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Deviant posted:I'm so loving sick of jango decks. I'm just so tired of all of these Star Wars.
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I think I might be in the market for some Vaders. If anyone wants to get some trades in, let me know what you're looking for and I'll see what it do. Trying to complete my fifth deck to gift to a sibling, and I think he's going all in on the current iteration of Vader (he sounded deeply unimpressed with the new one, even if I think he's neat).
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Feb 9, 2017 07:06
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I can't wait to Cunning the poo poo out of whiny Hayden Christensen vader.
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Feb 9, 2017 08:12
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Tried this out: friend of mine made me play his eVeers/eJango deck against his eQui/eRey. I can see what people are saying about eVeers/eJango: it's good and even someone on his first game like me could easily understand the strategy for the deck. Overall the game is pretty fun and incredibly simple. I'm still not going to get into it due to the collectible aspect of it though 
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Played with a ePhasma/Bala-Tik/First Order Stormtrooper deck tonight and boy oh boy is Bala-Tik a good card. Phasma was cool, Commanding Presence was alright, but Bala-Tik was amazing. It was my first time playing with that card and after playing with him I think he might be one of the strongest cards in the game. I must have used his ability 2-3 times each game. I only ever had 1 upgrade on him, but I can't imagine how busted he gets with 2-3 upgrades. Here is the decklist if anyone is curious: ePhasma Bala-Tik First Order Stormtrooper Separatist Base Holdout Blaster x2 IQA-11 Blaster Rifle x2 Commanding Presence x2 Jetpack x2 DH-17 Blaster Pistol x2 F-11D Rifle x2 Hunker Down x2 Backup Muscle x2 He Doesn't Like You x2 Electroshock x2 Tactical Mastery x2 The Best Defense...x2 Flank x2 Dug In x2 All In x1 Endless Ranks x1 Never used All In or Endless Ranks and feel like one Commanding Presence is probably fine. Electroshock is great and Flank is pretty good (I imagine it becomes really great against two character decks, but I only played a guy using 4 characters). I was skeptical about He Doesn't Like You, but it performed everytime I had it. Not sure about The Best Defense..., since I never used it and was never in a position where I wanted to take 3 damage. I think maybe Flank and Electroshock might be enough dice manipulation. I liked all the upgrades, but whenever I had IQA-11 Blaster Rifle I always chose to just stick with F-11D Rifle, so I might cut back to one IQA-11. All in all, fun deck and it might be one I keep together for awhile. Bala-Tik is now one of my favorite characters and I imagine i'll try to stick with decks that play him for quite awhile. I honestly think that he might be just as good as Jango and Rey when it comes to power to cost ratio. Edit: I'm actually interested in 2x Jabba the Hutt if anyone has any they want to get rid of. I have lots of stuff for trade, just let me know what you are looking for and I probably have it. ShowTime fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Feb 10, 2017 01:17
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Alright here's a fun little thing. Today it busted out a turn 1 Lightsaber and a turn 2 One with the Force. I won that game taking one point of damage. Three things: 1. It is undoubtedly on the jank-train to jank-station. Forgive me my trespasses. 2. Yes, there should be two Luke's Lightsabers in there. Have you got one to spare? 3. Force Protections will be replaced by either 2 Force Throws or 2 Mind Probes as soon as I get 2 of either. eLuke/Rey Frozen Wastes The Force is Strong x2 It Binds All Things x2 Jedi Council x2 Defensive Stance x2 Jedi Robes x2 Willpower x2 Heroism x2 One With the Force x2 Lightsaber x2 Force Protection x2 Force Training x2 Force Misdirection x2 Riposte x2 Deflect x2 The Power of the Force x1 Luke Skywalker's Lightsaber x1 --------------------- The planning starts with the mulligan. So, uhh, if you get a double of any upgrade and The Force is Strong, keep that poo poo. Otherwise: If you get 2 of any upgrade, mulligan for The Force is Strong. If you get a The Force is Strong and one of any good upgrade, statistically it is unlikely to find its double through mulligans. Do it anyway: It's fun. Otherwise, shoot for a It Binds All Things and/or Jedi Robes. Economically the deck hums along with the two above econ cards. I tend to throw non-robes upgrades on Rey- this tends to frustrate and annoy an opponent who wants to just slam Luke as well as give you that sweet, sweet action economy. Luke draws cards every turn, getting you closer to doubles for The Force is Strong. Jedi Council does the same. Don't be afraid to pitch cards that don't look useful each round to get closer to doubles for The Force is Strong. The deck has plenty of the most fun kind of variance, and when it rains, it pours- Luke and Rey can absolutely lay down the hurt very quickly. Helion fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Feb 10, 2017 03:00
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BJPaskoff, Did you still want the two jetpacks?
