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Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight & C-3PO & R2-D2

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I created this deck mostly to implement the two little, mythic droids in the Epic Duels world.
Luke is the major character and the droids are the minors; I based R2-D2 on the 'no action cost' mechanics, trying to depict his ability to self adapt to all circumstancies, working alone around. C-3PO is based instead on create distractions for the opponent 's characters.
The deck uses a unique double-value system for the droids cards.

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Submitted by Robert Moore on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 22:10.

Re: Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight & C-3PO & R2-D2

Luke needs to get the most out of his attack cards, thus the high values, but not many attack cards from his talent selection are there. 3PO and R2 each have 2 cards. Your choice to make R2 and 3PO have 2 cards each which occur only once is understandable. You obviously want to show their varied talents. I hope this does not cause a lack of consitency since these cards are not duplicates. I would really like to know how this deck has played. Does it consitently beat Jango?
Submitted by Raistlin on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 04:49.

Re: Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight & C-3PO & R2-D2

From my tests the deck resulted strong, a Tier2 at least and a strong one. Yes the four minors' cards are in single copy, but they are all strong; furthermore there are some powerful little mini-combos between the Luke/robots talent cards. Finally remember that the two robots are virtually undestructible (as they shown to be in the movies :) )

Try it :)

Submitted by Roman Farraday on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 11:58.

Re: Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight & C-3PO & R2-D2

A few notes: I don't know why the Luke player would ever use INSTINCTIVE FORM V as offense, unless it's the only option and to win the game. With a Red Deck, Luke has plenty of offensive options but desperately needs IFV as defense. If C3-P0 prevents the opponent from defending, Luke could still do a lot of damage with IMPULSIVE ATTACK or even a standard A5D1, keeping IFV as defense. REPAIR isn't clear, if R2-D2 puts C3-P0 back on the board, how many HP does it get? Also REPAIR should absolutely cost an action. You can maybe add a draw card. Finally, the imagery of Luke on his basic combat cards isn't consistent with the depiction of the character. I see this is as ROTJ Luke, in the beginning of the film, as the imagery on the talent cards depicts. I would try to stay consistent with that.
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Submitted by Raistlin on Thu, 03/11/2010 - 05:52.

Re: Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight & C-3PO & R2-D2

Mmm I understand your points Roman. You're absolutely right about REPAIR, I forgot the 'at full health' text portion...

About INSTINCTIVE FORM V it is clear that its use is mainly as a defense card; the attack possibility is there just to add a little option for the deck, providing a further A8 (only when comboed with the HELLO SIR... card) when needed, because the output damage of the deck it is not so high. My intent was to give a sort of crucial decision to Luke: "Do I have to use it in defense or wait for the HELLO SIR... card?"
The most of the time the defense option will be the right one, but against some characters or in some particular circumstancies I found the additional A8 (and unblockable) a winner.

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