.
• Reading (not sourced): the joke is that the work fumes give the workers a mild high, so the job everyone envies is the one next to the freezing pit. Nothing found says the intended reference is laughing gas or any particular drug. The row was changed only to restate the lore exactly ("a job the Ugnaughts compete for" and "make them happy" were looser than the card) and to add the matching script stage direction. The joke line on Prepare The Chamber was changed to the same wording.

Slayn & Korpil Facilities: looking for a real "that means quality" slogan.

• No real advertisement or slogan of the form "X owned, and that means quality" was found. The search covered the web, the same Usenet archives (the one "means quality" hit is an unrelated post about Decipher), and West End Games' Strike Force: Shantipole, which introduced the Verpine, Roche and the B-wing project and has no such line.
• The closest real copy found, neither shown to be the source: the Old Spice jingle line "Old Spice means quality!" and a 1952 department-store ad for Alligator coats, "It's Alligator, of course, and that means quality".
• The row is unchanged and no image was added: no slogan source was found, and neither ad above is an image from an SWCCG site. Comlink Cursor (talk) 12:48, 27 October 2026 (UTC)
• Follow-up, Bill's call (27 October 2026): both ad lines now go in the row and in the joke line on Slayn & Korpil Facilities, as real ads in the same form as the lore and not as its proven source. The Old Spice line also cites Neatorama, which dates the jingle ("The Old Spice Sea Shanty") to 1953. The row shows File:Joke reference - Alligator coat ad, Oregon Statesman 1952.jpg, cropped from the newspaper's page scan; Save Page Now returned 520 for the page scan and PDF, so the file page cites the preserved text page of the same newspaper page. No Old Spice image was added: the two 1950s and 1960s Old Spice commercials on the Internet Archive (1957 and 1965) do not use the jingle, and no archived print ad carrying the line was found. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:16, 27 October 2026 (UTC)
• Second follow-up, at Bill's request (27 October 2026): an Internet Archive full-text search for "and that means quality" found about 30 advertisements using the form, from Hart Schaffner & Marx (1906) to Trane (1987). Others include Paris Garters (1930s and 1940s), Kiwi polish (1941), Jeep (1974), Owens-Corning shingles (1979), Bates saddlebags (1980) and Goodyear Eagle tires (1981). The row and the card page now quote the three closest in shape and date to the card: Buick Regal (1976, "Regal is a Buick. And that means quality."), Toyota Corolla (1983, "Each Corolla is a Toyota. And that means quality famous the world over.") and Trane (1987, "it's made by Trane. And that means quality."). None of them is claimed as the source of the joke. The Alligator image is now a close-up of the quality line, because the whole ad was too small to read in the row. Save Page Now refused the three Internet Archive item pages (error 523), so those refs link the Internet Archive items directly. No image of the Old Spice jingle was found. Comlink Cursor (talk) 13:35, 27 October 2026 (UTC)
• Bill's call (27 October 2026): the Wayback Machine excludes archive.org's own pages, so the Buick (1976), Toyota (1983) and Trane (1987) refs link the Internet Archive scans directly, with no Preserved copy. Comlink Cursor (talk) 14:21, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Food and being fat (27 October 2026)

This section was Bill's call (27 October 2026, relayed by Chief): a new Running gag on food and being fat. The block is Food and being fat, and the type table now counts 9 running gags and 164 jokes.

Included. Cloud City: Dining Room (Dark Side card; its Light Side text doubles Blue Milk, Beru Stew and Yoda Stew and makes "Jek" deploy -2) with Jek Porkins (Light Side), shown side by side; the three food cards Blue Milk, Beru Stew and Yoda Stew; Max Rebo; WHAAAAAAAAAOOOOW!; Oh, Switch Off. Each card page has a matching joke= line. The game text and lore are quoted from the wiki card pages and agree with swccg-card-json.

