A New Adventure is still my favorite card. I haven’t played it at all this set.

Good vid, let's get some gameplay vids up from you like Star Wars Dad. That'd be sweet!

Dryden was ok in limited(if you actually pull him). I pulled him off in draft once. In set 2 draft, there was a decent amount of capture happening. Being a legendary, good luck getting him in draft.

Curious to see what happens with some of the ships like vanguard in set 4

New Thrawn might use Morgan as a sac outlet

If you control force unit, you would rather force throw, than force lightning. You know what would fix Force Lightning - Chose Unit, it loses all of their abilities and then deal 2 damage to it. If you control force unit, pay any number of resources, to deal extra 2 damage per resource. It would be then like Daring Raid, but without option to damage base, and still require force unit to do something extra, like Force Throw.

When you said "Swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm" I felt that.

Great list! Caught in the Crossfire is one I have my eye on. There aren't a lot of two-fer removal cards yet and Hero don't have access to Overwhelming Barrage, so might be useful there. It does sort of hinge of the board state though so understandable why it isn't seeing play, even though it has decent blowout potential.

Vanguard ace works :D

Chancellor Palpatine is suck an iconic character but the legendary is just horrible

Force Lightning can kill Lurking Tie for 2 resources

Mando unit could see some more play with low cost space units with pilots on them.

Won a 12 person store showdown with this one ❤️

That new Thrawn leader probably loves these exploit mechanics.

i hope Give in to your anger becomes a good card next set. in red thrawn it could be really useful to have your opponent waste their turn trading into one of your units and then you get the bonus of double triggering a 'when defeated' ability because of thrawn leader.

Good takes. Make Blade Squadron B-Wing better! Look what they did to my boy…

The Chimaera should have had Ambush instead of Shielded. It would allow its "On Attack" ability to go off when played, and would actually give it a niche that didn't exist for the first three sets. The closest comparison would be the Arquitens, but that's in green and has a vastly different secondary effect

The action for action core design is what hampers a lot of the cards on this list. A lot of the keywords & mechanics we have seen so far were flops & underwhelming especially if they required (1) more than one piece (coordinate is great example) and (2) stickyness (if this then that cards/chain) and (3) don't have an immediate impact especially at higher costs. Because of the action-action design, the game is very tactical, curve numbers (as you explain) based and grindy - impacting on cards, mechanics and I would argue the viabilty & power of some playstyles and design space in the game. On the other hand it is also kinda functions as an inbuild control for too powerful mechanics & combos and sequences since there is always a clear window for counter-play. We will see how other mechanics play out and if the game see more dynamic types of decks/playstyles/win cons etc because of this design or if it limits it...

Gosh I wish droideka was better... how do they not have shield?? They're like one of the only things in SWU to canonically have pronounced shields and yet lack them. For fricks' sake it's in the art!

"If it's bad, then a lot of these pilots might never be able to take off" - Slick pun

Something I noticed was that each pilot leader seems to have their personal ship as an uncommon in their color that synergies with them and comes out the turn before they deploy. Asajj (6) and the Banshee (5), Wedge (5) and Red Leader (4), and Lando (7) and Gold Leader (6). We then look at Blue Leader and see that it is a unique uncommon command heroism ship that costs 3 or 5, this means there is a non-zero percent chance that Antoc Merrick is the other Command Heroism leader this set with a deploy of 4 or 6.

I think Lando is a stronger shield leader than Luke. Lando's ability works with ambush. Lando can give the shield wherever he wants. Lando doesn't have to take an extra action, likely losing initative.

Great video, but also - go burp already 😅

Great analysis as always woo. Im excited to try young ani in a bunch of decks like quinlan and mando.

Blue leader is going to be THE card from the set

Maybe a bit to combo reliant. But invisible hand in dooku yellow. Combined with TDR. Flood the board with droid. Probably a problem not having to many good ones. With a bib you can also play TDR on turn 2. And again on turn 3. On turn 2 only waylay or exhaust can answer it but you already good value out of it. Will try for sure

I'm the Palpatine ECL from Lincoln NE PQ! Let me know if you want my list, I just got 2nd in a store showdown today as well!

What are youre thoughts on Huyang in Qira?

Thanks for highlighting DJ taking 0 effort from Han players. It's such a yawn knowing it's coming. Luckily I play aggro and usually don't care about dj haha

Interesting video! When can we see the first of your vids on the spoilers for set 4?

Please use the whole screen if you can. On mobile the text is incredibly tiny.

Indirect damage - we don’t know yet how it will work. Personally I think it will damage the Phantom, but let’s wait and see.