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Feb 10, 2017 20:00
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More stupid new player questions. If I'm playing elite Leia and want to use her ability: -can I only remove 1 of her dice to reroll others, or do I have to do both -if I remove both, would I get to reroll up to four other dice -am I completely misunderstanding this ability Thank you for your consideration.
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evenworse username posted:More stupid new player questions. If I'm playing elite Leia and want to use her ability: You only have to remove 1 die to roll up to 2 dice. Up to, so it can be 0, 1 or 2 dice. You are able to do the action for each character die you have available and each time you get to reroll up to 2 dice. These are separate actions. They can't be done together.
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Feb 10, 2017 20:44
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Deviant posted:BJPaskoff, Oh, sorry! No, I think I'm going to hold off making a second deck with Jetpacks.
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Feb 10, 2017 21:38
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So here's my own janky e-Rey/Luke deck. http://swdestinydb.com/decklist/view/7432/rey-zing-2.0 It's near complete, but not quite since I have no Force Trainings and I'm missing one more Force Throw. I am kind of curious if I have enough resource generation though. And I know about possible Holdout Blasters, but again, lol. I also have no real battlefield strategy so I just stuck armory in because it sounded synergistic. 
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Feb 11, 2017 00:40
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Want to learn how to play Destiny on Tabletop Simulator? Want to build decks with spoiled cards from Spirit of the Rebellion? Helloooooo, Sheev-baby! Check my poorly done video for info! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnQ6UgxeRgg&feature=youtu.be
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Feb 11, 2017 21:15
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I just bought a Holocron for $12. I could make excuses about how maybe its price will go higher, but the truth is that I was just driven by addiction and a lust for power. So, thematically appropriate at least.
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Feb 12, 2017 00:49
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I never wanted to buy into this game, I thought I was done with collectible games with WotC's Star Wars Miniatures, but here I am. A friend of mine bought heavy into the game really early and amassed a decent collection, but recently decided he didn't want to continue playing. So I bought his collection and now have no idea what to do from here. I've been watching some stuff on YouTube about how to deck build (hero or villain, character colors determine which cards you can have in your deck) and I think I've got a grasp on how to play after a half dozen games with my friend, but I don't really know where to go with my new collection. I seem to have almost all villains as far as characters go. For Heroes, I have Finn, Hired Gun x2, Rebel Trooper, Rey. As far as Villains, I have Bala-Tik x4, First Order Stormtrooper x2, General Veers x2, Jango Fett x2, Kylo Ren, Nightsister, Tusken Raider. Without net-decking (because I feel I won't learn how a deck plays, not because I think there's anythign wrong with it) do you guys have any hidden tips on how a beginner should put together a deck? This is honestly the first CCG I've ever played, I stayed away from Magic completely so I feel a little out of my depth. Thanks my dudes.
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Feb 12, 2017 10:29
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I usually netdeck, go to an event and play the deck I copied, then make changes based on how those games went It's good to have a base to start from
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Feb 12, 2017 10:32
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Without netdecking I would choose a wincon to start with. Then choose character's and a background that fit the wincon or wincons best. Then choose cards....
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Feb 12, 2017 10:36
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My local shop unexpectedly got some boosters in. Managed to pull ATST, Jabba, Jango and One With the Force. I'm still struggling with deck builds due to poor choice of characters. So far I've got Finn, 2xRey, Stormtrooper, 2x Kylo, Bala Tik, Admiral Ackbar, Leia, Rebel Trooper, Tusken Raider, Jabba and Jango. I've got a Millennium Falcon I can't make fit in any deck.
