How to Build Your First Twin Suns Deck

Know the rules before you pick cards

A Twin Suns deck in Star Wars Unlimited is two leaders, one base, and 80 cards in the draw deck. It is singleton, so one copy of everything. Both leaders are on the table from turn one and you use both abilities all game, which is a real gameplay difference and not just a deckbuilding quirk. The aspects of both leaders and your base combine into one identity, and a card is legal only if every aspect it needs is somewhere in that identity. The one pairing you cannot make is Heroism plus Villainy.

The official rule says 80 cards minimum, and in practice published lists land on exactly 80. Plan on finding 80 different cards you are happy to draw.

Step 1: pick a leader you want to play

Open Build on Sunset Sector and start with one leader. The list is ordered by how often each leader turns up in Twin Suns decks, which is worth paying attention to for a first build: a popular leader has more lists behind it, so the recommendations you get later are backed by more evidence.

That said, pick someone you actually want to play. You are about to spend a lot of games with these two cards, and liking the character is a perfectly good reason to choose one.

Step 2: choose the second leader

The second list only shows legal partners, sorted by how often they get paired with your first pick. Your partner choice does two things at once. It adds a second ability you can use every turn, and it widens your aspect identity, which widens the pool of cards you are allowed to play.

For a first deck, take one of the partners near the top. Those pairings have the most decks behind them, which means better recommendations and easier answers when you want to compare your list against what other people did.

Step 3: choose a base

Bases are listed by how often they appear with the pairing you just picked. This step matters more than new players expect, because a base can add a third or fourth aspect and change which cards are legal in your deck. Settle the base before you start shopping for cards, or you will fall in love with something you cannot include.

Step 4: work through the recommendations

Now you get four tabs: Ground Units, Space Units, Events, and Upgrades. Start with the ground units marked as strong synergy or often played, since those usually describe what the deck is trying to do. Then look at space units (some pairings barely use them), interaction in Events, and finally Upgrades, which are worth loading up on only if your leaders reward them.

Do not just take the top 80 cards off the list. The ranking tells you which cards fit this pairing, not how many of each kind of card a deck needs. Copy blindly and you end up with 60 ground units and no way to remove anything.

A starting split for 80 cards

There is no required breakdown, but this is a reasonable shape for a first list:

• 35 to 45 units, weighted toward the arena your leaders care about
• 15 to 20 events, including at least 8 that remove or stop something
• 10 to 15 upgrades, or far fewer if your leaders ignore them
• Most of the deck costing 1 to 4 resources, with only a handful above 6

Treat those as starting numbers, not targets to defend. Once you have played a few games you will know whether you are short on early plays or drowning in expensive cards.

Singleton changes how you build consistency

This is the part that trips up players coming from Premier. You cannot draw the second copy of your best card, because there is no second copy. Consistency has to come from repeating an effect across different cards instead.

So count jobs, not cards. Five different ways to remove a unit is consistent removal. One excellent removal card is a card you will see once every few games. The same logic cuts the other way: a card that is only good next to one specific other card is a weak pick in an 80 card singleton deck, because you will often have one and not the other.

Where to actually assemble the list

Sunset Sector is a reference, so there is nothing to save or export here. Keep the recommendations open in one tab and type names into whichever deck builder you already use. Card and leader pages include rough price info and links out to TCG Player and Cardmarket if part of the plan is buying singles.

Play five games before you change anything

Your first list will be wrong in a few places, and games will tell you where much faster than staring at the deck will. Play five or so and keep two notes: which cards sat in your hand doing nothing, and which turns you had no answer to what your opponent was doing.

Then change five cards at most before playing again. Swapping twenty cards at once means you learn nothing about which change helped. When you need replacements, go back to the same pairing on Build and keep working down the list. The job of a first deck is to teach you how the pairing wants to play, and it does that whether or not the deck wins.