As most of you know by now, I’m all about the 3 character 4-5 die lineup decks and they are USUALLY Rainbow by nature. Normally speaking if you want to build solid decks in that category, then you’ll have to look at the cheap Elite Character Options, so I’ll be going over some of the lesser used ones and sharing some quick thoughts on them. We’ll be skipping Mother Talzin, Snoke, and Yoda.

The No Way Jose Group

A lot of these guys just aren’t actually good, not to mention not being good build around options. You’ll use some as one die options when you don’t have better choices, but they are just too far removed from being as good as Talzin, Yoda, or Snoke. Greedo should probably make it out of here because he’s not THAT bad, but we really don’t want him as an elite to build around with 7 HP.

Hero 11 (14 w/AR)

3 Wide Vehicles: Rose / L3-37 + Armored Reinforcement??

ROSE: Finally, someone that we can actually use. 9HP means that she’ll have enough staying power to guaranteed survive the 1st round and potentially the 2nd round. 2 Indirect, Resource (special), Resource (Special), isn’t too much to write home about, but shes coming in at only 11 points which sets us up for a 2nd elite character and then a 5th die from w/e leftover 6-8 points character we put. The best thing going for her right now is that Resistance Crait Speeder gets to be treated as 2Ranged/3Ranged/3Ind/2Shield/2Resource and access to the Dorsal Turret and Triple Laser Turret mods as well as the R2 Astromech mod for untaps. Having 2 control sides leftover isn’t amazin, but it’s hard to ask for more from an 11 point character. We can only dream of Ciena reprints! Modified HWK is another option for a scary die, but it’s a dead card late game if she goes down fast or if her specials get controlled. Removing counters from Bubble shields will give a good chunk of opponents the fits because her specials become Resource + Shield against Indirect decks, which eerily resembles Yoda’s Special for those 2 modes. I’d definitely check into making her work.

L3-37: L337 is more of a focus bot than anything else, but she (I know, but it’s how i associate it) is one of the few elite characters with 8 HP that is a threat whilst also not ever being the main target. Because her die doesn’t actually leave the table (via death) unless you don’t have a vehicle support or they removed her after (Vandalize OP). If you can feasibly get Millenium Falcon down, the untap from her ability is one of the scariest things out there. I can’t count the number of times that I self-inflicted her death (damage her myself or opponent’s Indirect dealt to her) and she got the untap and opponent was confused about how the Falcon got readied.

Armored Reinforcement: Both characters (individually) can easily setup Armored Reinforcement pairings to go tutor up their vehicle of choice over fitting a 5th character die somewhere on the team. Shadowcaster tutoring is a scary proposition.

Villain Vehicle 12’s

Mauler / Piett

Mauler and Piett individually make the beginnings of Small Vehicle based decks. I imagine these decks just going ham off of Tie Fighters and 3 cost vehicles as opposed to the pure ramp decks. Mauler requires a heavy infusion of Base ranged dice to really get in hard with his 2 damage sides, but we could be looking at a 5 die team when you pair him with elite Luce,Talzin, Sebulba, or Greedo and there are enough 2’s floating around there to lay into someone pretty hard from the start.

Piett can technically get his own engine going off of Tie Fighters and flipping their sides to 1 Resource and try to power out bigger ones, but I think he’s better off changing missed sides to resources to afford additional dice than trying to do all of that for a PURE resource engine trying to afford like Vader’s Fist or Megablaster Troopers, but those still might make it into the deck honestly because they are just filthy good. Pietts Indirect is a major downfall, but if we look to build around quantity of damage as opposed to quality, then it’ll definitely add up quickly to end the game.

Utility / Niche / Aggro?

Luce and Sebulba

Sebulba normally wouldn’t be here, but with Shadowcaster and Anakin’s Pod being major players currently in Trilogy decks, it makes sense that running him allows you to Sebulba Always Wins against some strong cards you should expect to run into. His 3 main sides are decent at 2 Indirect, 2 Ranged, 1 Resource so it’s hard to complain some times.

