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Collectible card game

Star Wars: Customizable Card Game (SW:CCG) is an out of print customizable card game based on the Star Wars fictional universe. It was created by Decipher, Inc., which also produced the Star Trek Customizable Card Game and The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game. The game was produced from December 1995 until December 2001. Since 2002, the game has been maintained by the Star Wars CCG Players Committee, with new virtual cards being released every few months and the capability to play both in person and online.

Star Wars CCG was first released in December 1995. Over the years, Decipher added 11 full expansions to the original card base, as well as numerous smaller expansions, special purpose sets, and promotional releases. The last set, Theed Palace, was offered in the fall of 2001. The original game spanned all of the classic Star Wars trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi). During several years of the game's run, between 1995 and 1998, it was a top selling CCG, second only to Magic: The Gathering and occasionally surpassing Magic, according to both InQuest and Scrye magazines. Lucasfilm renewed Decipher's license in 1998 to include intellectual property from The Phantom Menace, the first film in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. In addition to expansion sets based on the films, Decipher planned to release sets based on the novels and computer games, and a new trading card game base on the prequel trilogy films. Decipher would turn over stewardship of the game to this group, originally composed of six player advocates, who would continue to organize sanctioned tournaments, as well as designing and releasing new "virtual cards" to keep the game fresh. Over two decades later, the Players' Committee still supports an active player base around the world, organizing several major tournaments each year, providing a platform for online play, and releasing new sets of virtual cards every few months.

Each game requires one player to play the light side of the Force while the other plays the dark side. In friendly play, a player can specialize in one side or the other, but for tournaments, players need both Dark and Light decks. This two sided aspect is rare in customizable card games (Star Wars: The Card Game and Netrunner being the other notable examples). The action of the game occurs at various "Location" cards (both interstellar and planet bound) familiar from the Star Wars Universe. Locations can be deployed as the game progresses; furthermore, most locations come in both Dark and Light side versions, and an on the table location can be "converted" (changed to the other side) at any time. Most locations affect game play in some way; all also provide "Force icons", which represent the amount of "Force" a player can activate per turn. Force is the game's resource and its defining trait. Each unit of "Force" is simply a card from the top of a player's deck, placed off to one side in the "Force Pile". When used to deploy something, each unit of Force is placed on the "Used Pile", which then cycles back to the bottom of the deck. Unused Force remains in the Force Pile, and can be conserved for the next turn or drawn into the player's hand. The objective of the game is to force the opponent to discard all of their Life Force (consisting of Reserve Deck, Force pile and Used pile). This is accomplished via "Force Drains" (forcing the opponent to discard cards by controlling, unopposed, a location with their Force Icons on it), battling opposing characters, and resolving certain climatic situations (for instance, freezing a character in carbonite, winning a pod race, dueling a Jedi). The game system also features "Destiny draws", which represent the elements of chance, uncertainty, luck, random chance and the Force. Each card has a destiny number, from 0 to 7, at the top right corner (except locations, which count as destiny 0), and rather than using dice for generating random numbers, players "draw destiny" from the top of their deck, revealing the top card and using its destiny number as the result. This is used for a variety of purposes, from determining weapon hits to mandatory losses incurred by the opponent to resolving whether a character passes a Jedi Test. The drawn Destiny card goes to the Used Pile and is recycled into the deck. Through this system, a skillful player can legally count cards, remembering where the high destiny cards are in the deck. Stronger (or rarer) cards generally have lower Destiny values (with some exceptions); as a result, less experienced (or economically challenged) players are more likely to find that "The Force is with [them]".

Year Champion Nationality Runner up Nationality Worlds Location Round 1 Participants2023 Hayes Hunter Casey Anis Morristown, New Jersey, USA 692022 Justin Desai (3) Matthew Harrison Trainor Atlanta, Georgia, USA 512021 Joe Olson (2) Matt Scott Crystal City, Virginia, USA 602020 Joe Olson Quirin Fürgut Online 972019 Bastian Winkelhaus (3) Bryan Mischke Bochum, Germany 692018 Bastian Winkelhaus (2) Tom Kelly Morristown, New Jersey, USA 692017 Phillip Aasen Jonathan Chu Bloomington, Minnesota, USA 59 2016 Tom Haid Reid Smith Princeton, New Jersey, USA 62 2015 Justin Desai (2) Jonathan Chu Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 61 2014 Emil Wallin (2) Brian Terwilliger Toronto, Ontario, Canada 31 2013 Justin Desai Reid Smith Boston, Massachusetts, USA 60 2012 Emil Wallin Angelo Consoli Bochum, Germany 54 2011 Kevin Shannon (2) Brian Herold Washington, D. C., USA 63 2010 Dan Kim Kyle Krueger Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 61 2009 Brian Hunter Justin Desai Princeton, New Jersey, USA 53 2008 Kevin Shannon Kyle Krueger Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 60 2007 Jonathan Chu (2) Justin Desai Chicago, Illinois, USA 45 2006 Nate Meeker Brian Hunter Chicago, Illinois, USA 34 2005 Drew Scott James Booker GenCon, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 2004 Brandon Schele Reid Smith GenCon, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA 2003 Jonathan Chu Greg Shaw DragonCon, Atlanta, Georgia, USA 2002 Angelo Consoli Greg Shaw DecipherCon, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 2001 Bastian Winkelhaus Martin Akesson FreedomCon, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 2000 Matt Sokol Yannick Lapointe DecipherCon, Kissimmee, Florida, USA 72 1999 Gary Carman Steven Lewis Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 32 1998 Matt Potter Michael Riboulet Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA 56 1997 Philipp Jacobs Michael Riboulet Norfolk, Virginia, USA 52 1996 Raphael Asselin Bjørn Sørgjerd Vail, Colorado, USA 32

In the April 1996 edition of Arcane (Issue 5), Andy Butcher gave the game a top rating of 10 out of 10 despite stating that "Star Wars is let down by two things: its rulebook and the distribution of the cards.". In the June 1996 edition of Dragon (Issue 230), Rick Swan liked the "first rate presentation" of the cards. But he was disappointed with gameplay, saying "if only Star Wars played as good as it looked. But alas, it is merely okay." He found the rules "a bit clunky". The game "loses steam toward the end, when the outcome becomes all but inevitable." And he felt that the starter packs of only 60 cards made for a limited game, stating "You'll need a much larger poolI'd guess at least 100 Dark Side cards and 100 Light Sidersto make Star Wars come alive." He concluded by giving it an average rating of 3 out of 6, saying, "In today's deck drenched market it's just another card game, eminently playable but nothing to squander the rent money on."