Fantasy flight has graced us with another article full of Across the Galaxy spoilers. This article focuses on the characters from Solo: A Star Wars Story. There are quite a few really interesting characters spoiled in this article! If you haven’t had the chance yet, check out our other articles on the other Across the Galaxy spoilers (Nova Spoilers and Announcement). Let’s jump right in to the new spoilers!

Lando Calrissian – Smooth and Sophisticated:

Empire at War Lando is one of my favorite cards ever printed. He just makes money. Well, this new version of the suave smuggler makes money too, just in a different way. With a power action that lets you play a yellow vehicle from your hand for 1 less resource. He also has an insane 4-resource for 2-resources side. While that’s worse than the original Landos 3-for-1, it is better if you’re trying to pull of a Planned Explosion. At 15-points for an elite version, I don’t see many good character pairings that are better than vehicle decks we currently have. This version of Lando also has two, two-damage sides, which is nice, but Lando really is all about making money and those are the sides I would want to roll if I were playing him.

The pool of cards that we can use to take advantage of his power action is a little limited. Here are the current cards that work with it: Smuggling Freighter, Anakin Skywalker’s Podracer, Escape Craft, XS Stock Light Freighter, N-1 Starfighter, Millennium Falcon (Leg), Millennium Falcon (Awk), Pirate Speeder Tank, and Millennium Falcon (AtG). While I would be happy to play Smuggling Freighters for free and Escape Crafts for 1 resource, there aren’t too many vehicles here that see much play in the current meta. There are no 0-0-0s or BT-1s that demand inclusion in a deck with Lando, and until we get them, I don’t think he’ll be very playable.

L3-37 – Droid Revolutionary:

One of the new characters from Solo and the brains of the Millennium Falcon, L3-37 has an ability to match her story. Before she’s defeated, you can attach her to a vehicle that you have in play as if she were an upgrade. There’s an added bonus of readying the vehicle if it happens to be the Falcon. At 11-points for an elite version and with a two-focus side, L3 could give hero vehicles a real boost. The problem with L3 is getting your opponent to target her while you have a worthy vehicle in play. Cards like Impersonate or Blaze of Glory could be good ways to make this happen. While I don’t think L3 is great, a turn where you are able to use Blaze of Glory to remove some of your opponents dice and kill L3, attach her to the Falcon and ready it, could be game breaking in your favor.

Qiira – Street Savvy:

The second neutral character spoiled from Across the Galaxy (the first was new Han). Qi’ra has a very interesting ability, allowing you to play both yellow hero and yellow villain events in your deck. Want to play Hyperspace Jump in your villain deck? Qi’ra lets you. Want to play Bait and Switch with your heroes? Here comes Qi’ra.

At 13/16 points I’m not blown away by her dice. Having a modified two-resource could be great if you’re able to resolve it. Otherwise, she has good damage, but low health. That’s where the new plot spoiled comes in. No Allegiance, can only be included if you have no hero or villain characters, and for -1 points each of your neutral characters has their health increased by 1. This plot is really just for thematic purposes, letting us play Han with Qi’ra, and bumping them each up to 12 health. There may be some other applications with characters from the Rivals draft set (Especially in a draft) or Hondo.

Dryden Vos – Ruthless Crime Lord:

My first reaction when seeing Dryden was, “wow, he’s good,” but when we talked it out, the luster fell away. Dryden’s special ability allows you to shuffle your deck and look at the top card, then play that card for free if you want. While this seems really good at first look, it is a pretty weak use of a 20-point character dice. You could build your deck to take advantage of the special, playing Delve and high-cost vehicles, but you risk drawing really poor hands and then not rolling his special.

Dryden’s dice is really impressive, with two- and three-melee damage sides and a two-focus. He also has a very respectable 13-health, which is what you want to see from a character for 20-points. His other problem is a pairing. At the moment the only elite villain you can pair with an elite Dryden is Bazine Netal. While Bazine has been seeing some play with Snoke recently, I don’t think she would shine with Dryden. Maybe we’ll get a new character that pairs well with him when we see the rest of the cards from Across the Galaxy.

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