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Thanks for the feedback on the video! To go off what you said about Best of 1s being a let down for competitive play, would you then agree that the mulligan not being all too generous is also a let down? Let's say in the example games you mentioned about going down 0-1 and then coming back, would you have the same feeling of let down had you drawn a bad hand in game 2 or 3? I'm just curious and ever-intrigued by what results in a negative play experience for players. From our perspective, Best of 1s (sideboarding prior to the game) does take away something from the competitive side of things, but at the cost of that provides a more marketable product to new players as well as people and places looking to host events. Thanks again for watching the video and taking the time to let us know your thoughts!

@@crackeddicegaminghaving the option to mulligan and the skill to know which hands to mulligan is part of it as well. Yes you can have a non hand or a slower start, but if you build your deck properly you increase the odds of starting with a proper hand, another skill in deck building that is great to learn. Coming from a game like Pokemon that does Best of 1s at some events, and doesn’t have a very friendly mulligan system, I have had too many games where I just don’t get to play. The first event I ever played, I started a Pokemon and couldn’t really do much else, since there is no optional mulligan I had to just play my cards out and hope my opponent couldn’t attack on their first turn, they did have it and won the game on the first turn. SWU gives you the chance to be in every single game and the skills of resourcing, deck building, planning your actions, sideboarding, and initiative claiming, are all what make this game so impressive to me. Going to best of 1s takes away from some of those skills I have come to love and it’s why I am choosing it over Pokemon or MTG. Better system for mulligans and deck building than Pokemon, back and forth actions make it far better than MTG, and the list goes on for my personal reasons as why I think SWU is the best TCG I’ve played. I stand by the fact that best of 3s > best of 1s at competitive events, I love the concept of best of 1s to help introduce players and test decks and finding ways to get more players invested in the game, but at the highest level of competition, especially down the line, you don’t want a match determined by one player having a bad hand and taking a loss, knowing you have games 2 or 3 gives you hope and can show off your resiliency to comeback.

Awesome feedback and critiques! I guess what it's all about is how much variance does FFG want in the game. Interestingly enough, the mulligan itself creates quite a bit of variance, especially compared to other games like Lorcana and Destiny that had a much more generous mulligan. We kinda glossed over it in the video but the idea of variance in this game is quite fascinating. For the most part, what we're advocating for in this video is to make the game more enticing and friendly to newer players, primarily by making it more time efficient, at some level of expense of the most competitive players. There's an equilibrium somewhere out there and for the health on longevity of this game we hope to find it by putting ideas like this out there! Thanks again for taking the time to watch and comment!

Part of me just feels like Boba Fett is a better option overall in Villian Yellow. We'll see what happens when people get their hands on him and in person and start bringing him to bigger tournaments. New Boba definitely has some good potential. I think Gar Saxon's ability being always on for all upgraded units while undeployed is honestly much better than Boba Fett's undeployed ability. And yeah we definitely messed up the whole Stolen Landspeeder interaction lol. Regardless of that I still think, and I'm biased of course lol, that he is S tier!

@crackeddicegaming I PERSONALLY wouldn't compare heroism Boba with Villainy Boba from set 1. They are different archetypes. Both have one similarity. Their effects are always active even if villainy is a triggered ability, which is good. One is for extending, and the other is Gar Saxon on crack either passively or on the turn you play them. Sentinel, Shielded, Bounty, Overwhelm, Ambush, and any future keyword we get are always at +1/+0. It requires no more than simply playing the unit with a keyword. I personally would put him in A tier because of that fact alone. But on top of that, you're in green, the ramp color. 4/7 for 5 isn't bad, either. It's not S tier, but I believe it's definitely around A tier with potential to go S depending on future keywords. Han is still bouncing between S and A. Definitely, I would say the best, if not the second, best leader of the set. Cad Bane, though, should probably be S or A. Turn 1, the worst play you can do is take the first action, and even then, it's not bad. If your opponent plays a unit, you get to deal damage to their only unit no matter what. Their units will die too quickly to the point that they likely won't have more than 2 units to choose from at any point in the game, also making it easier to kill anything that survives. On top of that, if you effectively control the board like you should be, your Ambush units will always kill. Shields will be removed before Ambush. Even into grit, you're likely to just kill anything they bring out, and Cad Bane builds are low cost resource wise in red, and you get ramp in green to play things like Maul who also benefits from the damage since he's Ambush and Overwhelm. So Boba and Cad Bane are two leaders that I wholeheartedly disagree with your points as well as tier rankings on. Not to call you out, but to just provide an alternative perspective.

