Jango Tango Tier 1 (w/ guide) 2.0

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• 2.0

This one of the most underestimated decks you can find in SWDestinyDB!

The deck abuses FN-2199 - Loyal Trooper ability to roll and resolve weapons w/o activating, and several amazing card interactions that it allows. When you play a weapon on 2199, you can roll its die and resolve it. If he is not activated, you can then activate him and (especially if he has Fast Hands), you can resolve it again. With your next action you can replace the resolved upgrade with another, often for free, and resolve its die again. With weapons with ambush you can use the 2199 trigger, then activate and resolve something with resource cost (like damage from Rocket Launcher.

Jango has pretty good dice for his cost and you can equip him with Fast Hands too. His ability means that you'd rarely activate him w/o waiting an opponent to activate one of his characters first. This way you are one step ahead in resolving most of the time so you could claim early.

Battlefield: Imperial Armory - Death Star is great in the deck, but it's not critical due to the number of step-up upgrades. It may help you opponent, which is the reason I don't play Salvage Stand - it would force my opponent to claim early in order to play an upgrade, and I will loose tempo both from not claiming and from playing a card. The deck should be able to kill midrange before they build enough upgrades, and vs. control you just have to roll too many dice for them to remove. Mill is a problem as your way to play helps their strategy, so try to be more conservative with playing upgrades. Vs. eVader - you have to kill Vader asap, Jango has no problems killing the Raider, so it's an arms race. Personal Escort is there to help vs. damage decks or any deck that has damage sides, even if you don't fear them, and can be used to step up to cost 3 upgrade for 2 resources, or just 1 if you claim. Jango is great as a Guardian as any sane opponent would try to kill FN-2199 first, and Jango takes out the dice with Guardian whenever he activates in response.

Support: Initially I've considered Outmaneuver but it eats a slot and slows me down (and I often have resource coming from Fast hands resolution).

Another card I tried and will probably try again was Infamous - it's awesome if you can pull out Fast Hands with Ambush, activate and resolve, but in this version of the deck I lowered the number of events and I only have a few cards for Ambush targets, Somhow worth the slot.

EDIT 30.05.2017 - changed to 2x Salvage Stand instead of Improvisation, although I have second thoughts.

I have a single Improvisation - it has Ambush, so it doesn't slow the deck, and with DH-17 Blaster Pistol, Z6 Riot Control Baton and Rocket Launcher having two blanks - you can always use the action to re-roll. More importantly it allows you to remove the die rolled via FN ability so you can roll it again when he activates. It's useful vs. mill decks, otherwise consider adding a second Imperial War Machine.

Removal: I don't care much about removing dice.

• vs. control I have nothing that bad to fear to be worth breaking my hand with resource-heavy removal. By the time they can do anything most of the stuff I need from my hand is played. And there is (The Best Defense... that removes couple of dice for 3 or even 1 damage (if I have Armor Plating out).
• vs. damage decks it's either me or the opponent, Armor Plating and Personal Escort should buy you enough time to deal with the main damage dealer, and any action removing a die is tempo loss.
• vs. midrange I still have few shields here and there, and Armor Plating. Better to kill a character fast instead of dealing with its dice.
• vs. mill - just play more conservatively and don't hope you will have your hand at the end of a turn. By turn 4 you should have finished even through a couple of Second Chances... And learn to hate Temmin "Snap" Wexley - Recon Specialist, he would force you to wait before you can claim or just claim before you.

Upgrades:

Edit: Changed 2x DH-17 Blaster Pistol for couple of Jetpack. It's that good.

EDIT 01.05.2017 - having second thoughts about Jetpack - the card is great, but losing the option to roll through FN is a bit too much. May be I'll try to some weapon like F-11D Rifle just because I can resolve it at once.

Pretty standard loadout, with the exception of Personal EscortEscort (already explained why I like it) and Comlink - the latter is there to be used as step up for upgrades or because it allows a free reroll (of opponents dice too if needed that badly!), and it has focus sides. It's the one card I'd change for DT-29 Heavy Blaster Pistol, Ascension Gun (not a weapon, straight damage and useful special)) or Jetpack (also not a weapon, but great dice), if I'm making changes.

What to fear: Imperial Inspection is a bane of the deck if your opponent starts with it, so you have to jump to cost 3 upgrades as fast as you can and use another slot. They would not bounce them if there is another 2 cost slot, as it's free rolls for you, but they would remove Fast Hands, which is bad enough.

Also worth noting: I haven't played vs. Poe/Maz, but considering its speed, the deck would need some changes to be viable, right now it's down to hand and rolls, as you can one-turn smack Maz even Turn 1 with good rolls and proper upgrades, or you may not. IQA-11 Blaster Rifle is worth considering, as well as Flame Thrower (which was in the deck anyway). A change in the battlefield to Carbon-freezing Chamber - Bespin is another strategy I haven't considered. Switching to more and Imperial Inspection would make the deck slower and more midrange type.

Thanks: To Milo Milov who pointed me to this deck.