With the first US Across the Galaxy Galactic Qualifiers happening this weekend we wanted to update The Gauntlet. However, there haven’t been many ATG tournaments so the amount of decklists to post up are scarce. I know what decks I’m looking for: Thrawn/Snoke, Poe/Hondo, Jyn/Cassian, Yoda/Boussh, Vader/Greedo, but there simply aren’t enough tournaments to pull lists from. As such, I’m at a crossroads – I want the Gauntlet to give accurate representations of what I think you’ll see in a Star Wars Destiny tournament, but I don’t want to not have anything on the Gauntlet. So, the Gauntlet is going to be a work in progress for Across the Galaxy.

Even if these lists aren’t necessarily close to the tuned lists the “pros” will be sleeving up this weekend, these are the lists I would be ready for if I were playing in a Destiny tournament.

Thanks to our friends at YOUR Destiny Podcast for the French Winners list. Both Mads and Claus both made top 8 with their take on Thrawn Snoke and they will be doing an in depth analyses of that on their site soon. I think the biggest question will be if you should use the Grand Moff package or if you shouldn’t. I know YOUR Destiny didn’t and the winner did but that doesn’t necessarily mean one is right and one is wrong. It has been reported to us by YOUR Destiny that the winner couldn’t find a second Vader’s Fist and chose to play Hailfire Droid Tank instead. With seven of the top eight slots being made up of Thrawn/Snoke it is certainly a dark time for the Rebellion.

Linked list varies a little, thanks to thegandork for the linked list.Shout out again to YOUR Destiny for this list. This is the other deck that made top 8 of French Nationals and boy is it a surprise. The only new cards it has are a pair of Indifferent which is certainly solid but not a metagame warper. Cards like Handheld L-S1 Cannon and Hyperspace Jump are missing here and I think they deserve a look in this archetype. This deck does have great removal to disrupt Thrawn Snoke Ramp so I can see it doing well there and on top of that Hondo’s 2 disrupt can cash them out. Thrawn Snoke is very slow so having a powerful Battlefield like Emperor’s Throne Room is great which is even more reason to play Hyperspace Jump.

This Jyn/Cassian deck went 4-2 at French Nationals. Many people, myself included, think this deck is very strong, possibly even strong enough to “Bring Guns Back.” What I like about this deck is the same thing I liked about Rose/Partisan/Partisan; it can win two ways. It can roll you off the table with ranged damage or switch gears after it kills one of your characters and mill you out by playing the control game and procking each characters mill ability. This decklist will need to evolve with Thrawn/Snoke in mind. I’m sure the maker of the deck didn’t think he needed to beat the deck twice in order to make top 8, both of his losses were to Thrawn Snoke.

I think this deck sounds pretty great, being able to use villain cards is baller, and there’s nobody better to compliment Leia here than Yoda. Bonus: Here’s a video of the guys from Arrow Brook Gaming running Yoda/Boussh.

This is a pretty standard Vader/Greedo deck. I think Greedo is the best partner for Vader, and while I’d probably run the second The Price of Failure I’m not going to split hairs if this guy balled out to an 8-0 finish at this top-cut tournament. New Vader is truly a terror to behold!

Honorable Mention

With so much Thrawn Snoke in the metagame only masochists will play Long Con recursion decks. That’s doubly true if they are packing Jedi Temple and Grand Moff. If the metagame finds an answer to Thrawn Snoke then this could be a great choice for a week where everyone is playing hard to counter Thrawn Snoke. Thanks to Cibor for posting this list!

The metagame is far from solved and there is still plenty to explore. Do you think we missed anything? Let us know in the comments or on social media. This is just the first update and there will be plenty more to come.

Thrawn Snoke was one of the decks that most obviously benefited from the latest set – Across the Galaxy. The deck does have weaknesses like a low health pool and its very slow. There are decks out there that have the tools to attack it but will it be enough? Only time and testing will tell.

-BobbySapphire

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