[jjh]

I'm addicted to Surprise Party.

[KazonPADD]

3. Temporal Conduit. Even if I'm not running a deck with time travel, the once-a-game download of Temporal Investigations is a great way to keep pace with all the Starfleet, Vulcan, and other Broken Bow block archetype decks currently roaming the field.

You know they have to report to Alpha Quadrant Spaceline? Most stuff from Broken Bow / Live Long and Prosper will report at Time Locations so won't net you the draws.

[AllenGould]

What cards just have to go in all of your decks?

-crp

Tribbles.

[winterflames]

3. Temporal Conduit. Even if I'm not running a deck with time travel, the once-a-game download of Temporal Investigations is a great way to keep pace with all the Starfleet, Vulcan, and other Broken Bow block archetype decks currently roaming the field.

Plus stone knives is a great consolation prize if you end up facing a TNG or deck. No disrupters for you!

[Caretaker's Guest]

Could disable phasers and disruptors as well. Not to mention Transport Inhibitor. I really wonder how the Borg could conquer whole galaxies while all they need were weapons of steel .

[winterflames]

3. Temporal Conduit. Even if I'm not running a deck with time travel, the once-a-game download of Temporal Investigations is a great way to keep pace with all the Starfleet, Vulcan, and other Broken Bow block archetype decks currently roaming the field.

You know they have to report to Alpha Quadrant Spaceline? Most stuff from Broken Bow / Live Long and Prosper will report at Time Locations so won't net you the draws.

Except Shuttlepod drops, reed alert downloads, personnel, reliquary personnel, and assorted outpost reports.

There is room for popping up.

[Worf Son of Mogh]

One of the Q Tent options.
Defend homeworld, almost always.
AMS if I have an outpost seeded.
A way to DL or seed a ship.
Draw engine(s) - KFC or the like.
Some AU/Empathy if playing in a meta that favores QI if not expecting heavy use by opponents I won't bother and relieved on what the deck happens to have.


What I almost never include QI at least locally for sure it's a weak dilkemma here with no kill component and to many options to pass it to do targeted skill drain, and adaptive players that will pass most/all options with their main team. I get a lot more turns of stall out of dillemmas like scientific method or berserk changeling needing 3 of a skill I can target.

[tomek]

Q's Tent Civil War
Tribunal of Q
Q the Referee
Defend Homeworld
Obelisk of Masaka
Mirror Image
Masaka Transformations
Dead End
Edo Probe
The Higher the Fewer
Friendly Fire

Almost Always
Temporal Micro-Wormhole
Space Time Portal
Spacedoor
Assign Mission Specialists
Duckblind
The Traveller Transcendence
Surprise Party

[PantsOfTheTalShiar]

Defend Homeworld ends up in pretty much every deck, but for different reasons. If I'm using any Ref stuff at all, it's an auto-include since it's the one Ref card that's useful in every game. Sometimes it sets up a play or draw engine (e.g. Telak or Deyos). Sometimes I have a bunch of great SECURITY personnel and I want to be able to download the right one for different situations. Sometimes I'm using DNA Security Scan.

The original Q's Tent is another. I hate being forced to attempt a mission with 4 personnel when I can solve it with 2. If I think I need any Ref cards I can still put them in my tent or even in my draw deck. I also often stock Tents in my draw deck, and IMHO it's the most underrated card in the game (though it certainly doesn't belong in every deck). I'd rather play a game where I can access powerful situational cards when needed than play a game that's just about spewing out the highest volume of random cards.

I'm a Doctor, not a Bricklayer shows up a lot because it's a personnel download I can use during my opponent's turn.

I use Cytherians a lot because it's fun, effective, and I don't have time to come up with any new dilemma ideas.