Star Wars: The Card Game – Ready for Takeoff Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Additional Rules
  • Pilot (X)
  • Piloted and Piloting
  • Piloting Limit

Additional Rules

This section covers new rules introduced in the Force Pack cycles and Deluxe Expansions, and should be treated as an addition to the rulebook in the Star Wars: The Card Game Core Set.

Pilot (X)

Pilot (X) is a new keyword introduced in the Rogue Squadron cycle expansion. The pilot (X) keyword allows a unit to enter play as an enhancement attached to a friendly Vehicle unit.

In order to play a card with the pilot (X) keyword from hand as a Pilot enhancement, a player must pay the resource cost of X instead of the normal printed cost. X is known as the "pilot cost" of the enhancement.

When a card with the pilot (X) keyword is put into play by a card effect, the player resolving the effect chooses whether it enters play as a unit or as a Pilot enhancement.

The parenthetical text following "Pilot (X)" expresses the ability this card has only while it is being used as a Pilot enhancement. A card being used as a Pilot enhancement retains any other text (outside of the parenthetical pilot text) it may possess.

Using the effect of the pilot (X) keyword is optional. A player still has the option of playing a card with this keyword as a unit by paying its printed resource cost.

Example 1: The DS player wants to play Baron Fel (0714) on the 181st TIE Interceptor (0715). The DS player pays Baron Fel's pilot cost of 2 and attaches him as a Pilot enhancement on the 181st TIE Interceptor. Baron Fel is now considered an attached enhancement with the text: "While this card is piloting a Fighter unit, each friendly Fighter unit gains elite and edge (1)."

If the DS player had played Baron Fel as a unit, he would pay the printed cost of 4, and the parenthetical text on Baron Fel would not be active.

Piloted and Piloting

A Vehicle unit with an attached Pilot enhancement is considered to be "piloted." A Pilot enhancement attached to a Vehicle unit is considered to be "piloting" that unit.

Piloting Limit

If two or more Pilot enhancements are attached to a single unit, that unit's controller must immediately discard Pilot enhancements from that unit until only one remains.

Example 2: The LS player wishes to play Derek "Hobbie" Klivian (0699) from his hand onto his Rogue Squadron X-Wing (0700). The Rogue Squadron X-Wing already has Wedge Antilles (0183) attached to it as a Pilot enhancement. The LS player pays Derek "Hobbie" Klivian's pilot cost of 1 and attaches him as a Pilot enhancement to the Rogue Squadron X-Wing.

As the Rogue Squadron X-Wing now has two attached Pilot enhancements, the LS player must choose to discard one of them. He chooses to discard Wedge Antilles, leaving the Rogue Squadron X-Wing with only Derek "Hobbie" Klivian attached as a Pilot enhancement.