Special Chain Mill with Deck Analysis 1.0

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Special Chain Mill with Deck Analysis

Characters

Yoda - Wizened Master: Yoda - Wizened Master’s consistency and ability to focus other dice make him incredibly potent in this pairing. As all upgrades as well as Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo’s dice revolve around specials, he ensures that even if the special sides aren’t rolled, they can be focused to specials. His special side can also be used to discard cards from the opponent’s deck. He also has a discard side which proves to be useful all game.

Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo: Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo is the strongest mill character in the game as she has the most mill die sides. With two deck discard sides and one hand discard side, she is incredibly consistent.

Upgrades

Force Speed: Speed is critical to mill decks, as a major component of hero mill is the ability to avoid damage and claim before your opponent.

Tough Haggler: This upgrade allows you to look at an opponent’s hand, choose two cards, and discard those cards unless the opponent spends two resources. With two special sides, this upgrade is incredibly potent in this deck, as it allows you to remove upgrades and supports from your opponent’s hand to make the claim ability more devastating and foil devastating damage combinations, such as We Have Them Now, Lightsaber Throw, Never Tell Me The Odds, etc.

Maz's Goggles: This card's mill special fits well within the context of this deck, but also can allow you to focus into Yoda - Wizened Master or Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo's specials without having to discard to re-roll or use Yoda - Wizened Master's special focus ability.

Second Chance: This upgrade provides Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo additional health and can function incredibly well in concert with Impersonate.

Force Meditation: This card further increases the deck discard potential of this deck and can serve as a placeholder for Tough Haggler.

Battlefield

Frozen Wastes - Starkiller Base: This deck is lightning fast at milling your opponent's deck, with the only difficultly being survival. With no healing other than Second Chance, it is critical that you are able to remove as many dice as possible during your turn. To this end, Frozen Wastes - Starkiller Base allows you to remove a character die, which helps you to smother your opponent's damage potential.

Events

Most of the events require you to spot a yellow character, thus it is critical that you draw attention away from Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo by playing upgrades like Tough Haggler or Force Meditation on Yoda - Wizened Master.

Easy Pickings: Removing two dice in a single action is excellent as it prevents larger bursts of damage. Also, as most decks for synergy purposes focus one damage type, it ensures that more often than not you should be able to use this card.

Electroshock: Removing any die costing two or less is a restriction on what you can mitigate, but with specials being firmly in the meta this card has a place in any choke or mill deck.

Entangle: Once again, removing multiple dice in one action is ideal as it prevents either character from taking damage.

Hasty Exit: Zero cost mitigation helps to ensure that even if you are limited in the number of resources you have, you can still mitigate an opponent's dice.

Hyperspace Jump: Simply ending the action phase helps to counter decks like OTK or Hero Vehicles that require additional time to deal maximum damage.

Impersonate: Shifting damage away from Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo to Yoda - Wizened Master late game (or the other way if that is your play style), helps to ensure the survivability of this deck.

Overconfidence: Once again, being able to alter more than one of an opponent's dice in a single action helps to ensure that you can break up focused damage or larger bursts of damage by an opponent.

Quick Escape: The claim ability does nothing to hurt you or your ability to mill, thus giving up control of the battlefield to remove two dice is well worth the loss of battlefield control.

Rend: Eliminating cards like Running Interference, Sith Holocron, Luke's Protection, and Force Speed can seriously impact your opponent's play strategy, which only helps you mill faster.

Scavenge: This card is included to return Second Chance to your hand, should you need it.

Trickery: With a wide variety of costed cards and the consistency of Yoda - Wizened Master's dice, it is unlikely you need cards in your hand to mill your opponent, thus Trickery allows you to remove up to four of your opponent's dice in one action, effectively destroying their turn.

Strategy

Yoda - Wizened Master should be the primary target, especially once you play an upgrade on him. Consequently, the goal is to use mitigation to keep Yoda active for as long as possible, while using the speed of the deck to empty your opponents hand and deck as soon as possible. If you are able to impersonate damage to Padme while Yoda has Tough Haggler upgrade attached, you are almost guaranteed a victory. A pro play is to equip Second Chance to Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo, then impersonate from Yoda - Wizened Master to Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo, thus returning Yoda - Wizened Master to full health and healing five damage from Padme Amidala - Queen of Naboo.

Late game the key becomes hand discard, which can prove to be difficult, but with the specials on Tough Haggler and Maz's Goggles, it is not incredibly difficult. Though not a tier one mill deck, this deck can hold its own, and shows the power of special chaining in mill, all while utilizing some under appreciated cards like Trickery and Tough Haggler.