2nd Place Store Champ Mill 1.0

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I came runner up with this mill deck at a recent store championship; losing to vehicle/droids in the final 2-1.

Firstly I will address the question of why single die Cassian and single die Annie.

There were 3 reasons:

1. The simple fact that it’s an extra 7 health in a game where aggro and damage make the difference. Being able to take 7 more damage really helps when decks can throw out 8 to 10 in round 1.
2. He’s another yellow character which keeps the spot yellow cards work. Second chance, Entangle and Easy Pickings all need having a yellow character so your opponent has to chew through 17 health (plus janky gimmicks) in order to turn them off.
3. And possibly the most important, is being able to spot Anakin when resolving Anakin Skywalker’s Podracer.

I only had one Podracer card and now regret only having one in the deck. The games where I played it round 1 were far easier than those when I played it round 3. Plus Annie can turn it to any side when he activates. When Annie is in play the discard on the Podracer die becomes a 2 discard and in the late game deals with the usual anti-mill plays (like ancient lightsaber) by discarding from the deck when you resolve.

I only had one hyperspace jump and I rarely used it for most of my games. I used it once to end a game and twice to avoid lethal damage. My resource management was the biggest issue here.

I built this deck the night before the SC so I’m very surprised it did so well. I felt that thet were a couple of games where I was lucky and other games my opponent played badly against me (discarding to reroll for example).

I’ll do much more work on it and hopefully make it a bit more effective.