TRAITOR RAINBOW with a comprehensive guide (Competitive) 1.0

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Hello everyone! My name is Lucas Magon, and I'm a SWD competitive player since the launch of the game. I created this deck (it is already in it's 8th version) in order to be a responsive, flexible and adaptable deck for EVERY matchup in the metagame right now. Im currently with 23W and only 4L with this deck, so it is a good amount of wins against a lot of different decks in SoR environment. I'll try to summarize and breakdown all the cards here, and explain why they are important for this deck to run. This is a very hard deck to pilot, and demands training over training to achieve it max potential. Hope you guys like it, I'm willing to see comments and suggestions :D

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PROS:

INSANE survavibility - 32 HP among all characters with lots of shields from your dice.

RAINBOW - you can use the best cards among all colors

SECOND WIN CONDITION - the damage isn't working out for you? It's ok, you can always go for milling as a secondary strategy, as you have Unkar and 4 upgrades with mill sides.

GOOD MIDRANGE DAMAGE - this deck can dishes out around 4 to 8 damage each turn, while controlling the dice from the opponent.

GOOD RESOURCES GENERATION - because of FN and Unkar ability, no die is a lost die. You can always use +2 ranged with 1 shield to hit Unkar passive and generate resources among lost dice in the table.

8 REDEPLOYS - yes, you heard it right. 8 freaking upgrades with redeploy. There is no lost money in this deck.

LOSE-LOSE SITUATION FOR THE OPPONENT - it is hard to choose a character to focus the damage, since all of your characters have good abilities.

GOOD THEME - this is a hard to see combination of characters, so you'll always be unpredictable for your opponents and your trick plays will fascinate them!

CONS:

ONLY 3 STARTING DICE - You'll almost always lose your battlefield in beggining rolls, because you'll only start with 3 dice. Your dice is not that consistent either.

MIDRANGE DECK - this deck is not fast, so it'll be hard for you to start claiming in the beginning of the match.

HARD TO PLAY AGAINST MILL - this deck can mill itself really hard, so you need to be careful to play against strongest mill decks (Padme and Jabba, for example). Against them, you are the aggro and need to kill them as fast as possible.

RESOURCE INTENSIVE - If you're playing against a resource control deck, you might have difficulties to generate resources and to pay for your damage (a lot of your upgrades have high costs) and to pay for your upgrades. Be careful with that!

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HOW TO PLAY WITH THIS DECK:

You're aiming to generate resources and control your opponent in Turn 1 and 2. You only start doing good damage around turns 3 or 4, so aim first for the control and mill to get resources using the Unkar passive. Best hand combinations for you to start are those which have 3 upgrades that you can replace with FN and 1 - 2 control cards to play around against agressive decks. If you're playing against a midrange/control/mill deck, you always want to dish out some damage in the early turns, to make force your opponent to heal and waste their control early, while you build up your table.

Since you have 6 upgrades with ambush, it is also a good idea to roll out Kylo or Unkar before rolling FN, so you can use Unkar passive with bad dice in the table. Again: no die is a lost die in this deck. If you roll blanks, start controlling your opponent first before rerolling. If you roll damage, just resolve it asap. If you roll weird, use Unkar ability to fix your weirdness.

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CARD JUSTIFICATION:

For Flexibility, Speed and Trick plays:

(Force Speed, Tactical Mastery, Cheat and the upgrades with Ambush) You are slow, but NOT that slow. You can always try to overwhelm slowest decks because of your action cheating. You can also use the ambush in some upgrades to add more damage to your dice in the pool, if you put them in FN.

For survival and control: (Force illusion, Prized Possession, Rise Again, Feel your Anger, He doesn't like you, Mind Trick)

Everything in this list is a valuable card, that is almost going to fix your problems. If you need to survive a 8+ damage hit, use Force Illusion to frustrate your opponent. If The dice mitigation cards have good value here, and since you'll generate lots of resources, i'ts not a bad idea to use cards that will almost always remove 2 or more dice. Remember, survivability is the key word in this deck.

For damage:

(All the other upgrades and Backup Muscle)

All the upgrades here can deal a ton of damage. You just need to be careful against Block, High-ground, Reversal and other cards that can really punish you for not resolving your dice. You ALWAYS want to resolve black symbol dice in the table, and you shouldn't wait for modifiers because they are going to be used with Unkar passive. Don't lose your damage, or you might fall behind in the match. Also, Backup Muscle is just to good to not be included here :p

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CONCLUSION

I'm very glad that I created this deck from nowhere, and it's really smooth now. Feel free to download, copy and try your combinations. I'm looking forward to see your opinions, so feel free to comment here.

Thank you very much!