Star Wars: Unlimited

Each player has a Leader (a character who starts on the side of the board and can deploy into the fight later) and a Base (a location with hit points). Your job is to reduce their Base to zero.

The clever part is the resource system. On your turn you may take any card in your hand and put it face down as a resource. That means every card is either a play or a payment, and every hand presents the same interesting question: what am I willing to bury to afford the thing I want?

• Two arenas: Ground and Space. Units deploy to one, and they can only fight what is in the same arena.
• Players alternate single actions rather than taking long turns, so nobody sits watching.
• Aspects (Vigilance, Command, Aggression, Cunning, plus Heroism and Villainy) colour your deck and taxing off-aspect cards keeps identities honest.
• The initiative token decides who acts first next round and is worth fighting over.

• Leader: double sided. One side sits at the edge of play with an ability, the other is a Unit you can deploy later in the game.
• Base: your life total, printed as HP, plus an ability. It never attacks.
• Unit: Ground or Space, with power and HP, played into an arena.
• Event: a one-shot effect. Some can be played during your opponent's action window.
• Upgrade: attaches to a Unit and improves it.
• Aspect icons: cards that do not match your Leader and Base aspects cost extra to play. That surcharge is the deckbuilding constraint.

1. 1

   Action phase, alternating

   Players take one action each, back and forth: play a card, attack with a unit, use an ability, take the initiative, or pass. This continues until both players pass.

2. 2

   Playing a card

   Exhaust resources equal to the cost. Resources come from cards you buried on previous turns.

3. 3

   Resourcing

   Once per round you may put a card from your hand face down as a resource. Doing it is almost always right early and increasingly painful late.

4. 4

   Attacking

   Exhaust a unit to attack. It can hit an enemy unit in the SAME arena, or the enemy Base if nothing forces it to do otherwise. Damage is simultaneous, so attacking into a bigger unit hurts.

5. 5

   Regroup phase

   Ready everything, draw back up to your hand size, and the player who claimed initiative goes first next round.

• 50 cards minimum, up to three copies of a card by name, plus one Leader and one Base.
• Your Leader and Base together define your aspects and therefore what is cheap for you.
• Cover both arenas or accept a hole. A deck with no space units cannot contest space at all.
• Curve matters because resources grow one per round. Have plays at 1, 2 and 3 cost, not just bombs.

• Premier is the main constructed format.
• Twin Suns is a two-leader variant with a larger deck, for a longer game.
• Draft and Sealed use packs on the day and are extremely beginner friendly.
• Sets arrive a few times a year, each anchored on an era of the films or shows.

The name is the design brief: Unlimited means the game is not tied to one era. Cards from the prequels, the original trilogy, the sequels, Clone Wars, Rebels, Andor and The Mandalorian all share the same board, and nobody pretends this is canon.

• Sets take an era as a theme (a set built around Hoth plays differently from one built around the Clone Wars) without restricting you to it.
• Heroism and Villainy are aspects, so a deck can be built around alignment as much as around strategy.
• The art direction leans on painted, cinematic illustration rather than film stills, and the showcase treatments are the chase cards.
• Leaders are the characters you would expect, and each plays like the character. Vader is expensive and terrifying, exactly as he should be.

Star Wars: Unlimited on this platform is collect-only: real cards from real sets, pulled through the apitcg feed.

• Open packs from the card shop in Discord.
• Cards land in your public binder on the website.
• Duplicates feed trading and set completion.
• Bolts only. Nothing here costs real money.

• The official Star Wars: Unlimited site hosts the learn-to-play guide, the comprehensive rules and the banned list.
• The official card database and deckbuilder for browsing every printing.
• Ask in our Discord. This one converts board gamers who swore off card games.