For the first time in Star Wars Destiny we have alternate win conditions. These are pretty common in some other games like Yu-Gi-Oh. Currently, the only ways to win a game of Destiny are by killing all of your opponents characters or by discarding all of the cards in their deck and hand. Now, you can win in two new ways.

The Death Star. There has been some speculation for a while on how this planet killing space station would make it into Destiny. Would there be several supports that you would have to play and together would form the Death Star? Now we know it will be in the form of two plots, one for villain and one for hero.

Destroy the Death Star effectively gives your opponents team twenty health. However, with the action to win the game, it is more like 22 to 24 health that needs to be resolved. This is quite low when compared to a lot of the teams we’ve been seeing. Manten’s 3-die Aphra deck has 27. Ewoks can have something like 33 total health for their team. So being able to reduce the effective health to even 24 sounds like it would be good. On top of that, your opponent can’t add shields to the plot like they would be able to do with their characters and cards like Riot Shield and Armor Plating can’t be played on it. There are a few negatives though. First, you can only resolve pilot and vehicle dice against the plot. This is pretty limiting when you look at the powerful supports in the meta at the moment. Then, you need to have a resource and roll both a pilot and a vehicle dice into damage to win the game. All the while, you will not have used any of that damage to defeat your opponents characters.

Construct the Death Star seems like the more likely of the two plots to see competitive play. There are plenty of dice that have good resource sides and the subtype on those dice aren’t limited by the plot. It is worth noting that there is no added value to big resource sides. They’re worth just as much to the plot as a plus one modifier. I do wonder that if you had 15 or more resources to play with, would you just win the game anyway?