Ortolan: cross-linked, not moved. The page lists a multi-category joke once, under one type, and points to it from the other blocks: Figrin D'an's band sends readers to Tedn Dahai in Union jokes, and I have a bad feeling about this points to Main Course. Alpha1's Ortolan row is a design gag (the game text pays off the lore), so it stays under Design gags, and the new block's opening paragraph links to it. Max Rebo, the Ortolan who signs up for unlimited food, has his own entry in the new block. The opening paragraph also links the food jokes already listed under other types: Frozen Dinner, Main Course, and Chewbacca Of Kashyyyk and Always Thinking With Your Stomach.

Data to check. The Ortolan row says the Dining Room is "a site in Jabba's Palace". The only Decipher card with that name is Cloud City: Dining Room, a Cloud City site; there is no Jabba's Palace Dining Room. That row was left as it is for its author to check.

Build notes. New Decipher.com archive faces, taken from Wayback copies of Decipher's card list GIFs: File:CC-D-cloudcitydiningroom-decipher-archive.gif, File:JP-L-maxrebo-decipher-archive.gif and File:Dagobah-L-whaaaaaaaaaoooow-decipher-archive.gif. Decipher's Yoda Stew GIF has no Wayback copy, so the block uses the existing File:Dagobah-L-yodastew.gif. Hootkins' remark about the name Porkins is cited to SlashFilm (4 December 2023), and the film lines to the IMSDb scripts; each citation has a checked Internet Archive copy. No film stills were added, because the card pictures already show each scene.

Parked candidates (from a search of the lore and game text of Decipher cards, and Virtual cards after them, for food, eating, appetite and weight; not on Jokes). Bill decides whether any of them move.

Card	Card text	Why it was parked
No Escape	Lore: "Neither are his voracious and vile appetites."	Jabba's appetite, but "appetites" need not mean food, and the line has no punchline
Orn Free Taa	Lore: "Obese Rutian Twi'lek senator."	A plain description of his size, with no wordplay
Sarlacc	Lore: "Digests victims for 1000 years."	About being eaten, not about food or appetite
Dannik Jerriko	Lore: "allow him to 'eat the soup' (consume the life Force) of his victims"	"Eating" here means killing, not food
Hem Dazon	Lore: "Hem has succumbed to the power of salt, an addiction"; game text: "'salt consumption'"	Salt is treated as an addiction, closer to a drug than to food
Dexter Jettster (Virtual Set 19)	Game text: "Deploys -1 to (and power +1 at) a cantina, diner, or night club."	A Virtual card, and its lore ("Besalisk information broker.") says nothing about food

Comlink Cursor (talk) 14:43, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Vader choking people (27 October 2026)

Built the running gag Vader choking people (Bill's request): fourteen cards where Vader chokes or kills his own officers, one original Decipher face at a time in release order (Alter, Demotion, I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing, Vader, Motti, Admiral Ozzel, You Have Failed Me For The Last Time, Apology Accepted, Captain Needa, Field Promotion, Report To Lord Vader, Imperial Command, Lord Vader, Moff Jerjerrod), with film images of the Motti, Ozzel and Needa chokes and of the Jerjerrod choke cut from Return of the Jedi. Demotion and Imperial Command moved into it from Deadpan lore; their anchors still work. The card face that pictures Needa being choked is Apology Accepted, now shown beside Imperial Command. Admiral Ozzel, Lord Vader and Moff Jerjerrod keep their own entries, which link to the gag. Six faces that had no Decipher archive copy were uploaded from Decipher.com card list captures. Counts in Jokes by type recounted: Deadpan lore 30, Running gag 10, total 163. Comlink Cursor (talk) 14:46, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Candidates from the 27 October 2026 second scan

Premiere through Jabba's Palace (Alpha6)

A second pass over the lore and game text of Premiere, A New Hope, Hoth, Dagobah, Cloud City, Jabba's Palace and the promo and two-player cards of that era. Each bullet quotes the card itself. None of them is on Jokes, Easter eggs or Anagrams, or in the earlier candidate lists above.

