Speed Luke Rey 1.0

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Been playing this for the last couple weeks and have been having a lot of fun and pretty decent success with it. I havent really been playing majorly meta decks but have won a few times against Vader/Raider, Poe/Rey, Kylo/Young Vader and think it could stand up to some of the rainbow ranged aggro too if you throw in a Dodge. It can do a lot of damage so even with 3 or 4 second chances I have been able to take the character out. In any case, it's a lot of fun to play and I love playing Hero Force users!

GENERAL WIN STRATEGY

A lot of low cost shielding, mitigation, healing cards keeps Luke alive longer with SOR cards now in play. Cards like Force Illusion, Rejuvenate, Willpower can give him more health against aggro and cards like Caution, Defensive Stance provide the shields.

Along with that, the goal is to be able to get out tons of damage using Luke's 3 side before they can do anything about it. I have learned that you cannot depend on just rolling that damage as when I used to play this deck I didnt use enough and it always failed me. So now, the and the action cheating are key.

You want to get a One With The Force out on Rey as soon as possible, and even better if they are trying to kill her first. The 2/3 allow you to focus to Luke's 3 . With Force Speed, and additional actions from Rey you can often focus and deal the damage before it can be mitigated.

I chose the Secluded Beach - Scarif just so that it doesn't hurt me if they claim. It helps against ranged decks.

Lastly, almost every game is won by using the amazing new SOR card My Ally Is The Force! Always be saving the 2 resources to do this if in hand, it allows you to double Luke's damage die as it gives you Ambush too! And if you have a Vibroknife out you are dealing unblockable damage.

INITIATIVE

Usually it does not get the battlefield, pretty random. Which is good I will put 1 shield on each character to make sure they don't know who to go for and to mitigate someone removing all shields from one character. A lot of people go for Luke Skywalker - Jedi Knight which is smart, but in this version it takes quite a bit to kill him with all the healing and shields. If they go for Rey - Force Prodigy then you are in better shape cause Luke's dice are where all the damage comes from. Sometimes I will shield up Rey with 2 first then Roll Rey first turn and use Caution on her usually meh die to give Luke 3 shields.

MULLIGAN

I try to get a Caution or a Defensive Stance or both to shield up first turn. Caution is better cause you can save the resources which is fairly hard to get a lot of in this deck. Its why i dont play light sabers. Ideal hand would also include 1 or even 2 Force Speed, Vibroknife and for mitigation either a Use The Force , Guard or Deflect depending on what you are playing against.

IDEAL TURN

Play a Force Speed on Rey, Play a Vibroknife on Rey giving you 2 actions. Roll out Rey, get the Force Speed , resolve it to get 2 more actions. Roll out Luke, and then resolve potentially up to 10 unblockable damage (Rey's +2 and Vibroknife's +2 .

Once you get One With The Force out, you can also use the action cheating to focus everything to and resolve.

DISCUSSION

I have seen other version of this deck play the Holdout Blaster and although getting more actions can be deadly, I find that this deck has enough speed and needs more mitigation options. That is why I am trying out the Makashi Training which has done quite well. Not only does it almost always increase the dealt it allows me to use cards like Guard to mitigate dice. Also against other decks like Vader/Kylo/Dooku or anything with a Vibroknife you can use the Force Misdirection to remove dice.

Obviously the Caution and Riposte cards are an amazing combo and if you can get that off and not risk losing all the shields for a kill shot, do it!

Use The Force has been a huge help to this deck. Just being able to focus to a the 3 or a when needed has won me games.

Force Illusion is a key mid/late game card. Just when they think you are defeated or close to it, you drop this card and it can mitigate some heavy damage. Be careful using this though as this deck goes through cards fast.

I realize this deck does not have that many upgrades and that is done on purpose. There are not a lot of cheap upgrades for mono blue hero. No Jedi Holocron yet. You don't need as many dice on the table when you can focus your dice to damage and resolve them quickly. That is the goal at least. I also think the strategy of using more 0 or 1 cards as you can is important for Luke's ability which allows him to draw a card when he activates. The more you can play those cards the better. This is one of the strategies for how the World Championship 2017 Vader/Raider Cheerios deck won. Also, this deck does not generate a lot of money as you want to be doing damage with the few dice that are on the table.

QUESTIONABLE CARDS

I removed as many higher cost cards like Light Sabers to make it easier to get cards played out before a Mind Probe hits you. Force Throw is a great card but still not sure it is needed as in this new faster meta often times there is not much to throw. Against Crime Lord though you may want to get this out so you can start doing the . I may try taking 1 out and putting in more low cost cards either another Riposte.

I tried this deck with Lightsaber and Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber and I never was able to get them out. Or when I did get them out were not reliable enough for damage. They are expensive and also make it harder to get cards played out.

Im not sure about the Swiftness, ive used it a couple times to give Force Speed or Force Illusion Ambush on Rey to get the extra actions. But since this deck does not make a lot of resources, I find its expensive to use on any other cards. Ive used it for putting out Makashi Training before but thats 3 s to get that extra 2 actions.

Not sold entirely on the Secluded Beach - Scarif battlefield, looking for ideas if you guys have any!

Let me know what you guys think of the deck and how it works for you. I will be posting a video of this deck in action and talking about the strategy on T3 GAMING https://www.youtube.com/c/T3GamingPodcast