Characters, Plot, and the Battlefield

BobbySapphire: These have all been previously spoiled so not much to add here. I’m not as high on Satine as everyone else, but Obi seems busted. The plot is very clearly just for the starter and will never see competitive play.

NJCuenca: New Obi seems good while Satine seems good for her cost. That Obi die is so heavy for the cost that I’d be surprised if he wasn’t playable with someone. The plot is meh but I could see it get some fringe play in Standard and it should see some play in Trilogies until more cards are printed.

BobbySapphire: Another in a long line of battlefields that give you a resource. An obvious consideration if you’re playing Satine as it gives you some nice anti-mill technology. In a deck with Mace or Rebel Engineers this could be especially useful if we can actually churn through our entire deck.

NJCuenca: A nice little anti-mill card for the family. I suppose if you are playing Satine and you are fast enough I’d condsider playing this.

Upgrades(5)

BobbySapphire: These are all a little underwhelming in some way: Armor is cool but has that pay side, Punch Dagger is fine being the Grey Baby Blaster but paying for a 2 side is rarely fun. Lightsaber has been outclassed since Spirit of Rebellion dropped, and Grievance Striker is kind of cool, but since it’s unique it won’t see a ton of play. Mandalorian Jetpack is the only card here I’m kind of interested in; there are a ton of big damage dice out there and this card could do work, especially on Arihnda, Poe2, or Yoda. All in all these cards are fine, and we could make a case to play any one of them, I just don’t think they’re better than what we have.

NJCuenca: Yesterday I was in favor of Grievance Striker and that’s still true but it feels worse in an Obi deck. Lightsaber is a sad reprint since it started to see no play and unless the card pool is worse than I think it is I think it still won’t be seeing any play. Mandalorian Jetpack might be good in a very specific deck but probably not with Obi. Republic Jedi Armor has a lot of text but in the end its not aggressive unless you play it in a Qui-Gon deck, it might be good there.

Support(2)

BobbySapphire: There aren’t a ton of leaders in the game, but the ones we do have are pretty good. I’m usually not into a reroll effect costing one, even if it’s permanent, but if our entire squad was leaders I would at least consider it since soft mitigation can have its place in the meta. However, dice are so good nowadays simply rerolling a Shadowcaster, Hover Tank, or Vader die is scary. Obi’s ship has a cool text fixing our blanks, and the die-sides are pretty strong, but at three cost there are better ships out there; it really depends on how tilted you get by rolling blanks.

NJCuenca: The truth is that paying resources to reroll dice hasn’t been good although rerolling opponents dice on a stick might be good enough? Probably not. As someone who played a lot of BB-9E I can tell you that there are better things to do with our money. Obi’s Interceptor has a very high ceiling for value generation and the die is reasonable but that would certainly be a weird deck that uses sticks and has vehicles. We haven’t seen decks like that before and I wouldn’t be surprised if the interceptor stays on the bench.

Events (13-1)

BobbySapphire: We get a lot of reprints here, none that I’m especially excited about. Truce is cool, I guess. I dig Calculated Risk in that it’s in the Obi Starter which is a good place for it since Obi’s die is so solid. The cards I think are really, really strong are Electromagnetic Pulse and Channel the Force. Being able to remove a vehicle die for free is just insane as vehicles are becoming such a huge part of the meta, however this doesn’t deal with Triple Laser Turret well as it can’t remove mods, which is makes it a rough proposition in a big vehicle deck that wants to stick lots of mods. Channel the Force is a cool Beguile that can hit our own dice or our opponent’s. The tough part is that there is only one blue hero leader, Mace, so to really take advantage of this card you need to pair him with another leader (Cassian maybe?), and you need to play it before Mace goes down to get its full, three-pronged effect. I’m not sure it’s playable if we have to leave one of the effects on the bench, even for part of the game. Without Force Illusion keeping people alive is going to be tough, and a conditional card like this doesn’t have me too excited.

NJCuenca: Besides Satine, Obi and Grievance Striker, Upper Hand will have the most applications out of all the cards in the starter. Which is sad since its a blue hero card but if you are into that you will be almost assuredly forced into buying two starters. The card is solid at removing specials and since Yoda is still around it will certainly see play. Depending on the metagame Electromagnetic Pulse will be either unplayable or the best card in your deck. I think most weeks it will be great in your deck but I’d also consider your other removal since you need things that are a bit more broad. The reprints are all meh and will have implications in Trilogy until more cards are printed for that format.

Yesterday’s spoilers were way better since I’m partial to good droid cards although I think Obi and/or Satine have a high chance of being Tier 1 characters.

We’ve been had!!! (1)

BobbySapphire: Not that we thought FFG would actually pull off a flawless spoiler stream, they left one participle dangling for us.

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