Michael Moskop (Comicbookhero) Tournament Report - 2E - North American Continentals Side Event 2013-08-16 - 06:00 PM Sealed 8/16/13 Introduction It is a great feeling to walk onto the con floor two days before you planned on getting there just in time for a sealed tournament to start. Plus the tournament pulled in three new players that are all local for me, so we get some new blood. I got stuck with the Borg deck. I have only played Borg once and I came in last that time, so I was not expecting much. Round 1 Stefen Coisson MW (+5) I volunteered to help Stefan build his deck since he was one of those three new players. He got kinda screwed with the Klingon deck, but he picked the game up really quick and was dropping dilemmas on me like a pro. He chased me to a MW with those great dilemma plays. Round 2 Jeremy Benedict FL (-65) Though Jeremy and I have talked a bunch, we have never actually played against each other before. I think I held my own but I just couldn't keep up with his Klingons. Round 3 Unjustly Banned FL (-30)View opponent's ReportView original Report James just put up a wall of dilemmas that my Borg could not climb over. I was chasing him the whole game and just never got going. Michael had been given the Borg starter deck. The ultimate skill-doubler deck. Fortunately, he didn't draw into the Queen for quite a while, and when he did, he forgot to use her order on a couple of attempts. That meant I could one-stop him with Ornaran Threat a couple of times - especially after the first time I used it, it killed one of Michael's few Security personnel. My own attempts were hampered by some bad luck. Given that I only had four Security personnel in the deck, I was happy to get two into play early. Sadly, Michael played Murder Investigation (which picks three and stops them if any have Security) to stop one attempt. When that worked, he then used The Trial Never Ended to keep it in his dilemma pile for my next attempt. My luck turned though, and it didn't stop anyone the second time. Then, later on in the game, the bad luck returned. I was ready to auto-complete my final mission - which required Archaeology - when Michael came over and assimilated my only Archaeology personnel with Borg Cutting Beam. In another turn of better luck, I drew into another Archaeology personnel on my next turn though, and was able to take the mission for the win. FW: 100-70 Closing Thoughts Honestly, if I had just pulled a second Borg Cube, I think this would have been a very different tournament for me. I still had a lot of fun and adding two new people to the number I have played against as well as adding players to our playgroup makes for great times!