The Great Jabba

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This one has been around a long while and it has always been fun.

THE GREAT JABBA
by Fooyongfoo & Geektopia

The Great Jabba
17 HP
Melee
19 cards
Blue Deck

Greedo
8 HP
Ranged
12 cards
Strong Ranged Minor Deck

Jabba – 9 Talent Cards 

3x CRIMELORD
A6. Play this card face up when attacking.  Jabba may play this on any character on the board and does not need to be in attack position to his target.

2x YOU WEAK-MINDED FOOL
Move an adjacent enemy up to 6 spaces from Jabba. Target player must choose and discard 2 cards.

2x I SHALL ENJOY WATCHING YOU DIE
Choose an opponent to discard 2 cards at random.

1x MY KIND OF SCUM
Discard up to 4 cards.  For each card discarded, draw a card.

1x YOUR POWERS WON’T WORK ON ME BOY
Play after an opponent plays a special card.  All affects of that card are negated.  Affected opponent draws a card.

Greedo – 3 Talent Cards

2x SUDDEN ARRIVAL
Move Greedo adjacent to any enemy.  After he moves, all adjacent characters take 2 damage.

1x DESPERATE SHOT
A8*.  If target is not destroyed, Greedo is destroyed.

Why “The Great Jabba?”: There are many Jabba decks out there so we didn’t want to call ours simply “Jabba”. Calling him “The Great Jabba” is how Ian originally envisioned him.

Themes: Damage from a distance, forced discards
Path to Victory: I SHALL ENJOY WATCHING YOU DIE + CRIMELORD
Strengths: Can attack you anywhere, forces opponents to discard, Greedo does a lot of damage
Weaknesses: Mediocre defense, mediocre attack power
Strategy: Keep enemies away and annoy them to death
Test Level: Very High
Tier: 2

Inspiration: This was the crimelord long before Star Wars Minis came out with “Crimelord Jabba,” and we’re not sure those guys weren’t reading our stuff. Beyond that, we scoured the web for Jabba decks but couldn’t find one we liked so we made our own. To this day, Ian laments not having Gamorrean Guards instead of Greedo, but Roman and Brian overruled him. Since the creation of this deck, Scott Hagarty developed a pretty good Jabba with Gammorean Guards so we will probably stick with Greedo.

Playing Jabba & Greedo: Jabba is similar to Emperor Palpatine, with many cards that can affect you anywhere on the board, which makes him a solid teammate. Your best strategy is stay back with Jabba, using CRIMELORD, I SHALL ENJOY WATCHING YOU DIE and Greedo to hurt and annoy your enemies. Use WEAK-MINDED FOOL to keep advancing Jedi away, force discards and keep playing a ranged game. Unlike the original Boba Fett deck, Greedo is NOT expendable early in the game – you need to get something out of him before he dies, so you might let Jabba take some early damage to protect Greedo. Although Jabba wants to avoid melee combat, he may have to enter the fray to finish opponents off and with a Blue deck, he’s no slouch.

Playing against Jabba & Greedo: Jabba can do annoying things to you from a distance like attack you and force you to discard cards at random so you’ll want to get in attack position. Kill Greedo early, and Jabba loses an important part of his offense. It is annoying to get hit with CRIMELORD but you can’t go after Jabba until you have cards to spare since he can make you discard when adjacent. Don’t forget about YOUR POWERS WON’T WORK ON ME BOY try to have a backup plan in case Jabba plays it against your special card.

 

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