Borg 30 card Stop First Contact

A two mission solver. Stop First Contact (40pts), then Population 9 Billion allows Establish Gateway to score (50pts). Resistance is Futile or Assimilated Vessel to score the last (10pts).

Tournament Record:

• Constructed - Online Event (2015-06-15): 7th place
• Constructed - Online Event (2015-08-31): 2nd place
• Constructed - Online Event (2015-09-20): 5th place
• Constructed - Online Event (2015-10-12): 3rd place
• Constructed - Online Event (2016-07-24): 1st place (Tournament Report)
• Constructed - Online Event (2017-05-01): 3rd place
• Constructed - Online Event (2017-07-01): 3rd place

The following cards in this deck have received errata since it was last played in a tournament:

• Assimilate Homeworld (2019-12-09) - Updated wording for refined definition of "scouting." This objective is now placed on a mission when completed.
• Containment Field (2022-08-01) - May not leave play. No longer a hidden agenda. No longer has Going To The Top restriction. Cannot be used anymore to one-sidedly tax opponent's downloads by discarding with Q the Referee and retrieving with Tribunal of Q.
• Defend Homeworld (2022-08-01) - Nerf. Removed [Referee] icon. Added "voluntarily" to prevent combo with Chula: The Way Home & The Issue Is Patriotism.
• Eliminate Starship (2022-02-07) - No longer usable at missions opponent seeded.
• Establish Gateway (2019-12-09) - Updated wording for refined definition of "scouting." This objective is now placed on a mission when completed.
• Seven of Nine (2023-05-01) - Lore updated ("U.S.S. Voyager").
• Space-Time Portal (2023-08-14) - Added a built-in limit to the report function.
• Space-Time Portal (2021-07-05) - Reworded for clarity. The "once per turn" restriction no longer applies to seed-phase "turns."
• The Wake of the Borg (2023-05-01) - Partial rescission: regains Referee icon but retains other changes, and number of required Neutral Zone missions increased from 3 to 4.
• The Wake of the Borg (2020-02-03) - Nerf. Targets the Neutral Zone only if heavily used. Returns to hand instead of destroys. Borg are immune. Nullifiable. No longer a Ref card.

Decklist

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

• Borg Player
• Among the Stars
• Good Casting: Armstrong (Two of Nine)

Draw Deck Strategy

For new Borg players: You must have Locutus, Assimilate Homeworld, and Stop First Contact in play before you can do anything. A Change of Plans/Cranial Transceiver Implant (both downloadable by the Queen) allow you to download the required objectives. Ready Room Door allows you to download Locutus, and the Captain's Orders from your Q Tent.

The first two turns typically comprise of playing P'chan (Four of Nine), the Connectivity Drone (Eleven of Twelve), Marika (Three of Nine), and Seven. Getting P'Chan is your priority. The Cube should be able to be staffed by turn two and headed menacingly down the spaceline.

Prioritize card draw engines: (Marika/BDN, We Are The Borg (on the table), and Cortical Node Implant). Once you have Marika and the BDN in play, you effectively gain a card draw (by downloading the Adapt card Marika used). On full throttle the deck draws 6 cards a turn. (Seven/Cortical Node/Marika/WATB/New Arrivals/Normal EOT)

The deck is designed to be drawn up as fast as possible. Between the Regenerate and Lansor (Two of Nine), the deck continually re-feeds into itself. The best way to rig your probes is to have your deck already drawn up.

Dilemma Pile Strategy

Assimilated Vessel/The Clown:BM/Subspace Shockwave/Maglock
Edo Pobe/Borg Servo/Dead End
Lack of Preparation/Kelvan/Barclay's/Spacial Rift
Ferengi Infestattion/Kelvan/Barclay's/Berserk Changling
Clan People/IP Creatures/Founder Secret
Dal'Rok/Horta/Land Eel

Icons
Quadrant
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Special
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Staffing
		8
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