Congrats, Shad!

It is nice to see that the Core Set and some of the early stuff is still relevant. The new stuff seems to have added flavor and some complexity, but not made the earlier cards irrelevant, which is nice. I think that this fact makes the game more appealing to new players. People can buy the Core Set, one deluxe expansion, and a few packs, and actually make a competitive deck. You can't say that type of thing about many games. Cheers to the development team for creating a game that introduces interesting new mechanics and play strategies without making all of the previous cards obsolete.

Looking forward to playing with you guys this summer...

We ran the Winter Kit today at FFG. 6 people in attendance so 3 rounds. After the third round there was a tie at 15 points so instead of SoS I had the top players go again for a tie-breaking 3rd game. Shad emerged victorious and claimed the Attack Pattern Delta playmat. Fitting...

1st (Shad)

Affiliation: Jedi

Hero's Journey x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Warriors of the Forest x2

Deep Commitment x1

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Ties of Blood x1

Courage of the Tribe x1

Affilation: Scum

Masterful Manipulation x2

Spice Trade x1

Might of the Empire x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Deploy the Fleet x1

Repair and Refurbish x1

Sector Lockdown x1

2nd (Travis P)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Wookie Life Debt x2

Wookie's Journey x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Against All Odds x2

Trust Me x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Affilation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Deploy the Fleet x2

Imperial Entanglements x2

Imperial Blockade x1

Sabotage in the Snow x1

Im going to have to play Navy and Rebel factions at the next event. Already used Smuggler, Jedi, Scum and Sith. The last two events were fun, lots of good decks right now. Im still surprised that my Jedi/Ewok deck beat that navy deck. Also Ewok Yoda is good. Ive already switched out Sector Lockdown for a copy of Imperial Entanglements. After playing saturday I realized I didnt have enough targets in my deck for Tractor Beam.

Store Championship at Level Up this afternoon. 6 in attendance. Shout out to Nick and Joe for making me play some brutal games.

1st (me)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero's Journey x1

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Wookie Life Debt x2

Questionable Contacts x1

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Secret Weapons x1

Affiliation: Scum

Masterful Manipulation x2

Hutt's Menagerie x1

Droid Droid Revolution x1

Emperor's Web x2

Counsel of the Sith x2

Shadows of Dathomir x2

2nd (Shad)

Affiliation: Rebel

Shield Generator Assault x2

Commando Operations x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Survivors x1

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Hero's Journey x1

Ties of Blood x1

Affiliation: Navy

Enforced Loyalty x2

Sector Lockdown x1

Emperor's Web x2

Merciless Plans x2

Fall of the Jedi x1

Agent of the Emperor x1

Counsel of the Sith x1

Old School Playmat tournament at FFG today. 6 in attendance. Travis P took the day with his Navy Fortress deck going undefeated. Big congratz to him!

1st (Travis P)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Forgotten Heroes x2

The Survivors x2

Flight of the Crow x2

Forgotten Masters x1

A Hero's Beginning x1

Affiliation: Navy

The Tarkin Doctrine x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Might of the Empire x2

Deploy the Fleet x2

Imperial Blockade x1

Repair and Refurbish x1

2nd (me)

Affiliation: Rebel

Draw Their Fire x2

Forward Reconnaissance x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero's Trial x2

Ties of Blood x1

Defense of Yavin IV x1

The Survivors x1

Affiliation: Scum

Nar Shaddaa Drift x2

Hunter's Flight x2

Black Squadron Formation x2

The Emperor's Sword x2

The Executor Arrives x2

Hey!

Can we maybe start talking dates for a store/local tournament?

June 11 (Sat) or June 12 (Sun)?

Too early?

Otherwise, I am hopeful I can come up a few times during a game night to update my collection with the newest sets...

Spring Kit tournament today at FFG. 6 in attendance. I knew I wanted to try something with Bren Derlin so I threw together a LS targeted strike deck. DS was tougher because a lot of pods have come out in the Endor cycle that I’ve wanted to try out so I was really torn. I wound up playing them all and the deck was quite tenacious.

1st (me)

Affiliation: Rebel

Commando Operations x2

Strike Team Assemble x2

Hero’s Journey x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Heroes and Legends x1

Affiliation: Scum

Masterful Manipulation x1

Schemes and Intrigues x1

Hunter for Hire x1

Hutt’s Menagerie x1

Emperor’s Web x1

Counsel of the Sith x1

Agent of the Emperor x1

Dark Counsel x1

Merciless Plans x1

Fearsome and Foul x1

2nd (Kyung)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Trial x2

Hero’s Beginning x2

Ties of Blood x1

Survivors x1

Forgotten Heroes x1

Flight of the Crow x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Dark Trooper Project x2

Family Connections x2

Emperor’s Legion x2

Imperial Command x1

Enforced Loyalty x1

Random thoughts on LS:

Core Luke clears boards. that guy is a wrecking ball. Trust Your Feelings on Bren gets the job done too.

