Neutral battle card. Prevent all damage done by space units for the turn (to be played before any unit attacks).
This card has a couple of key uses.
A great choice for a deck that uses ground units with Ion Cannons. While space units cannot damage units, they themselves can be damaged. Enter Ion Cannons from those ground units that equip them. This gives you an opportunity to damage space units without risking your own ships for the turn.
Play this card to buy yourself a turn in the arena. If you are at a disadvantage in the arena this card can give you the extra turn needed to bring in reinforcements or to set up a combo to better your chances. This particular strategy also applies to Peace on Naboo and Lull in the Fighting which prevents damage done by ground units and characters, respectively.
Master and Apprentice
Light side battle card. 3 force. One or two of your units get +2 power until end of battle.
An efficient card that can give power bonuses to two units. Self explainatory, but the way the text is worded makes this card more versatile than originally thought.
You may choose two different units in two different arenas; the card does NOT restrict the bonuses to two units in the same arena.
Mending
Neutral mission card. 2 build. Remove up to four damage from one of your characters. Gain +1 force.
A self-explanatory card that is a Jedi's best friend.
Excellent for keeping Jedi around. Whatever damage that cannot be evaded/deflected can be removed, making it increasingly difficult to send a Jedi to defeat.
This card also gives you +1 force, further bolstering your ability to evade/deflect. You can play this card and gain the force even if you do not have a character in play!
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Nexu
Dark side character. 5 build, 50 speed, 4 power, 3 health. When Nexu is in character arena, each activated ability of the opponent's units requires 1 more force to play.
While the light side has many Jedi to use in the character arena, the dark side counters with the Nexu. The Nexu is excellent for slowing down the Jedi's ability to evade/deflect.
Multiple Nexu can be put into an arena and their effect if cumulative. (If there are three Nexu in the arena, each activated ability of your opponent's units requires 3 more force to play!)
Nexu works well in comination with other force-denying units. Poggle the Lesser, a dark side character unit, can force your opponent to tap a character unit of your choice unless the opponent pays 3 force. Assassin Droid ASN-21, another dark side character unit, taps to inflict 3 damage to a unit unless your opponent pays 2 force and has a Jedi in the character arena. Capture Obi-Wan, a dark side mission card, makes your opponent lose 2 force (and you gain 2 force). Dark Rendezvous, another dark side mission card, makes your opponent lose 7 force.
The Nexu, in combination with the above cards, will limit the effectiveness of opposing Jedi!
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Obi-Wan's Starfighter
Light side space unit. 4 build, 50 speed, 3 power, 3 health. Critical Hit 2. When the battle phase starts, remove all damage counters from Obi-Wan's starfighter if it's in the space arena.
An exceptional space unit for the light side that not only has great speed and firepower, but also heals!
On offense, Obi-Wan's Starfighter can deliver a big hit with its Critcal Hit 2. Increase the opportunity for a bigger, more devastating hit by using Surge of Power, increasing the chance to land the critical hit while possibly scoring additional hits.
The removal of damage counters once the battle phase begins is huge. Let your opponent land one or two hits on it, then use damage prevention cards such as Pilot's Dodge, High Force Dodge or even Padawan's/Jedi Knight's Deflection to prevent the lethal damage. At the start of the next battle phase, those damage counters are removed, making the opponent's attack on the starship wasted.
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Padawan's Deflection
Neutral battle card. Pay 3 Force --> Prevent 1 damage to one of your units. That unit may do that much damage to a unit of your choice in the same arena.
An excellent card that could turn the tide in an arena if played at the right time. The following are some uses for this card.
At worst this card prevents one damage. The damage redirection is optional (important thing to consider especially if your opponent has a character with deflect and enough force to do it).
Excellent for eliminating units with one health (or one damage away from death), saving you from attacking that unit.
Can work in conjunction with Elan Sleazebaggano or Droid Control Ship to turn their negative effects into positive ones (Sleazebaggano deals a damage to all your other characters in the character arena; Driod Control Ship deals a damage to each of your driods if it is discarded from play). Padawan's Deflection can prevent a damage to one of your affected units and send it to an opposing unit, turning the downside into an upside!
This card also works versus Target the Senator. Prevent the one damage and redirect it to an opposing unit in the same arena.
Also note Jedi Knight's Deflection, a light side battle card that is a more expensive yet powerful version of Padawan's Deflection (costs 6 force to play and prevents/deflects up to two damage).
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Slumming on Coruscant
Neutral mission card. 1 build. Look at opponent's hand and choose a mission or battle card in their hand; that player discards that card.
A very powerful, potentially game-breaking card for only one build.
An excellent card for eliminating that one battle or mission card your opponent was waiting for the perfect moment to use.
This card will also allow you to see what your opponent may potentially build so you can plan your strategy accordingly.
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Spirit of the Fallen
Light side battle card. 2 Force. Each of your Characters gets +2 power until end of battle. Play only if one of your Characters has been discarded from the character arena this turn.
The stipulation of having already discarded a character to play may be inconvenient, but it can work to your advantage, especially in conjunction with the following cards.
Corde. Character card that you may discard Corde from the character arena to prevent all damage to a non-jedi character. Protect an important non-jedi such as Padme (A) and make all the other units more powerful to boot.
Hero's Duty. Battle card that for 4 force, one of your units gets +5 power for the attack but is discarded after the attack ends. Your unit will have an opportunity to deliver a pounding, then setting the rest of the units up for the benfits of Spirit of the Fallen.
