Star Wars™ CCG™ Rules Supplement (02/09/04)
Section 0. Preface
Updated 09 Feb 2004
This document is an official rules document for
Decipher’s SWCCG. It supplements the Glossary and
Rules version 2.0 as published with the Special Edition
set in November 1998, and the SWCCG Glossary
Supplement update published on January 29, 2002.
Although rulings and clarifications may be made by
SWCCG Player Advocates in various forums, they are
not considered official unless specifically noted, or unless
they are included as part of an officially published rules
document. Using this document: When a ruling arises,
you should check all documents in order of publication,
checking the most recent document first, using either the See Supplement
card name, word or phrase, or card type.
All entries in this document replace any existing entries in
the Glossary or Glossary Supplement, unless the note
“See Glossary” or “See Supplement” is included, in which See Supplement
case the entry here supplements whatever was previously
written in those documents.
All rulings are effective immediately upon publication of
this document.
Rulings denoted as ‘interim’ are current, official rulings,
but are still under review and may be subject to change in
the next rules update document.
Entries marked with the symbol D have been added or
have substantially changed in intent.
Like the glossary supplement, this document is divided
into five sections, and is ordered alphabetically:
Section One Rulings by card title
Section Two Rulings by game term (phrase or rule)
Section Three Rulings by card type.
Section Four List of characteristics
Section Five List of persona names.
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Section 1. Rulings by Card Title
D A Day Long Remembered (V)
Deploy on table. All immunity to attrition is reduced by
3. You may not fire permanent weapons. Whenever a
Jedi is lost, or opponent loses a battle, opponent loses
1 Force. During your draw phase, lose 1 Force or
place this card in your Used Pile.(Immune to Alter.)
Advance Preparation (V) - CLARIFICATION
USED: Once per game, deploy Death Star: Trench,
Attack Run and/or one Proton Torpedoes from under
your Starting Effect. (Immune to Sense)
LOST: Retrieve 1 Force. OR If One In A Million on
table, retrieve any 1 card.
Agents In The Court/No Love For The Empire
Copies of your rep card placed on the objective must
also have their species specified in the lore (or by a
Glossary Supplement entry).
All Wrapped Up (interim)
This card merely requires that the bounty hunter be
present at the location. He need not be present with
the forfeited character.
Beedo - CLARIFICATION
* Replaces any other male Rodian for free (Rodian
goes to the used pile) or deploys for 3 Force. While at
Audience Chamber, all your Rodians are power +2,
and whenever Greedo threatens a smuggler, may add
2 to destiny draw.
Blaster Rack (V)
You may deploy one weapon per turn for each copy of
this effect on table.
Boba Fett (V)
This virtual card must be used with the Cloud City set
persona.
Boonta Eve Podrace
While you are free to use your opponent’s copy of this
card to initiate a podrace (even if both are in play), you
must specifically note this at the time you initiate the
podrace. If you do not, you are assumed to be using
your own copy.
Bravo Fighter
While it is landed, this card retains all game text that
applies while at a site.
D Civil Disorder (V)
Deploy on table. You may not play Rebel Barrier.
Whenever you initiate a battle, you may activate 1
Force and/or take the topmost character (without a
permanent weapon or a maintenance cost) from your
Lost Pile into hand. Senators are deploy +2. May lose
1 Force to cause a combat card to be lost. (Immune to Death Star Sentry (V)
Alter.)
Colo Claw Fish
This card allows you to exchange a card drawn for
destiny with a card stacked on this effect. As such,
the exchanged card is not considered to have been
drawn, and may not be modified by cards that operate
on cards drawn for destiny. All other applicable
modifiers transfer to the exchanged card, regardless
of when they were played, and that destiny draw may
continue to be modified.
For example: The dark side is playing My Lord, Is
That Legal/I Will Make It Legal and has Orn Free Taa
stacked on the Colo Claw Fish. During a battle, the
dark side has Darth Vader, and the light side has
Artoo, C-3PO, General Solo and Chewbacca. The
dark side draws Grand Moff Tarkin for battle destiny.
Because of Darth Vader, the destiny draw value is 2.
The light side player chooses to apply Artoo's text,
and reduces that draw to 1. The dark side plays
Prepared Defenses to make the draw 2 again. The
light side player chooses not to apply General Solo’s
game text. The dark side player then chooses to
exchange the destiny draw, replacing Tarkin with Orn.
