Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27613051-20180501180200/@comment-454133-20180503172502

Damage decks are something that I'm still amazed are not sold separately. It's too easy to lose single cards (especially to a kylo player who accidentally pockets them), and make the full deck useless (though you can contact ffg and get the card replaced).

But yea, if the damage deck is changed (and it probably is very different), then that's sure to make the core set mandatory.