Commando Operations negating the resolution of the fate card effects but not the resolution of the fate card itself allowing for your commandos to jump in for free is…something. Woe unto the DS player who even tries to get rid of fate cards in an edge stack.

4 Seeds of Decay is silly

A single Echoes with 4 Seeds of Decay is also silly

Crix is the man

Random thoughts on DS:

Playing a quality main every single turn is solid.

40% chance of starting the game with Jabba’s Rancor in hand is also solid.

Masterful Manipulating into Fearsome and Foul is also great.

Looping Sith Wyrms for edge is what worms were made for.

Ephont Mon is a great first turn.

Bane Malar’s a go-getter.

Abandoned Hideout does late-game work.

Administrative Detainment is a blow-out.

Surprise Feeding Frenzy on Bubo is just funny.

The Play of the Day goes to Travis P!

DS began the game with x2 Masterful Manipulation and opens with Debt Collector into Xizor commit. Pretty good.

LS began the game with Asteroid Sanctuary, Against All Odds and Planning the Rescue tucking 3 cards under a single Masterful (Guest Quarters Rescue Mission and something else)

Travis opens with a Cloud City Operative and the Mission To Save a Friend searching his deck for Falcon and Dash. He attacks with the Operative, Xizor steps up and Travis passes on edge. DS passes and kills the operative. Next he plays Rescue Mission and rips the Falcon. Sends it in on the Masterful Manipulation without captured cards and with the added blast from Against All Odds blows it up.

Travis bounces Falcon for General Airen Cracken, stands up, rips his shirt off, beats his chest and screams “RELEASE THE CRACKEN!!” attacks the Masterful Manipulation with 3 captured cards under it and blows it sky high.

There was a question regarding timing. Cracken reacted first to the objective being destroyed and Travis decided to put out the cloud city guest quarters for free. Xizor gets unlucky with his rip and pulls nothing of value.

Travis plays the Rescue Mission that he got from blowing up the objective to free Dash and sends Dash in at To Save a Friend. Bids enough to get under and between Dash’s text, Against All Odds and unopposed he blows that one up too.

GG

Kiramode would have been proud.

So what day do people play SW around here; I'd like to get into to the game and was wondering if people have a regular day I could swing by?

Tuesday night is LCG night at the event center. Star Wars has been pretty regular there especially since so many of us also play Thrones.

Our Facebook is the Minnesota Star Wars LCG group and people have been coordinating on it for other days.

Sat and Sun afternoon usually work pretty well for me to swing by FFG and play a few.

Love to have you come by!

10 people today for the first annual “Welcome Home Peter Jacobson” tournament. Since the event center closes at 6pm on Sunday we were only able to do 4 rounds of swiss but there was a clear winner! Joe went 7-0-1 winning a dial and a shadows of the empire bust of Palpatine (yay donated prize support! thanks Ryan!) Lots of people trying out various pods from GA. Lots of sith, but I also saw 4-LOM and Zuckuss winning some contested edge battles by double, some crazy Spark of Rebellion games and even Momaw Nadon!

1st (Joe)

Affiliation: Rebel

Planning the Rescue x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Watchers in the Wasteland x1

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Feigning Captivity x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

2nd (Brian)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Spark of Rebellion x2

Sacrifice at Endor x2

Ties of Blood x2

Impersonating a Deity x2

Warriors of the Forest x2

Tribal Support x1

Courage of the Tribe x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Encounter at Stygian Prime x2

Fall of the Jedi x1

Scouring the Empire x1

Dark Counsel x1

3rd (Peter)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

False Report x2

Debt of Honor x2

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

The Gardner’s Secret x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Might of the Empire x2

Sector Lockdown x2

Entrenched Defenses x1

Endor Entrapment x1

4th (Travis P)

Affiliation: Jedi

Survivors x2

Mind Under Matter x2

Questionable Contacts x2

Wookie Life Debt x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Affiliation: Navy

Death and Despayre x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Tatooine Crash x2

Slave Trade x2

Jabba's Orders x1

Spice Trade x1

Enforced Loyalty x1

5th (John)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Survivor’s x2

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Heroes and Legends x1

Flight of the Crow x1

Hero’s Beginning x1

Mysteries of the Rim x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Entrenched Defenses x1

Endor Entrapment x1

Last Grand Admiral x1

Repair and Refurbish x1

Death and Despayre x1

Sector Lockdown x1

Edit: My apologies for an earlier post, I had entered some scores wrong (forgetting to mark tied games) and Brian wound up ahead of Peter and Travis P beat out John based on tie-breakers.

