Today’s post is a guest article by Michael Spaulding. Michael is a Minnesota local who does a lot for the Destiny community here. He helps run the Twin Suns Cup – a local tournament circuit. He recently won one of these tournaments with a version of the Shadow Caster reset deck, beating both Luke and Jon on his way to the title! It’s a deck reminiscent of the 7th Sister reset decks from back in the Legacies meta, and I think you’ll enjoy his tournament report.
After a few weeks, one podcast we failed to post, and one new house, we’re back! This week we’re talking about how we would approach beating Thrawn/Snoke. Hope you enjoy!
The introduction of Across the Galaxy has seen all sorts of wildness enter the game. Double Down, -1 plots, Vader, and all sorts of pushed characters. Much of this wildness has been good and exciting, and I have loved playing ATG. But, a negative aspect of this wildness has been the introduction of more OTK decks – decks that seek to kill you in one round by drawing their whole deck and abusing a few cards. No one likes these decks (they’re awful to play against), and I am confident that some errata attempting to curve these decks will come – but FFG is notoriously slow at putting out errata, so it’s tough to be sure when changes might come. So, in the mean time, I consider it my public duty to help keep these decks off the table. Today’s article will look at some decks that I think can beat these OTK decks, hopefully giving those of you with an early Regional or GQ some ideas as you prepare. (Full disclosure: I have not tested extensively against the new OTK decks, so take this advice with a grain of salt. However, these decks are where I would start if I was preparing for a Regional in the next few weeks, and I think this is a good place to start if you’re looking for ways to beat OTK decks.)
As we draw nearer (hopefully) to heavy spoiler season, I thought I’d give my two cents on the characters we’ve seen so far. All the characters that have been spoiled are intriguing to some degree – I don’t think any of them are slam dunks, nor are any of them complete duds. Below are some of my initial thoughts:
As the current meta has moved more and more towards indirect damage, with Aphra’s murder droids and Planetary Bombardments hitting the table left and right, I’ve started to consider what cards might be good additions to decks. Cards that might be difficult to play or use effectively when your characters are being cut down quickly by direct damage, but that become more effective when your full cast of characters is surviving longer into the game. One of the first cards that came to mind was The Power of the Force.
