Some of you reading this are new players and you’ll be wondering “Who the hell is Lukas??” Long story short is that it’s a Meme / joke where we blame the old lead designer for the game who is no longer with FFG / Asmodee (idk which company they technically work for). Jeremy Zwirn is the current lead designer for the game. Now that the history lesson is over, allow me to bring you to a potential future moment in time.

I want you to think of a 2 to 3 character lineup that you see yourself playing. Any lineup is fine, but for this exercise we’re going to exclude Vader3 and Watto lineups.

Awesome, you picked an iconic pairing that portrays a specific time in a movie and your love for that scene. You just can’t wait to put them on the table and start shredding things. Even if you lose, as long as it’s a bit close you’ll feel happy that you got to play on theme.

Round 1

You look at the lineup in disgust because your opponent isn’t really playing the game “the way it should be” and is using random shit. Whatever, you’ll just crush their soul with the power of your THEME DECK!!! Little do you know of the impending doom you are set to face from that shit pile of random henchman. You play a Crossguard Lightsaber on Kylo and deal 1 damage to Talzin. The opponent activates a Rebel Traitor and rolls 1 disrupt and forces you to activate. You activate Kylo and Roll 2 Melee and 2 Melee on Kylo, then +2 melee on Crossguard…. BOOYA, headshot!!! Your opponent activates the 2nd Rebel Traitor and rolls 1 Resource and forces you to activate. You Roll Rey out into 2 Melee and another 2 Melee…. OMG, these are the best dice ever!!! Your opponent plays Execute Order 66 and apologizes. You ask to read the card and thank jesus that neither of them are Jedi only for your opponent to point at that Blue plot hiding out to the left of their characters which made your characters Jedi.

You’ve now lost all 4 of your character dice and have taken 4 damage in the process. You lament about all of those beautiful 2 Melee sides being gone (except crossguard which you rerolled and thankfully hit special with so all was not lost), but at least “It’s only this one round though, so all isn’t lost.” Your opponent looks a bit nervous as they play out the rest of their turn and gets a little bit of damage in and a resource or two whilst keeping one card to go into the next round. You play a treasured Lightsaber on Rey and draw a card and then your opponent does the double Rebel Traitor to get all of your dice into the pool again and then they Execute Order 66 again. You’re quite salty at this point at how lucky your opponent was to find both copies of the card only to find out that they got to bring 4 into their deck. You were a bit busy reminiscing about the movie scene when they showed you the cards that they got to shuffle into their deck. This is fine, you’ll just throw massive firepower at them next round even though you are sitting at less than half health now and there aren’t great odds that they found the 3rd one…. It happens for the 3rd time and you’ve now taken 12 damage and lost 12 character dice for the total cost of 6 resources and 3 cards and this is some bullshit.

You go home and write a letter to the lead designer for the Star Wars Destiny card game that you love oh so much. You’ve survived through the troublesome times Poe Maz and FN-2199. You were there for the R2P2 meta and Rey Aayla. You dealt with all the bullshit from Snoke decks crushing formats, people drawing their entire decks, and mill decks not letting you keep a hand. You’re tired of this shit and wonder what the hell these people are doing, where is the fun in having all of your character dice taken away like that.

Dear Lukas,

Y U DO DIS!!!!

~People who wanted to play a game of destiny

I don’t really expect it to go down like that every round, but if forcibly having all of your character dice be removed in similar situations to the above scenario isn’t the epitome of Negative Playing Experience for people then I’m not sure what was so wrong with erasing characters off of the board Round 1 with Seventh Sister Reset, FN-2199, or Sabine being able to crush a soul while not being interacted with. There are a lot of logistics to smooth out in the deck and you can’t really mess with Watto or Vader 3, which will become natural predators for the concept, but what about the other people at the event??? My ass has been living on Rainbow Supports Island for a while now so I can get out of that to an extent, but it is the equivalent to shutting out shit tons of most decks options and regular 3 wide decks aren’t excluded from this because they just wait for you to activate your first character and then they force the other 2.

I’m not the first to come across it and I haven’t been testing or even looking at Spark of Hope cards, but both Leddon and Mark had mentioned it and I felt that I had to make you aware of some potentially impending feel bad moments. I’m still waiting on the assumed nerfs that are coming, but it’s another set and just more questions as to if the play testers aren’t catching some of this stuff, if they aren’t good enough to realize the strength of some cards, or if the design team doesn’t listen to them. I guess last minute changes could be a thing too, but why risk doing that?? For any of you that are a bit newer and are wondering, I’m not a play tester and I have no intention of ever being one, because to my knowledge, there is no pay. The “You get what you pay for” bell has never rung so true when we get stuff like pre-errata LAAT gunship.

I’m not really worried about the combo at the top levels of play because there would be adjustments for it, but man does that just look bad to me, especially if this was found and allowed. Maybe it didn’t test well enough, but at that point, did Snoke and Entourage / Megablaster / Fist not test well enough either??? It’ll either be ridiculous and get hit after a while or we’ll transition to decks that aren’t heavily phased by it, or maybe my concerns are just irrelevant, but in my mind they don’t seem that way.

No matter what happens, don’t worry about it, because at least we have memes. Live still shot of new destiny players right before they play against Order 66 Traitor decks.

EDIT: Look’s like Watto got chopped in the nuts with the new balance changes so he is susceptible now as well. Also, I’m not going “This is BROKEN, PLEASE NERF!!”… it’s “WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! Do you hate casual players this much??”… I tend to only focus on the competitive, but I know that most of the money spent on the game is the more casual side of the player base and subjecting them to stuff like this is torture. We’ll see how this ends up going.

-HonestlySarcastc

Order 666 Not to be confused with Order 66, Order 666 is a contingency order for the Grand Army of the Republic, wherein all Clone Units are instructed to drag out the Amp and start blasting Metal like no tomorrow. Palpatine: Execute Order 666

Clone Commander: With Pleasure, Sir.

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