Full Faced Helmets Are In This Season

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hamberglar 98

So, this deck started as a Vader Raider deck that used Sith Holocron to bring in the (very well known and broken) Blue Villain Ability package. From there, the idea is that you start picking off opponent's dice while smacking as hard as you can. There's a fair number of "spot a color" cards in here, but I think they're optimal since this is a pretty fast burn deck and you end up discarding to reroll a fair amount so you can just fodder them that way.

Jetpack looks strange, but it's actually a solid die. +2, +3, 2, and its gives a shield and removes a die (albeit on a very limited basis).

Speeder Bike Scout also looks weird, but it's basically a second Jetpack. It's also a good way to dump resources. This deck is surprisingly fast in terms of its resource tempo. All of our events cost 1 or less, unless you want to swap Reversal in for something, and we have Holocron to cheat in all but 3 of our upgrade cards.

The blue upgrades are really self explanatory. If you've seen a Darth Vader Jabba the Hutt deck, you've seen these. I drop Immobilize for Jetpack, but you could totally swap that back if you feel it's too inconsistent (which is valid, it's not always going to work).

Power of the Dark Side evens out our rolls. Some of these cards can be kind of swingy, so getting freerolls is sweet. Same for Use The Force, which can also be die removal if used right.

Intimidate and The Power of the Force are for reach. They increase our damage output by enough to be worth playing.

Emperor's Throne Room just seems right since it will let us abuse things like Force Choke and Force Throw off of a fast combat if we can't or didn't reroll them. If you don't like that, go with either Frozen Wastes or Separatist Base. But I think those are suboptimal.

Some options:

Drop Speeder Bike Scout for Reversal for a more tempo burst oriented build.

Drop He Doesn't Like You for Backup Muscle. You could also mix and match any of these 2 cards with their swaps (e.g. Dropping Speeder Bike Scout for Backup Muscle). I think that Reversal is a better card than He Doesn't Like You, but I think minimizing our resource draw is very important. Up to you.

Immobilize is a great trade for Jetpack if you think that controlling the game is more important than hitting harder or if you think that melee decks are not going to be big in your meta.

You can drop both Kylo Ren and Jango Fett for Darth Vader Elite and Tusken Raider. I don't recommend this, since I think having the four dice and the faster activation is more important. This is a tempo deck. The goal is to try to get as much value as quickly as possible. That means killing your opponent's dice and trying to capture the battlefield while hitting as hard as possible.

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TheBrianFactor 60

Very interesting deck concept - I like it a lot! Unfortunately, I don't have most of these cards right now, but when the game hits my FLGS and I start ripping open packs, I'll be giving this deck an ample try!

Have you been able to play this deck, or is this merely a theorycraft?