Bespin and Beyond - Tips and Tricks - Part 4

Well I know some of you out there are heading off to a Bespin and Beyond tournament soon so here is #4 in the series called 'B&B: Tips and Tricks'. These posts will highlight a potential strategy you might find yourself playing against and how to combat it. This time lets look at a potential strategy we will probably see the Light side play.

Behold I present to you ‘A Gift’
The Trick:
Giving your opponent ‘A Gift’ will go along way towards ensuring your victory. To do it right you will need at least one (two if you’re serious) of the following: LS Audience Chamber, Entrance Cavern, Artoo and A Gift.

A Gift pretty much helps out any B&B light side deck I can think of. Unfortunately unless you’re playing an all tatooine drainer (not a bad idea with Tessek and Bo Shuda) the sights aren’t all that helpful. Its up to you how many cards to dedicate to this defense block. The minimun I would use is 1 droid and 1 ‘A Gift’. Unfortunately there really is no way the light side can protect the droid in this scenario other than surrounding it with EPPs.

Return to Sender
The Tip:
Hey, unless your not playing aliens you got to deal with ‘A gift’.

First, unless you need to go to Jabba’s palace don’t. By not giving the Light side any pieces of their ‘A gift’ (locations) combo then you make it much harder for them to use it.

Second, getting a 4-card combo together (a gift) is hard enough without having to deal with fast drains. Try to get some fast drains and maybe get rid of one of those key components.

Once you have been "A gifted" don’t despair, you still have a few options.

• 1. Any warrior + Hut Smooch. You need somebody there to capture the spy right. Some interesting choices would be Vader with Lightsaber (less risky), Chief Retwin(more risky because of FA) or if they are playing Bo Shuda any alien warrior.

• 2. Trooper + Blasted Droid + Blaster This isn’t entirely useless, but 3 cards need to come together, which makes it much harder to do. Pros: You can use this even if they aren’t playing AG. Cons: You got to wait to your control phase so you might have to send a few attrition fodder troops in as well.

• 3. Warrior + Hut Smooch + Ev99 + Droid Workshop + Torture Hey if the guy falls for it you might retrieve a bunch of force. Pros: If you playing None Shall Pass deck you should have most of these cards already. Cons: More cards in the combo.

• 4. Jawa + Tattoine site + Dune Sea Sabacc This probably isn’t worth mentioning but hey if you steal their droid I guess you prevented ‘A gift’. Pros: none. Cons: almost guaranteed not to work, and no pros.

Hey, I consider myself a decent player, and I’ll be playing ‘A gift’ think about how you would stop me.