Upgrades (4)

Downgrade (1)

Support (5)

Events (10)

NJCuenca: This is a lot to dissect so I’m only going to highlight a few and my perspective is going to from the view of the Standard format.

Characters

I’m slowly warming up to General Grievous. The 2 Focus side is what I’m most interested in on top of abusing his cheapening power. I can take or leave Commando Droid and feel that an 18 point character, Battle Droids or some droids that we haven’t been will be better suited. The pairing of Grievous, 2x Battle Droid, Aphra is going to be very interesting. Grievous will act as a pseudo fixer for all the droids you will be playing. With the rotation of Force Illusion it might be worth the move into that over playing Snoke and Bitter Rivalry. That pairing can certainly leverage Climate Disruption Array and the reprinted The Best Defense more than the Snoke deck, plus six health is very real for this kind of strategy. General Grievous’ Lair looks reasonable for a Grievous decks although if you can never claim it might be better to play something else.

Upgrades

I’m most interested in the E-Blaster Carbine and Grievance striker. Both seem playable for their respective archetypes which will force you to buy two starters. The Downgrade Shock Collar only seems playable in round 1 and even still I’m not very excited.

Supports

Tech Team is a welcomed reprint. I think Stap Droid is very good, like, welcome to the Aphra Droid Crew little bro! We were playing cards like Back-Up Muscle and Podracer and this one is better. That middle game 3 indirect is just nuts when you payed nothing or played it for free off of Tech Team. Grievous will give you some added consistency to make sure you hit it. Defoliator Tank looks interesting but its not the kind of thing I’m looking to do with a Grievous deck although if there’s some way to spam/cheese the special things could get ugly. Assassin Droid is certainly more powerful than Stap Droid, that ability is ridiculous, so welcome to the droid crew big dude! The crew is starting to get a bit crowded but this is the first week of Temptation Island and none of the hotties have been voted off. Just for comparison put Shock Collar next to Assassin Droid and then digitally set the collar on fire.

Events

The Best Defense, Probe and Block are all welcomed reprints. Probe is surprising because people raged hard against that card but I suppose red command needs some good cards and you want a way to punish people who want to play expensive events.

Roger, Roger only seems playable if we get droids with a solid 3 side like a 10 cost Super Duper Battle Droid. Pulverize seems like a lot of set-up for not a huge reward. Make Demands seems oddly specific for a rate that is available in other places – its a card that is bad late in rounds. Energize synergizes with Assassin Droid although the payoff isn’t worth it – most droids aside from Hailfire Droid Tank aren’t worth rolling back in for 1 resource. Automated Defense is certainly joining the Droid Crew, it’s the kind of card we have been waiting for. We’ve seen A Sinister Peace and when you draw a bunch of cards from Aphra the downside looks more bearable.

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