"Come on, Mom! Everybody's Doing it!" 1.0

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Ok, Qui-Gon Jinn - Ataru Master has always been good. Effectively turning every one of those hero upgrades with shields that used to annoy you into an additional consistent damage side.

His struggle has been existing in a meta that is way WAY too fast and aggressive, where shields barely mattered, and only being able to partner with Rey - Force Prodigy. While she is good, and QG/Rey is still a great deck, Kanan is better in almost every appreciable way. While you don't get to chain actions together ad nauseum, you do get really, really effective action cheating, especially if he is showing a focus side when you roll out. And never underestimate how clutch a disrupt (that doesn't cost you your action) can be at the right time.

I'm not telling you anything you don't know, or anything the other fifty million QG/Kanan players out there have not already said. So here goes:

I've done a lot of tweaking and this the deck that has a lot of consistency, is really fun to play, and and just flat out wins a lot.

UPGRADES:

There should be no surprises here. Until you can get Ancient Lightsabers, run Fearless as it's super useful, but just not amazing for the cost. Once you get the sabers, ignore Fearless forever unless you're playing a fun variation on this deck where you like to lose more.

Makashi Training is a great card. It's a die with a lot of damage sides and a built in soft version of Guard.

I've only put a one-of regarding Rey's Lightsaber and Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber because of Lightsaber Pull, but both have a lot of value.

Shoto Lightsaber and Vibroknife are obvious.

MITIGATION:

Force Misdirection with Kanan is CRAAAAAZY good. The ability to potentially blow out every single die of any damage type or even slow down a Buy Out for one resource? YES. If both of his dice are out and one has a focus side (which happens a lot) you can mitigate basically anything except a discard side.

Guard Another blow-out card. This one is more situational because it relies on you rolling unmitigated melee sides, but it works with modified sides too. Some of the best free mitigation available right here.

Overconfidence If you don't have the first two, this will break up those statistically unpredictable rolls (your double 3's, or double 4/$'s) and guarantee one of those dice disappears. Not bad for a buck.

Confidence/Sound The Alarm: This is the only undecided slot in this deck. Do I run Confidence for guaranteed removal of potentially dangerous dice, or do I run pretty much the best soft mitigation in the game. For right now, it's Sound the Alarm. And only because it's saved my tail every time I've played it. Confidence is much more situational and much more useful in the early game (forcing a disrupt when you have no resources, or a discard when you have no other cards), it's a harder card to play well, too. I really like both, but I don't have the room. Either can be very effective.

UTILITY:

Caution If you're playing blue hero and you don't have two of these in your deck, stop. Go back to your deck. Take something out, now put two of these in. It's just an incredible value, AND plays into QGJ's damage ability. You need these.

Deflect Meta call? Maybe. But guns are everywhere and having two of these when you need them is better than none when you don't. Removal and damage from hand? It doesn't get too much better.

Lightsaber Pull You need lightsabers. Pull them.

Synchronicity is almost a guaranteed damage-from-hand, statistically with these dice, for free. AND it's unblock able.

Luke's Protection Many people seem to think it's too slow. I think it's free guaranteed damage and an anti-mill strategy. I get tons of value out of it and while I sometimes don't use it in order to claim faster, it's still worth including.

So, how do you play?:

Mulligan for Force Speed, a great 2-cost upgrade (I really like Makashi Training first, but pretty much any of them are good), #Guard, Synchronicity and either Caution, Luke's Protection, or more mitigation.

Play Force Speed on Kanan. Now might be a good time to roll out, depending on matchup. You will need your dice in the pool for Guard or Caution and you would love to roll in Qui-Gon Jinn - Ataru Master unanswered.

A trick I love with this deck is if you roll junk on Force Speed, but have a Kanan die showing a focus. Declare your action is resolving dice, use Kanan's ability to focus the Force Speed and then take two turns. CONSISTENCY!

Important: don't play non-lightsabers on QGJ if you can avoid it. Load up Kanan with Speed, Makashi, and Vibro. Lightsabers go on Qui-Gon. The goal is to get both Shoto Lightsabers on him, but as long as he has at least one and another saber, he can proc the Shoto ability.

Try not to waste much on re-rolls. Your dice have so many damage sides with Qui-Gon's ability, just take what you can get. Money is always good. Shields are always good. Sticks are best. Man that's a huge wall of text. I wonder if anyone has gotten this far? If you're still reading, what's your favorite ice cream? I go back and forth between german chocolate cake and anything coffee flavored. I have an unhealthy amount of coffee in my diet.

I think what I'm really trying to say is basically Qui-Gon is the Pee-Wee Herman of Star Wars. It's the hyphen, mostly, but also his can-do attitude and stick-to-itiveness. Sure, he got cut in half, but he's still swinging.

Oh yeah, I don't have Force Illusion in this deck which might seem weird, but all we do is make shields and all of these cards are important. If you REALLY think you need them, pull the Luke's Protection, but I think you'll regret it. Or you could pull 1x Deflect and 1x Lightsaber Pull. So far, I've preferred it as it is.