There was a super nice dude at Galaxy's Edge who'd welcome passerbys to play Sabbac with him during the Super Bowl this year. He was such a delight and I instantly knew I needed a deck. My only question really is how you're supposed to end up with 8 cards when you can only draw one card at a time, start with two cards, and there's only 3 rounds?
On the subject of betting, the old version that came with the West End Games RPG adventure Crisis On Cloud City (and was show in the Rebels episode "Idiot's Array") said there were two pots you anted into: the hand pot, which you do the usual raising and what-have-you and win for winning the hand, and the sabacc pot, which you only get if you get a sabacc.
Thanks for the video. One of the most interesting things is the vast number of versions of this game. Also, with my friends and I playing - we actually had at least one person every hand get sabacc (get zero). Also, the dice show a pair - a lot more often than people would think. thanks for the video.
Or.... Maybe the ancient sith Lords based named their philosophies after a very popular card game (sabacc is a very old game so it could be older, or maybe the sith looked into the future
Once my 8th grade teacher left for like half the class, and my table took out completely random items from our bookbags to bet for and played black jack. I won a thing of deodorant that day
I'm just going to state the obvious here, disregarding what the rules say: in the film when he lays down the 4 cards and says "straight staves", he's laying down one of each of the four face cards (the 7, 8, 9 and 10), two red and two green. And if you add them up, they actually DO equal zero. So he made a sabacc using one of each face card. This would suggest two things: 1) "Staves" are not equivalent to suits, but are actually the term for face cards. And 2) the second highest hand in sabacc may be scoring a 0 using all four face cards, or using four "staves". (Obviously a full sabacc and presumably a pure sabacc would beat this). Seems bizarre that they missed both of these things when writing the rules, right? Any thoughts?
Since the older online rules call staves one of the 4 suits, I'm assuming the retail card games are trying to capture what we saw in the film, but I think they got it wrong. Unless in the film, those particular face cards were the "king of staves", "queen of staves" etc? Doesn't really match the retail cards. It's tough to interpret all this but it seems like there's definitely some confusion with the retail games regarding the movie.
Looking closer, I have a feeling "staves" was intended to be the name for the triangle suit. So if he had a hand that equaled zero using a straight suit (staves in this case), maybe that's what "straight staves" meant. Although it still seems significant that he had no number cards, only face cards. Maybe that would just be a straight flush to the King, basically. All the same suit and in sequence.
@@retronaut8864 Commander, Mistress, Master and Ace. Plus the original version of sabacc used what was ultimately tarot cards, so staves were what they called wands. And the writer probably was just making stuff up at the time, for in the new Galactica they said stuff like "three on a run" and "full colors" and that it wasn't until they licensed a version of the cards that it was just a funky way of doing a normal deck of cards and "full colors" meant a royal flush.
I watched the first vid bc my son wondered if Sabacc was like Star Wars poker. I’m watching this one to understand all the Sabacc references in the books 🤓
You can probably find similar things on etsy but I don't think these are available anywhere these days. They were prizes for Imperial Assault tournaments back in the day.
On the completion of the third round, when the dealer rolled the dice for the last time and it’s pairs. When you get dealt your new hand, do you get a bonus round where you could draw again or do you just have to show the hand you are dealt?
So what if you have Prime Sabacc but with 2 Sylops? Is that like... Prime Sabacc +? I go lucky and scored this the other night and took 3 people out (they all went all in by round 3)
Il be honest, half if not most of the names suck for these hands, would love a to see them change the names otherwise im gonna have to try and make up my own
Oh, I see. But just in case, an Idiot's array is a hand that consists of a 0, a 2, and a 3 (this is an easter egg to the original version of sabacc In legends, where you have to get close to or exactly 23 to win)
Problem your video uses heretical sources, true sabacc is very well described in the Expanded Universe specifically Heirs of the Force. The version you described is disney wars, and thus not cannon.
"Because gambling is problematic and gross?" Way to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some people are irresponsible with it doesn't mean gambling itself is automatically bad any more than video games are problematic and gross because some people go too far.
There was a super nice dude at Galaxy's Edge who'd welcome passerbys to play Sabbac with him during the Super Bowl this year. He was such a delight and I instantly knew I needed a deck. My only question really is how you're supposed to end up with 8 cards when you can only draw one card at a time, start with two cards, and there's only 3 rounds?
I’m in favor of calling “rule of two” twin suns or a binary because it seems more in-universe.
It also applies to pilot/copilot
On the subject of betting, the old version that came with the West End Games RPG adventure Crisis On Cloud City (and was show in the Rebels episode "Idiot's Array") said there were two pots you anted into: the hand pot, which you do the usual raising and what-have-you and win for winning the hand, and the sabacc pot, which you only get if you get a sabacc.
"Idiots array" is also in Path of Destruction, rule of 2 series
Thanks for the video.
One of the most interesting things is the vast number of versions of this game.
Also, with my friends and I playing - we actually had at least one person every hand get sabacc (get zero).
