Hi all,

I blinked when this game first came out so of course I missed the initial launch. I've only recently put my hands on the starter sets, and I currently have 2 copies of both the Kylo Ren and the Rey starters. I'm looking forward eagerly to the second printing of Awakenings but while waiting I'm thinking: OK what are the best 2 best decks to build out of these 4 starters? My wife has played Magic in the past and she played Destiny with the normal starters but generally she's not into the deck building aspect of CCGs. So I have enough cards to build legal decks, I have 2 or more dice for all of the elite characters in the starters and I'd like to build something with a little more depth than just the vanilla starter configuration. In short I need to build 2 equally matched fun decks out of a fairly limited pool.

The character configuration is pretty obvious: the villain deck takes Kylo Ren (Elite) and 2 First Order Troopers, and the hero deck takes Finn (Elite) and Rey (Elite). But I haven't really thought much about configuring the rest of the cards. I also suspect this is a fairly solved problem by now :-)

I can move cards between the starters (so take cards from the Kylo Ren starters and put them in the Hero deck or vice versa), I'm mainly interested in making the two best decks that really show off the possibilities of the game, given 2 copies of each starter and no boosters. (For example, Flank is going to work better in the villain deck than the hero deck, given the 3 vs. 2 nature of the character mix.)

Thoughts?

I was building this deck for my niece and nephew last week but building on the fly so I didn't optimize.

Youre right about the characters.

Matter that you don't have a large pool so 2 of everything that involves a die a two of everything that is already a two of in the deck. After that it's a matter of taking one of each card left and doubling up on the ones that seem stronger (good call on the flank for empire...rebels can stall with the BB8 though so flank isn't totally useless).

You might consider one Force throw in the villain deck and a mind probe for Rey. It will feel more fair.

you also might consider letting Finn have a tie fighter in his deck along the same lines.

most consider Kylo the better starter but experienced players have said you can win with either...maybe give the rebels both force throws and a tie fighter to start and then balance from there.