I was so excited to play this game competitively after a nearly year-long hiatus! I was humbled and overwhelmed by not only the turn out, but also by the number of old and familiar and new and unknown faces that showed up to the EC. Mic runs a great event! I had a blast and look forward to seeing everyone again in a few weeks!

Such a fun tournament and was great meeting so many new people! Hope everyone can make it out to Level Up Games for the next Spring Kit tournament on Sunday, 6/26. MacRauri and I have been collaborating to bring more SWLCG tournaments to the Twin Cities.

All are welcome and it will be a casual/fun event.

11 people made it to the Peter Jacobson Going Away Tournament! We did 4 rounds of swiss. A lot of stuff turned to the Dark Side. Kyle turned to the DS. The entire crew of the Independence turned to the DS. Even Obi-Wan felt the lure of the DS after witnessing the power of the Death Star. Still LS managed to come out ahead for the day 23-17 even though Thrawn is apparently canon again and a pretty good card in the game!

1st (me)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Survivors x1

Watchers in the Wasteland x1

Sacrifice at Endor x1

Affiliation: Sith

Dark Counsel x2

Emperor’s Web x1

Encounter at Stygeon Prime x1

Last Grand Admiral x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Protect the Generator x2

2nd (Dan)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

A Hero’s Trial x2

Shield Generator Assault x2

Planning the Attack x2

Mission to Talay x2

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Moon Blockade x2

Last Grand Admiral x2

Protect the Generator x2

3rd (Amanda)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Secret of Yavin IV x2

Following Fate x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Fall of the Jedi x2

Executor Arrives x2

Agent of the Emperor x2

Encounter at Stygeon Prime x2

4th (Ethan)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Questionable Contacts x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Survivors x2

Affiliation: Navy

Ultimate Power x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Death and Despayre x1

Moon Blockade x1

Emperor’s Promise x2

Counsel of the Sith x1

Encounter at Stygeon Prime x1

10 people in attendance for our Peter Jacobson Memorial Tournament! (Peter’s not dead, he and and family is well and went back to India. We look forward to him visiting again next year!) We did 4 rounds of swiss and a new champion emerged!

1st (Kyung)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Wookie Life Debt x2

Asteroid Sancturary x1

Questionable Contacts x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Survivors x1

Watchers in the Wasteland x1

Affiliation: Navy

Superior Numbers x2

Guarding the Wing x2

Defending the Trench x2

Black Squadron Formation x2

Dark Defenders x2

2nd (Ethan)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Against All Odds x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Questionable Contacts x1

Gamor Run x1

Raise the Stakes x1

Across the Anoat Sector x1

Trust Me x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Beyond the Rim x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Last Grand Admiral x2

Protect the Generator x2

Enforced Loyalty x1

Entrenched Defenses x1

3rd (me)

Affiliation: Jedi

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Questionable Contacts x1

Gamor Run x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

House Edge x1

Calling in Favors x1

To Arms! x1

Frozen Refuge x1

Affiliation: Scum

Spice Trade x1

Out of the Mists x1

Eater of Luck x1

Enforced Loyalty x1

Entrenched Defenses x1

Repair and Refurbish x1

Defending the Trench x1

Admiral’s Assault x1

Sabotage in the Snow x1

Asteroid Pursuit x1

4th (Dan)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Journey x2

Hero’s Trial x2

Forgotten Masters x2

Heroes and Legends x1

Flight of the Crow x1

Affiliation: Scum

Out of the Mists x2

Schemes and Intrigue x2

Slave Trade x2

Hunt them Down! x2

Spice Trade x1

Hutt’s Menagerie x1

Random thoughts on my decks:

Hallucination I Have You Now is a thing.

Same with Hallucination Heat of Battle.

Playing a Scout Trooper to shield itself and then attacking when you have double Forward Command Post can win games.

Doole is nuts.

Talon Karrde and the FX-7 Medical Droid can lock down boards.

Gamblo rips DS edge hands apart.

Echo Caverns is nuts.

Play of the Day goes to Keith!

Keith attacks with Luke with a Trust Your Feelings.

DS blocks with a storm trooper assault team and a Golan.

LS plays Search Your Feelings and takes control of the Golan

LS loses edge but bids a Stay on Target

Farlander hops into the Golan

Farlander focuses and the Golan kills the assault team

Luke goes crazy.

12 people made it to our September tournament today including Jakob who drove all the way in from North Dakota! We did 4 rounds of swiss with no cut. Prizes were Xizor promos, scum tokens and the smugglers and spies staple: Lady Luck.

