Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game was an online trading card game available to former subscribers of the MMORPG " Star Wars Galaxies " . The first game set , " Champions of the Force " was released in August 2008 , followed by the game ' s first expansion , " Squadrons Over Corellia " in December of the same year . A second expansion titled " Galactic Hunters " was released in March 2009 , followed by " Agents of Deception " in June 2009 and " The Shadow Syndicate " in September of the same year . The game client was available for download on the official game website , allowing non - subscribers to access a free trial mode that offered access to limited content . Players were able to purchase virtual cards and trade them with each other . Each set included up to 300 cards , with more sets being released every few months . Both former and current Galaxies subscribers received a single 58 - card starter deck when they signed up , all active subscribers also received five free 15 - card booster packs per month after that , with the option to purchase more available for all players . A non - subscriber using the trial mode could sign up for at least one month subscription to Star Wars Galaxies . This allowed access to the complete gameplay modes and enabled trading with other players . Suspending the subscription afterwards made the account stop receiving free monthly packs , but full access to the game content remained . The trading card game , along with Star Wars Galaxies MMO was shut down on December 15th , 2011 . Gameplay . There were four archetypes in the game : Jedi , Rebel , Imperial and Sith . Each archetype had a unique avatar , which represented the player character . A deck could not contain any cards of a archetype different from the archetype of your avatar . The were however so - called generic cards , which did not belong to any archetype and could be included in any deck . Other card types included units that could fight alongside your avatar ; items , which could be used to give the player avatar various bonuses ; tactics , which represented one - time surprise actions in combat ; quests , which represented the missions the players undertook to advance in the game and abilities , which were used to complete the quests . Important game mechanics included cost , which had to be paid to play the card , power that was used to pay the cost , strength and defense , which were used to resolve the skirmishes , damage , which could be used to deal more damage to the enemy unit , health , which represented how much damage a unit or avatar could take before it was destroyed , and level of abilities , which could be used to complete quests . Each player had four quests with level numbers of 2 , 4 , 5 and 6 aside from his main deck , and the quests with the level number of two were played automatically at the beginning of the game . At the beginning of his turn if the player had an active ability in play , he could apply it to one of the quests to place tokens on it equal to the ability ' s level . Whoever player first placed a number of tokens equal to quest ' s level completed the quest and placed his quest with the next number in its place . The goal of the game was to complete four quests before your opponent , however the game could also be won by destroying your opponent ' s avatar first . To prevent that each player could deploy units to one of the quests ( your ' s and your opponent ' s ) that could both raid ( attack ) opponent ' s units and avatar and protect your avatar from being attacked . Game options . The game provided multiple options of gameplay , in both single and multiplayer modes : Star Wars Galaxies Loot . The game also featured Loot cards , which were special cards for rare items , such as the Muur Talisman that were randomly found in booster packs . These could be redeemed for in - game items in " Star Wars Galaxies " . To start with , there were 26 such cards , with more available via special promotion actions .