Andrey Gusev (anguss) Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event 2015-05-11 - 12:00 AM This is a very simple game - draw and play and draw and play [ver. 2] Introduction I decided to give the deck a third chance since I knew that it is not bad, but my poor playing in previous tournaments with it made poor results. Round 1 Sebastian Kirstein FW (+70) Vs European Borg. I think I got Crom in my opening hand to download Keevan and get it rolling. Crippling Strike was useless against 1-span mission, I played it to prevent a voyage home though. Noret'ikar was assimilated from discard pile after Wolf 359 was solved, then the Borg came to Torga IV and took Ikat'Ika and Keevan, then scored points with One With the Borg so point losses didn't hit them much. I saw K&K only once that game and prevented it with GPT+ETU. My attempts were stopped twice with Back to Basics fueled by interlinks and one of them was returned by Trial Never Ended. On my last mission I tried to attempt with teams sized just one less than needed for Back to Basics and that +1 for dual dilemmas really helped. Round 2 Matt Kirk FW (+100) Vs Equipment Ferengi 2 Missions solver. Got both Keevan and Crom in the opening hand which helped a lot, in particular - to draw into 3 Crippling Strikes in the first 5 turns to lock the speedy Ferengi. Worked in space for a couple of turns (and got ship damaged by Gomtuu in the process) then solved Torga IV in one shot using Explicit Orders. Played third ship to gather everybody for the last mission attempt and was lucky to find all skills for Unwanted Guest Bashir for the win (there was a 50/50 chance to see 2 Acquisition Gint instead). But what impressed me most is what was going on on the Ferenginar on the second turn: 2 ATWs + 2 Treasured Collectibles + Delicate Negotiations = 30 more counters. There was a ship and a team of 7 on second turn ready to depart but on the mission attempt I gave none dilemmas as I recalled only one Navigation played and also had doubts about Physics - that worked and the ship stuck in space for three more turns because of Crippling Strikes. On the next attempt there were already two ships and two crews with Ent-J in play, I was lucky to draw Timescape on the first team attempt. On the next turn it was three attempts with 5 personnel in each, stopped by Hard Time, Artificial Ability and Secret Identity. Round 3 Anastasia Kalashnikova FL (-30) Vs DS9 on Stakoron missions. Had not seen Crom or Keevan until late draw Crom on turn three. So my start was slow but I drew 3 Crippling Strikes instead that forced Alexey to fly to planet instead of space. On his Torga IV I managed to keep him for three turns and to discard his hand with Dreamer. Instigator flew there on the next turn just to be placed into Holding Cell revived from discard pile with Kira who was saved from Dreamer by Discreet Inquiry. He played SRR on his space Stakoron naming Personal Duty so my two copies of it were useless there and the DS9 team solved in one go. Krim missed naming Outclassed before that. By that time I also managed to solved two missions. My first attempt on planet - got 2 dilemmas under, then his attempt - 2 dilemmas under. My next turn I had 13 personnel in play but no Jem with strength 9, so could not solve with 5. I decided to go with two teams, 7 and 6 and the first team was stopped by single Miners Revolt and he was lucky to get Timescape. He had 14 in play on his turn and decided to go with all. And this is where I made a mistake and gave him just Hard Time as the last dilemma instead of something that could stop at least two (I had choices) thinking that Mark of Gideon and Picking Up the Pieces would stop enough. There were 7 left in the team at the end and Discreet Inquiry gave them the missing Engineer, just enough to solve. Round 4 Tjark Ott FW (+50) Vs DS9. Got Keevan in opening hand, but no Mobilization Points for the whole game, so played those 4 and 3 cost Jem'Hadars for full cost. Tjark played both new personnel that makes next one's cost minus 2, and played Lwaxana with discount + Muniz and draws from my Keevan, so he built the crew quickly, but wasn't able to draw into a ship or a ship download card. That delayed his departure for a couple of turns, but he played two Distant Explorations and Holding Cell meanwhile. The latter one meant I wasn't able to play my two Crippling strikes and a cheater. On my second attempt at space the crew flew to WNOHGB and I used the next turn to build more personnel. Next time I attempted there were already two teams and the second one managed to solve it and then Torga IV in one shot - Keevan had been chosen for Assassination Attempt, and with him plus 4 Jem'Hadars left the mission was done. Till this time Tjark hadn't had a mission solved so no points losses for him. He solved his space mission the next turn scoring 50 (35 from mission + 2 DE + Bejal Otner) and the same combo on planet Stakoron could gave him another 50 for the win, so I was worried. I stopped his attempt by downloading Moral Choice with Vault of Tomorrow + Hard Time for Melora. On my next turn two teams attempted planet Stakoron, I was lucky he did not draw Timescape and the second team solved it with five personnel left among which was boosted Ikat'Ika. Round 5 Alexander Schmitz FW (+70) Vs Dominion Infiltrators. Got Crom in opening hand, and a Mobilization Points, so started to build quickly, but lack Astrometrics - only have one on Ixtana Rax downloaded by Crom. Alex had the same missions but it quickly became obvious that he was playing infiltration deck. When my team was ready there were already Leyton Founder sitting on my planet Stakoron and Instigator on Torga IV. When I started the attempt at Stakoron space, Kira Founder showed up on the ship and with Misdirection out it got harder to solve both dilemmas and the mission. Even before I started attempting a ship full of infiltrators (there were 4) tried to came to my space Stakoron too, but was stopped by Crippling strikes for a couple of turns (on the ship that could score points if I fail the mission + with Under Suspicion out and Krajensky Founder aboard means a lot more dilemmas to face). After two unsuccessful attempts they finally came forcing me to fly away to my 40 point space mission. Meanwhile he was building a team to start attempting himself and finally started with his Space Stakoron, but I was able to hold them for three turns there. I switched ships but Kira was returned to hand by Pseudo Pod and showed up again. I solved space Stakoron leaving the ship with Kira and my stopped Instigator and moved to 40 point space. Kira returned again killing the Intigator left behind and showed up once more and on subsequent attempt she prevented my mission solve with Founder Trap. Alex already worked on his planet Stakoron at this time with his deck out and he lost his hand to Dreamer, so no more Founder traps. At this time he was in a lead 35 - 30 and I had 5 under my second space and an infiltrator-free ship with 5 personnel able to solve, 5 under Torga IV with 2 infiltrators there (and Under Suspicion was still out), Kira Founder on a ship in docks on HQ, and a Warship with single Vorta in the team (some died, some captured by Sylvia) for Torga IV. So I solve space, gathered two teams (5 and 8) for Torga but with two extra dilemmas every attempt Alex was able to hold me here, and it looked like this could last forever. I also managed to stop his two attempts at planet. Then I drawn into Limara'Son! He teamed up with another Jem'Hadar to kill Instigator and with 7 under and two crews and only +1 on dilemmas this time the second team solved finally after the first was stopped by Pitching In! Closing Thoughts The deck is doing poorly if no Crom or Keevan are showed up in the first two turns. Mobilization Points could help in this case, but not much actually. Plus opponent also get bonus draws from Keevan, so maybe this build could be considered competitive. But it is fun.