Covert Missions will give Star Wars Destiny Jawa Junk Dealer, an arguably better Jawa than the one we have seen before.

Now you might be wondering why someone might be considering this card OVERPOWERED! In truth it probably won’t be but because it is accessible to both Villains and Heroes it has a better chance than normal to make an impact on the metagame. The biggest downside to them is that sometimes you might not draw enough cards to make use their abilities every tuen but I’ll address that in some of my builds.

Character to Concept

Now that I’ve decided to work on my Jawa Junk Dealer deck my first thought is to find the best Gray neutral cards that are available in standard. Many of these will be cards that are already played and I will dig a little deeper in what I consider to be playable because Jawa will be making them cheaper.

This isn’t every single gray Neutral but these were the ones that jumped out at me the most or have seen play at some point or another. I’m unsure if Sandcrawler will be playable but I suppose now is the right time to try it. There are a bunch of cards like Defend that are playable in the right meta but I didn’t want to include all of them.

Approach #1: Taking the Best

The first approach is to just take all of the best Gray Neutrals and shove them into one deck. A lot of these cards vary greatly based on the characters you decide to use. Fickle Mercenaries is probably the best card from a stats perspective. Merchant Freighter seems very good when its free off of a JJD – You can also pilot it but I didn’t get to any builds like that just yet. Hidden Blaster also seems excellent when we are playing range and with Fickle this takes us down a range direction. Harmless trick, Near Miss and Flank will be excellent when they are free and active. As we make the list bigger we need to be mindful that we can only get the discount once per round per Jawa – if we want more gray cards we will want more Jawa. This balancing act gives you freedom to either put one Jawa with a few Gray cards or play many if you want to go real hard. Admittedly having to restrict your deckbuilding to just Gray Neutrals might not be worth it but if you play only good cards than sliding in one or two Jawas will be beneficial.

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We are playing what look to be some questionable cards but with the price reduction my hope is that they will hold enough weight. Sandcrawler looks a little out of place but I could certainly see a grinding people out with Arena of Death and a bunch of dead Jawas and realizing that the card is the stone cold nuts – it is plus 2 or 5 health a turn after all!

Approach #2: Synergy

If you wanted a Grievous deck and here we go! The extra card from Stolen Intel seems very important to spamming weapons to set up a round 2 PA – perhaps the second tactical should be in here but I wanted to try some other ideas and the 4 hand disruption events will probably protect Grievous’ dice. Lots of redeploys will allow Jawas the chance to fight once Grievous is dead or if your opponent takes the killing Jawa plan they will have to deal with Grievous for multiple rounds – Admiral is here for additional yolo value when we go late. You can mess with the numbers of all of the events and weapons if you want to try this out. The first deck is probably better but this one has potentially higher upside with Grievous readying.

Approach #3: Jawa Mill

The card that makes us want to play Jawa mill are Utinni! and potentially Wretched Hive. Utini is obviously bomb diggity at 3 or more while I’ll need to see Wretched Hive in action but my gut tells me it will be utterly amazing early and kind of meh late. If we just think of it as a resource generation on a stick its starts feeling appealing. I went with this line up since it gives two colors, 3 Jawas and Renewed Purpose that will allow us to consistently play cards with the Jawas. We might have a hard time closing out the game but between Annie’s Podracer, Bespin Wing Guard and Sonic Detonators I think we’ll get there. Pyke Syndicate Mine was made for this deck and the upside of milling two and gaining a resource is huge, only issue is will this deck realistically be claiming? You could also mess with a mono red version with just Leia and three Jawas too, I’ll let you figure that one out.

I hope you enjoyed this dip into the Jawaverse. Let me know what kind of shenanigans you’ll be planning with them. Take care and as always…

Utinni!

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