As our History of Star Wars CCGs shows, Star Wars Unlimited is the latest card game set in a galaxy far, far away.
The first set, Spark of Rebellion, which has been a huge success for studio Fantasy Flight Games, is set during the era of the Original Trilogy, with the Rebel Alliance vs the Galactic Empire as its overall theme.
Shadows of the Galaxy is taking players to the Outer Rim of the Star Wars universe, with a focus on the seedier underbelly of the post-Return of the Jedi status quo.
Its Two Player Starter Set features The Mandalorian and Moff Gideon as its Leaders, with new keywords and mechanics that thematically evoke the bounty hunting theme even further.
So let’s take a look at the card list that you’ll be able to find in Star Wars Unlimited: Shadows of the Galaxy!
Shadows of the Galaxy Card Gallery
What’s New In The Shadows Of The Galaxy Set?
There are three new mechanics in Shadows of the Galaxy; though initially only two were revealed, the details on all three are now available.
The first is the Bounty keyword, which allows players to ‘cash in’ a card for resources when it’s defeated.
As you can see from the Wanted card above, it can be added to a unit at zero cost, then when the unit it’s attached to is defeated, the player who defeated the unit can immediately ready two resources.
It can also be triggered when the unit it’s attached to is captured; an example of a card which can capture another is shown above, with The Mandalorian’s Rifle.
Capturing takes an exhausted non-leader unit and places it face down under the unit which can capture, removing it from its arena entirely; it stays there until the capturing unit is defeated!
Next, we have the Smuggle keyword, which brings an incredibly exciting new element to Star Wars Unlimited.
One of the most painful elements of Star Wars Unlimited is losing valuable or powerful cards as resources; it often makes sense to use high cost cards as resources when you begin, but this means that you don’t have access to that card for the rest of the game.
Smuggle helps to alleviate that problem, as you can bring cards back into play directly from your resources.
The Privateer Crew card is a great example of this; if it’s a resource, you can bring it into play for a resource cost of 6, along with the potential extra cost of the Cunning Aspect (or paying the Aspect Penalty if needed!).
Paying the Smuggle cost and then replacing this card in the resource row with the top card of your deck will bring it into play; there’s also an extra bonus in that Privateer Crew gains a massive 3 Experience tokens, thus giving it +1/+1 Power and HP when it’s Smuggled!
With the top card of your deck being used as a replacement resource, it’s not as if you will be missing out in terms of the resources you’ll have available either, though of course this is risky, as you may lose access to another potentially powerful card!
Lastly, we have the new Experience and Shield token cards for Shadows of the Galaxy.
In Spark of Rebellion, the Experience token card featured Luke training with Yoda on Dagobah, and a B-Wing in space combat on the Shield token.
In Shadows of the Galaxy, both token cards feature Mandalorians, with Din Djarin featuring on the Experience token and a Mandalorian using a Personal Combat Shield to deflect blaster bolts on the Shield token card.
Though the illustrations have changed, these do, of course, work in exactly the same way as the Experience and Shield tokens in Spark of Rebellion; indeed, the token cards from the first set will naturally be compatible with Shadows of the Galaxy.
When Will Shadows Of The Galaxy Be Released?
There’s no firm release date for the Shadows of the Galaxy set yet, but we know that it’s going to be released in July, 2024.
We’re expecting a similar product range to the one seen with Spark of Rebellion; we’ve already seen some of the accessories that’ll be accompanying the set’s release, for example.
When new card details are released, we’ll be sure to update the gallery, and we’ll also spotlight further details on important new features when they’re revealed too!
