Looking Ahead to Year Two

2024 was a generally successful year for Star Wars Unlimited. While there continue to be some detractors, the game is in a good state after the close of its first calendar year. (Porg Depot recently covered this in more depth here.)

Here’s what we have to look forward to in year two…

New Sets

Collectible card games by definition need to keep putting out new cards. We’re slated to get three additional sets in 2025.

We are on the verge of set four, Jump to Lightspeed, being released. Months ago we speculated on what was to come (Details here) and we’ve since gotten to see a few cards. While spoiler season has not hit in full force yet, we now know that pilots are indeed coming both as leaders and as units. The cards spoiled so far by FFG are more than intriguing as the new design space is opened up and the space arena likely becomes super relevant.

No details are known yet about set five aside from the name. Some have speculated that the “Legends” part of the title could refer to characters, ships and settings from the non-canon Star Wars content that was created prior to the sale of the Star Wars media empire to Disney. Sure some of that content has been redone and worked its way into the Disney lore such as Thrawn, but much of it has not. This could be a way to include things like Mara Jade, Dash Rendar, Kyle Katarn, and many others.

Granted this set may also have nothing to do with the old expanded universe content and “Legends” could refer to powerful Force users.

Have not yet seen much speculation related to set six. If Legends of the Force is focused on powerful Jedi then this set could focus on powerful Sith and the Dark Side of the Force. The logos for the two sets could point to this as set five looks lighter and has clouds within the letters and set six with the dark purple does seem more evil. Not sure how that would work exactly in terms of set balance shifting from being balanced over to heroic and then to villain.

Of course the purple color could just mean that the entire set is focused on Mace Windu.

Galactic Championship

As of January 1, 2025 there are 205 days until the first Star Wars Galactic Championship at The Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada.

This will no doubt be the largest Star Wars Unlimited event to date. Spread across multiple days with an open entry grinder on day one for which Planetary Qualifier winners get a bye and then a day two with some amount of top cut from day one plus all the PQ winners.

The meta will potentially look nothing like what we have currently as there will be a 33% increase in the card pool prior to the event due to set four being released in March. The top 8, 16, or whatever the cut will be, surely will feature at least one leader that we haven’t even seen yet.

There are also likely to be many side events, although no details are known yet.

Organized Play Expansion

Planetary Qualifier season zero will conclude and as noted above the first championship will take place. We should also be getting details about regionals and sectionals. Prizing should get a boost as FFG will ideally have learned from some early missteps.

Variants

Carbonite packs are close to dropping and with that we will get the prestige variants. No idea what those are going to be yet, but hopefully we’ll see at least some spoiler of it soon.

The other cool card treatments that we are going to get this coming year will be in the form of a new convention exclusive. Also currently unknown to any outside of FFG, the manufacturer and maybe some key people that have been sworn to secrecy. A potentially good bet is that we’ll see something similar to the 2024 exclusive that featured villainous force users except for this year it would focus on light side of the Force.

More Just Random Fun Things

• More official game mats from Gamegenic.
• More fun stuff created and sold on Etsy.
• More streamed content from our favorite creators.
• More silly tier lists right here on Porg Depot.
• More details on set rotation.
• More details on a new non-rotating format.

So Much Ahead

2025 should be a fun year for Star Wars Unlimited. The FFG team is pushing into new design spaces, expanding the tournament scene, and keeping the game as fun as possible. Looking forward to all of this plus exciting things that we may not even have thought of yet.