[Author’s note: This article doesn’t cover every single rare and legendary in Legacies, just the ones I think are worth mentioning from a competitive viewpoint. If you want to try a card that I haven’t mentioned, you should. If you want to play Grand Moff on your Thrawn because you always wanted him to be promoted to Tarkin’s equal, you should. As always, you should do whatever makes you happy, including buying 2x of every card and two more of every neutral. However, if you want to be cautious about what you buy, this article will be right up your alley!]

With the release of Star Wars Destiny Rivals, Legacies marks the first set I will be buying booster boxes of in order to accumulate my collection. This makes me sad. I loathe buying boxes (despite my absolute adoration for cracking packs), and much prefer buying a common/uncommon set and the legendary and rare cards I’m interested in trying or think will be format staples. For the last few sets I’ve gotten my C/UC sets and singles pre-orders from TheGameHaven. I highly recommend this site, and have had nothing but happy transactions with them over the course of the past year. [Full Disclosure: we are sponsored by The Game Haven, but I’m under no obligation to mention them at all outside of the image/link in the sidebar. I recommend them (and reached out to them for a partnership), because I trust them, and they are owned by Matt Schmaltz who was top eight at Nationals this year.]

Because we have gotten a lot of requests for a buyer’s guide I’ve decided to write up my Buys, Tries, and Cries for Legacies. I’m going to cover mostly Legendaries, but I’ll throw in a couple regular Rares in there that I think need mentioning.

Buys are cards I would purchase immediately regardless of the price if you’re interested in staying competitive. Tries are cards that I am interested in trying, so I would buy them to put them on the table to better evaluate them, but I wouldn’t go crazy trying to acquire them. Cries are cards that will make me cry if I open them in packs. Don’t trade for them, sell, sell, sell!!

Buys

Look there’s no beating around the bush here, blue cards are super powerful, and they get even stronger in Legacies. If you’re mostly a yellow or red player, rejoice; the cards you want are going to be much, much cheaper and easier to acquire since you can get nearly 1.5x value by trading your premium blue Legendaries.

Obi-Wan’s Kenobi’s Lightsaber

This is the lightsaber The Force Awakens should have been about. What did Vader do with it after Old Ben ghosted on him? If that isn’t explained in the canon yet I need to start writing. Destiny-wise this card is just savage. Those two 2 Shield sides are huge, and not having a pay side on your three cost upgrade is just great. The special is always one unblockable damage with the potential for four – this is a must have, and will go in every blue hero deck. Grab it!

Yoda

This guy needs no introduction, the perfect utility character is finally here for heroes, and Yoda is as good as the hype suggests, if not better. Being able to chain his specials together to get two resources while grabbing a shield or focusing another die is overpowered (OP). This guy fits into so many decks he ranks as a Buy even though he’s pricey right now. I truly believe that if you want to be able to stay competitive over the next year you’ll have to scoop him up.

Kylo Ren’s Starfighter

This card is great, and should be a must-have in any blue villain deck. People are gravitating towards mono decks, and a lot of the time even the two color decks are nearly mono one color. The ability to play Weapons Factory Alpha in your aggro deck will take away the advantage some battlefields provide for our opponents while giving us a 1-cost beatstick in the support area.

Maul’s Lightsaber

Another blue-only weapon, this card will be all over villain decks. Only one base damage side, but huge modified damage sides mean this thing will do some serious work if left unchecked. Further, its Power Action is gross. Any card that lets you roll its die more than once is great, and with the damage this thing can do you shouldn’t have any problems taking off shields.

Zeb Orrelios

I think Zeb is great. He’s a natural pair with Yoda, has 50% damage sides, and you can put any weapon package you want in a deck with him without losing synergy. This kind of flexibility and versatility will make him a Hero staple going forward, especially since he’s such an outstanding and high-health Second Chance target. Don’t sleep on his character type – Spectre, that could mean big things in the future since he’s the only Rebels character to have that type so far.

