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New Dark Side Cards

• Mercenary Pilot
• Mighty Jabba
• Hutt Influence
• No Escape
• Power Of The Hutt
• Jabba's Palace: Lower Passages
• Tatooine: Desert Heart
• Racing Skiff
• Stun Blaster
• My Kind of Scum / Fearless And Inventive

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Ready To Rumble
Jabba and Lando Throw Down In Jabba's Palace Sealed Deck: Part II

Go to Part I of this article for the Lando tip:

Ever seen one of those gangster films where the Big Crime Boss takes over the interrogation of the Brave Private Eye? Bodyguards surround him like flies, but you know that Big is calling the shots. And if he wanted to, he could pound the Brave Private Eye into the dirt in ten seconds flat. Don't you wish that Jabba could do stuff like that instead of sitting there on his throne, drooling at slave girls and eating frogs?

Well, now he can! While his other personae are content to stay behind the lines, increasing the forfeit values of your aliens from the safety of the Audience Chamber, Mighty Jabba bids you welcome to a giant six-pack of trouble.

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New Light Side Cards

• Lando With Vibro-Ax
• Palace Raider
• Ounee Ta
• Seeking An Audience
• Underworld Contacts
• Jabba's Palace: Lower Passages
• Tatooine: Hutt Trade Route
• Racing Skiff
• Stun Blaster
• Agents In The Court /
No Love For The Empire

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Mighty Jabba retains the bulk (no pun intended) of his stats from his Jabba's Palace version, only now his deploy cost and forfeit values are lower, and it's easier to move him around. It's hard to take Mighty Jabba down with weapons, since every other alien at his location needs to be 'hit' before he'll fall. He's still immune to attrition.

And then there's that extra battle destiny.

Yes, extra battle destiny is still something of interest, even in today's world of multi-destiny conflicts. Mighty Jabba's influence allows him to draw an extra battle destiny (aside from the one that he himself draws, due to his four points of ability) in any battle involving him and one of your alien leaders. Think of it as an executive conference, only with sledgehammers. Which characters qualify for this game text?

Bib Fortuna
Chall Bekan
Ephant Mon
Nebit
Ortugg (if present with another Gamorrean)
URoRRuR'R'R
Wittin

Not very many, it appears, but several of these characters are already staples of Dark Side strategies. Ephant Mon is perhaps the best of them all. Pair this Chevin with Mighty Jabba, and you're looking at not only seven power, a minimum of two battle destiny, and a "closed door" policy against gamblers, spies and thieves, but also complete blanket protection from battle damage and attrition. This two-card combo is the ultimate protection for your big drains, such as those at the Cantina.

But why stop there? With My Kind Of Scum, the new Dark Side objective, almost any unique alien can become a leader. Team Mighty Jabba with Mosep for super drain power and two battle destiny. Pair Jabba and Giran for even more weapons protection. Jabba and Bossk give you extra-high attrition. Even seemingly human aliens, like Dengar, specify their species (which is a requirement for My Kind of Scum). And don't think that Mighty Jabba's tied down to one place. A Mobquet A-1 Deluxe Floater is roomy enough for Jabba and an alien leader, and it moves for free - even as a 'react' in support of any of your thieves, smugglers or bounty hunters in battle.

With all this diversity, it's almost too much to ask how many decks Mighty Jabba can find his way into. He's certainly valuable for protecting your Rep at the Audience Chamber, but any deck can make good use of him. Just start with Power Of The Hutt, one of the new Effects in Jabba's Palace Sealed Deck, and you're ready to go: you can fetch Bib, one of your alien leaders, and Boelo, who cancels battle destiny. Both just slide right into Jabba's rap-masta plan. All you need is Da Man, hisself...and that's easy as pie with the Audience Chamber.

So watch out, Han! My brutha (slugga?) Jabba's in the hizz-ouse. And he wants you to get in his belly.


Nick Zube
Contributing Writer