BLAST THE META with Aggression Han! | Star Wars Unlimited Deck Profile

If Command decks have got you down, stack the odds in your favor with this Aggression Han Solo deck!
Push out fast damage and turn the game around on Turn 4 using Han's extra resources and some incredibly powerful 6-7 cost plays! Spark of Rebellion and K-2S0 add extra hand pressure to keep those slower Command decks off of their best cards as the game goes later, giving you the time you need to close the game!
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[@Schlagathor78]

I am really enjoying all colors of Han. Blue did really well for me at a 1k. The future looks great for this once underrated leader.

[@Airdaman1]

Was litterly talking about this deck 2 hours ago playing at an event...love the black one!

[@nickfanzo]

Yeah black one is a great x wing

[@owlxoggest6247]

I love me some Red Right Han. This one isn't as low to the ground or have the swarm capability of what I like to play, but this looks pretty neat

[@kostaskrimitzas5341]

Good job mate, interesting list in the current meta! What do you think about smeak attack and star wing scout?

[@jackmaniacki]

'No expensive cards', has 3x falcons, 3 k2s, 3 maces and 2 black ones

[@Katar1995]

These are budget rares and legendaries - look at Luke, Vader, bobba price etc.

[@jackmaniacki]

@@Katar1995 Cheap relative to vader is not the same as "budget". 90 dollars for 3 cards lol.

[@doomfunk]

In a week falcons are gonna be up there. They were 35$ last night and with no more real set one product released until later in the year and Han becoming more and more popular Falcon is gonna be 60$ before set 2. Bet

[@jackmaniacki]

@@doomfunk exactly. its already not cheap

[@MaindeckGames]

It's definitely relative, but I apologize if my wording was misleading!

[@kingofmoose3219]

I made a similar deck last week, I'm not sold on Tarkintown. I only got to play two out of three rounds, and having 25 health instead of 30 is literally why I lost.

[@MaindeckGames]

If you have an extremely aggressively slanted metagame, I could see going to a 30 health base, but I typically find Chewie/Mace/Bombing Run and playing well to which side of any game you are (i.e. knowing if you are playing the beatdown or the control player in a given game) handles a lot of aggressive decks well. In my experience, Tarkintown saves me more than 5 health a lot of the time by letting me finish off a unit that was otherwise going to attack me twice or more that game.

[@TheTMNTurtle]

Hey there! The Lando idea didn’t work out but was curious if resourcing Super Laser Technician would be effective? Out of aspect wouldn’t matter as it’s only Han fodder but… The when defeated would trigger and re-resource Super Laser Technician, right?

[@MaindeckGames]

It would not! Resources have no abilities when in resource unless the card specifically says it does (Smuggle cards in previewed from Set 2, for example). When it's defeated, wasn't in play as a unit, so none of its unit abilities will work (including On Defeat).

[@tucklerdesign1551]

Hey I am curious, what would you consider to be a good opening hand for this deck, depending on opponent? is dropping a 3 cost on turn one usually recommended?

[@MaindeckGames]

Great question - I can't think of many scenarios where I would want to drop a 3 drop on T1, but an early Falcon against the right deck is probably the best bet. The main issue is that you are super vulnerable to the opponent just removing it right away, costing you ultimately 2 cards for just a bit of damage on their base. I often do not activate Han until T4 unless it's to drop a T3 Chewie against very fast/wide aggro decks. Using Han too much/too early will simply put you in topdeck mode, and that's where we want the opponent to be, not us! A good opener to me is usually something like: 2-drop, 3-drop, 4-drop, 6-7 drop. Against midrange decks, you'd love to see Spark of Rebellion, Falcon, K-2SO, and Forced Surrender to make it easy to dump their hand, or a more aggressive start like Sabine/A-wing, Red 3, K-2SO, and Mace would push a ton of damage fast as well. The main thing to watch for is the right cards to be able to keep playing to the board for the first three turns, and if possible, have your big T4 play in hand and ready or you'll just be hoping to draw it before then.

[@Beattza]

What do you think of star wing scout? I’ve been working on a very similar deck with black one and star wing scout

[@MaindeckGames]

I'm not a huge fan of Star Wing Scout, especially because your turns using Han are usually ones where you lose the initiative. SWS is just quite fragile and there are several leaders that can even just take it out on their own. But I think if you were super dedicated to Space aggro, it might have more of a home!

