The tale of Trevor the Jedha - Top 8 Euros 1.0

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Let me tell you the tale of a Jedha Partisan named Trevor. Okay I have put the match ups I faced below. It's tricky to remember all the specific match ups so I'm not going to try. My thoughts on the choices and card in the deck are at the bottom.

Round 1 - eRey2/eAayla - Loss - 0-1

Round 2 - eMaul/e7th Sister - Loss - 0-2

Round 3 - ePalpatine - Win - 1-2

Round 4 - eObi/eMaz - Win - 2-2

Round 5 - eYoda/eEzra/Rookie Pilot - Win - 3-2

Round 6 - eHera/Yoda/Maz - Win - 4-2

Round 7 - eBala/eCiena/Nightsister - Win - 5-2

Round 8 - eObi/eMaz - Win - 6-2

Toughest game was Round 7 - I think I ended that game with 1 or 2 health left.

It was travelling in on the morning of Day 2 that the Jedha Partisan was more than just a Partisan. He'd done as much work as Yoda and Jar Jar so he needed a name and he became Trevor the Jedha.

Day 2 - Best of Three

Top 32 - eKylo2/eAnakin - Win - 2-0

Top 16 - eKylo2/eAnakin - Win - 2-1

Top 8 - eBoba/e7th Sister - Loss - 0-2

I played one other game against another Jar Jar player for fun after round 3 and managed to beat eYoda/eJar Jar/Rose as well.

Just taken this to a Store Championship and come out on top going 4-0. Here are the decks I faced.

Round 1 - eKylo2/eAnakin - Win

Round 2 - ePalpatine - Win

Round 3 - eBala/eTalzin/Trooper - Win

Round 4 - eRose/Wedge/Hired Gun - Win

I've always loved to play mill and my best result before this was with the General Rieekan - Defensive Mastermind version at a regional where I went 4-2 and came 6th. Euros straight after Worlds felt like a different proposition and I wasn't sure if I should go with a mill deck but I had two inspirations to go and do it. Firstly Sugi had taken a version similar to this with Rose - Skilled Mechanic over the Jedha to World's and went 3-3 so mill could hold it's own on the biggest stage. Secondly a friend passed me a version of the deck using these characters and it felt good to play but not 100% my style. We have 7 cards and the battlefield different. I added Caution, Roguish Charm, Bespin Wing Guard and a Second Chance to the deck as that fit my play style better but let's break the deck down.

Characters

Fairly straight forward - Yoda with a mill ability and a dice where each side has great usage. Jar Jar who is a free Sound the Alarm if you will but also feels like he creates a little game in your opponent's head. Do I activate him to get a re-roll. Should I activate him straight away so he can't re-roll my dice or should I try and use him as a re-roll for me? a fabulously designed character and just like Yoda - every dice side is useful. Jedha has an inbuilt mill ability just like Yoda and let's you have spot yellow cards active for much longer and there are so many important yellow cards for this deck. My favourite thing to see is for someone to activate Jar Jar first as there first action and immediately give me dice to use and we will take any sides we get. We could even roll in Yoda right there and have 4 dice to use straight away and they could all threaten mill. Every dice has a discard side so you can hit 1 or 2 a turn easily. I can't remember who I was playing but I'd rolled in Yoda and got three specials with a Force Meditation. they activated Jar Jar which was going to re-roll all my Yoda dice. And Jar Jar rolled 2 discard and so did Yoda - 4 discard - don't mind if I do. That was the hand completely gone as there first action was to play a weapon.

Battlefield

Why the Power Generator Trench - Death Star I you might ask. Why not something that pushes your mill like a discard from hand or the Command Center - Lothal? I think these can hurt me if my opponent claims and, well the main crux of the deck is to remove as much dice showing damage as possible. Now you might then say Frozen Wastes - Starkiller Base removes dice and you'd be right but the power generator trench can stop damage and sneakily forwards our plan of discard as it leaves the dice there and tempts our opponent to re-roll as it could be so much more than a blank for them. So we win both ways. If they leave it they get nothing from the dice. If they re-roll it we get a free side. If they use it then we don't mind at all it means they are done. Our dice are less important than their damage dice. We don't need to kill them. We have options to then Caution with the blanked dice or re-roll ourselves. I'm pretty sure this battlefield should be the mill battlefield of choice unless you can be super fast.

Upgrades

OKay so there aren't many to fit in this section.

Force Meditation This is the workhorse of the deck. Hope to see this as early as possible and will always keep it if in my first hand. 2 Cards almost every turn with Yoda and if not the other sides are fine. Four cards a turn mill with one upgrade and if their entire hand goes that's 9 cards a turn. Could be all over by turn 4.

Cunning An excellent second option and awesome when you have Yoda on the board. A third Yoda dice if you will. Amazing when the force meditation is on the board. You need one special and it is 5 cards milled. that turn. Let's not forget that it has a focus and a natural discard side that are going to help.

Roguish Charm This slot could be flexible with personal taste but I find Roguish charm is great. With a cunning on the board you can potentially remove two damage dice a turn probably forcing re-rolls for damage as well. That's a lot of time you can gain to mill. It too has a natural discard side. Possibly one of my favourite upgrades at the moment. I try and squeeze it into all my yellow decks at the moment. I could see other upgrades in this slot. Con Artist for a faster mill, Maz's Goggles for it's special and a lot of focus. I tried a version using Maz and had the googles in that but the inbuilt mill and discard side of Trevor won me over in the end. I'm sure there are probably other upgrade you could have here too.

Second Chance This was a last minute include. I just thought it could be really frustrating for my opponent to not be able to take out Jar Jar due to this. It was better than that though. It actually won me games where I was down to my last character and would have lost but this gave me that extra little bit of time to finish out a game with Trevor or Jar Jar.