During a time long long ago I made a V-Log and talked about Bounty Board Vader. I honestly don’t remember if it was a public or premium content one, but it is time to unveil the beast. I’ve been spending far too much time at work and it’s time to get some aggression going against this Combo / Supports Meta. Can we get Big Daddy Vader a comeback with what are thought to be an awful set of niche cards??? I think we can! I present to you: BOUNTY BOARD VADER!!!!

I’ll preface this by letting you know that I had a total of zero games played with this, but a while back I had an idea for some crazy deck and I was originally running Barter With Blood so that i could throw 5 damage on greedo and cheat in a big upgrade or vader’s fist, but with Snoke Supports and Force Storm Palpatine running around, there are huge concerns with losing the bid and them getting the bomb to kill you with.

Edit: I ended up getting 2 games in with it between when I wrote this and when I posted, so I made some adjustments here and there.

The Resource Engine

We’ve got 2 sets of Bounties that can generate us +2 resources as well as a tutor for those Bounties to increase the consistency of it going off, and then No Good To Me Dead as option 5 and 6 for the ramp. 2 additional resources can go a long way in a deck like this. The primary concerns involve the fact that you would really want that kill Round 1 so that you can use the upgrade the following round, but 6 of the 7 upgrades can actually be played directly on Greedo if we choose to get immediate usage and Vibrocutlass actually removed the resource cost for the die making it that much better of an option.

The Bombs

The above yellow cards were a lot more obscure and less likely to be known so putting their pictures made the most sense. The upgrades aren’t really anything new, so i’ll save you the bandwidth in the case that you are on mobile. I’m heavily considering running 2 Maul’s Saber and only 1 Vader’s Saber because Maul’s has the higher floor with the ability to pay a resource to roll it back into the pull provided that the opponent doesn’t have any shields at that time, but I can actually put Vader’s on Greedo if I want to use it. These are the same huge upgrades and supports that were used back when Vader had Friends in High Places, so it really shouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary as far as the hopeful game plan. There is a vast amount of damage that is capable of coming out with any of them and we have the miser’s backup plan with being able to Dark Ritual Vader back to life which is likely to switch to a 2 of to make damage racing much more savory, but for now I don’t want to focus on that plan.

The Game Plan

Aim to spike a character off the table very fast in order to snowball into huge upgrades / Vader’s Fist to keep the damage going. Most decks playing against Vader will pile shields on the usual “main target” so it gives you a clear shot at the random henchman on the side. This can be risky in some matches like Palpatine due to the lower amount of removal in the deck, but it’s still often better than trying to fight through The Best Defense. Any time that we can get 2-4 “resources gained” via getting a kill, then we should probably go for it. I’ve only played 2 games with it so far, but it was very common to get things like a Round 1 Vibrocutlass on Greedo via No Good To Me Dead, or even a Round 1/2 Vader’s Fist and that card is so much more disgusting when you can actually spot Vader. The bounties turn into dead cards once the opponent is down to 1 character, so there are some concerns with it being clunky there, but initial testing has been quite good. I have to look into the other available upgrades, because putting them on Greedo seems to be the most beneficial due to getting immediate usage from it the same round, but I’ve only played 2 games and i felt way more comfortable with the deck being a bit more combo based.

Our removal is a bit odd, but with only 3 starting dice, it isn’t very hard to get Forsaken online. I wanted a Flank type of mitigation that is 1 cost and removes 1 die, but Overqualified was the closest thing I could find. For a Price is the best card from Convergence that almost nobody knows of. It is a 0 cost event that let’s us focus a character die to a side with a Pay side and that means 4r1 Melee for Vader. People usually play against Vader in one of two ways; Try to mitigate his dice multiple times OR Only mitigate the dice that aren’t his, so figure out which way they go about it early and make your best adjustments for that.

Why Am I Sharing This Publicly

It’s commonly known that I don’t like sharing lists that I’m working on publicly and keep them as Premium Content (Patreon) usually. The basic reasoning is that I had done a bit of work on it before and it got mentioned in the discord so i finally narrowed it down and cut the theoretical fluff, but then people were tossing Puke Emoji’s on it and hating before giving it a try, so I said i’d hand it off to the beautiful public and make them regret it later when they got ruined by one of you fine readers. I implore you to give it a try and use it to kick people in the ding ding!! It’s definitely not the most polished list, but it seems like a good contender to fight some of the meta decks between Fear and Dead Men and being as annoying as Watto because of the built in protection with Vader’s die. Good Luck and let me know your thoughts!!

~HonestlySarcastc

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