Travis Rumans Speeder Surprise

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Travis Rumans Speeder Surprise is the Light constructed list Travis Rumans posted on DeckTech.[1]

Deck info

Decklist

Objective

Character

Weapon

Starship

Vehicle

Location

Effect

Interrupt

Original post

Speeder Surprise

  • Author: Travis "Com Igar" Rumans
  • Published: August 22, 2001
  • Rating: 4.5
  • Description: Speeders. For the really insane SWCCG player.

Strategy

Playing this deck is a ballsy metagame move. It works best as a surprise deck where your opponent doesn't see it coming. Probably only good for one tournament, because after that word will get around and people won't go outside.

Draw Their Fire is typically started, but you may want to use the Coruscant grabber instead (so DTF can come out as a surprise move).

You pull DBs, drop if you need activation (speeders are cheap so often you don't), and move Luke to get the drain of 2 and +3 activation (2 from obj, 1 from Staging).

You essentially auto-win against any deck that deploys to an exterior site. RallOps and YMSYL both more or less have to do this to do much of anything; the Watto objective (if its seeing play in your area) needs Mos Espa. AOBS often put Xizor at an exterior BG. If you don't believe me, say you have Staging Areas, an ASP Droid, and five Sandspeeders (or snowspeeders). You hit the flaps, drop the droid, drop the five speeders, and your power is 25+ destiny (which will probably suck, admittedly). With the cost for battle, this is 8 force (which is as much as you activate on turn two). That's without Incom or Attack Pattern Delta; your power is about 30 with either, 35 with both. And, with 18 in the deck, five speeders is a pretty small number. And you can do this on turn TWO-and that's not hard to set up. And, for the frag of it, the nastiest possible beat is all 18 speeders (10x3+3x3+5x2=49), attack Pattern Delta (+17 power), Incom (+18) comes to 74 power, and, with an ASP Droid, costs 16 force. Now, by comparison, Jedi Luke and Qui Gon (a typical mains beat crew) cost 16 and have power 12-14. Admittedly its unlikely you'll get all the cards for that, but the beatdown potential of speeders at exterior sites should not be disputed.

It should be obvious that if you can get your opponent to deploy a guy to an exterior site, you win. The trick is getting that to happen because certain decks (space, Deal) won't do that. Here's where Luke comes in. He's pinging them for two a turn, and giving you lots of activation. Unless they've been smacked by speeders before, many people will send someone to grab Luke to put a stop to this. That's why I use Rebel Scout Luke; he makes better bait vs. decks that have no imperials and will just beat him up. Anyway, when they come for Luke, you barrier the scrub they drop, It Can Wait a reinforcement character, and then beat the holy cud out of them. Sense annoying interrupts. Your destiny is sufficently low that Boush can do it, should the need arise.

Not a whole lot to discuss about matchups, there's just decks where you need to get them to go after Luke and decks where you can flat out beat them up.

The ASP droid is a stud. He makes the speeders drop cheap. Also, he lets you throw speeders back into your deck if you need to draw them again (to beatdown elsewhere), pump diff, or even stack a one for sense.

Monnock has the potential to ruin your day, but I didn't see any Monnock in my meta so I felt confident giving this to my brother. If Monnock is popular, then don't play this deck (Monnock probably sees play at least partly to deal with decks like this). You can get around Monnock to an extend by dropping some speeders at DBs for activation, and Barriering and ICWing silly things.

That one Senator hurts, but most people use him because of his politics bonus vs. other Senators and won't prioritize getting him out because you aren't playing the senate. Although many know he hurts X-Wing swarm, they may not realize that he hurts Speeder Swarm, too. If they do, well, suck it up and build a good hand and a big activation pile (you don't really destiny in a pinch) and wait for them to spread. If they're doing Naboo occupation you may very well get a chance to beat them up handily.

Many variants of Speed Deal I've seen start an exterior site. Usually they set up deal like turn two (pull system, pull deal), and their little troopers are no match for the speeders. They give you loads of activation and Kissing one speeder won't help much. If they're smart they'll kiss the ASP Droid, but they might not expect it.

This deck is perhaps not the most solid all-around LS out there, but in the right meta conditions it can be truly devestating. Playing the deck takes much less skill then deciding WHEN to play it. If any deck that uses exterior sites is big in your meta, you can play this deck and watch people scramble to figure out how the frag speeders were dealt with when SE came out.

Original card list

As posted on DeckTech
Starting (10) There Is Good In Him/I Can Save Him Endor DB Chief Chirpa's Hut Rebel Scout Luke Luke's Saber I Feel The Conflict HFTMF Insurrection/Aim High Insight/Staging Areas Draw Their Fire (usually) Ships (3) Home One Red Leder in Red One Gold Leader in Gold One Locations (2) Home One DB Hoth DB Characters (6) TK-422 Boush ASP-707x4 Effects (6) Incom Corporation Honor of the Jedi A Tragedy Has Occured Maneuvering Flapsx3 Vehicles (18) Snowspeederx3 Rebel Snowspeederx5 Sandspeederx10 Interrupts (15) Attack Pattern Deltax2 Shoxking/Grimtaash Sensex2 It Can Waitx4 Rebel Barrierx4 The Signalx2


See also

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Speeder Surprise, DeckTech (Travis "Com Igar" Rumans, 22 August 2001). Preservation copies: Stephen Skilton; GitHub Pages; Wayback Machine.
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