TheOutlawTorn Back in Black (AOBS)

TheOutlawTorn Back in Black (AOBS) is a Dark constructed list published on Game Players Network.

Deck info

• Player: TheOutlawTorn
• Published: 14 August 2004 (Game Players Network)
• GPN category: Standard
• Format: Premiere - Original VS7
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: Agents Of Black Sun
• Starting Interrupt: Prepared Defenses
• Starting Effect: Fear Is My Ally
• Strategy: Agents Of Black Sun
• GEMP Importable deck: Download (omits Prince Xizor (V) (Virtual Set 7), Zuckuss (V) (Virtual Set 7), The Emperor (V) (Virtual Set 6), Bossk (V) (Virtual Set 5), Bane Malar (V) (Virtual Set 7), Greedo (V) (Virtual Set 3), IG-88's Neural Inhibitor (V) (Virtual Set 5), Hound's Tooth (V) (Virtual Set 5), Punishing One (V) (Virtual Set 5), Ket Maliss (V) (Virtual Set 3), Desilijic Tattoo (V) (Virtual Set 5), Imperial Decree (V) (Virtual Set 6), Ability, Ability, Ability (V) (Virtual Set 6), Oo-ta Goo-ta, Solo? (V) (Virtual Set 3), Frustration (V) (Virtual Set 7), Guri (V) (Virtual Set 7), Mist Hunter (V) (Virtual Set 5), Slave I (V) (Virtual Set 7): not in GEMP)

Introduction

• AC/DC playing in background*

Your typical bounty hunters thrashing...or is it?

Decklist

Objective 1x Agents Of Black Sun Character 2x Prince Xizor (V) 2x Vigo 2x Boba Fett, Bounty Hunter 2x IG-88 2x Zuckuss (V) 1x Guri 1x Jodo Kast 1x The Emperor (V) 1x Bossk (V) 1x Dengar With Blaster Carbine 1x 4-LOM 1x Snoova 1x Bane Malar (V) 1x Greedo (V) 1x Dr. Evazan & Ponda Baba 1x P-59 Weapon 1x Vibro-Ax 1x IG-88's Neural Inhibitor (V) 1x Naboo Blaster Rifle Starship 1x Hound's Tooth (V) 1x Punishing One (V) 1x Stinger Location 1x Coruscant 1x Coruscant: Imperial City 1x Rendili 1x Coruscant: Docking Bay 1x Executor: Docking Bay 1x Death Star II: Docking Bay

Effect 1x Fear Is My Ally 1x Ket Maliss (V) 1x Desilijic Tattoo (V) 1x You Cannot Hide Forever & Mobilization Points 1x Combat Response 1x Sando Aqua Monster 1x Imperial Decree (V) 1x Ability, Ability, Ability (V) Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 2x Double Back 2x Jabba's Through With You 2x Oo-ta Goo-ta, Solo? (V) 2x We Must Accelerate Our Plans 1x Control & Set For Stun 1x Unexpected Interruption 1x Frustration (V) 1x Oh, Switch Off Admiral's Order 1x Black Sun Fleet Droid 1x Guri (V) Starfighter 2x Mist Hunter (V) 1x Slave I (V)

Starts 'Fear is My Ally (+10)'; no shields are named.

Notes

• Original-era (V): Ket Maliss (V), Oo-ta Goo-ta, Solo? (V) (Virtual Set 3); Greedo (V) (Virtual Set 4); Desilijic Tattoo (V), Bossk (V), IG-88's Neural Inhibitor (V), Mist Hunter (V), Hound's Tooth (V) (Virtual Set 5); The Emperor (V), Imperial Decree (V), Ability, Ability, Ability (V) (Virtual Set 6); Prince Xizor (V), Zuckuss (V), Guri (V), Bane Malar (V), Punishing One (V), Slave I (V), Frustration (V) (Virtual Set 7).
• Prince Xizor (V) is listed twice (starting and characters); dested as posted. Coruscant (Ep.1) and Coruscant: Docking Bay (Ep.1) are the Coruscant-set cards. Control and SFS dested Control & Set For Stun; Unexpected Interruption is unmarked in the list, so it is the printed card.
• Original-era printing corrected: Greedo (V) (Virtual Set 4) -> Greedo (V) (Virtual Set 3); Punishing One (V) (Virtual Set 7) -> Punishing One (V) (Virtual Set 5) (an earlier dest had linked the modern virtual card of the same name).

Strategy

Some stats first:

-Activation (by thrid turn at latest, not including the Emperor of Mob. Points): 9

-Average destiny (minus starting; Rendili, Interuption (V), Greedo and DB's pulled): 2.78

-Destinies by number (notice the pimp bar graph)

0's:0

1's:-------------13

2's:--------8

3's:------------12

4's:----4

5's:-------7

6's:--2

7's:0

Well, here it is, the uber bounty hunter beats. Unfortunately, the destiny is rather low. Fortunately, most of the stuff you'll be pulling will take away most of the 1's and 2's, and you have a lot of cards to help them anyways.

Playing is fairly easy, the tricky part is remembering what all the cards do, and pulling the right things at the right time. First turn, pull Rendili, Coruscant: DB and Greedo. Deploy and move to the DB to flip (hopefully no Luke yet ^_^), and peek at force and grab it if ya need it. On following turns, get a decent-sized force togther, pull what you can, and go balls to the wall.

Card selection:

As I see it, there are two do-able kinds of AOBS: the Prepared Defense, non-Jabba version, and the Any Methods Necessary, Scum and Villainy version. I think Prepared Defenses version is better, because it doesn't limit your options on the first turns, and allows you to react to your opponent. Also all the effects aren't inner-dependent on each other, and they take up a lot of space.

-4-LOM (non V): With four droids and a bunch of aliens, he will get big, and can be pulled by Zuckuss (V).

-starships: 6 pilot slots, 7 pilots, basically all you need for any space package.

-Jabba's Through: Pull my weapons, and add to a draw if I need it.

-Ability x3: Only 3 characters it can't retrieve, so why not?

The matchups are basically covered in the effects section of the decklist, since it's pretty self-explainitory after then. Any criticism/praise/donations welcome.

See also

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

Sources

• Back in Black (AOBS) (Wayback, 20051102154456)
• GPN Star Wars Decks page 4 (Wayback, 20050430203312)