For those who don’t know, Star Wars Unlimited (SWU) is a trading card game (TCG) by Lucasfilm and Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) released in March 2024. With original art on every card that covers every form of Star Wars media including movies, TV shows, books, comics, and video games, from canon and legends material. A Lawless Time is the seventh set of SWU, focusing on rebels and bounty hunters. I’ll eventually do an article going into more detail about what Star Wars Unlimited is, and how to play, but here I will be talking about my experience with weekly play.
I first got into Star Wars Unlimited when I was watching Pokémon card openings. Opening packs seemed fun, but I didn’t care much for Pokémon, so I went to my local comic shop to ask for any Star Wars TCGs. That’s where I discovered SWU. When the fourth set came out, I was looking for new product, when I stumbled upon a store doing a Monday night weekly play that day! I learned how to play there, went home to make a deck, and returned the next Monday. I have been playing at that store almost every Monday ever since.
Weekly Play: Week 2 – What is Draft?
Draft is one of the unlimited ways you can play Star Wars Unlimited. It’s a limited format, meaning the deck you play with is built with only cards you open on site; no pre-constructed decks allowed. Draft is played by using three booster packs. Cards from these packs are passed around the table in a circle as you choose which cards to add to your deck one-by-one, until there are no cards left; this is repeated with the last two packs. The cards you choose are based on the leader you pick, which are drafted before the pack’s other cards.
The leader I chose was Boba Fett, and a red base to go with it. Red cards do lots of damage quickly, which I find works well in limited formats. Boba synergizes with Bounty Hunter cards, allowing them to create credit tokens to play expensive units sooner. So, I looked out for cards with the “Bounty Hunter” trait. The MVP of my deck was Dengar (LAW, 53), which created a credit token when it defeated the highest costing enemy card, and another credit with Boba Fett’s ability. I placed second place overall, so I think my draft deck was successful.
Prizing – What Did I Get?
At the store where I do weekly play, we get one booster pack and a weekly play pack for participating, as well as additional booster packs for the top players per every two people that attend. In a weekly play pack, there are three alternate art cards from the main set. There are even chances to get rare and legendary cards in these packs too. The weekly play packs for A Lawless Time (LAW) have been delayed, so this week I opened a Legends of the Force weekly play pack, and I will receive my LAW packs when they arrive.
Inside A Lawless Time booster pack, there is one leader, one base, eight common cards, a hyperspace common card, a random rarity hyperspace foil card, three uncommon cards, and a rare or legendary card. Of course, there are chances to get more than one rare/legendries, more than one hyperspace cards, a showcase leader, or even a prestige card. Because I placed in the top half of the draft, I opened two LAW booster packs. Some of my highlight uncommon cards included Chopper (LAW, 55), Urrr’k (LAW, 82), and Kanan Jarrus (LAW, 89), as well as my hyperspace and hyper foils.
The Big Hits!
The big hits in a regular A Lawless Time booster pack include a showcase leader, a prestige card, or a legendary. A showcase is a full art version of a leader card, and may be the rarest version of a card in the game. A prestige is a rare alt-art version of a card, and a legendary is the rarest of the standard art cards, and are often very powerful. In this week’s prize packs, I pulled one big hit: the Millennium Falcon (LAW, 68) prestige card! My third prestige card so far in this set.
I didn’t pull any other big hits, but every pack does come with a rare card, and those can still be pretty good cards too. In my two prize packs I opened Chirrut Imwe (LAW, 46), and Fear and Dead Men (LAW, 179). Now, the thing about draft is that the rare card in your pack is not always the card you need for your deck, so you pass it on. As a collector first though, whenever a rare card was passed to me, I took it. I ended up rare drafting three cards on top of the three I opened in my packs.
Next Week – Premier:
Next week on our weekly play schedule is Premier, meaning I can only use cards from the current block of cards, which right now includes Jump to Lightspeed, Legends of the Force, Secrets of Power, and A Lawless Time. I will be back next week with another Star Wars Unlimited weekly play article that will be a little more straight to the point, but will still include my deck list, how I played, and of course… prizing! Also, don’t forget to check out my new TikTok account, @e_atinfoil, for a full pack opening. May The Force Be With You!