Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! Edit (2:03 pm US Central) – We added additional decks and info for the Poland event, along with another Polish Store Showdown. Tier list changes This week we’re making one change, primarily because of the results of yesterday’s Orlando $5K (more on that in…

ICYMI, FFG hit us with a stream on Wednesday explaining the third new mechanic of the set, Smuggle. You can also check out the written article here that lays out most of the stream in written format. Smuggling is a new keyword that allows players to access cards they previously put down as resources, potentially…

We get it. Boxes of SWU are in short supply and many, many, many of you are staring at singles prices and hurtin’, mama. While yesterday’s timely stream from friend of the show Jim Cartwright contained both good news and rough news (the Set 1 reprint exists, but is definitely a little farther out than…

Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! Tier list changes We’re not making any changes to our tier list this week. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TTI League Season 1.0 Championship You can find the decklists for the current season here and the bracket here. This week, the Top 16 for the March Season continued…

While we were planning through a few different content creators to interview this week, another group chose to take the initiative and jump ahead in line. Read on to learn more about out friend Rebel Traitor from Take the Initiative below! Take the Initiative Tell us about yourself! What are your hobbies outside of card…

Welcome to the FOURTH episode of SWU OVER/UNDER, where the GarbageRollers crew tackles various topics related to the game and decides whether they’re OVERRATED, UNDERRATED, or PROPERLY RATED. This format lets us yap about almost anything, and today, we’re gonna throw in our takes to all the various talks of the town. The game is buzzing out there, but how…

Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! Tier list changes This week we’re bumping some Tier 2 decks down to Tier 3, as they have mostly faded from common play. Han/Red, Han/Blue, and Casino Han all get sent down (sorry nerfherder). Several control decks are poised to break into the Tier…

Fun fact, today is my birthday (Justin)! After a long couple of months of tax season and some 90 hour work weeks… there’s not much more I’d rather do than get with some friend and play some late night games of Star Wars Unlimited! With that said, let’s learn more about my friends from L8…

It is a day long awaited. While a ton of fun stuff has occupied our attentions in the last couple month, and we’ve found a lot to report on…there’s nothing quite like new cards. Spoilers have begun for the next set of Star Wars Unlimited, and the GarbageRollers couldn’t be more pleased to jump back…

Well, the first few weeks of SWU have been a wild ride, huh? How you doing out there? For those of us who have played lots of card games, a lot of the stuff that’s defined this early game experience – product shortages, wild variance in single pricing, metagame concerns- is par for the course.…

Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! Chewie Climbs the Rungs This week we’re elevating Chewbacca/Green to Tier 2 from Tier 3. The testing we’ve done with the walking carpet indicates that, while his power level isn’t extreme, he has solid matchups into most decks. It’s possible that a skilled player…

Happy Friday! This week we’re taking a deeper dive into the boys from Artificery. Come find out how the former Star Wars Destiny group came back together for Star Wars Unlimited! Artificery Tell us about your yourselves! What are your hobbies outside of card games? Tacster: I’m Nick, aka Tacster. My main hobbies outside of…

Boba has had quite a week. He advanced to force a Boba-on-Boba finals in the TTI league. He took 2nd and 3rd in a French tournament. Most chillingly, it took all 8 spots at the Unlimited Launch Event in the UK. In the face of that kind of domination, it’s fair of people to ask…

Thanks for tuning into another collection of high-level musings, GarbageRollers faithful! To start- no shame at all if you’re not hip enough to card game lingo to know what the names in the article title are referring to. There’s an iconic article by MTG mastermind Mark Rosewater that breaks down, roughly, three different types of…

Greetings! Thanks so much for supporting the GarbageRollers as we’ve worked to make great content during the last year. We love the game, and the community has been so supportive of our efforts to cover it. Thank you so much for reading and watching along! In light of our new rhythms as players and content…

Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! Jyn Taking a Dive The one change to our Tier list this week is a demotion of Jyn Erso to Tier 4. As we mentioned last week in our “What did we get wrong” article, we overrated Jyn’s potential during spoiler season. Jyn didn’t…

Happy Friday! We’re back with our regularly scheduled Friday programming, with a look at a community member or content creator. This week we welcome our friend Thorrk, who seeks to set a word count world record in any conversation you find him! Keep reading to learn more about him and his YouTube channel! Thorrk’s Hot…

Now that we’ve had a few weeks to breathe since the release of the game, it felt like a good time to reflect on cards from the Spark of Rebellion spoiler season that we… didn’t get quite right in our initial assessment. While it doesn’t feel great to say that we missed the mark, it’s…

Now that we’ve had a few weeks to breath since the release of the game, it seemed like a good time to go back and reflect on some of the cards throughout spoiler season that we absolutely nailed in our initial assessment. For those readers that love it when we’re wrong, we’ll be hitting the…

Welcome to Episode 1 of Cantina Decks, our series of thematic budget decks for Star Wars Unlimited! We have a dedicated a lot of space on this site to things like tier lists and competitive reporting. Inside and outside our little bubble, there’s a ton of resources out there for players looking for the best…

Welcome to our weekly update of the Gauntlet (Meta Tier List)! This week, we’re doing some post-release clean up as the meta has evolved. Let’s dive into the details! First, two new decks are making their debut on the list: Han 7s and Iden/Red. Both replace older archetypes in Tier 2. In this case, Han/Green…

Today, we’re joined by our guest contributor, wooooo! This is the sixth in a multi-part series on draft for SWU. We’re excited to watch him break down every card in the game for its utility in draft. Check out his initial guidelines for these ratings in the introarticle here. Take it away wooooo! Heroism common…

Today, we’re joined by our guest contributor, wooooo! This is the seventh in a multi-part series on draft for SWU. We’re excited to watch him break down every card in the game for its utility in draft. Check out his initial guidelines for these ratings in the intro article here. Take it away wooooo! Rare…

Today, we’re joined by our guest contributor, wooooo! This is the fifth in a multi-part series on draft for SWU. We’re excited to watch him break down every card in the game for its utility in draft. Check out his initial guidelines for these ratings in the intro article here. Take it away wooooo! Vigilance…

Today, we’re joined by our guest contributor, wooooo! This is the fourth in a multi-part series on draft for SWU. We’re excited to watch him break down every card in the game for its utility in draft. Check out his initial guidelines for these ratings in the intro article here. Take it away wooooo! Cunning…