[Faithful Reader]

It's Wednesday! We're more than halfway through the week. Since we are over the hump, let's look at a question!

Last Week: A Worldly side of Second Edition
11-9-22 Oh Give Me a home, Where the Hologram Roam ...
10-26-22 Pitch Me a Trip
10-19-22 Room for One More?
10-12-22 Don't be Draft, Man!
10-5-22 Worlds 2022 Mini Draft
9-28-22 September 2022 Grab Your Deck Results
9-21-22 It's September 12022, Grab Your Deck!
9-14-22 Moving the Needle on Khan
9-7-22 The Menagerie of Madness
8-31-22 UnderDissident
8-24-22 Last Week Today!
8-17-22 Euro Continentals 2020 Mini Stockwatch
8-10-22 The Menagmiss
8-3-22 In Honor of Nichelle Nichols
7/27/22 The Menagaboost
7-20-22 Androids Vs. Romulans
7-13-22 A Menagerie of Benefits
7-6-22 Classification Civilian: Questions from Bob
6-29-22 Mission Condition
6-22-22 There But for the Grace of Main
6-15-22 Starcorder
6-8-22 Forever a Thief
6-1-22 Handful versus individual
5-25-22Masters May 2022 Mini Stockwatch
5-18-22 Mad-Lib a Number
5-11-22 Fifty underdogs
5-4-22 Fighting NeuNeuDominion
4-27-22 Mad-Lib a Card
4-20-22 The Middle of a Man
4-13-22 Committee Follow Up
4-6-22 Sub-Optimal
3-30-22 Consistently Inconsistent
3-23-22Twenty-Twenty First
3-16-22 Clash of Classification: Civilian Final
3-9-22 Clash of Classification: Civilian One Two and Three
3-2-22 Hall Of Fame 2022 With a Twist ... of Fate!
2-23-22 Classification: Civilian Page Wars Final
2-16-22Classification Civilian Page Wars One, Two and Three
2-9-22 Yakety yak
2-2-22Civilian vs. V.I.P.
1-26-22 When is a card not Picard
1-19-22 Staffing Concerns
1-12-22 Consistently Inconsistent
1-5-22 First Things First

Making a deck is an art. A Science, An experiment.

And sometimes, a disaster.

Every now and then, a theory will come along and while it sounds great and builds nicely, it just falls apart when put into practice. This can be something as simple as synergy not being as strong as you thought or just not having the right combination of cards in your hand when you needed them. Sometimes you can tweak the deck to workability but not always.

Sound off with a deck you built that just didn't work and tell us why.

[winterflames]

My Dissdent / Staffer Deck just never quite works how I want it to, despite attempts to tweak the number of cheap Diplomacy personnel and such. My attempt to add the Think Tank just messed up the balance even more.

[Armus]

It's Wednesday! We're more than halfway through the week. Since we are over the hump, let's look at a question!

Last Week: A Worldly side of Second Edition
11-9-22 Oh Give Me a home, Where the Hologram Roam ...
10-26-22 Pitch Me a Trip
10-19-22 Room for One More?
10-12-22 Don't be Draft, Man!
10-5-22 Worlds 2022 Mini Draft
9-28-22 September 2022 Grab Your Deck Results
9-21-22 It's September 12022, Grab Your Deck!
9-14-22 Moving the Needle on Khan
9-7-22 The Menagerie of Madness
8-31-22 UnderDissident
8-24-22 Last Week Today!
8-17-22 Euro Continentals 2020 Mini Stockwatch
8-10-22 The Menagmiss
8-3-22 In Honor of Nichelle Nichols
7/27/22 The Menagaboost
7-20-22 Androids Vs. Romulans
7-13-22 A Menagerie of Benefits
7-6-22 Classification Civilian: Questions from Bob
6-29-22 Mission Condition
6-22-22 There But for the Grace of Main
6-15-22 Starcorder
6-8-22 Forever a Thief
6-1-22 Handful versus individual
5-25-22Masters May 2022 Mini Stockwatch
5-18-22 Mad-Lib a Number
5-11-22 Fifty underdogs
5-4-22 Fighting NeuNeuDominion
4-27-22 Mad-Lib a Card
4-20-22 The Middle of a Man
4-13-22 Committee Follow Up
4-6-22 Sub-Optimal
3-30-22 Consistently Inconsistent
3-23-22Twenty-Twenty First
3-16-22 Clash of Classification: Civilian Final
3-9-22 Clash of Classification: Civilian One Two and Three
3-2-22 Hall Of Fame 2022 With a Twist ... of Fate!
2-23-22 Classification: Civilian Page Wars Final
2-16-22Classification Civilian Page Wars One, Two and Three
2-9-22 Yakety yak
2-2-22Civilian vs. V.I.P.
1-26-22 When is a card not Picard
1-19-22 Staffing Concerns
1-12-22 Consistently Inconsistent
1-5-22 First Things First