The +2 for I Will Make It Legal does not apply,
because the senator was exchanged, not drawn, for
destiny. Vader's automatic +1 transfers to the new
card, as does Artoo's optional -1. The bonus from
Prepared Defenses will not transfer to the new card,
as it applies to a drawn battle destiny, and General
Solo’s text may not now be used to cancel the battle
destiny, because the card being used for the draw was
exchanged, not drawn.
Come With Me - ERRATA
Use 1 Force to target a starfighter having one or more
permanent pilots. Draw destiny. If destiny > 2, deploy
on starfighter to remove all permanent pilots
(otherwise, effect is lost). May add one pilot for each
permanent pilot removed. (Immune to Alter.)
Control (and Control (Ep I))
The parenthetical text “(even if just deployed)” means
that this card may be played to cancel a Mobile Effect
or an Immediate Effect as a response even after the
deployment has successfully resolved. You may still
play Control (either version) as a top level action to
cancel a previously deployed Mobile or Immediate
Effect, or as a response to the declaration of the
deploy action (in which case the Mobile or Immediate
Effect is cancelled before it has its effect).
Dantooine Base Operations/More Dangerous
Than You Realize
This card establishes a deploy cost for squadrons
based on their current power. The squadron’s power
may be modified (e.g. S-Foils), but because the
deploy cost is equal to this power, the cost may not be
modified (e.g. Haven, Rendezvous Point).
This effect creates a new, separate cost that must be
paid before paying the deploy cost of the card being
deployed. This cost is not modified by anything that
modifies the deploy cost of that card and therefore
must be paid, even if the card deploys for free.
Defensive Fire (V) - CLARIFICATION
If opponent just initiated battle, you may immediately
fire one non-lightsaber, non-permanent weapon
present in that battle once (for free), adding 2 to each
of its destiny draws. That weapon may fire again this
battle.
Desilijic Tattoo (V)
The third sentence of this effect is intended to apply
when the bounty hunter uses a non-permanent
weapon to hit a character, not when the target has a
non-permanent weapon.
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Despair (V)
Deploy on table. At the same site as Jabba’s Prize
opponent’s deploy cost is +1 and your Force drains
are +2 (may not be canceled or modified by
opponent). Opponent may not move during your turn
while you have a frozen captive. My Favorite
Decoration may not be placed out of play (Immune to
Alter).
DFS Squadron Starfighter
Deploys -1 to Naboo or same system as your
battleship. While at same system as your battleship,
may deploy Droid Starfighter Laser Cannons aboard
from Reserve Deck. Reshuffle.
Docking And Repair Facilities
When removing a squadron for which a deploy cost
has been defined (e.g. More Dangerous Than You
Realize, They’re On Dantooine), use this deploy cost
to determine the cost of the action.
D Down With The Emperor! (V)
Deploy on table. All immunity to attrition is reduced by
3. You may not fire permanent weapons. Whenever a
Dark Jedi is lost, or opponent loses a battle, opponent
loses 1 Force. During your draw phase, use 3 Force
or place this card in your Used Pile. (Immune to Alter.)
Eject, Eject!
See Come With Me
Exposure - CLARIFICATION
Use X Force during your control phase, where X = the
total number of characters present or missing at
exterior marker sites under "nighttime conditions."
Those characters are lost.
Fear Will Keep Them In Line (V)
The opponent loses Force for each battleground
system you control with a Star Destroyer within 2
parsecs of your Death Star.
If your Death Star becomes a battleground (through
the use of Presence Of The Force, for example) and
you control it with a Star Destroyer, your opponent
does not lose 2 Force.
Current text:
Deploy on Death Star. (Limit one per Death Star.)
During your control phase, opponent loses 2 Force for
each battleground system you control with a Star
Destroyer (within 2 parsecs of your Death Star).
Found Someone You Have (V) -
CLARIFICATION
Find one of your missing characters. OR Retrieve the
topmost character of your Lost Pile into hand.
Gold 1 (V)
This card provides you with a choice between two
actions; you may choose to take the top card of your
Force pile into hand, or you may choose to take the
bottom card of your Force pile into hand. You do not
get to peek at either card before deciding.
D Great Shot, Kid!
Deploy on table. If Death Star "blown away":
Whenever you deploy a unique (*) starship to a
system location, retrieve 3 Force; Once per during
each of your turns you may deploy (for free) a starship
from hand or Reserve Deck and reshuffle. (Immune to
Alter.)
