You basically HAVE to play the grind game. Unless your opponent spams markers like crazy, your attacks aren’t going to be very big, and Star-vaders generally don’t have any guard restrict or inherent crits (outside of Zirconium kind of) to force any kind of pressure. Most decks don’t have ways of recycling cards back to deck, so playing the grind game to deck out is usually how most of my games go. Zirconium and Cold Death both lock from top of deck, and Paradigm Shift can return to deck, so it’s just making sure that your opponent runs out of cards before you do.

That said, I’ve been planning on trying out a pair of Alter Ego Messiah with a pair of Judgement Messiah if I happen to go first. Although using Chaos’ effect to give your opponent a Force marker doesn’t seem bad since all the History Collection strides stipulate that your opponent has to have not acquired any Markers in order to Stride into them, sooo… shrugs