Undercover (Revised)
| Title | Undercover (Revised) |
|---|---|
| Side | Light |
| Type | Effect |
| Set | Revised A New Hope |
| Publisher | Decipher |
| Era | Decipher era |
| Rarity | U2 |
| Uniqueness | Unrestricted |
| Destiny | 5 |
| GEMP ID | 52_40 |
| Versions | Decipher — Undercover (2_40)Decipher (Revised) — this page ( 52_40) |
Undercover (Revised) is a Light Effect from Revised A New Hope.
Card Text
Deploy on your spy at a site and cross spy to opponent’s side. Spy is now Undercover. During your deploy phase, may voluntarily “break cover” (lose Effect) if at a site. (Immune to Alter.) A special characteristic of spies activated by the Effect card Undercover (and certain other cards). Your Undercover spy operates with unique capabilities. It has no presence, but prevents your opponent from Force draining where present and allows deployment of your cards to the same location. (Even Undercover droid spies provide this benefit.) An Undercover spy does not participate in battles and may not be targeted by an opponent’s weapons in battle. To indicate that your spy is Undercover, place it on your opponent’s side of the table at the same site. Your Undercover spy moves during your opponent’s move phase (under your control and at normal use of your Force). An Undercover spy can board an opponent’s starship or vehicle (embark, shuttle, transfer etc.) if there is sufficient capacity; however, the opponent has the first chance to fill that capacity. If your Undercover spy is a pilot, it can operate an opponent’s unpiloted starship. Your Undercover spy may not board your own vehicle or starship card (although it may go to a vehicle or starship site). Despite being on the opponent’s side of a location and moving like one of your opponent’s characters, your Undercover spy is still your character, and is affected as one of your characters.
Lore
Alliance Intelligence expends considerable resources to infiltrate the Imperial military bureaucracy, but the ISB’s security sweeps make these shadowy operations dangerous.
Rulings
- If the character is persona replaced by a non-spy version, Undercover is lost and the character ceases to be Undercover.
- The Undercover character prevents the opponent from Force draining at same site, and allows the owner to deploy to same site even without presence or Force icons. These benefits are the same even if the Undercover character is a droid.
- The Undercover character is inactive (for example it does not participate in battles) but outside of battle it may be targeted by Interrupts and anything that could make it dueled, hit, or lost.
- The owner may voluntarily break cover during their deploy phase.
- If the character's cover is broken (either voluntarily or by another card such as Lt. Pol Treidum), then Undercover is lost.
- The Signal
- We Wish To Board At Once
- Wokling (V)
Counterpart
Easter egg
"Good Evening" written vertically, with Hitchcock's profile shadow — the opening of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Sources
- Undercover black-border printed face (
2_40) - White-border product Revised A New Hope
- Original printed face: Undercover, Decipher (archived 13 June 2002).
- Complete Card List (Decipher PDF, archive 28 September 2007) — Light Effect: Undercover, A New Hope, U2