Thanks to I Rebel for having an easily accessible place for all the results of this past weekend. This past weekend was somewhat surprising since we saw Leia/Yoda/Taking Ground win four of the seven regionals. If you were a betting man you could have made a lot of Reddit Gold with that hot bet. The deck is in our Gauntlet page as a link but we will put it as a screenshot when we have sometime. We did mention it is good vs the more Hyperloop favored 3 wide mill but man, I didn’t know this would happen! The rest of the winners were Tarkin/Snoke, Becket/Mother/Double Down and Vader/Greedo.

If you are regular follower you will know that our Gauntlet Update from last week included Tarkin/Snoke even without it having any regional wins. That was an easy call because its a good deck, Tarkin’s a fan favorite and I knew people would try it and be like “man, this is actually really good.” The winner’s list was playing I Am Your Father which is more Vader hate to put the match up in the Tarkin players favor. IAYF is pretty cute against the 2 resource side since it just becomes a 0 cost remove a die card vs Vader. I think its a rough time to be playing Vader if people are playing cards like that.

Becket/Mother/Double down is simultaneously surprising and not. The choice of Double Down over Profitable Connections is an interesting one that I never experimented with but I suppose having an extra Witch Magick and some other good card like Energy Bow might make up for the extra resource. Not having Profitable removes one of your best plays which is action 1 play Beckett’s Rifle to kill a resource, I found that start to be too good to get away from. Also, with the 3rd resource its easier to play Vader’s Fist which is hard to get away from as well. Congrats to the winner for being bold and having it payoff. As an aside, I hope you listened to me and snatched up Tobias Becketts when they were like 7 or so dollars since now they are around 15.

And Vader Greedo won in a mirror match in Canada. This was a 21 person event and its funny that the larger events were won by non-Vader decks while one of the smaller ones was represented by the previous week’s meta, this is the opposite of previous weeks where most of the smaller events were won by non Vader decks while the bigger ones were won by Vader.

Decks That Didn’t Win

Like BobbySaphire put it yesterday Thrawn/Snoke made a couple of appearences along with a variety of other Snoke decks. His demise was clearly overhyped and he’s still one of the better “support/middles” you can play in villain.

Yoda/Han3 made the finals vs Leia/Yoda and also made the top 8 of another regional. I’ve talked to players who have liked that deck and it might pick up a regional if mill goes away for a little bit or if it techs heavy for mill.

There is a 3rd mill deck in the shadows which is Leia2/Lando2. That deck probably has the highest upside of any of the mill decks although many of Lando’s sides are just bad but Leia does a good job of turning the 2 sides into Mill sides.

Armored Reinforcement decks have proved to be a bit of glass canon but they are still are around. After a great week last week Iden/Mom fell off the face of the planet. In general, the AR decks are waiting for people to focus on Mill and Vader so the cycle can begin anew.

What’s Next?

Vader is still going to be around folks. It might actually be more dangerous than ever since Mill is shaping up to be the new boogeyman. I do not think this is the beginning of a Millpocalypse although I do see a cycle between mill and Vader starting. Perhaps mill is the savior you were asking for but like the monkeys paw or the terrible Wishmaster movies you didn’t wish the right way. You still have to worry about AR decks and Snoke seems to be trending. You also have a variety of 1.5 tier decks that can win a regional with the right pairings. The card pool is so deep that’s its very hard to have something that beats everything. You have to pick your spot and hope that you made the right call for the tournament.

Take care and as always…

-NJCuenca