After a quick break for our April Fool’s joke, we’re back with the meta report!

This week featured the first large tournaments of the organized play season for Jump to Lightspeed and we’re making three removals, an addition, and two swaps based on what we saw.

There were two large tournaments over the weekend, the Sector Qualifier in Milan (won by Jango/Red) and the Bothan Invitational in Atlanta (which had several events.) You can check out the granular results on SWU:CH.

The first change we’re making is to remove several leaders from the snapshot that simply don’t seem viable in the Jango world we currently live in. Those being removed are Kazuda, Luke, and Qi’Ra. All three of these decks rely on having a vulnerable board presence that Jango effectively punishes. None of them made a significant showing in Milan or Atlanta. Luke was my pet project of the meta (I usually give myself one reach when we build the snapshot) but, as usual, it didn’t pan out…

Second, we’re swapping two of our existing archetypes into different colors/leaders. The first swap is to change Piett’s color pairing to yellow. The only deck to make Milan top 8 (besides Jango) was Piett/Yellow. This puts him in a similar vein as Emperor/Yellow and I suspect the meta will quickly decide which one is more viable. Second, we correctly anticipated that the hard control game would shift to Blue/Yellow villain, but instead of Thrawn, we got Cad. This seems like one of the few contenders to actually give Jango a bad matchup. The question from here is: can it hang with the other 50% of the meta?

Finally, we’re adding Cad/Green that also performed well at the ATL tournament. Like it’s Blue brother, it has a lot of anti-Jango potential, especially in leveraging Commandeer and Relentless Pursuit.

Some of you might be wondering why we’re not adding Quinlan/Green to the snapshot after its win in Atlanta. Well, we said last meta that Quinlan green was “local trouble” since it only won tournaments in one region, in the hands of single player. Well, this was yet again GrumpyElephant, a master of the build who remains the only person who has proven themselves capable with this deck. Until that changes, we’re leaving the build off.

There’s an FFG livestream scheduled for April 9th that is labeled a “Competitive Play Check-In.” Given we’re only a couple weeks from the previous “no changes” verdict on Han/DJ, it seems auspicious they would schedule another so soon. Are Jango-related bans coming? Since we can only speculate, we here at Garbage Rollers will continue to address the meta as-is.

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I encourage all our readers to also check out SWU Competitive Hub, which does a great job keeping up with tournament results!

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If you’re from the UK, Unlimited Power TCG is your one-stop shop for UK tournament coverage.

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