This series explores new characters from the Legacies set. If you haven’t read part 1, 2, 3 and 4 check ’em out but they aren’t required readings.

Aayla Secura, Under Costed Jedi

She slices, she dices and she’ll even do your taxes! The possibilities for her are near endless because of how cheap and good she is. A week ago Eric Wainwright used her in an aggressive mono blue hero deck to crush his opponents.

This list hits hard and fast. It’s worth testing if you need a blue hero melee deck. I fear that it might be a bold proposition to play this in the upcoming format where Kylo2/Anakin Skywalker is a thing. For right now if this is your style take it out for a spin!

But what if you want to start planning for the future and want something with a lot of colors? Well, Aayla can go in a deck with all the colors of the rainbow.

While playing random opponents on TTS I stumbled upon a room where someone was playing this character combo. I was quickly beaten three times by a very good opponent. I thought the deck had promise but then BobbySapphire was beaten by this archetype in the top 16 of the TTS tournament playoffs and I knew it was legit. If you’ve never played against it you might think it looks a bit too fair but it grinds better than any deck I’ve ever seen, If you thought R2P2 was bad you’re in for a rude awakening. Both Easy Picking and Into The Garbage Chute are enormously tilting events that have an insane power ceiling. Vandalize is a card that people have adopted because it deals with Force Illusion reasonably well, it essentially turns one of your character dice into a 3 for 1 resource damage die in that scenario. If you play vs Holocron decks you can pay 1 to blow it up without needing to use a die which is great in the right moment. You have five character dice so you can easily take out a great 2 cost upgrades like Ancient Lightsaber. Since you have 5 dice you are able to leverage that tempo advantage really well by playing vehicles with the extra resources your characters make. Because of Rose and Aayla you’re able to reliably get resources which makes your gameplan consistent. The vehicles are cheap enough that you can play them without the fear of falling too far behind, you can play an alternate version with larger vehicles but I’ve tried it and I prefer this approach. If you are a player on a budget run out and get the cards in this deck, you can thank me later. You can even sub Maz’s Goggles for something else like another C-3PO to go without any legendary cards- you probably want two C-3POs anyway.

The deck is vulnerable to action cheating since its characters have small health pools but if your opponents don’t roll well you can pick off the good dice after they reroll. If they rush down one of your characters quickly your deck will be less powerful so if you draw badly early you might get steam rolled. Holocron decks with a good start and dice can overwhelm your mitigation. Still, this deck is really fun, good and somewhat difficult to play well. The difficulty is in knowing in what order you want to be playing cards, activating characters and resolving dice- since you have so many different symbols the ordering can matters. Its slow and one misstep can lead you to lose out on a great deal of value. Using Aayla’s special requires the right balance of patience and timing. There are a bunch of little decisions which add up to a lot in the end, take the deck out for a spin and you’ll get a feel for the importance of the small choices.

Battle Droid

This little guy is the most expensive rare in the set, he’s more expensive than many playable legendaries! As of the publishing of this article he is 13 dollars on Ebay. With such a pricey tag you might think the Battle Droids are overpowered but you’d be wrong. Essentially the price is inflated because a lot of people apparently want to build 5 wide Battle Droids. If you add in Seperatist Landing Craft to the mix you in theory will need 7 of them. If one of your droids died you can’t just use one of those for the Landing Craft because those characters could come back with something like Endless Ranks. In a casual game no one will mind but in a competitive tournament you’re going to want those 7 Battle Droids.

I know something is only worth what people are willing to pay for it but if you compare the power level of the droids with other cards the price is certainly inflated based on the small supply. I suspect the price will go down especially since this set will be the most opened set in the history of destiny because people will be drafting like crazy.

While not 13 dollars good the Battle Droids are respectable. Mono red has betrayed me too much and I was trying to find something else I could do with the Battle Droids. If you play 3 Battle Droids that gives you 12 points to play with… enter in another low costed elite character.

When I posted this deck in our Discord the first question that HonestlySarcastc asked was why not just play two Veteran Stormtroopers? Simple answer is that Attrition and Hate were cards I was building towards and having my characters die would allow me to do more damage without the need of dice. Hate is a card that has seen almost no play but here I can leverage my large health pool and slowly kill my opponent’s characters. Lockdown is a pet card of mine since the effect is free and such a surprise to your opponent. Here it can help you play both Scorched Earth and Lookout Post, a surprise Scorched Earth is particularly deadly. Drop Your Weapon is way better when you go first since it can be the first action you take and thus making sure you’ll be able to use it on a ready character. If you are playing on your battlefield Lockdown can grant your characters surprise Guardian. You can also play it after your opponent claims and then have the battlefield on the next round, oh the tricks!

There might be something here as far as a competitive deck goes. This is definitely more of a Battle Droids deck than a Talzin deck. You could skew the numbers to have a few more odd cards but I like most of the cards albeit some are very situational. I like to play to upside and this deck has it!

Thanks for reading, good luck, have fun and as always…

May the Rolls be with You!

Bonus! Dank Meme of the Day

-NJCuenca

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