It was a tough choice, but the first Legacy preview goes to Ahsoka! I know I said no Clone Wars characters, but I was captivated by Rosario Dawson’s performance in The Mandalorian and Book of Boba Fett, so this deck represents that version of the character.
Ahsoka is a confident warrior armed with a focused mind and two pure white lightsabers. She can go blade-to-beskar against strong duelists, but really shines when she teams up with another bruiser.
“A Mandalorian and a Jedi? They’ll never see it coming.”
Ahsoka Tano – HP 16 – Blue Deck – Melee
Calodan Citizens – HP 3 – Weak Deck – Ranged
Alabaster Blades
A5/D1
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 5, that character does 1 damage to any one character it can attack.
Valor of the Togruta
A4/D2
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 4, that character recovers 1 damage.
Paired Sabers
A3/D3
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 3, the player controlling that character may draw a card.
Beacon of Tython
A3
Search your draw pile for any Basic Combat card and put it in your hand. Then shuffle your draw pile.
Student Guides The Master
A4
Any time a combat card is put into a discard pile, you may discard this card. If you do, the owner may search their draw pile for a card with the same name or a Basic Combat card with the same attack or defense value as that card and put it in their hand. Then shuffle the draw pile.
Acrobatic Prowess
Special
Move Ahsoka up to 6 spaces. Playing this card does not count as an action.
2x Alabaster Blades
2x Valor of the Togruta
2x Paired Sabers
2x Beacon of Tython
2x Student Guides The Master
2x Acrobatic Prowess
Ahsoka’s abilities are mostly straight-forward. She elevates Basic Combat cards for both herself and her ally into pseudo-Power Combat. The key to Ahsoka’s success will come in timing her engagements and coordinating her buffs with her teammate to maximize their impact.
It’s worth noting that all of her buff cards (Alabaster Blades, Valor of the Togruta, and Paired Sabers) stack with themselves. This means that if Ahsoka plays Alabaster-Alabaster on her turn, her ally follows up with 5/1-5/1, and then she is able to play both of her 5/1’s on her next go, she will have put out a whopping 11 bonus direct damage! That might sound hard to pull off, but she has tools to make it a lot more consistent in Beacon of Tython and Student Guides the Master.
Beacon of Tython is a bread-and-butter tutor to help find your trigger cards, but Student Guides the Master functions as a sort of wild card that can turn into a duplicate of any of your buffs. It pays for itself rather quickly when you’re taking draws two-at-a-time from a pair of Paired Sabers! If that’s not reason enough to fear it, it’s not limited to searching Ahsoka’s draw pile. You can use it to grab any number of game-winning cards for your teammate like Aayla’s Jedi Guardian, Anakin’s Lust for Power, or Plo Koon’s Rough Justice.
As a bruiser-support hybrid, Ahsoka is probably most comfortable with a fellow bruiser, especially one that already incorporates attacking with Basic Combat into their path to victory like Agen Kolar, Quinlan Vos, or young Obi-Wan. That said, don’t sleep on the efficiency of Paired Sabers with a Yellow+ Deck since it has 4 cards to trigger it and can get draws from either attacking or defending with them.
Like Darth Maul, Ahsoka is pretty vulnerable to crowd control. She’s got some nice movement, but if she is locked down on what is supposed to be her follow-up turn, a lot of her potency fades as her buffs wear off. Characters that can take away her movement or limit her actions are great counter-picks for the tempo-driven Jedi.
I gave this disclaimer in my introduction to Legacy, but I think it bears repeating: I have no idea how these new decks will fare in the set. No plan survives contact with the enemy and no first-draft Epic Duels deck survives playtesting. If you do give it a whirl at your table, I’d love to hear about it! If the tournament scene for Galactic Battles kicks up again in any meaningful way, I definitely look forward to tuning these to bring them more in-line with all the others.
I hope you enjoyed the first deck preview for the new expansion! Hopefully I’ll be back next week with…something different!
Galactic Trivia! - Valor of the Togruta is an homage to Shaak Ti’s Valor card, an attack that heals herself and allies.