1st (Joe)

Affiliation: Rebel

Planning the Rescue x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Feigning Captivity x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Watchers in the Wasteland x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

2nd (me)

Affiliation: Rebel

Explosives Artist x2

Rogue Squadron Assault x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Trial x2

Secret at Shantipole x2

Affiliation: Sith

Hunters of the Jedi x2

Fearsome and Foul x1

Heartless Tactics x2

Tatooine Crash x2

Slave Trade x2

Jabba’s Orders x1

3rd (Travis)

Affiliation: Rebel

Planning the Attack x2

Commando Raid x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Secret of Yavin IV x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Watchers in the Wasteland x1

Affiliation: Sith

Black Squadron Formation x2

Dark Defenders x2

Guarding the Wing x2

Defending the Trench x2

Empire’s Elite x2

4th (Ethan)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Trial x2

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Survivors x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Enforced Loyalty x1

Entrenched Defenses x1

Protect the Generator x1

Last Grand Admiral x1

Random thoughts on my decks:

Dark Lair with all the creatures from Hunters from the Jedi is a lot of card draw.

Selling people crap with Wolverine is also a lot of card of draw and a good way to control their draws.

When doing both of these things be careful not to deck yourself…

Sometimes you find Sabine a rogue squadron xwing, Hobbie and the custom paint job all by the 2nd turn. Those games you win.

Othertimes you draw 3 stay on targets 2 pilot resources and a well equipped when you need units.

I Have You Now can be a blow out.

Play of the Day

And the play of the day goes to Keith! Again!

Sowers of Dissension and a first turn Lobot lead to a very quick win for LS when paired against a DS hybrid deck.

9 people made it today for our 3rd annual Star Wars LCG Highlander tournament! It was a fierce field but the day was won by Shad MacLeod. So evidently everyone is our meta is in love with Hunter for Hire and Sabine. And who’s not in love with Sabine. Sabine’s a punk!

1st (Shad)

Affiliation: Rebel

Explosives Artist

Strike Team Assemble

Forward Reconnaissance

Along the Gamor Run

Asteroid Sanctuary

No Match for a Good Blaster

The Last Warrior

The Gardner’s Secret

Renegade Squadron Mobilization

To Arms!

Affiliation: Scum

Masterful Manipulation

Heartless Tactics

Hunter for Hire

I Don’t Like You Either

Emperor’s Web

Power of the Dark Side

Emperor’s Promise

Agent of the Emperor

Fall of the Jedi

Dark Counsel

2nd (me)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Last Warrior

Explosives Artist

Mission to Talay

Strike Team Assemble

Planning the Attack

May the Force Be With You

Hero’s Journey

Ties of Blood

Secret of Yavin IV

The Survivors

Affilation: Sith

Emperor’s Web

Brothers of the Sith

Fearsome and Foul

Hunters of the Jedi

Heartless Tactics

Tatooine Crash

Slave Trade

Hunter for Hire

Hutt’s Menagerie

Out of the Mists

3rd (Keith)

Affiliation: Rebel

Explosives Artist

Defense of Yavin IV

Rogue Squadron Assault

Draw Their Fire

Hero’s of the Rebellion

Running the Trench

The Alliance’s Elite

Turning the Tide

Blue Squadron Support

Call to Arms

Affiliation: Scum

Heartless Tactics

Hutt’s Menagerie

Out of the Mists

The Hunters

No Disintegrations

Hive of Scum and Villainy

The Bespin Exchange

The Findsman’s Intuition

Hunter for Hire

The Scavengers

4th (Dan)

Affiliation: Jedi

Explosives Artist

Last Warrior

A New Beginning

Journey to Dagobah

May the Force Be With You

Hero’s Journey

Hero’s Trial

Forgotten Masters

Spark of Rebellion

Watchers in the Wasteland

Affiliation: Scum

Masterful Manipulation

Spice Trade

Hunter for Hire

I Don’t Like You Either

The Lady’s Lesson

Hutt’s Menagerie

Heartless Tactics

No Disintegrations

The Hunters

Jabba’s Reach

Random thoughts on my decks:

Top decking a Trust Your Feelings for Luke with Zeb’s slicer that then makes the Well Equipped in your hand playable is a thing of beauty.

Qu Rahn likes wearing Sabine’s Mandolorian Armor

For DS I just really like telling my opponent that I have worms.

Play of the Day goes to…. Ethan!

A well timed heat of battle by Ethan was able to take BtS Boba off the board opening things up just enough for LS to run in and Redeem the Fallen Boba Fett! Nothing like a double striking LS Boba Fett to close things up in a hurry!

With holidays approaching and the snow storm that came over the weekend we only had 3 people show up for the NYC alt art tournament. We did a round robin and it came close to a 3 way tie but I eeked out a 3rd victory to take it all.

1st (me)

Affiliation: Jedi

A New Beginning x2

Forgotten Heroes x2

In You Must Go x2

Jedi Training x2

Out of Their Element x2

Affiliation: Scum

Hunter in the Night x2

Pattern Analysis x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Last Grand Admiral x2

Repair and Refurbish x1

Sabotage in the Snow x1

Random Thoughts:

Out of Their Element is not so great against mono decks.

