Michael Shea (The Prefect) Tournament Report - 2E - Cardassia Regional 2014-05-17 - 12:00 PM It was ... fun! Introduction I tried a variation of the TOS Battle Deck I took to my last tournament. It faired well, but I think I overworked it and it wasn't as fast as it should have been. It came down to the final game and a misstep on my part against the kind of deck, and player, against which missteps cannot be tolerated. All in all, 3-1 and I'll keep a variation of this deck with me at all times. Round 1 AdamBrautigam FW (+100) Played against a Relativity Deck - first time. And it was really cool, I think I'll investigate it further. My deck worked the way it should have - put two damage markers on the Relativity before I even attacked. Blew it up, which in hindsight I probably shouldn't have done as it gave him access to a richer discard pile. My opponent didn't notice I'd played Daystrom for the extra cost because he was concentrating on how to recover and he gave me my second mission for the win. 100-0. Round 2 Kevin Reitzel MW (-50) Played the TD's infamous DS9 medical teams deck and again blew him up at space. McCoy made his only appearance the whole tournament here which helped and I ended up taking the modified win rather than playing out one last turn (time was called right as I finished). In retrospect, the modified win meant I ended up placing 4th rather than 2nd, put I felt I couldn't take the chance that the crafty TD could pull two missions out in one turn - he's been known to. 50-0. Round 3 Matthew Montgomery  FW (+30)View opponent's ReportView original Report Played a TNG speed solver. This is where my having slowed my deck down hurt as he was out and attempting before I was ready. I blew him up anyway and denuded him of his needed Science which ended up saving my ass in the final turn - and it didn't hurt that he hadn't noticed he ran out of Science and kept attempting anyway. This one was a squeaker. 100-65. Michael did great - he brought the TOS battle deck, a deck I have experience against but it didn't matter. I held him off pretty well, but he's far more experienced and his deck was just better. The way in which he was still able to kill my ship (despite "power to the shields") was awesome. I wasn't too happy at the time, but looking back, it was a great move. I'm glad he did as good as he did in the end. Round 4 Greg Hodgin FL (-50)View opponent's ReportView original Report This was the match I'd been waiting for, and I blew it. My deck worked great. But a 2AM tech against TOS Battle and my neglecting to READ THE MISSIONS cost me a turn which was all he needed in the end. I fought him all the way but it came down to a race for the last mission. I had 6 dilemmas under my own and had managed to get rid of his Endangered. An unlucky random pull on Discommendation ended the game and Setek is my white whale! 50-100. Ah. And here was where the tournament was decided. Michael, as expected, had bought his TOS battle deck, and I knew he was salivating to blow up my honorable, righteous Romulans even though they had done nothing wrong, as all Romulans are wont to do. We get started, he drops Standard Orbit on Turn 1. Well, that's just great. I try to get some cheese on the table; he's having none of it. No GUYS, no P&P, no Endangered. I'm stripped of tricks. I don't get a single bonus point the whole game, and this time (as opposed to at Nationals), I have no Phoenix to buy me time. I finally get to a mission, he stops me and throws a Gomtuu. He attempts a mission; I kill some but I know he'll finish the 40 pointer next turn. I attempt again next turn with the same people; he throws another damage marker on me and I'm stopped BUT there are dilemmas under. I know what's coming: he doesn't. He drops his 7 counters, he flies over (6 range) with his Ent-B and announces he's blowing me up. I pull up Mediate Peace Treaty, show him the text. He's crushed, and he's lost a turn. I drop a ship next turn, swap ships, finish the mission (fun note, I couldn't do the mission and he could only draw one: he threw Secret Identity, exactly what I wanted him to throw. I pull NA Weyoun and burn the mission). He finishes his mission and stops the B for 10 points putting him at 50, but we both know it's almost over. I head to Access Contamination, he throws Intimidation (automatically overcome) and then throws Shared Hallucination, giving me a choice: ditch my entire, 14 card hand to get the mission, or get stopped. I pitch 14 cards, take the mission. But now I'm out of tricks. I head over to ALC, attempt. He stops me with a few dilemmas, specifically 3. He heads to his planet; I kill a number of people but he's got enough ships out he can throw people down and finish his mission next turn: he's got 6 dilemmas under Sha-Ka-Ree, Ent-J on the table and I get one more turn. Very well. I drop some people, he gets 3 to draw/ spend. I don't have enough cards in my hand for Karina, and he knows it (he's got 5, I've got 3). He pulls Discommendation; no Klingons, but he gets a stop. Out of the 6, one was Setek. Yes! Setek! Whose text allows me to unstop him! He pulls for Discommendation, he pulls Setek. I choose Setek, I ditch an event, I've got 37 cunning and the skills. FW: 100-50. Closing Thoughts My TOS Battle variant was a product of a discussion that started on the forums between me and TK and several other players, all of whom were very helpful. I am continuing to learn and I'll try to figure out what I did to slow this down and fix it, without resorting to net-decking. Assuming I can do that, this will be a go-to deck for me to pull out whenever people have forgotten about it.