With Convergence out I asked our Discord what topics they might want covered. Serdapi from our Discord suggested that I go over type synergies which I thought was a great idea. If you are in our Discord feel free to ping me with ideas for articles and if I like them I’ll cover them. Even if you aren’t let me know in the comments or on social media. Given that I’ll be talking about some Convergence Legendaries I’m going to discuss whether I think the cards are a Buy, Sell or Hold because I think its important to your wallet. I’ll put that info in Italics so you can skip it if you don’t care.

Who’s more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Before even looking at the characters we need to look at the payoff cards for Leaders. These I feel are the biggest draws and although there are other cards that incentivize you for playing Leaders the effects aren’t unique/powerfulr enough to consider. Amidala’s Ship gives a leader an extra shield but I’m not going out of my way to play leaders just so I can tank up a little more, I want killing power! Here we have four cards that do something above curve as a payoff for building with leaders.

Quicksilver Baton’s upside is two free damage which is pretty good. It also has a Trooper subtype payoff which gives it some extra upside if you happen to be in a Leader/Trooper deck. The potentially free two damage isn’t enough of a draw for me to go into leaders by itself because it is inconsistent and even when you hit it’s not always game breaking. To be fair there are very few cards that would make me want to go into an archtype by itself, you need to be on Vader’s Fist level of power for it to be worth it. With enough cards like Baton, however, it starts looking enticing. Financial Advice: As of right now its going for around 20 dollars on ebay. Since it’s a good neutral legendary it’s not an awful buy at that price although I’m not super excited. I’d say if you are a competitive player and you open them it’s a hold but if it gets to 15 and you don’t own them I’d say buy.

Megablaster Troopers is on the level of Vader’s Fist when you have a leader. It’s cheaper, isn’t unique and because of that could be better than Fist. I don’t care to make the claim that one is better than the other because you can play them both and not have to worry about it! Below I’ll be posting pictures of the leader characters but let’s just say that Snoke and Wat Tambor are going to be pretty good buddies with Megabaster. Financial Advice: They are going for around 27 dollars on eBay. Vader’s Fist is a 40 dollar card. Even if Fist is better its not that much better. Go trade or buy it if you don’t crack it, you’ll be glad you did when its 35ish dollars.

Seperatist Conspiracy was a card that intrigued me when I first reviewed it. Punisher type cards are usually not good but they have occasionally seen play when the options are beneficial or detrimental enough. The upside is that it does something every single round. What makes this card questionable is that you’ll need to build your deck to be good when your opponent chooses whichever option. There being three options really makes you have to cover your bases from a deckbuilding perspective – you need to have your deck be good enough to win when you don’t have the extra cards but fast enough to punish them for having discarded or paying you off. Early on they will either let you draw or discard. Later in the game the negative options become less harmful so they will just choose one of those. I need to test this card to see by what round the plot becomes useless. The card has some synergy with the new Count Dooku since it can stack an additional discard per round making the plot more powerful than it seems. The card could work really well for a mill deck or a deck that has the possibility of milling you out. I would love it if there was a top deck that legitamately could threaten through damage or mill, more on that later.

Salt Flats is a pretty sweet option for Leader decks. Being able to get a 2 focus on one of your leaders or allowing you to pair or get to your +2 resource side from Jabba the Hut puts it in serious consideration over playing Theed. It’s another card that adds to the Leader payoff although not quite as powerful as Megablaster Troopers.

The Leader is Good, the Leader is Great. We Surrender our Will as of this Date

You’ll notice that there are no Hero Leaders in this list. This is a conscious exclusion because the Leader payoffs are better for Villains and almost nonexistent for Heroes. If you haven’t done the search for leader’s yet I think you’ll be surprised by some of these. The cheaper leaders definitely get a bump in power, Nute Gunray is particularly intriguing for a Separatist Conspiracy deck since it punishes resources and their deck similarly to the plot. Stacking these kind of effects usually make them better than the sum of their parts. A deck like that might look something like this:

What a pile! But seriously there is an aggressive plan here and a backdoor mill win condition through all the punishing mechanics and random discard… that’s the theory at least. Unfortunately playing three leaders in your starting line up along with SC will only yield you a 3 die team which might not be awful considering that Wat Tambor could be in place of a Dooku die and FOST but then all the modified melee sides from the lightsabers get much worse. If you want to Tambor then you’ll have to adjust things. I have chosen a bunch of blue 0 cost events since they work well with Dooku just in case you have to play an expensive non-blue upgrade or support. This deck is definitely a protect Dooku deck but because of powerful cards like Megablaster Troopers and Vader’s Fist they can carry you after he kicks the can. You don’t make money as well as Snoke decks which is why I have included more money making events but admittedly its a problem.

This is just a tip of the Leader iceberg and its likely that some obvious pairing like Wat/Snoke/FOST will be better at utilizing Megatroopers but that deck kind of builds itself and something liek what is above is way more interesting to talk about. I hope you found this interesting and let me know what you think of Leaders in the comments and on social media. I’m still drawing from everyone’s ideas and I’d love to hear yours.

Take Care and as always,

-NJCuenca

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