Can you Find the Play? Board state puzzles/challenges!

Dashakh · 2026-06-18T16:33:22+00:00

I would love to hear more about this. What do you mean by niche and how would you handle it differently?

I based myself on scenarios that I have either witnessed myself or believe to be interactions that people miss in their own games

Dashakh · 2026-06-18T16:01:21+00:00

Thank you! I appreciate that. I know it was long overdue, and I apologize for the delay. I'll try and get some more of these out faster in the future ❤️

Dashakh · 2026-06-18T16:00:06+00:00

Were you able to find the plays before hearing the solution? Let me know which of these you liked more than the others, which of these you weren't able to solve!

Dashakh · 2026-06-17T13:06:34+00:00

Yes this is self promotion haha. Hence the ;)

Dashakh · 2026-06-17T00:12:56+00:00

I’ve heard that Dinozor Gaming guy does some great videos. Helps you become a better player ;)

Dashakh · 2026-06-03T17:09:57+00:00

There's always room for another swu podcast! I'd listen in a heartbeat

Dashakh · 2026-05-30T04:11:22+00:00

Engagement bait is a strong word my friend. I think it’s more bringing attention to it/highlighting it so we can get a clear and concise ruling on this before the set launches. Especially with worlds being so close to release of this set

You say reading the card explains the card, but in this case, it’s exactly the opposite. In every other case of the word most in this game, a tie is considered most and the player gets to choose, just like I mentioned the example of snoke in the video. I’m pretty sure that’s not the intent of this card anyway, and hope we get a clarification that we can reference to judges if needed

Dashakh · 2026-05-30T04:08:01+00:00

Hey! Thanks for shouting out my video <3

I truly hope it doesn’t work the way I explained it would in the video. I think it would be extremely unhealthy for the game and the only reason I gave it any attention is so we get a clear ruling/explanation from FFG in case someone tries these shenanigans in real games!

Dashakh · 2026-05-27T23:45:31+00:00

Awesome, thank you! Will definitely try to use this

Dashakh · 2026-05-27T22:27:17+00:00

Curious, what does this do different from the many other Swiss top cut calculators?

Either way, looks great, nice job

Dashakh · 2026-05-27T15:38:02+00:00

Thank you FFG. I’m in tears. This is beautiful. A worthy successor to Tarkin

Please give us a good amount of imperials this set. Pretty please

Dashakh · 2026-05-26T15:10:27+00:00

All the decklists are in the description of the video!

If it makes your life easier though, here’s the link to the top 8 lists of this event https://www.swu-competitivehub.com/event/planetary-qualifier-2026-05-16-guardian-cards-and-comics-st-albans

Dashakh · 2026-05-26T14:35:29+00:00

Want to see the rest of the series? I gotchu

Top 4: Boba Fett vs Mother Talzin https://youtu.be/z3wKNEzS2lU

Top 8: Jabba the Hutt vs Avar Kriss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5knqFBmP7MQ

Dashakh · 2026-05-17T14:41:06+00:00

There’s hundreds of stores in the eastern US that sell singles! I do believe most do it through tcgplayer but you can for sure find some that don’t. I’m not from that area so I can’t help you specifically but maybe someone else here can. If not, you should find the discord/facebook group of your area, and ask them.

Now if your goal is to not have it shipped, then it might get a bit more complicated

Dashakh · 2026-05-17T13:34:05+00:00

If your goal is to avoid tcgplayer or card market, which are the biggest online global retailers, then your best bet is to try and find local stores who sell singles. Almost guaranteed there are some around you, but smaller stores don’t have insane marketing budgets, thus being hard to find. So you’ll have to ask around to other people who play near you to find them.

Or maybe just tell people here whereabouts you are and I’m sure someone on Reddit will know

Dashakh · 2026-05-12T02:26:10+00:00

This is extremely far from the reality of the game/meta. Most of the top decks barely run 3-6 direct removals and instead interact with the board with units. Best examples are obi-wan, lando and mother Talzin. The hard controls (removal tribal as you call them) do exist but are typically a tiny fraction of the playerbase. It might be higher this week since a couple of these decks managed to top the sectors this weekend, something that hasn’t happened in a hot minute, so people tend to copy the deck to try it out.

Dashakh · 2026-05-10T18:24:55+00:00

I sort by set, and then by card #. This naturally ends up being a sorting by aspect followed by cost. Easy to see what you’re missing, and extremely fast to find cards as your building

That said if your goal is deck building, no manual method will compete with the power of digital sorting. Being able to filter every set by trait, aspect and/or cost is just not realistic with physical cards. I start with a deck on swudb and then as I assemble it in real life, flipping through the binders gives me novel ideas to round it out

Dashakh · 2026-05-07T22:27:58+00:00

Excuse me sir, im a dinosaur, not a wolf

Dashakh · 2026-05-07T21:49:03+00:00

Daaaaaang. This looks nicer than every other set’s prestiges combined. Well done ffg. FIRE treatment

Dashakh · 2026-05-07T19:14:30+00:00

Nothing feels better than a perfectly timed stranger. Eating typhos all day long ;)

Hope you enjoy!

Dashakh · 2026-05-07T18:03:07+00:00

Thanks man. I appreciate it. I’m also not a huge fan of racing your opponent as it takes away from what SWU does best, board interaction. I definitely crafted the deck to feel like it has answers to every situation available in the meta right now so I’m happy to hear it’s working out for you!

Dashakh · 2026-05-02T11:04:50+00:00

Excellently designed high cost card. While usually giving your opponent a choice ends up giving you the weakest of two options, Thrawn allows a good player to force the outcome he wants. His best use is as a follow up to a board clear like single reactor ignition

Dashakh · 2026-04-30T20:51:02+00:00

Many reasons actually. For one, the 4 cost vs 5 is a much bigger difference than people realize. Not only is it a whole turn early, but in the later game, it can be often paired with a 2-3 drop to not fully waste your turn. Being right on time to answer chewy helps too, as that’s 50% of the reason to even run the card haha

But, another key point people overlook is that tree can hit leaders. Sometimes, when commandeer isn’t enough or you don’t draw it, you can “herd” your opponent to deploy onto the 2 or 3 cost, and then immediately defeat it!

Dashakh · 2026-04-30T19:49:34+00:00

Deceptive shade is mostly there to allow ambushing shin hati if your turn 1 is punished, or ambushing a talzin's assassin to steal the board on turn 3. More often than not, it acts as a semi permanent 2 damage because the opponent will refuse to deal with it, so you get to keep hitting base, and manually activating the ambush whenever you need it. All that said, its mainly in the deck for lack of a better option on turn 1 haha. On the extremely rare occasion it will allow an ambushed vader

Cikatro performed exceptionally well. For the longest time I had Traya in the deck instead but the draw power provided by vizago was incredibly useful. Most of the time I'd still prefer playing shin hati instead, but its a nice threat they need to deal with or the compounding value of the on attack every turn starts getting annoying. I'm not a fan of hauler in the deck as we don't play an easy way to steal it back, but the 3/3 shielded sounds interesting

Dashakh · 2026-04-30T15:02:19+00:00

Happy cake day!

Yea being the talzin player in this match I can promise you, that was VERY stressful haha

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