I've tried playing this card a few times. It just too expensive. He only has one icon without winning the edge battle and two health. If you happen to land his armor and can afford 2 more cost, then he is a beast.

So would the character attacked have to survive for it to be captured. If you do two unit damage to a character that only has 2 hit points, It would seem that it would die before being captured.

That's correct. If you win the edge battle you can target a character with a lot of health like Luke or Obi-Wan. I think boba is probably most effective if he isn't winning the edge battle though. Seems counter intuitive because they get to resolve their attacks first, but you get to capture and all the benefits that come from that.

So would the character attacked have to survive for it to be captured. If you do two unit damage to a character that only has 2 hit points, It would seem that it would die before being captured.

The REACTION is not FORCED so it's up to DS player if he wants to capture the LS character or not. Most of the time it's best to just kill the character with 1 hit point and capture the tougher ones. But if you want to use Bespin Exchange or some other effect like that i think you can capture 1 hp characters as well. Leia is captured every time she leaves play so it looks like being destroyed doesn't stop the characters from being captured.

How does Boba work with Old Ben's Spirit? I damaged (killed) Yoda with OBS and tried to capture him, my opponent said I killed not captured therefore he discarded OBS and kept Yoda in play, I wanted to capture Yoda, discard all his enhancements (OBS x2 and trust your feelings), but the TO sided with him. I'm pretty sure I was right, my capture triggers before his OBS can.

How does Boba work with Old Ben's Spirit? I damaged (killed) Yoda with OBS and tried to capture him, my opponent said I killed not captured therefore he discarded OBS and kept Yoda in play, I wanted to capture Yoda, discard all his enhancements (OBS x2 and trust your feelings), but the TO sided with him. I'm pretty sure I was right, my capture triggers before his OBS can.

It sounds to me like your TO made an incorrect ruling. Old Ben's Spirit has the text when would be destroyed, instead discard enhancement. So your opponent has the choice. Let Yoda die, or save him and Boba captures him, since the enhancement prevents him from dying.

It sounds to me like your TO made an incorrect ruling. Old Ben's Spirit has the text when would be destroyed, instead discard enhancement. So your opponent has the choice. Let Yoda die, or save him and Boba captures him, since the enhancement prevents him from dying.

I thought so!

You can´t capture that which you kill with Boba Fett.
Wether you can capture him after he has been saved by OBS, I don´t know.
Technically if Boba Fett has to activate his ability before OBS but can´t (because he killed the character in the progress) then I´m not too sure he can activate his ability again after OBS has been activated.
Thematically Boba would leave his opponent for dead when he isn´t

But he did not kill him right? Ben's Spirit functions like a save does in AGOT so there is no kill. At least that's how I'm seeing the interaction. Perhaps an official answer from FFG is needed.

There is actually an official ruling from Nate on this issue in the rules clarifications thread that I will add to this card. In short, Yoda does not die, so Boba can capture him. Sorry your TO didn't get this one correct. What regional did this happen at?

You can´t capture that which you kill with Boba Fett.
Wether you can capture him after he has been saved by OBS, I don´t know.

This does work, the choice is either to let Yoda die or be captured.

How about protect character? If all the dmg is dealt to protecting char. Could the protector be captured?

How about protect character? If all the dmg is dealt to protecting char. Could the protector be captured?

Yes assuming it does not die from the damage.

So is Boba any better now that there are more 3 damage capacity LS units running around? I feel like it's hard sometimes to deal enough damage to take them out in one hit, especially with the prevalence of shields, but Fett can capture these guys in one hit.

 

Man, if only we had an event that searched your deck for a Scum enhancement. I would play Boba Fett if we had that so we could more reliably get him his Mandalorian Armor.

I've been having fairly good success mixing Boba in to my ho-hum Emperor-Vader Sith decks.  He's actually quite good at clearing protectors, which are fairly common in Jedi and Smuggler decks.

 

Plus, the other cards in his set (Armor and Blaster) work really well on Royal Guards, if you don't have Boba out when you draw them, and his focus-clearing event couples nicely with big Sith events if the right situation presents itself.

