Tom Culpepper The Admiral's ISB

Tom Culpepper The Admiral's ISB is the Dark constructed list Tom Culpepper posted on DeckTech.

Deck info

• Player: Tom Culpepper
• Published: 26 March 2001 (DeckTech)
• Published title: The Admiral's ISB
• Format: Premiere - Reflections II
• Side: Dark
• Starting Card: ISB Operations
• Starting Interrupt: Prepared Defenses
• GEMP Importable deck: Download
• Strategy: hmmm... there's a fun combo. Imp command with ISB... Sounds abusive to me, I guess I will try it.

Decklist

Objective 1x ISB Operations Character 1x Admiral Chiraneau 1x Admiral Ozzel 1x Admiral Piett 1x Grand Admiral Thrawn 1x Mara Jade, The Emperor's Hand 1x Commander Merrejk 2x Guri 7x Outer Rim Scout 1x Darth Vader, Dark Lord Of The Sith 1x Emperor Palpatine 1x Prince Xizor 1x M'iiyoom Onith 1x Grand Moff Tarkin Starship 1x Accuser 1x Avenger 1x Chimaera 1x Death Squadron Star Destroyer 1x Devastator 1x Executor 1x Thunderflare 1x Vengeance Vehicle 1x Blizzard 2

Location 1x Coruscant 1x Kuat 1x Kiffex 1x Nal Hutta 1x Corulag 1x Kashyyyk 1x Sullust 1x Endor 1x Fondor 1x Executor: Docking Bay Effect 1x Oppressive Enforcement 1x Something Special Planned For Them 1x Mobilization Points 1x Kuat Drive Yards 1x Lateral Damage 1x Reactor Terminal 1x Den Of Thieves Interrupt 1x Prepared Defenses 2x Abyssin Ornament 4x Imperial Command 1x Overwhelmed 1x Projective Telepathy 1x Twi'lek Advisor 1x Overload Admiral's Order 2x We're In Attack Position Now

Original post

The Admiral's ISB

• Author: Tom "Gand" Culpepper
• Published: March 26, 2001
• Rating: 4.0
• Description: hmmm... there's a fun combo. Imp command with ISB... Sounds abusive to me, I guess I will try it.

Strategy

well, what can I say? Just seems like a natural combo to me. The power of Imperial Command with the speed of ISB. I might even pass on playing HDADTJ for awhile due to this one. Basi strategy is always similar, use Command to pull Piett and Piett to pull Merjjek then use him to pull systems. You ought to get a system or two in the opening hand, so activation should not be too much of a problem to deal with. With the mass activation and the ships immune to attrition <6... Besides that you have Den Of Thieves to cancel drains, enough scouts to use some as fodder and retrieve them in draw phase, then there is always Abyssin Ornament to make a mass retrieval late, if it lasts that long. There are sufficent ground forces to hold a site or two. Besides that it is just spread and drain at the systems with Cherneau and ISB boosted drains while limiting opponent's destinies and wreaking havoc.

Some card choices explained

SSPFT Deck is packed with star destroyers, might as well make moving away a pain. As an added bonus it denies the retrieval loop provided by On/Off the Edge and Utini effects. Celebrations should not be a problem to overrun.

Overwhelmed Gets rid of the Super Falcon and other annoying ships if you overpower them by enough.

Projective Telapathy Cancel a battle or force drain if they don't leave force. Also good to cancel your own battles sometimes... or just use up some more force.

Overlaod I see B-wing weapon decks and Frigate weapon decks every now and then, this tosses intruder missiles au-to-ma-tic... Plus GA thrawn hurts them by pulling a replaced AO into hand and making them find thiers again.

Myiioom Onith Just cause I sure will have a lot of force from time to time... this card is a pain in the @ss agianst just about ANYTHING that does not start Goo Nee Tay. Sometimes I just feel like being a bastard.

well, I hope you enjoy it. Ask me about it if you have any questions. Feel free to make any suggestions and I will consider/respond to them. Thanks for reading

Gand

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Original card list

As posted on DeckTech

Starting(6) ISB Operations Coruscant Oppressive Enforcement Something Special Planned For Them Mobilization Points Prepared Defences Locations (9) Kuat Kiffex Nal Hutta Corulag Kashyyyk Sullust Endor Fondor Executor DB Characters (20) Admiral Chiranaeu Admiral Ozzel Admiral Piett Grand Admiral Thrawn Mara Jade Commander Merrejk Guri x2 Outer Rim Scout x 7 Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Sith Emperor Palpatine Prince Xizor Myiioom Onith Grand Moff Tarkin Vehicles(1) Blizzard 2 Starships(8) Accuser Avenger Chimaera Death Squadron Star Destroyer Devastator Executor Thunderflare Vengance Admirals Orders(2) Were In Attack Position Now x2 Effects(4) Kuat Drive Yards Lateral Damage Reactor Terminal Den Of Thieves Interrupts(10) Abyssin Ornament x2 Imperial Command x 4 Overwhelmed Projective Telepathy Twi'lek Advisor Overload

See also

• Tom Culpepper
• DeckTech decks
• Decklists
• Premiere - Reflections II

Sources

• The Admiral's ISB, decktech.net
• The Admiral's ISB, stephenskilton.com
• The Admiral's ISB (GitHub Pages)