[@Ines458]

Against midrange deck what should You use from sideboard? I thought about change of heart but have no idea what to take from maindeck..

[@MaindeckGames]

Going up against more midrange decks, your focus is usually on discarding their hand to run them out of steam. That tends to be a pretty solid matchup already, but I don't mind the idea of bringing in Change of Heart or Waylay because those are solid tempo plays that let you close the game if you've been able to play as the aggressor and get some damage in. Red 3 is actually a card you can pull out for those because against Midrange it usually just gets answered right away and doesn't have as much impact on the game, and you'll have plenty of 3 drops to play in most games anyway.

[@zeldahatguy8607]

Sabine says other friendly units. She doesn't count herself right? So you need 2 other units to make her unable to be attacked?

[@MaindeckGames]

Correct, two others with 3 aspects among them (so in this deck, any red and yellow will suffice as the only single-aspect unit is Greedo)

[@BadSWUArt]

Just curious, why skip the For a Cause that's such a core part of the Heroism red rare package in other decks? While I grant you're not *totally* optimized for it, it seems like it would still have a lot of value since you're still playing very few non-Heroism cards and it has synergy with Ezra, Han Leader's on-attack ability, and (especially) Forced Surrender

[@MaindeckGames]

Sure, that's a great question and I'm happy to give my thoughts, but I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to think about it. For me - I don't love it in here because we aren't full aggro - the damage isn't super important to close the game when we are playing so much more top end than the aggro decks that typically run it. To me, of that list of synergies, Ezra is the most potentially impactful combo, but still requires that you find a card worth playing after spending 3 on that turn on For a Cause (or set something up really long term that the opponent can respond to), and that Ezra has attacks he can complete. Ezra tends to leave the board pretty quickly! Getting to choose what you resource with Han is neat, but until we have Smuggle in the game, I don't see it as a major issue as you run enough copies of everything/similar effects that you will very rarely lose anything critical to the game from it. And actually I don't see it as super useful with Forced Surrender - you will very rarely be able to do both For a Cause and Forced in the same turn when the discard is useful, and even when you do, you likely won't have the resources to use those cards right away so the impact won't be much different than just waiting to draw those two at end of turn. That said, I think it's a reasonable option over surprise strike if you'd rather be able to push the last damage through a late game sentinel hold that surprise strike might not be able to get through. But you lose that ability to punch up with strike, especially with Han rare. I think a lot of people build red highly focused on aggression, even though it has some of the best midrange value cards in the game in K2SO and Forced Surrender, and I just feel like in more of the matchups I'm likely to see, I'm happier with flexible cards for dealing with boards over raw damage output and (what I consider based on the rest of the deck) marginal card quality control. Sideboard perhaps for closing the game against 25 health control decks? That might be a reasonable place for it!

[@BadSWUArt]

@@MaindeckGames Truly appreciate the detailed reply. I wasn't expecting you to take the time to go into it so thoroughly, but it's awesome that you did. Thank you

[@UNR3ALDIVINIX]

How are you deploying Han on turn 4? Using his ability puts you up to 5 resources, still one short of deploying and using his unit ability. Am I missing something? I really don't see how you get 7 resources on turn 4 like you mention several times.

[@doomfunk]

Han deploys at 6. Turn 1 you have 2 resources. Turn 4 you have 5, activate Han giving you 6.

[@bgeezy1906]

Then attack with han giving you a 7th

[@doomfunk]

And that's how you get a turn 4 mace window cleaner

[@UNR3ALDIVINIX]

​@@doomfunkduh, yep. For some reason I was thinking turn 4, 4 resources. My bad

[@Ky-jr9rk]

How do you ready Han the turn you are deploying him? Does he not come into the arena exhausted?

[@esckarfeis]

What card could replace Millenium Falcon?

[@MaindeckGames]

Try Fleet Lieutenant, who can give you more of that surprise aggressive push. Most units are rebels, and losing Falcon is actually one less non-rebel to worry about!

[@madquest8]

Strafing Gunship is good.

[@doomfunk]

A deck with Mace, K2 and blackone really screams Sneak Attack to me

[@MaindeckGames]

I've just never felt it was necessary - Han isn't far from having Sneak Attack built in to your leader already, except you don't have to lose the unit at end of turn! But you could certainly try it as well!