Han, Chewie And The Falcon
See Supplement
For purposes of cards that require you to use a pilot’s Location, Location, Location (V)
Ability, Han provides 3 Ability and Chewie provides 2
Ability.
Heading For The Medical Frigate
See Supplement
See Prepared Defenses
Harc Seff (V)
This character has Armor 3.
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Hoth: Main Power Generators
See Hoth energy shield rules
Whenever you deploy this location (even as a starting
location or using an objective), you must check to see
th th th
if the 4 , 5 or 6 marker site is also on the table. If
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not, you must immediately deploy the 4 marker from
your reserve deck. If you are unable to fulfill this
requirement when using the Main Power Generators
as your starting location, you must temporarily set this
card aside and choose a different starting location.
Hyperwave Scan (V)
Deploy on table. Once during opponent's move phase, Naboo: Theed Palace Generator Core
you may use 3 Force to look at opponent's hand or
place a Political Effect (and all cards on it) in owner's
Used Pile. Opponent may not place cards in your
Used Pile from your hand while you have fewer than
13 cards in hand. (Immune to Alter)
Imperial Occupation(V)/Imperial Control(V)
This objective provides a specific exception to the rule
that your game deck must contain 60 cards, all from
the same side of the Force. When playing this
objective, your game deck must contain 59 dark side
cards (including the objective) and the light side
location Hoth: Main Power Generators. When you
deploy the Main Power Generators, you must still
orient the card such that the blue lightsaber icon is
facing the light side player.
Ineffective Maneuver (V) - CLARIFICATION
Before any starting cards are revealed, deploy on
table with up to 5 cards from outside your deck face-
down under here. Cards under here do not count
toward your deck limit. Thrice per game, may lose 2
Force to play a Defensive Shield from here, as if from
hand. Permanent Weapons do not cause forfeit=0;
characters hit by permanent weapons have forfeit =
(printed forfeit - 3)
Lando Calrissian, Scoundrel
Adds one battle destiny. If opponent initiates battle at
same location, retrieve 1 Force and add its destiny
number to Lando's power, or power of Falcon he is
piloting for remainder of battle. End of turn: [star] Use
1 or [arrow] Lose 2 or [skull].
Let Them Make The First Move/At Last We
Have Revenge
If a player cannot draw any destiny for lightsaber
combat, treat their combat total as an unmodifiable 0.
D Lobot (V)
Deploy for free to Cloud City or any site with a scomp
link. If a battle was just initiated at same site, may \/
an alien (free if Lando) as a 'react'. Once per turn,
may \/ Cyborg Construct on Lobot.
Local Uprising (V)/Liberation (V) - ERRATUM
The Local Uprising (V) side of this card is unchanged,
while the Liberation (V) side now reads:
While this side up, each time you must lose Force
(except from your card, battle damage, or a Force
Drain at a battleground) it is limited to 1. Once during
each of your control phases, may use 2 Force to 5
any card. During your control phase, opponent loses 1
Force for each marker site (except the 1st Marker) you
control with a speeder and a Rebel. Flip this card if
you do not control 2 exterior Hoth sites. Place out of
play if 1st Marker is "blown away."
Once a generic location has been deployed, it is
related to the system to which it has been deployed,
taking that system name as part of its title. Therefore,
this effect may deploy additional copies of that
location to other systems.
Mist Hunter(V)
This card affects the destiny draw, and therefore will
apply to a battle or weapon destiny draw replaced by
Colo Claw Fish. This card does not operate on a
value substituted for a destiny draw using cards such
as Darklighter Spin.
Molator(V)
This card is considered to have the same uniqueness
as the original (•)
My Kind of Scum/Fearless and Inventive
See Agents In The Court/No Love For The Empire
This card should be considered to read:
Any characters of Ability <5 'hit' here (and all cards on
them) are instead placed in owner's Used Pile.
Neb Dulo (V)
This character is a warrior.
Polarized Negative Power Coupling (V) -
CLARIFICATION
Deploy on table. Whenever a player plays a Used
Interrupt from hand, stack it here. Either player my
use 2 Force to place a card here in owner’s Used Pile.
Either player may lose 2 Force to place a card here in
owner’s Lost Pile.
