This Film Deck Friday, we’re bringing you another pairing from the Clone Wars, Mother Talzin and her Nightsisters. The witches worked together in the TV show, fighting against the Jedi. The perfect pairing for a Film Deck Friday. There is even a throw-back to this pairing in Season 3 of Star Wars Rebels. If you haven’t been following along, check out last weeks article featuring Anakin and Ahsoka.

The Witches: Mother Talzin and Her Nightsisters

Mother Talzin and two Nightsisters pair up for only 28 points, we’re augmenting them in this build with the plot Stolen Intel. The plot should help us dig through our deck and find one of the best upgrades to pair with Mother Talzin, Crystal Ball. It’s special ability will let you check the top card of either deck when you activate the character it is attached to. This will essentially guarantee that Mother Talzin’s ability to turn a dice to any side. This can be especially powerful as a form of mitigation for your opponent’s rolls. Dark scheme is another card that will allow us to manipulate our opponents deck and put an odd card on top if we want to use Talzin’s ability for mitigation. It will also allow us to get rid of their most powerful card, which is not to be overlooked.

While adding cards like Holdout Blaster or Hidden Blaster would make this deck more competitive, they just didn’t seem to fit the theme of this Film Deck. Instead I’ve included some shadowy, dark jedi-esque, upgrades like Dark Counsel and Psychometry to augment our villains. Since the upgrades don’t provide a lot of fire power on their own, the characters will have to dish out most of the damage for this deck to win. Nightsister’s ability should help with that, allowing us to re-roll our dice for maximum damage.

You’ll notice that almost every card in this deck is an odd numbered cost. This is to nearly guarantee that Mother Talzin’s ability will trigger, but also so that some of our other witch themed cards will activate. Nightsister Coven is a one-cost support that if a character rolls a blank can be exhausted to deal one damage to that character. The catch is that you have to reveal a card with an odd cost from the top of a deck to deal that damage, which this deck should have no problem with. This deck also packs Spell of Removal and Witch Magick. Two more on theme cards from Legacies that require revealing odd-cost cards from the top of your deck. The art for these cards are also perfect fits for this Film Deck Friday pairing.

There are only three cards in the whole deck that go against the odd-cost structure, two copies of Manipulate and one copy of The Price of Failure. Manipulate felt very on theme for these witches who spend a lot of their on-screen time manipulating Maul or Asajj Ventress, amongst others. The Price of Failure is just too good not to include. One of the best cards in competitive play right now, The Price of Failure will allow us to turn a nearly dead Nightsister into a new activation of Mother Talzin. This combination can lead to significant damage, allowing us the re-use of Mother Talzin’s ability.

Mother Talzin has been piloted to some competitive success in recent tournaments and I’m hoping that it will translate into our Film Deck Friday format as well. Check out the video of us playing the three witches against last weeks winner on our Youtube channel. Let us know in the comments what you think about this deck and if there are any other pairings you would like to see in the future!