So my question is how many sleeves would one need to get per deck roughly? I ask this because I wanted to play in tournaments and wanted to know how many sleeves I should pick up.

How are tournaments going to be ran? Will I need two faction decks one light one dark.?

Thank you for the help!

For tournaments you have to use at least 10 Objective Sets, which are 6 cards each. Since you will need to separate the objectives from the other cards and probably sleeve them differently, that is 50 cards in the regular deck and 10 in the objective deck. You will then likely sleeve the Affiliation card and the Force markers as well, but differently from the other cards and from each other.

So, total sleeves in a minimum-size deck (assuming you will sleeve everything) = 64

Also, you will need both a LS deck and DS deck.

So assuming i do this ill need 3or different types of sleeves or color? Per deck 50-10-5lol is that right? Im just trying to understand before i purchase sleeves thx

Acemclaren said:

You do not need different color sleves, it's just a convience thing. You could get away with just 60 sleeves per side to take care of your Objective deck and Command deck.

To that point this is how I sleeved my cards

LS Objectives: White
LS Command: Blue
LS Factions: Yellow
LS Force: Clear

DS Objectives: Black
DS Command: Red
DS Factions: Green
DS Force: Clear

The seperation of colored sleves lets you eaisly seperate the cards when it comes time to play, but is by no means necessary.

My current storage setup:

Aahzmandius_Karrde said:

My only problem with that is, shouldn't all the cards in a deck be sleeved the sameway?

Ulairi said:

The way he listed them they are. Objectives and command decks are shuffled separately and faction and force cards are not part of any deck.

Toqtamish said:

Then his system is brilliant. I wonder how many core sets he has. From the photograph, it looks like he was 3 cores. Since we can only have, at most 2x of any objective set, it seems that 2 cores should cover it.

Ulairi said:

That is only two core sets shown in the picture. And the extra "Limit 1" Objective sets as well as the extra force and faction cards are under the center part of the box. There are excess packages of sleeves behind the cards though (wanted to be ready for a Force Pack or two).

I play a few different games, and do too much deck building to have different color sleeves for anything. I just buy hundreds and hundreds of the same color sleeves.

OK so I guess my next question is with all of those choices how many of each color sleeve did you have to buy? Thanks! - I also bought the same as you two core sets.

I got prematurely excited about the game and got the old star wars sleeves, the Han, Vader, Yoda, Boba and X-wings attacking a star destroyer ones, each one has 50 cards, so I've sleeved each LS reserve deck with either yoda or han, boba and vader for the DS decks. The Objective decks of either side I'm using the X-Wing sleeves, same with the Affiliation cards and the Force indicators. It's worked out pretty much exact as the 50 reserve deck cards is perfect, while the 4x10 objective decks, 4 affiliation and 6 force markers similarly perfectly fits. Best of all it's a complete star Wars overload, even if Imperial navy with Boba backs isn't too thematic.

They're sold out on FFG but I got mine from an Amazon seller.

Acemclaren said:

I purchased 5 packs each of the Red and Blue and 2 packs each of the Black and white. You'll notice I have some extras in the back and there's a full pack of each of the colors. I sleeve a lot of cards for board games so I often have spare sleeves lying around (I think I've got a 500 count card box full of sleeves of a dozen or so colors), and I filled out the rest from that supply.

I have a full pack (and then some) of each of the colors I bought, so you could get away with just 4 and 1, but I wanted extras on hand for Force Packs.

I ended up following the original suggestion of the colored sleeves I think it will work out nicely - Thank you guys very much for your help!

Glad I'm not the only one with an insane sleeving system. In AGOT, I sleeve all my decks based on the factions (Stark in white, Baratheon in green, and so on), and all my non-draw deck cards are in same colored sleeves (plots in brown sleeves, agendas and House cards in black). I'm going to try the opposite approach here: two different colors for command decks on each side, and I'll sleeve the objectives and affiliation card with the color appropriate to each faction. So far I haven't yet had the opportunity to sleeve any command decks, but I did sleeve all my objectives in their respective colors.

