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Today we look at blue spoilers we haven’t talked about yet.

NJCuenca: You are no Sith Holocron. That’s good since that card restricted design but bad because I like to play with powerful cards. This card has a built in way that fixes the biggest problem Holocron decks had which was drawing blue abilities when you don’t have them. This card isn’t bad but its not a card that makes me want to go out and build a hero blue ability deck. It will, however, make those kinds of decks more consistent. This is a neat little card that will make your strategy more consistent but you’ll need to be sure that the blue abilities you are playing are worth the deck building constraint.

HonestlySarcastc: Sith Holocron was so close to “fine” by its rotation that it only saw some random play at times. Jedi Holocron seems like garbage in comparison. It costs 1, it discounts by 1, requires spotting a Jedi and goes away upon use, but draws you 3 cards. I think they wanted to stay away from 0 cost upgrades which is fine, but that discount needed to be for 2 at the very least. The blue ability doesn’t have to go on the character this was attached to, so the loss of rolling the die into the pool isn’t a huge one, even though you actually lost the crazy special into special moments. I could see this being more of a combo card than anything else and the Jedi requirement probably means that that won’t happen either. Oh baby, going to find all those Soresu Training into Soresu Mastery crap??? Meh, Junk Rares bin it bro!

NJCuenca: Seems like a fine card for mill. You can choose the card that you give them which is actually pretty good at keeping them from doing anything meaningful.

HonestlySarcastc: We got Jedi Council via an upgrade for 1. This one isn’t so bad because of overwriting and it can help set up Lor San Tekka, but in a game where we draw until 5 in hand each round, there needs to be an amazingly good reason to try to dig through your deck. Enfys Yoda Bitter trying to find Fist maybe?? Add it to the junk commons pile

NJCuenca: That special has some serious upside. It seems like a reasonable replacement in Standard for Padawan (even though Padawan is obviously better). This is one of the better generic blue characters that they have printed but that’s not saying much.

HonestlySarcastc: I actually really like the special and could see it potentially getting some play at times. It’d be best with something that gives you consistency like Yoda, but it’s hard to complain about 2/2r1/Pseudo3/Resource. The pseudo 3 is because you likely stopped 2+ damage with it then dealt 1 which is pretty good. It’s not Force Throw, but that’d be actually broken on a character so I think this is fine. Being a jedi helps immensely for the next character. Will we see some eYoda, eAhsoka2, Vigilant Jedi w/ Allies of Necessity???

NJCuenca: Too bad that Ahsoka isn’t a Jedi. Oh well… maybe there is some card that can turn her into a Jedi and give her a shield for free? That card is called Knighthood and its in the Allies Draft starter set and if you want to play Ahsoka you probably have to get two of them. On her, Knighthood is Fast Hands that lets you resolve modifiers. Its also really silly to think that you will be playing a team with another Jedi and be able to resolve her modified dice twice. Non-Modified dice sides like these are available on way more expensive characters but if you jump through some hoops it should be worth it.

Knighthood is the kind of card that I would usually stay very far away from but this is the rare situation where it seems worth it. You might be saying that you won’t draw Knighthood and then you are playing a mediocre character which is a fair assessment but she’s still above curve when teamed up with a Jedi. The biggest strike against her is her 8 health but her two shield side will do good work in making her last a lot longer than any 8 health character we’ve ever seen.

All aboard the Ahsoka Hype Train! Or as BobbySapphire likes to call it the Ashoka Hype Train.

HonestlySarcastc: Her die sides are pretty frigging big, but they are also pretty blue which is saddening. She’s really going to require that Jedi build around to effectively use her character dice and that will mess up sequencing a bit. In the Allies of Necessity draft kit we do get Knighthood which can turn her into a Jedi for 0 and allow her to activate and resolve one of her own dice which becomes action cheaty and should benefit her immensely. 8 health for an 11 point elite puts her in a dangerous territory of being able to get ruined very fast / Round 1 killed and that was a problem with Ezra 2 also, but she at least has the damage sides to be worth giving it a try. I’d definitely make sure to pick up 2 and try some different stuff out provided that the meta doesn’t just one shot her too often.

NJCuenca: This card seems quite powerful although I feel this card was meant for a different format where you could still easily draw your deck. Maybe this card will make that sort of deck come back but I hope not. I could see this being the kind of card that is really gross in infinite. Its very cheap and has a 2 focus side which makes it pair nicely with a big dice character or just for a deck that wants to be very consistent… which is every deck. Its cheap and a great budget option. Nice Card!

HonestlySarcastc: I think for his points, die sides, and health he is fine. His Power Action can be quite strong in the late game when you can pick 3 similar cards and the opponent can only choose the lesser (least) evil, but in this game, the fact that we get to draw until 5 each round means that he just isn’t good enough. If we only had Draw 1 or 2 in this game then he’d be crazy good in combination with Lore Hunter, but here I think he’ll be relegated to some very weird decks or maybe some different mill variant. His ability will make Mill opponents hate life as they feed him and he gives the equivalent to +1 life each time he PA’s. For the most part i expect him to do his job in a finely built deck, but he’s just a “focus bot” without a 2nd resource side, so I’d prefer to just go Satine and move on. Also, WHY CAN YOU CARRY FORCE POWERS!?!?!?!

