Deck building is one of my favorite aspects of Star Wars:Destiny. It’s like trying to fit all the pieces of a puzzle together into one cohesive deck. A few weeks ago on the podcast, we had a pretty lively discussion with our special guest, RunningOnion aka Menion, on the creative aspects of deck building. There were a lot of good ideas and thoughts that came out of the discussion. I want to expand on that and write about my take on creative deck building here.

One thing I think we should establish to start, what do I mean when I say creative deck building? Creativity is different to everyone and is pretty hard to define. In this case it generally involves building a deck that is focused around a character or card that has not performed well or been seen at all in tournament play. It can also be a completely new style of play, though that is much more rare. For an example, I would give my Thrawn deck from this Prime season or my Chopper deck from NOVA that focused on Mr. Bones.

With that said, the main two points I made on the podcast were:

Can you break a card that others have dismissed; and,

Legendaries are Legendary for a reason.

I’m going to go through these a little bit more and then add some more points that I’ve thought of since the podcast aired.

Breaking a Card:

There are so many cards in this game with an ability that is clearly really good, but that seems impossible to satisfy the condition. Scoping the Target is a great example. This is a card that for one resource can defeat a character! The condition to do that, is just nearly impossible to meet, so it doesn’t get played.