Black: DS command deck
Blue: Imperial Navy objectives
Red: Sith objectives
Green: Scum objectives

White: LS command deck
Brown: Jedi objectives
Orange: Rebel objectives
Yellow: Smuggler objectives

Obviously, I'll need to resleeve some objectives when I transfer neutral objectives between decks or if I want to splash some out-of-affiliation objectives in a deck, but resleeving a couple cards is nothing compared to whole decks. The Rebel color scheme is definitely closer to red than it is to orange, but I don't have multiple shades of red sleeves. The Rebel shade of red more orange than the Sith's red, and plus orange works as the color of Rebel flightsuits. Finally I have my Force cards, all sleeved in purple, because it's my remaining sleeve color, I love the shade of purple that Ultra Pro uses, and FFG honestly doesn't provide me as many opportunities to use those sleeves. (Netrunner, where I use the purple/green color scheme of the original version for my corp/runner sleeving, and LotR, where my Leadership heroes are sleeved in purple.)

divinityofnumber said:

This. Mix and match all you like.

alpha5099 said:

Shouldn't Baratheon be sleeved in yellow?

MarthWMaster said:

Comes in a green box

Ulairi said:

Yeah, they're sleeved based on the color FFG uses for the cards, not the House colors. Baratheon is green in-game, so they're in green sleeves. Lannister would probably prefer to be in red, Targaryen in black, but their cards are yellow and red, so that's what they're sleeved in.

The one exception is Greyjoy, whose color according to FFG is kind of a slate grey. Black would be the best fit (and is one of the canonical house colors to boot), but when I was buying my sleeves when I first started out, both Cool Stuff Inc. and Miniature Market were sold out of black Ultra Pro sleeves, so I opted for blue. I've now picked up black sleeves for Star Wars, but I like the blue sleeves I've been using, so Greyjoy will stay blue.

Interesting that they didn't go with the House colors. I guess I never really noticed it because I've only played a bit, and have tended to focus on Stark and Targaryen.

I've just gone for 3 different sleave selections. I've got the Star Destryoyer sleaves for the dark side, and Han Sleaves for LS and then clear for objectives, faction and force cards.

FFG just put out some nice new Star Wars sleeves and they come 50 to a pack, so I've got those to sleeve the command cards, then I just use penny sleeves for the objectives and the force cards since they have different artwork and colored backs than their opposite side counterparts so getting them mixed up is unlikely. Also, the Slave Leia by comic book artist Adam Hughes sleeves make great distractions.

I was initially turned off by the Slave Leia artwork because IMO it sucked for the first official "Rebel Alliance" sleeves to showcase that particular moment of vulnerability for Leia (rather than showing her off in a stronger moment, like when she takes down some stormtroopers with the blaster rifle). But I think I might change my mind once Edge of Darkness makes its release, since they'd be perfect for a Jabba deck that uses the capture mechanic.

Can anyone tell me how many cards are in a standard deck for this game? Also, is there any use or advantage for having different colored/style sleeves for the same deck (i.e., objectives vs. non-objectives)?

Thanks in advance, I don't know a whole heck of a lot about this game yet.

Edit: I'm just wondering if buying 4 packs of their Star Wars art sleevs will be adequate for the 4 premade decks in the core set. Thanks!

Green Leader said:

A complete deck contains 61 cards. 1 Affiliation card, a 10-card Objective Deck, and a 50 card Command Deck.

A starter deck contains 49 cards. 1 Affiliation card, an 8-card Objective Deck, and a 40 card Command Deck.

So yes, with 4 packs of art sleeves, you would be able to sleeve the 4 starter decks, but you would have several unsleeved objective sets. The box itself tells you you need 5 standard-size packs of sleeves to sleeve the entire game.

I would recommend using a different sleeve for the Objective cards, as it helps keep them from being accidentally shuffled into the Command Deck and vice versa. If you have your cards organized in a box, it also helps show where the objective sets break down at-a-glance. My recommendation would be to get 2 packs of art sleeves with a Light Side theme, 2 packs with a Dark Side theme, and 1 pack of plain clear sleeves.