HOW TO PLAY: STAR WARS CCG (1995-2001 Decipher) Customizable Card Game | Rick Adams
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- How To Play the Star Wars: CCG (Customizable Card Game) that was produced between 1995-2001 by Decipher Inc.
This game was amazing and one of my favourites along with the Star Trek: CCG (also by Decipher).
PLEASE NOTE: There is an error in this video. Apparently Attrition (during battling) is part of Battle Damage NOT in addition to Battle Damage (we used to obviously play it wrong!) Sorry!
**This is a re-upload of an old video I recorded back in February 2015 and used to be on my channel**
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#StarWarsCCG #StarWars #CCG - Hry
Just played a game with my wife first time in 20 years what a great night!
I collected these cards in the mid 90s, but never learned how to play. Just pulled them out of the closet!!!! Thanks for this video!!!
Thanks! Attrition is included in battle damage. It would be helpful to go over how a big part of the game is not leaving yourself open for beatdowns.
Watching a Star Wars fan play with himself. Thanks. I was looking for this.
Glad I could help!
I bought these since they came out in the mid 90s with a friend. We couldn't afford to collect them all so we split the cost with a gentlemens agreement and I kept all the dark side cards and he kept the light side. So I have half a game. 25 years later he has all his cards still and we play every few years.
I hadn't played since 2001, but my best friend and I used to play this game every week for a few years straight. I dug my old cards out of the closet recently and used this video to help teach my daughter how to play so we could enjoy it together. I really appreciate how clear you made everything, and it really helped it all come back to me.
Thank you for your kind comments I'm glad my video helped :)
Love this vid! It was my “official” reintroduction to a game I loved when it was at its height. Still collect and play to this day. Thanks Rick!
Thank you for your lovely comment :)
I would like to agree, having not played the game since uni I thought I would play with my own kids and lttile did I realise how many silly mistakes we used to make. Thanks for the video and the effort you put in - it is much appreciated.
Haven't played this game in about 20 years, but I always held on to the cards because they were just so cool! I want to try playing the game again soon.
I used to play this game as a kid, I wish it would come back it was so much fun
The CCG, Destiny, Force attax were my favorite videos. Happy to see this. I still play SWCCG today!
It made my day to see this video re-uploaded. Loved watching it the last time round, and loved it just as much this time. 😊
i used to collect these when i was younger but i was too distractable to be able to learn how to play any of the trading card games back then lol. wish i had kept them. but they were just cool to look at. was the time before everyone had easy internet access so having physical images to look at for entertainment was a much bigger deal back then
BRO YOU JAVE BROUGHT ME BACK I. TIME AND NOW THIS IS ON TTS! IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY. I FRIGGIN LOVE YOU
I thought you did a wonderful job doing your walkthrough of the game. I'd love to see you do more videos of maybe the expansions and going through some of the more in-depth rule sets. You do a good job of explaining things and I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate such videos. Thank you again!
Hi I have done set overviews on my channel where I do go over the rules supplements (not it great detail I admit!)
If you play Attack Run, you don’t have to rely on the dark side player to bring a Death Star. The light Side has a version of the death star they can bring.
Great idea about adjusting the deck size to desired play time.
Would like to have seen more discussion about deck building.
Thank you for the refresher video! I had most of those limited cards and when my parents moved out of their house about a year ago they got rid of my cards. Time to start a new collection and get ready for my young kids to grow up and learn with me!
Never knew about this game until I picked up a premier box at Goodwill that had almost 350 cards in it. I've since constructed the sample decks that came in the box (found a deck list on BGG) and now I just need to know how to play!
A correction: Losing a character for its forfeit value satisfies BOTH attrition and battle damage. When you forfeited the Imperial with the forfeit value of 4 to satisfy the attrition of 3, you had also satisified the battle damage of 3. Dark side did not need to lose more cards after that.
Thanks, I know I did it wrong when I filmed it years ago. Me and my mates obviously used to play it wrong! Thanks for the correction though :)
Again during the third battle: Dark side had 3 attrition and 7 battle damage to satisfy. The attrition means that out of that 7 battle damage, 3 must be satisfied by forfeiting one or more characters with a total forfeit value of at least 3. After you had forfeited the Imperial for forfeit value 3, you only had 4 more battle damage to satisfy. It's important to understand that attrition is NOT loss in addition to battle damage, it is damage that must be satisfied by forfeiting characters (even if you don't have battle damage to satisfy; it kinda simulates that even though you win a battle, you're still likely to lose soldiers on the battlefield, which is what happened to the light side in that battle).
