These aren’t new but I was told that some people may not have seen them and that they wanted to hear some honest (and perhaps HOT??) takes. First up is the boner inducing Mr Bones. CUE THE DANISH-NORWEIGIAN BUBBLEGUM POP BAND – AQUA!!!!

Mr. Bones, Bones. Calling Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, GET UP NOW, WAKE UP NOW.

Mr. Bones, Bones. Calling Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, WAKE UP NOW, WAKE UP NOW.

That’s right! He wakes up when he kills. I was insanely hyped for Mr. Bones until I realized that he isn’t a villain and that we couldn’t pair him with Aphra. We can jump through some hoops to put him with Aphra but I don’t think its worth it. In a hero shell he should be treated like a value support character that can do respectible damage. If putting mods on supports is too much of a liability this could give us another option for a cheap value hero supports deck. I know a little kid who’s pretty good with droids…

“Hi, my name’s Ani and Mr. Bones, Bones. Calling Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, Mr. Bones, GET UP NOW, WAKE UP NOW.”

In this set we not only get Mr Bones but we will be getting both the R2D2 and C3PO character cards. To say that Ani’s stock has gone up is an understatement. I have a feeling we will be seeing some serious ding dong line ups of Ani, R2, 3PO and either jar jar, Hoth Bro w/3po at elite or with Fateful Companions(which works really well with Ani, look at that!) Mr Bones will be going into any non-mill Ani deck and because R2 and C3PO are going to be good Mr Bones will see play and you are going to be sad if he ever readies once or even twice in a game. Its hard for me to see into the future but Bonetown USA certainly seems like a place I could see myself living in. From the perspective of attacking the Metagame a four wide deck is perfect to counter any Aphra deck looking although if you ever face Vader playing Fear and Dead Men you’re going to have a bad time.

I have a pretty good feeling that Mr. Bones will have an impact on the format although he will just give Ani and Fateful Companions another tool. Conditionally rebuying 2 and 3 damage is pretty good but compared to the shennangans that villain does with things like Vader’s Fist it almost seems cute. At the cost of 2 resources its hard to get something truly busted but the die sides on Mr. Bones are already above curve and it seems like the perfect storm for Mr. Bones to crack the meta.

Let me know what you think of Mr. Bones and the hero droids in the comments or on Social Media. I want to do more reviews of the Legendary cards from Spark of Hope but I really need to see what the rest of the set looks like. I already specifically discussed R2 and 3PO in a previous post, check that out if you want more talk about them. Mr. Bones is a pretty easy one because we’ve seen R2, 3PO and we’ve had Ani for a long time but I think many of us forgot that he can fix droid dice. That ability will make Mr. Bones a potent performer of violence.

Take care and as always,

-NJCuenca