Must Buy Rares

Mother Talzin

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Aayla Secura

Hondo Ohnaka

E-11 Blaster

Yawn, more blue cards. Not much to say about these guys other than I think they will be format staples going forward.

Tries

There are a lot of intriguing cards in Legacies, and a lot of these are the best of the red cards. Red is by far the weakest competitive faction, but there are some really interesting red cards that I’m dying to try out. The below aren’t all red, but certainly skew that way.

Tarkin

We might finally have the perfect secondary character for both control and mid-range decks. He’s just slightly expensive at 16, which makes him very difficult to pair with, but while many support characters can’t do damage, Tarkin can bring the pain. I don’t need to tell you how strong double focus sides are, but add a 2 Discard and a 2 Indirect and Tarkin can do it all. His power action may be difficult to trigger, but characters that do free damage have always performed in the competitive scene.

Doctor Aphra

I’ve been testing a bit of Doctor Aphra on TTS and I like her a lot in a mill shell. Being able to play ID9 Seeker Droids and Interrogation Droids for 1 while still holding up one-cost mitigation has been spectacular. My issue has been finding the right balance of defense to keep her alive, which has been difficult. I plan to keep working on her because I think free money is too good not to continue to experiment with.

Greedo

I think Greedo might be borderline broken in the right deck, especially one with something like The Price of Failure or something else that will let you control when your characters die. There’s a lot to explore here, and it might not end up working out yet, but his cheap cost means that you can put him in some 5-dice decks, and if you figure out a way to make him the first target he could end up being really, really strong.

Zeb Orrelios’ Bo-Rifle

A die with a bunch of blue sides that you can resolve even without a base-side? Sign me up. This card is dangerously close to being in the Buy Zone, but with the prospects of a non-blue deck being dominant in the upcoming meta, especially out of heroes, I’m very hesitant that this will be an immediate staple.

Saw Gerrera

The hero of Onderon is pretty intriguing, as those indirect damage sides can really add up. I’ve heard people say that they really like him, and I can see why. I’m a little hesitant that he’s not quite good enough as anyone who played Kylo 1 knows what it’s like to hit a 0 with his ability, but the perfect Saw deck might be out there, and it might be great.

Some Rare Tries

Palpatine

Nute Gunray

Veteran Stormtrooper

Bib Fortuna

Rose

Jar Jar Binks

Hidden Blaster

Vibrocutlass

Cries

Sometimes people get offended when we say cards suck, but these cards suck. If you disagree, that’s great, you should totally buy these cards off me when I invariably open them. HMU!

Finn

Look, I like Finn. He’s funny, he has create reactions to things in the movies, but FFG hates him, because he sucks. His special is good, as we here at TheHyperloops are a huge fan of Willpower, but what’s with the 16 cost at elite? Did FFG forget that both Poe and Rey cost 15? That seems like a missed opportunity. Also, a blue side that doesn’t even pair well with its own elite die? Yikes.

FFG thinks that if they don’t release any strong blue abilities in Legacies they are nerfing blue (hah), and Force Wave being a legendary is a great example of that. The Blue Thermal Detonator that could force you to hit yourself for damage and a resource, I don’t see how this would take the place of any blue powers we already have access to. Also, with the onslaught of insane blue weapons they’ve given us in the last two sets why are we even playing abilities anyway?

Rebellion Leader

I think we said everything we needed to say about this card here.

Grand Moff

Like Rebellion Leader this just isn’t good enough. These 4-cost upgrades have never been competitive, and if you want one of these you shouldn’t have much trouble finding one under someone’s drink on game night. If Commanding Presence never made it as a competitive staple, how will this?

Wrap-Up

As I stated at the beginning, these are just my opinion, and if you disagree you should comment on facebook or below. I love hearing differing opinions, and while these were a lot of quick hits, I’m down to have a wider discussion about many of these cards. I know a lot of players love to just buy everything, and if that’s your thing, you totally should. I don’t think there’s a wrong way to buy this game that we love, so do what makes you happy.

Thanks for reading,

BobbySapphire

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