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The Rebel Alliance fights valiantly against the tyranny of the Galactic Empire. Each new victory brings the Rebels hope, and each heroic sacrifice strengthens their resolve. Still, the Empire’s resources are vast, and the firepower of its Empire Navy is unmatched. With neither side willing to accept defeat, their war rages across the galaxy…
In Star Wars: The Deckbuilding Game, a head-to-head game for two players, the galaxy-spanning war between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance comes alive on your tabletop. In this easy-to-learn game, you and your opponent each choose a side, playing as either the Empire or the Rebels, and as the game progresses you both strengthen the power of your starting decks and work to destroy each other’s bases. The first player to destroy three of their opponent’s bases wins.
In more detail, each player starts with a unique ten-card deck, with seven of those cards providing only resources to acquire new cards. Six cards from a galaxy deck are always on display, with Rebel cards facing the Rebel player, Empire cards the Empire player, and neutral cards turned sideways. You can spend resources to acquire cards in the galaxy row that don’t belong to the opponent, and you can use attack power to take out cards that do belong to them, gaining a reward in the process.
Each player starts with a base that lacks abilities (Dantooine for the Rebels and Lothal for the Empire), but when that base is destroyed, you get to choose a replacement from your base deck, with each base having a special ability. Choose wisely to counter your opponent’s plans! In addition to having special abilities, capital ships absorb damage meant for your base.
Players also fight for control of a Force track to gain additional resources or make use of “If the Force is with you…” abilities on their cards.
Ages | 12+ |
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Players | 2 Players |
Play Time | 30m – 30m |
Designer | Caleb Grace |
Mechanics | Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Open Drafting, Tug of War |
Theme | Card Game, Science Fiction |
Publisher | MTS Games, Rebel Sp. z o.o., ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Asmodee, Fantasy Flight Games, Galápagos Jogos |
BigBadAndy
Fantastic game. Fast and easy to learn. Great thematic cards with wonderful art. Captures both a compelling Star Wars feel but also an intriguing gameplay. Like any card game, it's tempting to put the results down to random draws and, while it's true that the draws make a big difference, the game leaves you with enough choices and different strategies for dealing with the random draws that you *usually* feel like you have meaningful choices to make.
BarticusBane
Would be an 8 but lost a point for two things: 1. This is basically just star realms 2. Such uber weird design choices, Purple and yellow tokens for star wars game is weird enough, but the purple tokens are...damage? also, the empire being blue...and the rebels being RED!? what is up with that??? also, the instruction booklet has you face the rebel cards towards the rebel player, empire cards towards the empire player which is fine, but you also turn the neutral cards sideways!? you better believe we did not do that wtf. Overall, is it good? yeah. Is it just Star Realms with a Star Wars skin slapped on it? pretty much. In conclusion, If you like Star Realms and also like Star wars it's mostly just a fun retheme with slight variations, (that admittedly, are improvements) then you'll like this game.
bneffer
Good - tight. Pleasantly surprised. One side can get screwed on the offering, but overall - pretty balanced.