@@rickadams No problem. Just wanted to clear that up for anyone watching the video to learn the game. Attrition can be a hard concept of the game to wrap your head around. When Decipher made their follow-up game to Star Wars after losing the license, they actually streamlined how attrition worked a bit to make it less confusing. That game unfortunately bombed pretty much out of the gate.
Also, another minor correction: When you replace a character with a different version, the version that was replaced goes to your Lost Pile, not into hand.
And one final thing: Even though the game "died" when Decipher lost the license in 2001, an official Players Committee was set up to carry on the game. This committee designs and releases so-called "virtual cards" that you can download and print for free and play with. They've managed to keep this "dead" game alive for 18 years with a considerable amount of people still playing it! There are both real-life and online tournaments being played. There's currently an online tournament going on that has 80 people signed up for it! You can visit the Players Committee website at www.starwarsccg.org. I recently got back into the game after 20 years when I came across the GEMP platform ( gemp.starwarsccg.org/gemp-swccg/ ) where you can play online. It's amazing stuff.
Thank you!
Another couple of considerations regarding attrition:
Immunity of a character to attrition does not preclude you from forfeiting that character to attrition in a battle. You may voluntarily forfeit a character who has immunity to the amount of attrition during a battle. The immunity only means that you are not forced to, even if it means some of the attrition is not satisfied.
Additionally, immunity to attrition is with respect to the total amount of attrition - not the attrition remaining after forfeiting other cards first.
For example, if your opponent drew battle destiny of 4 in a battle, and you have two characters in that battle - one with a forfeit value of 2, and the other with a forfeit value of 3 but immunity to attrition
I own about 40lbs of these cards, and I view the game like Star Realms now. It's not a "CCG" anymore. there are tons of rares in the meta and game setups you could try if you have a collection.
Hoth/Walkers game? sure
Death Star/Xwings Trench run? sure
Endor Fleet battle? sure
Vader vs Luke with the introductory game . . sure
Decipher really did come up with a top game, with your deck being your life and you could go full dark side and pull chunks of your deck into your hand.
They certainly borrowed a lot from Wizards and Magic the Gathering. But the fact the 'battles' take place actually in the 'land' cards was genius and it changes the 'mana' output was such a cool evolution of card games back in the 90's.
Decipher did a unique thing also, where they never made any card 'illegal' (ie Demonic Tutor) which sounds great initially, but the 'silver bullet' cards and as the meta game progressed made the rules more and more complicated and unapproachable as the sets progressed.
It's a great card game if you just want to play it at face value.
If you are interested in what has become of the game since the early 2k's
www.starwarsccg.org/
The player community (some of them I have met) Have created card sets and 'virtual' cards you can print out. They are a great, welcoming and devoted community
Tanks for your great comment! I loved the almost infinite possibilities of deck creation with the game.
Thanks Rick!! Been waiting on a good teaching video for this for a long time!
Great to see you Back! I wish you’d re-release your video of cleaning Star Wars figures in that lovely sunny garden it’d be awesome. That was my go to chill out vid! Peace!
I wish I still had that video but I don't, sorry
Rick the time has come for you to make a comeback again.... :( 2020 is upon us....
I'm here just as you predicted :)
Thank you very much for this video ! I always hoped to play and understand this game, with my olds cards, and your video is a very good motivation. I just need to find more amazing caracters like yours, it seems to be more fun with Luke, Leïa and Dark Vador...
Thanks for the video. Someone sold one of those boxes of "premiere" introductory card boxes for like 20 bucks at a used game store so I picked it up just because I loved the original star wars as a kid and wanted to see how it was, but I had no idea how to play.
Thank you for this video! Just bought the premier starter decks, and this is a great companion to the rule book!
Your video definitely helped with some of my confusion.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for reuploading this. It’s one of my favorites.
