The fantastic thing about Star Wars Limitless is that, so long as you have got the know-how, each Star Wars card has a spot on the desk. Nonetheless, it is a incontrovertible fact that some playing cards are higher than others, and if you happen to’re taking part in competitively in Premier, you may need the easiest that will help you declare these wins.
One such card that stood out in aggressive play was Cad Bane: Nonetheless Quicker Than You. An aggressive villain chief launched in Ashes of the Empire, Cad’s skill lets him whittle down enemies and models, making him a strong early-game risk. Nonetheless, as the sport progressed, he was downright irritating to cope with. Cad has turn out to be such an issue that, as recreation developer Ryan Miles introduced on Limitless’s official web site, he’s suspended from Premier.
“The information behind Cad Bane is extraordinarily clear: the chief is an influence outlier by and thru, and he warps the complete metagame round him whereas nonetheless placing up dominant win charges,” writes Miles.
Cad rapidly discovered his toes in Premier, showing a number of instances all through occasions and tournaments — together with the successful deck of the Galactic Championship that befell in Las Vegas final month. The chief card has additionally featured closely in different Limitless Sector Qualifiers following the championship. Nonetheless, with the suspension, Cad’s time in aggressive play has come to an finish.
Star Wars Limitless bans maintain the sport wholesome
Miles writes that earlier card suspensions in Limitless — resembling Struggle Juggernaut — resulted when new additions interacted with present playing cards, rising their energy. As for Cad, his rise to dominance was rapid. Cad slipped by the pre-production web due to what Miles calls a “improvement mistake.”
“Whereas there are lots of shifting elements that led to Cad Bane ending up the way in which he did, the shortest clarification is just that we didn’t establish him because the best-performing chief within the Aggression-Vigilance-Villainy shell, and felt he had exploitable weaknesses within the control-focused mirror matches,” Miles explains. “Throughout playtesting, we did not optimize our extra aggressive methods that might push out our greedier management decks, which in the end gave us a nasty learn on the eventual metagame, and an ideal setting for Cad Bane to thrive.”
This is not the primary time a card has been banned from Limitless’s Premier format. Boba Fett: Gathering a Bounty was additionally suspended from aggressive play in 2024 as a result of it represented round 40% of High 8 finishers in sector qualifiers. Since then, there have been different playing cards which were banned, like Jango Fett: Concealing the Conspiracy and Han Solo: Audacious Smuggler. For Cad to affix this rising checklist underscores how vital Cad’s influence was — with Miles citing that Cad was holding an “untold variety of decks nearly solely out of the meta.”
The cardboard will nonetheless be obtainable to play in different codecs, resembling Eternals and Twin Suns, however as of now, it is a tough time to be a Cad Bane participant in aggressive play. But when the suspension results in a more healthy recreation, it is a sacrifice price making.