This past weekend saw Nationals for First and Second Edition in Austria. We ran a draft based on the affiliations played so let us take a look at how things bore out.
There was almost no duplication of affiliations played for First Edition, aside from a pair of Cardassian decks. Johannes Klarhauser played a deck called Autpost Killer v.2. While nominally a Klingon/Cardassian Alliance deck, complete with the appropriate facility, this is very much a Klingon deck, and one for all ages at that. Past eras are represented by Phlox, Koloth and Gorkon. Even Worf and Martok make appearances. Have fun getting them into paly and destroying outposts as you see fit.
But the day ultimately went to Stefan Slaby. Earlier, The Ultimate User was banned taking a very powerful tool away from Next Generation Borg. There was an open question as to whether that deck was still viable, but with a deck title of banning one User will not stop the collective, there is still life in this deck at high level events. Note that just because one resource is gone that does not mean that other tricks of the collective, both old and new, are not present. This proves that even when a toy is out of the picture, there is a viable deck out there.
Looking at the draft, two participants have perfect selections. Join me in congratulating armus and Tackett.
On the Second Edition side, we have Dabo Madness by Jeronimo Mitaroff-Szecsenyi. This is a triple Headquarters deck going with the titular Dabo angle but with is also a good running theme of Assassins there along with some good Rule usage and Romulan fun with Deep Space Nine there to use since you have the headquarters in the deck anyway.
As for the ultimate victor, Slaby again took the title with a deck called Maximum Effort. Despite that title, there is a bare minimum of affiliated cards, Brunt, FCA Liquidator, though there are three copies of him. The rest are all non-aligned, including both Think Tank and Syrannites to help with high point missions. All those Non-Aligned personnel will come in handy with the boosts to U.S.S. Reliant, Part of One Big Happy Fleet. There are a few routes the dilemmas can go in from the high point mission to some Chula fun.
The draft did not go particularly well. Only one participant got more than one right, but no one selected an entire slate of unplayed affiliations or factions.
Come back later when we look at results from Online Masters in both games.
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