Maggie Geppert (jadziadax8) Tournament Report - 2E 2019-06-30 - 12:00 PM Helping Everyone Helps Me Too Mk. IV Introduction I planned to try out a new deck, but didn't get around to fully building it. I brought my TNG deck for Continentals. Round 1 Al Schaefer MW (+75)View opponent's ReportView original Report Coincidentally my deck was optimized for play against Terra Prime, because I was expecting to see it at Continentals. This meant that even though Al got 2x Unsavory Customers and 2x Starcrossed in my core, I could work around them. He wasn't using the capturing mechanics, so I didn't feel too bad about leaving Guinan on Earth or Worf helping to staff the Excelsior. I got a very slow start this round because I kept drawing into mid-game cards like BOT and Grav-plating Trap and not actual people. I didn't get out Disadvantage Into Advantage until it didn't really do me any good. Maggie had Earth as her HQ, so she wouldn't have too many problems getting around any "Sector 001" exclusive text. I still consumed a lot less than I thought I would and got two Star Crossed into play. It didn't really matter because it took a little too long for me to find a ship and I got shut down easily two turns in a row with Distress Signal and Outclassed. By the time the dilemma pile was close to doing its thing, Maggie was way too far ahead to make a difference. Round 2 Brian Leonard FW (+10) Brian did not get a God-hand this month for his usual Voyager deck, so he started out plodding along. I managed to stop him a couple of turns at Caretaker's before he went on to Destroy Transwarp Hub. By this time he had 2x Mission Accomplished, Enterprise-J and Hurried Departure out, which made his life much easier in terms of bonus points. I was feeling good because I had sailed through Investigate Maquis Activity until he got two perfect hits on Field Studies. I managed to pull through in the end with the full win. Round 3 Eric Bieche FW (+30) I'm always worried when I come up against Eric's Android deck because they easily work around my dilemma pile with Qatai, Lore, Ira Graves and Rayna Kapec. Yuck! I was left with Schran for any kind of stopping dilemmas, which is also no good. We were down to the wire and IIRC were at a True Tie when time was called on Eric's turn. I managed to stop him at his third mission and prepped a double team attempt at Baku Planet, which already had one or two dilemmas underneath. I sent down my first team and got stopped, drawing 2 cards for New Life. I then sent down my heroes for the 2nd attempt, again drawing two more cards. Eric asks how many cards I have in my hand (11) and I knew he was planning to play Dragon's Teeth. This was particularly bad because this crew had a few 1-2 cost folks and I needed every one of them to complete. Eric, however didn't reckon with the fact that I had 2 Security Drills on the table. I dropped 7 Fed cards between the two Sec Drills and played my I Need a Little Counseling just to get it out of hand. This left me with three in hand, easily defeating Dragon's Teeth when Ric picked Picard and Rixx. Whew! Closing Thoughts I should retire this deck, but it's so much fun to play and is very flexible in terms of countering a wide variety of decks.