GoldCrow18 said:

Remember that amazon always has a prime-free shipped price which, while higher than specialized websites, it's usually 20% lower than retail, at the least.

MarthWMaster said:

This.

The core set is a large body of cards, and they will see play throughout the life of the game. Even in a game like AGoT, you still see core set cards in many top decks. As was mentioned, a lot of the core objectives are simply good in and of themselves, while the force packs will have themes, and more effects that are conditional. As you will see, decks will be running 2x of many of the core set objective sets for a long time to come. 

Considering the nature of the draw mechanic, I think the challenge of building a good deck, not top tier but tier three , maybe even two , should be possible from the core.   I'd imagine smuggler and Jedi or sith / navy would be the best starting places. I'll think about this more and try to post what I com up with. While I agree the benefits of adjusting probability w a second objective are great . Maybe we should just accept the OP premise and move on to trying to build something competative with one core.

Ravncat said:

I agree that we can certainly do a "best possible" deck with just one core set.  I do plan on trying to do such a thing eventually.  However, they won't be "competitive" if by "competitive" you mean able to compete with the better 2-core-set decks on a consistent basis.

yeah - my definition of competative is loose here - I should just stick with - what is the best light side, and best dark side deck that we could put together with the restriction that each objective were limit one (Almost like a singleton magic format - except with pods)

Ravncat said:

I have the exact same question. I feel my light side deck is fumbling some and cant seem to find a way to buff it. currently, I have

1: A Hero's Journey

3: Forgotten Heroes

6: Last Minute Rescue

8: The Defense of Yavin 4

9: Mission briefing

10: Fleeing the Empire

11: The Rebel Fleet

12: Draw Their Fire

15: Questionable Contacts

18: Hit and Run

 Sometimes change 15: Questionable Contacts to 13' Mobilize the Squadrons or 4: Journey to Degobah depending on what i want my affiliation to be. I've mostly stuck with 15: Questioable Contacts. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should add/lose?

If I had to make a legal Light Side deck using only a single core set, I would maxmize the synergy of the Jedi and splash in a couple of rebel pods and neutral pods.  I don't have the lists in front of me, but I believe the first 7 pods are Jedi, so I would do pods 1,2,3,5,6,7.  I left out pod 4 because it requires the Jedi afflilitation, but we're going to need the rebel affliliation to ensure we can play our rebel cards no matter what our initial pod draw is.

This leaves us with 4 pods.  Since we're running rebel affliation, you might as well grab the rebel affiliation only pod, mobilize the squadrons.  I believe Leia is Force Sensitive, so there might be a little bit of synergy between her and the Jedi cards.  After that, pick whatever two rebel pods seem appealing to you, perhaps this would be the Ackbar pod or the Mon Motha pod.  I would also consider throwing in a neutral set, either the Ewok or the Hit and Run for all of the fate cards, or both.  

By only having 6 Jedi pods, there is a risk that you will not draw one of them during your initial objective draw.  This would be rather unfortunate, but unlikely.  If you're worried about it, you could throw in the the rumors at the cantina pod, but I really don't think it would be worth it.

geki said:

So is Team Covenant. They started out as an online community that started to sell games, and now have a retail store. However, their prices online and in store are still lower than MSRP (34.99 for a core of SWLCG, for example)

You know, I thought about the single core set deck a bit and realized that having a rule that you can only use one of each objective set would be a really fun, chaotic variant.  Right now it's a little tough to do because of the limited card pool, but after the Hoth cycle is finished and the Edge of Darkness deluxe expansion is out this could really work!