FFG Drop More Details On New Star Wars: Unlimited Card Game
May 17, 2023 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games have dropped some more information on the upcoming Star Wars card game lined up for 2024. A recent preview explored the format and ideas behind Star Wars: Unlimited as well as showing off some of the cards.
Star Wars: Unlimited // Fantasy Flight Games
Star Wars: Unlimited is being designed to be a card game for newcomers and hardcore fans of trading card games. Much like other games of its ilk, you build a deck of cards using randomised booster packs starting with over 200 cards in the first set. Spark Of Rebellion will suitably be the start of this dive into a new card game and features a focus on the original trilogy with characters like Luke, Leia, Darth Vader and more.
Luke Skywalker // Star Wars: Unlimited
Leia Organa // Star Wars: Unlimited
During gameplay in Star Wars: Unlimited, you will go back and forth between players performing a single action each turn. This could be playing a card, attacking, activating an ability or something else from the array of options available to your characters in-game. Because of the back and forth between players, there should always be a chance to respond and update your plans on the fly as you try to beat your foe.
The play areas in Star Wars: Unlimited are also spread between a Ground Arena and Space Arena. Units can be played into one or the other so you'll have to make some hard decisions and fight a battle on two different fronts rather than just one.
Grand Moff Tarkin // Star Wars: Unlimited
Darth Vader // Star Wars: Unlimited
Some cards will have specific abilities that work in one arena better than another. In some cases, big characters like Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader will be able to influence units wherever they are and the use of Leaders like them will be integral to whether or not you win or lose.
Wing Leader // Star Wars: Unlimited
Maximum Firepower // Star Wars: Unlimited
There is also going to be a strong focus in Star Wars: Unlimited in terms of Organised Play. Some lessons have been learned according to Fantasy Flight Games and they are going to be making it fun for casual players as well as those wanting to dive into big tournaments with a competitive edge. You can find out more about their plans for Organised Play as part of Fantasy Flight's latest preview article.
You're My Own Hope // Star Wars: Unlimited
I'm sure we'll get even more details and information on Star Wars: Unlimited as we get closer and closer to the release of the game in 2024. The first set, Spark Of Rebellion is looking very nice in terms of art and design even if we're not clear on the full mechanics just yet. I like the art we've seen and I hope we get to see lots more of this. It's miles better than stills and screenshots from the movies.
I also really like the fact that the basic structure of play moves between players one action after the other. It means that games should be dynamic and no clash is just a landslide. I am fairly sure I won't be playing this when it lands but I hope it does well.
Will you be keeping an eye on Star Wars: Unlimited?
"I like the art we've seen and I hope we get to see lots more of this..."
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I wonder what made them go the route of “alternative artwork”. Still unsure if I like it or not.
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Could be anything from licensing to differentiating the game from the countless other SW games on the market — including ones by FFG. Speaking of which, how do we know this game will be on the market for more than a few years? RIP SW Destiny dice game, and the hundreds of dollars my friends spent on it.
Any game getting continuous releases for decades is the exception, not the rule. And none of them guarantee being on the market for infinite time. I would expect there will come a time when the production stops.
Your friends got the SW Destiny product they paid for at the time, it’s not an investment in the future. It’s why I’d rather spend money on plastic models than pieces of cardboard. And as with any game it only dies if you stop playing with what you already have. Dig out that Destiny deck and get more value from those purchases.
The more cards I see, the more I see they are basically just copying game mechanics from Magic: The Gathering. This could have easily been a ‘Worlds Beyond’ set in Magic.
This does look interesting. Personally, I’m a fan of the artwork – it looks (check the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader cards) like rotoscoped art so that new art (Princess Leia, Moff Tarkin) won’t look out of place – an effort at artistic consistency. But now I want to go rewatch A Scanner Darkly…
The artwork looks boring. Not going to drumb up hype with that kind of dull art.