Holding the force with 2 ancient monuments and jedi training is funny. Too bad the deck lacks tactics.

Blowing up 3 objectives in one turn with Kallus is an awesome feeling

Thanks for the update, Micky Mac! . Looking forward to throwing my rusty talents at you again this summer when I return.

The Peter Jacobson tournaments are the best attended ones!

I suppose we could do another memorial tournament...

14 people showed up for the FFG regional including current World Champion Brad Emon! If Brad’s deck lists look a little strange there’s a reason for it: the night before hand Brad was messaging me saying he was going to make the trip to Minnesota but didn’t know what to play. I told him not to worry “I’ll bring you a sampler”. He was intrigued. I built 4 decks for each side and told Brad not to worry “I’d play any of the decks at the tournament. Some of them even beat Josh!” But if he was concerned I’d present the buffet of decks to him and let him pick which decks for me to play first, then I could choose which decks he’d be playing. He accepted. It was awesome

1st (Shad)

Affiliation: Rebel

Solidarity of Spirit x2

Command and Control x2

Defense of Yavin IV x2

Capital Cover x2

Against All Odds x2

Affiliation: Scum

Hunter for Hire x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Emperor’s Web x1

Agent of the Emperor x1

Fearsome and Foul x1

Hunters of the Jedi x1

2nd (Travis)

Affiliation: Rebel

Planning the Attack x2

Commando Raid x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Secret of Yavin IV x2

Heroes and Legends x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

3rd (Brad Emon WC)

Affiliation: Rebel

Mission to Talay x2

Heroes and Legends x2

Heroes Journey x2

Secret of Yavin IV x2

Master’s Domain x2

Affiliation: Navy

Pattern Analysis x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Threat from the Depths x2

Hunters of the Jedi x2

Fearsome and Foul x1

Killing Cold x1

4th (Joe)

Affliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Forgotten Heroes x2

Forgotten Masters x2

Flight of the Crow x2

Hero’s Journey x1

Heroes and Legends x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

Shad smashed faced face with his All Out Capital Ships list all day and had some hard fought games in the cut vs Travis’ and Joe’s Force Storm list. In the end a huge fleet of ships with resupply depot will get something past an Emperor. His Force Hunters list was also disgusting and rained death on his opponents with double Power of the Dark Side spawning Terentateks with Hunters of the Jedi when Yoda left play. I was skeptical of his inclusion of a x1 Mara over Killing Cold. Twist and Ice Trompers win games! But turn 1 Mara gets the job done too and she showed up for him turn 1 frequently. A well deserved win

I narrowly missed the cut. Brad actually wound up bringing a LS deck that was bouncing around his head so I played it and he decided to put me on my Iggy Apocalypse deck. The other DS decks looked too “legit”. So I ran:

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Ties of Blood x2

Renegade Reinforcements x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Gardener’s Secret x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Affiliation: Navy

Might of the Empire x2

Reinforcements!

Hunter for Hire x2

Droid’s Task x2

Droid Droid Revolution x2

The LS deck was hilarious. It did exactly what Brad built it to do in 3 of the 4 games and that was to pressure DS to attack and when they do flash in Momaw with Last Minute Reinforcements and trigger Momaw to bring in Echo Caverns. The ability to get Echo Caverns and a defender with a black tactics as a combat trick lead to a blow out in 2 of those 3 games. Directed Fire with Yoda was also not bad.

I thought the DS deck was the weakest of the ones I had built, but it wound up being deceptively powerful. Double Hunter for Hire and 6 echoes of the force did a lot of work. Sometimes LS didn’t want to commit anybody and I wound flop multiple Derpa Droids from the Iggy Prime set and clear the board. Striking with Reserve Troopers and using echoes of the force to uncommit them, or Abandoned Hideout to move their commit card over to the next Reserve Trooper was also hilarious.

The craziest play though was against a Jedi deck that had me dead to rights after a May Ally is the Force wiping my board. I had been doing a good job of keeping his board clear and peppering up his objectives but then I lost everything and my one Reserve Trooper was triple focused. My turn I play the Chimaera and have to try to defend. He rebuilds and has a Yoda, Crow and 2 Lost Masters and is threatening game if he wins edge. Yoda attacks, I block and win edge but Yoda gets a shield and I have to focus the Crow to not lose that turn. Chimaera falls to Yoda’s 5 guns. He attacks with a Lost Master to take an objective and the turn goes back to me. I flop into Reinforcements! Get the Chimaera back from discard, it’s commited, but am able to move it’s force commit card off to a Lanik Lackey I play with abandoned hideout. Chimaera takes one objective, Lackey takes a 2nd and Tractor Beam from Chimaera to Crow lets Chimaera strike for 3 bombs to take the 3rd. Best Reinforcements! trigger ever!

