Star Wars: Unlimited - How To Play 

A great thing about the starter deck set is that includes a full play set of every card unique to the starter decks, so you don’t have to buy multiple copies (unlike many games).

Still the best how to play channels on RU-vid. Most of the games I own are because of your Channel

A true pleasure to see Rodney teaching SWU!

I really hope this game has a long, healthy life cycle. FFG has made some pretty awesome card games in the past, but they all had sort of a limiting life-span. With this iteration, it seems they've really tried to future proof themselves out of that sort of situation. Keeping fingers crossed, because it looks like a lot of fun for a starting set.

Easily Worth the rewatch. Since I feel asleep twice during the first video upload. This is the best SWU how to play video! Your tutorials are always Top Tier!

As usual, the most comprehensive and most comprehensible tutorial out there of this game at the moment! Thanks, Rodney! Fingers crossed for some gameplay next!

4:40 My jaw dropped watching you talk and draw the correct number of cards. I could never. lol

Round of applause to you. Taking the time to re-record and reupload to add info is awesome

Updoot for the algo. Great job as always, you are the best in the biz for clear walk-through videos.

I was looking for this last night. Glad to see it back up. Thanks Rodster!

Rodney really is the best there is out there when teaching a game. Easy to understand and breaks down what in some cases can be a slog to read into enjoyable, well-produced videos. His videos are like a fine wine… they just keep getting better with age. And I mean it.., have been watching and sharing with my friends for years. From one Canadian to another, thank you Rodney for all that you do!

Thank you for this! Extremely well done and love seeing you doing some Star Wars!

Thank you for the clarification on unique characters, I'm looking forward for this releasing tomorrow!

Thanks for doing your due diligence and updating the video! You’re the best Rodney!

A colleague and I spent the day trying out the Star Wars Unlimited starter set recently and it's a tonne of fun. I have some experience with TCG thanks to some dabbling in Magic and a one-time obsession with Warhammer Underworlds (LCG I know but there's some overlap in terms of base mechanical knowledge). My colleague is entirely new to the hobby. Both of us had an absolute blast and picked it up really quickly. He's obsessed now and ready to go all in and I'm happy to go on the ride with him.

This was a fantastic primer, very clear and thorough! I'm going to a release event soon, I'm so excited!

Clear, concise, and eloquent. Thank you.

Great video! My son is really into TCGs, so it’s super helpful to have videos like these.

Will rewatch fully!

Will gladly rewatch the whole video, as it’ll just get me more excited to get my hands on it

As always you clarified some doubts about some aspects of the game. Great job!

Your Videos are always simple and easy to understand Thanks a lot keep the good work

I’m glad you covered a bit on deck building as I wondered how that was supposed to work.

Great video, I’ve rewatched several times because it’s so useful!

Great video me and my friend was discussing the double symbol cards. We had different interpretations of the cost involving those cards. You have now cleared this up for us thanks.

This channel, and him, are wonderful. Always explaining things super simply.

WHAT!! I was today years old when I found out you lived on the Island!!! Thanks to the weekend edition of The Guardian. We, my boyfriend and I live in Stratford! We have watched so many on your “how to videos”. Brilliant!

Thanks for another brilliant and informative play video - you are always my first stop when learning a new game! 🎉

This explanation is superb! Thanks for the help. ❤

Looks great. I’m planning on getting the starter pack and mixing the two decks, so I can play solo.

Wonderful guide! Thanks for explaining it thoroughly and slowly! Time to get deck building !

Thanks for making this easy to understand. I'm not sure if I want to get into another CCG but I have to admit this game looks fun and absolutely love the art.

This is an amazing breakdown. Great work.

This is a fantastic video to teach new players. Thank you so much for creating this. I used it to teach my wife how to play!

Great job Rodney, as always 😊

Really interesting, I love it. Again, merci Rod!

Absolute awesome as usual, Ty very much!

Cheers, Rodney. As always, you have helped me make up my mind on whether to buy something or not.... it's usually a buy it, but it makes me feel better about it 😂

Thank you, sir. Great vid as usual

Can’t wait for them to release more for this game. Lots of potential!

This was an excellent review! I did the demo at gencon and got the promos and I really liked the game mechanic the artwork some of it is better than others but overall I liked it

Thank you for the video!

