Jeremy Benedict (flrazor) Tournament Report - 2E 2016-07-16 - 10:00 AM Where There's Cake, There's Hope (2.2) Introduction I haven't played Dominion a lot since Continentals last year, and wanted to get some time on other decks of mine ahead of GenCon. Round 1 Justin Kaufman FW (+65) Justin is bringing Bluegills and I haven't had a lot of experience against it, or the new TNG tricks from recent sets. We both get going pretty quickly. I didn't get into any Crippling Strike but dilemmas were doing most of the work in this match. By the time that Justin had his Bluegill event out I already had a couple missions down and was rolling to the finish, but he still made me work for every inch. Round 2 Nat Kirton FW (+80) Nat was bringing some serious attribute manipulation - raising his and lowering mine. I used both of the Dominion Hierarchy to full effect to cheat in a skill after an Oracle's Punishment cut my Navigation down, then later to boost Integrity over the line against an Excalbian Drama for the win. I also used Ikat'ika to bounce around a Chula: The Dice (for Integrity) after Bitter Medicine reduced my Leadership attributes. Once again dilemmas kept Nat from making quick progress. Round 3 Barry Windschitl FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report The dreaded Borg Assimilator that shut me down early at Regionals this year! This time I did everything that the Assimilator hates: I played an early ship and got everyone off the HQ as soon as they were played. I spent 13 turns just playing personnel and trying to slice off bits of Borg infrastructure: Tacking into a One With the Borg, Our Sacrificing another. After 15 Annexation Drone points, Barry finally went to try missions since I wasn't going to give him any personnel until both our decks were almost gone and I had no other options. Dilemmas locked him out of missions with full stops coming from Personal Duty and An Issue of Trust, also Captian's Guest calling out the drones. Barry leaves his deck empty before my 14th turn and I'm down to one card with enough in my hand to play without needing to draw. I split up the teams and go for broke at missions. The first dilemma he gives me is Secret Identity and the last card in my deck is a personnel I do not command - game over! We had a good laugh about it, even though I effectively broadcast it to him, but he would have done it no matter what to remove a person from the attempt if it wasn't a personnel. The best way the game could have ended and yet another in the long history of weird and wild games Barry and I have shared over the years. This game was Much closer than the score makes it seem, as in Double Deck-out, with only my Annexation Drone points getting me the win. Jer and I were playing it cautious, with him not wanting to give me the chance to spring the trap. Lot's of drawing, and playing, and him nerfing my events was had. I eventually got... Bored, maybe, and decided to head out to AssRez to take a crack at it. While this was going on, there was more drawing, and me recycling my deck as I was discarding a Lot (no GreasyDukat, so that was good). On one of my last turns, I got enough guys out to try crop-dusting some missions; this resulted in my hand of Assimilation interrupts going bye bye thanks to some bad Dreams. After that, Jer's deck was looking a bit thin, so I decided to draw up after recycling, and drew up my, then, three-card deck. On Jer's last turn, he needed to spring out and get points, as he, at that point, had One card left in his deck (score 15-0, Me). I drew dilemmas, including one Secret ID, and That certainly went in the stack. At that point, Steve asked if he could see what the one card was. Jer showed him as I placed the stack down (once the stack was down, Jer made a comment to Steve about needing the last card for his ability), only to flip the top one, and get a secret ID. He laughed, and called it "Good Game". This was one of the most epic games of Trek I have ever had played, and I will remember it for some time. Great Game, Jeremy. Closing Thoughts At the end of the day it was a lot of fun with friends and that's what matters most of all. :)