• Wookiee Roar and MSE-6 'Mouse' Droid: Wookiee Roar's lore is just "'GHRRRRAARRRRHG!'", and one of its game text options is "Scare off (lose) one 'mouse' droid on table". The mouse droid's own lore ends "Easily frightened." In Star Wars, Chewbacca roars at a mouse droid in a Death Star corridor and it flees. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:ANH-L-wookieeroar-decipher-archive.gif with File:Premiere-D-mse6mousedroid-decipher-archive.gif.
• Evacuate? and You Overestimate Their Chances: Evacuate? saves the crew of a capital starship about to be lost "unless Tarkin aboard". Tarkin is the one man who refuses to evacuate: You Overestimate Their Chances quotes him, "'Evacuate? In our moment of triumph?'" Type: Design gag. Picture: File:Premiere-D-evacuate-decipher-archive.gif with File:Premiere-D-youoverestimatetheirchances.gif.
• R5-D4 (Arfive-Defour): the lore says the droid "Purposely blew his motivator to prevent splitting up R2-D2 and C-3PO on Tatooine". In Star Wars the motivator simply blows when Owen Lars buys him; the card turns a breakdown into a heroic sacrifice. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:ANH-L-r5d4.gif.
• Princess Leia (Cloud City): the lore ends "Likes scoundrels." It sums up her quarrel with Han in The Empire Strikes Back, where he tells her she likes him because he is a scoundrel. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:CloudCity-L-princessleia-decipher-archive.gif.
• Han's Dice: lucky dice "for luck", captioned with Han's line "'I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one, all-powerful Force controlling everything.'" The man who scoffs at the Force hangs dice for luck, and the card lets you draw another battle destiny. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Premiere-L-hansdice.gif.
• Wookiee Strangle: the lore, "Wookiees have been known to dislocate more than just arms", calls back to Han's line on Let The Wookiee Win that Wookiees "pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose". Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:CC-L-wookieestrangle.gif with File:ANewHope-L-letthewookieewin-decipher-archive.gif.
• Blaster Proficiency: "Some people think that hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side." Han's boast from Star Wars, credited only to "some people". Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:CC-L-blasterproficiency-decipher-archive.gif.
• Bantha Fodder, Hutt Bounty, Information Exchange, Ke Chu Ke Kukuta? and I Must Be Allowed To Speak: more lore given wholly in an alien language with no translation (for example Ke Chu Ke Kukuta?: "'Balka. Hachu ma blinki?'"; I Must Be Allowed To Speak: "'Jedi mod spienko eek.'"). They would join Untranslated alien speech. Type: Running gag. Picture: File:JP-D-banthafodder.gif, File:JabbasPalace-D-huttbounty-decipher-archive.gif, File:JP-D-informationexchange.gif, File:JP-L-kechukekukuta.gif, File:JP-L-imustbeallowedtospeak.gif.
• AT-AT Driver: "AT-AT drivers are protected by 15 centimeters of reinforced armor. Accordingly, they are regarded with contempt by the infantry." The safe job earns the scorn of the troops on foot, stated as plain cause and effect. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Hoth-D-atatdriver.gif.
• What Is Thy Bidding, My Master?: the Emperor demands "immediate submission and obedience" from across the galaxy, and "His minions frequently find this inconvenient." Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Dagobah-L-whatisthybiddingmymaster-decipher-archive.gif.
• Unexpected Interruption: the lore is Threepio's "'Sir! Sir! I've isolated the reverse power flux coupling!'", the line with which he walks in on Han and Leia's first kiss aboard the Falcon in The Empire Strikes Back. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Dagobah-D-unexpectedinterruption.gif.
