Rotation has my hyped in a way I haven’t been hyped about Destiny in quite some time. We’ve never lost cards before, and losing almost a thousand cards affects our meta and deckbuilding far more than adding a couple hundred. When we add cards there are new teams to try, but we’ve never had to figure out the void being left behind by cards cycling out before. What will be good? Who knows?! What I do know is that I’m excited to play some Destiny as soon as Convergence hits the streets.

These are the squads I’m most excited about.

Aphra – Grievous – Battle Droid – Battle Droid

This one was proposed by my teammate NJCuenca and jesus h. hockey sticks this team is dope. We obviously get to “cheat” by having two five point characters in our list, but Grievous’s power action really shines here being able to reroll our BT-1 and 0-0-0 dice for free, and the amount of droid dice we could include in the deck are nearly endless; ID-10 and Assassin Droid are both cool includes in the deck when you take into account that between Aphra’s ability, Reprogram, and Tech Team we could be spamming droid dice in a profound way. Add to that we can be packing Delve to hit big supports like Pirate Speeder Tank, or spit out Umbaran Hover Tanks and Grievous’s Wheel Bikes so shit gets heavy fast. 31 health is a lot of health for Aphra to deal herself, fully capitalizing on the draw engine she provides. This deck seems absolutely filthy.

Luke – Aayla – Lightsaber Mastery

Y’all know I love me some Aayla, and her 13 points are coming in clutch with Luke and Lightsaber Mastery. I LOVE cards that abuse my deck number; this is why I loved Sabine so much – pulling her weapons from the Discard Pile was just so gross, Lightsaber Mastery makes me forget all about that recursion. With Lightsaber Mastery we’re essentially playing with a 7 card hand at all times (although we can’t use it twice in a round obviously), and even if we only get the two moves that are currently spoiled (we won’t), the card is very good. Deflecting Slash lets us sit on activating one of our characters until our opponents roll some damage, and Luke is one of the few characters who makes Serisou Training playable and Circle of Shelter ridiculously good. This is my go-to pairing for Lightsaber Mastery though Yoda might end up being better than Aayla if we get some nice abilities with strong specials.

Watto – Enfys Nest

While I think the Yoda/Enfys nest combo will be pretty popular this combination fits too well to ignore. While I generally hate characters without damage sides Watto brings quite a bit to the table. For one, he’s a Scoundrel for some reason, and the fact that he has a two resource for 1 side, just like Enfys, means that this deck is going to be able to crank out money. Enfys’s ability lets you resolve either of their resource sides with the modified side of Watto, so it doesn’t get left in the dust.

What I like about this deck is that if we can find some focus we can just put Watto’s dice to 2R/2R and not have to worry about mitigation, allowing us to pay for a Darksaber or a Vibrocutlass and still have plenty of money left over to pay for Enfys’s damage sides. While mono-yellow can be limiting I can’t think of a color I’d rather play right now. We’ll be able to play Shadowcasters and Pirate Speeder Tanks if we want, and Enfys lets us bring Easy Pickings as our two hero cards making sure we have some blowout mitigation to use our money on.

Mace – Literally Anyone

Goddamn I can’t wait for Mace to drop. HE PULLS LIGHTSABERS FROM THE DECK BEFORE HE ACTIVATES. Even if you don’t want to pair him with a Jedi (K2SO and Cassian come to mind), giving himself an upgrade and a shield is going to be very good, but I think Yoda and Aayla will be go-to pairings for this guy. I love that this isn’t relegated to weapon, so we can find all types of upgrades with specials (Treasured, Obi-Wan’s, Mace’s, and Ezra’s all come to mind) that will take advantage of having a secondary character with special chaining. But, Mace is so cheap we also can run him with Ezra, Lor San Tekka, and anyone else that lets us fit a plot in the mix. The fact that Mace also has 50% free, base damage sides as well as a two focus only pushes him over the edge for me. His 11 health is even misleading because he can shield up when his ability hits. What a beast.

Knighthood is an interesting add to any Mace deck as it turns his partner into a jedi and Mace can pull it (though they won’t get the shield when he does, because they’re not a jedi… yet). I think Knighthood is especially great on the new Ahsoka, but there are plenty of characters that Knighthood is just fine on. Either way, blue hero is going to need a lot of help health-wise to be competitive in the new meta, and knighthood is a free upgrade that helps us bolster our shields when using Mace.

Yoda – Cassian – Anakin

Sorry fam, this deck isn’t going anywhere. I’ve been running it in Trilogy league and it’s absolutely gross. Assuming we get even more strong mitigation from Convergence (we already have, and I’m sure more is on the way), this deck is going to remain at the top of the food chain; with it’s 27 health and an ability to shield up via Yoda’s special and Anakin’s Podracer continually flipping to the two shield side, losing both Second Chance and Force Illusion won’t hurt too badly. I could even see Lor San Tekka or possibly Satine replacing Cassian here. Cassian’s die is, of course, great, but without Second Chance in the deck the need for a second yellow character is less paramount, and Lor San Tekka re-adding mitigation to our hand might be too broken to pass up; plus he has the same health as Cassian, still has one discard side, but also boasts a 2 focus side. He and Satine are also at least one point less than Cassian, which lets us play Espionage, though in Satine’s case we could run Double Down or maybe even Astrogation. Cassian is insane enough that he might stay (having two yellow characters for our really strong spot yellow mitigation is also important), but I might mess around with Lor San Tekka just to mix it up.

That’s it for today, hopefully we get some more spoilers or even a release date soon!

Thanks for reading!

BobbySapphire