Krennic Ramp. Competitive Pilot Guide

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Overview

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Krennic Ramp

Competitive pilot guide

Deck thesisYour cheap units are your mana. Feed them to the leader, get paid for every death, and deploy a 4/9 while they are still on curve.

Difficulty to pilot

Moderate

The decision repeats every turn and is always the same shape: is this body worth more as a Credit than as a blocker. It is easy to answer badly in a way that looks productive.
Ordering inside a round matters more than in most decks, because the discount goes to the first When Defeated unit played rather than the one you would choose.
The deploy is a hard threshold at seven resources, so a game is usually decided by whether you got there with a board rather than by any single play.
The rules text carries the edges: remaining HP on Pre Vizsla, control-then-defeat on No Glory, an aspect chosen at resolution on Lawbringer.

Where it gets hardKnowing which turns not to take the Credit, which is the whole matchup against the top of the format.

Strategic identity

Sacrifice RampYour own units are the resourcePaid DeathsThirteen bodies whose defeat draws, heals or resourcesHard ThresholdSeven resources changes what the deck isSentinel WallThe bodies that buy the turns to get thereBase as ClockThirty HP spent on purpose and bought back two at a time

Resource hierarchy

1Resources toward seven

2Sentinel bodies on the ground

3Base HP remaining

4Cards in hand

Resources toward seven is the limiting resource, not value generation. §4 →

Quick reference

Default roleRamp into midrange, reactive early

Deck size52 main, 10 side, plus leader and base

Aspects providedCommand and Villainy from the leader, Vigilance from the base

Deploy conditionSeven or more resources you control

BaseFortress of the Great Mothers, 30 HP

Units41 of the 52, and their deaths are the resource

Plot cardsTwo: Unveiled Might and Jar Jar Binks

Resource loop

Relevant cards

What the stage produces

A Credit token, and whatever the defeated unit paid out

Primary risk

Eating a unit that was holding the ground arena.

→ §7

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