This card does not stack Used or Lost Interrupts, nor
Used or Starting Interrupts
Prepared Defenses
See Supplement
When deploying effects using this starting interrupt,
each effect deploys separately, and all automatic
actions resolve normally. Thus if this starting interrupt
is used to deploy Naboo Occupation, No Escape, and
Imperial Arrest Order, Naboo Occupation may be
deployed first (and will be immediately lost), followed
by No Escape (which allows the dark side player to
take the top card of the lost pile into hand) followed by
Imperial Arrest Order.
Queen Amidala, Ruler of Naboo
The game text that allows Queen Amidala to be
treated as a senator applies only when placing her
onto a Political Effect. That text does not give her the
senator characteristic, and so when checking to see if
Will
Political Effect is occupied by a senator, Queen
Amidala does not count as a senator.
D Rebel Planners (V)
Deploy on table. If Hidden Base on table: Once per
game, may exchange Hidden Base indicator with a
system under your Starting Effect, and once per turn,
may deploy a system from under your Starting Effect.
If Systems Will Slip Through Your Fingers on table:
Once per turn, you may disregard game text which
prevents a Force drain from being cancelled. (Immune
to Boring Conversation Anyway and Alter.)
D Redemption (V)
May add 4 pilots and 4 passengers. Permanent pilot
provides Ability of 2. Bacta Tank may deploy for free:
subtract 2 from X, and Bacta Tank is lost if
Redemption lost [Ship-docking]
Sai’torr Kal Fas (V)
See Blaster Rack (V)
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Scanner Techs (V)
Deploy on table. Once during opponent's move phase,
you may use 3 Force to look at opponent's hand or
place a Political Effect (and all cards on it) in owner's
Used Pile. Opponent may not place cards in your
Used Pile from your hand while you have fewer than
13 cards in hand. (Immune to Alter)
Scrambled Transmission (V) - ERRATUM
Deploy on table. Opponent may not look at or remove See Let Them Make The First Move/At Last We Will
cards from your hand while you hold < 13 cards
(except with Monnok). Once per turn, you may peek We’re All Going To Be A Lot Thinner (V)
at any face down card just placed on table,
5Logistical Delay, or lose 2 Force to cancel a
Political Effect. (Immune to Alter)
Secure Route - CLARIFICATION
Deploy on a site. Cancels all other Secure Routes.
Your Republic characters may deploy here regardless
of Objective deployment restrictions. Once per turn, if
you just deployed a Republic character to an interior
Naboo site, take any one non-character card from lost
pile into hand.
D Seeking An Audience (V)
Deploy on table. Once per game you may place this
card out of play to take any character into hand from
your Lost Pile. If You Can Either Profit By This or Or
Be Destroyed on table, once per turn you may \/ any
Artoo, Leia, Chewie, Lando, or Threepio. (Immune to
Alter.)
Send A Detachment Down (V)
This card is considered to have the same uniqueness
as the original (•).
The use of the term ‘target’ is slightly ambiguous on
this card. The intended gameplay is that when the
trooper reaches the droid, weapon or device, he steals
it, retrieves Force equal to its destiny number and is
Power +2.
Son Of Skywalker (V) - CLARIFICATION
±
P 2. Deploys -2 to Dagobah. Adds 1 to his training
destiny draws. Must lose 1 Force to substitute a
destiny draw using It Is The Future You See. Once
per turn, may 6a card with ‘training destiny’ in its
gametext. Immune to attrition < number of Jedi tests
completed.
Sudden Impact (V) - CLARIFICATION
Before any starting cards are revealed, deploy on
table with up to 5 cards from outside your deck face-
down under here. Cards under here do not count
toward your deck limit. Thrice per game, may lose 2 Asteroid Rules
Force to play a Defensive Shield from here, as if from
hand. Permanent Weapons do not cause forfeit=0;
characters hit by permanent weapons have forfeit =
(printed forfeit - 3.)
D Tatooine:Jabba’s Palace (LS)
The Dark Side game text on this location cannot make
the Dark Side player lose Force before the first turn
has begun.
D The Emperor (V)
Never moves or deploys to a site opponent occupies
(except the Senate). Once per turn, may lose 1 Force
to target character present at same site (free, if in a
battle): Character is defense value -4 until end of turn.
OR Draw destiny. If destiny+1 > defense value,
character lost. At opponent's Senate, politics = 4 and
game text may not be canceled.
They’re On Dantooine (V)
See Dantooine Base Operations.
They’re Still Coming Through!
When re-targetting Fallen Portal, this interrupt need
not follow the original targetting restrictions;
characters inside enclosed vehicles are valid targets.
