The seventh set for Star Wars Unlimited, A Lawless Time, brings some exciting new changes to the table, including improvements to booster packs, multi-aspect cards and a focus on the feel of a heist movie. Which cards are the most sought after in the set though? Let’s find out, as we check out the most valuable cards in A Lawless Time!
10. Director Krennic, Amidst My Achievement – Showcase, 774
Imperial Director Orson Krennic is a fine example of how self destructive a bruised ego, along with a misplaced, unwavering confidence in your own abilities, can end up being. However, for years he was an effectively loyal Imperial officer; on this card from A Lawless Time, he’s at the height of his power, just before his well deserved downfall.
9. Tobias Beckett, People Are Predictable – Showcase, 768
With this set being based around double-crossing ne’er-do-wells and heists, A Lawless Time is the perfect place to find Tobias Beckett as a Leader. A mentor figure to a young Han Solo, he’s not to be trusted, and that’s reflected in his card abilities. You can send units over to the enemy for Credits, and then when deploying Beckett, defeat them all for extra Credits and cards!
8. Aurra Sing, Assassin – Showcase, 770
With art by the excellent Axel Hutt, this card showcases deadly assassin Aurra Sing, in the midst of an assassination attempt. Sing has a connection to the card we’ve just covered; in Star Wars lore, she was defeated and killed by none other than Tobias Beckett!
7. Enfys Nest, Until We Can Go No Higher – Showcase, 780
We’re really heavy on the characters from the prequel movie Solo: A Star Wars Story in this list. Which makes sense; given that A Lawless Time focuses on heists, and it’s arguably the case that Solo itself could be described as a heist movie. Here we have another character of initially dubious loyalty; the leader of the Cloud-Riders: Enfys Nest.
6. Chewbacca, Hero of Kessel – Showcase 779
This version of Chewbacca, the Hero of Kessel, is also from Solo; we weren’t kidding when we said that it had been very effectively mined for characters in A Lawless Time! This Chewbacca card can defeat a resource in order to create a Credit token and deal 2 damage to a unit.
5. Hera Syndulla, Not Fighting Alone – 775
Hailing initially from Star Wars Rebels, which was always heavy on the heists, featuring a ragtag crew of misfits headed up by Hera Syndulla’s pseudo-mother figure to the crew of space freighter, the Ghost. A Lawless Time introduces multi-aspect cards which haven’t been seen before, and this Leader card allows Hera to ignore a unit card’s aspect penalties as long as it has the Heroism aspect.
4. Lando Calrissian, Full Sabacc – Showcase, 784
The final Solo-related card on this list is here with the young Lando Calrissian, original owner of the Millennium Falcon. Gambling in Star Wars is a surprisingly detailed part of the universe; there are several games named and featured in Star Wars media which are actually fully playable! Balaans is one such game, as is Pazaak from classic RPG Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. However, the most famous of them all is Sabacc, which features on this Lando card. A variation of Sabacc is fully playable, and very addictive, in video game Star Wars: Outlaws.
3. Sebulba, Especially Dangerous Dug – Showcase, 778
The cheating podracer, Sebulba, features on this Leader card. It’s a risky one to use, as you’ll be discarding cards in order to give another unit, or Sebulba himself when deployed, the Raid keyword.
2. Darth Vader, Unstoppable – Showcase, 777
Showing Darth Vader at his most effective in terms of direct action, one of the final scenes of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sees the Sith Lord brutally murdering his way through an entire hallway filled with rebel troops, in an attempt to retrieve the Death Star plans. Though ultimately unsuccessful in retrieving them, this scene shows why Vader is such a feared, almost mythical figure to the rank and file populace of the Star Wars universe.
1. Jyn Erso, Time to Fight – Showcase, 771
Our final card on the list of the most valuable cards in A Lawless Time is another from Rogue One. Jyn Erso helps to inspire and lead the successful, but ultimately doomed mission to retrieve the Death Star plans, giving weight to the sacrifice and importance of the event which then leads into the very first Star Wars movie: A New Hope. Like the rest of the cards on this list, this is a Showcase card, which are very rare indeed. Found at the rate of 1 in every 288 standard boosters or 1 in every 48 Carbonite booster packs, Showcase cards aren’t the rarest type of Star Wars Unlimited card, but are quite often the ones which fans are most keen to get hold of. With the booster pack updates introduced in A Lawless Time, we may see that change, but for now it seems that Showcase cards rule the roost in terms of valuable Star Wars Unlimited cards!
Check out our list of cards in A Lawless Time, and our guide to playing Star Wars Unlimited’s brilliant multiplayer format, Twin Suns.
