The following are the results from this past weekend that I was able to find. If you have regional results please feel free to email us at TheHyperloops@gmail.com. Shout out to Simas Danauskas for the Amsterdam results and JediGeekGirl from IRebel Podcast for some of the others.

Amsterdam: eKylo2/eTalzin over eSister/eBoba with Sabien/Ezra and hero vehicles in top 4.

Rochester, NY: eBoba/eSeventhSister wins over eThrawn/eMother

Holbaek, Denmark: eSeventhSister/Ciena/Nightsister wins over eSeventhSister/Ciena/Nightsister

Berlin, Germany: eBoba/eSeventhSister wins over Yoda/Hondo.

Siegen, Germany: eKylo2/eAnakin wins over eBoba/eSeventhSister

Trends: Last week’s showing from Seventh/Boba was no fluke and it took down two regionals this past weekend. Kylo/Talzin had a great showing, with Sabine and BROTK being powerful choices Kylo2 punishes those almost mono color builds. Thrawn/Mom made the finals of Albany and will probably be hanging around the top tables. The dark horse deck that won Berlin is Kylo/Anakin. That deck has done almost nothing and all of sudden it wins a regional…say whaaa??

Kylo/Anakin

I was unable to find the winning list but will gladly post it if someone has it. The battlefield could be a bunch of things like Ewok Village, Rebel War Room, Obi-Wan’s Hut, Outer Rim Outpost, Emperor’s Throne Room and Imperial Armory. I would skip Obi-Wan’s Hut and Outer Rim Outpost. Hut because shields are annoying for Maul’s Saber and Outpost because you aren’t as fast as other decks. Outpost might just be the nuts against stuff like vehicles and OTK but I’d have to test it out first. It just seems like you will be taking enough actions like power actions, playing slow upgrades and Enraging so you can get out your Maul Saber and thus will get outclaimed sometimes. I kind of like the idea of Imperial Armory since it seems profitable on turns you don’t draw Enrage or roll out resources on your first character, on those rounds you should be faster to the claim because you will be taking less actions. That battlefield is still pretty powerful so it could come back to bite you but decks like vehicles and mill just won’t care so its at least worth exploring. And the battlefield isn’t as dangerous as something like Outer Rim Outpost which a lot of players play even if they aren’t in the fastest character group.

This build tries to get out Maul’s Saber quickly since we are playing Anakin to make Maul’s Saber consistent gross. Lightsaber Pull will get you Maul’s Saber or if you don’t get that 3rd resource you can grab Crossguard or Ancient. This is another deck that can use Close Quarters Assault effectively and it might be the best CQA deck in the format because of the number of melee symbols and the number of actions it takes to get them into the pool. There are plenty of options to try, the following are cards to consider: Intimidate, Lightsaber Throw, Rise Again, It Binds all Things, Vibroknife, Trust Your Instincts and Dark Council. I’m trying No Mercy but I’m rarely impressed by that card. A lot of times I think “wouldn’t I have won this game anyway?” Such a question is impossible to answer in a vacuum and is probably match up dependent overall. This format seems to be very taxing to hands and because of that it might end up being terrible- you’re just one Friends in Low Places away from your opponent finding out you have it and reducing its overall efficacy. If your plan ends up being to try to rush down BROTK then I can imagine it would be helpful to have a plus 3 or 4 damage that they won’t see coming. I think the biggest knock against that theory is that Force Illusion is very good at stopping that but that card will be taxed with Maul’s Saber doing its work. One big consideration with all card choices is Anakin’s special requires villain cards to be usable. This makes a card like No Mercy slightly more valuable. Perhaps we should be playing cards with higher upside that are villain like It Will All Be Mine. I don’t know if anyone has ever gotten you with that card but it can be quite the blowout.

One big thing that comes to mind when thinking about this deck is the Anakin vs Talzin debate. Talzin is generally a better card but here we get access to a much more powerful Maul Saber and we get to play all the even cards we want! I’m not completely sold on which one is better but I really like free cards and restricting the number you can have is a high cost. I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing a mix of Kylo/Talzin and Kylo/Anakin decks at the top tables moving forward.

I got to say its really neat to see the evolution of this format. Most of the time things become cyclical but there seem to be enough decks that the format is acting more like a spider web. A lot of people talk about rock-paper-scissor metagames but that really hasn’t happened. Week one was Hondo followed by vehicles, then mill, then BROTK/Sabine and now we are entering Boba/7th and Kylo2 time. Will Thrawn/Mom be the next big breakout? Or will we see a return to a previous baddy OR will some mad man come out and take down a regional with something out of left field? I’m hoping for the latter.

Thanks for reading and as always…

May the trolls be with you.

@NJCuenca

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