Boba Fett card suspended from Star Wars: Unlimited TCG

The Star Wars: Unlimited card Boba Fett (Collecting the Bounty) is now suspended from play within the Premier format. The announcement of the change was made by lead designer Danny Schaefer in a blog post printed Wednesday. He additionally known as the cardboard “a improvement mistake.” Whereas Boba Fett isn’t being banned outright, it should have restricted utility beginning Nov. 8.

“If we knew again then what we all know now,” Schefer mentioned, “we by no means would have let him go to print with that mixture of skills, stats, and deploy value.”

In keeping with Schaefer, the Boba Fett card in query — a frontrunner card — was included within the decks of 55% of winners in a current aggressive match. For a sport with 54 completely different chief playing cards at time of publication, that represents a major design challenge. Schaefer writes that the choice to droop the cardboard was not taken frivolously, however was most popular to alternate strategies, together with an outright ban or retirement, as is frequent in competitor Flesh and Blood.

“He’s probably the most extreme energy degree outlier and his energy degree points are exacerbated as a result of he’s a frontrunner,” Schaefer writes. And he’s appropriate: Each time gamers sit down on the desk, they’ve their alternative of leaders, which start each sport in play on the desk. Leaders additionally set the tone for your complete remainder of the deck

“Leaders carry particular weight on this sport as a result of they outline archetypes, as a result of you may have assured entry to them in each sport, and since a deck can solely ever have one chief,” he writes. “Boba Fett’s mixture of stats and skill have confirmed to be too far forward [preventing] different midrange leaders […] from being viable within the metagame. No matter what particular card selections in these decks shift from set to set, it could doubtless stay optimum to have the Boba Fett chief on the helm.”

Star Wars: Limitless launched in March 2024 to close common crucial acclaim. Reviewers, including here at Polygon, lauded builders at Fantasy Flight Video games for the TCG’s quick and highly effective gameplay. Mashing up a beloved IP with a novel two-lane fashion of fight, with floor and house forces segregated to separate sides of the battlefield, stays a successful mixture.

Schaefer left the door open for Boba Fett (Gathering the Bounty) to return from suspension at a later date.

Polygon has reached out to Fantasy Flight for extra clarifications, and can replace this story accordingly.