• Closer?!: Han says "'I'm going in closer to one of those big ones.'" and the rest of the lore is the crew's replies: "'Closer?!' 'Closer?!' 'Graarg?!'", with Chewbacca's as the third. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Dagobah-L-closer.gif.
• Kessel Run: the lore says a Kessel run is a route smugglers "must travel quickly", but the game text measures it as "X = parsec distance", the unit of distance Han boasts in when he claims the run in Star Wars. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Premiere-L-kesselrun.gif.
• Aiiii! Aaa! Agggggggggg!: the title is Han's screams in the Cloud City torture room, and the lore is his complaint afterwards: "'They never even asked me any questions.'" Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:CC-D-aiiiiaaaagggggggggg.gif.
• Dark Hours: after "extortion, kidnapping, threats of execution and the assault of the Interrogator droid, Princess Leia was asleep when her rescuers came." The game text puts characters to "'sleep'". Type: Design gag. Picture: File:Premiere-D-darkhours-decipher-archive.gif.
• Cloud City Trooper and Cloud City Trooper (Dark): the same Wing Guard seen from both sides. The Light card says new recruits "are less corrupt than those who served under past administrations"; the Dark card says "A moderate pay scale breeds corruption." Type: Design gag. Picture: File:CC-L-cloudcitytrooper.gif with File:CC-D-cloudcitytrooper.gif.
• Greedo: "Arrogant, overconfident and not too bright." The game text lets him "'threaten'" a smuggler, which in Star Wars is exactly what gets him shot. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:ANH-D-greedo.gif.
• RA-7 (Aray-Seven): "low intelligence with capabilities for mental labor only", a description that contradicts itself. (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:ANH-L-ra7.gif.
• Tarkin Seeker and Han Seeker: the seekers share one lore word for word, "Programmed to stalk specific targets", and each is named after its target, so the Rebels field a Tarkin Seeker and the Empire a Han Seeker. (borderline) Type: Design gag. Picture: File:Premiere-L-tarkinseeker-decipher-archive.gif with File:Premiere-D-hanseeker.gif.
• I Want That Ship: "Like nerf herders herding nerfs, Imperial commanders often use TIE fighters to drive fleeing Rebel ships", turning Leia's insult for Han into a herding image. (borderline) Type: Wordplay. Picture: File:Dagobah-D-iwantthatship.gif.
• Arc Welder and Retractable Arm: droid tools with euphemisms for misuse, "Especially innovative droids use it for other, less conventional purposes" and "Feisty Rebel droids can use this tool for sneaky purposes". (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:JP-L-arcwelder.gif with File:Dagobah-L-retractablearm.gif.
• Fallen Portal: "Jabba ordered the two-meter thick door to keep the rancor in. He never thought it would be the instrument of the rancor's demise." (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:JabbasPalace-L-fallenportal-decipher-archive.gif.
• Jawa Ion Gun: "Fires a stream of ion energy that stuns droids and irritates others." (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:ANewHope-L-jawaiongun-decipher-archive.gif.
• Luke's X-34 Landspeeder: "Repulsorlift drive keeps it suspended one meter above ground, even when parked." (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Premiere-L-lukesx34landspeeder-decipher-archive.gif.
• Imperial Gunner and Death Star Gunner: "Imperial gunners consider themselves the best marksmen in the Empire", while most Death Star gunners "once aspired to be TIE pilots, but lacked sufficient skills". (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Hoth-D-imperialgunner-decipher-archive.gif with File:ANH-D-deathstargunner.gif.

