January 15, 2020

Written By: Vontz

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Today FFG has released an article of the game being officially cancelled. I was slightly blindsided by this because I’m an optimist and thought we had two more years minimum to this game, but alas, this is not the case. I’m privileged enough to have been given a platform at which I can give you guys my thoughts. This article will serve two purposes, what Destiny has taught me and a thank you to all content creators.

If you don’t want to read my thoughts on destiny, scroll down to my gratitude toward our content creators.

Star Wars Destiny is the first competitive card game I’ve ever played, and will probably be my last FFG game I’ll ever get into. I am incredibly thankful for Destiny though, it taught me how to efficiently play games and I learned a lot about myself as a gamer through it. I learned that I can’t bring my single die baze, elite chirrut deck to a tournament and actually expect to do well. I’ve always built crap decks (which is another thing I’ve learned) and I got whomped at my locals when I first started playing, thus leading to net decking. Which is okay if done properly.

The game has given me incredible confidence and an understanding of myself as a gamer. When I first started playing I played mostly with friends, and always wanted to go to the big tournaments but never really thought I had a chance. My first big tournament was a store championship of which I took second. That was cool taking home the Ahsoka spot gloss, even though it only had the 2nd prize instead of the vaunted 1st. That regional season my locals and I drove to Chicago where I took 4th playing Thrawn Snoke. This was a big deal to me because it meant that I could compete outside my local area, and that maybe I could actually play this game well. Later that season we drove over to Kansas City where I took down a regional with Yoda/Leia. Winning this tournament was a huge deal toward validating myself as a player, not only can I play well but I can win. I beat a solo Sabine deck in a best of three in the top 8, which is not the deck mill wants to see. I beat Serdapi in the finals on the millionaires deck (my deck was heavily favored) and he told me about the hyperloops discord and how it was only $3 a month. After winning a “major” tournament and top 4ing the other, I thought that maybe the loops could help me improve further. Joe’s videos and the decks they posted did help me learn to sequence better with a wider variety of decks, which then brings me to Gencon.

Gencon 2019 was my first tournament bigger than a regional and needless to say I was stoked. It was the place all the teams were going to be – ABG, Hyperloops, Artificery. I got to meet all of the content creators and play several of them in person, which was super fun. I made day 2 in the main event, I had to play Lanza in the play in round and beat him in a Satine droids mirror match. We had played a lot on TTS together and I’ve always liked Lanza. At that point I also met Kroozin, which was super cool to meet these guys in person because originally I had no idea they would be there, so meeting even more content creators was like the icing on the cake. I did however lose to Outrun playing ewoks in top 16, which felt bad learning later how to beat the match up and that I was super favored if I knew the game plan. But top 16 felt really good for a major tournament with a lot of the best players there. After the main event Kroozin and Lanza invited me to join EG, which I accepted. This was also a big deal to me, being invited to a team means that these individuals think that I’m good enough to where I can bring something to the table. It was also the perfect thing for me because I live an hour away from my local store, so most of my play-testing is on TTS and I needed consistent partners, so that worked out well. Where to go next but worlds?

Worlds 2019 was an amazing time. Everything from pods to the main event was fantastic, I couldn’t have asked for anything better. Hanging out with my local guys in sunny Minnesota was fanfreakingtastic. Meeting almost the full team of the EG guys and playing with them was super fun. The main event was really where it was at, I have to shout out HonestlySarcastic here for building the deck I brought and fell in love with. eC-3P0, eLor San Tekka, and anakin… thats right, mill. This deck has so far been my favorite deck to play, super flexible, very tanky with the amount of shields it can put up, and mills/controls at a fast enough pace to where the game can be over quite quickly. I played against 5 fateful companion decks, 4 of which were chopper, and I only lost to 2 of them. I won my other 3 games which then put me into day 2. Going into day 2 of worlds was an amazing feeling, especially after winning so many match-ups I considered to be an auto-loss in the hands of skilled players. I still think that my opponents are favored in that match-up, but its not as bad as i originally thought. On day 2 my first opponent was an aphra player, who I beat in 3 games. Turns out that delve fist is tough and it won him game 1. In top 32 I played against the solo sabine player from my top 8 of the regional I won. He got his vengeance when it really mattered, beat me 2 in a row, it was brutal. He was on chopper droids and played the match-up very well.

But taking 2nd in a store champ, top 4ing a regional, winning another regional, top 16 at gencon, top 32 at worlds, all from a guy who was bringing single die baze with elite chirrut is an amazing journey as a player. This game has helped me learn how to play other games efficiently, even games I’m brand new at. I can learn a game, learn how to build an engine in that game, and execute the win condition very very quickly, all thanks to Destiny. This game has given me an almost limitless supply of entertainment for the past 2 and a half years.

For the past 2 and half years I’ve been able to theory craft in the shower, build decks whenever I want on my phone, play on TTS or in real life whenever I’ve got spare time or listen to content creators almost constantly.

Content creators have been a huge part of this game in its growth and stability. I’ve been listening to content creators on my drive in to work and sometimes at work for the past couple years. They’ve taught me about the game, entertained me, made me laugh, made me shout in my car from disagreeing (at least if your name is Cody Williams) and have been all around amazing for me and the community abroad. ABG has been the most consistent podcast out there, and I love listening to all the guys on it. They all have great input, and their love and knowledge of the game is great. I’ve met a few of them in person, and have been lucky enough to play Kyle and Cody both at various events, and I feel proud enough to say that I havent lost to them yet lol. The hyperloops have been spotty (until recently) with their podcasts, but their articles and videos are consistent and great. Joe is probably the best player in the world, so learning from him through the videos has been an invaluable resource. I was fortunate enough to play him in the infinite GQ at gencon and beat him in the finals, so that felt pretty good beating the person who I consider to be the best. Discard to reroll is the most entertaining podcast out there, hands down, no questions asked. Mr. Chip does such a fantastic job at making people laugh, and I almost always stop whatever podcast I’m listening to and start up his whenever my phone pings me that one is available.

The entire purpose of the article was to say thank you to the content creators, and to tell you guys that you have meant a lot to me as a player of the game over the past 3 years. Sorry for my ramblings, the game has been declared dead and I’m apparently using this article to vent my thoughts and gratitude of the game as well.

But overall thank you to all the effort you put forth into producing content for this game. Arrow Brook Gaming, The Hyperloops, Discard to Reroll, Entourage Gaming, I Rebel, Roll on, Dice of Failure, Knights of Ren, The Garbage will do, Golden Dice Podcast, The Chance cube, Artificery, Late Night Gaming, Your Destiny Podcast, Dice commandos, Symbio at T3 Gaming, Jank it up fuzzball, Scruffy looking dice rollers, Team Covenant, The Jedi Trials baby, and last but not least Double Freaking Blanks. Can’t forget those guys RIP.

If you’ve made it this far that means you have nothing better to do with your time than read a man’s ramblings about a card and dice game that you and I love. Thank you for reading. If I forgot any content creator, I apologize, I’m sure somebody got as much enjoyment out of your content that I got out of the ones I listed.

We have one final worlds coming up in May, lets make it better than 2019.