I am so ready for this game to properly release. I think the official release date is Thursday, but I'm not going to be able to make it to the store to pick anything up until Friday evening. As I've mentioned, I was fortunate enough to be able to participate in a store's pre-release event. I was able to pick up one of each starter and 11 boosters. I definitely need a second of each starter and more boosters to have more options, but I was able to put together a pretty decent deck with what I have.
Here's the list as it stands right now...
- Darth Vader
- Elite Kylo Ren
Battlefield
- Emperor's Throne Room
Upgrade (8 cards, 8 dice)
- 1x Force Choke
- 1x Force Throw
- 2x Immobilize
- 1x Kylo Ren's Lightsaber
- 2x Lightsaber
- 1x Mind Probe
Support (2 cards, 0 dice)
- 2x Power of the Dark Side
Event (20 cards)
- 1x All In
- 2x Block
- 2x Close Quarters Assault
- 2x Deflect
- 2x Dodge
- 1x Feel Your Anger
- 2x Intimidate
- 1x Mind Trick
- 2x Nowhere to Run
- 2x Take Cover
- 1x The Power of the Force
- 2x Use the Force
As you can see, I have lots of single instances of cards in this deck. The general wisdom seems to be that you want your characters, your battlefield, 10-14 cards that add dice, 10 or so cards that affect dice and the remainder as cards that grant synergy to your deck. My deck only has 8 cards that grant dice, which is on the low side. I also have too many dice impacting cards. Overall, it's oddly effective. I've only played 6 games, but I've won 5 of them. I realize that this is in a non optimized environment where few people have many cards, but it's encouraging.
I'm so excited to play more games. This is such a great game.
