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* - Side Note: The whole "Nors had to have sites to report" concept did not go over well here.
Smiley wrote:DS9 was the product that really changed stuff for us here. It was the first product you could buy a starter and some 5 boosters (either at a tournament or just in a shop) and go home and build a themed deck that actually worked that was almost always a good deck and one or two affiliations and really playable.While DS9 was not a big hit (*) in my area when it came out, I have to admit your point about a starter deck and 5 expansion packs is spot on. I was a local ambassador during that era and over several tournaments I cannot remember a time building a workable deck was a problem.
It was a design marvel. It was a semi-random starter with a trifecta of Fed, Baj and Car with some NA sprinkled in for good measure and need. The cards were set up in a circle so that each affiliation got a third of it and a treaty between each affiliation if you got some sort of flow over to another affiliation (the best starter was always the mixed Fed/Car because of the seedable Klaestron Outpost). This setup made the card sorting for the factory easier as well as more or less promising a playable deck in each starter (some few misses could be found but with the help of a couple of boosters and extra treaties to borrow during a sealed event would alleviate this problem). ...
* - Side Note: The whole "Nors had to have sites to report" concept did not go over well here.