I will say it again, Thanks Rodney, It almost makes up for no Rebellion Instructional........ I will give it a watch or 6 today!

Excellent as always

Thank you for teaching me the game!

Thank you so much! 😊

what a great video! crazy work thank you!

LOVE IT - SWU is amazing.

Thanks for all these videos. I know its sponsored but its appreciated.

Wow! Never thought I’d see Rodney do how it’s played for this game. So cool.

This game is awesome! Thank you!!!

Thanks great video and tutorial!

Awesome video as per usual. I probably won’t pick up this game, I didn’t know it was a TCG. I’m over tcgs, and just want my games to come with all the components.

Here for the updated version!

that was an awesome explanation! thanks!

Just ordered this set! Hoping stores start getting booster packs soon! And the Playmat too

Ah, glad to have found your channel. I see you're a gamesmith so I'm all in. I prefer physical games like board games et al to computer games and the computer games I like can easily be board games... some are. I might pick up this game - it sounds perfect for a FNM replacement. I stopped playing MTG about 20 years ago because I tired of the incessant introductions of new mechanics and rule changes that broke old mechanics and rules. Some were needed, but eventually I felt the enormity of it all became too heavy for having fun.

Thank you so much for this!!

such a helpful video :D

Liking the artwork style of this game. Just picked up a copy

Funny thematically - the surgical droid wielding Luke’s lightsaber.

Very well made. Thank you.

Awesome. Thanks!

Thank you. I'm on my 3rd time watching this

THANK YOU!

That was really cool

awesome video !!!!

Such a great game

Thank you for the great video Rodney, I am a huge fan of your work and have been for years. I am so glad that you are implicated in this game, it has been an incentive for me to pick it up. At timestamp 24:10, Darth Vader's "On attack" ability targets a unit in space. Can a ground unit apply damage to a unit in space? Or was it used out of context for illustrating the difference between a "unit's ability damage" besides a "unit's power damage". Thank you very much and please show us your customized decks if you have a chance!

Interesting. Watching this I can see terms and some playing is a bit like Keyforge, a game started by FFG as well. I may give the base set a go. Still leary about deck building but I hear draft is pretty fun.

Great Video! Question though, if I get a card as a leader, such as Grand Moff Tarkin, can I still use Grand Moff cards as regular cards to play?

Haven't been here in awhile... Did you upgrade your camera and lens? The close up shots are so nice. The colors look rich. The green highlighter is really nice tool

well done

I didn't know this card game existed. I got too much into the one piece tcg. Hopefully it's popular enough to play at locals

“UNLIMITED POWER!” -The Emperor

Did you have a question question about the tag phase? I attack with multiple cards during the same phase or do I have to only check with one unit and then the other person goes then I can attack my second unit

Will you do one for the Star Wars The deck Building game? Thank you

Just for clearness, when you use epic action, can you attack instantly? Or wait for your next action???

SWU! ❤ Rodney are you a member of the light side or the dark side?

Rodney do a teach of A Gest of Robin Hood! We saw that Fred sent you an advanced copy.

I don’t understand, is there a block feature? Can you opt to have a unit take damage over your base? If not what’s stopping someone from only targeting your base on every move.

Hi Rodney, i have a question about the initiative token. If I call Initiative and my opponent has two or more action choices, do they then continue to take multiple actions after I take the initiative? Say, after I take the initiative, my opponent then takes an attack action, then it goes back to me, i pass. Do they then take another action or is their turn over?