Wow this is like the nicest comment we've ever gotten😂 Appreciate the feedback and yeah that would've been a great idea lol Thanks for supporting the channel!

You can't, bounties are not "friendly" upgrades

Sadly, like @Cwynareiro said, Finn has to defeat friendly upgrades and your opponents bounties are not

Shoot man send us some of that secret sauce😂

Thank you! I think right now I'd lean towards new Han since he's in red hero. Being able to use Energy Conversion Lab with Wrecker and Poe is unbelievable strong. They both play somewhat similar in that they want to get out ahead of your opponent. The big difference is old Han is in cunning and new Han is aggression!

@@crackeddicegaming thanks! How does new Han deal with Krennic Green, OB seems to just completely ruin you since your guys are already wounded

Against Krennic on turns 1, 2, and 3 I'd try to go to space since Krennic green really doesn't have any great plays in space early and so they don't have a target for their Superlaser Technician. This is where Energy Conversion Lab and Poe really shine in my opinion! Try to maintain the initiative going into your 5 resource turn so you can ECL Poe into whatever target they would use with OB and they're cooked lol

@@crackeddicegaming awesome tips! Thank you so much!

Yeah they're definitely pretty similar in their function. Resupply and SLT are probably getting resourced against aggro but against control I like having the option of playing a unit later in the game rather than an event. It works well especially with U-Wing Reinforcement to counter things like Avenger and Power of the Dark Side! Either one is good tho!

@@crackeddicegamingI think you’d be better off playing spark of hope and resupply. They are both in aspect and ramp you earlier and for less. And there are plenty of other options to chump block for the avenger.

Thanks for the input! Spark in general for me has felt a little weird especially with lane dodging being a thing. Not opposed to giving it some more reps tho!

Something like waylay and spare the target are good counters as well as fell the dragon of course. I'd imagine most decks in set 2 are gonna bring counters so making sure to play around those is key. That's why I'm a big fan of Bazine coming out with U-Wing Reinforcement to scout their hand!

the blue card that defeat big units for 4?, some tempo movement retunr to hand? capture? change of heart?

I plan on force throwing my own to kill it

@@kezkoalthank you! I feel like those are all good options. Do some of those trigger before his ability triggers?

​@@jumbo2162 no matter the counter, as lomg as the Krayt "witnesses" the card being played, you're taking the damage

My badddd. Force of habit lol

Haha! We're still alive!!

Thanks for being a great judge at the event and supporting the channel! Trading me the Sabine cards was also awesome!!

Love that there❤️❤️. Imma make an updated breakdown for the one I ran at the showdown, it’s similar it just main decks a few different cards.

Here's the link to the list I've been running. The deck that I took the the $1k in March was slanted more towards control list. I've kinda remade the whole deck with a bunch of different cards to make it more aggro focused. Let me know ahya you think if you get a chance to try it out! swudb.com/deck/AFBaRCMaIesw

Bad stuff happens when our resident rules lawyer Chicky D isn't present😂

It does cost 5 but I think it's totally worth it againt control!

I've made changes to the original deck but haven't made any because of Vader. I think this version of Han actually had a pretty good matchup into that deck!

You got me there😂😂

Thank you!!

I'd love to see an up to date one as well

Here is the link to the updated list. Cards are always being cut and added but this is what I've been rocking with recently! swudb.com/deck/orvFEGRqp

Glad to hear you're having success with Han! I absolutely love the Leia matchup with Han. There's no better feeling than deleting a Leia leader with unit Han haha! Working on the Sabine matchup video currently. Let us know if you have any spicy cards you'd recommend in that matchup!

@@crackeddicegaming So I run 3 Greedo, as it can usually 2 for 1 a lot of times, and 3 Ackbar for restore and the removal, and a 1 of Syndicate Lackey to ambush into most leaders. I'd also suggest running 30 points bases, depending on the local meta, which I do. With resupply and Han, it's not hard to drop a Home One quickly which is game over for aggro decks.

Ooooo Red Han!! Gotta give that a try sometime!

If you'd rather run some other than SLT that's completely fine. He's great to U-Wing Reinforcement out when you have 7 resources and he just puts blue control decks in a bad position. Lots of times their best play is Takedown, Vanquish or POTDS and playing any of those with SLT is a win for the Han player :)

Thank you for the answer! The fact you play 3 home one and 3 reinforcement walkers makes sense to me, to add additional ramp in the deck. Was just curious if there are other specific tactics with the card (other the the cheesy turn 2 Han deploy). Anyways, I really love the addition of Lando and will test him the next few days throughly. Thanks for the input :)

Bombing Run has been working pretty well. It's great into another aggro deck if they go heavy into a different arena than you. That can definitely win you the game. Sabine ECL is probably better overall but double red Sabine has a surprise element that Green Bean doesn't!

