There comes a point in our life where some one talks about some old subject and you start a trip down memory lane. That happened to me today with this guys tweet about generations, then I mentioned it on the Loops discord, an entire discussion came about from it, and now here we are with you getting in on the fun. Some of you will have been here from the hey day of Awakenings (Set 1) and some of you might be starting out from Across the Galaxy (Set 6) or Convergence (Set 7). For the newer players, the nostalgia won’t be there, but you still might be able to pick up a thing or two as I go through the “degenerate combos”. There will also be some content creator nostalgia mixed in to further immerse you on your trip down memory lane. As a heads up, I don’t really follow content much if at all, so my information was data mined from others responses, so feel free to correct me if in disagreement; also, i’m likely to miss people, don’t feel bad if i miss you.

Baby Boomers

Content Creators

These are 3 faces / logos you should absolutely remember if you are a Star Wars Destiny “Baby Boomer”. For those that don’t recognize, they are Tiny Grimes, Knights of Ren, and The Chance Cube (going from left to right / up to down). There was immense popularity in the game even though it was seemingly sold out every where. It was the new kid on the block and these were the most notable guys to bring you information on the game. Tiny Grimes has since hung up his hat, but both Knights of Ren and The Chance Cube are still kicking around (albeit in lesser propensity than of old) to this day and they are true veterans. If you’ve ever seen their setups or the effort they put in to editing, it was often a lot of effort.

“Combos”

Sith Holocron was one of the great EVILS of that time and if you got to change it out to a Mind Probe or Force Throw on Round 1, then it was likely to be an absolute travesty for the opponent to slog through the match and win. Cries of “broken” were far and wide as people didn’t really run mitigation early on and this was often on Big Daddy vader or a pesky Tusken.

A much lesser used combo, but much more infuriating to the average person. The “Hyperloop” combo (yeah, we didn’t build or play it, but its where our name came from) was a feel bad situation when your opponent would just roll out falcon and be able to claim Throne Room to constantly use Hyper Space Jump to end the round. If you had no mitigation they would try to resolve whatever dice they could and just Jump away if you rolled out anything threatening. Round 15+ existed for this deck where as it is pretty unheard of reaching in any other deck. Hyperspace Jump got an errata to set it aside after usage because of this combo and it’s Negative Playing Experience ways.

Generation X

Content Creators

Man, look at that cereal logo. NJCuenca did that shit on his phone and I’m still quite amazed by that and the little colored Falcons. The other two logos are that of Artificery (middle) and The Destiny Council (right). This was around the time that more people were stepping up to produce content and we started to see an increase in releases of Awakenings and eventually our second set which was Spirit of Rebellion. Worlds happened around this time as well and Destiny Council did very well for themselves there. Worlds was a mild shit show due to the way tickets were distributed on a First Come First Serve basis so many butts were hurt by being unable to attend. Much more written content was coming out around this time where as the Baby Boomers were much more video / podcast based content, which seems ass backwards now that I think about it, Verbal Media before Written Media. This is around the time that “teams” and “top players” started to get used more as well as mini internet fights happening all over the place. People love controversy and it’s why people love wrestling! Nostalgia at it’s finest!!

Combos

Look at this happy bastard with his thumb up making the rounds again for being a Negative Experience. The deck was touted early on right after Maz was spoiled and had a good run through most of the format. You really couldn’t play a 3 or 4 wide list because Thermal Detonator ate you alive and there really wasn’t a way to stop it besides killing Poe with anything else just being a hope to contain them. Many a player had quit around this time as they felt “the game wasn’t being played the way that it was supposed to be”. Hit and Run + Fast Hands and throwing dice that you didn’t pay for at people left a taste in their mouth akin to drinking Milk left at room temperature for 5 hours … it didn’t seem that bad, but then you regret it with every fiber of your being as you got “Destiney’d”. I myself was okay with it, but I’m also the bastard who made this next absolutely monstrous deck popular.