Making a deck is an art. A Science, An experiment.

And sometimes, a disaster.

Every now and then, a theory will come along and while it sounds great and builds nicely, it just falls apart when put into practice. This can be something as simple as synergy not being as strong as you thought or just not having the right combination of cards in your hand when you needed them. Sometimes you can tweak the deck to workability but not always.

Sound off with a deck you built that just didn't work and tell us why.

Mirror Starfleet/ Tillman was probably one of my biggest faceplants ever.

I made World finals with Tillman. I made World finals with Mirror Starfleet. But when I put those two tier one ideas together it was a total crash and burn.

Why? Well, Mirror Starfleet doesn't like cards in hand, and one of the things about an effective Tillman deck is you have to keep your battle cards in hand until it's time to pounce. Trying to get those two concepts to play nice together just didn't work, as my 0-fer the tournament record demonstrated.

So yeah. Lesson learned.

[Psionic Hobo]

Assimilation decks....tried 3 I think and all are horrible....have a 4th that might be the best one yet but haven't actually tested yet....time will tell

[jadziadax8]

My decks almost always seem to fall flat. I think it's mostly the mission selection, since I try to go for science builds and that mission set isn't super coherent.

[The Guardian]

After some success with a NeuRomulus stalking deck, I tried my hand at a Ferengi option with the Stargazer and using it to lose battles and really jam cards under Ferenginar. Very little success as, while the concept is easy to explain, there are a plethora of micro-setups that need to happen to make it work, all of which slow it down.

[TyKajada]

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Did a Capture deck counting 100 cards, which included Cardassian Protectorate, For All Our Sons, Swift Justice, Dukat etc. to cycle through the deck faster....
Doesn't work, with 100 cards chances are high you get none of the cycle cards..

[TyKajada]

After some success with a NeuRomulus stalking deck, I tried my hand at a Ferengi option with the Stargazer and using it to lose battles and really jam cards under Ferenginar. Very little success as, while the concept is easy to explain, there are a plethora of micro-setups that need to happen to make it work, all of which slow it down.

Try this:
https://www.trekcc.org/decklists/?mode= ... ckID=48466
(one mistake in the decklist, Quark's Treasure should be in there)

I played this in a tournament and won 3 games, should have won more but I am old and forgot twice to use things to win games I lost... I think a better player can crack this.

[The Guardian]

After some success with a NeuRomulus stalking deck, I tried my hand at a Ferengi option with the Stargazer and using it to lose battles and really jam cards under Ferenginar. Very little success as, while the concept is easy to explain, there are a plethora of micro-setups that need to happen to make it work, all of which slow it down.

Try this:
https://www.trekcc.org/decklists/?mode= ... ckID=48466
(one mistake in the decklist, Quark's Treasure should be in there)

I played this in a tournament and won 3 games, should have won more but I am old and forgot twice to use things to win games I lost... I think a better player can crack this.

I’ll take a look. Thanks!

[Latok]

I tried pairing Tribunal Sentencing with original Unsavory Customers to be a real dick.
Unsavory is too unreliable because the opponent has to attempt three times and you have to draw it every time, so the smaller you make the pile in order to draw it reliably the more chance you consume one. Plus Tribunal takes plenty of time to set up itself, so by the time they are down to 1, 2 or 3 counters they're already on 70 and have 12 people in play, so they don't really care. Also any Earth HQ deck makes Unsavory basically useless in a non-Terra Prime deck.

[Danny]

I've got a deck that twice hasn't worked as I'd hoped or expected, but, what with (historically) the third time being "the charm", I'll see how its latest iteration fairs in the upcoming Masters... of the Universe IV!

[jadziadax8]

Fascinating!