Star Wars: Unlimited
Star Wars: Unlimited has six official formats as of October 2026. Premier, Eternal and Trilogy are two-player constructed formats, sealed and draft are limited formats built at the event, and Twin Suns is the multiplayer format. This guide gives each one's deck rules, card pool and match structure, from the publisher's Comprehensive Rules and Event Guide.
A format sets two things: how many players sit down, and how decks are built. These are the publisher's rules as of October 2026. The main deck count never includes the leader or base, which start in play.
Two cards are copies of each other when they share a name and subtitle, whatever their art or foiling. A Hyperspace Darth Vader and a Normal one with the same subtitle count against the same limit.
Premier is the format most decks are built for and most Competitive-tier events use. A deck is exactly one leader, one base and at least 50 other cards, with no more than 3 copies of a card between the deck and a sideboard of up to 10.
Premier rotates. Only cards released with one of the two most recent rotation symbols are legal, which works out to two years of sets. As of October 2026 that is Jump to Lightspeed, Legends of the Force, Intro Battle: Hoth, Secrets of Power, A Lawless Time, Ashes of the Empire and Homeworlds. A card reprinted in a legal set is legal in every printing. One card is suspended: the leader Cad Bane, Still Faster Than You, since August 2026.
The Premier format guide covers rotation, the full suspension history and event play, and How to Build a Star Wars: Unlimited Deck walks through building a first Premier deck.
Eternal uses Premier's deck rules with the whole card pool. Every card that has been released is legal, including Spark of Rebellion, Shadows of the Galaxy and Twilight of the Republic, which left Premier in March 2026, and the new cards printed for the 2026 Twin Suns decks (set code TS26), which were never Premier-legal. The publisher launched it alongside that first rotation, with A Lawless Time.
Eternal keeps its own suspended list, separate from Premier's, so Cad Bane is legal there. The publisher has said an Eternal suspension is meant to be temporary: the first time a card is suspended, it comes back with the release of the second set after the suspension. War Juggernaut and IG-2000 were suspended on April 24, 2026 and returned with Homeworlds, so the Eternal list is empty as of October 2026.
Eternal has Organized Play support. In Organized Play Season Two, which began in July 2026, a Planetary Qualifier host can pick Eternal for up to 20% of those events, and Open Events beside larger tournaments may use it.
Trilogy is a two-player format where you bring three decks and play a special best-of-three match. Each deck follows Premier's shape (one leader, one base, at least 50 cards), but the copy limits apply across all three: no more than 3 copies of a unit, event or upgrade in the three decks combined, and no leader or base used twice. Trilogy decks have no sideboard.
Trilogy has no card pool of its own. The event chooses Premier's pool or Eternal's, and that format's suspended list applies.
In the limited formats, nobody brings a deck. You build one at the event from booster packs of a single set, and the deck is smaller: one leader, one base and at least 30 other cards. There is no copy limit, so if you open four copies of a card, you can play all four.
A draft starts with leaders. Each player takes the leader out of each of their three packs, keeps one and passes two to the right, then keeps one of the two passed in and passes the last one on, so everyone ends with three leaders. Tokens and Common bases are set aside, not drafted. Then the packs are drafted one card at a time, passing left for the first pack, right for the second and left for the third.
Every card you open or draft that isn't in your deck is your sideboard. At Relaxed and Casual events you can rebuild between rounds; at Competitive events you start each match with your registered deck and change it only between games. Sealed is the format of prerelease events.
Twin Suns is for three or four players. Each deck has two different leaders, one base and at least 80 other cards, with one copy of each card. The two leaders can't have both the Heroism and Villainy aspects between their starting sides. There is no rotation, so every released card is legal, and Premier's suspensions don't apply.
The game plays differently too. Passing isn't allowed while a counter is still available, two extra counters (blast and plan) join the initiative, and the first time a base is destroyed, the game ends at the end of that phase with the most base HP winning. The Twin Suns guide covers the deck rules, the counters and how the game ends.
Other decks can play multiplayer too. The Comprehensive Rules allow a multiplayer game with Premier decks or limited decks, using the general rules for more than two players; Twin Suns adds its own deck rules and counters on top.
The Event Guide sets the match structure and round times for official events. Competitive-tier events always use best of three, and Trilogy uses its own best of three with the Ban Phase described above.
In a best-of-three match you can swap cards between your deck and sideboard between games, as long as the deck stays at its minimum (50 for constructed, 30 for limited) and a constructed sideboard stays at 10 or fewer.
It depends on what you have and who you play with. This is where each format tends to fit.
If you're new to the game, start with How to Play Star Wars: Unlimited, which uses Premier's rules, and the aspects guide, since aspects shape a deck in every format.
The TurnZero HQ deck builder has three Star Wars: Unlimited formats: Premier, Eternal and Twin Suns. You pick one when you start a deck, and the builder checks that format's construction rules. For Premier it also flags a card that has rotated out and a card on the suspended list. Trilogy and the limited formats aren't formats in the builder, so it won't check a Trilogy set of three decks or a sealed pool.
For game tracking, start a game with 2 players for a head-to-head format or More for Twin Suns. The base damage tracker guide shows how a game is kept.
Six official formats as of October 2026. Premier, Eternal and Trilogy are two-player constructed formats, where you build a deck ahead of time. Sealed and draft are limited formats, where you build at the event from packs you open. Twin Suns is the multiplayer format, with two leaders per deck and one copy of each card.
Premier. It is the format most Competitive-tier events use, and the one most decks are built for: one leader, one base, at least 50 cards, up to 3 copies of a card, a sideboard of up to 10, and only cards from the sets in rotation.
The deck rules are the same. The card pool is not: Premier allows only cards with one of the two most recent rotation symbols, while every released card is legal in Eternal. Each format has its own suspended list, and as of October 2026 Eternal's is empty.
At least 30, plus one leader and one base. There is no copy limit, so you can play every copy you open or draft. You can use a rare base from your pool or any Common base from that set.
Yes. Twin Suns is in the publisher's Comprehensive Rules and Event Guide. Each deck has two leaders, one base and at least 80 other cards, with one copy of each card, and it is played by three or four players.
No. A card suspended in Premier is still legal in Eternal unless Eternal suspends it too, and in Twin Suns, sealed and draft. Trilogy uses whichever pool the event picks, Premier's or Eternal's, along with that format's suspended list.
Premier, Eternal and Twin Suns. The deck builder checks each one's construction rules, and for Premier also rotation and the suspended list. Trilogy and the limited formats aren't formats in the builder.
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