Throwing the Meta for a Loop

September 15, 2025  |  Written by Aaron Miles

Hello, Star Wars™: Unlimited players! Game Developer Aaron Miles here with a metagame update:

Effective September 22, 2025, Force Throw (Spark of Rebellion, 167) is suspended from Premier.

Just before the release of Legends of the Force, we mentioned there were “...older tools that we expect to perform better than they ever have before.” Force Throw and Force Lightning have both skyrocketed in play rate, with one of those cards performing just a little better than the other. In fact, one of them may be performing just a little better than nearly any card in Star Wars: Unlimited history.

Force Throw was played in just over half of the Top 64 decks of the Galactic Championship and continued to have a high play rate as we moved into our Planetary Qualifiers. On a bad week, Force Throw takes up roughly 35-40% of the Top 8 meta share, and around 45% of the winners. On a good week, each of those numbers can go above 50%. Additionally, each week, between 65-75% of Heroism decks to make Top 8 include Force Throw in some capacity.

Of course, we want to look beyond just the numbers (Surprise Strike and Hotshot DL-44 Blaster have also put up some high numbers before) and take play pattern into consideration. At its absolute worst, Force Throw makes your opponent discard a card; a mediocre card, situationally fine. At its best, Force Throw is taking a massive future threat from the opponent while simultaneously defeating a unit in play. Prior to Legends of the Force, cards like Force Throw were the only game pieces asking you to include a high number of Force units, and Quinlan Vos (Twilight of the Republic, 18) was the only leader to consistently opt in to that deckbuilding puzzle. With the introduction of the Force token, we now have multiple other strong payoffs for being a Force-focused deck, and Force Throw’s deckbuilding condition is too easy to meet as a result.

While Force Throw has had some dips over the last couple of months, over the long-term it has been hitting a consistently high enough success rate that we want to take action before Sector Qualifiers and Regional Championships for this set kick off. Our goal is to give some breathing room to archetypes that either feel held down or outclassed by Force Throw, as well as to give more non-Aggression Force decks some room to shine. Looking even further ahead to Secrets of Power, we want to give the disclose mechanic a chance to shine in an environment not warped by a ubiquitous event that reduces both players’ hand size in most games. 

Additionally, we have determined that none of the other currently suspended cards are viable candidates to be reintroduced into Premier at this time. We look forward to monitoring the resolution of the Legends of the Force meta and continuously evaluating if any card can return into a meta more suitable for their power level. 

Thanks for reading!