UK Nationals happened over this recent weekend (started Friday but ssshhhhh!) and we once again saw a relatively varied Top Cut. It was once thought to be a Mill Meta and that we were just living in it, but the Top 16 only ended up with 4 of the Gen Con Winning eYoda / Cassian/ Anakin2 (Millionaires / Millpocalypse) and then a completely different Mill entry from eJabba/eTarkin. Who cares about mill though, their reign was short lived and it has actually turned out that only 4 of the Top 16 were 2 character decks. It finally feels like people have come around to my World which is the 3 Character = Best Team. Here today we have the story of one man’s struggle against the odds. Kylo2 is one of the most notoriously hated entities and potentially thought to have been a dying breed, but fellow Looper Sith Holocron piloted it to a Top 8 Finish and this is his Tournament Report:

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At the start of the Way of the Force meta, I fell in love early with both Snoke & Pryce, 2 amazing 13 point elite villain characters. After the 2018 Euros, I wanted to spend time playing both to see who would make the cut to pair with Kylo, as he is still a scary individual. A long story cut short is Pryce became my new lady love, and serious testing, both in real life and on TTS lead me to begin my KRAP journey to UK Nationals… This is my story.

My initial thoughts were very similar to Bobby Sapphires’ idea of Binds and double Shotos to tank up Kylo and wreck house. But in various games (too many actually) i would lose games through various packets of unblockable damage and as such my deck slowly turned from around a 26 Blue card deck to its final iteration of only 16. Red villain cards are not the best around mitigation wise, and my KRAP deck seemed too unequiped to take on the metas tier one decks. After much testing however the deck started to evolve & then Gen Con happened.

The Millpocalypse! The end of Destiny as we know it. Mill is OP. Too fast. Unbeatable. Which meant I would certainly need to tech heavily against it to give myself any chance of beating those Yoda / X slayers of card pools. More hard testing followed and as I sleeved my cards before jumping onto a plane, my deck was this –



(Click the Deck to go to SWDestinyDB in the cast that you want to download a copy of it)

My deck is only 2 wide so i need speed, specials, unblockable damage and also remove bad dice and mill cards from hand. It was a no brainer to include the Crossguard to chain off the Pryce special or my battlefield. Shotos had fallen away swiftly in my deck to easily be replaced by the Vibroknives. A Pyrce special with battlefield control is 2 unblockable damage which is crucial to knock off your opponents main threat. Heirloom on Kylo is a wonder card. Overwriting any 2 drop with that before he is defeated to redeploy to Arihnda is amazing and it being on the board at all is a solid 4 damage incoming. Ancients, well read on, and Force speeds to ensure critical moves and claiming when required.

A lack of supports opens up a larger event suite. CQA & Probe were astonishing all weekend, as were the Tactical Mastery and Best Defenses, solid vs aggro and especially mill. The zero cost mitigation cards were all we can go on as villain players and one copy of Feel Your Anger for a blowout vs a vehicle deck. Could I win my roll offs and get Emperors Throne Room often enough?

UK Nationals 2018:

ROUND 1 vs Thrawn/Snoke

Luck would have it that in real life I run a YouTube channel that allows me to play Destiny almost every day. Thrawn & Snoke together are a control deck supreme, but I have had many reps against it. Winning the roll out and knowing a good player will call 0 or 1, my Vibroknife is played as first action, before a Force Speed is placed on Kylo. He gets a hidden motive and I have a 6 die start. I Pryce roll out into 2 melee and special. Kylo goes off big time. In this game I claimed every round, hit all Kylo activations and killed Thrawn round 2. Once that happened the game was in the bag and I picked up win number one. 1-0

ROUND 2 vs 5 Die Villain

I was actually taking 5 die to Euros this year, so I know exactly how the sequencing of this deck works & immediately felt confident that my deck was in a good place. A very swift Bala kill round 2 and my opponent looked glum and I was elated. His main player eradicated, it wouldnt take Kylo long to end this… oh how wrong I was. Suddenly his deck fired, Talzin was hot fire both on my and his dice. Kylo exploded soon after and with 4 health left on Pryce after 2 game saving Best Defences, I was Free For Alled for 5. Game over and first loss of the day. Gutted forgetting one of my own favourite end moves I resolved to move on with life. 1-1

ROUND 3 vs OG Palp

There was a mix up in pairings in Round 3 (initially I was to face an 11 year old, who to everyones great delight made the top 16, alongside his father) I was sat in front of Palp. Now this is my bread and butter match up and although against a hard hitting deck should be an easy win. Easy game however it was not. Being able to control his dice and never missing a Kylo call eventually won me the match, but not before Pryce and Kylo were at 2 health left each. My opponent only plays Palp in X-Wing as well and I respect a man who sticks doggedly with his team, even when the meta has shifted. I won this game with the sly Crossguard saber replacing a Vibroknife, another cheeky from hand damage reason i included the card in the deck for & also because I missed the end card play in the previous round. 2-1

