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Carbonite For The Common Man: Evaluating SWU’s New Collector Packs For Non-Whales
Happy PQ Season and 2025! Yesterday, we were treated to a lovely livestream from our good friends at FFG, featuring Community Manager Xander, Design Lead Danny Schaefer, and Visual Design Manager Mercedes Opheim. It was an informative look into a hotly debated topic amongst SWU faithful- Carbonite Packs, this game’s version of MTG’s Collectors Packs Read more
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At last, Carbonite Info approaches!
In case you missed it, FFG Live posted their stream schedule for the month of January, which we quickly realized included a surprise stream today consisting of information on the new Carbonite Packs. Given the news, we’re taking today off to watch the stream, and we will be back tomorrow to recap it! If you Read more
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Meta Monday – January 6th, 2025
Meta Snapshot Updates This was week one of Planetary Qualifiers and we saw a wide diversity of winners from all over the world! PQ Barcelona – Sabine ECLPQ Tolouse – Qi’Ra GreenPQ Iowa – Han1 YellowPQ Wisconsin – Quinlan TarkintownPQ Nebraska – Cad Bane BluePQ North Dakota – Bossk GreenPQ Chicago – Quinlan ECLPQ Vegas – Read more
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Thorrk’s Epic Battles: The First Battle of Geonosis
Welcome to this first article of Epic Battles and today I (Thorrk) am gonna tell you everything you need to know to play your own Epic Narrative Battle for Star Wars Unlimited! The objective of this article is to give you the rules and decklists to recreate epic battles of Star Wars with minimum efforts, Read more
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Holiday Break
Good morning! We will be taking a break from posting any written content the next 2 weeks as we spend time with our families and enjoy the holidays. We still have scheduled gameplay videos uploading daily on our YouTube channel though! When we return, PQ season will be upon us.. what surprises await us as the meta Read more
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Limits of Design | SWU’s Set Structure & The Future
Thanks as always for being one of our readers here at GarbageRollers HQ. Behind the scenes, when we’re not waxing poetic about the nature of our Meta Snapshot or cooking up decks, we spend a lot of time talking with each other about the bones of the game we love. In that spirit, we’re taking Read more
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Meta Monday – December 16th, 2024
Meta Snapshot Updates This week, we’re making three changes to our meta snapshot: two removals and one swap. The first is removing Chancellor Palpatine from the snapshot. This deck is a personal favorite of mine, but I have to admit that it’s performance has not been at the level justifying its inclusion on the snapshot. Read more
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The GarbageCast | Episode 3 | That’s Not How The 4th Works
Episode 3 | That’s Not How The 4th WorksSurprise! On Wednesday, 12/4 FFG surprised the SWU world by throwing out somewhat early spoilers for the game’s 4th set, Jump To Lightspeed. Early reactions have been, well, interesting, and we figured it was a good time to start a discussion on the very interesting implications of Read more
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Meta Monday – December 9th, 2024
Meta Snapshot Updates We’re not making any changes to our meta snapshot this week. There was a (delayed) Season 2 PQ in Italy that was won by Cad/Tarkintown, which is already on the snapshot. Top 8 was: There were some smaller win-a-box/case/promo tournaments in the US. A 31-person tournament in Georgia was split by Yoda/Blue Read more
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SWU Color Power Rankings | Set 3
One of the coolest things about TCGs, all the way back to Magic: The Gathering, is how different mechanics and themes get expressed through different colors, the factions that the game’s cardpool is divided into. Having some sort of similar system that pays homage to this is just such a good idea that it’s persisted Read more
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