I bought "Star Wars Epic Duels" at a garage sell back in the day, but I only played sporadically until around 2012-2013 when I got really into the game.  That's when I started analyzing decks and printing customs and filling notebooks and word documents with drafts of my own decks.   Eventually it become my gateway game into board gaming,

I lurked on all the main Epic Duels sites for a while, but the resurgence in interest with the game around the release of "The Last Jedi" as well as Sophists' Game of Thrones expansion made me want to get in on the action. 

I like thematic decks, single character decks, applying the Epic Duels engine to other properties, and Vassal extensions because that's where I mostly duel these days.

What People Are Saying About JAG's Decks:

Elite Praetorian Guards
JAG18: 1/3/18 9:38 pm
A bit of a wonky deck Roman encouraged me to make, although it's definitely in the early stages and any help would be appreciated.
Since the eight guards are divided into "pairs" of 2 this deck is build around two of those pairs fighting together (two more are with Snoke and the last two are on their coffee break :P ). BILARI CHAIN WHIP, VIBRO VOLUGE, and NAR KANJI are either taken from or inspired by cards by Sultan, Sophist, and an early incarnation of the Lurtz deck in LOTRED.

-I know I'll need to make a special health marker to track all four of them at some point.
-I'd admit the wording on the two special weapons is longer than I want it to be, but this is the best way I could think of wording it without it being "too" small.
-NAR KANJI in theory helps keep enemies in place to set of for the special weapon attacks, but I'm toying with an idea of having the card doing damage over time instead.

I played it once real quick with The Emperor and the guards vs. Anakin and Mace. Anakin and the clones won finally managed to kill Palpy, but the guards had trouble getting anything going.

Roman F: 1/3/18 11:10 pm
I think it's a good first effort. Perhaps try boosting the values of all of their attacks by 1 OR increase the boost from the Paired Guard to +4 instead of +2.

JAG18: 1/5/18 7:19 pm
Thanks, I'll probably do the former because after a little play testing I've found:
-They're about top tier 3 right now; that doesn't seem quite right to me.
-They always seem to be running low on cards.
-TERAS KASI is good and all, but I'm thinking of changing it so that always draw one card, plus however many for pairing up.
-DEFENSE LINE's bit about being able to defend allies is almost useless and I never use it. I think I might a card draw for this too or change it so that the defending guard's pair can make a free attack against the attacker.
-NAR KANJI is useful and I want them to have a card that shows off their martial arts skills, but I might change it to something more original and that helps out the deck more.
-This deck is really fun to play with Snoke against Kylo and Rey even if they almost always are on the losing side.

Roman F: 1/5/18 9:27 pm
If you were to make it available on Vassal, I could also mess around with it, but make those proposed changes first.

JAG18: 1/6/18 12:26 pm
I'd more than appreciate it if you gave it a few goes. Latest version of the deck should be up (I'm still figuring my way around the wiki :P ) in PDF and Vassal.

JAG18: 1/22/18 9:21 pm
Update: Ok, after play testing I think they swung to far the other direction and might be too powerful (especially in 1v1). Mainly they seem to have too much defense to go along with their great offense. Changes I'm testing/considering:
-Replacing their Blue deck with a Brown deck. Probably fits them better and will definitely take their defense down a notch.
-Changing DEFENSE LINE to ECHANI ARTS and making it a D3/D5 (down from D4/D7).
-Changing TERAS KASI so that it only moves two guards 3 spaces, but at the cost of no action. Not sure what kind of "pair" boast I can add to this. Probably switching to the old version of the card would be fine, but I want to try finding something more original.
-Might take a HP away from each of them, don't know.
Their offensive cards are solid and I'd rather not mess with them; NAR KANJI has actually grown on me and helps pin their enemies in place so I probably won't touch that either.

JAG18: 1/16/19 11:29 am
After about year of on and off testing and revision this is the final (?) version of this deck. It works pretty well IMO and is Tier 2 (lower end) in power level. Still needs a custom health chart though.

Qi'ra:
JAG18: 6/27/18 6:59 pm
I had an idea for a kind of support deck that I wanted to try and while looking for a character to assign it to I decided to go with Qi'ra in a deck that kind of focuses on her career as Dryden Vos' best lieutenant. Any and all help would be very appreciated especially with some better card names because I only say "Solo" once and don't remember very many of her quotes.

Roman F: 6/27/18 7:26 pm
It's an interesting approach to give her several types of "helper" cards. I haven't seen this before, it's very original, so I can't comment on how well it works, but I think she needs a little more of a game on her own. It would be better if her cards powered up her minors, but could also be used to power up allies. For example, I really like MOVE! because it's very flexible, but I don't like CONNECTIONS as much. It's overpowered with the right ally, but useless if she doesn't have an ally, as is Qi'ra, generally, in this set up. She almost needs a re-usable attack card or something, like an A5 she can return to her hand, otherwise she just doesn't have enough to beat you on her own. I'm typically not a fan of "for the next turn" types of effects but they kind of make sense for her.

JAG18: 6/28/18 7:54 pm
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I'm not sure about CONNECTIONS; on the one hand I've always wanted to put a card like this in a deck of mine, but on the hand you're right it could really break the right (or wrong?) deck. It technically can help her since she can use it on herself. I'm thinking about replacing it with some kind of card that gets Basics out of the draw and/or discard pile; in theory she could combo that with CRIMSON LIEUTENANT and barrage the enemy with her minors A6s and A5s.
I actually have an attack card like that in a different deck I'm working on and since I've been trying to come up with a better effect for WE DO THINGS MY WAY I think I'll change it to something like: "A5: If this attack did any damage, discard a card to return this card to your hand."

Mitth'raw'nuruodo: 11/1/18 8:22 pm
This was just a kinda fun thought I had, but it would be funny to have an attack card that's pretty powerful, but if it's played against Dryden, then either he can't block it, or it does more damage. I AM YOUR WEAKNESS or something.

Unfortunately, it wouldn't be very practical at all.

JAG18: 11/2/18 6:45 pm
If it has a high enough base value it could be practical; reminds me of Jango's MISSILE LAUNCH, which is good regardless of whether you're playing on Kamino, but the extra card draw adds a bit of fun to the deck.
Considering how much trouble getting together a 2.0 version of this deck is giving me, I just might use that idea so thanks for the suggestion.

Mitth'raw'nuruodo: 11/2/18 8:06 pm
We'll be watching this deck with great interest.

JAG18: 11/4/18 7:34 pm
New version is up, which gives Qi'ra more damage output and more to do without a teammate, but I'm still struggling to get this deck right. I'm also not sure if this version of RESOURCES is a better fit or not.

Mitth'raw'nuruodo: 11/4/18 8:04 pm
Impressive.  Most Impressive.

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