Shadow Fett : 8-0 winner in standard tourney (3-0 vs Vader) 1.0

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Excellent deck list

I would change Handheld L-S1 Cannon for Improvised Defense to defend against focus or special chaining. Coercion for Dive. Logistics for Defend. Sudden Impact for Vandalize. Well-Connected for Doubt.

Also, Firespray-31 two times instead of Shadow Caster and Firespray-31 is better because of the economy when playing mods.

Awesome job. Love seeing a deck that is unheard of do so well .

What a brilliant concept! What a great way use for Boba Fett, one of my favorites.

I should add that unlike hero Caster decks, often the quick win strategy is a bit counter intuitive. It is often the case not to resolve the Caster die but instead mirror it with Fett special and spend resources on dice control instead of more mods.

If Fett is going to drop it becomes more important that Caster has 2-3 mods and Ree to reset.

How to play this deck changes by situation more often than it would seem. I had to do a number of practice games to figure out some nuances to pilot it.

Coersion is the card slot I'd say is most easily swappable for more dice control or whatever without disrupting the tuning. I enjoyed running it for the interesting purpose of forcing spending opponents resources before I get my dice out, so as a means of pre-emptive protection to counter dice control. The potential exists to devastate a Vader deck with it, but in the 3-0 vs Vader in tourney, it was not due to Coersion.

Arc Caster also swappable for other event m deck tech without disrupting the balance much

Partnership would be a great card in this deck!

@Earth Force One both arc caster or one. What would you select as the first or second choice replacement?

I dig it! Very cool use of that Boba special.

Very cool. I took the same deck to an early Regionals and didn't have the same success day-of that I'd had during testing, so ended up moving on. Awesome to hear of your success, maybe I should bust it out again.

Just wondering, but why do you have Firespray-31 if you are always pulling the Shadow Caster, and your games usually end turn 2 or 3?

@maximus I don't think you understand how this deck works

I agree with 1x choice of the Firespray and shadowcaster..Flames of the past is always behind the corner!

Love this deck! However I'd make a few very slight changes. I agree with you about Coercion, I'd take them out and add mitigation. Subdue, Risky Move, or Sticky Situation should do the trick.

I'd also take out the 2 Handheld L-S1 Cannon for either more of the aforementioned mitigation cards, or Take Flight Partnership, and DH-17 Blaster Pistol. For the 2 cost of the Handheld L-S1 Cannon I think I'd rather pay for a vehicle reset.

@General Vatutin Arc Caster is the first swap I'd make. @Razelll Firespray is a "break glass in case of emergency" card. For accidental mulligan into Caster, Caster getting discarded out of hand, or Caster removed from table somehow. The handheld cannons serve similar fallback purpose. Generally the best use of 2 resources once Caster and mods are out is dice removal and Caster reset with Ree.
@openboats I had to play a number of practice games to get a grasp of the situational awareness of when to resolve a lower Caster die or Bobas 2 damage sides vs going for some thing higher. The deck also took a bit of tuning to feel right. It didn't seem to work as well with either too little dice control or too much. And the tuning seems to rely on the right number of resource events.

I am going to try to make a current trilogy compatible version. And a post rotation modification of that as well.

I'd add that the balance seems to require using dice control selectively and potently. Too much of it and it uses resources better spent getting powered up and overwhelming opponent first.

Arrowbrook gaming mentioned your list in their podcast as something that could still be explored in this meta. Said it has some really solid ideas, but there is some room for improvement. Sounds and looks like an issue with the number of mods and need for a little more tempo. I would watch their recent video. High praise.

arrowbrookgaming.podbean.com

Cheers

@Earth Force One I think those are all very fair assessments. The biggest thing I found was for a deck that more or less hinges on getting to Boba's special, it could never do that consistently. And if I wasn't doing that consistently, why wasn't I using Tobias Beckett - Thief For Hire instead?

One thought in hindsight was adding x2 Senate Chamber's, more focus beyond Bait and Switch feels like it could have got the deck running.

