What do I think of the Meta at this time? That is a great question and one I ponder while building decks. Do I want to succumb to the Snoke (WF4) or do I want to try something more outside the box. For me, thinking outside the box is fun. I am in the beginning stages of building an Iden Versio (AG18) deck. I have gone 2-2 with it at my recent FLGS event, so I know there is work to be done. At this event, however, there were quite a few that were outside the box. The one that won the event, going 4-0 was a 4 die start that included Armored Reinforcements (AG129). They were playing eGeneral Grievous (CV21), Sentinel Messenger (CV3), and Super Battle Droid (AG20). This shows that there is some great room for ingenuity when it comes to different builds; as long as you are willing to put in the time.
The Game Within the Game
The Meta, you see, is not always about the cards but by how those cards that are chosen are played. Playing against a deck that has Snoke (WF4) and his power action, Palpatine’s (CV2) ever gaining life total, or even Mace Windu (CV56) and his Custom Bandolier (CV103) of pain is all about the tech you build in your own deck. There are cards that I believe are really powerful, but there is removal that can fight against those types of cards. Now let me preface this with you will find it next to impossible to beat someone that is rolling straight fire. In a dice game it can come down to something as simple as that. An example of this would be a match that was recently had at Card Table Republic where Force Storm (CV14) was able to resolve its special 5 times in round 1. No amount of removal is going to allow for a comeback against that kind of rolling. We just have to accept that the Star Wars: Destiny gods are not with us sometimes. Although with the errata to the card that puts some of these questions at rest.
We are in a wide open Meta right now. That makes the problem less about what we play than how or who we play. We need to practice against good player, players better than our self. This is how we get better. We begin to see how people play. What they put in their decks and why it is in there. We also learn subtle strategies that show why our desire should be to become a better pilot. Think about this, if we are driving a car, do we let go of the wheel and allow the car to do the driving? Of course not, that is crazy. The same goes here, we can build the World Championship Deck from last year but if we don’t know how to pilot it we are lost. The Meta game starts with us, we need to do the research and the practicing.
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