Intro Battle: Hoth Deck Guide

Overview

Intro Battle: Hoth is a starter box, not a booster set. It holds two prebuilt decks, a game board, a rulebook and the counters, so two people can learn Star Wars: Unlimited from one box.

The decks play out the Battle of Hoth. Cards 1 to 52 are Leia Organa's Rebels, in Command, Cunning and Heroism. Cards 53 to 104 are Darth Vader's Imperials, in Aggression, Vigilance and Villainy. Each half is a leader, a base and a 50-card deck.

Every card carries its own number even where the same card appears more than once in a deck, so many names repeat across the 104. All are printed at Special rarity, with no Hyperspace or other versions.

Cards and decks

Intro Battle: Hoth has 104 cards. Each shows its set code, IBH, and its number along the bottom, and every card has a single version.

There are no tokens: the box uses counters instead.

The two decks

Set completion in TurnZero HQ counts Intro Battle: Hoth from 1 to 104, with no other versions to track. How set completion works →

Leaders

One leader per deck, each with a simple ability for a first game:

Leia Organa, Get to Your Transports!

Intro Battle: Hoth #1

Pays 1 to heal 1 damage from a friendly unit. Deployed, heals two units on each attack.

Darth Vader, Don't Fail Me Again

Intro Battle: Hoth #53

Pays 1 to deal 1 damage to a base. Deployed, deals 2 damage to a base on each attack.

Bases

Two bases, both on Hoth, each with 20 HP and no ability. That is well under the 25 to 35 HP of a booster set's bases, which keeps a learning game short.

Cards worth knowing

A few cards in the box worth knowing, for the game and outside it:

Watch This

Intro Battle: Hoth #52

Returns a non-leader unit that costs 6 or less to its owner's hand and exhausts every other enemy unit in that arena.

Luke Skywalker, Do You Read Me?

Intro Battle: Hoth #20

A 7-cost 6/6 with Restore 2 that can deal 3 damage to a ground unit when played.

The most valuable card: Watch This

Watch This

Intro Battle: Hoth #52

Version Normal

Card number IBH 52

Market price, September 30, 2026 $18.06

Artist Francois Cannels

Watch This was the most valuable card in Intro Battle: Hoth on September 30, 2026, at $18.06. Nothing else in the box was above $1.50.

Like any fixed product, the box has nothing to chase: every copy holds the same cards. Watch This is simply the one card players want for decks of their own.

Prices

Single cards from the box sell for very little, apart from Watch This. These were the most valuable on September 30:

These are each card's TCGplayer market price on September 30, 2026. Prices for a new set can move a long way in its first months, so treat them as a snapshot. Each card's page shows today's price for Normal and Foil and its price chart. How card prices work →

Playing it

Intro Battle: Hoth is built for a first game between two people, and its decks and 20 HP bases are made for that. The rulebook and board walk through a round.

Once you move on to Premier, the main constructed format, a deck is one leader, one base and at least 50 cards, the same shape as each deck in this box. The cards from it can go into decks of your own.

Premier and Twin Suns deck building rules →

Frequently Asked Questions