Comlink Cursor (talk) 16:00, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Special Edition to Theed, and Virtual (Alpha5)

A second pass over the titles, lore and game text of Special Edition, Endor, Death Star II, Reflections II, Tatooine, Coruscant, Reflections III, Theed Palace, the promo and pack cards of that era such as Third Anthology, and the Virtual sets. Each bullet quotes the card itself. None of them is on Jokes, Easter eggs or Anagrams, or in the candidate lists above. Virtual cards that only repeat a Decipher lore from Premiere to Jabba's Palace are left to the list above. Where a reference is not certain, the bullet marks it "Guess:" and says why.

Strong

• Elan Sleazebaggano (Virtual Set 19): the name has "sleazebag" in it, for the death-stick dealer Obi-Wan meets in a Coruscant nightclub in Attack of the Clones. The game text lets him "'sell death sticks'", and if a Jedi is present he goes to the Used Pile, as in the film, where Obi-Wan's mind trick sends him off with "You want to go home and rethink your life." Type: Wordplay. Picture: File:V19-D-elansleazebaggano.gif.
• Coarse And Rough And Irritating and I Don't Like Sand (Virtual Set 0): the Dark and Light titles split Anakin's line to Padmé in Attack of the Clones, "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere." The two Effects have the same game text, and the Dark card's lore is a Tatooine storm that whips rocks through the air. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:V0-D-coarseandroughandirritating.gif with File:V0-L-idontlikesand.gif.
• StarSpeeder 3000 and StarSpeeder 1000 (Virtual Set 24): the whole lore of each is "Star Tours." These are the ride vehicles of the Disney attraction Star Tours, the StarSpeeder 3000 in the 1987 ride and the StarSpeeder 1000 in Star Tours: The Adventures Continue (2011). Both cards say "Permanent pilot provides no ability". Guess: a nod to the ride's pilots, the rookie droid Rex on his first flight, and in the later version C-3PO, who ends up at the controls by accident. Type: Pop-culture reference. Picture: File:V24-L-starspeeder3000.gif with File:V24-D-starspeeder1000.gif, and a free-licensed photo of the ride.
• Prisoner 2187 (Third Anthology, Virtual Set 20) and Cell 2187 (Virtual Set 15): Leia's cell number in Star Wars is widely reported as George Lucas's nod to 21-87 (1963), a short film by Arthur Lipsett that influenced him, and The Force Awakens reused the number for Finn's stormtrooper number, FN-2187. Type: Cast and crew nod. Picture: File:TA-L-prisoner2187.gif with File:V15-L-cell2187.gif.
• TK-422 (Special Edition, Virtual Set 15): Han in stolen stormtrooper armor gets the number one after TK-421, the trooper in Star Wars who never answers "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?" because Han and Luke have taken the armor of the men sent aboard the Falcon. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:SE-L-tk422.gif with a film still of the TK-421 scene.
• It's Not My Fault! (Special Edition): in The Empire Strikes Back the hyperdrive of the Falcon fails twice, and each pilot gives the same excuse. Han says "The transfer circuits are working. It's not my fault!", and later Lando says "They told me they fixed it. I trusted them to fix it. It's not my fault!" The title is the shared line and the lore is Han's half. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:SE-L-itsnotmyfault.gif with a film still of Lando at the controls.
• Life Day (Virtual Set 23): the title is the Wookiee holiday at the center of the Star Wars Holiday Special (1978), which aired once and was never officially released again. The lore is a plain description of Wookiees, and the game text wants Wookiees and Ewoks. Type: Pop-culture reference. Picture: File:V23-L-lifeday.gif with a still from the Holiday Special.