Lando is my boy!

So I usually go to three different stores on a weekly basis in MSP. They all are typically 16-24 players depending on the night. I typically, aside from the normal amount of Sabine and boba, run into a lot of Leia surprisingly, one of them is fairly vader heavy. Also Luke has surprisingly been in a decent amount of matchups.

We love to see it there brother and it’s truly the best, also kinda an off meta that not a lot of people tech for. A lot of guys tech for like green bean so when you pull this one out it’s a lil surprising.

Been loving the Sneak Attack Home One combo with Falcon or Fleet Lieutenant! And let us know how Lando works out for you specifically against control!

@@crackeddicegaming I played Iden already before this video. No Lando and it was easy. It was Iden aggression however. Han is too fast for that build. If you have resupply and a 7 drop, it feels like auto win. Haven't had a chance to play against Iden command yet. However, Krennic command can be tough if they are running steadfast battalion with ECL. Krennic comes out a turn earlier than Iden, and if he's deployed before Han, a smart player will ECL steadfast into Han, taking him out the moment you deploy him. Krennic has 7 hp, so it makes Lando feel a lot less useful. I'm usually running the 30 hp base, but I'm also running Rogue Squadron Skirmisher. If I was going to run 3x Lando, ECL would make a lot more sense. I'll definitely want to try it eventually.

It’s usually 3 rarely does it hit 2 but also if you feel like you’re hitting 2 more often then there’s also cards to swap in for the non heroics. Like karabast isnt in this list but it definitely can be played to get that heroic count up.

Here's the link to the list: swudb.com/deck/orvFEGRqp I keep going back and forth on different cards. I've cut traitorous completely just because waylay does the same thing and it doesn't synergize well with U-Wing. Definitely feel free to sideboard Lando and maindeck Starviper or something like that if your local meta is more aggro focused :)

@@crackeddicegaming nice I've switched to echo base instead of Ezra too, way more stable. I like traitorous with Han cause you go to five ressources very fast with resuply and don't have a lot of good option at 5. You never missed it? Sparks seems like a really good add yeah, against control it's so strong to clear a superlaser blast or a no good to me dead on Han.

Fleet lieutenant was consistent enough to keep? I guess it's for the combo sneak attack and home one but it doesn't seem reliable.

And no amiral ackbard anymore? He's very strong with uwing and against aggro but he can be very limited

@@MeepleonFire Ackbar honestly just struggles into the Sabine matchup especially if you play resupply or Falcon on turn 1. Traitorous is great but I think waylay kinda just does the same thing. Fleet Lieutenant is great not only for the Home One combo but also to use on Battlefield Marine to take out Unit Boba. Fleet Lieutenant is honestly just a great card!

Lando might just be the most underrated card in the game!

Boba and Sabine are the next two!

Yeah, I have 1X Spark in my Han main deck. I played Boba against my Buddy (who was playing my Han deck) he basically won the game when he played Spark to remove my Firespray...

Sadly this is a no since you defeat the "resource" and not the "unit."

LOL thats a wild one actually, ive only bought singles and only packs ive opened are just from weekly play and ive got a set of foils for em LOL.

3 boxes and have 0 takedown.

you already know it, guess it couldve been an offense reference LOL, but that Bill Belichick cover 0 was fantastic.

Will have some coming soon!

Love to hear that!

Depends on who you ask LOL 😂😂 but yeah crankin chewy here agrees with you 100%

Yeah it’s a little obscure chewy deck, still might need a lot of tweaking to make chewy work.❤❤

Yeah it really needs starvipers maindeck. A single one of those with ECL can knock Sabine out of space, especially when you get the restore with initiative. Leia with tarkin town can recover faster from that play however. The deck also really needs takedown for Sabine, Iden and unit Boba as well. Treachery should be considered for maindeck at least 2 copies. Never put guardian of the wills in a deck you plan to take a tournament. It's a fun card, but it's terrible. This is definitely a casual build in the video. Looks fun, but don't expect to win.

@jonunciate7018 I'm trying a build with V wings, Star Vipers and arc-170s. With bright hope that's 12 space units with potential sentinal. Hoping it helps to close that gap in the deck. I think ground it safe in Chewie.

@@White0ni please don't run v-wing. I know it sounds cool giving it sentinel so they have to kill it and draw you a card but you'd be better off with an alliance x-wing. Arc-170 is great.

@@jonunciate7018 ok, I'll put that in instead. Thanks for the suggestion.