Star Wars: Unlimited Event & Convention Promos: collector value guide

The ladder runs from weekly store events, through Planetary Qualifiers held in shops worldwide and larger Sector Qualifiers and Regional Championships, up to the annual Galactic Championship, held in Las Vegas in 2025 and 2026. Each tier hands out its own alternate-art promos, and the cards get scarcer the further a player goes in an event.

At a Planetary Qualifier, every entrant receives an event promo, while foil Top 8, Top 4, Finalist and Champion promos go only to the players who reach those placements. Sector Qualifiers and Regionals offer alternate-art prize-wall cards, mats and sleeves, plus Showcase leaders for the top-ranked player with each leader. The Galactic Championship has its own prize wall, participation promos for each day of play, a deluxe promo pack for the top 64, and individual promo variants for the top eight, top four, finalist and champion.

Convention exclusives are a separate strand. In 2024 Fantasy Flight sold a six-card pack of Dark Side characters, including Darth Vader - Commanding the First Legion, with a unique visual treatment, at San Diego Comic-Con, Gen Con, PAX West, Spiel Essen and PAX Unplugged. Further annual packs followed, and the 2026 edition, a set of grayscale Underworld and bounty-hunter cards by Vincent Dutrait, is being sold at 25 events, including UK Games Expo.

For collectors the key distinction is between widely distributed cards, such as weekly play and attendance promos, and placement-only cards printed for a handful of players per event. Champion and Finalist promos from Planetary Qualifiers and the Galactic Championship are the scarcest, while convention packs sit in between: limited, but available to anyone who attended and bought one. Sealed convention packs and complete sets often attract a premium over loose singles.

• Placement-only scarcity: Champion and Finalist promos exist in tiny numbers compared with attendance cards.
• Event prestige: Galactic Championship promos carry more appeal than store-level prizes.
• Character: Darth Vader, Boba Fett, the Mandalorian and other headline characters lead demand.
• Unique treatments: convention packs use art styles not found elsewhere, such as the 2026 grayscale design.
• Sealed versus loose: unopened convention or event packs and complete sets can carry a premium.
• Foil and condition: foil placement promos in gem-mint condition, especially graded, are the hardest to find.

• Check the set code and number: convention exclusives use their own codes such as C24 001/006.
• Look for the alternate artwork or frame that differs from the booster version of the same card.
• Placement promos such as Champion or Finalist cards are foil; confirm the placement wording or marking where present.
• Compare with official reveal articles on starwarsunlimited.com to confirm the artwork matches.
• For sealed convention packs, check the wrapping is intact and ask for proof of origin for expensive lots.