Ryan Serrano

Game Designer and “Rules Lawyer”

Star Wars: Unlimited Community Celebration

Favorite Aspect
- I really like playing Cunning, because I enjoy tempo plays, and Cunning has many tempo plays. I also like to build glass cannon kind of decks. Decks that want to do one thing and maximize a particular timing window. If my opponet can survive it, I'm probably gonna lose. But if I can pull it off it makes me feel really good. I like designing for Aggression though. It tend to be the most straight forward in what it wants. But one of the things that makes it a design challenge to come up with a card in Aggression that's interesting and nuanced. So I love exploring the design space and coming up with cool new Aggression designs.
First set you worked on
- I didn't get to touch the first 2 sets at all. The third set finally has a couple of cards I got to be part of the discussion on. The first set I am co-piloting with Tyler is Set 6. You'll really start to see the sort of things that I like to put in the game in Set 6.
Favorite card of Set 1
- If you ask me, I'll give you a different answer that if you ask someone about me. One of the jokes on the team is that my favorite card is Crafty Smuggler, because every time I build a deck it happens to work it's way in there. A 2/2 for 2 with shield on the ground is just a really good card. But if you're really pressing me I'd have to say that my favorite card is Pirated Starfighter. The ability to self bounce a card to hand, a card that says I can work with a lot of other cards, you come up with the most interesting synergy for me.
Favorite card you've designed (vague definitions are fine)
- There is a leader in Set 3 that was one of the first time when we were changing something during testing, there was a call put out asking who had an interesting idea on what this leader could be doing. I suggested one thing, we ended up trying it and it worked very well. It's also a Leader that is very much in my play pattern.
Favorite set
- Some of the sets are still in flux, but in the first year Set 2 is my favorite. The hidden underground smuggly thing is something that I really enjoy thematically. Overall I'm biased to set 6.