Lucas Thompson (edgeofhearing) Tournament Report - 2E 2024-04-28 - 12:00 PM Biologically Indistinct (HoF) Introduction I enjoyed playing the new Borg Demo deck so much at PAX that I wanted to tweak it and play it in an event. Tweaking involved adding some more events, so I added a few more beyond that and used a (Hall of Fame) Overwhelmed pile. Round 1 Mark Rowe FW (+95) Seeing Terok Nor with a 24-card pile made me worried, but fortunately Mark wasn't using that many of the dilemma milling cards. I destaffed him when he attempted his space mission, assimilating Odo and the Founder Leader. I milled my copy of Biological Distinctiveness, but I didn't assimilate a lot of people and Mark had Alpha 5 Approach anyways so it wouldn't have helped as much. The Borg Queen's stop prevention on Odo and Founder Leader played rough with Mark's Chula pile, and I eventually solved three missions. Round 2 Chris Morse FW (+50) Morse was playing a Romulan Assassins (and general lurking) deck, so I hung out at my HQ until he made the first move, building up a crew. He eventually flew a ship out to one of my missions, which I was able to battle and destaff. I actually used Three of Nine to recycle my battle cards, eventually assimilating the whole crew of the T'Met and burying Destroy Transwarp Hub. Biological Distinctiveness got up to +5, but Morse had Alpha 5 Approach, so he managed to complete a mission before I won. Round 3 Chris O'Connell FW (+45) O'Connell was playing his TNG two-mission-win Neutral Zone deck that I didn't get to face last time - and didn't have Alpha 5 Approach! He did have McCoy, Scotty, and Kirk, but eventually they were all assimilated, captured, or dead before they were able to do too much damage. Chris held me off for a while with one or none under (the Queen didn't show up until very late), but I eventually got Biological Distinctiveness up to +6 and was able to solve >34 requirements with 3 personnel. He completed his first mission for 55 points before wave after wave of faceless microteams completed my missions. Closing Thoughts I liked this deck, and generally my opponents didn't hate it since a decent amount of my assimilation comes from the top of the deck rather than in play. (The dilemma pile, which bought the deck the time it needed, was significantly more annoying to them.)