All in all the day was a blast. It was a ton of fun hanging out with everybody and I look forward to seeing everyone again.

4 people showed up for our Q1 kit today and things ended in a 3 way tie!

1st? (me)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

May the Force be with You x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Knowledge and Defense x2

Daughter of Tanaab x1

Following Fate x1

Affiliation: Scum

Hunters Flight x2

All Out Brawl x2

Black Squadron Formation x2

Dark Defenders x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

1st ? (Ethan)

Affiliation: Jedi

Spark of Rebellion x2

Mysteries of the Rim x1

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Last Warrior x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

Against All Odds x1

Affiliation: Navy

Might of the Empire x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Tarkin Doctrine x1

Imperial Blockade x1

Moon Blockade x1

The Last Grand Admiral x1

1st ? (Travis)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Last Warrior x2

No Match for a Good Blaster x2

Hero’s Journey x2

May the Force be with You x2

Affiliation: Sith

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Encounter at Stygeon Prime x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Agent of the Emperor x2

Random Thoughts on My Decks

I’d been wanting to do something with Knowledge and Defense for awhile and it seemed natural to try it in a Spark deck. My other pet project with Spark involved a bajillion Believers in the Old Ways but I like this version because of all the tactics it can generate.

In one game I got to bid a BtS Obi Wan and then bring him out post strikes to focus down DS board.

In another game I played back to back Confronting the Terror and it was everything I had hoped it would be. Kanan took on a Terentatek and with the writing all on the wall DS decided to assign the damage to his objectives and kill himself.

In another game I tried to wanted to Confront the Terror again but that frickin’ Inquisitor with his lightsaber…

DS was the deck I kept waffling back and forth on if I had the right build. Over a fair amount of mulled wine Josh Johnson and I brainstormed a deck with the 4 sith seeds of decay and figured since it had sith pilots why not throw in 4 stay on targets and try to get some Boba action going as well. Then we threw in Zekka for hard hitting brawling fighters and the Zekka deadly sight combo. The morning of I was debating cutting Zekka for either Xizor, Marek Steele, Malakili, Black Squadron Assault or even Virago. It probably should have been Xizor. In the end the deck remained the same and it was awesome.

In 2 out of the 3 games I had a turn 1 Backstabber Armed to the Teeth.

I also set off two Zekka bombs as we entered conflict with Deadly Sight. Falcon went down in flames. Boba Fett returned safely to my hand with help of Slave 1. Next turn I think I hard cast Black Squadron and had a Stay on Target ready for whatever was redeployed.

Sometimes Seeds on DS is terrible. Nothing is committed turn 1 and after a Zekka bomb nothing is committed either. Other times Seeds of Decay is backbreaking.

Recurring Black Squadron cards for edge with Black Squadron Formation is fun. Using it to bring back a Come With Me to go tutor up Backstabber is also great. Just make sure you have the 4 resources to do that trick. It does not work with 3 as I found out. Have to pay for Come With Me too.

Dark Temples and pilot resources can quickly create a huge resource base. Use Dark Temple triggers to free up for Backstabber or Deadly Sight resources to push your resource advantage even further.

Boba and Mauler Mithel on foot like closing games.

We had 6 people show up for our March casual tournament. We did 3 rounds or swiss in the new and exciting Twist of Fate format. Joe took it home with 15 points dominating the scene with his sith deck once again.

1st (Joe)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Last Warrior x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Stand Together x2

Haunting the Empire x2

Explosives Artist x2

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Power of the Dark Side x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

2nd (Ethan)

Affiliation: Rebel

Haunting the Empire x1

Spark of Rebellion x2

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Last Warrior x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Gardner’s Secret x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Might of the Empire x2

Entrenched Defenses x1

Endor Entrapment x1

Imperial Blockade x1

Last Grand Admiral x1

Joe and I had an epic showdown in the 3rd round. In the first game I went up against his Sith deck and did an ok job pecking away at his objectives. Ezra’s cat managed to save him from getting hit by telekinetic strike and Ezra himself ripped Joe’s force storm out of hand. Later Joe played core Palpatine and did an all out attack against my Gamor Run. Ahsoka was unable to hold the line. I lost the defensive edge battle 9-10. He blew up the objective, got his force storm back and proceeded to loop it the rest of the game.

In the 2nd game against Joe we got in a situation where my deck wanted to trade punches with his. He took 2 of my objectives and put a 3rd to 4 damage. I counter attacked, blowing up two of his, taking control of the Ghost and Hera with my mission Palpatine reaction, and putting Lure of the Dark to 4 damage. On his turn he came in for the coup de grace with Sabine, Ezra and and Children of the Force. I triggered the Emperor’s Promise to blow up the Lure of the Dark side to take control of both Sabine and Ezra. used Sabine’s ability to give DS Ezra edge 1 and the edge battle began. His only unit left on the board—under his control!—was a twi’lek child. But it won edge and won him the game. DS Specters are terrible!