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bowmore posted:I usually netdeck, go to an event and play the deck I copied, then make changes based on how those games went That's actually a pretty smart way of looking at it that I hadn't considered. I like the look of eBala/Trooper/Jango. There's a lot of versions out there, so I guess I'll just pick one and start playing. I've also been reading about/watching games with eRey and Padawan x2. I think that'll be my next project - I'd like to have one hero and one villain deck. I'm definitely not looking to be a completionist with this game.
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bowmore posted:I usually netdeck, go to an event and play the deck I copied, then make changes based on how those games went This is the best way to learn what's good. I'd rather netdeck while playtesting instead of playing in a tournament with the exact list posted online, but that's just my personal preference. Now that I've played with and against a bunch of netdecked lists, I know what cards are good, and if I put a team of characters together I can come up with a list that's two or three cards at most off from the "best" tournament winning list online. I'm not bragging, it's just that the card pool is limited enough that knowing how to build to a character's strengths leaves me with practically just enough options to squeeze together a 30 card list.
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BJPaskoff posted:I'd rather netdeck while playtesting instead of playing in a tournament
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Feb 13, 2017 05:13
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Play online via Skype or TTS. TTS is especially good for testing stuff you don't have.
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ShowTime posted:ePhasma Been having a lot of success and good times with this deck I mentioned earlier. I've made a few changes to the deck and have removed the two The Best Defense..., the two Dug In and one IQA-11 Blaster Rifle. Instead there are now two Probes, two Unpredictable and one Tie Fighter. The Tie Fighter could probably be anything you want, as I haven't even played it yet. I've always drawn it late game when I don't really need it. Probe is a really good card and i'm surprised it doesn't see more play. Most people play their upgrades as the first thing they do, because why wouldn't you play an upgrade before you roll a character? So it quickly becomes just a 0 cost discard 2 cards ability. Unpredictable is just a good card all around. Won every game i've played with it and it's fun to play. It's surprisingly control heavy. Backup Muscle is such a good card. Endless Ranks actually won me a long game. They killed my Bala-Tik, then my Stormtrooper, then when my Phasma had 8 damage on her, I brought back the Stormtrooper and the next turn my Phasma died. My opponent had a Rey with a 3 upgrades on her and my Stormtrooper already had 3 damage on it. I opted to discard my whole hand as we went to the next round, knowing that if I drew a Tactical Mastery and Backup Muscle I could beat the Rey with 8 damage on her. Out of the 9 cards left in my deck, I drew 5 and in those 5 I got my Tactical Mastery and Backup Muscle. Played the Backup Muscle, opponent rolled 4 damage, but I played the Tactical Mastery to use Backup Muscle and claim the Battlefield for the final 2 damage.
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Looking to trade multiple rares for legendaries if anyone has any of the following: Captain Phasma Commanding Presence Darth Vader Jabba the Hutt Crime Lord Launch Bay Luke Skywalker One with the Force Han Solo Thermal Detonator Black One
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Feb 17, 2017 02:56
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The lack of product to buy is quite disappointing
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Feb 17, 2017 04:48
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Also, today they revealed some more info on Worlds. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/2/16/2017-may-world-championships-early-registration/ Is anyone planning on going? You can register starting March 14th. Not sure how many seats there are, but nobody should have reserved seats since the game came out after the season began and the game is new, so it has no previous world champions. I'm thinking of going. It more than likely will be only Awakenings, as Spirit of Rebellion shouldn't be out in time for it to qualify.
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ShowTime posted:Also, today they revealed some more info on Worlds. https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2017/2/16/2017-may-world-championships-early-registration/ I'm really sad that it's on the day after I return from vacation and I don't have enough days to extend it by one. It's a shame they couldn't do it on a weekend. Maybe I'll drive over after work and see how it goes in the final rounds.
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I should be going. At least I put in for time off for it. Love to play in either destiny or Armada even if I'll get my butt kicked.
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Feb 17, 2017 18:57
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I randomly checked ebay today and booster boxes are up to $210. I wonder how much higher they will go. That's almost double MSRP.
