About
I received Star Wars Epic Duels as a Christmas present from my beloved Aunt and Uncle in 2002.

How We Roll
What is Geektopia Epic Duels?
It’s an evolved form of Star Wars Epic Duels played by “The 3 A-Holes,” Roman Farraday, fooyongfoo, BB and their friends, including Deri (Docmogs/fingersandteeth).
The “evolution” refers to the tweaking of 8 of the original 12 decks and the addition of about 30 custom decks with the goal being that each character’s level of power be fairly representative of their power in the films, by our interpretation. Thus, Mace Windu is more powerful than Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke & Leia are substantially better than the shooters, and Darth Vader is actually tough to beat. Pursuing this goal admittedly results in constant tinkering on the decks. But hey, the Millenium Falcon required constant tinkering too.

House Rules
Aside from our own interpretations of some special card effects, there are only a handful of house rules to differentiate Geektopia ED from Hasbro ED:

All games are 2v2 or 3v3
Personality minors can win.
Minors cannot heal by playing cards of the major.
Only the person who goes last has 2 actions on his first turn, everyone else has 1.
The winner of a “roll off” can choose to go first or which side to defend
Every major can be placed on any named space of the side they are defending, every minor must be placed adjacent to its respective major.
The “Mountain Cat” Rule: No direct damage card that affects multiple opponents (e.g. Thermal Detonator) can target any character who has not yet had a turn.

Custom Decks
Our custom decks fall into 2 forms of creations: 1) Our original creations 2) Decks we “borg” from the online community. We take someone else’s deck and assimilate it into the Geektopia system by tweaking it to our desired level of power, most have changed enough to be considered distinct from their original. Sometimes, we take ideas from multiple deck creators and fuse them together; our Grievous deck is the best example. Although all custom decks that appear here are developed and tweaked to fit the world of Geektopia ED, all are Epic Duels decks, fully compatible with any set, and have the benefit of having been tested over years of 2v2 play.

The heart of Geektopia ED is the attack-and-defend process. Most decks have some big attacks and some form of power defense, resulting in an overall “power creep”.
Tier System
Finally, we’ve started think of each character more and more in terms of 5 tiers of strength. Power creep results in the original Dooku, probably an average deck in the original ED, likely in Tier 4 out of the 5 Tiers we’ve created and only the original Obi-Wan would make it to Tier 1. Geektopia is ruled by the “sluggos,” decks with big power attacks and power defense that tend to achieve victory by slugging it out with their foes Ð the original Obi-Wan, with his arsenal of A6′s, A7′s and D12′s, would be a prime example.

We’ve grouped our decks into 5 tiers, though our opinions of decks change frequently and the decks themselves change every now and then.

Tier 1
These are the top sluggos like Darth Sidious, tweaked Mace, and Yoda, Defender of Kashyyk.
SWED Equivalent: Original, untweaked Obi-Wan, the strongest original deck, would be in this tier, though not at the top.

Tier 2
These are leaders and masters of the force like tweaked Dooku, tweaked Vader and Qui-Gon Jinn & Padawan Obi-Wan.

SWED Equivalent: The original, untweaked Emperor Palpatine, the 2nd strongest of the original 12 decks is at the top of this tier. You must consider that he’s a tad weaker overall than Obi-Wan, but still quite a bit better than the rest of the pack.

Tier 3
Better than your standard Jedi but with too many shortcomings to be in one of the above tiers. The original Darth Maul is a classic example. In 1v1, he’s arguably the best deck in the game. In 2v2, he’s inconsistent, feast-or-famine, with a clear weakness of lacking defense. Many of the decks in this tier may not be as individually powerful as some of the Tier 4 decks but are great teammates.

SWED Equivalent: Along with Maul, the original Anakin & Padme, who are better in 2v2 than they are in 1v1, are in this tier, and they are at or near the top. Original Yoda might fit here as well, in our book he’s weaker than Anakin and about level with Maul.

Tier 4
This is primarily your standard Jedi Knights such as Kit Fisto, Shaak Ti and Aayla Secura. Nearly every deck in this group has ample amounts of offense and defense and could beat a Tier 1 deck with the right draw. Very tough shooters might sneak into this Tier.

SWED Equivalent: Untweaked Count Dooku would fit nicely here. Mace, considered a tad stronger, would be at the top of this tier or bottom of Tier 3. Original Luke and original Vader, better 2v2 players than 1v1, would probably be here.

Tier 5
Shooters with Yellow decks and their equivalents. Keep in mind that the sluggos and their high attacks can carve through a Yellow deck with no power defense, and even the Jedi of Tier 4 typically have some big attacks and defense. This type of shooter can typically only hope to dish out a lot of damage before his inevitable destruction.

SWED Equivalent: Han, Boba, and Jango.

Tools
These are two very popular tools my friend Roman created:

Roman’s Special Card Analyzer (3 MB)
User’s Guide for Special Card Analyzer
A third explains his theory in tweaking decks:

Tweak Theory
A third is maybe not so popular but should be. It’s the Special Card Guidelines, probably the most important Epic Duels document ever created.

Links
Other recommended E.D. sites…

The Epic Duels Yahoo! Group is where you can find 95% or so of the E.D. related content on the web. The discussions are sometimes a little trying (I dropped out over an endless, ENDLESS thread about who would win in a fight between Yoda and Emperor. An argument that became particularly pointless when Episode III came out). Still, there’s a lot of content and some of the participants have made a real effort to get it organized.

In the “Files” section is a very important document for anyone interested in creating decks. First is Roman’s Special Card Guidelines document. It’s a great analysis of how Epic Duels decks are constructed and really worth consulting before any deck creation.

Rich Pizor’s site has a number of good custom decks. Even more important is his “design kit,” which I, for one, never would have been able to start making decks without.

Rob’s Epic Duels Site has a number of rules clarifications. I think he’s right on every point.

I like this one [Aaron Shockley's] and this one too [Sultan_of_Dorkistan's Epic Duels Page].

There are a lot of good sites. The best place to find them is in the links section of the Yahoo! Group.