My decks (4th place)

Affiliation: Jedi

Spark of Rebellion x2

A New Beginning x1

Stand Together x1

Haunting the Empire x1

Explosives Artist x1

Mission to Talay x1

Last Warrior x1

House Edge x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Affiliation: Sith

There is No Conflict x2

Emperor’s Promise x2

Might of the Empire x2

Deploy the Fleet x2

Pattern Analysis x1

Sabotage in the Snow x1

Random thoughts on my decks:

they weren’t good

…

but some cards showed promise.

The Ezra set it better than I gave it credit for. In one game I had Stand Together and Gamor out and played first turn Kanan into Ezra. Ezra’s reaction is also better than I thought it would be.

I got the Gamblo Stolen stormtrooper helmet combo on the board once. It was ok. nice way to make them bleed cards before an edge battle without putting yourself down in the count.

Spray painted, Ahsoka’s lightsaber wielding, rebel Kyle Katarn is a pipe dream. And glorious when it happens.

For DS: Stealing units is a lot of fun. They’re almost always focused when you take control of them though so they rarely can be used as defenders right away. This is terrible

Non elite Kallus is a sad sad man.

If I win worlds again I will make a rebel Agent Kallus. Maybe he’ll be called Fulcrum, and he’ll be elite. He’ll also have the same reaction as Navy Kallus because that sounds hilarious.

We had the store championship at the FFG Event Center today. A number of regulars couldn’t make it today, but the 6 who did proved fierce competition. We did 3 rounds of swiss followed by a cut to top 4. Ethan went undefeated for the day with his LS list scoring many bullseyes. Pilot Boba was on fire for me in all my other matches, but against Ethan’s Core Han the bounty hunter was no where to be seen. I tried to push the finals to a second game and did a very awkard attack to take Along the Gamor Run off the board basically hoping Ethan wouldn’t draw into the bombs he needed. On his turn he moved a damage to my defender with Questionable Contacts, played Dash and then attacked with Luke’s Skyhopper Bullseye’ing my one defender. Took and objective and then Dash came in to one shot the other objective since I couldn’t pitch my 5 card hand. Ouch!!

1st (Ethan)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Questionable Contacts x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

Against all Odds x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Running the Canyon x2

Secret of Yavin IV x1

Deep Commitment x1

Affiliation: Navy

Technological Terror x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Entrenched Defenses x1

Moon Blockade x1

2nd (me)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Along the Gamor Run x1

May the Force Be With You x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Daughter of Tanaab x2

Self Preservation x2

Affiliation: Scum

Hunter’s Flight x2

Nar Shadaa Drift x2

Empire’s Elite x2

Pattern Analysis x2

Repair and Refurbish x1

Cloud Cover x1

3rd (Joe)

Affiliation: Jedi

May the Force Be With You x2

Hero’s Trial x2

Hero’s Beginning x2

Survivors x2

Mysteries of the Rim x1

Flight of the Crow x1

Affiliation: Sith

Power of the Dark Side x2

Emperor’s Web x2

Dark Lord of the Sith x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Scouring the Empire x2

4th (Shad)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Wookie Life Debt x2

Tiny Robotic Sociopath x2

Questionable Contacts x1

House Edge x1

Mission Briefing x2

Haunting the Empire x2

Explosives Expert x1

Reconnaissance Mission x1

Affiliation: Sith

Merciless Plans x1

Agent of the Emperor x1

Reawakening x1

Maw of the Madness x1

The Questioning x1

Plan of the Prophetess x1

Dark Counsel x1

Encounter at Stygeon Prime x1

Dark Lord of the Sith x1

Scouring the Empire x1

Random Thoughts on My Decks

Falcon Jedi with Spark is a strong enough archetype that you can put 6 Gotals in it and the deck is fine.

If you manage the keep the force just once with Gamor, Yoda, Make Their Own Luck, all those Gotals gain access to their 2 black bombs and things can really swing.

Unwavering Resolves continues to be a super niche card. I was hoping I’d spark into something on DS first turn and then use Unwavering Resolve to keep the force and then use my 3 remaining resources to play Yoda or something. Didn’t line up for me. Tyler won a game with Unwavering Resolve on Kanan though!

Planning and Preparation turn 1 to cast a Bamboozle out of nowhere is pretty sweet!

Cathars shielding the Falcon is fun

The objective text on Self Preservation is better than the objective text on Daughter of Tanaab. For this deck at any rate.

DS pilot decks live and die by how quickly they can find Boba Fett

Playing Night Beast on foot is funny and a typical turn 1 play

Once you find Boba Fett 5 Stay on Targets will make sure he’s a very active fellow

Obsidian Leader with Black Market Exchange is a Go-Getter!

