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We are officially under 2 months away from the release of Star Wars Unlimited! Now feels as good a time as ever to start speculating about what the most expensive singles will be. While there will likely be a few rares and uncommons that end up costing more than a few bucks, legendaries are where the money will be! Here’s how I expect pricing to shake out for the ones we’ve seen so far:

1. Darth Vader – This shouldn’t shock anyone, but Darth Vader is the most iconic character in Star Wars. Combine that with an awesome card, and he’s ripe for being the most expensive card in the set. Vader was also the most expensive card we saw in Star Wars Destiny, so I see no reason to expect it to go differently here.

2. Luke Skywalker – For a lot of the same reasons as Vader, we have the iconic status combined with a bomb unit. There’s even a chance Luke ends up more expensive than Vader (and boy will his Hyperspace variant look sweet)! 

3. Boba Fett – While Boba does boast some of the iconic status, he ends up in this spot by how playable and amazing his game mechanics are. Arguably the best 3-drop in the game (Superlaser Tech has a case if you value ramp high enough), there will never be a villain yellow deck you do not want to run him in. He’s very aggressively costed at 3, and you will not be sad to open any packs with him!

4. Millennium Falcon – Like Boba, the Falcon will be a staple in hero yellow decks and boasts great stats and reach to close out games. FFG really nailed making iconic things strong!

5. Change of Heart – There are a lot of options you could slot at 5 (Mace Windu, Home One, and Cunning), but I think Change of Heart will trump them due to its deckbuilding flexibility. There will be many, many frustrated people when a timely Change of Heart gets played against them.

6. Cunning – This is the one double aspect card I expect to cost decent money, because it is simply an amazing card. If it were more flexible, (i.e. playable outside double cunning) there’s a chance it could be one of the most expensive cards in the set! They should have named this card Tempo Town, TBH.

7. Home One – The bomb for Hero/Green combined with some fantastic space battle art, I expect this guy to fetch a decent price. I’m curious to see how much the Hyperspace versions of some of these iconic ships will fetch!

8. Mace Windu – While Hero/Aggression is more often built as a low-to-the-ground aggro deck, Mace is still a sweet bomb unit and an iconic character. Worst case scenario, you can count on Jay from Unplayable to purchase all of your Mace win-dawgy dawgs!

9. Devastator – This begins the low-end legendary cards. The Devastator is a super cool unit, has a fun ability, and great art, but… in a game that often doesn’t reach 10 resources this likely won’t be decked very often.

10. Black One – One of our first sequel era cards, Poe Dameron’s shop is a definite fan favorite! The hard part will be finding decks that want to run it. At 6 cost, it’s just outside of the range aggro decks will likely end up at, and its a bit clunky in other decks that aren’t dumping their hand. Black One will likely get a price surge in a few sets when some combo deck is formed that required you dumping hands to get through your deck faster!

11. Avenger – Avenger is pretty sweet, but likely the least playable of the non-aspect-named Legendaries we’ve seen. Boy, do I love all the star destroyer art in this game, though. The only other big unit in Villain blue is Count Dooku, so this may end up a little higher on the list due to needing to fill a cost void.

12. Aggression – I expect this to be the second most playable of the named aspect cards, with Grand Inquisitor shaping up fairly nicely at mono-aggression. There’s also a decent chance a good mono Sabine build works out that would be cheaper to build than the yellow version.

13. Command – A lot of people love Star War Rebels and will subsequently want to run the all-Spectres Hera Sydulla deck. Tarkin mono Command is also a lot of fun ramping all over the place, but already requires some pricey cards in Darth Vader, Devastator, and what will likely be one of the more expensive uncommons in Overwhelming Barrage.

14. Vigilance – While Command is the worst of the named aspect cards, a mono Hera or Tarkin deck will likely be more playable in set 1 leading it to be slightly more expensive. Mono Vigilance is a lot of fun with Luke Skywalker or Director Krennic, but I doubt this combo will be high on player’s “to-try” lists.

With anywhere from 2-6 Legendaries likely remaining, it will be interesting to see if we’ve seen the top end of expensive legendaries. I’m pretty confident we won’t see cheaper than the named aspect cards currently sitting at the bottom of my list. I’m personally expecting the basic versions of most legendaries to land in the $5-$30, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see Vader, Luke, and maybe even Boba fetch much more than that given their iconic status!

Resident Excel master RowdyOctopus expects the following combination of 4 remaining legendaries: Villain Aggression, Single aspect Vigilance, Single aspect Command, and Single Aspect Aggression. Going off that, here’s my 4 left field guesses:

Force Lightning is definitely where I feel most confident, given that everyone in the world expects Palpatine to be the final Command leader. It’d be a shame to not have arguably the most iconic Force power in the first set and at Legendary status no less. This could definitely be a candidate for Top 5 expensive legendary in the set if it came to be.

Given the theme of Spectres in the first set, the Ghost seems like a solid candidate for a legendary. With only Kanan representing the Vigilance category, I’d love to see the Ghost here, but ultimately I do think it is far more likely it also has the Heroism aspect. My next guess for single aspect Vigilance would be Force Heal, but 2 force powers at legendary status seems a bit high given how few we’ve seen total in SoR. Both card ideas I would expect to be in the middle range for cost of Legendaries.

Single aspect command is the hardest in my opinion, as the only great candidate for a person would be Agent Kallus, but we already have him in this set. That leaves us looking at vehicles, and the Hammerhead Corvette would fit the role pretty well given it’s role in Rogue One. The Corvette’s price tag would likely be pretty dependent on how good of a card it is, as the Rebel/Imperial Capital ships definitely trump it in iconic status.

We’ve seen a lot of single aspect Partisans and Insurgents, so it seems fitting that Saw Gerrera would be the single aspect Aggression legendary. They may be rebels, but they haven’t always seemed to fit the Hero vibes, so I have really enjoyed the designers placing them as single aspect cards. Forrest Whitaker was a fan favorite, so this could creep near the 5-10 range of expensive legendaries if it’s a strong card.

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That’s it for today! How do you think the pricing will shake out for the legendaries? Which ones will you be most excited to open come March 8th?