This past weekend were the last Star Wars Destiny Regionals in the US and Canada. Additionally, Adeptacon had Galactic Qualifiers in Standard and Trilogies. I want to thank the I Rebel Podcast for compiling the results, if you enjoy the Podcast feel free to support it on Patreon. Having these results lets us see a big picture of the metagame and allows me to focus on highlighting some interesting decklists, if you haven’t seen them here are the results:

-eBoba/eSeventhSister over eRey2/eAayla in Atlanta

-eSeventhSister/Ciena/Nightsister over eYoda/eEzra/Rookie in Cleveland

-eRey2/eAayla over eBoba/eSeventhSister in Sutton

-eAayla/ePoe2 over eKylo2/eAnakin in Cheltenham

-eBoba/eSeventhSister over eBoba/eSeventhSister in Winnipeg

-eYoda/eHondo over eMother/eSeventh in Norway

-eAayla/eRose/Ezra over eSeventhSister/Nightsister/Ciena in Melbourne

-eYoda/eHondo over ePoe2/eHondo in Zaragoza

-eKylo2/Trooper/Jawa over eBoba/ePhamsa2 in Athens

-eAayla/Yoda/Padawan over eAhpra/Mother/Trooper in Ostrava

-eAayla/Yoda/Padawan and eAurra/eMother both went undefeated in Standard at Adepticon

-eTarkin/eAhpra and eAayla/eRose/JarJar both went undefeated in Trilogy at Adepticon.

Boba/Seventh is head and shoulders the big boogieman of the format. It deals a bunch of damage, has free mitigation and discard. I’d say it doesn’t have any truly horrible match ups since it does have god roll potential and against slower decks it can randomly make people discard their hands.

Anyone playing eYoda/eHondo knows they have a favorable match up vs Boba/7thSister. Two of those won regionals and it is a powerful deck that is in a great spot in the metagame. Going into worlds its a deck to look out for.

eAayla/Yoda/Padawan randomly emerged and won two different events. I’d imagine this has a solid match up against Boba/Seventh since it attacks on a similar access, has access to Force Misdirection which is just insane in the melee mirrors and has an additional 6 health. Here is the list from the GQ 6-0:

If you read BobbySapphire’s article about how decklists don’t matter I can kind of see what he’s getting at when you compare this deck to the Rey2/Aayla deck that he popularized. Certain cards matter more than the actual decklists and here the inclusion of Force Misdirection and Close Quarters Assault are important to stopping top format boogiemen. If you are trying to play fair you NEED to have blowout cards like that in your deck, its the closest thing you will be to doing to something unfair.

The following is more in line with the fair side of the world. A surprising archetype that came out of nowhere to 6-0 the GQ was Aurra Sing/Mother Talzin.

Bowie, one the Loop’s finest, destroyed the field with this hard hitting duo. The list above is from a Perth regional and has a link to a stream from the good people at the Perth Jawas. On the stream it defeats a Sabine/Ezra which gives you an idea of its realness. Managing your hand size to maximize your damage is a real concern with this deck especially when you aren’t rolling straight fire. Aurra is fragile but with mitigation, Force Illusion and Witch Magick you can keep her alive long enough to do some serious damage – Witch Magick and Force Illusion are those blowout cards that can create an insane tempo swing although the Magick will occasionally just be a Field Medic because of the amount of evens. Feel Your Anger occasionally creates an insane tempo swing while sometimes just being a stone blank. As of late I have a hard time not playing the card if I’m already packing good mitigation like Overconfidence. Having that option can swing a game incredibly. A card that I’ve been high on lately is On The Hunt. Against certain decks it can just destroy their tanking up plans – Yoda, I’m looking at you.

Even if Aurra goes down Mrs T pities the fool that underestimates her. This deck has an extra focus a little more than 2/3rds of the time, which is pretty good. It can’t realistically play only odd cards because some of the even cards are too essential to its plan but many of those cards are ones that you will be keeping in your opener (like Fast Hands and 2 cost guns) which helps the odds of hitting on Mom’s ability.

Two weeks ago:

Not sure you noticed but last week we didn’t post one of these due to scheduling issues but here is the quick and dirty of that weekend. Thanks again to I Rebel.

Regional Championships:

eYoda/eHondo over eRieeken/eYoda in Maryland

eMother/eBala/Trooper over eYoda/Rey/Padawan in Arizona

eSeventhSister/Ciena/Nightsister over ePoe2/eHondo in Washington

eSabine/Yoda over Rieeken/Yoda/Maz in Colorado

eAayla/eRey2 over eYoda/eHondo at a Regional in Denmark

eObi-Wan2/eMaz over eYoda/eHondo in South Africa

eAayla/eRey wins over eAayla/eRey at a Regional in Sweden

eKylo2/eAnakin over eBoba/eSeventh in Lincoln

eObi-Wan2 over eBoba/eSeventhSister in Bamberg

National Championship:

eQui-Gon/eYoda over eKylo2/eAnakin in Canada The big thing I want to highlight is the continuing domination by eQui-Gon/eYoda in Canada. Two of that archetype made the top 8 of that event (I believe they are brothers) with one winning the whole thing. I believe they changed Chance Cube for It Binds All Things and Guard for Hidden Motive. The Guard change might seem weird but a lot of the time Yoda wants to roll out first in order to pay for upgrades for Qui-Gon. This means you will not have the dice to Guard away until later in the turn. I’m sure after playing in the tournament they know which ended up being correct but it seems reasonable enough. I have been playing this deck and its solid but its hard to play when things aren’t going your way. Cards like On the Hunt and Frighten can be a huge blowouts and it has a hard time interacting with decks like brOTK. Still, this deck beat a Kylo2 deck in the finals which should give you an idea of its power, you can see that match here. The Kylo player went for Yoda and while I’m not going to say that this is wrong it didn’t work out for him. If you can kill Qui-Gon, say by round 3, that really diminishes the damage output and puts pressure on the Qui-Gon player to switch tactics. I think if you asked a QG player who’d they rather have someone go after they would probably tell you Yoda since going for QG messes with their plan and forces them to make tougher decisions. When someone goes for Yoda it’s pretty easy since your game plan was to put everything on QG anyway. If they go for QG you can’t just slam Shotos assuming he’s going to live. They can just blast a bunch of damage before you even have the time to get great Shoto value. Some people seem to think that without Yoda the deck will be less consistent but if you watch the match you’ll see that Yoda goes down in each game and the match wasn’t even close. I will admit that the Kylo player made some questionable calls in regards to his in game decisions but that’s a product of the QG player having the ability to put on some good pressure. I’ve been thinking of doing game analyses articles on matches like the ones from that nationals. If that’s the sort of thing you’d be into let me know and if enough people ask I’ll do them. This is the end of Regionals season and I think most people are very happy with where the metagame is at. The world championship is a little over a month away and I’d be perfectly happy to play this format at worlds. I’m hoping that there won’t be any balances to the force because of the time commitment further testing would entail. There are certainly some cards I don’t like but we are getting dangerously close to a point where its going to really stink if they randomly change anything. The players want time to playtest and if they change the format too close to worlds its going to suck big donkey balls. If someone from FFG is reading this that has some sway I beg of you to either drop the balance to the force soon or let the format stand until after worlds. Maybe they were waiting for the end of the season to see if any balances were needed? That makes sense. If I use that logic then if we don’t see any balances by next week then I think its safe to go play test hard with our current format. Let’s hope they are using that logic. Thanks for reading and as always… May the Rolls Be With You.

@NJCuenca

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