The force deck specifies the number of cards drawn by a player and serves as resource necessary to deploy characters, weapons and starships. The theme influences gameplay and deck construction by settling who goes first in the game and by favouring characters and items compatible with it, yet cards with different theme colour are still usable. Also, character, starship and weapon cards may have a certain theme colour that influences deck design, although grey ('themeless') cards are also present.Д®ach deck needs a 'theme': a theme card and theme hero those provided in the premiere release are: Han Solo (green theme colour), Luke Skywalker (yellow), Grand Moff Tarkin (blue) and Darth Vader (red). Each starship and character card (along with some of the weapon cards) has a deploy cost and some of them have leadership icons designating the ability to be supported in combat. Character and starship cards in Jedi Knights are distinguished by Power and Defense attributes, the first defining combat prowess and the second defining the ability to withstand weapon attacks. Unlike its predecessors, Jedi Knights does not have a clear-cut differentiation between 'light side' and 'dark side' decks, although certain cards can only be used by a particular side.Д®ach card has a Destiny number from 0 through 7 printed over allegiance icon: Light Side, Dark Side and Independent, the latter usable by either side of the conflict. The goal of the game is to gain control over as many locations as possible while characters and starships battle one another on sites and planetary orbits.

Gameplay mechanics of Jedi Knights differ greatly from those present in previous Star Wars card games by Decipher, Inc., those being Star Wars CCG and Young Jedi TCG.

There were two of those 'movie' sequences: the opening scene from A New Hope - Tantive IV being chased by Imperial cruiser Devastator and starfighter flight in the Death Star trench. Another addition to classic card design were 'flip movie' cards, which contained arts taken from a continuity of images that, when viewed in a specific sequence, form an animated series. Additional value has been added to the cards by adding stereoscopic effect to certain designated cards. One particular quality of the visuals in the game is that card arts often portray events and characters from the films from a perspective or angle that were absent in the film or depict situations mentioned but not shown in any of the three films. Jedi Knights cards do not contain images taken from the original movies, as it was for the Star Wars CCG.

An example of the stereoscopic effect on a Jedi Knights card.

Knighs of the force