Thok & Thug CLARIFICATION
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Deploys –2 to a Jabba’s Palace site. If opponent just Automatic actions
initiated battle at same site, may use X force (limit 2) An automatic action is one that is triggered
to add twice X to total power. Your alien leaders immediately by specific conditions (which may arise at
present may not be targeted by weapons. End of your any time). At the moment those conditions exist, the
turn: [star] Use 2 or [arrow] Lose 1 or [skull]. automatic action immediately becomes the topmost
Trade Federation Landing Craft action. Examples include
See Bravo Fighter. • retrieving 1 Force when opponent draws destiny of 4
We’ll Handle This/Duel Of The Fates and you have Tauntaun Bones on table;
• resolving the game text of an ‘insert’ card when it
Have Revenge. comes to the top of the your Reserve Deck;
• losing a seeker and its target the moment they are
This interrupt resets the base number you use when present together; and
calculating your activation for your turn. You total all • completing (reaching) an Utinni Effect.
opponent’s icons, including all modifiers that affect When a condition arises during your turn that triggers
opponent’s Force icons (provided by either player), two or more automatic actions, you must choose
then apply all modifiers that affect your Force which one is triggered first. After this automatic action
generation. has its result, check to see if any conditions still exist
For example, you would not include any icons ‘eaten’ that would trigger other automatic actions and repeat
by a Sleen, and you would still activate no Force at this process if necessary. A single condition can
your opponent’s Cantina if Watch Your Step were in trigger multiple automatic actions in the following
play. ways:
• specifying multiple targets (e.g. losing a seeker and
Wokling (V)
its target or affecting both players)
See Deploy costs.
• using an orderless sequence (e.g. a bulleted list)
The "once per game" function of this Effect may not
• being mentioned on multiple cards in play and/or
be used to take into hand an Effect that lists any
rules, (e.g. when the dark side initiates battle, both
deploy cost in its game text (such as Beggar).
First Strike and Scum and Villainy are triggered)
Yavin IV Sentry (V) Otherwise, resolve actions in the order presented.
See Death Star Sentry (V). Battle destiny - conditions on drawing
You Will Go To The Dagobah System (V) If game text imposes conditions for drawing battle
When using this card to move a character to a destiny (for example, “Ability of 6 or more required to
Dagobah site, this is considered an unlimited move. draw battle destiny here”), then those conditions affect
Current text: all battle destiny draws except those granted by the
During your control phase, move any one of your game text "if not able to otherwise." Ability used to
characters to a Dagobah site. OR During satisfy such a requirement must itself be eligible to be
your deploy phase, 6 character, starship, vehicle, used to draw battle destiny.
weapon, or device to a Dagobah site (regardless of Battle destiny - draws X battle destiny if
Dagobah deployment restrictions). unable to otherwise
This game text is only applicable during the power
segment of the battle, and only when fewer than X
Section 2. Rulings by Game Term
battle destinies are eligible to be drawn by any other
means. Thus, this text may never be used in
Asteroid Destiny combination with any other destiny drawing text to
See Asteroid Rules. gain more than X destiny draws. However, if other
See Destiny. destiny drawing text provides fewer than X destiny
Drawing asteroid destiny against your ship is a draws, this text may be used to provide X destiny
mandatory action for your opponent. As such, your draws. The use of this text is always optional,
opponent chooses the target for each draw. because drawing battle destiny is always optional.
This game text will override any battle destiny
Wherever 'Asteroid Rules' are in effect, your starships conditions such as “Ability of 6 or more required to
present there are continually subject to being hit by draw battle destiny” or “opponent draws no more than
asteroids. During each of your control phases, for Y battle destiny” (where Y is less than X). Any of
each such starship: these draws may still be cancelled or reduced though.
1. Opponent draws one asteroid destiny. If this card
is itself an asteroid sector, the starship is immediately
lost, no matter how high its armor or maneuver.
2. Add 1 for each additional sector at that system that
has 'Asteroid Rules' in effect.
3. If total asteroid destiny > armor or maneuver, the
starship is lost.
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Battleground
A battleground is any system, sector or site location
where both players have Force icons. It does not
matter if these Force icons are provided by other
cards such as Daughter Of Skywalker or Presence Of
The Force, as long as they are active at that location
(not canceled by a Sleen, for example). The exception
to this is the Force icon supplied by a Jedi Master,
which is not considered to be at that location for any
purpose, and thus has no effect on a location's
battleground status.