Imagine a mod with two focus sides ! Whoa

@General Vatutin I think BB-8 is the closest thing... but Hero only. :(

The first blaring issue i have with this deck is when you kill Ree turn 1. Please do explain what to do from then on.

@truth123 I've played my own modified version of this list a few times earlier this week. I added more mitigation, she lasts a little longer. Just roll her out first so you can take advantage of her resource sides.

I never suffered a turn one Ree casualty during the tourney. But the reason for all the resource events is to ensure caster drops 1st turn (1st or 2nd action depending on win/loss of the roll off). With caster on table everyone targeted Boba, and Ree's dice became gravy.

I agree roll out Ree first/early if facing aggro deck. Let them burn their dice control on her resource thinking they can stop what's coming. Then watch them sweat when truce or well connected is the next move. They are then in a bad spot to control Boba and caster.

I should add. I believe my oppenents were playing correctly to go after Boba first. Ree is a sponge, a fall back. The goal of this deck isn't ramping or caster resets until after Boba Fett is dead. Most games were won without doing a single reset on Caster. Some were won without resolving the caster die at all. Think about that. Boba fett himself Is the primary strategy. Ree is a distraction that becomes a fallback plan later.

On dice control, every resource and card to do it comes at high opportunity cost. Reserve it for opponent rolling a blowout set etc. It's often the right choice to leave a 3 damage die to come in at you and spend the resource on a cost 1 caster mod or using the dice control card to pitch to reroll. Every card is almost always a pitch to reroll after finishing setup midway thru turn 2. With this deck, unchecked, you win the aggro race. You are the opponents problem. Let them try to control your dice and relax becuase it's okay, you are still ramping with high damage showing. Don't focus your game too much on disrupting the opponent except to break their lucky set of dice roll, or take away a base die which would pair with a massive modifier (go for surgical potency).

Overall. Don't play this deck using the assumptions and styles that other "standard" decks are build around. You have massive guns on the table turn one. Use them. Remember, pitch to reroll is almost always the right choice. My closest games were vs mill decks becuase they were attacking that capability.

The evolution of this deck was a bit strange too. I've been toying with it for months at practice nights and it wasn't ever very good becuase it lacked consistency. I know that's what people think here on a website when they read the decklist on paper.

More recently though, some combination of card ratios and figuring out how to play it emerged which made it achieve very high consistency. It's now become the monster deck at my local game store. It's the new bar everyone wants to test against (at least until rotation). The Vader Greedo players in particular keep wanting rematches. But they only win now when they are the lucky ones.

Of course it does lose in practice games vs tech against it like N-1/yoda or vandalize. Just like anything teched against.

It has high performance vs all of the meta decks except millionaires. That's a coin flip.

I've spent the whole week trying to make a post rotation version. It lacks the "magic" and potency that made this one so deadly. We have a trilogy tournament tomorrow, so I'm going to work hard on this the rest of the day to see if the puzzle can be solved

@Earth Force Onecjrious, if you had to cut one or two upgrades and add one/two mitigation, what would they be?

@General Vatutin just had this choice and pulled the hand cannons to add Take Flight but if I were to add a mitigation in its place, I would use Doubt as not to break the turn 1 & 2 tempo

Hasty Exit is another contender.

hi I am running a diffrent version a bit. I have friends in low places, probe and salvage stand

How do you deal against mill decks?

i play this deck with diffrent approach. I use friends in low places + probe.

@Earth Force One: Tx mate

You need some luck to get the only Shadow Caster in time. Or is it just me, who doesn't draw keycards, when needed? ;)

`@PadawanSohiro Forget about it. I just noticed the plot.

Great deck - hits like a truck - can be very fragile. Absolutely remove Coercion and systems gauge. Sub in Probe and FiLP. Sudden Impact is the star of the deck. Went 5-0 in local 'smegional.' Got wrecked by Planned Explosion in top cut.