I had picked up both starter sets and was wondering. Moving forward do you play with and shuffle together both sets of damage cards to play or do you just pick one over the other or pick and choose which ones from the set up to a certain number. Had just been playing with the original set for now and my daughter and I are ready to crack open the new one and finally get some squad play going.

If you have two damage decks then you use one each ideally. However, since the Force Awakens starter has a new damage deck I would use that and share it between you both.

I had picked up both starter sets and was wondering. Moving forward do you play with and shuffle together both sets of damage cards to play or do you just pick one over the other or pick and choose which ones from the set up to a certain number. Had just been playing with the original set for now and my daughter and I are ready to crack open the new one and finally get some squad play going.

DEFINITELY don't shuffle them together, not least because they have different backs!

Each player should have one damage deck, for a standard 100 point tournament style game. It can be either one from either set, at the player's choice. For casual games or if you don't own enough decks you can share.

But decks shouldn't ever be mixed together.

No mixing.

Use "old" for noname generic squadrons

Use "new" for elite ace upgrade-filled squadrons

Each deck is a single game component and should not be altered in any way. Do not add or swap cards from another deck. If you have the new set, use that deck for both players. You don't need to have a separate deck each when you're just playing against your daughter. And it's probably easier to keep track of as well.

If you graduate to playing other players at a store or in a tournament, you'll need to use your own deck. But make sure that it's an unaltered, 33-card deck.

1. Each deck is a single game piece and should not have its composition altered or combined with similar decks.

2. At present you may use either deck in games. It is suggested that you primarily use the newer decks as many suspect that it may become the only tournament legal deck.

3. While tournament rules ask you to bring your own deck you should have no issues using a single deck for two players in casual play. If you somehow draw all the cards from the DD then you take the pile of discarded damage cards and shuffle those into a new DD. If the nearly impossible happens and you happen to have all damage cards in play then you track any further damage with some other type of marker; if a face-up card would be dealt is just becomes a marker like any other that counts as a face-down card.

4. Adding two or more decks together changes the expected probabilities in the deck. When you know that some number of a given damage card have already been drawn you know what the chances of any other unknown card being its mate is; more decks change that calculation.

Ok. Thank you for the clarification.