Across the Galaxy will be available on the 8th of November in most places (if you haven’t ordered yet check out our sponsor Game Haven, they have great prices). I am pretty pumped since I’ve felt a bit unmotivated to play Destiny recently. But I’m making a commitment to our readers and patrons that I will be producing my best articles and videos leading up to Nova and beyond – videos will mostly be for our Patreon subs but I’ll get some for our YouTube once and a while.

I like playing a lot of games and while Destiny is fun I play A LOT when I’m prepping for events. Drew mentioned in last week’s article that its important to not burn out and for me that is 100% true. When I’m just hanging with my buddies I prefer to play something like my Cube or the new Transformers TCG. I like to mix it up and you will see some of that when on our YouTube and on Fridays on the mothership. But enough about other games, with all the characters spoiled I can dive into some of the pairings I’m most excited about. Check out BobbbySapphire’s article about the new negative plots if you haven’t, I’ll try not to mention those kind of pairings since it will be a bit repetitive but I am excited by something like Yoda/QuiGon2.

Darth Vader, Terror to Behold and chumps

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I don’t want to talk about him too much but I couldn’t make a list without at least paying my respect to Big Daddy Vader. I think this will basically come down to who gives them the best events and upgrades since the characters are close enough in power level to each other that I don’t think it will make or break the deck. I personally can’t see any of the negative plots being good for him since 8 drops aren’t that much better.

Qui-Gon Jinn, Jedi Master and Barriss Offee

I suspect that Qui-Gon will be better with Yoda and Solidarity but I do want to try Qui-Gon and Barriss with a bunch of different combinations that try to maximize her ability. Qui-Gon’s dice are certainly worth turning when he has shields on him and flipping Barriss to a 2 for virtually free is just good value. Credit to bytowntraders.ca for the Barriss picture.

Clone Commando Cody, Rex and Clone Trooper

This probably won’t be good but we have enough red cards that we might be able to make a decent mono red hero deck. You can do this two ways. First, could do a two die Rex or you could do a two die Cody if you play a Solidarity. Cody is a cheap build around and he might be very powerful in some kind of deck that doesn’t even want Clone Troopers. His special could be devastating by itself if you find the right battlefield. Frozen Wastes comes to mind as one that would make opponents furious.

Nighbrother Fiesta

You ever been to a party with a bunch of shirtless dudes that are painted and really buff? Well, I haven’t but its always been on my bucket list. I generally don’t like putting bad cards with more bad cards to make them better but something about this seems intriguing… 33 health! They are such beefcakes! Perseverance will be particularly cute with Nightbrother getting you more options for the shenanigans. There is probably some lineup that builds around two Nightbrothers that gets to a 2nd color but on day one I’ll start here and see how crazy milling for 2 a turn will be. I suspect the cost will be too high but the cool thing is that you’ll be able to stop milling at some point. This card will most likely be unplayable but to be fair this sets characters aren’t that great. I’m trying. Credit to bytowntraders.ca for the pictures of shirtless dudes.

2x Rebel Engineer, Anakin and Ezra

The other two characters aren’t really all that important, what is of most importance is building around Rebel Engineer. The card could be the best character in the set. The only thing holding it back is that mods require vehicles which require you to fill your deck with both things which leaves little room for Events. I think with something like 6 to 8 mods it would be fine, then you need around 8 vehicles so you’ll be slighly light on events but whatever, you got a lot of firepower! Below are my favorite mods:

Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor

This is kind of obvious one but its important to test it since it could be very good. Its in the color of the great time walk cards in Hyperspace Jump and Retreat and both characters have consistent damage dealing dice plus Jyn’s ability could weaken opponents decks to the point where your team is gaining virtual health. I love that Jynn has 12 health which will make people go for Cassian and then they might fall into the Second Chance trap.

There are a bunch of possibilities and I’ll do another one of these once I’ve done some testing. Take care and as always…

Play the Jank Luke

-NJCuenca

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