Glad you like it! I was going through my old laptop and I found the master file of it and the Doctor Who CCG one so thought I would re-upload them.
Rick Adams I was really bummed when you (understandably) left and it wasn’t available. I have a small collection and didn’t know how to play until you literally taught me in the video.
Love the Video! I was mostly into the Star trek ccg but always wanted to play the star wars one. thanks for the run-down! I have now begun collecting star wars ccg. I see you have Emperor Palpatine, that is a $100+ card! save those cards! worth money! Thanks for the video!
I loved both SWCCG + STCCG :)
Thank you for this video! I'm actually looking at getting into this game for the 1st time! Hopefully i can find some people willing to learn as well at my LGS!
I tried at my old LGS but they were all younger than me and didn't remember the game or have an interest in it
I still collect these cards! Found out there was a community of people that play virtually online. Big mistake for me!😂 The players have gotten SO competitive. WOW! I guess the personalities go hand-in-hand with the inherent complexity of the ruleset.🤷♂️ Anyway, beautiful card game, itself, though. Thanks for video!
While watching this an add for Star Wars: Unlimited popped up 😀
very nice gameplay explanation video, thanks for making it!
Glad you liked it!
Haven't played this in ages! I still have all my cards, but unfortunately no-one to play with atm. (Can't get the kids interested...)
It's "only" my 3rd favourite card game after MtG and Middle Earth TW.
Great video! This was super helpful getting back into SWCCG. And if I may...you should checkout Dragon Shield's clear matte protectors for those cards. 1000x better than penny sleeves. :)
I’m surprised that immunity to attrition isn’t basically a “damage absorber”. As in, if leia is immune to attrition less than 5 and the battle destiny is 1, leia can count towards fulfilling the attrition cost without being discarded, essentially absorbing up to 5. It would make sense that powerful characters would shield the others, narratively
That's an interesting observation. My group may adopt that as a House Rule. Thanks!
Awesome video buddy. Some much nostalgia from my youth still remember the day decipher lost the license. On a side note in the second battle when you drew a location for 0 destiny for the light side you could have used Han Solo's game text to cause a re-draw & really crush the dark side at that location (;
Thanks, I'm not surprised I missed this / made mistakes it's been like 20 years now since I played this regularly! I miss those days
i really miss playing this game
Nice to see people still playing! This game is just awesome and kind of unique, never seen such a strategic gameplay with such a diversity of possibilities again, in my opinion even Magic the Gathering with its thousands of expansion sets just looks simple compared to SWCCG, and I have been an enthusiastic MTG Vintage player!
Also the images and the card design as a whole are so beautiful, I just love it!
SWCCG is the real shit, forget about that ugly TCG from WotC, curse LucasArts for selling the rights...
btw I think you did a mistake in gameplay:
22:50 dark side suffers 3 attrition and gets 3 battle damage -> forfeiting that imperial for value of 4 will satisfy both, attrition and battle damage! ;-)
Greetings from Germany
Thanks for the guide!
Id love to see a swccg collection video in the future
It's on the list once I've sorted it all out :)
Love playing SW:CCG! Great card game but shame Decipher has never been able to continue it.
Yes it's a shame they lost the licence. I would love them to resurrect it and do the new SW live action content that's been released since.
Obrigado pela partida demonstração!
Hey, I stumbled on this vdo. I believe I have boxes & boxes of unopened premier foil packs. Now, currently at 1am , I have no idea if my boxes are ‘limited or unlimited’ …not even sure if the information I’ve just read about is even correct. Tomorrow, I will shoot a vdo at my parents house and go to my old room as a kid, which has since been changed to my mom’s sewing & computer room and firstly see if my card collection stuff is still there , I strongly believe so and how much of that stuff I actually have.
I won't say I am drooling looking at what cards you own... O_o
:D
My beloved game next to another Decipher gem Lord of the Rings TCG
Star Trek CCG is my other favourite (again Decipher!) I played a little LOTR back in the day but didn't get into it in the long run.
@@rickadams I really loved that concept of playing light and the dark side at the same time 😁 Brilliant idea 😁
Thanks for sharing this video. Super helpful. I’m about half complete in building a hoth theme deck, LS and DS. I was wondering if playing with these deck themes have rules that are different from what you used in this video? Also I see that there are 3 starting cards for some theme decks as opposed to starting with just a site? And then there are epic events.