Medium

• Ronto and Ronto (Dark) (Special Edition): "Very skittish around repulsorlift vehicles" and "Easily startled by fast-moving speeders." Rontos were added to Mos Eisley in the 1997 Special Edition of Star Wars, the set's namesake, where a ronto rears up and throws its Jawa riders. Guess: that shot is the joke. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:SE-L-ronto.gif with File:SE-D-ronto.gif.
• Dams Denna (Theed Palace): "Collector of Linn'con memorabilia." The name is an exact anagram of Dan Madsen, who ran the official Lucasfilm Fan Club. Guess: "Linn'con" stands for a fan convention. If confirmed, it may fit Anagrams better than Jokes. Type: Cast and crew nod. Picture: File:Theed-L-damsdenna.gif.
• I've Got A Bad Feeling About... (Virtual Set 8) and I've Got A Really Good Feeling About This (Virtual Set 13): two more turns of the I have a bad feeling about this gag. The first breaks off mid-line, and its game text is about K-2SO, who in Rogue One starts "I have a bad feeling about..." and is cut off. The second turns the line upside down. Guess: after Han in Solo (2018), since the set is built around that film and the card is stronger with the set's Han. Type: Running gag. Picture: File:V8-L-ivegotabadfeelingabout.gif with File:V13-L-ivegotareallygoodfeelingaboutthis.gif.
• Count Me In (Endor): "Leia couldn't let Han out of her sight." In The Empire Strikes Back Han teases her, "I think you just can't bear to let a gorgeous guy like me out of your sight"; on Endor the card proves him right. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Endor-L-countmein.gif.
• Camie (Special Edition): she "Feels sorry for Luke, but still calls him 'Wormie.'" The nickname comes from the Anchorhead scenes cut from Star Wars, where Camie says "It was just Wormie on another rampage." Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:SE-L-camie.gif.
• Pit Droid (Tatooine): "Collapses into a compact form when hit on the nose." Guess, from the film: a pit droid in The Phantom Menace folds up after a knock on the nose. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Tat-D-pitdroid.gif with a film still of the folding pit droid.
• Corporal Drazin (Endor, Virtual Set 21): an honor-guard biography that ends "Accompanied Vader on Drazin's homeworld of Bespin. Shot C-3PO there." In The Empire Strikes Back a stormtrooper on Cloud City blasts Threepio apart; the card names the man and gives it as his one claim to fame. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Endor-D-corporaldrazin.gif.
• Here We Go Again and Were You Looking For Me? (Endor): the strike team thinks C-3PO "a good luck charm. That isn't what Han considers him." The other card keeps score: "For the second time in the Endor mission, C-3PO saved the day." Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Endor-L-herewegoagain.gif with File:Endor-L-wereyoulookingforme.gif.
• A Bright Center To The Universe and The Planet That It's Farthest From (Special Edition): Luke's line in Star Wars, "if there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from", split in two. The Dark half deploys on the Death Star or Coruscant, the Light half on Tatooine or Dagobah, and the two have the same game text. Type: Design gag. Picture: File:SE-D-abrightcentertotheuniverse.gif with File:SE-L-theplanetthatitsfarthestfrom.gif.
• Captain Sarkli (Death Star II): "Piett's nephew. Once granted audience with Emperor. On fast-track to promotion." Nepotism, given as a career summary. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:DS2-D-captainsarkli.gif.
• SSA-1015 (Theed Palace): "Supposed to be designated SSA-101, but a mistake in production pushed him back to 1015." A droid demoted by a typing slip. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Theed-D-ssa1015.gif. Promoted to Jokes as Deadpan lore (Bill, 27 October 2026).
• Senate Hovercam and Senate Hovercam (Dark) (Theed Palace): the Light card says "Mysteriously, the droid monitoring Amidala in the Senate never reported back"; the Dark card says hovercams must by law attend every session, "a law Senator Palpatine opposed." Read together, the two cards hint at who made the camera go missing. Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Theed-L-senatehovercam.gif with File:Theed-D-senatehovercam.gif. Promoted to Jokes as Deadpan lore (Bill, 27 October 2026).
• Leia, Rebel Princess (Reflections III): "After attracting Luke's attention and then Han's attention, Leia should not have been surprised when she got more attention than desired from Jabba." Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Ref3-L-leiarebelprincess.gif. Promoted to Jokes as Deadpan lore (Bill, 27 October 2026).
• Don't Do That Again (Tatooine, Reflections III): "The Jedi won't tolerate silly behavior for very long." The title is Qui-Gon's warning in The Phantom Menace after he catches Jar Jar's tongue in Mos Espa. Guess: the "silly behavior" is Jar Jar's. Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Tat-L-dontdothatagain.gif.
• Feltipern Trevagg's Stun Rifle (Special Edition): a bounty hunter's rifle, kept after he became a tax collector and "Occasionally brought along to 'ease' Feltipern's collection duties." Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:SE-D-feltiperntrevaggsstunrifle.gif. Promoted to Jokes as Deadpan lore (Bill, 27 October 2026).

