Another weekend gone by and a few more regional wins for people are in the books. I recorded another car V-Log to talk about some things, but as always, some stuff gets left out. One of the Regional events included the usage of both Legacies and the starters so that one is our first real view into the potential Legacies Meta. In the V-Log i talk about what i believe to be a Barcelona Regional, but I got that mistaken with the Caserta, Italy from the weekend prior. I’m not sure where I saw Barcelona Regional at nor the information for it, but if i do find it, I’ll have an update about it at some point.

WARNING: It was raining, so you’ll probably hear the wipers. (Editor’s Note: In today’s episode of “Does Joe Die in a Car Crash?” We’ve upped the ante and placed live scorpions in his car…Let’s see if he finds them… -NJCuenca)

I made the deck list photos double as the hyperlink to swdestinydb where they posted it for those that want to read breakdowns.

Laval / Montreal – EaW Format

I find the support structure to be very solid for their intended goal. The removal is a bit lighter than anticipated, but the pilot mentioned that Recycle was pretty useless to them and that could easily be shifted to another piece of removal / heal. In a meta where Rainbow 5 (eBala, eCienna, NS) is seeing less play, going 3-4 wide against R2P2 is a great choice since the meta seems to be slower and you can set up better. If you told me that MazHerati would have a Regional win during the EaW format, I probably would’ve applauded you for being a good comedian, but who knew!

North Carolina

Well R2P2 isn’t much a shocker, but we see another tech variant with this one having All in, Jedi Robes, a Defensive Position and a SENSOR PLACEMENT!!! I couldn’t find the Rainbow 5 deck list, but Top 4 was 3x R2P2 and a R5.

Salzgitter near Hannover (Germany)

After getting 2nd place at M:BG (Mission Board Game in Kansas) last week, the deck makes another showing, but this time Appraise has been replaced by Logistics. Appraise isn’t very amazing due to it really only working on 6 cards in the deck where as Logistics is a much better card, but if Rookie pilot dies, then it’s a dead one.. The deck has a ton of health which affords it a lot of time to get the vehicles up and running. It’s major downfall is that Rainbow 5 should destroy it if they can protect Bala – Tik. I’m glad that it finally got it’s win since I mentioned it as a potential new player to combat R2P2 in a meta musing earlier in the month. There is no real breakdown for the deck, but the key cards are Y-Wing and U-Wing and you need to land them fast! If people want a breakdown on the deck, comment and let us know. I know the guy who was piloting and tweaking the deck before his buddy played it at the Kansas Regional.

Dallas Texas

Incomplete data, but if correct the decks in top cut were the following: 7th OTK, Han Rey (Zach Bunn), Aayla 2 Padawans (Eric Wainwright sp?), Obi Maz, Yoda / Poe 2, R2P2, Hondo Poe2 , and Talzin R5 (Bala and Fost).

2nd Place

The deck is a spicy force meatball. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Defensive Positions, Planetary Uprising, and Retreat, but this time there is more, Froze Wastes is brought back. The deck seems a bit slow to start off, but once it gets upgrades, that special chaining is going to be near impossible to stop outside of being able to remove the upgrade die or killing off a character, so outclaiming them as a slow deck just doesn’t seem likely. There hasn’t been a lot of time to fine tune, so it is likely that we’ll see a lot of adjustments made in the meta, but this is a very synergistic start.

Winner

(Editor’s Note: Eric won a 44 person event with mono blue Padawans about seven months ago. He’s a master and you should take this list seriously. BB-8 will wreck you and he’ll keep oppressing metagames for years to come.)

This guy loves 3 things. Mono-Blue Hero, Padawans, and BB-8!!! I’m really not sure where the BB-8 love comes from, maybe he just wants to run it because he likes the character or it is efficient for it’s cost, but either way, he is a man amongst men! (the good version if you have to google it). Padawans are very efficient currently with the introduction of the starters giving them an arguably better 3 drop redeploy weapon since it doesn’t have any paysides and when the brittle padawans go down, they get to power up Aayla. I was a bit surprised about excluding It Binds all Things since there are 11 blue upgrades with a cost of 1 or greater, but he runs Reaping the crystal which allows him to jam down a 3 cost upgrade on a Padawan for 1 resource and he is essentially running 7 of those upgrades (5 and 2 pulls). He is essentially starting the game with 4 resources and 6 cards in hand due to his configuration and that alone gives him a head start against the competition and he also has some “tech” from The Power of the Force which can bump up his low valued dice and might find it’s greatest use on a Padawan Focus side for fixing several of his dice so that he can hit for major damage.

That is all that I have for now until next week. I’ll see you later again this week as I try to go over some of the CCG terminology that is commonly used so that newer and older players alike can become part of the “loop”. Hyperloop OUT!

~HonestlySarcastc

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