The SWU Report

This week I’m joined by Sam Whitehead, fellow SWU-Tang Clan member, Golden Company veteran, and someone who spent years across the table from me in A Game of Thrones: The Card Game 2ED. Old school White Book listeners may also recognize his name from a few guest hosting stints on that show. It’s good to have him on. This episode we turn our attention to the upcoming Homeworlds set and...

Will and Alex chat about where the current metagame stands with Cad Bane / Blue 30 everywhere — and the announcement that FFG will be doing an off-schedule meta check-in stream on Monday, August 24th, which is not the kind of thing you schedule when everything is fine. We speculate on where a potential Cad ban or suspension would take the meta and what else we’d potentially include to...

Will and Alex are back. We start with Alex's firsthand account of competing at the Galactic Championship -- solid record, just shy of Day 2 -- then pivot to Week 1 of the ASH PQ season, where Cad Bane apparently didn't get the memo that Galactics was supposed to be his peak. We also spend some time comparing the major community tracking tools -- SWU Competitive Hub, SWU Base, SWU Meta Stats, and o...

Galactics is a week out, so Alex and I sat down for a numbers-heavy one. Five weeks of Karabast data, forty-three tracked decks, and a matchup matrix that thinks the format’s biggest deck might not even be the favorite to win the thing. Cad Bane’s got the play share and none of us are surprised by that. Whether he’s actually the best deck is a different question, and the numbers...

Prerelease weekend is here, and this week I’m walking through everything you need to know to crack six packs of Ashes of the Empire and build something that actually wins games. Or at least something that doesn’t embarrass you in front of the guy who’s already sleeving up. Faking it convincingly is half the battle, take it from me. This is a solo episode based on the full prerele...

Will and Alex are back to close out the Ashes of the Empire leader lineup. This week we work through the back half of the set from a Premier constructed lens: Bo-Katan Kryze, Cad Bane, Vane, Ezra Bridger, The Mandalorian, Emperor Palpatine, Shin Hati, Greef Karga, and Grogu. Two quick housekeeping notes this episode: the SWU Report has a Ko-fi page if you’d like to help support the site, and...

This week I’m joined by Alex Schmidt — PQ winner, COO at Stonemaier Games, and fellow card game obsessive — for our first conversation about the Ashes of the Empire leader lineup. Alex and I were introduced by a mutual friend who figured we’d have a lot to say to each other. Turns out that was correct. We work through the first nine ASH leaders from a Premier constructed pe...

This time I’m walking through the full A Lawless Time competitive season using the APR methodology — and debuting the new APR Dashboard, live today at swu.report. We cover the Big Three, the overperformers the weekly articles kept flagging, the Data Vault ceiling problem, and the Prague Regional Championship, where the three most-played archetypes in the room combined for exactly zero...

Welcome to the first episode of the SWU Report podcast. This week I’m introducing myself properly — twenty-plus years of competitive card gaming, from A Game of Thrones CCG to co-founding The White Book podcast, to helping keep the AGOT community alive after FFG walked away, to getting dragged back into content creation after the Star Wars Unlimited Galactic Championship in Las Vegas l...

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