ROUND 4 vs Nute/Aphra/Ciena

This game was a bit cat and mouse, nobody likes losing cards or resources each turn, so I decided before roll out that if I had enough money I would take my 1 dollar. If I was not rich but had enough upgrades out (min 1 per turn) then pitch 2 cards for cash. This strategy helped me the entire game. Aphra, like most decks action cheats out droids and draws a card, so we target her numero uno. A back and forth battle, the game went on for nearly 30 mins, but by the penultimate round when i drew a Crossguard I knew I had the game and probably win in the same fashion as my last match. Ciena finally took 8 damage and my opponent claimed. I asked how much health was dealt and i replaced an ancient with my Crossguard for the ping damage. He jokingly said lucky play but in reality I had the card in hand from the previous turn. I also hit 75% Kylo activations which helped a great deal as well. 3-1

ROUND 5 vs Leia/Annie/TempleGuard

Finally! A mill deck. Would my tech come across well in this match up? Truthfully this game went as well as I could have hoped for versus a rainbow deck. Huge cards like Best Defense helped immeasurably, I actually used CQA twice, once for 3, the second to remove his remaining 4 cards next turn. In the final round of the game Probe removed 2 pieces of mitigation and a tooled up pairing that had easily removed Leia early had very little difficulty in dispatching his remaining characters. Kylo sadly went missing on every attempt in this game but I felt my thoughts behind building my deck to compete against mill may be well founded. Great game. 4-1

ROUND 6 vs Millpocalypse – eYoda/Anakin2/Cassian

Being sat at the top tables most of the day I finally face the GenCon deck, piloted by Sam Miles. Now I have repped this, played this, and know this deck. If I can opening turn kill his Annie off the board I’m in a good spot. This is my plan, especially if the Podracer hits the table. Sadly however, all plans go to the way side sometimes and Kylo is still MIA, presumed dead. My dice cant roll damage sides and upgrades are also AWOL. Sam is a fantastic player and easily removes my deck. After losing the roll off he already has the his own bf and seeing one card left in hand claims for the big W. I shake my head as my two losses were both delivered in ways I have previously done and chastise myself for allowing it to happen not just once, but twice. I am now sitting on x2 and one more defeat puts me out. 4-2

ROUND 7 vs Dooku/Talzin

Needing a confidence boost, I take my seat to smile inwardly. Not only does a mono deck get paired against me, but Dooku/Talzin is sleeved and my backup deck for the event we are playing in! Knowing how consistent this deck is I resolve to allow him to roll out before me most turns to eliminate the Dooku ability vs Kylo’s die sides. Having Force Speed and a constant 2 ping damage is huge, as is winning the battlefield. Tactical Mastery here is almost MVP and allows my first kill, before losing Pryce to a great play back. However for the third time today a Crossguard over a saber wins the match and I am one game away from the cut. 5-2

ROUND 8 vs TaCos (Talzin 2 Commandos)

Death by a thousand cuts and face off against a very good friend of mine for a spot at day 2. A deck everyone should be wary of, I feel (correctly or not) that killing Talzin as the main priority is the wrong choice. The Commandos do, little by little, a Kylo activation worth of damage in 2 rounds guaranteed. That’s where a lot of their damage comes from, annoying 1 cut after another so I decided to eliminate the Mandos first. I promptly killed one start of round 2 but my Kylo was at half health. A decent Kylo shout later and by round 3 the second was dead due to Pryce rolling her nut damage output of 4 melee. An ancient heal on Kylo kept him alive until round 4 where his Heirloom moved over to join a double Vibroknifed Pryce. Round 5 was the decider. Talzin on full health rolls out hitting her nut roll of 4 ranged, perfect death knell on Pryce. In hand I hold Hidden Motive and Doubt. There is a 1 in 6 on Doubt he rerolls the 2 back and he wins. Therefore lets take the 33% chance of choosing Motive and calling ranged, which I do. The reroll is a 1 range… I am momentarily saved. In the course of the game i had probed a Mind Trick and also a No Mercy out of hand…the No Mercy play if he has it still kills me. He waits and says 2 damage to put my lovely lady to * damage. I roll out Pryce to hit special & 2 Melee on Pryce dice, 1x on the Heirloom and one Vibro and a blank on the other. My opponent thinks long and hard and passes. I immediately resolve the special to turn the Heirloom to the 3 side to deal 4 damage. Simon, my opponent, realises he cant allow me to abuse this ability and claims. I need 5 more damage and reroll once to show 4. I discard to reroll and still show 4. Going for the YOLO i pitch to reroll the last Vibro and gain the base 1 for the win. He instantly smiles and shakes my hand as I then walk around to hug a good friend I have just taken out of the cut. Wonderful sportsmanship and as other friends walkover to see if I have won I am in a daze. I have made day 2. My deck is good against the current field. I have given myself a chance. I am in the Top 16. 14th in Swiss and up against the third seed. 6-2

