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Star Wars: Unlimited Homeworlds Mechanics Explained

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Star Wars: Unlimited Homeworlds Mechanics Explained

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The official launch date of Star Wars Unlimited: Homeworlds is October 9, 2026. It includes 272 cards, the biggest set to date (though everything has been fairly close, with 252-264 cards). The pre-release will take place the week before, and pre-release kits are already confirmed: as usual, you'll get six booster packs to make your own deck.

Homeworlds will focus on individual planets, their ecosystems, and their inhabitants. There is a "heavy emphasis" on alien creatures in this set, and there are two tokens and an additional keyword arriving with Homeworlds.

Two Spotlight (Starter) decks are coming as well, with a separate focus on Chewbacca and Grand Moff Tarkin as leaders.

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The main mechanic in Homeworlds is Fortify. This simple keyword introduces a new mechanic: base attachments. As a reminder, players in Star Wars Unlimited have to defend their bases from attack; otherwise, they lose the game. While leader cards are an extremely important aspect of deck construction, your base is ultimately the only thing that stands between a win and a loss.

In other words, attaching things to bolster your base could end up becoming a popular strategy as we see the Homeworlds meta play out. Fortify's exact reminder text is: "Attach this to your base, not a unit. "

Grand Moff Tarkin will specifically play around with the Fortify keyword, in the sense that he can ignore the aspect penalties on upgrades with Fortify. That means he can take any aspect card without having to pay the additional tax on cards outside his sphere of influence (in this case, Vigilance [blue] and Villainy [black]).

So far, we've seen Fortify mechanics mix up the game in the following ways:

  • Add a discount on non-aspect cards
  • Exhaust enemy units after you play another Fortify upgrade
  • Debuff enemies
  • Prevent units from readying

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Rounding out the set are two new tokens. Beast tokens are the "largest tokens so far in the game" and have a set value of 3 power and 3 HP. Since they're a pretty beefy token, you'll need to go through more steps to create tons of them.

The other token type is "Weakness," which does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a condition that gives a unit -1 power and -1 HP, and is the polar opposite of the Experience token.

  • SWU beast token
  • SWU weakness token
Once October rolls around, Star Wars Unlimited decks are going to be supercharged with the biggest set to date.
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