Mr Slade (Frool) |
Tournament Report - 2E - European Continentals Day Two |
2015-07-18 - 07:00 PM |
Bajoran Lefler Mess v1.3 |
Introduction |
I've played this deck in the 2014 British national and the recent Online not a regional. Both tournaments, I had one full loss and a few modified wins (which meant I didn't win either). I wanted to try this deck again at a high level event and see if it could make an impact.
This deck relies on getting Robin Leftler, Kira and a ship into play. Then you discard a big chunk of your deck and use Kira to get Winn into play, then you remove orb and prophet cards from the deck to draw lots of cards and then use Kira again to place people at your headquarters. A lot of the people you report will have useful abilities, Dukat, Yassim, Jaro Essa, Bareil etc... Then you go and attempt missions.
18 cards in the deck help you download these key people but Historical Research is in there to help you if you go 2nd, which I did in every game :-) in previous games, I have won plenty of games going 1st.
I added more interrupts in response to the new dilemmas. The dilemma pile should be Back to Basics x 3, Rapid Progress x 3, Divide and Conquer x 3, Qualification x 3, 3 x Secret Identity and 15 utility dilemmas. |
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Round 1 | | Soren Ramme Nielsen | FW (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
I was very tired during this game, was faffing about too much, making big mistakes and taking ages to do things as I was relearning how to play the deck - Soren was a gentleman and very sporting.
I got my deck working, hit Rogue Borg Ambush twice (TWICE - two different dilemmas) at my planet mission, Sloan wasn't in my discard pile unfortunately. Soren managed to have a 26 (I think) counter turn but he was hitting lots of walls. Secret Identity/Rapid Progress was pretty brutal as was Back to Basics. My phone bleeped so I thought the game had finished, it was my turn (and I went 2nd) so I ended my turn and shook hands as I was ahead!?! The bleep was a two minute warning (or a text message) so Soren had a chance to make a comeback. If he completed his 40 point mission we would be both on 70 points but my dilemmas were too good. |
I was also very happy to play someone new in the quarter-finals, Matt. I had met Matt the night before, when a group of us had a beer a the restaurant where the tournament was held the next day, and he is really a nice guy.
To be honest I was a little displeased with our game though. Since Matt was playing a “gimmick deck” that spawned out a lot of people in short time, the game never really got interesting. This is not to take anything away from Matt's victory. He built a brilliant deck, and I do not recent him for bringing it to a major tournament. Still, I cannot help to feel a little disappointed that the mechanics that make this deck possible did not get an errata before the ECC.
Still, a huge congrats to Matt is in order. Well done! |
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Round 2 | | Johannes Klarhauser | FW (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
A lot happened in this game and it happened in 3 turns. Everything went well for me, Dukat getting his extra attributes to solve missions and my Bakara using its 13 range to get around. Sorry, I don't remember any more. I think I used my accessions to good effect in this game, attempting with 3 and using 2 accessions to get 3 dilemmas for 5 people. |
He went second, so he got his Limitless Lefler download, and also had Limitless First Officer in play on turn 1. Drawing about 25 cards with Limitless Winn, he had a super crew worth about 30 counters in play at the end of the turn. A ship was out on turn 2, and he attempted, completed (thanks to Limitless Dukat boosting his attributes through the roof), then ended his turn. On turn three (I actually had a super fast start and got a turn three attempt in with five guys myself here, but Back to Basics made me sad), he played the Baraka, Richard Galen, then completed his two planets for the win. It didn't help that i missed the one opportunity that came up (matt forgetting about TCS and microteaming), but it wouldn't have made much of a difference :)
It's an ingenious design, and Matt played it as quickly as possible, well-deserved win there. |
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Round 3 | | Stefan Slaby | FW (0) |
Again, I had a great start. I completed space first but with a damage marker on it. Slaby was one counter away from blowing up my ship. I reported another ship and went to solve my planet missions. My second attempt at Off-World Report resulted in 2 Chula:The game going on the mission. I managed to use Dukat for +13 attributes to solve, if I didn't solve then, it would have been very tough with two games on the mission. When Slaby attempted his mission I Secret ID'd Shran so he wouldn't be able to return any of his Chula:The Game dilemmas back, he brought in Navaar but thankfully didn't have Bridge Officers Test for the wall coming next. I had two teams for the last mission attempt and Slaby gave me no dilemmas for first team (thinking it was a fake team, he was far behind so had to risk it) but I could solve. |
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Closing Thoughts |
For this deck to work you need 2 40 point missions and Historical Research which is a big constraint. The way the deck plays is very complicated and with 122 cards in the deck I believe the deck can be optimised to be much, much better. |
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