See Character - Jedi Master.
However, the following locations are not
battlegrounds:
• holosites,
• Dagobah locations,
• shielded Hoth or Death Star II locations,
• Jabba's Palace: Audience Chamber when Bo Shuda
is deployed there,
• Tatooine: Podrace Arena while either player has a
race total > 0. While Expand The Empire is deployed
on the Tatooine: Podrace Arena, the adjacent sites
are also prohibited from being battlegrounds while
either player has a race total > 0,
• Coruscant: Galactic Senate
Blown away - Hoth: Main Power Generators
When the Hoth: Main Power Generators site is “blown
away”,
• the power generators are destroyed (turned face-
down);
• the Hoth energy shield is deactivated; and
• all cards at that site are lost.
Turning the site card face-down identifies it as an
unnamed, exterior Hoth site representing the first
marker. While cards can still deploy and move there,
the site has no gametext nor any Force icons. The
site card may not be deployed again (or converted).
You lose 8 Force only when the site is “blown away”
by Target The Main Generator, not when it
is lost in another way (such as when the Hoth system
location is “blown away” by Commence
Primary Ignition).
Blown away - Imperial Holotable
When the Imperial Holotable site is “blown away”:
- The holotable is destroyed (turned face down),
- All cards at that site are lost.
Turning the site face down identifies it as a damaged
holotable. No cards of any kind may exist at a
damaged holosite. It may be “repaired” by deploying
another copy (or converting it using the Dejarik
Holotable).
Crashed
Some cards can cause a vehicle to crash. A crashed
vehicle has no landspeed, power or maneuver. If the
vehicle has armor it is reduced to armor = 2 (see
unmodifiable values).
A crashed vehicle may not utilize game text, vehicle
weapons or any cards which would logically require
the vehicle to be operational (Trample, Attack Pattern
Delta, etc.).
Characters aboard a vehicle that is crashed are not
automatically lost and may disembark during your
move phase. However, if the ‘crashed’ vehicle is
enclosed:
• embarking or disembarking requires 1 Force per
character and
• any character remaining aboard may not use game
text related to battle or apply Ability towards drawing
battle destiny, although they still provide presence.
Because a crashed vehicle may not utilize game text,
any permanent pilot aboard does not provide Ability
(or presence). (Remember, if presence is completely
removed from one side during a battle, the battle
ends.)
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Cumulatively
A term used in game text to indicate that multiple
copies of a card (or multiple applications of the same
game text, as for political effects) can increasingly
modify the same thing. For example, Rebel Tech
says, 'Cumulatively adds 1 to the total of Attack Run.'
Three Rebel Techs would therefore add 3 to Attack
Run. Conversely, the Sandcrawler in the Premiere set
says, 'Each Jawa at same exterior site is forfeit +1.'
The Sandcrawler is not cumulative, and thus a Jawa
present with three Sandcrawlers is only forfeit +1, not
forfeit +3. (No modifiers are cumulative unless they
specifically say they are.) Similarly, you may not place
multiple copies of Queen Amidala on I Will Not Defer
to add multiples of 2 to a Force drain.
The term 'cumulatively' was printed in boldface type
on some early cards; however, this does not affect the
meaning of the term.
D Excluded from battle
See May not participate in battle.
Excluding a card from battle removes a card from
participating in the current battle in progress. Only a
card currently participating in a battle is a suitable
target for an exclusion action. If a starship or enclosed
vehicle is excluded from battle, any cards aboard are
also excluded from the battle. Unless stated
otherwise, this exclusion will exist only until the end of
the current battle.
Cards that are excluded may not:
• add personal power or apply Ability towards drawing
battle destiny
• fire or be targeted by weapons (see weapons -
swinging or firing)
• be forfeited
• be targeted by any action that requires that card to
be "in a battle"
• modify or cancel battle destiny as part of a "with"
condition (see with).
Ferocious
"Ferocious" means any creature of defense value > 2, See Supplement
excluding Mynock and Vine Snake.
Hoth energy shield rules
See Hoth: Main Power Generators
The Hoth: Main Power Generators site produces an
energy shield which is “strong enough to withstand
any bombardment.” This shield protects much of Hoth
for the Light Side by preventing many forms of Dark
Side deployment and movement; however, the Dark
Side may deploy or land beyond the shield and “march
in” to Echo Base.
