Star Wars Destiny is a Living Card Game brought to you by your frenemies at Fantasy Flight Games. What's a Living Card Game? Well let's let the marketers at FFG explain!
A Living Card Game® (LCG®) offers an innovative fixed distribution method that breaks away from the traditional Collectible Card Game model. While LCGs still offer the same dynamic, expanding, and constantly evolving game play that makes CCGs so much fun, they do away with the deterrent of the blind-buy purchase model that has burned out so many players. The end result is an innovative mix that gives you the best of both worlds!
The Core Set is the heart of a LCG. Each LCG's Core Set is a completely self-contained game experience packed with content, including high-quality game pieces and immersive game aides designed to enhance play. Additionally, each Core Set contains multiple decks that provide an exciting and infinitely replayable game experience right out of the box.
While the LCG Core Sets provide a fantastic stand-alone game experience, those that wish to can expand even further! Monthly installments of expansion packs, each with a full playset of fixed cards, provide ongoing and regular additions to the available card pool. These expansion packs add customization, variety, and an ongoing sense of theme to your experiences with the game, while evolving the play environment in exciting new ways.
Anyways, Star Wars Destiny is the new type of LCG mixing in elements of Collectible Card Games addiction forming habits of buying packs to build decks. From there you compose a team of either heroes or villains and do battle in the galaxy.
HOW DO I PLAY?
Here's a video actually that explains what Star Wars Destiny is.
Technically this game supports up to 4 players, but no one who is sane would ever play that way and it's more of a parlour trick to do that. So, you should play with two people.
What you do is make up a deck consisting of 30 cards. You can have as many heroes and "elite heroes" (two dice) as you want, just as long as you don't go over 30 points.
Like in the bottom left here, playing Chewie would be 12 points, but putting die on him would be 16, leaving you 14 points to add heroes.
Why should I play this Star Wars game?
You shouldn't. It's addicting, a money pit and you will hate FFG as much as everyone else does after week one. But if you really want to put up with that, you'll be rewarded with a actually fun dueling game that has unique mechanics and such. Plus it's not super expensive (yet) to play, and the new two player core set will get you decent decks to "compete" or atleast have fun, unlike the prior ones.
I heard you have to buy 8 core sets of L4R and AGoT is that the same here?
No, not really. If you want to compete you want 2 boxes of the two player set per person along with booster packs of all three expansion (or if you have the money complete boxes) to round out into decks you want. Like any good old CCG, it's all down to luck with the booster packs, so most people elect to buy singles from places like CoolStuffInc to actually make a deck they want to use.
Where can I find decks?
Easy, https://swdestinydb.com/decklists.
I have no friends but I want to learn this game, how do I do this?
This is also easy, but you will probably become bored soon. But luckily Tabletop Simulator for PC has support for Star Wars Destiny, and you can actually import decks from SWDestinyDB to use and tool around with, it's really cool. New to TTS? Don't be afraid, just post in this thread and myself or someone else will walk you through how to play.
Whats coming to Star Wars Destiny?
Two new Starter Core Decks
A new "rotation" with Legacies (rip Awakenings I bet soon)
Draft Mode
So there's alot coming to Star Wars Destiny. The game originally faltered due to demand and availability, but it seems to have picked up alot. So grab a core set or a copy of Tabletop Simulator and welcome to the galaxy!!
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