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OK, I got in touch with Nate on this one.

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Me: For Feeding the Pit, you can choose to discard the captured card (the cost), but if you can't heal the objective, you can't draw a card. You still, however, have succeeded in discarding that captured card (which is a rather nice way of putting valuable cards more out of reach of your opponent). Correct?

Nate: Correct. The cost is still paid (the captured card is discarded), but as there is no damage on the objective, nothing is healed. Since nothing is healed, the "then" effect following it does not resolve either.

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So, this teaches us to look out for "then" statements to make sure that they can be resolved. So I was partly right about this card, and partly wrong.

The links in the post above already say so but I want to put it here right beneath the card: section 3.6 of the FAQ reverses this answer.

Question: If you use this objective to turn a unit into an enhancement, does any damage on that unit automatically fall off?

Yes.

Why is he not an Officer.

'Frozen in Carbonite' made a replacement card for Imperial Vader, giving him the officer title and a discard effect.

Why is he not an Officer.

I think its still undecided if they are playable but, the new sets were definitely an improvement.

The main issue back in the Hoth cycle was that they attempted to merge vehicles and characters into the same sets which caused your deck to pull into two directions. A great case being wedges set which was a for a speeder deck but then had an enhancement more suited to characters.

So the speeders and walkers ended up being the decks that came out, while the character/trooper decks took a back seat as there wasn't anything to get them to work with, any decks that did come out were not up to dealing with the new cards.

Ideally what we need is a return to Hoth set/cycle. Something that looks to fix or replace out parts of the Hoth cycle so that you can have a stronger and more synergised decks, that are still on theme. If I come out of retirement maybe I'll design something.

It just prevents damage on hoth objectives. So if they did take Lak, they could still hit non-hoth objectives even if you controlled more hoth objectives than the DS player.

Is this pod bad? I’m trying to find synergies and it just seems like this one is weak in droid decks and in sith decks.

For me you don't play this set for Aphra, this is a support set and she becomes a bonus if you get her in the game, especially late game to use her effect before she gets locked down.

Only 2 cards in the the set are sith traited and she can be played with scum resources so really its only one.

Try making a scum deck and sneak this one in at the end. 

The objective if you have it out will more likely trigger, you have the influence resource out so that you can reclaim big cards late game.

But don't play her first turn shes not going to do you anything but cause frustration, but later on shes a pain to deal with.

Edit - Another option is to play her with 8t88, using the split faction card, you can chain react the affiliation reaction and 8t88 is a good 3 pip card to retrieve using her event. Then build from there.