So is Boba any better now that there are more 3 damage capacity LS units running around? I feel like it's hard sometimes to deal enough damage to take them out in one hit, especially with the prevalence of shields, but Fett can capture these guys in one hit.
 
Man, if only we had an event that searched your deck for a Scum enhancement. I would play Boba Fett if we had that so we could more reliably get him his Mandalorian Armor.

I don't think so. At 3 cost or 3 health, I think he'd see play all day, but he's really edge reliant. Then his objective and the event are pretty bad. The chud is really.... Meh. The blaster and armor are both decent or good but not enough to include the set IMO.

Could this set get better at some point? Possibly, but we've been saying that for years now, and also, depending on your level of competitiveness, including him and his set are still just gimmping your deck.

I really want to build a Scum deck with Boba Fett, but I found his cost to be a bit too high (should've cost 3), his health is too low, and he's too Edge-reliant with his combat icons. The rest of the cards in his pod are meh as well. It's too bad such a popular character has received a mediocre set like this.

I really want to build a Scum deck with Boba Fett, but I found his cost to be a bit too high (should've cost 3), his health is too low, and he's too Edge-reliant with his combat icons. The rest of the cards in his pod are meh as well. It's too bad such a popular character has received a mediocre set like this.

Yeah, his set was one of my biggest disappointments.  The objective, the event, and Fett himself are fairly sub par.  Even the chud is pretty meh at 1 health.  I'm fine with the blaster and the armor though.   I honestly wish the new boba  fett was more like the old boba fett, just with more health.  The core versions ability is so thematic, where as the new Fett just doesn't feel like Boba Fett, or a bounty, plus the rest of his new set is pretty meh too...so, i guess i'm still waiting for a version i like.

The next Boba Fett will be in the Attack Run Force pack, and he will be a pilot. His pod will also include a new version of Slave I. I doubt this new Boba Fett will be the answer we want, since Scum decks don't really need star fighters nor pilots, anyway.

well he does have a capture ability though and his icons are pretty good, but we'll see.

 

What about running both Boba set's? Give Mando armor to new Boba? Targeted strike and the ability to strike twice effectively because of his ability? Maybe a 3rd/4th pistol with the pistol enhancement?

At first glance that seems like it might be a decent idea right? Problem is, now you 4 mediocre sets in your deck. Both Boba sets are just average on edge icons, and really only about 5 cards between both sets you actually want to see. Which means you already have 10 bad cards in your deck before you add the rest of your 6 sets. Both sets are pretty disappointing to me tbh. I'm still waiting for a GOOD Boba fett set.....

 

Having said that, i think an argument could be made for running either 2x core OR 2x BTS boba, OR 1 of each if  your meta gaming against rebel desperation decks to get some extra enhancements in your deck.

I found using 1-2 Bobba sets is pretty useful but I prefer way much the BTS one in terms of power (not flavor). One of the reason is that you get a prized prossession and resources are quite hard to get in scums.

You don't think that having that potential of Boba with his enhancements would "wreck" someone's board? Targeting striking twice with a potential of up to 4 pistols seems strong. Much more so if you have No Disintegrations out...right?

 

You do bring up a good point though about taking mediocre cards from those sets. I hate when I draw the chud from the core Boba set or that stupid event card and his objective is also next to worthless as well. Ha!

Yea I've been trying to mess with running both Boba set's, Carbonite Transport, Tat Crash, Slave Trade. It has a lot of weenies with tactics and ways for Boba to get in with his armor or not and one shot an objective as well as Slave 1. The problem is as BobaFett has eluded to is that both sets come with meh cards. So often times I find myself with too many useless cards or not finding Boba at all and the whole thing falling apart.

 

The few games where I have gotten him to work though, he is nuts!! Deck comes with 4 Prized Possessions and 2 Slaver Holding Cells, so the money is there for the expense needed. I have replaced core Boba with IG88 which he himself is great but his droids...ehh that's another story.