Who needed mainstream characters when you could play random henchman??? If you were one of the people who got to see BobbySapphire and I in the finals of the North American Championship 2017 then you got to watch the epitome of Destiny WTF combo moments as well as masterfully biding your time to mount a comeback. Lukas got to watch us machine gun through dice and cards as we “pew pew’d” at each other with 1’s and 2’s and I’m pretty sure he had no expectations of that ever occurring. Anyways, the deck was filthy and any time you could legitimately Round 1 kill a 12 health character reasonably safely, it wasn’t a good time. Between this and Poe Maz, the game was ruined and you couldn’t really play most other decks. It took a long time, but this format was the turning point for having Balance of the Force and point changes on characters. Farewell old friend Nines, you are missed and unused, but not forgotten!

Millenials

Content Creators

Now we’re talking! This is the golden age of information at this point and there were many more to come out. The young-in’s are still picking up steam, but they have been an absolute pleasure to talk to and work with and I sincerely suggest looking in to them if you haven’t seen / heard their stuff before. ABG is Arrow Brook Gaming, the other 2 have their name in the photo, and Vader is YourDestiny. We’ve been pretty friendly with all of Gen X and the Millennials, but have definitely had our angry moments with most of the content creators listed so far. There is a ton of content to consume and most of the Baby Boomers and Gen X has stepped back a bit as far as public content and have taken to more paid content or split it between public/paid. The Millenials have obliterated the gap that was left behind and really do a great job and have also started balancing into paid content as well.

Combos

There was a largely quiet time between Set 2 and Set 4 due to the game being so disheveled, but we eventually got some Balance changes along with Legacies (Set 4) and an infusion of newer talented players making a rise during that time. R2P2 was big pre Legacy, but people really weren’t butt hurt about that. I guess Thrawn Unkar, Kylo FN, and Anakin Phasma but those were less combo based so I’ve fast forwarded to 2 other hated decks that left people feeling awful.

Oh Sabine and the way you “did things”. People were in abso-fapping-lute dire straits when she nut-rolled them out of the game. We also had a small time where the game had to change fundamental mechanics to prevent people from being locked out of the game by double Running Interference. People want to cast mitigation and stop your damage, but action-cheat Sabine doesn’t often allow it and that made for more feel bad situations. Even when she looked like she was “dead”, she would get a Second Chance to make a come back. Many things were changed due to Sabine.

How many times could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood!!! FOUR, the answer is that you could activate 7th Sister 4 times in one round and people usually died on the 3rd one. It was merely a fart in the wind because Maul’s Lightsaber got hit with a nerf real fast, but the deck was beautiful. BR-OTK (Blue Red OTK / BroTK) was another culmination of random ass characters being assisted by Nightsister and Boundless Ambition to heave dice at an opponent and try potentially murder a 12 HP character Round 1 or end the entire game Round 2. My love of using Nightsister and combo decks knew no bounds and the fear of unknown things to come is when we saw a HUGE influx of hand disruption cards start to be maindecked in every deck. Probe, Friends in Low Places, and Close Quarter Assault were all over the place. Seventh Sister Reset is what the original world champion called it in an article and we’ve since called it that because people hated that we called it Bro TK but the deck was 3 female characters… damn you single Force Strike man… damn you!!!

Generation Z

I’m from Generation X … we don’t know what is going on any more in today’s world of who is popular and who isn’t. We just want you to get off our lawn like our parents before us wanted Millenials to get off their lawn. Many new faces and I don’t know like any of them besides Discard to Reroll, Monk’s Gaming, L8 Night gaming, and Garbage Will Do. Here is last Friday’s News Roundup though and you can definitely stay in touch with what’s been going on in the week by checking it out.

Combos

I’ve taken the easy way out. Run one of these foul bastards to do crazy combo shit like make 5-8 Resources and play a bunch of supports or Armored Reinforcement a Shadow Caster and start blasting your opponent. Maybe you were running Mill and Force Speeding into discards or Clandestine Operationing into a bunch of mill. They floors tend to be quite high if you build around these Blue Behemoths. I’m so old that I don’t even know what comes after Generation Z, but it probably involves Wat Tambor’s or Padme’s crazy ass. The combo potential is strong now a days even though it won’t live up to the old Round 1 kills of old….

Or Will It!?!?!?

Hyperloop out!!!

~HonestlySarcastc

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