Yes there are many other rules that came out with each expansion. Hoth, for example, had specific site deployment (Markers) so they had a certain order (so the screen accuracy was maintained) and the empire can advance to the rebel base. I have done set-specific breakdowns on my channel where I touch on the extra rules (but don't go into in depth detail). The Hoth one is here: czcams.com/video/hHGKP_DKQUo/video.html
Being an avid star wars CCG player looking but not playing in years i was screaming at the video @26:32 you could of spent 1 more force using han solo to cancel your drawn destiny and then draw again .
Haha well it's been 20+ years since I've played properly so not surprised I missed a few things!
Thanks for this! I'm getting into this game 25 years too late ;)
Can you clarify something about Attrition for me: if a card is immune to Attrition, does that mean I can't choose it to satisfy Attrition?
or does it mean that I can choose that card to satisfy Attrition, but I negate the Attrition effect of losing the character?
thanks for this helped heaps. are the decks you are using starter decks or have you made them from boosters?
They were just made up from my collection :)
Such a fun game
Sure is!
I got a bunch of these in storage. I can’t even remember how to play it lol.
When you upgrade a character, what do you do with the "old character"? Is it immediately lost, or used, or go into your hand?
Lost
I’m confused. How do you win?
On movement, do you have to pay 1 force per character to move to an adjacent site to docking Bay transfer? So, if I have 3 characters on a site and I want to move all three over by one location, I have to pay 3 force?
I belive so unless they are on an actual ship ( ship card ) that can hold more then one then only the ship has to pay the cost for movement or a card that give multiple characters the ability to move as a group
Where is Pazaak?
Question: if I want to move characters from one docking bay to another on a different planet, I have to do it using a starship, correct?
No to using starships. you obey the force cost to move FROM that docking bay to another docking bay.
The game states that it’s symbolically transiting using starships that you don’t play with.
@@phomjachana oh gotcha! Thanks!
You can do what you said, it is just a much less efficient means, both from force and card economy.
hi, i m completely newbie, just to know is there a solo variant to play ? or it is not soloable ?
No there's not really a way to play it solo unfortunately unless you play both sides alternately
@@rickadams ok thanks for replying !
is it possible to play dark side against dark side and vice versa?
I guess house rules you could, nothing stopping you. Although you and your opponent would have to decide who goes first plus what to do about unique characters, whether you can each have Darth Vader in play at the same time etc.
mate When you Lost Piet to attriation at the 22 mark.. you lost 3 cards due to the battle being 9 - 3 favoruging the light side.. my question is.. when you lost Admirial Piaet to attrition at 4.. you carry the one over to lost???? meaning you should of lost 2 cards only because of piets 4 only lost 3 due to the attrition....please claify cheers!
my apologize Capitan Piet
looks fun. also looks expensive
Yeah the game has exploded in price since 2020-ish especially the later (lower printed) sets
Where are you based? Looking for someone Bristol based to play with…
Confused about how that first battle should have gone re: attrition and damage and losing cards.
People still play this game, the old-fashioned way in person at card shops anybody in the Houston Texas area?
Is every game epically long?
If you have more cards the games are longer (I preferred longer games when I played!)
I Never played. Got around 300 cards last Week..... Hmmm, lets Start at the wekend
Good luck, start with the basic Premiere set rules and work up to the extra rules in the other expansions
@@rickadams the unfair seller didnt include 1 card of "Run luke run" and Death Star Room 327. How can i compensate this? So, the starter set ist not complete :( (but i have a los of other cards AND I will see if i can buy those cards separate. )
Watch out for falling euro’s!
Some important URLs to anyone still interested in the game:
www.starwarsccg.org (Primary hub for the game, rules, virtual slips, tournaments, forums, player locator, etc.)
gemp.starwarsccg.org/gemp-swccg/ (Play the game online for free).
I found my starwars cards. In middle school this game was way too complex/NOT fun to play. Now that I'm old, this game still sucks, but I don't have the heart to throw my cards in the trash where they belong.
Sell em on eBay and pay off your mortgage. 🤑
Some of them are worth megabucks now, crazy!