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Splinter the Republic
Dark side mission card. 1 build. Take a card from your deck with the same name as one of your units in any arena, show your opponent, and put into your hand. Shuffle your deck.
An incredibly versatile, powerful and inexpensive card that can fit in virtually any deck.
Can be used simply but effectively to reinforce an arena (pulling out an extra Destroyer Droid Squad or Techno Union Starship).
Excellent for pulling out units with an effect that cumulates (i.e. Nexu--opposing units' activated abilites cost +1 force for each Nexu; Luxury Airspeeder--+10 speed to all other ground units...two of these in play would give all your other ground units +20 speed and each Luxury Airspeeder 70 speed, since each would give the other +10 speed).
If one of your unique units has nearly taken lethal damage, use Spinter the Republic to pull another out of your deck to play once the original is discarded. Excellent with Slave I and the like.
Perfect to help add to a character stack. If you have Darth Tyranus version B on the table, use Splinter the Republic to pull a Darth Tyranus version A and stack for better speed, power, health and ability!
Also note that the card shuffles your deck. This can be a fix if you experience deck clumpage (i.e. drawing one ground unit after another after another after another...).
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Target the Senator
Dark side mission card. 3 build. At the start of the battle phase Target the Senator deals four dice of damage to a unit.
Think of this card as a one-time use four-power attack...anywhere.
This card will deal its damage before any unit attacks, allowing you to soften up a unit for your other units to pick off or to eliminate a weak/weakened unit altogether. This is an excellent card to eliminate a unit that is one or two health points away from death.
Target the Senator ignores the effects of shields. The shields ability states that each unit gets -X power as long as it's attacking that unit.
Battle cards (both light and dark side) that affect a units power will not affect Target the Senator. Note that damage dealt by Target the Senator can be prevented as normal.
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Tyranus's Edict
Dark side mission card. 3 build. Choose a unit. As long as that unit is in its arena no other of your units in the same arena can be attacked.
This is a great card to draw fire to a unit that can take it or draw fire away from another unit.
This can be a brutally effective card with Darth Tyranus and a large quantity of force saved up. Tyranus can evade (and deflect--if using version A) hits that would send your other characters like Jango Fett or Zam Wesell to defeat. Jango and Zam are good targets for your opponent to eliminate since they can pack a punch offensively. They also lack the Jedi skills evade/deflect, meaning they would need an assist from battle cards for damage prevention. Tyranus's Edict on the Darth Tyranus unit would keep your other heavy hitters around for another turn. Perserving the other big hitters for the turn gives you the opportunity to unleash more hits and increase the chances of controlling the character arena.
This card is effective if used on cards such as Jawa Sandcrawler, which is a relatively inexpensive unit (four build) that has an exceptional amount of health (7). This could keep the heat off your more offensive units that lack the health to survive a single attack, like Walking Droid Fighter, which has 6 power, but only 2 health and 20 speed (although it does have shields 1). In this instance Tyranus's Edict can negate the speed advantage the light side currently enjoys in the ground arena by drawing fire from your more vital offensive weaponry.
Tyranus's Edict can be effective if you force your opponent to target a unit with shields. This will make each attack -1 power until the battle phase ends or the unit is destroyed.
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Weapon Response
Neutral battle card. 1 force. Attacking unit gets -2 power for the attack.
Nothing fancy about this card. It decreases the chance for hits on one of your units.
This card is very effective when the opponent is attacking one of your units with shields. The opponent will receive -3 power total, making it difficult to score hits. An excellent addition to any deck that has many units with shields.
The chance for a critical hit rolled against you decreases, potentially preventiing two or more hits.
Use on an attacking unit with 2 or fewer power (or 3 or fewer if attacking a unit with shields). The unit will roll no dice for the attack!
Also note Tyranus's Gift, the dark side battle card that is a more expensive yet powerful version of Weapon Response (costs 3 force to play and the attacking unit get -5 power for the attack).
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Zam Wesell (A)
Dark side character. 6 build, 60 speed, 6 power, 4 health. At the start of battle step, Zam either removes a damage counter from herself or gets critical hit 2 (player's choice).
This is a pretty straight-forward card. Although she does not have the nifty abilites often found with Jedi (evade, deflect, etc.), her speed and choice of offensive punch/healing can be a great equalizer.
When you need to inflict a lethal dose of damage, use her critical hit 2 ability in combination with cards that increase power (Surge of Power, Strength of Hate, etc.). This will increase the odds of rolling a critical hit along with possibly increasing the number of natural hits.
When it's not necessary to score a big hit, use Zam's healing to keep her fresh in case the light side comes back with reinforcements.
Zam is a stackable character. Stack the B version under her for increased power and health (+1 to each). A stacked Zam will virtually ensure initiative by virtue of +10 speed (70 total).
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Zam's Airspeeder (A)
Dark side ground unit. 2 build, 60 speed, 1 power, 1 health. Critical Hit 3.
While many may be put off by the lack of power and health (one each) Zam's Airspeeder can present real problems for light side ground units.
Even though you only roll one die, a resulting six will inflict four damage--enough to take down an AT-TE.
Increase the odds of inflicting serious damage--use Surge of Power, Strength of Hate or Tyranus's Wrath to increase the number of dice you roll. You significantly increase the odds of rolling a critical hit in addition to scoring normal hits.
Up to this point no ground unit is as fast as Zam's Airspeeder (60 speed). Combine this unit's speed with adding power (via the cards mentioned above) and this unit could inflict lethal damage to a large target before it can retaliate! Not bad for only 2 build points.
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