ussgordoncaptain 117
Since I can't go to gencon, I might as well post the deck I would have brought to the tournament.
The basic strategy is mostly self-explanatory, put rise again under premonitions, draw infinity cards, play force lightning for free with holocrons, kill your opponent.
Important notes
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Rise again costs 5, 2+2<5 therefore if you wish to play rise again on turn 2, you need to either play enrage or resolve a resource side on a character die.
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If you have a Boundless ambition in hand, it is typically better to not roll in Anakin until after you play the ambition. This will allow you to get maximum chances of hitting a holocron upgrade, and getting force powers in play fast is how you win the late game.
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Don't forget hardcasting force powers. once you've played both copies of rise again, this is the only way to actually spend money in the entire deck.
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Premonitions can also be used to clear a force lightning out of the hand if need be. Obviously this is significantly worse than rise again into force lightning but sometimes you have to make ugly plays. Mulligans
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Mulligan for Holocron HARD. I only will keep the following cards in my opening hand if I don't have a sith holocron, Boundless ambition Premonitions AND a rise again (if either/or ship them) Trust your instincts Premonitions+boundless ambition Since the hands with turn 1 holocron are much more powerful than those without, one needs to do something fairly powerful to compensate if they don't have Turn 1 Holocron. A boundless ambition qualifies since one of the primary things it does is dig for more holocrons.
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If hand has Sith holocron finding force powers becomes of utmost importance.
- If you have enrage+force power+rise again you can keep that hand and not go holocron digging, mulligan for 0 cost cards so you can optimize the fast rise agian line
This is a deck that I tried once before with Kylo1/Vader2, and found the general crapiness of the emo kids to be too much. I also did it with Dooku/7th sister before switching to R2P2 for the end of the season. Kylo2/anakin is a much more powerful character combination.