So, I'm a New/Old First Edition Player, Dominion Edition

by Maggie Geppert, Vice Chairman

13th February 2018

Jem'Hadar: "We pledge our loyalty to the Founders, from now until death."

Vorta: "Then receive this reward from the Founders, may it keep you strong."

In this series, I will show off some beginner level decks that people have sent to me.  Today’s deck is Chris Dietz’s “Brownshirts” deck.

Missions

Intelligence Operation starts us off at the Founder’s Homeworld.  I don’t see HQ: Secure Homeworld in this deck, so it’s a dead mission.  One problem with playing Dominion in the Decipher days was a lack of good missions in the Gamma Quadrant.  Internment Operations provides some relief on that score.  At first, I couldn’t find how you’re supposed to do Tulaberry Wine Negotiations.  I wondered if Chris meant to put Further Tulaberry Talks instead, as the Dominion can attempt that mission.  However, I finally spotted the copy of Subjugate Planet and realized it’s the target for that Objective.  At 45 points, it’s a bigger temptation and since it’s in the Gamma Quadrant, it’s a little harder to steal.  Now, these two missions only add up to 80 points, so you’ll need to head to the Alpha Quadrant for the win.  Attack at Rare Phenomenon is a nice space mission.  You could also attempt to Navigate Argolis Cluster, or if you’re feeling really lucky, go for the Betazed Invasion.  I can guarantee that if I were your opponent, I wouldn’t put too many dilemmas under that one.

Other Seeds

We talked about moving between quadrants in my Ferengi deck, so I don’t feel like we need to rehash that.  Your Reshape the Quadrant download is Reward from the Founders. This card is a free report engine revolving around Vorta personnel.  Unfortunately, you can’t use the draw engine portion of it because you will have Dominion War Efforts in play.  That’s probably worth it, since that particular card allows you to get an unlimited supply of support personnel out.  Another free play engine is The Great Link, which gets you free Founders, of course.  You can combine Strategic Base with Subjugate Planet, so that when you build the Remote Supply Depot you can draw three extra cards.  Finally, you can use Establish Dominion Foothold to score some extra points for invading the Alpha Quadrant.  I initially thought it was the way to do a two-mission win.  However, I quickly realized that while Tulaberry Wine Negotiations + Betazed Invasion + 10 points does give you 100 points, you can’t win with two planets in OTF, so that’s no good.

Chris has very thoughtfully placed his dilemma combos in the deck notes.  My favorites include:

Personal Duty > Command Decisions > Subspace Fracture

(Try to put this on a space mission with a lot of "science-ey" requirements like astrophysics, Stellar Carto, Physics, etc. The Officers and Leadership will not be killed at the end because stopped personnel don't count but it will wreak havoc on the opponent's "solver" personnel, and it's almost totally unavoidable, to boot!)

and

Arsenal Divided > Ankari Spirits > The Cloud

(Because haunted ships where the crew are slowly being killed off one by one are fun!)

Draw Deck

It’s nice to see that you can have Jem’Hadar in a deck now.  Back in the old days you would generally only see Goran’Agar in a deck.  He’s the only Jemmie not affected by White Deprivation.  When that was a rule rather than a card, I always thought they were more trouble than they were worth, even with Deyos around as a card draw engine.  The third free report engine I see is the Dosi Trading Post that I also discussed in my earlier Ferengi article.  There are plenty of Dosi and Karemma stocked in the deck.  Finally, there is plenty of equipment in this deck, mostly guns and kits.  You can get those with Victory is Life when you solve a mission, which you get out of the Q’s Tent with Obedience Brings Victory. 

What I’ve Learned from This Deck

Well, not from this deck, but I learned a fun fact about Jiten’parekh this week from Paddy.  You should ask him about it the next time you see him.

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Decklist

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This deck is currently eligible for the following family or families of achievements:

• Dominion Player
• Temporal Mechanics Give Me a Headache
• Good Casting: Combs (Weyoun)
• The Gamma Quadrant Release
• Reward from the Founders

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