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ShowTime posted:I randomly checked ebay today and booster boxes are up to $210. I wonder how much higher they will go. That's almost double MSRP.  I considered your advice of cracking open my dragon hoard of ten boxes and selling the singles, but I just sold them as complete boxes. Probably left some money on the table, but there's something to be said about being done with it. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. I just listed and sold all my boxes on a facebook trading group for $145 shipped today, and half the comments were the price police tut-tutting about  PRICE GOUGING. Shipping these things with tracking and insurance averaged me $20/box (when I was estimating $13), with Paypal fees taking another $5, which puts me at net revenue of $120/box, which is MSRP+tax if I had bought them locally (I didn't, but that's my own business). That's why I like selling/trade forums (like SA Mart) with rules against non-buyers commenting on price or telling people where they can buy it elsewhere. Don't worry, the internet strangers didn't hurt my feelings. The alleged price gouging didn't dissuade 15 people from messaging me in the first 30 minutes buying them all. A guy messaged me right after I had sold the last one saying he owned a store, and he would buy literally every box I had left at that price just so he could get SOME product in store. Guy probably could have cracked them for singles and made $150 profit per box selling them at his location if he was selling at online prices. This is nuts. I'm making arrangements to sell locally the rest of my collection. I'm about $180 deep in product that I kept for myself (box and a half and one of each starter) and I've played maybe 10 games because I don't have the time to play Destiny in addition to the other stuff I want to do. On a $/game basis, it's turning into a poor value for me. Maybe once product becomes available and prices level out, I'll get back into it. Assuming that I find more leisure time (unlikely) and/or get bored of X-Wing (also unlikely)
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That is a reason i'd never deal with Facebook trade groups. Ebay at least has anonymity. People love to comment on stuff like that and there is none of that on Ebay. I'm probably going to get rid of a bunch of my stuff and keep 1 deck. I'm not sure what is going to happen with this game in the future. Will they reprint Awakenings? When? Will people still be playing when that happens? What is Spirit of Rebellion going to do to the game? Worlds is coming up and it looks like no one will be getting any Awakenings before then and SoR won't be out in time, assuming it does come out on the rumored release of 4/28. The release of this game has been unlike anything i've ever seen. I can't even think what Magic would be like if their newest set was sold out everywhere and people couldn't get any packs.
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ShowTime posted:That is a reason i'd never deal with Facebook trade groups. Ebay at least has anonymity. People love to comment on stuff like that and there is none of that on Ebay. I'm probably going to get rid of a bunch of my stuff and keep 1 deck. I'm not sure what is going to happen with this game in the future. Will they reprint Awakenings? When? Will people still be playing when that happens? What is Spirit of Rebellion going to do to the game? Worlds is coming up and it looks like no one will be getting any Awakenings before then and SoR won't be out in time, assuming it does come out on the rumored release of 4/28. I'm the most hardcore Destiny fan I know, and even my optimism is starting to wane. My LGS owner heard rumors, I don't know from where, of another shipment that was supposed to arrive this week. It didn't, of course, and no one is playing it. I'm into the game for about $300. I could build a third solid deck if I had 2x Force Choke, 2x Kylo's Saber, and 1x Vader, but that's $180 I'd have to drop on a game that might be worthless if SoR bombs for any of the following reasons: it sells out just as fast and completely; it drives up demand but people can't get Awakenings for the staples (which rise in price by a lot); people such as someone I know preorder as many boxes as they can from as many stores as they can to make a profit on eBay; or no one buys it because it's too late and everyone's gun-shy about sinking more money into the game.