Comlink Cursor (talk) 16:08, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Borderline

• Nebit and Dodo Bodonawieedo (Special Edition): Nebit "Hates being 'frocked.'", and Dodo "'Frocked' Jawas and stole ronto steaks as a child." Two cards in one set share an unexplained bit of slang for something done to Jawas. (borderline) Type: Running gag. Picture: File:SE-D-nebit.gif with File:SE-D-dodobodonawieedo.gif.
• OS-72-2 In Obsidian 2 (Special Edition): "Nicknamed 'Night Beast' for his many curfew violations." A fearsome nickname explained by a minor offence. (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:SE-D-os722inobsidian2.gif.
• Mind Tricks Don't Work On Me (Coruscant): "Watto is smart enough to not let himself get swindled by a Jedi bully." The Dark Side's view of Qui-Gon's mind trick; it could sit with Credits Will Do Fine. (borderline) Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Cor-D-mindtricksdontworkonme.gif.
• Another Pathetic Lifeform (Coruscant, Reflections III): the title is Obi-Wan's remark about Jar Jar in The Phantom Menace, and the lore adds "Young Obi-Wan has much to learn about the living Force. Patience with others is also high on that list." (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Cor-L-anotherpatheticlifeform.gif.
• Mas Amedda (Coruscant): "Although Senator Palpatine suggested he may be on the Trade Federation's payroll, nothing has been proven yet." The future Emperor accuses someone else of corruption. (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Cor-L-masamedda.gif.
• Elite Squadron Stormtrooper (Endor): "All they know is killing and white uniforms." (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Endor-D-elitesquadronstormtrooper.gif.
• Paploo (Endor, Virtual Set 10): the lore ends with Han's line from Return of the Jedi, "'Not bad for a little furball.'" (borderline) Type: Film in-joke. Picture: File:Endor-L-paploo.gif.
• Aurra Sing's Blaster Rifle (Reflections III): "Targeting mechanism is so complex only Aurra Sing can decipher it." Guess: a play on Decipher, the maker of the game; nothing else on the card points to it. (borderline) Type: Decipher in-joke. Picture: File:Ref3-D-aurrasingsblasterrifle.gif.
• Sando Aqua Monster and Sando Aqua Monster (Dark) (Reflections III): the Light card calls it an "undersea giant" that is "quite a mystery to Naboo oceanographers"; the Dark card says it is "feline in nature and moves on its hind legs." The two cards disagree about the same sea monster, which may be a slip rather than a joke. (borderline) Type: Design gag. Picture: File:Ref3-L-sandoaquamonster.gif with File:Ref3-D-sandoaquamonster.gif.
• Rayno Vaca (Theed Palace): a Coruscant taxi driver who "Will try any trick in the book to get an extra credit from his customer", the old joke about cab drivers. (borderline) Type: Deadpan lore. Picture: File:Theed-D-raynovaca.gif.
• B1 Clanker (Virtual Set 27): "clanker" is the clone troopers' slur for battle droids in The Clone Wars. Guess: the title also plays on 2025, when "clanker" spread online as slang for robots and AI. (borderline) Type: Pop-culture reference. Picture: File:V27-D-b1clanker.gif.
• Jaxxon T. Tumperakki (Virtual Set 24): the giant green rabbit from Marvel's 1970s Star Wars comics, often compared to Bugs Bunny. (borderline) Type: Pop-culture reference. Picture: File:V24-L-jaxxonttumperakki.gif.

Comlink Cursor (talk) 16:09, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Promoted to Jokes (Bill, 27 October 2026): SSA-1015, Senate Hovercam (both faces in one row), Leia, Rebel Princess and Feltipern Trevagg's Stun Rifle, all as Deadpan lore. Comlink Cursor (talk) 17:02, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Alien speech and sounds (27 October 2026)

Extended the running gag Untranslated alien speech into Alien speech and sounds (Bill's request): twelve cards, one original Decipher face at a time in release order. Added Wookiee Roar with MSE-6 'Mouse' Droid beside it (two stills of the Death Star corridor scene in Star Wars), Bantha Fodder, Hutt Bounty, I Must Be Allowed To Speak, Information Exchange and Ke Chu Ke Kukuta? (with a still of Jabba's gatekeeper droid). Myo moved in from Deadpan lore. The old anchors (Untranslated alien speech, Myo and each card) still work. Cross-links added on Hard-to-read cards, Mournful Roar and E Chu Ta; the type table now counts Myo under Running gag.

None of the sources found gives a translation of the card lore itself; the block quotes only the film subtitles (IMSDb script) and Wookieepedia's "bantha poodoo" and "monoc".

