LS for GenCon
Stop spamming this everywhere.....
I'll cut to the chase: Snowspeeders still won't be good enough; Sleuth Scout is too chancy; Chewbacca's pod is awful; Lando's pod cuts you out of too many options.
Here is what you should shuffle up and why:
"Falcon and Friends"
Affiliation: Jedi
Asteroid Sanctuary x2
A Hero's Journey x2
Questionable Contacts x2
Last Defense of Hoth x2
A Journey to Dagobah x2
First priority with a deck running a 5 drop Falcon: actually play the card consistently, turn after turn. This deck has 4 out of 10, 2 resource objectives, R2-D2, and a ton of 1 resource generating enhancements. Many builds online have great Falcon interactions but the decks only generate 4 resources 80% of the time on turn one; that doesn't work.
Looking at your objective effects:
1) Last Def of Hoth is fantastic, even if you only get a couple uses.
2) Most DS players hate attacking Journey to Dag. b/c you go get another one.
3) You will have 5 resources the majority of your opening hands, and always by turn 2. I can't stress this enough. Too many decks hope for turn 2-3 for 5 resources. LS doesn't have this luxury.
If you are going to cheat with Falcon, this deck gives you solid targets:
Luke
Han Solo
Cor Serra
In addition, Red 5 is solid. As much as I like Chewie and Lando, their pods don't work enough of the time. This build usually functions even if Falcon stays in the main deck.
Negatives:
1) A couple Jedi cards are dead here: Lightsaber, Twilek Loyalist (ugh).
2) Little guy draws: Only drawing your 1 or 2 drop dorks with or without Falcon.
Overall, I think this build is the best Falcon build.
If you want the Sleuth Scout route, I don't think you want Falcon at all.
We shall see.
(A side note: Obi Wan's pod would be great with Falcon, but his objective set doesn't help get Falcon into play. Yoda...I don't know why people think this is a good idea. If you want Yoda/Enhancements, Falcon is not the route you want. I also tried Falcon + Renegade Squadron + Home One...aka Big Ship but it doesn't work. The larger ships don't have the resource support they need. If LS got a version of Deploy the Fleet, like we do for Kuat Reinforcements, a capital ship style deck for LS would work; until then the deck is too unstable.)
Bonus Edge of Darkness LS Objectives NOT named Asteroid Sanctuary:
1) To Arms!
If there is a Yoda weapon deck (I'm skeptical), this will be in there. The game's first tutor card lets you dig up any weapon, not any enhancement.
2) Alderaan's Promise
I've seen a lot of people poopoo this pod. It is a great filler, since it can't run more than one copy. If there is a speeder deck, or big LS ship deck, this will fit nicely. It generates two resources and has a nice spread of ships, resource cards.
3)/4) Raise the Stakes and Across the Anoat Sector
These two go together (sandwich metaphor) and might as well be packaged as a four of. The problems arrises as to what else goes with them. Lando? Falcon? A splash of Rebel speeder? Honestly, I haven't found anything that runs smoothly. I have a feeling that this will be the deck to beat after Hoth finishes its release.
5) Opening Moves
No. Really FFG? This would be an amazing DS card pod. I don't know what the h*ll was going on here. No you don't want to fetch these mines to play defense and watch the Death Star kill the painter woman. No you don't want pistols on the LS attack. Give me star blasts or else.
Good luck in Indy.