Luce is much more feasible since she is coming in at 11 points and has 3 damage sides, but with only one side being a 2, she doesn’t do a whole lot to actually output damage. She is also a bit vulnerable at only 8 health, but her Action ability is surprisingly useful for aggresive decks which may not get to afford real removal during some rounds. Shadowcaster showing a 6 Ranged and Triple Turret is there, boom, let’s reroll that bad larry and pray!

Not Really 3 Wide Material, but Maybe One Day

Anakin, Pryce, Wullf

These 3 don’t really make good options for 3 wide decks because they aren’t “broken” enough and 13 points really needs to be doing a ton for the points, because you’ll be losing out heavily in the pairings department if going 5 dice, but they have some really niche spots where maybe they make sense down the line in Set 8 or 9.

Anakin is actually pretty good when viewed as 3 sides of 2 damage (villain required for that), but we are sorely lacking in the small options for trying to go melee (which Hero has) so he struggles to really be used. Requiring to pitch a villain card for his special and then one of his sides being a payside are another couple drawbacks. Normally speaking we tend to steer clear of character dice paysides in 3 wide decks due to normally needing a bunch of resources, but maybe there is some potential here for an aggressive deck even though it seems unlikely. Villain wishes it had a Gungan Warrior for those moments.

Pryce has pretty much not seen play outside of a 2 character pairing with a 17 point (Kylo) AND also been good. Being 3 wide is synonymous with almost never having the Battlefield and Pryce hates not having it so she was pretty doomed from the start. Pretty much Dead on Arrival due to that and people no longer “Taking the Shields” when they crush her in roll off, so we can even get away with running the fields that swap controllers easily.

Wullf: Another Kylo’s helper who hasn’t made a splash elsewhere. He’s a mill deck guy and maybe gets together with Nute and new Dooku for some crazy 3 die 3 wide mill?? Already sounds terrible to me, but who knows!

Blue Hero Melee Spectacular

Ezra / Barriss / Aayla

We haven’t really had 3 wide Blue melee make a splash outside of the Yoda and Plo Koon ones… unless your name is Eric Wainright (there is no second W in his name people!!!!). With new Ahsoka coming in at 11 points, we could be seeing a new Blue melee option. There are a bunch of different combinations and pairings that we could see coming about and there is just too much to think about, so the only thing you really need to remember is that Aayla is 13 points still and we might be thankful for that if she ends up doing well with eAhsoka and Gungan! Barriss is likely to get the short end of the stick because she is more combo based and also not a Jedi and that pesky modified side. Ezra’s 8 HP is quite brutal, but drawing cards is nice and it leaves room with eAhsoka to fit in Vigilant who IS actually a Jedi.

A Need for Speed

Biggs

He should probably be with Rose and L337, but he lends himself to a more aggressive style of deck which really doesn’t fit the normal 3 wide plans. He is absolutely phenomenal in the 2 character Armored Reinforcement decks that tutor up a Millenium Falcon #2 and jam all of their dice into play to resolve them. I don’t think any of us have really experimented with making a good 3 wide 5 die list with him and I think there is potential there for greatness. Being able to reroll the vehicle and support isn’t super amazing but it is something and he does have two 2 damage sides even though one is a modified side.

Why No Troopers?? Where is Anakin2??

I left out Cody because mono based wide decks have pretty much always stunk if they weren’t Blue Hero, so I’m not touching it with a ten foot pole. Anakin 2 is quite strong, but making him elite with 7HP is the same reason Greedo struggles, which is that they can get knocked out Round 1 and likely cost you the game. Anakin is definitely better than a lot of what I talked about, so he’s getting the shaft here, but thats okay, he’s used to being cheated and still rising to the top right?? What are your thoughts on the 13 point or less elite options?? Did I miss anyone?? Thanks for reading!

~HonestlySarcastc

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