Correct me if I misunderstood - but there is no way it is legal to move cards after targets are declared. Your talk on number 9 Scanning officer lined up the order of play that the resource reshuffle happened after the card is played. Which suggests the effect is on the stack. If the reshuffle happens post declared targets, that imo, is dirty and should not be legal. If the reshuffle happens prior to targets being declared, all the opponent has done is highlight which cards you should potentially target. I do not see this action being strategic or legal depending on what the order of play is.

What are you uaing for the deck editor and preview images you have? The deck editor on the main website kinda sucka

Could you describe the cards your talking about? New player and I don't look at most vidoes, I listen.

Great video. What do you think they should do with Han/DJ? Should we just wait to see if we get cards to address it in set 4?

Great video as usual! Surprised that Fett’s Firespray getting to come in ready (and specifically how it interacts with ambush, in a way that Millennium Falcon doesn’t get to do) didn’t get a mention. Sure it dies to removal, but it’s a massive problem if it’s not answered.

@53:58 solid prediction about Han not being very popular, but unfortunately turning out to be untrue. ECL it is!

I know this DeckTech is 5 months old… But do you plan to update the list with units from set 3 like Plo Koon or Enfys Nest?

Good stuff! Yeah, I have played a lot of FFG games, from Netrunner, to Star Wars LCG, to Thrones to Keyforge. They design really good games in terms of core mechanics. After that, I think you can argue the record is a bit more patchy and FFG tends to be pretty conservative in addressing bad metas and OP cards. I would like to see more aggressively designed cards (Set 2 & 3 had a low impact overall) and banning from FFG in SWU. It is difficult to balance TCGs and I would rather see more dynamic design but also mistakes admitted early than continue with potentially broken cards and stale metas / archetypes. ECL is a good example - but inherently the resource manipulation leaders from Set 1 are also a potential problem (without limiting text) going forward and now DJ; but also a card like Sabine in terms of design space going forward. It is hard to see how you going to play a better aggro leader than Sabine - unless they print a more OP aggro leader for hero. A good aggro villain leader - but that can beat/ match Sabine on ECL, deployment and guaranteed ping? Don't get me wrong, I luv the game and it is my main game. I am also not calling for all sorts of bans, but my confidence in the design team is still pretty much optimistic but still reserved. Set 1 was good, but that was pretty easy all things considered...I appreciate a video like this and would like to see more videos talking about overall game design / design space, including not being afraid to make comparisons to competitors, providing criticism (ideally constructive), and in the spirit of making the game better by learning as they develop and by looking at what others are doing right/wrong.

I really appreciate content that isn't just another "X decklist explained" or "PQ results are in"

it makes no sense to me that after I play scanning officer, the opponent can reorganize his resources. I mean, resources are a "hidden" area of the game, but if my opponent can memorize the order that I put my resources down and make use of that info, than its a skill. It makes no sense that, after I reveal a hidden information (the officer thats in my hand), the opponent may simply deny me all information that I gathered earlier and screw me. Also, I think the only deck that runs scanning officer nowadays is Emperor palps, as side deck, as there are no better official in stats (sadly), and royal guards care for that trait. Also, as a Palpatine player, i agree that his on deploy ability is simply too good. So good that even the mere threat of deploy may prevent the opponent playing a game ender, such as devastator, avenger or krayt dragon. However, I think they balanced it really well with the condition for the ability (u can only steal damaged units) and the late deploy (the only leader with 8 resources deploy)

Brain Invaders would like to have a word with you about always having your leader 🧠w

It seems to me it breaks the principle of “doing as much as you can” to resolve an action by choosing the damage to apply to your Lurking TIE if you have multiple units when it directly states Lurking TIE can’t be damaged in that way. It should work both ways being that it prevents damage and therefore you shouldn’t be able to choose to apply damage to one of your units that can’t be damaged. You would have to choose a unit that can be damaged if you have the choice.

Sabbine wouldnt be as good as she is if yellow wasnt broken top 5 decks are yellow tempo and the only thing that counters tempo in any game, is fast aggro, which sabbine is the only fast aggro card in the game.

The only thing I feel is missing is Tech, being able to give any card in the game smuggle is imo bending the rules. Then the fact that he also has smuggle et.c. just makes him better, but even without it would still be the same he break rules, and if we ever get more cards like DJ that has a very high smugglecost with a low play cost, he just get better and better and to some extent limits them from making more cards like that.

Im just here to see if force throw made it on the list.

We actually don't know yet if lurking tie can avoid unpreventable damage, we're still waiting for an update by FFG

Merciless Contest is a bad card to print, for a unit based game. The fact that it works even when the player has no units out. 3 cost removal is broken in this game. Plus its only villainy, making the villain hard control annoying and feels against the intent of the games.

Lurking tie is literally not broken, any ship with 2-power aces it when it drops, every time I drop one it gets dropped from ambush