The Cunning aspect can clearly be viewed as the one which could easily and directly use events to boost its units. All of these cards can be useful in the correct deck and they each boost the stats of a unit and most immediately trigger an attack of that unit. There are no clear “better”…
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Big event in the UK and multiple other decent sized events around the World. Let’s take a look at the impact to Showcase pricing. ** Data gathered from TCGPlayer at ~7:30am EST. Full data set here. Current Top 10 Jango Fett maintains the top spot as most valuable showcase leader by price. He represented a…
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Please don’t cheat. Cheating at a game is silly. The level of the event should not matter. Weeklies, Showdowns, Planetary Qualifiers, etc. Heck, even playing for fun at the kitchen table. People should rely on their deck building and play skill to overcome their opponents in each round. Honest mistakes do happen. I’ve played on…
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Some interesting pricing changes this week in the Legendary card space. **Note: Pricing data is from TCGPlayer lowest listed cost just prior to the writing and posting of this article. Additional data here. On the plus side of the market Hyperspace Cad Bane is the winner of the week by percentage increase going up almost…
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There is one thing in the galaxy that can bring everyone together to the holiday dinner table. Friends and foes. Jawas and droids. Ewoks and gungans. Alderaneans and, well…nobody anymore. What is this one thing you ask? It is the wonderful smell of a perfectly roasted porg. In this series we will dive into the world of porg…
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A recent Discord discussion came about with the question “Does FFG do enough?” The two main areas where the question seemed most relevant were Communication and Organized Play. Communication is the key to so many things in life. It’s how we interact with each other through spoken words, written content, body language and other non-verbal…
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Seen it asked a few times in various forums along the lines of “I’m new to SWU, where should I start with streamer content?” So today we’re talking about streamers. There are many to choose from. The below list is not intended to be comprehensive. I am not specifically leaving anyone off the list. Searching…
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There have been major changes in the showcase prices over the past couple of weeks. Causes include Boba Fett, Collecting the Bounty getting suspended, some major events including SCG Con Columbus. Let’s dive in on some data from TCGPlayer. (Data Located Here.) Current Top Ten Commentary The Boba Fett suspension had a massive impact to…
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The idea of prize splitting is that the players who get to the top eight or top four of an event take the prize pool and equally split it between them. This means there is basically a tie between those four or eight players. Ties are no fun. Who wins when it’s a tie? Where…
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FFG basically just released the third set for Star Wars Unlimited. Of course that means it’s time to start speculating on the fourth one. ** Small disclaimer up front. This is all entirely speculation. Porg Depot has no insider knowledge of things contained or not in the upcoming set nor anything happening internally at FFG…
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The Gamegenic Bastion 50+ is a tremendous deck box, perfectly suited for limited events of SWU. The box itself is made out of acrylic that comes in a pretty wide variety of colors for $7.99 on Amazon at the time of this post. The Bastion 50+ feels very solid. The box says that it is…
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Attended my first ever draft. Well to be more specific, it was the first ever Star Wars Unlimited draft as I’ve been involved in more limited events for other games and cube drafts than I can recall. The event was hosted in New Jersey by The Golden Dice crew. Tremendous event. Three full eight person…
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FFG just announced that the leader Boba Fett: Collecting the Bounty would be suspended from Premiere play. Admitting the early game development mistake and taking corrective action makes a ton of sense when the single leader accounted for 55% of the winner from the initial Planetary Qualifier season. Many people are making videos and chatting…
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Recently I wrote about how tier lists in general are goofy. (Please see prior post.). However, tier lists about art are 100% subjective, completely open to argument with zero factual basis and therefore awesome. Here is the Twilight of the Republic showcase art tier list according to me, a cranky boomer gamer. S Tier Chancellor…
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A tier list, at least as far as collectible card games go, is a ranking that sorts things into what is considered the “best” or most playable down to the bottom. Starting with the top of the list for Star Wars: Unlimited leader choices, “S” tier are the truly broken leaders that win an excessive…
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The game designers at FFG have so far done a great job at developing Star Wars: Unlimited. They’ve found ways to fix some fundamental issues that other games have shown (I’m looking at you lands) while keeping the game interactive and engaging. The card design also captures specific flavors of characters, creatures, ships, etc. to…
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Power Creep has occurred in card games pretty much since their inception. From a sales standpoint it makes sense as each additional set needs to sell packs and if the newest set only has cards that are the same or worse than the prior sets people just are not going to want to buy them.…
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Decades ago, in the early days of the internet and e-commerce some friends and I started out as collectible card game vendors. We had a dealer table at some standing local events and eventually went to GenCon as vendors for a few years. It was a fun way to spend time with friends. There were some annoying aspects…
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A new R2-D2 card has been dropped as a spoiler. The little droid is one of my favorite Star Wars characters and very likely the absolute top of my personal list. Certainly happy to see another snapshot in time of the little droid. The card design here is really interesting, especially when comparing it to…
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Star Wars: Unlimited is an awesome game. Full stop. It fixes so many issues that other card games have. Getting screwed on resources by not having enough (or having too many) is never a thing and is just not possible based on the design that everything could be used as a resource and also that…
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I find it interesting that a tie result is referred to as a draw when, in the old West, two gunslingers drawing their weapons generally resulted in one of them losing everything. There have been ways for individual games to end in a draw previously. The simplest example would be a single card doing damage…
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The last time I was at GenCon was in 2006 as a vendor. Along with a couple friends, we set ourselves up as “Gone to Plaid Games” buying and selling TCG singles. The last time I was there as an event competitor was in 2003 for the World Championship of the Wizards of the Coast…
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I will admit to not completely understanding play mats, nor have I used one in all the years of playing collectible card games. I get it that they provide some protection for your cards. However, the cards are already in sleeves and sometimes more than one sleeve. Isn’t the entire point of the sleeves to…
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Store Showdown season is wrapping up at this point. I’ve been to three in Philadelphia and the immediate vicinity, with one more on the trailing end of the season coming up. If you’ll indulge me with the humble brag briefly: I’ve done well in these events. Top 8 in the first, winning the second, and…
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Extra of something is generally good. Extra money. Extra ice-cream. Extra credit. Extra days off. Extra lives (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A). Extra turns are good too. Collectible card games have always seemed to have this idea of an extra turn as a card. Those cards have tended to be…
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