Ahsoka is a confident warrior armed with a focused mind and two pure white lightsabers. She can go blade-to-beskar against strong duelists, but really shines when she teams up with another bruiser.
“A Mandalorian and a Jedi? They’ll never see it coming.”
Ahsoka Tano – HP 16 – Blue Deck – Melee
Calodan Citizens – HP 3 – Weak Deck – Ranged
Alabaster Blades
A5/D1
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 5, that character does 1 damage to any one character it can attack.
Valor of the Togruta
A4/D2
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 4, that character recovers 1 damage.
Paired Sabers
A3/D3
Until the end of your next turn, any time Ahsoka or a friendly major character plays this card or a Basic Combat card with an attack or defense value of 3, the player controlling that character may draw a card.
Beacon of Tython
A3
Search your draw pile for any Basic Combat card and put it in your hand. Then shuffle your draw pile.
Student Guides The Master
A4
Any time a combat card is put into a discard pile, you may discard this card. If you do, the owner may search their draw pile for a card with the same name or a Basic Combat card with the same attack or defense value as that card and put it in their hand. Then shuffle the draw pile.
Acrobatic Prowess
Special
Move Ahsoka up to 6 spaces. Playing this card does not count as an action.
2x Alabaster Blades
2x Valor of the Togruta
2x Paired Sabers
2x Beacon of Tython
2x Student Guides The Master
2x Acrobatic Prowess
Ahsoka’s abilities are mostly straight-forward. She elevates Basic Combat cards for both herself and her ally into pseudo-Power Combat. The key to Ahsoka’s success will come in timing her engagements and coordinating her buffs with her teammate to maximize their impact.
It’s worth noting that all of her buff cards (Alabaster Blades, Valor of the Togruta, and Paired Sabers) stack with themselves. This means that if Ahsoka plays Alabaster-Alabaster on her turn, her ally follows up with 5/1-5/1, and then she is able to play both of her 5/1’s on her next go, she will have put out a whopping 11 bonus direct damage! That might sound hard to pull off, but she has tools to make it a lot more consistent in Beacon of Tython and Student Guides the Master.
Beacon of Tython is a bread-and-butter tutor to help find your trigger cards, but Student Guides the Master functions as a sort of wild card that can turn into a duplicate of any of your buffs. It pays for itself rather quickly when you’re taking draws two-at-a-time from a pair of Paired Sabers! If that’s not reason enough to fear it, it’s not limited to searching Ahsoka’s draw pile. You can use it to grab any number of game-winning cards for your teammate like Aayla’s Jedi Guardian, Anakin’s Lust for Power, or Plo Koon’s Rough Justice.
As a bruiser-support hybrid, Ahsoka is probably most comfortable with a fellow bruiser, especially one that already incorporates attacking with Basic Combat into their path to victory like Agen Kolar, Quinlan Vos, or young Obi-Wan. That said, don’t sleep on the efficiency of Paired Sabers with a Yellow+ Deck since it has 4 cards to trigger it and can get draws from either attacking or defending with them.
Like Darth Maul, Ahsoka is pretty vulnerable to crowd control. She’s got some nice movement, but if she is locked down on what is supposed to be her follow-up turn, a lot of her potency fades as her buffs wear off. Characters that can take away her movement or limit her actions are great counter-picks for the tempo-driven Jedi.
I gave this disclaimer in my introduction to Legacy, but I think it bears repeating: I have no idea how these new decks will fare in the set. No plan survives contact with the enemy and no first-draft Epic Duels deck survives playtesting. If you do give it a whirl at your table, I’d love to hear about it! If the tournament scene for Galactic Battles kicks up again in any meaningful way, I definitely look forward to tuning these to bring them more in-line with all the others.
I hope you enjoyed the first deck preview for the new expansion! Hopefully I’ll be back next week with…something different!
Galactic Trivia! - Valor of the Togruta is an homage to Shaak Ti’s Valor card, an attack that heals herself and allies.