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Star Wars Unlimited: Boba Fett Spotlight Deck
To kick things off, we have a pair of leaders to show you. In past sets, the first two leaders revealed would come from the set’s Two-Player Starter. However, starting from Jump to Lightspeed, and for every set onward, a Two-Player Starter will no longer be part of the product lineup. Instead, this set introduces a new product type to the fold: Spotlight Decks!
Spotlight Decks are pre-built decks that contain a mixture of cards from multiple sets, with cards from the new set making up the majority of the deck. Each Spotlight Deck contains five Special-rarity cards that are unique to that product, one of which is the leader card. Two Spotlight Decks will release with every set, which means there are ten Special-rarity cards in total, the exact same number as there were in previous sets’ Two-Player Starters.
The first of the Jump to Lightspeed Spotlight Decks is none other than Boba Fett (Jump to Lightspeed, 9). This fierce bounty hunter specializes in indirect damage, a new mechanic introduced in this set. When his leader side’s ability is triggered, you can exhaust Boba to deal 1 indirect damage to your opponent, which means they must choose one of their units or their base and assign 1 unpreventable damage to it.
Boba Fett (and the other Spotlight Deck leader that we’ll cover in a moment) is also our first instance of a leader with two different deployment options: the first lets him deploy as a leader unit as normal, while the second lets him deploy as a “Pilot upgrade.” This turns Boba into a beefy upgrade that you attach to one of your Vehicle units, turning that unit into your leader unit and seriously bolstering its stats. He also has an ability that triggers when he is deployed as an upgrade, letting him deal a decent chunk of damage to your opponent’s units.
Leaders aren’t the only cards in this set that can turn into Pilot upgrades. Many unit cards, such as Bossk (Jump to Lightspeed, 187), can be played as an upgrade instead thanks to the new Piloting keyword. Similar to the Smuggle keyword from Shadows of the Galaxy, Piloting comes with its own alternate cost that you pay to play the card instead of its usual cost. This means you could choose to play Bossk as a 4-cost unit or pay 2 resources to play him as a Pilot upgrade on a Vehicle unit.
As for Bossk’s ability, being able to ping enemy units for little bits of damage synergizes well with Boba Fett’s leader ability. Any time you can get an enemy unit’s health low makes the opponent’s decision on where to assign indirect damage all the more difficult, doubly so when a card like No Disintegrations (Jump to Lightspeed, 144) can bring a unit down to just 1 remaining HP. Combine all that with potent, indirect damage-focused ships like Hunting Aggressor (Jump to Lightspeed, 165), Zygerrian Starhopper (Jump to Lightspeed, 183), and the iconic Fett’s Firespray (Jump to Lightspeed, 240), and your opponent will have to make these hard decisions throughout the entire game!
