The Hoth Limited set is the second full expansion set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, a card game based on the Star Wars universe. It consists of 162 cards (81 Dark Side and 81 Light Side cards) and was introduced in November 1996. This set consists of 54 rare, 54 uncommon, and 54 common cards. This set introduced many of the classic characters from Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back that were involved with the Battle of Hoth.
Because this is an expansion set, it bears an expansion-set symbol, which is located near the top right corner of the card to the right of the lore and below the destiny number. The symbol for this set is the planet Hoth.
Release
This set was sold in 15-card expansion packs and 36-pack expansion boxes. Each pack include one rare card, four uncommon cards, and ten common cards. Although starter decks were never produced for this set, an The Empire Strikes Back Introductory Two-Player Game featuring cards from the Hoth expansion was released shortly after. The set went out of print in September of 1998 when the Hoth Revised Unlimited set came out (an almost identical set with some minor revisions to game text and with white borders instead of black). A Japanese-text set was released for this expansion set in Japan.
Continuity
This set was the original source for the names of many characters from Episode V. These include Echo Base personnel Toryn Farr, Tigran Jamiro, Tamizander Rey, Cal Alder, Shawn Valdez and several others. Also named are protocol droids K-3PO and R-3PO. The set identified the Star Destroyer hit by the base's ion cannon in the film as the Tyrant, and its captain and first officer as Lennox and Cabbel.
Inconsistencies
The characters Romas Navander and Wyron Serper are first indentified in the set, but the images used to represent them are actually shots of the same actor — Burnell Tucker — from two different scenes in the film. Tucker appeared in Episode IV as Rebel technician Del Goren, who was named in the previous A New Hope Limited card set.
The set also introduced Rebel pilot Kesin Ommis, but it was later confirmed that the modified photo used for the card was one of actor John Morton as already-established character Dak Ralter. This error was finally corrected in the Rogues Gallery feature in Star Wars Insider 146, released in December 2013, but not before many previous Legends sources identified the film character as Ommis as well.
Media
Card list
Dark Side
Character
Creature Device Effect
Epic Event
Interrupt
Location
Starship Vehicle Weapon
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Light Side
Character
Device
Effect
Interrupt
Location
Starship Vehicle Weapon |
Appearances
| Characters | Organisms | Droid models | Events | Locations |
| Organizations and titles | Sentient species | Vehicles and vessels | Weapons and technology | Miscellanea |
Characters
Organisms
Droid models
Events
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Locations
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Organizations and titles
Sentient species
Vehicles and vessels
Weapons and technology
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Miscellanea
Sources
"Pick a Card, Any Card: Making Movie Magic at Decipher, Inc." — Star Wars Insider 31- "The Ice World Cometh" — Star Wars Galaxy Magazine 10
- "It's All In The Cards" — Star Wars Galaxy Collector 3
- Star Wars Customizable Card Game Product Timeline on Decipher's official website (original site is defunct)
Notes and references
External links
- Hoth card list on StarWarsCCG.org (backup link archived on July 21, 2012)
- Hoth Database on CCGTrader (backup link archived on December 5, 2021)