Grand Admiral Thrawn
Rulesets
Expansions
Upgrade Card Collection (SWM38)
Chimaera (SWM29)
Card text
Choose command dials for this card after deploying fleets.
At the start of each Ship Phase, you may reveal and discard 1 dial from this card. If you do, until the end of the round, when each friendly ship activates, it gains 1 additional dial matching that discarded dial.
Properties
| Type | Commander |
|---|---|
| Faction | Imperial |
| Unique | Yes |
| Starting | 3:
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| Points | 32 |
Timing
The first effect of this Upgrade Card triggers “after deploying fleets”. The second part of this Upgrade Card may then resolve at the start of a Ship Phase and, when active, when each friendly ship activates.
Clarifications
The dial that is “gained” from this card may be turned into a matching command token.
When a friendly ship gains a command dial as part of this Upgrade Card’s effect, that ship may spend it at the appropriate time to resolve that command, but the ship cannot resolve the same command more than once during its activation.
If the ship with this Upgrade Card equipped is destroyed, any command dial revealed and discarded may still be gained by ships that activate in your fleet for the rest of the turn.
A huge ship does not gain a matching token from this Upgrade Card’s dials, as they are “gained” not “revealed”.
Per the RRG a ship cannot discard a dial it gains from card effects to discard raid tokens. You may use a dial to gain a matching token, and then discard that token to remove a matching raid token.
Upgrade Card Interactions
This Upgrade Card’s dials cannot be targeted by Slicer Tools, the damage card Comm Noise or by the boarding team Cham Syndulla because they can only target dials in a ship’s command stack. This card’s dials are not kept in a command stack, they are gained at the beginning of the ship phase.
If this card is discarded due to Darth Vader (Officer), any remaining command dials on the card cannot be revealed and discarded.
The dials gained by this Upgrade Card can be discarded to trigger Boarding Teams as long as any command dial is being revealed by the ship. The squadron dial being discarded does not need to be the one being revealed.
Upgrades that only trigger and/or resolve on that ship’s “revealed” dial cannot trigger and/or resolve on dials “gained” from this card’s effect. For example Commandant Aresko, Taskmaster Grint or Wing Commander all trigger on the revealed command.
In regards to ships equipped with Comms Net, when a ship “reveals” its command dial, it also “gains” a dial from this card at the same time. You must declare if these dials will be used and/or gained as tokens. It would replace any token(s) currently on that ship if it were at its maximum token capacity before they could be “assigned” by.
This Upgrade Card’s timing occurs before that of Comms Net, which is after the Reveal Command dial step. Comms Net can send away a token gained from this Upgrade Card. However you may not gain a token from this Upgrade Card, send it to another ship using Comms Net, and then convert your dial to another command token. You also may not use Comms Net to make room for a token gained from this Upgrade Card.
Objective Interactions
This Upgrade Card will not gain facedown command dials on this card if the ship it is equipped to is set aside before fleets are deployed, such as by Hyperspace Assault’s Setup effect.
Damage Card Interactions
The Crew Panic damage card only affects dials on the ship’s command stack, not this Upgrade Card’s dials as they are “gained” not “revealed”.