It’s like Christmas in June and we got some spoilers from FFG for Way of The Force! I wonder what they will be? Whenever we get them we get excited but also get worried that they will suck like last time – our predictions were spot on. Will this years be coal too? There’s only one way to find out! Let’s jump right in!

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Just Kidding! That was one of the cards we got last set and while we’re thankful for spoilers in general, that didn’t make them stink any less. Now that we’ve had some fun we can get down to the actual spoilers. We only have two but we will certainly take quality over quantity any day of the week. Thanks to David, Jeremy, or whomever decided to give us these spoilers.

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Fifth Brother

NJCuenca: This character is fine. For villains he is in the Boba Fett and Maul price point except… OMG Becky look at that butt?! The jump in HP is welcomed. His special is even more conditional than Boba’s so without any context of color or other cards I’d have to give the edge to Boba Fett and put Fifth Brother ahead of Maul. But context is king…

BobbySapphire: For 13/16, Fifth Brother has a fairly lackluster die; they give us the 1X, 2X, random jank die that we’ve come to know and roll our eyes at, but that special has potential. As I wrote about last week, FFG is really pushing deckbuilding synergy with Way of the Force, and Lukas wants us to build Fifth Brother decks with weapons, which essentially gives this guy a third, and potentially powerful damage side. As NJCuenca already mentioned, his health is crazy good, and for one point less than Kylo Ren. He also has some nice synergy with recently spoiled Arihnda Price (but who doesn’t). It’s still hard to believe you would run this guy over Kylo2 or Darth Vader2 outside of a really awesome 14 point pairing (like Phasma2), or Mother Talzin and a plot. He’s good though, especially because of… (yes, I know I copied NJC’s ending)

HonestlySarcastc: I’m not impressed by that bum ass die. The special ability is going to need to put in work for me to consider running it over some form of 7th sister, Boba, Anakin, or Kylo2. Talzin’s die is eerily similar. Things to note are that it has to be a Blue die, and also a non- ability upgrade die. Boy does that make things tough since most 2 drops have us looking at a 1 damage side, resource, or shield with only resource being really viable there, but crossguard gives us a special at the very least for 2 damage. At 3 cost we gain heirloom lightsaber’s 2X and 3X, but can’t effectively use Maul’s saber so this is a big streaming pile of poop unless we get something to use it with.

Fifth Brother’s Lightsaber

NJC: Holy lightsaber Batman! On Fifth Brother this is the best 3 cost upgrade ever (not counting pre nerf Maul’s Lightsaber – that card was nerfed for a reason.) Knowing that this card exists makes Fifth Brother go from fine to great. His special is just absurd when he’s carrying this saber. With two Lightsaber Pulls your odds of drawing this is insanely high and you’ll have the other baller lightsabers like Ancient and Shoto as consolation prizes. Even in non Fifth Brother melee decks you will want this card which makes me surprised that this isn’t for blue characters only. At least the ability is on resolution only so you can just mitigate the die and move on with your life. I’ll let someone else do more in depth math but you are basically adding a plus 1 damage to every side when you resolve it which is Maul Saber levels of good. Maul’s Saber is blue only although it does have a higher ceiling and is much better vs mitigation. This will make him the number 1 target from your opponent but that just means that you’ll have to put this on the other character…with someone like Seventh Sister that won’t be bad at all. Against indirect decks this is going to be very solid. Those decks will pack more than enough removal to keep this from usually getting out of hand but if they don’t have it or you can CQA beforehand its going to be bundles of damage. This is going to give villain a little more umph in a format that is heavily hero focused. I love this kind design because it really creates two different cards.

BobbySapphire: Man, this card is a beast. It makes me want to find ways to cheat it out or get another resource early. Profitable Connection would let us get this thing out ASAP, but the options are slim, and someone like elite Ciena Ree doesn’t fit super well outside of letting us run something like Leadership, which actually sounds kind of insane, but if that’s our plan why hasn’t anyone tried it yet with Maul’s Saber? Mother Talzin can also essentially guarantee a resource for us round one, and would let us Stolen Intel for an extra card, increasing our chances of hitting this bad boy round one. We could also go with a Respite style deck with Brother/Trooper/Trooper or Brother/Battle Droid and any 8 pointer; 16 point isn’t exactly a sweet spot for three characters, but it’s doable. Anyway, I’m getting off topic a bit, but we really want to get this card in a deck with Fifth Brother because of its ability to be resolved as base damage sides while he’s equipped with this beatstick. Like I stated earlier, I think we’re supposed to be synergizing with this new set, so figuring out the best way to utilize Fifth Brother and his Lightsaber go hand in hand, but the lack of a blue requirement is pretty saucy if we can find the right spot for it.

HonestlySarcastc: Hey Maul’s Saber , hold my beer! said Fifth’s Saber as it thrashed the opponent. Realistically, Maul’s saber is actually just way better than this, except when on Fifth. If not on Fifth we are looking at 2, 3, 4, shield +1, resource +1 but every side except shield is a modified side so why aren’t we just running Maul’s saber so we can trade a shield and 1 straight out for 2 damage and the ability to get the die back in the pool? On Fifth this card is a different story though, and Fifth’s special starts to get downright dirty and if we start getting resets / untaps; then things can get out of hand relatively quickly. We will need to see more weapons to find out if Fifth Brother’s ability will be good enough which then makes his lightsaber useful or if we just got an inferior Maul’s Saber.

We hope you enjoy this review, and these two exciting new cards from Way of the Force! Let us know what you think in the comments and on social media.

Thanks for reading,

NJCuenca, HonestlySarcastc, and BobbySapphire

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