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After the latest errata, which Dominion flavour do you pick for your next competitive event?

Audacious multi-species solver at the Cardassia HQ
8
62%
Pure Jem'Hadar solver
3
23%
Infiltration
1
8%
Commodities
1
8%
Something with battle
No votes
0%
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I don't think Dominion are done this season, they have two easy planet missions and you weren't necessarily going to draw more than one Audacious Assault anyway. You can't draw extra with Turan'Ekan bouncing a ritual though.

Which flavour do you pick post-errata?
Last edited by Fritzinger on Wed Sep 22, 2021 9:09 am, edited 1 time in total.
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By Danny (Daniel Giddings)
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No Infiltration?
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By Armus (Brian Sykes)
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The turbo solver is still stupid good.

The 50 point variant is also good if you're looking for more robust defense (3x Our Death + 3x Reprimand is a LOT of control).

There might be a tier one Infiltration deck out there somewhere, but it would take the right player to make it go at the Worlds level.

I actually think NeuDominion might be an interesting oblique counter play against NeuNeuDominion. That -5 for solving a mission might be enough to force the latter off script and/or force a 4 mission win.

Much as I'd love to see it, I still think Commodities are a local fun deck level of competitive, especially given the other options.
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By MidnightLich (Charlie Plaine)
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Infiltration is very powerful, but slow and plodding. It also takes a very different mindset to play, because often the right move for an infiltration deck is the absolute wrong move normally, i.e. letting an opponent solve a mission. It is pretty robust, except against repeatable event/interrupt prevention, like Brunt w/ [Fer] or [TOS] with Sisko.

All of this I mean to say it's unlikely to make an appearance.

If [Dom] shows up at Worlds, I suspect it's the pure speed variant going around. It's still got most of the pieces it needs to plow through most decks.

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By jadziadax8 (Maggie Geppert)
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Armus wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 8:11 am I actually think NeuDominion might be an interesting oblique counter play against NeuNeuDominion. That -5 for solving a mission might be enough to force the latter off script and/or force a 4 mission win.
@flrazor, @Boratus and I were talking about this before Tribbles last night. Stakalaka Jemmie solvers are strong still. Friction is an excellent counter to neuneuCardassia, since it is mandatory and the HQ draw is optional. Sadly, it doesn't bork the AA discount, but there is some slowdown.
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By Armus (Brian Sykes)
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NeuNeuDominion was why I bought 2 shares of [Dom] in Ross's stonk game. With the errata I figured it was time to take profit (same with [TNG] and the Admiral Fuckface errata) and buy in on some of the undervalued affiliations with the ability to be tier one. I think [Rom] and [SF] can do a lot of damage (last I looked, Romulan Discard/suicide bomb and HazMat Starfleet were still things), and I wouldn't sell [Baj] and [Kli] short on their ability to micro-team. NeuNeuDominion got clipped just enough (at least in theory) to bring these other affiliations back into contention.

That said I still think NeuNeuDominion has the edge going into Worlds. That mission set is ridiculous.
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