For those who are not familiar with this series I try to work on competitive/fun SWDestiny decks for players thinking about getting into the game with not a lot of money up front. I avoid using Legendary and expensive cards. The last couple of weeks I worked on the Heroes side of the 2 Player Starter characters and found them to be more than impressive. This week I’m turning my attention to the Villains who admittedly have stronger characters but have very little synergy with each other.

This is the updated budget version with Empire at War, you can click on the list to get taken to the SWDestinydb site where you can copy and change the list to your liking but I feel this is a good starting point for a novice. Building and playing this deck successfully will rely on anticipating who your opponent will be going after first and general tight play. The heroes side was actually harder to anticipate who your opponent would go after first since both characters were roughly on the same power level. This week its actually quite easy, Kylo is enemy number 1 due to his ridiculous ability.

The longer the game goes the more free damage he puts out. Granted, against certain 3 and 4 color decks he won’t be that great but he still will have a chance of doing damage and that’s all your opponent needs to know to make him the focal point. Any experienced player knows that his ability is more powerful the longer the game goes since once one of your opponent’s character starts a round with 2 or less health you’ll have the chance to first action kill them.

Phasma’s a great character and the deck is built with her being the last character standing. I’ve avoided too many spot blue cards like Isolation since Kylo will be the first to die. Right now I have one Isolation and a Lightsaber Pull as a spot blue cards. Pull is a card I would keep if I’m missing a 2 drop and 1 Isolation is great vs heavy dice decks like Vader but will be worse vs something like FN-2199 decks. Isolation would be a slam 2 of but I’m hesitant to go to heavy on spot blues because they can make your late game hands when you just have Phasma be unplayable.

Thanks for reading everyone. Below is a video detailing the card choices and additional comments.

And as always…

May you always guess correctly with Kylo’s ability.

-NJCuenca