I opened and sorted mine yesterday, and I realized something highly annoying. The cards, when put in number order, are nowhere near in the order they would go in my binder! So I had to re-sort all of them to put them in the order they should go for me to be able to find the proper cards when deckbuilding, but now they aren't in number order so it'll be hard to remember how to put everything back where it goes! Did this bother anyone else?

Also, nine of the cards are duplicates from other sets. I guess that's to be expected - people have said for a while that they're gonna have to start repeating events.

Also, why 46 cards FFG? Everyone uses binder pages that have 9 card sleeves! Now that one card is completely stranded! Aarrggggh!

I have a quick question for folks who bought and played with the 2-player intro set. For a new person, are the decks balanced well against each other for new players wanting to get into the game? Thanks

45 minutes ago, hey_yu said:

I have a quick question for folks who bought and played with the 2-player intro set. For a new person, are the decks balanced well against each other for new players wanting to get into the game? Thanks

Rey/Poe has been doing a little better for us…although we've only played about 20ish games. Also this is with 2 boxes…one box imho isn't great.

7 hours ago, hey_yu said:

I have a quick question for folks who bought and played with the 2-player intro set. For a new person, are the decks balanced well against each other for new players wanting to get into the game? Thanks

We played several games one box and they seemed very balanced. I think Poe/Rey may have been a little better with Rey's damage ability being more consistent.

When we added a second box and built 30 card decks from them, we found Kylo/Phasma coming out ahead more often.

All-in-all pretty well balanced though. A great experience out of the box.

On 02/09/2017 at 5:54 AM, TylerTT said:

So nearly a third more cards is free some how?

Cards are printed in lots of 18 cards to a sheet of paper. Each sheet costs, at most, under $1.00 US. Probably more like 60c. FFG gets theirs done in China, so I imagine the cost is a few cents per sheet. They could have thrown in a second copy of every card without any change in the RRP, no question.

The dice are the expensive part. Someone made a comparison to Ashes, but that's not the most apt match-up. Ashes dice are 16mm Acrylic with a few laser-cut symbols on them. The symbols are all repeated often. Destiny dice are larger, and almost every face is unique and requires heat-pressing an image into it. There's the real expenditure.

They could have doubled up all the events without increasing the cost, but doubling the upgrade/support cards and making the characters elite would have been a significant price increase. Either way, we'd be buying two for the dice (or paying twice the RRP), so it was a choice between giving us two copies of every event in each box (and having us throw them out) or one copy knowing we'd buy a second. I think they made the right choice.

11 hours ago, hey_yu said:

I have a quick question for folks who bought and played with the 2-player intro set. For a new person, are the decks balanced well against each other for new players wanting to get into the game? Thanks

Both with one set or two we've found the decks very balanced. We enjoy playing with the best of two sets so much, we've decided to stop buying boosters for the near future. This is a fun game and removing the CCG part of it might be the best thing we've decided to do to save our wallet and enjoyment of this game.

The new cards are interesting.

New Kylo is more expensive but better die and his ability is going to really be painful to mono decks. New Phasma is flat out superior to the old one and cheaper to boot.

Also there are good weapons, supports and events to be had (as I have foreseen is actually a great card for use with Thrawn or indeed new Kylo).