1. INTRODUCTION:

ROUND 1: BYE

ROUND 2 vs. eDooku/eTalzin (Björn)

ROUND 3 vs. eYoda/Cassian/Anakin (Matthias)



ROUND 4 vs. Yoda/Cassian/Padme

ROUND 5 vs. eYoda/Cassian/Anakin

ROUND 6 vs. eKylo/ePryce

TOP 16 vs. Talzin/Mandalorians (Fabian)

TOP 8 vs. eSabine/Hera

TOP 4 vs. eBazine/eSnoke/FO (David Levy)

FINAL vs. Snoke/Aphra/Ciena (Timo)

On September 2nd thein Star Wars: Destiny were held in. Besides X-Wing, Destiny had the most participants withas far as I know. That was the expected low turnout as the German Destiny scene is shaped like an hourglass: Lots of excellent tournament players that travel to important events and lots of casual players that only visit their localand very little in between.For the tournament, I had sleeved and packedand. I had the most games in with the mill deck, helping my teammates to test against the deck, but just didn’t like playing it, despite its obvious strengths. After some last minute testing I settled on the! I love their durability with a massive collective 27hp as well asand, and the reliability that comes from theandThere's already an excellent article on the deck on this website , and although my card choices differs a bit, the framework is essentially the same. Some of the choices, i.e., are obviously meta dependent, and if you anticipate the prevalence of certain decks, your list should be modified accordingly.is a generous guy and he allowed me a fast win.My second match was one of the hardest of all the day. His ability to keep his characters alive viaandcombined with the insane reliability ofand, topped off withfor rounds with unmitigable damage made for a tough matchup.My deck is not able to burst out big chunks of damage and there's no possibility toorsignificant portions of his hand or resources, which should have givenmore than enough time to find his answers.Luckily, with all my durdly actions on theI was able to activate mydefensively most of the times. And when he made a crucial mistake in round 3 or 4 when hiswas on 1hp, hiding behind 3 shields and a possible heal fromI saw an opportunity to end the game. Instead of healing her as his first action he activated, and oneand afrom thelater she was gone and so were all upgrades on her. He never managed to recover from that loss.I did an analysis for this deck , and feel I know the deck in and out, and therefore went straight for, and was able to kill him off at the start of Round 2.followed suit pretty quickly after.Unfortunately I didn’t get my Vambraces, the strongest weapon in my arsenal to combat mill. When he destroyed myviaand rerolled into aon(his last remaining character) I lost the game as I was not able to pick up the Cube without losing it immediately.I felt a bit bitter about my loss, because I mulliganed for theonly to see them getting milled in round 1 and 2. Additionally, my dice rolled absolute trash withhaving all his strong removal cards exactly when he needed them. I never resolved my Force Wave despite having it on the table for 5 rounds. In all honesty, Matthias played pretty much flawless and made it all the way to the semi finals of the tournament because of it.tofor running the German TTS league and keeping the community here alive!I decided to go straight for Yoda, because he was the only character who couldn't be the target of aand managed to take him down pretty quickly.is excellent at playing aroundand, and I started resolving my dice one by one, taking dozens of actions per round. A play mistake from my opponent, playing anwithout spotting a blue character was the last straw, and I soon after took the win.One of our international guests from Spain (there were other players from Sweden, Spain, Italy and Austria) running the classic mill deck, but with a twist of own spin.I palyed bothandto deny him playing(which he ran as a two-off) and I was able to start whittling down his characters. He rerolls pretty aggressively so that aside on(combined with his use of) eventually mills the mill deck out in Round 6 or 7.Before that he already had to pass and I counterpassed on him at least once after dealing some damage. When your opponent startsone of his own dice (great move, btw!) in order to save himself you know you are in a good position!With 4-1, I had already secured my place in the Top16 and still get an excellent matchup for me and the most played deck at(seven copies ofif I remember correctly). I wanted to win the game nonetheless to avoid the possible deciding games.As long as he doesn’t get hisearly I feel pretty confident against a character team with a low health pool and no access to healing cards (apart from). The first two rounds I dump all my upgrades on the table as fast as possible to mitigate the potentialwhile keeping my hand as diverse as possible to play around. Even though he switched thetomidgame viathe duo ofandcouldn't keep up with the constant pressure the commandos put up.I progress into the Top 16 as 4th seed (), with one unnecessary loss to a good opponent.I hadn’t played the mirror match at all but was pretty sure in what to do and what to mulligan for. Luckily inI was able tohisafter he had paid the resource to keep it in play and after that I went for hiswhile he tried to kill my. My reasoning was that theget all upgrades in this deck and I suspected that he wasn’t running(I was right). After a few rounds his nakedwas fighting two equippedwent similar, event though he was able to take downfaster than last time. But still, the loss of the upgrades proved to be fatal once again.The deck that everybody loved to see on stream was the easiest matchup for me of all the decks in Top 16. Even fewer HP than(21hp vs. 22hp) and basically only one character that deals damage vs my tank of a deck. I went for Sabine in, thinking thatcosts my opponent two resources so why go for Hera? When we got to see decklists after game 1 I remembered thatis still a thing!! Luckily I never saw it played and game 1 wasn’t even close as Sabine's dice were pretty cold.was closer as she had the money to pay forwhile I was pinging downto avoid a blowoutplay. When she killed the firstI still had enough dice on my other two characters toand still push through 9 damage on Sabine in one swing (onon, afrom the 2ndand afor 1 damage off adie).One of my travel and play testing partners from the. David already qualified for Worlds from winning the Galactic Qualifier in Stuttgart earlier this year. The game was on stream, but I don’t say too much when I tell you that around 1 in both games is a pretty excellent start ...This deck truly highlights the power of. It is only a 3 character dice start, and yet it is excellently positioned in the current meta. The constant card draw from Aphra makes it strong vs mill as cards in hand are so much harder to mill than those in the deck (for a bit more insight into that), while providing all your answers at the right time.The final games are on stream as well and only the second one was somewhat close. My engine ofandnever really kicked in while my opponent managed to havein his opening hand in both games, enabling him to flood the board with droids while denying me the opportunity to focus a character down. I went foras my target in both games, becauseandhave die sides that he wants to. In hindsight I should probably have gone for, to halt the insane card draw mechanism, which is just busted in this deck.Congratulations to our newIt was a really strong showing from the second big testing group in Germany out of Neumünster.I was very pleased with the performance of my deck all weekend. Only in the final I felt somewhat behind deckwise asandare an awful lot to chew through if you don’t have the ability to burst someone down quickly. I’m known for playing decks that give me lots of options that are hard to spot for my opponents (I playedinto, losing to eventual championin the top cut) and I really enjoy that play style. It is taxing to play such a deck for 12 hours, but so much more rewarding than pure aggro in my opinion, as you can beat your opponent in a way he never suspects.were(which probably should be a two-off right now),(hard cast onand activate her as your first action) and. The ability to save the resources off alate game while doing damage can not be overstated! Only card I would change right now is the single. Not because it is a bad card, just the fact that the upside of ain the current meta is much higher and I don’t want to run two spot blue cards. Also, you don’t have good dice to reroll yourself for the "".Big thank you to my playtesting group in Trier and to theYou can join us on Discord for some crazy Star Wars Destiny talk byRunner-Up at German Nationals 2018