First released earlier this year, the card maker’s Star Wars series has captured everything from climactic scenes like Luke’s X-wing trench run and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s fateful duel with Darth Vader, to finely sculpted stormtrooper helmets and the mighty Chewbacca roaring in frustration as he’s surrounded by curious porgs.

Among the new holiday-themed offerings are the festive frolicking droids, Chewbacca and the porgs teaming up to decorate a Christmas tree, and even Yoda emerging from a wrapped gift box. The latter was a riff on an earlier design, an idea that came out of a meeting involving card engineer Jozef Karpiel. “What if Yoda was slashing his way with a lightsaber out of the present?” Karpiel recalls suggesting.

StarWars.com recently sat down with Karpiel to talk about following in the footsteps of Ralph McQuarrie, who first reimagined Yoda as a jolly old elf, and the challenges of making the perfect paper droid.

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