DAY 2 TOP 16 vs Aphra/Snoke/Ciena

We had an off day at Nationals (I actually win the side event going undefeated with Boba/Phasma & win a Spot Gloss Boba!) but spend the evening testing against this deck with my playing partner from home. Adam and I build the deck as best we can and I lose often. Big shout outs to the Hyperloops and YOUR destiny people as they helped with tactics and advice, that I certainly listened too. It may also have helped as well…

In game 1 I roll 0 and my opponent takes his own battlefield. My main attack plan was to take out Aphra and at this tournament we were allowed to see the other deck list before game 1, whilst at other OP events its usually game 2. As a Kylo player any advantage on colour percentage is gold dust, but this was a fairly even split of red and yellow so I was at best 50/50. In game 1 I hit only once and am easily beaten, at no point do I feel I am anywhere near close to winning. In game 2 however and my battlefield, I start to do the KRAP things I know my deck can do, and my opponent can not find cards or mitigation to stop the melee barrage. As easily as I lost the first game, I easily remove Ciena, then Aphra to take the second and we are onto the decider.

With his battlefield again he says if it goes on bf control he probably has this. I agree. I am up against it. After hard mulligans each my first turn is to Probe him, only after the event did he tell me that those were the only mitigation cards in his hand. I was happy in game to see 2 events hit the discard pile and to make matter better nut roll 9 damage to once again remove Ciena form play. However this game would go the distance. All other games are finished and I still have both characters alive and also killed his Aphra. I am ahead on damage but he is showing a lot of damage. Here is why Illusiosn and Ancients are game changers. I take the 3 indirect using Pryce’s Illusion. I take 3 more on Kylo’s Illusion. I heal 2 damage from the Ancient. My opponent has a card in hand and pitches to reroll. His dice don’t do enough and only after wards on damage countback did we realize he was also milled. One amazing game and after a swift bottle of water I am Top 8…

TOP 8 vs Snoke/Ciena/Sebulba – Crotch Rockets

3 of these Crotch Rocket or Peaky Blinders decks made the cut, one the top seed. Here is where I make my mistake that cost me my chance at Worlds. I continue to assume that taking Ciena out early here is the best choice, making Snoke use Sebulbas die sides does not seem optimal. So I go all-in on Ree and in both games I easily remove her, my upgrade suite doing its job perfectly. My game plan is flawless, except his is better. Friends in High, Delve, Chance Cubes, and I am suddenly looking at a board state of hell. He promptly eliminates my pairing. and we are onto game two. My battlefield. All is well and I start exactly the same, popping Ree round 1. i have a Doubt in hand and pass as he does what his deck does and ramps. In turn 2 he has enough damage showing he could have hit for 15 and after the 3 done round 1, I look over to my opponent and scoop. It would only take 1 Planetary roll out to end my run turn 3 and I felt it was the correct choice to not even deal the damage tokens to my team. In hindsight going for Snoke should have been my correct choice as his 2 focus is just criminal in this vehicle monster. I am out but what a ride…

To go Top 8 at a huge National event exceeded my expectations and I honestly have not enjoyed a weekend of gaming that much before. It was a superbly ran tournament, seeing brilliant, like minded people and chatting to old and making new friends. In the build up to going I cannot thank my play tester group, The Hyperloops & YOUR Destiny guys for all their support. I will make a video of my deck I took to our Nationals for my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SithHolocron so if you want to see it in action click away. The deck will also go up on the dB as soon as possible.

In a meta heading away from 2 characters I am proud of KRAP, the version I have built seems good across the board. It works well as a fast aggro deck, but can also ruin a players turn or day with well sequenced Probes and Close Quarter Assaults. I aim to take Pryce out for another spin (maybe Nordics?) but finally many thanks to The Hyperloops for the chance to add to their amazing website of cool, informative and most importantly free Destiny content.

Simon Willis aka Sith Holocron

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Well there you have it folks. Kylo Pryce is still good, so all of those people who want to bust out the Mono Blue Heroes better watch their backs before they get hit with a chair from behind as they look to try to contend with the mighty vehicle and mill decks. I want to thank Sith Holocron, who should seemingly always be running the card with the same name but doesn’t, for taking the time to write this report for us and all of you. If you would like to show some support or have any questions then please leave a comment and we’ll make sure that it gets to him. If any you make Top cut at any Nationals or higher event and want to write a report, feel free to reach out to us, because we and many others would love to hear from you!

Both NJCuenca and I will be at Nova’s US Nationals this week, so come say Hi, but that also means that this week’s articles may not come out or may be replaced with videos while we prepare for the event. Until next time, may the rolls be with you!

~HonestlySarcastc

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