NJCuenca: I suppose that its good that you can’t play this in a Yoda deck. Part of me thinks that this card isn’t that great. If you use the special the first time you roll it then it gets reshuffled into your deck which is certainly not worth 2 resources – ask Infantry Grenades how many times it got played. . The funny thing is that the best side on this is probably the 2 focus side and I don’t remember Astromech destroying the format. The special side is certainly powerful but its window is pretty specific and if its the first side you roll are you really going to use it or are you going to reroll it? I don’t really want to be part of the life that has to make such a screwball decision. This card might be worth it if you are excited to roll 2 shield sides but I generally don’t like doing that. One of the worst Legendaries in the set, sorry Yoda.

HonestlySarcastc: I’m not sure how to feel about this card. So immediately we know that we can’t run him with Yoda unless we are Crazy or like to Gamble. For the beginning of the game, we’ll assume the Special is a blank, because we don’t REALLY want to pay 2 just to do 3 unblockable, but somewhere later in the game that is fine. I think I could see the card seeing play because it’ll pay for itself within two uses which is pretty standard for a 2 cost die card, and you’ve gained profit when you hit the 2 focus side. I think it’ll primarily be in aggressive decks to help focus, mill for shielding and focusing to discards, and then Ahsoka2 decks because it is a Jedi and allows you to resolve the Ahsoka2 character dice. I think I’d rather have Senate Chamber in most scenarios, but Hero struggles to find focus dice usually and Blue Hero has an even tougher time. I don’t see it being a highly wanted Legend, but I could see it getting use in the right deck. Focus for max damage or Turtle like a boss.

NJCuenca: A great card for a very specific deck. If you want to be playing the new Palpatine you’ll be starting your lists with two of these.

HS: As a one shot discount for a Blue ability, I hate the card, BUT if you have a Sith to spot, then I start to love the card. They are frequently called Cantrips in MtG which just means that it replaces itself (draws 1) which changes the spectrum of the usefulness to me. It’s very niche and specific but it gains a pseudo resource with no loss besides being slow an action and replaces itself (even though it’s only in a specific deck). Without a Sith, then it’s a shitty Luke’s Training and I want no part of it unless we REALLY need the “ramp”.

NJCuenca: If there is a Sith that can pair with a really expensive character then this will be worth it. Since the sith can’t flip its own dice that puts you into a really specifc deck. You can use this defensively but I’m not interested in that. I’m not the biggest fan but I could see it being playable in the right deck.

NJCuenca: This is a pretty cool card for limited play and that’s where its will stay. It’s too situational without much payoff for constructed.

NJCuenca: This card blows. On its best day its plus 6 to a die but thats only if its on General Grievious 2 and if you have both honed skills and 6 upgrades on Grievous. Yeah… In all seriousness, you can see how many hoops we need to jump through in order to make this card good. Its only saving grace is that its a move card and if you play a deck with a bunch of 0 cost upgrades it could be worth it to have this be one of the move cards you play with Lightsaber Mastery.

NJCuenca: Why does this card cost 2? I think just to make me angry. I think if it cost 1 I could see a metagame where it could be useful but never at 2.

NJCuenca: Free dice removal should always be tested but this seems too specific. If the format becomes a lot of 3 and 4 wide then I can see this being playable but in a middle/middle meta this will be as useful as foreskin. Also, if your opponent knows you are playing this its easy to play around even if they are playing 3 or 4 wide. Edit: I didn’t realize the wording let you have the single die. Still not amazing since you’ll want to have characters/supports with single dice and those decks tend to be behind but with the lack of good 0 cost removal this is likely to get some play.

HonestlySarcastc: I love me some of this card. I play too much 3 wide to not like it. I’m not sure that NJC noticed that either play could have the one die in the pool in order to be able to play it, so i’d assume he didn’t. Roll out my random henchman so I can jam this to stop a die from your roll-out seems feasible enough for me. It’s a bit janky, but Rebel Traitor activating to get 1 my die in the pool to then throw this out seems sweet! It definitely isn’t for every deck but I can get down with this even though in a lot of situations you’ll be representing that you have it.

NJCuenca: A card for combo decks, its better than a generic draw 2 so that’s something.

NJCuenca: With Force Illusion heading to infinite a card like this gets much worse but if shields are a big part of the Standard metagame this could bipass 2 or 3 shields which would equate to that much damage. That’s something certainly worth keeping in mind while building mono blue melee decks especially in Lightsaber Mastery decks. Your opponent will have to live in fear until you play both your Lightsaber Mastery cards.

HS: If you only have base sides in the deck, or very few modified sides, then Twin Strike could end up being a cheaper (and worse) Unyielding which was quite good at stealing kills. I’m skeptical about if we’ll really need unblockable with the loss of Force Illusion, but maybe we get to the point where people can sit behind rows of shields after we’ve pounded damage into them and you start to see this teched in for the finishing blow.

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