Welcome to the Weekly 1E Roundup, a weekly column looking back at the past week in the world of First Edition as well as a preview of the week ahead. If you've got an event coming up and you'd like to be featured in this column, feel free to contact me at cplaine@gmail.com or on the forums via PM to MidnightLich.
Monday saw the release of a new First Edition card, a special promo event titled Celebratory Toast. You can read all about the origin of this card in Executive Officer Maggie Geppert's (jadziadax8) article announcing this card and its 2E cousin. The short version is that we've made a "happy" and a "sad" version of each, and they can be given to members of our community for the times in our life when we want a little extra support. We expect that foil versions of the card will be available via Ambassadors in 2020, but the card is fully printable now and will be legal on Monday, November 25th. What decks will you use this card in?
The 2019 British National Championships took place this last weekend, and Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) continued his impressive year with his second major victory. His win is all the more impressive because he borrowed a deck from fellow traveler and current World Champion Peter Ludwig (martok88). With only a two-minute overview of the deck's design, Johannes piloted it to an undefeated victory and championship title.
Johannes was kind enough to answer my questions, which you can read below.
British National Championship 2019 winner Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) |
Johannes's Commentary: Why did you choose the deck that you used? What other decks did you consider using? My other options would have been Battle Borg and Bajoran/Cardassian Earring Genesis, two decks I played in side events in Vienna. Both decks were missing cards, though, so borrowing one of Peter's decks spared me the tedious deck(re)building process. Not a bad thing, considering what my head felt like after the Friday Night Fun. What sorts of decks were you hoping to face while playing your deck? What decks did you hope not to face? I wasn't particularly concerned about any specific decks, more about players that can deduce what the deck does and seed efficiently against me. Therefore I assumed the game against the deck's creator would be an uphill battle, no matter what he himself chose to play. Prior to this tournament, did you have much experience playing this deck (or decks like it)? Did you learn anything new about it when you played it this time? Did you use any situational cards (cards that you wouldn't expect to be useful in every game)? Are there any whose usefulness exceeded your expectations? Were there any that you wouldn't include if you played the deck again? Motion Picture McCoy seems an odd card to run in TOS when there's a dilemma-nullifying version around, but downloaded on turn 1 by Reunite Legends > Enterprise-A, his ability is a huge help to set up a massive turn 2 report-with-crew (you use him to take the two personnel you discarded with Temporal Shifting as your card plays on turns 1 and 2 back to increase your hand size). Looking at the deck now, I would probably only replace the Future Enterprise with the Starship Enterprise for an extra download. The ratio of personnel/ships/draws seemed great the way it is. What was your toughest matchup of the day? Game 2 against Mike had me do 3 missions no thanks to an Edo Probe, but my dilemmas held the line here. Game 4 against Steve was tough because after a great headstart with a reasonably early 55 points in the MQ, I lost my main crew of 8 or 9 guys to a MLI/Plague Ship in the AQ, and needed several turns to rebuild a crew that could get through the two remaining dilemmas. Chula: The Game was the winner for me here. The game against Peter was probably the toughest, and the strangest in a while. I don't want to give away too many details of Peter's deck, but seeing how he had almost no seeded draw engines, I took a gamble and played Temporal Shifting on him, reducing his hand to two cards. Of course, that meant I forfeited my much-needed draws, too. We had a very weird first six or seven turns of playing one, drawing one (or none! there were reasons to keep your hand size very, very small at certain points), during which I hoped my Study Divergent History draws would allow me to get into gear again earlier - but I couldn't get out a second Alpha Quadrant personnel for the second draw, so it was a real drag. In the end, we recovered at more or the less the same time. Incentive-Based Economics was very valuable here, and Linguistic Legerdemain was the winning dilemma for me that gave me the Mod Win. Did you reliably score points from Off-Zel Vase? How about Tantalus Field, how many people did you kill? There's been a lot of talk in various circles about the power of decks, in particular because of their abundance of downloads. Do you think that cards, or [DL] in general, should be looked at? And of course with their various download resources on ships and personnel (especially multiple options of personnel that download the same superstrong and flexible equipment), it is not unusual to bully through skill-based dilemmas on the first attempt. I find this especially problematic in decks using General Order 7 and The Final Frontier, as those cards allow you targeted access to a very good skill spread (including the dial-a-skill on Vina) and therefore provide the flexibility to have several unused downloads ready for use on your first attempt. Computer Crash and Containment Field can only control this madness to a limited extent. What would you nominate as the MVP card from your deck? Do you have anything else you'd like to say about your deck? |
The only tournament of this past weekend was the British National Championship in Manchester, United Kingdom. The OTF Complete Constructed event saw eleven (11) players duke it out over four (4) rounds; as mentioned above, Johannes Klarhauser would emerge as the victor. However, runner up Niall Matthew (sexecutioner) was also undefeated, earning four (4) modified wins with his Dominion battle deck. Peter Ludwig played a Maquis deck to 3rd place, and Stefan Slaby (Winner of Borg) piloted Romulans to 4th with Wing Commander III. Four different decks in the top four is nice to see!
