The Smuggler's Den - Kingdom Con Regional Champion

This is the LS deck I ran at my regionals. I understand the value of Questionable Contacts, however, I have often avoided laying it in my first 3 objectives, seeing as that only gives me 2 Jedi influenced resources, which limit my trick cards and units deployed. I did it in test games for the deck and found the resource issues. Anyone else finding this problem, or am I looking it wrong, and need to re-assess this card for early play. Again, I understand the value of the card's ability, I just see it as making early game difficult.

Yep, this is the Jedi/Smuggler deck I have been using. I think it's the best deck in the format at the moment. Han with Ben's Spirit and Trust Your Feelings is very tough for the DS to deal with. Calm and the Guardians' shield tokens make enemy focus tokens a non-factor.

This is the LS deck I ran at my regionals. I understand the value of Questionable Contacts, however, I have often avoided laying it in my first 3 objectives, seeing as that only gives me 2 Jedi influenced resources, which limit my trick cards and units deployed. I did it in test games for the deck and found the resource issues. Anyone else finding this problem, or am I looking it wrong, and need to re-assess this card for early play. Again, I understand the value of the card's ability, I just see it as making early game difficult.

I never had this issue. I know that it is a little tricky to manage where you put your rescources but if you stop and think you rarely have any issues. Remember you can still use the rescourse from QC you just need 1 point on a Jedi objective. Not to mention that you have a ton of training grounds to play as well.

This is the LS deck I ran at my regionals. I understand the value of Questionable Contacts, however, I have often avoided laying it in my first 3 objectives, seeing as that only gives me 2 Jedi influenced resources, which limit my trick cards and units deployed. I did it in test games for the deck and found the resource issues. Anyone else finding this problem, or am I looking it wrong, and need to re-assess this card for early play. Again, I understand the value of the card's ability, I just see it as making early game difficult.

I have had this problem

If I don't get In You Must Go, I have generally been burying Questionable Contacts if there is only one in my starting objective draw. With IYMG you can drop some free jedi enhancements, mitigating the effect of not having the extra resource to match, but I have had a couple tough games where an additional Jedi resource could have let me finish my opponent off a lot earlier. There is also not much more frustrating than the game changing Counter Stroke being stuck in your hand while your opponent gets to have his/her way with you.

I like getting QC out mid game after I am set up and there are already damaged units in play and I can take advantage of the objective. But who knows, I have not had too many games where QC was really useful. Maybe if I get to wreck some people with it more often I'll change my mind.

I personally never want to keep QC on my opening flop; resource match is too important to me. I feel the option of playing a 3rd Jedi card gives me way more options than having one decent action I'll use maybe twice in a game. This is especially since I think all the other objectives in this deck are pretty great anyway!