Dagobah Miner's Guild: 2nd at Worlds 1997

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2nd place - 1997 World Championship light side deck.

Player: Michael Riboulet, UK

The following summary of the 1997 World Finals was taken from 'History of the World Finals', originally posted on Trandosite.


By the time the 1997 World Finals rolled around, the Cloud City expansion had just hit the shelves and the event proved to be a great forum for players to try out the new strategies offered by the new set. "When a new expansion is released, I usually try to create a deck based around the new cards from that set, since new themes are less likely to have been analysed and are more likely to offer surprises." said Joe Alread, who used a Hoth Clouds deck for both sides on day one.

There were a mixture of decks, and by and large the interaction had increased from Cloud City, but even so degenerate decks were still huge. It's hard to imagine in today's environment, but negative non-interaction and Dagobah drain were very prevalent. Certainly, Decipher designer Jerry Darcy was still disappointed - "These decks are somewhat counter to the general Star Wars storyline, and I think you can expect to see some cards that make the strategy somewhat risky."

The next expansion was, of course, Jabba's Palace and here we finally begin to see some effective counter cards being introduced into the game - staring interrupts, Ultimatum, Torture, etc. The Worlds of 1997 were the start of the interaction reform SWCCG has undergone.

The final twelve were an interesting mix of both Americans and non-Americans, with the final two being Philipp Jacobs of Germany and Michael Riboulet of the United Kingdom (interesting to note however that defending champion Raphael Asselin of Canada made it into the final twelve again). It was the first time either country had had a representative in the final, and it was a final dominated by the dark side.

Jacobs began with a 23 Force victory over Riboulet using his Mains And Toys dark deck (printed below). The difference proved too much for Riboulet to overcome with his dark deck, a manipulator.

This was the first time a manipulator deck had enjoyed major success, and its creation spawned many imitations across the globe. This event was surely the birthplace of the manipulator deck - to once again quote Joe Alread, "It was a truly great deck....that I had never seen before."

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