2025 Spring Masters/Continentals Decks

by Ross Fertel, Sprung

15th May 2025

As we gear up for German Nationals later this month, lets look at some decks played in fairly recent high-level events.

We'll start with Movin Right Along by Nathan Miracle. This Delta Quadrant Klingon deck is ready to battle, or at least get some Assaults played. Of interest is Apprehended which costs zero counters and is non-unique but requires Cardassians to activate, but none to play. This distinction matters not for A Day Long Remembered which simply gets a boost for each battle permission slip in your core.

You will not find the Klingon affiliation represented in Brian Sykes' Who Needs Sleep When You Can Build Decks. This Deep Space Nine deck has the three Commons but is careful with the affiliations of the personnel using the trio as a tool rather than entirely reliant for success, though they will be useful for the attribute requirements on the higher point missions.

With Bajor, Blessed by the Prophets, Maggie Geppert has four Artifacts in her deck titled Borrowed Bajoran Integrity. Half of them are the Orbs, as expected, but the Horga'hn and Tox Uhat can save personnel from a sad fate. While the Bajorans want personnel in their discard pile, they don't want them all of them there!

Michael Van Breemen gave peace a chance through strength with I Was Going for Butch. This Next Generation deck has no prebuilt Bluegills instead relying on Peaceful Coexistence for that, though even that card is not critical with the U.S.S. Enterprise-J in the deck. There is also a Benjamin Sisko, Resourceful Captain who likes all four of the Dominion attemptable missions.

Van Breemen also gave us the first deck to win a major event after the latest set, Realm of Fear, released with All My Carolyn's are Unique, using a combination of Ferengi and The Original Series. This deck has a couple of dilemmas from that set, but do not count on getting them out as there are one hundred cards in the dilemma pile! You will want to do plenty of testing with this deck as you can pull off some cool tricks with equipment, but it depends on when you draw them. At thirty-five cards, there is you can eventually figure it out.

That summarizes the decks played as of late at high level events. We'll see what happens at German Nationals and how well the cards from Realm of Fear are represented.

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