Elsewhere in the field, there were more Romulans, Bajorans, , lots of Federation decks, and a lone Borg player. Paddy Tye's (KazonPADD) "The Earring of Niall Matthew" Bajoran deck is posted for review, as is the Mercenary Raiders deck of Glen "Lofty" Shipley (rameses niblick 3). Hopefully there will be more decklists as we move forward, but that's all there was at the time of this writing.>
And remember, this column isn't just about official tournaments. We'd love to cover casual games too! If you'd like to have your 1E get together covered in this column, let me know! You can find my contact information at the bottom of every column, and you're welcome to email me, PM me, or just post on the forums.
This weekend will feature two (2) tournaments, both in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Saturday evening will see a Voyager Warp Speed Sealed event that currently has Washington players Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) and Justin Ford (Resistance-is-futile) signed up. As the tournament is being hosted by Ken Tufts (Worf Son of Mogh), I'm confident he'll play if they need a third to sanction. Hopefully they'll post deck lists, because Warp Speed is fun and crazy, and we don't get enough deck lists.
But the main event will be Canadian Nationals, which will be an OTF Complete Constructed event on Sunday. Aside from Michael and Justin, Amber Van Breemen (Marquetry) is also pre-registered for this event. Vancouver is a tough place to play 1E, and we'll eagerly be awaiting the results. I'm confident they'll draw a few more people, and I actually think Amber might take this title home with her. But we'll see, and we'll cover this event's results next week.
If you have upcoming events, get togethers, or anything else scheduled that's 1E related, let me know. I'd love to feature you and your friends in this column.
That's all for this week's roundup of First Edition news and events. For more news, you can follow The Continuing Committee on Facebook, Twitter, or bookmark our front page. News about upcoming First Edition projects can be found in the most recent Project Status Update from August 2019. My next Office Hours will be scheduled for later this month, and something came up this week. If you've got an event coming up and you'd like to be featured in this column, or if you have comments about this column's content, feel free to contact me at cplaine@gmail.com or on the forums via PM to MidnightLich. Until next week, may you expand your power in the universe and live long and prosper.
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Mission (6) | ||||
Mission | ||||
23 V | 1x Incapacitate Inhabitants | |||
25 V | 1x Mine Dilithium | |||
26 V | 1x Research Historic Accident | |||
31 V | 1x Review Mining Operation | |||
41 V | 1x Secure Supply Lines | |||
43 V | 1x Test Warship |
Seed Deck (30) | ||||
Artifact | ||||
1 V | 1x Off-Zel Vase | |||
Dilemma | ||||
1 R | 1x Ankari "Spirits" | |||
4 U | 1x Chula: The Game | |||
5 V | 1x Dead End | |||
60 VP | 1x Denevan Neural Parasites | |||
5 V | 1x Faux Pas | |||
5 V | 1x Forsaken | |||
7 V | 1x Friendly Fire | |||
70 VP | 1x Hanonian Land Eel | |||
2 V | 1x Incentive-Based Economics | |||
9 V | 1x Linguistic Legerdemain | |||
7 V | 2x Misinterpreted History | |||
14 V | 2x Rules of Obedience | |||
11 V | 1x Thasian Powers | |||
18 V | 1x The Whale Probe | |||
Doorway | ||||
C | 1x Q's Tent | |||
15 V | 1x Temporal Conduit | |||
10 V | 1x Temporal Micro-Wormhole | |||
Event | ||||
2 V | 1x Crossover: An Invitation | |||
Facility | ||||
Federation | ||||
34 V | 1x ❖ Federation Outpost | |||
35 V | 1x ❖ Terran Outpost | |||
Incident | ||||
20 V | 1x Protect the Timeline | |||
28 V | 1x Taking Charge | |||
Objective | ||||
C | 1x Assign Mission Specialists | |||
28 V | 1x Defend Homeworld | |||
16 V | 1x Reunite Legends | |||
51 V | 1x Study Divergent History | |||
Time Location | ||||
80 V | 1x Halkan Council |
Q-Tent Side Deck (13) | ||||
Equipment | ||||
12 U | 1x Classic Medical Tricorder | |||
13 U | 1x Classic Tricorder | |||
14 C | 1x Classic Type II Phaser | |||
8 V | 1x Multidimensional Transport Device | |||
Event | ||||
U | 1x Lower Decks | |||
13 V | 1x Stone Knives and Bearskins | |||
Interrupt | ||||
39 U | 1x I'm a Doctor, Not a Bricklayer | |||
U | 1x Incoming Message - Federation | |||
Objective | ||||
31 V | 1x Fear Will Keep Them in Line | |||
28 V | 1x File Mission Report | |||
50 V | 1x Reap All the Glory | |||
Personnel | ||||
Bajoran | ||||
49 R+ | 1x Bareil | |||
Federation | ||||
C | 1x ❖ Gibson |
"Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads (7) | ||||
Artifact | ||||
1 R | 1x Tantalus Field | |||
Equipment | ||||
11 C | 1x Classic Communicator | |||
Incident | ||||
21 V | 1x Transporter Mixup | |||
Personnel | ||||
Federation | ||||
47 V | 1x ❖ Ensign Davis | |||
C | 1x ❖ Inge Eiger | |||
76 R+ | 1x James Tiberius Kirk | |||
Ship | ||||
Federation | ||||
120 R+ | 1x I.S.S. Enterprise |