TK - Gangster Boogie

by Thomas Kamiura

Tournament Record:

• Constructed - Regional (2014-05-17): 1st place (Tournament Report)
• Constructed - Online Event (2014-07-21): 1st place (Tournament Report)

This deck is currently eligible for the following family or families of achievements:

• Original Series Player
• Good Casting: Combs (Shran)

Decklist

Draw Deck Strategy

TOS, as most would agree, have a lot of built in answers to things in the current meta, but what a lot of people overlook is their access to cheap ships and their ability for dilemma recursion. I chose to abuse that while having the discipline to maintain a tight deck size and cut out

Using this build by turn three, you should have 2 ships staffed with leadership on each, two battle cards, and atleast one Unexpected Diffulcties out. I did this in every game and was prepared to pounce once my opponent came out. The idea is that if they go space first, you tag them with a Gomtuu Shock Wave and a Dreamer And The Dream, drop your two battle cards the following turn and take the ship. I would generally then play a McCoy at cost +3 to pull two dilemmas back, then either bounce McCoy with Pavel Chekov or by having him attempt Survey New World by himself. Shuffle the dilemma pile with Alvera Tree Ritual. Rinse. Repeat. If they go planet first, I would throw a Necessary Execution and a Dreamer And The Dream, to remove mission skills and Diplomacy then make them discard their hand. I would pull the dilemmas back with McCoy and then bounce him. Shuffle the dilemma pile with Alvera Tree Ritual. Rinse. Repeat.

Dreamer And The Dream is quite vicious in a ship destruction deck because discarding ships and removing them from the game using Dukat is more efficient than having to destroy them.

The deck contains other tricks, but I won’t go into detail concerning those. It’s a fun deck to play, expecially when it’s a surprise to the opponent and you see the look on their face when you take their first ship with 9 personnel on it. You have to prepare for this deck when you build your deck or it’s tough to overcome. You sit down against this build with only three ships in your deck? It’s tough. You bring with you only 3 people with Diplomacy against this build? It’s tough. No Metreon Arena? Its worse.

This deck has caused a lot of rage quits. Most notably from former Continental Champs and other top ranked players.

Dilemma Deck Total Dilemmas 29 Space 6 (21%) Cost 1 1 Cost 2 2 Cost 3 3 Planet 5 (17%) Cost 1 1 Cost 3 1 Cost 5 3 Dual 18 (62%) Cost 0 2 Cost 1 4 Cost 2 9 Cost 4 2 Cost 5 1 Total Dilemma Deck cost 68

Draw Deck Total Draw Deck 46 Event 15 (33%) Cost 0 4 Cost 1 1 Cost 2 7 Cost 3 1 Cost 4 2 Interrupt 1 (2%) Personnel 24 (52%) Cost 0 1 Cost 1 6 Cost 2 15 Cost 3 1 Cost 4 1 Ship 6 (13%) Cost 3 4 Cost 4 1 Cost 5 1 Total Draw Deck cost 90

Skills Count Skill # Missions # Personnel 1x 2x 3x Total Acquisition 0 1 1 Anthropology 2 4 4 Archaeology 1 4 4 Astrometrics 0 8 8 Biology 1 3 3 Diplomacy 0 4 4 Engineer 2 6 6 Exobiology 0 3 3 Geology 1 1 1 Honor 1 3 1 4 Intelligence 1 2 2 Law 0 1 1 Leadership 2 9 9 Medical 0 2 1 3 Navigation 2 6 6 Officer 2 11 11 Physics 0 2 1 3 Programming 1 3 3 Science 2 4 4 Security 4 7 7 Telepathy 0 0 Transporters 0 7 7 Treachery 0 3 3 6 Icons Count Icon # Personnel % Personnel Staffing Icons Command Star 13 54.17 % Staff Star 11 45.83 % Faction Icons Deep Space Nine 3 12.50 % Earth 2 8.33 % Original Series 17 70.83 % Temporal Icons Past 19 79.17 % Keyword Count Keyword # Cards Admiral 1 Cloaking Device 1 Commander: I.K.S. Qel'Poh 1 Commander: Kumari 1 Commander: U.S.S. Constellation 1 Commander: U.S.S. Enterprise 1 Commander: U.S.S. Enterprise-B 1 Commander: U.S.S. Exeter 1 Maneuver 7 Region: Bajor System 1 Region: Sector 001 1 Ritual 1