Today I’m continuing my new audio series, Digging Up Gem(me)s – a version of our Star Wars Destiny Podcast where I read what I consider my best works. I’ve been writing about Star Wars Destiny for over a year now, and some of my work is worth revisiting. I’ve decided to do so here in the popular audio format as a means of generation some new content. But, first, two separate “What’s the play?” conundrums.

In analyzing my latest TTS League match, my top 32 grind vs. Kerzerker’s Obi Maz, I’m up pretty substantially in game 2 when I encounter this situation:

Pardon the shitty blurriness, but we have a full health Rey with two shields vs. an Obi Wan2 wielding two Ancient Lightsabers and a Force Speed, with two shields himself. Obi rolls shit, for reference he’s got 1 Focus, 3X, 1X, 1 Shield, 1 Shield.

He exhausted Running Interference (every turn of each of our games, mind you), so Rey couldn’t activate, so I passed, and he resolved 4 damage into Rey. I rolled her out and got two 1X, a Blank, a 1 Shield and a 1 Resource. On his turn he focuses his Obi’s die to a 3X.

Our opponent has 5 cards in hand, 10 in his deck. He has one Hyperspace Jump and a Force Misdirection somewhere in those fifteen cards (he could potentially have other things, but these were what I was playing around at the time). Question 1: What do you do? (Note, you should form your answer before moving on to the next “What’s the play?)

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Okay, this is the main question: Later in the match, in the very next round, our opponent who now has 5 cards in hand and 5 cards in deck immediately rolls out Obi Wan, once again exhausting RI so we can’t activate Rey. That’s OK, our plan was to mind trick anyway.

Our opponent rolled 3X on one Obi die, Blank on the other, a 1X on his Ancient, and a shield on Force Speed. We’re still playing around Concentrate and Hyperspace Jump, in fact it’s super likely he has hit one if not both.

It’s important to study the picture just above to fully formulate a plan here. He separates the dice like this, what pile do you choose?

Question 2: What’s the play?

Please comment on this post or on Facebook with your reply. I’ll respond next week with what I did, what the options were, and what I might’ve done differently. Thanks for checking these out.

As for the podcast, I’ve re-edited, and updated this week’s article to have some more relevant examples, but for the most part it is in its original form. Because I often try to write about destiny principles rather than specific meta situations, these situations are still relevant to Destiny in April of 2018.

Here’s the original article: https://www.thehyperloops.com/deckbuilding201/