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Hello and welcome to the announcement for our create a card contest brought to you by the good people at thehyperloops.com. The winner will receive a physical copy of their card as a trophy. The metric in which the cards were judged can be found here. This was not an easy decision because all of the entrants did a great job designing the cards. First off we have to let you sweat a little by announcing the honorable mentions! If any of the honorable mentions want to pay for postage I can send them a couple of packs of Spirit of Rebellion, let us know at thehyperloops@gmail.com

Honorable Mentions

Duchess Satine, Leader of Mandalore by Shane Kraeger

This is close to what I think a good control support character would look like. It’s a bold design but with action cheating and with no clear partner. She, like fan favorite Chirrut, don’t really scream to be competitive, so it falls a bit short. The Satine storyline from Clone Wars is one of the best that show ever did, and the purple text really pops as well.

Biggs Darklighter, Imperial Defector by Alec Saunders

Biggs has the complete opposite problem of Satine in that he’s definitely too powerful for printing, but this is a very interesting design. If they printed this he would elevate Hero decks into the competitive tiers, and might even be an NPE. Even if the ability was neutered a bit it would still be great. As it stands the Biggs/Qui-Gon Jinn deck will never be, but a man can dream.

Jawa by Richard Chan

The design, flavor and aesthetics are off the charts for this card. The issue is playability. Outside of a droid deck this card doesn’t work anywhere and currently that’s not even a remote possibility. It was very close to winning but it doesn’t grab my attention enough because of the lack of a home; the droids we have simply can’t carry you to victory.

Ashoka Tano, SNIPS by Jeremy Helmick

The creativity and design are awesome here. It’s hard for me to judge how good this would be. I would be concerned that this, in combination with Cargo Hold, would be abusive, but perhaps that’s only just good and not broken. Also, lets not forget Lightsaber and how awesome redeploying that with another die would be. Do all those things work? Flavor-wise its kind of a fail since she’s not some kind of blacksmith that makes weapons and gives them to people. With so many rules questions we couldn’t vote for this but it was a top contender for a bit.

THE WINNER

Ezra Bridger, Reckless Padawan by Mike Rudin

Creative, playable and flavorful. This card has it all. We had some debate internally about how good it was but ultimately the design was too strong to ignore. We all agreed that the lack of resource was a good call when it came to balance. This is the most exciting of the cards we received; It has two sexy abilities with the ability to play a premiere villain card being the most thought-provoking. There is a chance that this could be too good, but the character pairings don’t seem too problematic, and mid-costed Heroes really need a shot in the arm. Congrats to Mike!

Thanks for reading and as always…

May the rolls be with you.

NJCuenca (@NJCuenca)

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