It’s now November, which means casual competition is over and the best players of all the Fantasy Flight competitive games have come together at the company headquarters to win the biggest tournament of the year. Over the course of the weeks and months leading up to this moment, the competitors have been hard at work sleeving up the cards from the most recent expansion, bringing what had previously been understood about the metagame against a new powerhouse arriving in the Imperial Navy. No single release has been as exciting and impactful as Imperial Entanglements, meaning that those players who wish to vy for the title of World Champion have had a lot to learn with the new cards. Prior to the release of the deluxe expansion, a variety of Jedi decks had proved to be dominant, with Rebels a viable dark horse when the metagame was ruled by Sith and Scum combinations. And on top of the release of a host of interesting new cards, the most recent FAQ has negated two deck archetypes that might otherwise have appeared, whether they would have won the event or not. But now that the card pool has finally started growing into a healthy diversity, there’s no obvious answer as to which deck is the strongest. This is a brilliant time for the game, with tournament-quality decks in all (well, almost all…) of the affiliations. To get you as up-to-date on what I expect will happen at Worlds, I’m going to share the results of our testing with you to give you an idea of what’s hot and what’s not.

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