Sometimes you have to play T-7 Ion Disruptors on Academy Engineers and then sell a swoop to have them one shot an objective

Non Elite Kallus is still sad

The Play of the Day goes to….. Tyler!!

Facing the oppression of the Sith Tyler attacks, plays Jedi Mind Trick on Palpatine, brings it back with Binds All Things, plays it again on Sariss, locking out all of Joe’s tactics and then goes crazy with Soresu Trained, Lightsaber Wielding, double Trusting Her Feelings Sarenda!!

Thanks for everyone for coming out

6 people showed up today for the 2nd annual Peter Jacobson welcome home tournament. We did 3 rounds of swiss after which Ethan was the undisputed champion with 18 points. Me and two other people were tied on 3 points for 2nd place, but their strength of schedule was much stronger than mine and since they had played the exact same people they were also tied on the strength of schedule strength of schedule tie breaker!! So a true tie!

1st (Ethan)

Affiliation: Smugglers

Across the Anoat Sector x2

Bucket of Bolts x2

Against All Odds x2

Beyond the Rim x1

Fortune and Fate x1

Raise the Stakes x1

Secret Weapons x1

Affiliation: Scum

Hunter’s Flight x2

Empire’s Elite x2

Enforced Loyalty x2

Defending the Trench x1

Cloud Cover x1

Defense Protocol x1

Guarding the Wing x1

2nd? (Brian)

Affiliation: Rebel

Mission Briefing x2

Draw Their Fire x1

Wookie Life Debt x2

Questionable Contacts x2

Asteroid Sanctuary x2

Gardener’s Secret x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Affiliation: Navy

Superior Number’s x2

Empire’s Elite x2

Phantoms of Imdaar x2

Cloud Cover x2

Hunter’s Flight x2

2nd? (Grahame)

Affiliation: Smuggler

Last Warrior x2

Haunting the Empire x2

May the Force Be With You x2

Spark of Rebellion x2

Sacrifice at Endor x2

Affiliation: Navy

Tarkin Doctrine x2

Might of the Empire x2

Endor Entrapment x2

Technological Terror x2

Enforced Loyalty x1

Entrenched Defenses x1

4th (me)

Affiliation: Rebel

Mission Briefing x2

Haunting the Empire x1

Wookie Life Debt x2

Tiny Robotic Sociopath x2

Last Warrior x1

Along the Gamor Run x1

Renegade Squadron Mobilization x1

Affiliation: Sith

Emperor’s Web x2

Plan of the Prophetess x2

Emperor’s Shadow x2

Hunters of the Jedi x2

Across the Jundland Wastes x2

Things got close in a few games, but Ethan stomped his way to victory with the smugglers and pilot Boba. One game looked over and turn one Pulsar Skate with Pilot Han on it flew bast Navy’s only blocker to blow up 2 objectives on its own. That’s a lot of damage coming from objectives!

Random Thoughts on my Decks…

Blaster Emplacements are seriously fun.

turn one double Blaster Emplacement + Echo Caverns is control for days!

Don’t use Makeshift Repairs to tutor for your second Bo Rifle when there’s only one Bo Rifle in your deck.

Using battlefield engineers to get two uses out of echo caverns is just dirty.

Chopper is annoying, but doesn’t trigger often if you don’t pair him with Gamblo etc.

Gamor is an all star. surprise surprise!

Having 3 heat of battles in one edge battle is definitely tide turning. Especially after DS peppers everything up from the blaster emplacements.

Double Gaffi Stick wielding Tuskens raiders are as fun as they ever were.

Without Gaffi Stick the edge in x2 Hunters of the Jedi and Jundland is BAAAD

Without Web on the board, Force Lightning and Deadly Sight are just too expensive early on.

Forgetting that Terentateks punch through shields is a costly mistake.

The Emperor Favors…. HIMSELF!!

Play of the Day goes to…ME

Ethan had some cool plays with his smuggler deck going crazy. Pulsar Skate taking 2 objectives turn one, and playing Over My Dead Body to cancel Gunship Shields. After things were done Peter and Ethan played a casual game and Peter had teched specifically against the vehicle match up! Novice Starship Thief blew up a sleuth scout, Ethan did a smuggler run to steal the Pirate Hideout, but Peter countered with Niles Ferrier to steal the Lady Luck and went on to win the game. Too bad it didn’t count.

In my game vs Grahame he counter attacked with an Interdictor sucking in my Captured Courier Droid. Grahame had Early Warning System so he would get the Interdictor back on his turn anyway. I blocked. Somehow won edge and triggered a Heat of Battle. Then used Echo Caverns to steal Chopper’s black gun to get the Courier Droid up to two guns and took down the Interdictor!

Thanks for everyone who came out! We’ll do another one soon and by then the next pack should be out!