Pre Vizsla — Star Wars The Black Series #TCW 17
The Black Series Pre Vizsla — Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection #17, 2023. Death Watch leader with Darksaber and blaster. 21 joints. Standard retail $24.99. The only Black Series Pre Vizsla.
Overview
Pre Vizsla at #TCW 17 is the TCW Collection’s Darksaber figure — Death Watch’s leader, the Mandalorian warrior who wielded the ancient black-bladed lightsaber that carries the right to rule Mandalore, the man whose belief in Mandalorian warrior culture drove everything the Clone Wars’ Mandalore arc set in motion. Darksaber and blaster. 21 joints. Standard retail. $24.99. 2023. The figure that makes the complete Mandalore civil war display possible.
Darksaber. Blaster. 21 joints. The most politically significant weapon in the TCW Collection.
Pre Vizsla and Death Watch
Pre Vizsla is the leader of Death Watch — the Mandalorian splinter faction that opposed the pacifist New Mandalorian government and sought to restore Mandalore’s warrior culture. His specific position in the Mandalore arc is as the person who first allied with Darth Maul, believing the alliance would give Death Watch the strength to retake Mandalore, and who lost control of that alliance the moment Maul killed him in single combat and claimed the Darksaber.
The Darksaber’s transfer — from Pre Vizsla to Maul, and through subsequent wielders across decades of franchise history — is the object that traces the right to rule Mandalore. The figure at #TCW 17 is Vizsla at the height of his power, holding the weapon that his death transferred to his killer.
The Darksaber at 6-Inch Scale
The Darksaber is one of the franchise’s most visually distinctive weapons — the black blade with the white energy outline, the flat profile of a traditional Mandalorian blade rather than the circular cross-section of a standard lightsaber, the ancient design that predates the current Mandalorian culture by centuries. The figure at #TCW 17 renders it at Phase 4 2023 production standards alongside the blaster that completes Vizsla’s Mandalorian warrior loadout.
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21 Joints: The Collection’s Joint Count Peak at This Point
At 21 joints, Pre Vizsla matches Savage Opress at #TCW 19 for the TCW Collection’s highest articulation count. The 21-joint scheme enables the specific Mandalorian warrior combat poses — the jet-pack-ready wide stance, the two-handed Darksaber guard, the blaster-draw alongside the saber — that Vizsla’s fighting style requires.
The Mandalore Display Completed
Pre Vizsla (#TCW 17) alongside the Mandalorian Loyalists (#TCW 04) and Mandalorian Super Commandos (#TCW 05) completes the Death Watch and loyalist Mandalore display with its command figure. The leader with the Darksaber, his formation soldiers behind him — the complete Death Watch hierarchy in Phase 4 plastic.
Secondary Market
Above-retail secondary market prices. Standard retail 2023. Verify Darksaber and blaster. No production variants documented.
Our Verdict
Pre Vizsla at #TCW 17 is the Mandalore arc’s essential command figure and the figure that gives the TCW Collection’s Mandalorian formation its leader. The Darksaber alone justifies the purchase. 21 joints, $24.99, standard retail. Buy him.
The Darksaber’s Significance in the Franchise
Pre Vizsla’s Darksaber is the specific weapon that connects the Clone Wars Mandalore arc to The Mandalorian, to Rebels, to The Book of Boba Fett — it’s the weapon that passes through Maul to Bo-Katan to its eventual wielders across decades of in-universe time, always representing the right to rule Mandalore. Having the Darksaber in Phase 4 plastic at the TCW Collection’s #17 slot, in the hands of the Death Watch leader who first wielded it in the series’ Mandalore arc, is the specific display argument for this figure.
Pre Vizsla and the Death Watch Philosophy
Pre Vizsla genuinely believes in what Death Watch stands for — the restoration of Mandalorian warrior culture, the end of the pacifist government that he sees as a betrayal of everything Mandalore was. He is not simply a villain; he is a Mandalorian nationalist whose specific vision of what his culture should be drives everything he does. The figure at #TCW 17 is that belief made physical: the warrior with the Darksaber, the man who thought the blade was his right.
He was wrong about the right but not necessarily wrong about the belief. The Clone Wars rarely gives you clean moral positions, and Pre Vizsla is one of its clearest examples of a villain whose ideology the series takes seriously rather than dismissing.
Pre Vizsla at $24.99 standard retail with 21 joints and the Darksaber is one of the TCW Collection’s strongest value propositions — the highest articulation-to-price ratio in the collection’s Mandalorian tier, the specific weapon that connects the Clone Wars arc to everything the franchise has done with Mandalorian culture since. The Darksaber’s Phase 4 plastic debut in a display-ready figure at standard retail pricing.
Pre Vizsla with the Darksaber at $24.99 standard retail is the TCW Collection’s best Mandalorian faction purchase — the Death Watch leader with the franchise’s most politically loaded weapon, the 21-joint scheme that makes the display dynamic, and the standard retail accessibility that makes multiples manageable.
The Darksaber in hand. Death Watch’s leader. The 21-joint Mandalorian warrior at $24.99 standard retail. Pre Vizsla is the Mandalore arc’s command figure and the figure that makes the Death Watch formation display complete. Buy him.
Pre Vizsla’s Death Watch philosophy — the belief that Mandalorian warrior culture was worth fighting for, even against the pacifist government that claimed to represent it — is more than villainous posturing. It’s the specific ideology that The Mandalorian series eventually vindicates, in different form, when Din Djarin follows the Way. Pre Vizsla was wrong about the methods; he wasn’t wrong about the value of the tradition. The figure at #TCW 17 is the man who believed that completely.
Pre Vizsla. The Darksaber. Death Watch’s leader. $24.99 standard retail. The TCW Collection’s most politically charged figure and the display piece that makes the Mandalore civil war legible.
The Darksaber’s Phase 4 debut in the TCW Collection. Pre Vizsla carries it correctly.
Twenty-one joints and the Darksaber and the blaster and the belief that Mandalore was worth fighting for. Pre Vizsla is the Death Watch’s argument made physical. Standard retail. $24.99.
Pre Vizsla at #TCW 17 with the Darksaber and 21 joints is the Mandalore arc’s most complete single purchase and the figure that makes the complete Clone Wars Mandalorian display possible. Standard retail. No exclusivity. The weapon that connects this arc to everything the franchise has done with Mandalorian culture since. Buy him.
Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Clone Wars Collection. Related: Mandalorian Loyalist P4-TCW-04 | Darth Maul TCW P4-TCW-11 | The Clone Wars.