When the Main Power Generators site is face up on
table, the energy shield covers all Hoth sites except
the outermost exterior marker site and the Wampa
Cave. At shielded sites, the Dark Side may not
• deploy vehicles, starships or characters (not even
spies);
• take off or land;
• use shuttling, docking bay transit or any other
movement that logically would be stopped by the
energy shield (such as Elis Helrot or Bombing Run);
or
• add power to battles as a result of starships
controlling the system (e.g., from the Hoth system
location, a Victory-Class Star Destroyer or Fear Will
Keep Them In Line).
The energy shield does not protect the Light Side from
a ground assault “underneath the shield.”
At shielded sites, the Dark Side may
• move vehicles and characters from site to site;
• deploy and use creatures, weapons, Effects, and
other cards normally; and
• perform any actions not otherwise prohibited by
these rules.
The energy shield does not restrict the Light Side in
any way (because conceptually the Rebels
can activate and deactivate the shield to allow their
own forces to pass). When the energy shield
is not active, both sides can deploy and move to Hoth
normally.
Jedi Tests
An apprentice may be targeted by only one
uncompleted Jedi Test at a time.
Mandatory actions
Actions that are mandatory (but not automatic) are
typically denoted by the phrase 'During <time
frame>. . ." A player directed to perform such an
action may declare it at any time during its required
time frame. Unless your opponent is being directed to
perform such an action by game text on your own card
(e.g. Uncontrollable Fury, Search And Destroy, etc.),
you may not force your opponent to declare the action
at a time of your choosing. Any mandatory actions that
have not been declared by the end of the required
time frame become automatic actions triggered as a
response to the end of the time frame and must be
resolved before play can continue.
Matching pilot
A character card is a matching pilot for a unique
starship card, a unique shuttle vehicle card or a
unique combat vehicle card if:
* that character is a pilot
and
* that character card's game text refers to that unique
starship, shuttle vehicle or combat vehicle (by card
title or starship or vehicle persona), OR that unique
starship, shuttle vehicle or combat vehicle card's
game text refers to that character (by card title or
persona).
Also, if deployed on a character who is piloting a
starfighter, the device Rebel Flight Suit can make a
pilot character into a matching pilot for that starfighter.
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Matching vehicle
A vehicle card is a matching vehicle for a character
card if:
* That vehicle is (*) unique.
and
* That vehicle card's game text refers to the character
(by card title or character persona) OR that character
card's game text lists that vehicle card by card title or
vehicle persona).
D Participating in battle
See Battle, Excluded from battle, With, May not
participate in battle.
Unless restricted from participating, all cards present
at a location (or on the bridge, in the cockpit, or in the
cargo bay of any vehicles and starships participating
in battle at that location) are considered to be
participating in a battle initiated at that location. A card
is considered to be participating in a battle as soon as
the battle has been initiated, or as soon as that card is
introduced to the battle location as long as that card is
introduced before the power segment begins. Any
card introduced after the power segment has begun is
not participating. For example, a character introduced
to a battle in progress by a 'react', game text such as
Sergeant Wallen or perhaps even Tauntaun Bones
triggered by a weapon destiny draw would be
immediately considered to be participating and may
act accordingly. However, a captive released during
the damage segment (because the escort is forfeited)
and moved to the Light Side of the location, or a
character brought back to the battle location by Old
Ben after being forfeited would not be considered to
be participating again, and as such would not be
eligible to be forfeited, etc.
A card that fires a long-range weapon into a battle
from another location is not participating in that battle
for game purposes.
All cards meeting the above criteria would be
considered to have participated in a battle, even if that
battle is canceled before reaching its normal
conclusion.
Cards which participate in one battle may not normally
participate in another battle during the same turn.
Because passengers at the bridge, cockpit or cargo
bay participate in battles, actions that occur during a
battle (e.g., Han With Heavy Blaster Pistol's
battledestiny adding text) may be used by, or target a
passenger.
Suspended—effects
An effect that has been suspended is considered to
be on table for uniqueness only. As such, it is not
considered to be on table for any purpose except for
uniqueness or to check if the suspension conditions
are still being met.
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Starting the game
Starting the game consists of two steps:
Step 1 - Playing starting cards
There are three types of starting cards:
• Starting Effects: Each player may choose one
Starting Effect from his deck.
• Starting Location/Objective: Each player must
choose either an Objective card or a Starting
Location. A player who has an Objective card in his
deck must start with it and may not have more than
one.