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Haven't heard of this game yet. Smells like MtG Star Wars with a dash of Commander !? Ah, already a big difference, less turn based with possible interrupts and a more almost simultaneous play/pass system, akin to i am thinking Terraforming Mars for instance, although a very different game a similar idea. Space and Ground combat, not a bad idea. Events are basically your Instants and Sorceries. Upgrades are your Artifacts/Enchantments. Unique is Legendary. Even with the names it's the same, but MtG just has one name, and here they split it into Character name and Version sort of thing, but it's the same idea. Damage stays though ? The Upgrade ATK/HP being on the bottom is a nice idea, easy to put under and add up, that is something that might work easy for MtG too, just add the normal bubble in the bottom right if it adds +X ATK/+X HP, slide the card down a bit more to see any possible text, which might say "Add +1/+1 for each (allied/Rebel/Imperial) Unique character in play. Sentinel is Defender/Wall i guess. And i am not harking on the system, most of this stuff just makes sense for such a game in general. They should add a Scum faction. They could also add a Civilian side which could be added to decks of every faction. Hmm, Droid, Vehicle, and others, maybe if they also the Civilians, maybe there could be some force cards that work just on Droids and Vehicles or maybe Upgrades, such as Push, but maybe also that only work on Characters or Civilians or Scum, mind reading etc. If they haven't thought of this ahead of now, they already missed a major oppertunity i feel. I don't see any Humanoid or Aliens or Biological etc. traits or keywords, so that's a bit of a shame i feel. Maybe Aspects does something akin to the colors in MtG ? Or is it just another thing like the name or whatever. Aj, not quite, more like a subclass like Wizard or something ? So far, i think i like this game, i wish the art was a little better, but it is certainly not bad. Ah, was expecting Space to be able to attack ground Units MAYBE, but nope, all goes to base. And your Leader is more akin to a Commander which can also become a (Ground) Unit, but can also do stuff as your leader. And your base is just your Life Total. I suspect you might be able to upgrade that too perhaps with extra armor and or shields at some point. Maybe in an expansion later on. If not, another missed oppertunity. Hmmm, i feel they should have made some kind of spindown wheel with 2(+) rings or dials to turn to show health, put that into your base, or slide a base card into it or something, the tokens, not digging it. Or at the very least i would put down tokens and take away from them as you take damage. But then i'd only do that for your base, not your Units. But then i come back to dials or whatever. It's not like that is a new idea, how many spind down dice and dials with different designs are there for all kinds of games already !? Am kind of surprised that the Shield removes ALL damage done, not a set amount it can take and you subtract it from the Shield first, then health. Unexpected, makes Shields really good, of course it matter how easy it might be to gain them though, but it being different from how they work in most games, might be a nice idea. Ah, Sentinel is not just a wall, you have to attack it first, like a Goad or Taunt or Lure. Ah, Saboteur is nice, bypasses Sentinel and removes Shield outright and then still attacks. Raid is not a bad addition to such a game. A, i saw Restore and expected it to remove damage from itself, but it removes it from the Base. Ah, the action/pass does kind of work like Terraforming Mars, which onlyt makes sense if you both pass anyway. What else are you gonna do, wait forever ? Hmmm, Initiative. Determines who starts the next round, but if you take it, you can't do anything anymore but the other can, unlimited, but if the other player doesn't have many cards left in hand and actions etc. to perform, you might want to think about taking it regardless. Might be a nice added thing to contend for, might be a gimmick, not sure yet, probably somewhre in between. So every card can be a resources, but only 1, which is most mana lands, i wonder if they'll add cards that will be 2 or more, maybe by placing a token on it or something, or do something else as lands, also, it is a bit of a missed oppertunity for a lot of cool locations with possible abilities from the Star Wars universe, but, you do draw 2 cards every round, so more resources and play potential that way. There's far less chance of having dead draws for several turns. Oh how we MtG players hate drawing Basic Lands for 4 turns for example. With this you'd have to be pretty unlucky with 2 cards drawn per Round to have only reallyu expensive cards, so expensive that even playing most of your cards as a resource you still cannot play them for a few rounds, seems rather unlikely. Ah, you can only do the Epic action once. Well, kind of makes sense, or you'd be able to do it every Round after you get enough Resources to do it once, even if it also gets killed every Round, wouldn't make much sense. Hmm, i wonder if at some point you will be able to empty your Discard Pile into your Deck pile, probably not, i think they want for this game to be a lot faster of a game. And i think they kind of want to avoid the ridiculously powerful but also on the open market really expensive card like MtG has. But then i wonder what expansion boxes and or booster packs cost, because good luck trying to really defend the same prices if people do not feel they get the same reward for buying them ? Pulling that Mythic or super good card at whatever rarity or super expensive card is a big part of such games like MtG and others like it. Ah, playing with more than two players. Yeah, they shoudl really add the Scum faction. I like some Star Wars stuff, also a lot i don't like, but i think i rather like this game, i sure want to try it a few times. And let's be honest, with such a massive backstory in the books and comics and movies, Old Republic, and so on, plenty of expansions to come up with. Still think adding Scum as a Faction and Civilians as Units that can be added to either faction would be cool. So many Characters and Leader roles possible, very cool and perhaps several versions of Space and Ground Units. Force/Item/Upgrade possibilities. For the video, i would cover Resources a bit sooner. But it's not a problem. Frankly, i think this video covers everything rather well. Not too fast, or too slow, clear, good examples. But, is this just the basic decks you buy ? Surely not ? No boosters or expansion boxes already or coming ? If known, it would have been good to add a bit of that information to the video !? EDIT after watching another video. Ah, resources, cards cost 2 more resources if they have an icon that is not on your Base or Leader card. So that's kind of the colors, you can strill add other colors, bu you know the card will cost 2 more resources for every icon not featured, balancing thing for your deack that way, while preventing you drawing 4 times red mana in 6 turns and needing only green mana. That might actually be a good idea. Might also be too easy to build your deck that way perhaps !? I probably missed that because i was typing and not paying enough attention XD Also, for some cards maybe being able to provide +X Resources, they can just say that on the front of the card, use tokens, and of course you have to reveal the card so show you're not cheating, the backs of course all have to be the same to show you're not cheating. Maybe even not using them as the resource but discarding them gives you X Resources depending on the card and might do something (as well), but then you need more tokens and two more areas in your play field to keep apart the Ready and Used Resources or another Spin Dial/Wheel thing for that, and that might be indeed be a bit much perhaps ? Having to choose two cards to put down as resources can be a hard choice sometimes, but then again, you draw two cards every turn so it might offset that, but you start with less cards and discard two, not sure, and you might be able to draw more cards maybe at some point ? And Boosters have at least 1 Leader and 1 Foil (if you care about that), and they seem to have variants like borderless cards. There also aren't real factions as such, so not just Imperial and Rebel, there are Sith and Jedi subclasses, i also spotted some Underworld subclass, but i feel there can be Underworld civilians on Rebel and Imperial and Scum side or something, feel they could have done more with that. And then the colors, they kind of do the MtG colors but not really, because the colors or color combos are also like the Factions in MtG kind of, so it's bit of a mix of all and some things do less and then i feel some things are missing or missed oppertunities !? Also, the tokens having the ATK/HP at the bottom was a great idea, but, why didn't they also do that with the Units ? Would mean they are all closer to each other which just makes it more easy to see or add up ? Bases, maybe they should add some special Bases, that also do stuff or heal or have a shield or whatever. I just feel they have the oppertunity to do a lot more, and of course they will, but i also kind of feel they might have already missed some oppertunities, which is a shame. Somehow i also kind of feel something like this might work as a deck builder, kind of using some mechanics from Quarriors in some way ? You have to of course choose which ones and how many to set aside as an optional buy up front like Quarriors/Dice Masters. Hmmm, might have to come up with my own game XD Saw a little more, yeah, they do have more Underworld stuff, leaders and cards, but again, they're not really holding on to factions as such, you can mix and match whatever you like, which can be good, but also kind of weird perhaps.

