Greetings people of the internet and welcome to the second episode of our Store Champ decklist highlight show. If you missed last week’s episode you can get caught up here. The first deck we are doing today is one that you will more than likely have to face at a large event although you might be able to dodge it at a smaller event – at our store champs this past weekend we had 16 players and no one played it. I’m talking about Luke3/Rey2. I have added it to our Gauntlet since people are winning with it.

Steps

It initially wasn’t added because of the perception that Kylo2/Pryce(KRAP) was everywhere but either people are dodging, winning in spite of having a bad match up or this deck is unbeatable. I’m assuming its a mix of column A and B although there are certainly ways you can build this with Kylo in mind. The list on top piloted by Agentc13 has a whopping 4 grey cards – if you can kill Kylo on turn 2 and get lucky he will miss once. Turn 3 is probably a more realistic outcome of death for Kylo at which point if you can fade one of those 3 activations you will give yourself a better chance. In my mind Kylo hitting 3 times is around the time you lose. Going back in match history we talk about how many times Kylo hits compared to how often the deck wins and there is an obvious correlation between how many times he hits and win percentage and at least giving yourself a chance to dodge an activation is certainly beneficial – many times you can play a blue card and stay with a grey and three blue cards, 75 percent is definitely better than 100 percent when facing off against Kylo. Way of the Light is nice card that seems like an auto include for mono color decks concerned with Kylo. Sound the Alarm is reasonable enough in a world with lots of poor starting dice and decks that try to pair a bunch of modifiers like Drive by Shooting. I don’t love the card but if you are looking for Grey cards you can convince yourself that its playable. Other grey cards to consider are things like Vibroknife, Closed Quarters Assault, Defend and if you are really hungry for greys maybe even Dax’s Diner(I’m sorry.) Those all have some issue or another but most cards are situationally good and bad and playtesting should show you which ones are more alive than others.

This list is using Makashi Training which is an excellent card against heavy melee decks like KRAP. You can go deeper vs melee hate with one of my favorite cards in Clash. Clash is a huge tempo swing although this deck has a hard time with money in the early turns, that’s more of Plo Koon Padawans card.

Against the field in general this is way better vs 3 wide decks than decks like Krap. You might be better off with the Destiny version of this deck if you opt to target those decks but It Binds All things isn’t bad by any means.

Counterplay: Play Kylo. I’d say go after anyone that gets the upgrades although you might want to ignore a Luke that gets an early Ancient Lightsaber in favor of Rey – that will take you a long time to kill at which point Rey has been loaded up more than a Wendy’s baked potato, Wendy’s, it’s waaaay better than fast food! It’s also dependent on how fast you can rush them down.

Now I wanted to go to the villains side and spotlight a couple decks and a character that has been performing better than I expected.

Snoke’s Boudoir

DJ is better than I though although I’m still not ready to say he is a tier one character. His ability is very punishing to two character decks but not so good vs 3 character configurations. This list was piloted by StaticCat (great name btw) and it takes advantage of the big sweeping removal options in order to do a bunch of indirect. Some random cards I’d be interested trying with DJ are Relentless Pursuit, Tinker, Backup Muscle and On the Hunt. Persuit would be helpful in defeating characters a turn earlier since the indirect from DJ’s and Snoke’s indirect could be used to good effect on turn 2 and 3. Tinker for a resource on DJ’s dice seems great early, if that works out it will put you in a great spot. Backup Muscle is great in combination with Relentless Pursuit and can be back breaking vs opponents who think they are safe behind their shields and Force Illusion.

This list is missing some cards that are considered untouchable by some. Force Illusion is missing and while I understand that its not removing a die it’s too good to not at least play a 1 of. I understand not wanting to play He Doesn’t Like You but it deals an extra damage here which makes me think its worth about 3 damage for 0 resources and a die. I could see you not being able to play Friends in Low Places because of space concerns but some people would think that’s crazy and I’m closer to that side of the world. He doesn’t like you certainly doesn’t play well with that card so it might be a one or the other type of situation.

While this deck plays out differently than Cad/Snoke early I still ask myself that one has to be better than the other since they will both end with a loaded Snoke. DJ doesn’t have the pay side issue that Cad does which makes it a possibility that this will be better than Cad.

Counterplay: Play a three character deck and try not to overextend into Mind Trick, that can be brutal. If you are playing a deck with a lot of different symbols try to keep your upgrades on different types of characters so you can play around Dive and Defend. Kill DJ first.

Jonathan Magnuson from the Destiny Council won a small SC with this take on a DJ deck.

Blockade is not a card i want to play against unless I’m playing a deck that is either playing Rose or Yoda. Even with those resource producing characters a The Best Defense might just seal the game. Having most other characters will make your money production somewhat suspect. There’s definately a kind of player that really wants to enrage their opponents and besides mill playing Blockade is a sure fire way to rage tilt people from the beginning. I won’t get deeper here in my analysis since Jon is a smart guy and all of his choices here have been carefully thought out. This is an older list he shared with me and perhaps his new list has changed. Hopefully he will write about this archetype at some point because I’d love to read a detailed account of his games.

That does it for me. Thanks for reading. Let me know in the comments or on social media what you thought about this article and if you think there are ways to improve upon it. Feel free to upvote on Reddit to counteract the downvote bots. Good luck at Store Champs and as always…

May your opponent’s Kylo miss all of their 50/50 shots.

-NJCuenca

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