Warrant Officer M'Kae
review by Jeff Hansen
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M'Kae is a pilot designed for a specific strategy - tractor beams. In addition to adding 2 to the power of anything he pilots; at any time he may use 1 Force to take any tractor beam, Our First Catch Of The Day, or Besieged into hand from the Reserve Deck. That adds up to enough toys to capture plenty of opposing starships, which is a great weapon against Hidden Base. Additionally, M'Kae's toys can help to defend the ECC objective and "occupation cards" without having to devote so much of the deck to space. Another more devious use of this Imperial is to include him simply as a pilot in a deck without even using tractor beams! Opponents will see M'Kae, and will automatically assume that there really are tractor beams and related interrupts in the deck. This idle "threat" may cause opponents to delay, or completely avoid, deploying to a Star Destroyer's location. This fear may end up costing them the game or at least some differential. Whenever you influence the gameplay of an opponent, you create an advantage for yourself that may be exploitable for a victory. Warrant Officer M'Kae could definitely bring some very effective strategies to your deck.
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