The biggest loser was poor ol' Krassis Trellix. Little guy didn't even make the FAQ.

What is thug life? I'm not hip to the xwing lingo apparently.

Much like what that was said before in the quote below. The list got modified when TLT came out to 4 Y-wings w/TLT astromech and Unhinged. Although some may have adopted a new name to separate it from the 5 ship autoblaster (unhinged, Thug Jr.) most people just called it (the new) Thug Life.

What is thug life? I'm not hip to the xwing lingo apparently.

As I'd seen it run...

5x Syndicate Thug + Autoblaster turret

Sure, it's only range-1 on the 360...but you've got five of them. And the enemy can't block any of that damage, so just...spread as wide a net as possible. Any aces that fall into it...toast. Oh, it's also got 40 hitpoints to chew through, with no "half points for half damage".

It's kinda ridiculous. Of course, if it fails to catch anything in its net early...IE., loses a couple ships before it can make a kill itself...it's pretty much hosed. So the U-boats kinda displaced it by having a stronger alpha strike (thug life really doesn't - it's in it for the long game) as well as being almost-more-resilient. But it's a close-run thing, and thug life was ALMOST a dominant list, so...with the new FAQ changes nerfing the U-boats? Maybe...

(EDIT: the nice thing about thug life is that, while it's INCREDIBLY powerful...like a good TIE swarm, it's also incredibly hard to fly well. The polar opposite of the wolfpack, a n00b can't just download the list, pick up the right ships and cards, show up at an event for their first-ever-tournament and expect to win half the rounds. If you aren't awesome at X-Wing...then thug life is going to be a total 0-100 blowout for you. If you ARE...then, yeah, it's a top-tier list. IMHO, it's exactly the sort of thing the game needs more of.)

Dengar - Getting his counter-attack after dying is a big deal.

And he trumps Biggs on the counter-attack ;-) Not that we see that much Biggs around, but still nice.