Where did you get those tokens for damage? They look very cool

Can you explain how you knew the Raid 2/0 on the Rogue Operative meant as attacker vs defender?

When building a deck he said you need 1 leader and 1 base and 'at least' 50 other cards, is there a maximum or can you have like a 200 card deck?

Question regarding the Leader card when it's a unit: why does it hava a resource costin the top left corner, when the only way to play your leader as a unit is when playing its heroic action? Once your Leader as a unit gets defeated, it goes back to your base forever, with no way of bringing it back as a unit right?

Where did you get the official tokens from?

Hello can anyone clarify if my deck runs out and I’m supposed to draw I take 3 dmg per card and continue this way till I lose all base hp or is it I’m supposed to draw I take 3 dmg or per card and then reshuffle my discard back into my draw pile? Thank you

When you play a unit and they come in exhausted can opposing player attack that card right away or do they have to wait until next round?

I have a doubt... The Epic Action doen't say "may", it only tells you If you have the resources, do it... It doesn't sound optional...

How is it ALWAYS a perfect box spin?!?! How many takes does that take? Please I need to know 😭

where did u get the token cards

Had to su. To a fellow Islander 🎉

Where can we get those upgraded plastic chits?

What's the benefit of taking the initiative as an action to make it flip over?

What about Overwhelm against a unit with a Shield?

Should I presume it'll be available at PAX this year? ;-)

What is the Colorless Mana-Lorcana looking 4 pointed star next to the names?