Borderline, not added (for Bill to judge):

• Closer?!: the lore ends with Chewbacca's reply, "'Graarg?!'", but the joke is Han's line.
• Aiiii! Aaa! Agggggggggg!: screams in the title, but Han's, not an alien's.
• We'll Find Han: "'I promise.' 'Auuuuuug!'", Chewbacca's wail as Han is frozen.
• E Chu Ta and Mournful Roar: stay where they are (Design gag, Wordplay), cross-linked.

New candidates from a scan of all card lore, not on Jokes or in the lists above: Jabba's Through With You (Special Edition): "'Klees ka tlanko ya oska.'"; Losing Track (Tatooine): "'Wha-? Chuba da noya!'"; Ewok Celebration (Reflections III): "'Na na, beecha na noooooooooooooooowa.'" Comlink Cursor (talk) 17:34, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

Promoted to Alien speech and sounds (Bill, 27 October 2026): We'll Find Han (with a still of Chewbacca's wail), Jabba's Through With You, Losing Track and Ewok Celebration, each with its original Decipher face and a joke= line on its card page; the block now has sixteen cards. Not picked (Bill): Closer?! and Aiiii! Aaa! Agggggggggg!, which stay off Jokes. Correction to the list above: Chewbacca's wail on We'll Find Han is his answer to Lando's "Princess, we'll find Han. I promise" at the end of The Empire Strikes Back, not the moment Han is frozen. Comlink Cursor (talk) 18:03, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (27 October 2026)

Built the running gag The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Bill's request, through Chief): the three Special Edition characters that play the film's trio, each with its original Decipher face and a film still. Bron Burs (Tuco, the Ugly; new still File:Joke reference - Tuco in the desert in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.jpg, a 4K frame from Arrow Video's official sizzle reel), Debnoli (Blondie, the Good) and Gela Yeens (Angel Eyes, the Bad), with the Blondie and Angel Eyes stills already used on Anagrams. The three faces had no Decipher archive copy and were uploaded from Decipher.com card list captures (SHA-1 of each file matches the Wayback CDX digest). Each card page got a joke= line, the Anagrams See also links to the section, and the type table now counts Running gag 11.

Build notes:

• The gag is the fan list's ("Anagramed Decipherians" names the film beside all three cards and tags Bron Burs UGLY and Gela Yeens BAD) plus the lore: "Good-natured", "Bad-tempered", "Ugly scars".
• New in the section, not in the fan list: Gela Yeens' "Makes a few credits more" turns the title of For a Few Dollars More (1965), Leone's previous western, which also starred Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood. Cross-linked to Quick Draw ("a fistful of credits").
• No Tuco anagram exists. Bron Burs' title scrambles Rob Burns; only the lore and the fan list's tag make him the Ugly.
• Scan of all card lore and titles (swccg-card-json Light.json and Dark.json, Decipher and Virtual) for Tuco, Blondie, Angel Eyes, Ugly, Good-natured, Bad-tempered, standoff, noose, Sad Hill and similar words: no other card belongs to the gag. The Virtual reprints of the three cards keep the same lore.

Borderline, not added (for Bill to judge):

• Debnoli's picture: the card that is "Blondie" shows a bald man. Nothing found shows that Decipher meant it as a joke; the picture is a Mos Eisley cantina patron from Star Wars who was given the name later.
• Bron Burs: "Likes to be on his own" and game text "When alone at a site, draws one battle destiny". It could echo Tuco being left alone in the desert, but nothing ties it to the film.
• Debnoli: "Seeking revenge on the Empire". In the film it is Tuco, not Blondie, who is "bent on revenge" (against Blondie), so it does not fit the casting.
• Gela Yeens: "Highly regarded for his uncanny anticipation in battle". No link to Angel Eyes found.
• Phylo Gandish ("Good-natured former pilot") and Savareen Standoff (a standoff in Solo) turned up in the scan; neither has any tie to the film.

Comlink Cursor (talk) 20:12, 27 October 2026 (UTC)