• Starting Interrupt: Each player may choose one
Starting Interrupt from his deck.
While these cards (along with any or all of the
cards they permit or require) may legally be
revealed in any order, either player may insist that
both players adhere to the following sequence:
1. Both players simultaneously reveal their Starting
Effect, if any. Each player resolves his Starting Effect
now.
2. Both players simultaneously reveal their Starting
Location/Objective. Resolve the Starting
Locations/Objectives as follows:
• If one player selects a starting location and his
opponent selects an Objective, deploy the Starting
Location first, followed by the Objective and other
cards it requires or allows (for free).
• If both players select an Objective, the player who
will go first in the game (usually the Dark Side player)
deploys card(s) first (for free), followed by his
opponent..
• If both players select a different Starting Location,
deploy them simultaneously.
• If both players select the same Starting Location,
each player sets his choice aside and selects a new
one. Both players reveal their second choice
simultaneously, and repeat this process until they
select different Locations. At that time, deploy both
Locations and reshuffle the failed choices back into
the reserve deck.
If an Objective requires or allows the player to deploy
a Location that is already on the table, that player
simply converts the copy on the table.
3. Both players simultaneously reveal their Starting
Interrupt, if any. The player who will go first in the
game resolves his Starting Interrupt (if any) followed
by his opponent.
If you intend to insist on the above order, it is
recommended that you advise your opponent before
he begins laying out cards. If, however, your
opponent has already begun laying out starting cards,
he should simply pick them up and proceed again
according to the above sequence. He may not
change any of his selections, however. Also,
regardless of the order in which the starting cards
are revealed, resolve all starting cards as
described above.
Step 2 - Shuffle and draw starting hand
Remaining cards must be shuffled, and your opponent
may briefly shuffle or cut as required. The remaining
cards are placed face down in front of each player to
form that player's Reserve Deck. Each player then
draws 8 cards which is their starting hand.
By default, the Dark Side player takes the first turn of
the game, although certain cards may allow the Light
Side player to go first.
Up to
Treat the phrase ‘up to X’ as ‘1 to X’. Thus zero is not
a valid choice.
Section 3. Rulings by Card Type
Character type
A character can only be considered a non-<character
type> if they lack that character type icon. Thus Arica,
who has both an Imperial icon and an Alien icon
cannot be targeted as either a non-Alien or a non-
Imperial.
Starship - Imperial
A Dark Side starship without an Independent icon or a
Trade Federation icon.
Starship - Rebel
A Light Side starship without an independent icon or a
Republic icon.
Virtual Cards
Virtual cards, regardless of version, are considered to
have the same title as the original card for purposes of
uniqueness and any game action that uses card title.
Thus, if your opponent plays Monnok and you have a
copy of Luke Skywalker and Luke Skywalker (V) in
your hand, both cards will be lost. Also, all Virtual
cards retain the same degree of restriction or
uniqueness as the original card.
In Virtual Set #2, the following symbols are introduced:
6 This symbol means ‘Deploy X from the Reserve
Deck; reshuffle.” where X is the name of the card
that immediately follows it.
5 This symbol means “Take X into hand from the
Reserve Deck; reshuffle.” where X is the name of
the card that immediately follows it.
In Virtual Set #3, three new icons are introduced.
These icons consist of the letter S, A, or C within the
“not” symbol ± / . These icons represent the text
“Immune to Sense”,”Immune to Alter”, or ”Immune to
Control”, respectively.
In Virtual Set #4, one new icon was introduced. This
icon ± P is followed by a number, and means that the
indicated character adds that amount to anything
he/she pilots. (If that character is not already a pilot,
the icon indicates that the character also gains the
pilot skill.) In some cases, the piloting bonus is not
applied to all cards equally; in such cases the types of
cards to which the bonus applies will be indicated as
well.
Virtual Defensive Shields
These cards are not Effect cards, as their card type
has been replaced with “Defensive Shield.” The
Effect icon in the upper left corner is ignored, and they
cannot be the target of Alter. If you choose to use a
virtual Defensive Shield, you may not play that card as
an Effect. For example, if you play a copy of the
virtual Defensive Shield Traffic Control, you must play
that copy of the card as a Defensive Shield, although
you may still use copies of the original Premiere card
Traffic Control in your deck.
Section 4. List of Characteristics
No Updates
Section 5. List of Persona Names
No Updates
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