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Equinox Think Tank

by Stephen P

A fully NA deck designed to solve missions and have a lot of redundancy built in so you can get your best personnel killed and still power on through dilemmas.

Tournament Record:

Limited - Online Event (Mission to Talos IV) (2020-09-04): 1st place (Tournament Report)

The following cards in this deck have received errata since it was last played in a tournament:

Seven of Nine (2023-05-01) - Lore updated ("U.S.S. Voyager").

Decklist

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This deck is legal in the following Card Pools:

Complete
Traditional

This deck is legal in the following Rules Sets:

Modern
Open
X-list
Revised
Warp Speed

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

Mission (6)
Mission
82 U	1x Assist Cooperative
83 C	2x ❖ Catalog Phenomena
89 U	1x Inversion Mystery
92 U	1x Liberation
96 U	1x Research Phage

Seed Deck (30)
Dilemma
1 R	1x Ankari "Spirits"
6 S	1x Common Thief
11 R	2x Hanonian Land Eel
13 R	2x Hull Breach
2 U	1x Impressive Trophies
3 U	1x Invasive Procedures
15 C	2x Kazon Bomb
16 U	2x Komar Possession
12 V	1x Lack of Preparation
6 U	1x Sabotaged Negotiations
23 C	2x Spatial Rift
25 R	1x The Cloud
7 U	1x The Clown: Beneath the Mask
8 R	1x The Clown: My Festival
9 R	1x The Weak Will Perish
27 C	1x Trabe Grenade
29 R	2x Volcanic Eruption
Event
46 R	1x Ancestral Vision
Facility
	Non-Aligned
56 S	1x ❖ Nekrit Supply Depot
Incident
59 R	1x Caretaker's Array
63 C	1x Home Away From Home
67 R	1x War Council
Objective
107 C	1x Assign Mission Specialists
Ship
	Non-Aligned/Federation
192 R	1x U.S.S. Equinox

Draw Deck (60)
Equipment
42 S	1x Starfleet Type II Phaser
Event
22 C	1x Quantum Slipstream Drive
Incident
62 U	5x Handshake
67 R	4x War Council
Interrupt
73 C	2x Nanoprobe Resuscitation
75 U	1x The Gift
Personnel
	Non-Aligned
161 R	1x Arturis
162 R	1x Dr. Ma'Bor Jetrel
103 R	1x Fennim
165 R	2x Kurros
107 U	2x Mabus
169 C	1x ❖ Paxim
170 R	2x Penk
115 R	1x Sullin
172 R	1x Tanis
116 U	1x The Artificial Intelligence
173 UR	1x The Pendari Champion
	Non-Aligned/Federation
114 C	2x ❖ Ayala
115 R	2x B'Elanna Torres
117 R	3x Chakotay
118 U	1x Chell
70 R+	1x Equinox Doctor
104 R+	2x Icheb
164 R	1x Kes
123 R	1x Lon Suder
124 C	1x ❖ Mariah Henley
125 U	2x Marla Gilmore
126 R	1x Maxwell Burke
167 R	2x Neelix
114 R+	1x Riley Frazier
131 R	1x Rudolph Ransom
171 R	2x Seven of Nine
135 C	2x ❖ Thompson
	Non-Aligned/Hirogen
80 R+	1x Hajur
	Non-Aligned/Romulan
111 R+	2x Orum
Ship
	Non-Aligned
130 R	2x The Think Tank's Ship
	Non-Aligned/Federation
131 R+	1x U.S.S. Dauntless
192 R	1x U.S.S. Equinox

"Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads (2)
Personnel
	Non-Aligned/Federation
68 C	1x ❖ Angelo Tassoni
114 C	1x ❖ Ayala

Draw Deck Strategy

Try to get the Equinox staffed on turn 1 so you can fly it to the safety of the output as early as possible.
Then focus on getting 4 treachery in 1 spot to get cards with War Council. Bonus if you draw into one of the 3x Chakotays to get an extra card with Ancestral Vision.

Dilemmas
Total Dilemmas		23
[P]		6 (26%)
[S/P]		12 (52%)
[S]		5 (22%)

Draw Deck
Total Draw Deck		60
Equipment		1 (2%)
Event		1 (2%)
Incident		9 (15%)
Interrupt		3 (5%)
Personnel		42 (70%)
Ship		4 (7%)

Seed Deck
Total Seed Deck		30
Dilemma		23 (77%)
Event		1 (3%)
Facility		1 (3%)
Incident		3 (10%)
Objective		1 (3%)
Ship		1 (3%)

"Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads
Total "Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads		2
Personnel		2 (100%)

Skill	On # Missions	Skill Dots	Classifications	Total
Acquisition		4		4
Anthropology		14		14
Archaeology		6		6
Astrophysics	2	8		8
Biology		8		8
CIVILIAN			11	11
Computer Skill	2	21		21
Cybernetics		4		4
Diplomacy	1	11		11
Empathy		3		3
ENGINEER	2	8	9	17
Exobiology	1	11		11
Geology		8		8
Greed		2		2
Honor		5		5
Law				0
Leadership		10		10
MEDICAL	1	7	1	8
Music		2		2
Navigation		7		7
OFFICER			7	7
Physics	1	12		12
SCIENCE	3	8	9	17
SECURITY	1	5	3	8
Smuggling				0
Stellar Cartography	1	7		7
Transporter Skill	1	5		5
Treachery		21		21
V.I.P.			2	2
Youth		2		2
Rare Skills
Barbering
Cantankerousness
Guramba
Mindmeld
Miracle Worker
Orion Syndicate
Resistance
Intelligence Skills
FCA
Intelligence
Klingon Intelligence
Memory Omega
Obsidian Order
Section 31
Tal Shiar
V'Shar
any Intelligence

Traits
Card group
Capturing-related card		1
Tsunkatse-related card		4
Dilemma group
MEDICAL-related dilemma		2
SCIENCE-related dilemma		2
Species 8472-related dilemma		1
Equipment group
hand weapon		1
phaser		1
Mission region
Nekrit Expanse Region		3
Mission trait
Nebula		1
Personnel gender
Female		10
Male		31
Neuter		1
Personnel group
Think Tank-related personnel		5
U.S.S. Equinox-related personnel		7
Personnel trait
Ambassador		2
Captain		1
Cook		2
Governor		2
Mission Specialist		2
Support Personnel		1
Ship equipment
Cloaking Device		2
Holodeck		5
Tractor Beam		4
Ship trait
Alpha Quadrant-related [DQ] ship		2
Federation ship		3

Icons
Faction
		10
Quadrant
		48
Special
		1
		1
Staffing
		18
		5
		2
		4
		21