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ShowTime posted:That is a reason i'd never deal with Facebook trade groups. Ebay at least has anonymity. People love to comment on stuff like that and there is none of that on Ebay. I'm probably going to get rid of a bunch of my stuff and keep 1 deck. I'm not sure what is going to happen with this game in the future. Will they reprint Awakenings? When? Will people still be playing when that happens? What is Spirit of Rebellion going to do to the game? Worlds is coming up and it looks like no one will be getting any Awakenings before then and SoR won't be out in time, assuming it does come out on the rumored release of 4/28. That was exactly what Magic was like for the first year and change. I started playing right at the end of it, and I missed out on the super hard to get sets because I lived in a small town, so no one in the region even had product from the limited releases. But very early on "limited edition expansion set" really meant it (though not intentionally; like Destiny they just underestimated the demand). The first version of the base set and the first three expansion sets were basically impossible to get even on release, and the fourth not a ton better, to the extent that when I started playing, even bad uncommons from prior sets were nearly priceless in trade, and most people didn't have playsets of them. It didn't kill the game, obviously, but I do think a lot of that was that it was so new to everyone, and there was nothing like a serious tournament scene in the way there is now. And there certainly weren't meaningfully competing games that lacked those issues. I won a tournament at the local college with a just awful deck because no one else had much of anything either, and no one thought this was unreasonable, since there wasn't a cultural expectation that deckbuilding wouldn't be constrained by your individual collection. Destiny will be in trouble if their supply issues last a year, I think.
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Destiny will not face any trouble, regardless of supply issues, even if this rate of production never increases (but it will, dramatically). It will just become a game for rich city nerds rather than all nerds, and the people who can afford to play now will continue to play and buy product as it is released. The fact that people are willing to pay double MSRP demonstrates that the demand is significantly higher than FFG forecast, and I can't blame them for being conservative with the first set of a new collectible random-pack card game. In the long run, once production is increased, this game may give MTG a real competitor. Several of the local players (including myself) switched. Kids play Pokemon and Yugioh because of the TV series and video games, and those card games are aimed at exploiting their familiarity and emotional investment into those franchises. Now you have a Star Wars game with rules simple enough to be understood by those same kids, but with strategy complex enough to be a deep and abiding game for adults. The barrier to MTG has always been the complexity of the rules and entirely new fictional world. SWD eliminates both those barriers to entry. We'll see what the new sets bring for the depth of gameplay and strategy, but it won't be production that kills this game.
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Well yeah, FFG will continue making it as long as their stock literally sells out instantly, but if they don't dramatically improve supply levels the game will remain a very small, very expensive niche game that can't grow because there is nothing for new players to buy. If they made 10x the initial run the game would still likely be selling out but the player base would be 2-3x larger and the second hand market wouldn't be ridiculous.
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Those niche games just die around here (Long Island), which is why I'm extra salty about it. It won't be a rich kids' game, it won't be a game I get to play among a small group of friends, it'll just completely die out. On a more positive note, I am excited to see what's in the new set, the upgrades and events more than the characters. I've got a Leia/Ackbar deck that is great, but is literally using every red and gray card that can possibly fit in the archetype. Some more hero/neutral guns and that deck's going to open up. Same with Han/Rey, it needs more ambush cards to be more consistent. I was excited about the prospect of a Grevious/Raider/Raider deck, but there aren't nearly enough supportive cards for it in Awakenings and that could change in SoR. All the red villain cards in Awakenings are about disposable non-unique red characters.
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That's also kind of my concern, the area I live in. It's a college town, very frugal, with a strict board-game only crowd. They don't like to pick up new games, especially ones that are expensive. So i'm kind of concerned not enough local players will be playing and i'll strictly have to travel to play or play the same 2-3 people over and over again.
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BJPaskoff posted:Those niche games just die around here (Long Island), which is why I'm extra salty about it. It won't be a rich kids' game, it won't be a game I get to play among a small group of friends, it'll just completely die out.   Looks like the card pictured (with Maz) is an upgrade, and the die pictured with Maz could be a character or support. A 1 resource upgrade with a 2 focus side looks pretty spiffy. Wonder what that 0 cost blue card is too.
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Feb 19, 2017 04:16
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canyoneer posted:Looks like the card pictured (with Maz) is an upgrade, and the die pictured with Maz could be a character or support. I'm guessing the yellow upgrade card with Maz pictured is for ze goggles (zey do nothing!) which is why she is not using them in her character die portrait, harr harr. Looks like R2 will be a support similar to BB-8, but with a melee side may actually be playable.
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A source from someone on Facebook who was at ToyFair said:quote:Destiny starters are supposed to be back maybe in March. New Destiny boosters are slated for hopefully April or May, and they have decided to do a very limited reprint of the first boosters, but they probably won't be available until summer. Doesn't sound promising.
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