So I just realized, as I finally bought Edge of Darkness, TWO SETS ARE NEEDED?!?!

Yes, we've known that since the day it was announced. It was to allow the maximum variety per box. Otherwise we would have received less new sets.

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp?eidn=3939

Expand your Star Wars:The Card Game universe!

• 1 copy each of 22 unique objective sets
• 11 light side objective sets
• 11 dark side objective sets
• 132 total cards

Competitive players can have a complete playset with two copies of Edge of Darkness.

Unfortunately, yes. They went with putting more unique Objectives in instead of a playset of all included. From the product page:

Its twenty-two new objective sets add 132 total cards that allow players to battle for the fate of the galaxy as either of two new affiliations, the dark side’s Scum and Villainy or the light side’s Smugglers and Spies.

yeah, its better then having a less options for scum/smug

Couldn't disagree more. lol

For LCGs, everything that is released should include whatever is needed to have a playset of each card. The reprinted versions of the early AGoT deluxe expansions include playsets of everything. One would think that FFG would start SW off by including playsets in deluxe expansions. [insert comments about printing costs, competitive vs. casual play, etc.]

This is an LCG. Releases should include playsets.

indeed. It does in Netrunner.

Being how decks are created, I'd rather have more options for deck building, so I like how they do it. Force packs come with everything and deluxe don't (except the mutliplayer set you only need one of).

It looks like Balance of the Force is a playset. EoD was probably done this way to bring Scum up to speed with a larger variety of Objectives.

EoD is basically the core set for Scum and Smugglers, thus the difference.

BotF all the sets are limit of one per deck so you only need one short of wanting them in multiple decks.

I made a simple spreadsheet to illustrate the obvious fact that EoD gives you the same value as the Force Packs (which give you playsets of OSs), even if you have to buy 2 copies of the former and 1 of the latter.

In summation: Force Packs charge $1.50 per Objective Set, whereas the Edge of Darkness charge $1.46 per OS. Please note that I excluded multiple copies of Limit 1 OSs. Therefore this is "true" value.

I'm not familiar with all of the terminology, why is it that 2 sets are needed? If there are 11 objective sets of each side, then it sounds like these could provide a perfectly (although maybe limited) legal deck in itself, not counting the cards you will already have thanks to the core set and other force packs. Thanks.

Because you can have two copies of most objective sets in a deck. So if you want to be able to build a deck with multiple copies of sets like the Falcons you need two copies of EoD.

Right, you don't need to copies to build a legal deck, you need two copies to build a competitive deck.

For LCGs, everything that is released should include whatever is needed to have a playset of each card. The reprinted versions of the early AGoT deluxe expansions include playsets of everything. One would think that FFG would start SW off by including playsets in deluxe expansions. [insert comments about printing costs, competitive vs. casual play, etc.]

This is an LCG. Releases should include playsets.

Hmmm... depends on what you define as playsets. I dont know a FFG LCG that does not require 2 core box's to start playing competitively. In ANR 90% of the sweet cards are 2 of a kind and i still dont have 3 San San grids, should i have to buy 3 core sets to get 3 of a card?

CoC did have a whole play set that was nice, ANR due to the classic deck building model had all the factions in the core box too . Maybe they could have split EoD into two box's full playset LS full playset DS but thats a waste.