by Len Fowler
As my family was convalescing from various illnesses in February,
I started thinking about the IDC Panel's desire to do something
for April Fool's Day. I thought, "What can we do for Battle of
Endor that would be funny, but within the realm of believability?"
I kept my focus on Endor, and could really only think about the
obviously funny "Tag & Bink" comic books. Later, I browsed my DVD
collection, and saw the two made-for-TV Star Wars movies Lucas released.
The title of the second movie, Battle for Endor,
immediately clicked with me, and I [shudder] watched the
movie again and started taking notes on potential card themes. By
the end of the weekend, I had 51 (I know... not an even number)
card images ready and pitched them to the IDC Panel. They thought
they were a hoot, and since the work was already done, it left the
rest of the IDC free to work on the real set. A little tweaking
in the following weeks made them ready to go and a big thanks go
to Brian (Skywlkr) for coming up with the teaser poster.
While our little prank was cheered and jeered, I do (and did) apologize
to our IDC members who were left out of the loop. Our intent was
to spread the "fun" around to more players, and include some "plausible
deniability" to those individuals. Most obvious pranks are done
on April Fool's Day, but with it falling on a Sunday, we doubted
many people would read it. With our weekly article releases on Friday
and a true spoiler article prepped, we felt it best to merely announce
the April Fool's on that day and release the true article.
The unit choices were pretty scarce. There weren't a lot of good
guys, but there were plenty of bad guys. I had the most fun with
the non-unit cards (check out the pit cage from Temple of Doom
in the Terak's Dungeon card). But on the unit side, I particularly
liked the Charal-based and Teek cards and the synergy I attempted
to infuse in the Marauder units. And as for the Marauder Mobile
Cannon, I don't remember the history of that card... I may have
tried to make it "playable" or could have just left a build cost
of 2 in there from a previous card. But enough talk! I hope you
enjoy what was, but shall never be.
On
the 30th of March 2007, the IDC displayed some of its trickery in
the form of two articles; 