Also, the dice show a pair - a lot more often than people would think.
thanks for the video.
The video was amazing but that outro was on another level
Or.... Maybe the ancient sith Lords based named their philosophies after a very popular card game (sabacc is a very old game so it could be older, or maybe the sith looked into the future
Just bought a deck and a bunch of 3D printed credits! I'm so excited.
thanks for the video my brother just got sabacc after going to disney 😀
Can someone make a pdf of all the rules this guy uses? I would love that, especially with all the winning decks and tie breakers
I love your outro!
Once my 8th grade teacher left for like half the class, and my table took out completely random items from our bookbags to bet for and played black jack. I won a thing of deodorant that day
I'm just going to state the obvious here, disregarding what the rules say: in the film when he lays down the 4 cards and says "straight staves", he's laying down one of each of the four face cards (the 7, 8, 9 and 10), two red and two green. And if you add them up, they actually DO equal zero. So he made a sabacc using one of each face card. This would suggest two things: 1) "Staves" are not equivalent to suits, but are actually the term for face cards. And 2) the second highest hand in sabacc may be scoring a 0 using all four face cards, or using four "staves". (Obviously a full sabacc and presumably a pure sabacc would beat this). Seems bizarre that they missed both of these things when writing the rules, right? Any thoughts?
Since the older online rules call staves one of the 4 suits, I'm assuming the retail card games are trying to capture what we saw in the film, but I think they got it wrong. Unless in the film, those particular face cards were the "king of staves", "queen of staves" etc? Doesn't really match the retail cards. It's tough to interpret all this but it seems like there's definitely some confusion with the retail games regarding the movie.
Looking closer, I have a feeling "staves" was intended to be the name for the triangle suit. So if he had a hand that equaled zero using a straight suit (staves in this case), maybe that's what "straight staves" meant. Although it still seems significant that he had no number cards, only face cards. Maybe that would just be a straight flush to the King, basically. All the same suit and in sequence.
@@retronaut8864 Commander, Mistress, Master and Ace. Plus the original version of sabacc used what was ultimately tarot cards, so staves were what they called wands.
And the writer probably was just making stuff up at the time, for in the new Galactica they said stuff like "three on a run" and "full colors" and that it wasn't until they licensed a version of the cards that it was just a funky way of doing a normal deck of cards and "full colors" meant a royal flush.
Straight staves is just another name for straight kyron, it’s says so in the Galaxy Edge rules
Why wouldn’t they include “Idiot’s Array” from Rebels?
Does squadron count if i had a red circle and a green circle? But all 1s?
I watched the first vid bc my son wondered if Sabacc was like Star Wars poker. I’m watching this one to understand all the Sabacc references in the books 🤓
Do you bet before or after making your move?
Great video 👍🏻 keep up the good work
Can I buy a 76 card deck for less that £40 in the UK anywhere?
I probably will have to have many lessons to master this
@TheJodo Cast, we love the Sabacc Star Wars chips you use! Can we purchase those somewhere?
You can probably find similar things on etsy but I don't think these are available anywhere these days. They were prizes for Imperial Assault tournaments back in the day.
On the completion of the third round, when the dealer rolled the dice for the last time and it’s pairs. When you get dealt your new hand, do you get a bonus round where you could draw again or do you just have to show the hand you are dealt?
you just have to live with what fate gives you.
@@TheJodoCast lol
So what if you have Prime Sabacc but with 2 Sylops? Is that like... Prime Sabacc +? I go lucky and scored this the other night and took 3 people out (they all went all in by round 3)
* murlock noises * 4:10
Il be honest, half if not most of the names suck for these hands, would love a to see them change the names otherwise im gonna have to try and make up my own
If you have a hand rank do you get to call it before the 3 rounds and win or you have wait till the end?
gotta wait. Unless everyone else folds out that is.
What about "Idiot's Array"?
(the one hand that beats sabacc)
It's not in the rulebook! Pretty weird that they left that out of their Galaxy's Edge product...
Oh, I see. But just in case, an Idiot's array is a hand that consists of a 0, a 2, and a 3 (this is an easter egg to the original version of sabacc In legends, where you have to get close to or exactly 23 to win)
Where does two pair with a zero card rank
Is this the normal game or Coreillian version?
Coreillian
I think your re edit should have the poison control number. IE. Tide pod eating!
Problem your video uses heretical sources, true sabacc is very well described in the Expanded Universe specifically Heirs of the Force. The version you described is disney wars, and thus not cannon.
Your fleet for the hasbro version doesn’t look right.
"Because gambling is problematic and gross?"
Way to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Just because some people are irresponsible with it doesn't mean gambling itself is automatically bad any more than video games are problematic and gross because some people go too far.
Those were not a pair. A pair needs to be the sMe value so +2 +2 -4 would be a pair. +2 -2 is not.
The rule book that comes with the game shows a picture of a +5 -5 as a Sabacc and has the description: Zero with 1 pair