We are 3 days away from GenCon and the Star Wars Destiny North American Championship – the winner will become the ruler of the US, Canada and Mexico in all things Star Wars Destiny. I honestly have no idea what I’m playing. I’ll probably be testing into tomorrow night until the Presidential Debates come on at which point I’ll probably get playing a drinking game where I take a shot every time someone says Trump – if I don’t make it… just remember that I love you all.

I’ve been working on various decks and they all have some weakness or another. At this point I think the best deck might just be the result of an educated guess or good pairings. I feel pretty good about the event because we’ve done a lot of testing and even though we don’t think we’ve broke it I think we collectively understand the format well. It’s an awkward time for me since I want to write content that is both informative and entertaining but I also don’t want to betray my testing partners so I am just writing about what I have been doing that is as far removed from what they have been doing.

This past weekend I was able to do some IRL testing at our local Battlegrounds in Saugus, MA for a kit tournament. I figured I’d try my hand at one of my crazy concoctions. I decided to play a Red/Yellow Villain Mill deck similar to the one I wrote about last week. The big additions are desperate Measures and Deja Vu.

I ended up going 3-2 losing one to poor play (VS Aphra which is one of our better match ups but sometimes you play bad and get punished) and one to a poor match up (Droids is a hell of deck). I was able to beat two Aphra and a Yoda/Aayla deck. The field was comprised of primarily of Aphra decks followed by some droids and then a random collection of pet decks. The finals was won by an Aphra deck, its a great deck going into this event although mirror matches make me less than excited to play it. Mirror match ups of this variety are really draw dependent, if you are the person who draws the timeliest Desperate Measures you end up winning the mirror. This and all well built mill decks do pretty well against Aphra but the rest of the field is harder. Decks are doing dumber and dumber things and when you have all your characters for 4 or 5 rounds bad things can happen. Even Aphra can roll and draw really hot to beat mill, they have lots of focus so you have to have removal for dice every round.

This will be our last posting for the week as we are doing our last minute testing and will be flying out soon. I’m really excited to see my friends and teammates at the event. If you are around at the convention say hi, I always love hearing from our readers.

Take care and see you at GenCon!

-NJCuenca