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Better Call MACO

by Maggie Geppert

Tournament Record:

Limited - Online Event (2022-04-25): 8th place

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

Defend Homeworld (2022-08-01) - Nerf. Removed [Referee] icon. Added "voluntarily" to prevent combo with Chula: The Way Home & The Issue Is Patriotism.

Decklist

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This deck is legal in the following Card Pools:

Complete

This deck is legal in the following Rules Sets:

Modern
Open
Warp Speed

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

Mission (6)
Mission
37 V	1x Avert Solar Implosion
R	1x Fissure Research
R	1x Investigate Disappearance
22 V	1x Study Rare Phenomenon
40 V	1x Survival Training
49 V	1x Visit Tranquil Colony

Seed Deck (30)
Dilemma
1 R	1x Ankari "Spirits"
5 V	1x Dead End
12 S	2x Hazardous Duty
3 V	2x M-113 Creature
174 VP	1x Medical Crisis
7 V	1x Misinterpreted History
R	2x Q
1 V	2x Q: A Dazzling Flash
2 V	2x Q: Enter the Supernova
14 V	2x Rules of Obedience
125 VP	2x The Higher... The Fewer
Doorway
C	1x Alternate Universe Door
C	1x Q's Tent
C	1x Q-Flash
15 V	1x Temporal Conduit
Event
9 V	1x Finally Ready to Swim
Facility
	Starfleet
18 V	1x ❖ Starfleet Outpost
Incident
32 C	1x Crossover
25 V	1x Launch Bay
20 V	1x Protect the Timeline
Objective
C	1x Assign Mission Specialists
41 U	1x Defend Homeworld
Time Location
90 V	1x MACO Training Camp

Draw Deck (41)
Equipment
15 C	1x Ablative Armor
C	1x Plasmadyne Relay
12 C	1x Transport Inhibitor
Event
18 V	1x Combat-Ready: Tense Situation
19 V	2x Decontamination
11 V	1x Security Drills
13 V	1x Stone Knives and Bearskins
Incident
20 V	1x UFP: One Small Step
Interrupt
28 V	1x Combat-Ready: Jury-Rig
29 V	1x Combat-Ready: Tactical Reserve
8 V	2x Khan!
Objective
41 V	1x Explore New World
Personnel
	Neutral
63 V	1x Osmotic Eel
	Starfleet
68 V	2x ❖ Amanda Cole
45 P	1x Charles Tucker III
43 V	1x ❖ Corporal Scott
70 V	1x Fiona McKenzie
71 V	1x Hideaki Chang
44 V	1x Hoshi Sato (Straight and Steady)
72 V	1x Jeremiah Hayes
73 V	1x John Frederick Paxton
51 P	1x Jonathan Archer
51 V	1x Major Reed
76 V	1x Markus Forbes
53 P	1x Maxwell Forrest
79 V	2x ❖ Nelson Kemper
80 V	1x Phlox (Broken Bow)
52 V	1x ❖ Private Brown
53 V	1x ❖ Private Palmer
81 V	2x ❖ Sascha Money
82 V	2x ❖ Sean Hawkins
55 V	2x ❖ Sergeant Moreno
55 P	1x T'Pol
Ship
	Starfleet
53 V	1x Sarajevo

Q-Tent Side Deck (13)
Equipment
8 V	1x Vulcan Tricorder
Event
17 V	1x Combat-Ready: Solidarity
20 V	1x Grappler: Shuttlepod Retrieval
21 V	1x Military Assault Command Operations
12 V	1x We're Ready
Incident
27 V	1x Sickbay: Menagerie
Interrupt
28 V	1x Combat-Ready: Jury-Rig
29 V	1x Combat-Ready: Tactical Reserve
C	1x Security Sacrifice
Personnel
	Neutral
39 V	1x Porthos
	Starfleet
47 P	1x Emory Erickson
Ship
	Starfleet
57 P	1x Enterprise
87 V	1x Shuttlepod One

Q-Flash Side Deck (14)
Q Dilemma
123 C	1x Ar-Q-ologist
U	1x Fightin' Words
U	1x His Honor, The High Sheriff of Nottingham
C	2x Mandarin Bailiff
C	1x Pla-Net
U	1x Risky Business
Q Event
6 V	1x It's a Party!
U	2x Penalty Box
Q Interrupt
9 V	1x I Will Not Promise...
C	1x Lemon-Aid
125 C	1x Quandary
C	1x Subsection Q, Paragraph 10

"Outside the Game" and/or Seed-Phase Downloads (2)
Personnel
	Starfleet
39 V	1x ❖ Dallas
54 V	1x Sergeant Mayweather

Dilemma Pile Strategy

I wanted to maximize achievements for this deck. The only dilemma achievement I didn't have yet was Q-flash. I wasn't enamored of my combos for the Trial Never Ended release event, so I looked around and found Kaiser's Thursday Night Deckbuilding deck which used Q-flash with a point loss strategy. Since I can guarantee there is only one Borg deck for this event, that seemed like a winner.

S/P: Misinterpreted History (or Rules of Obedience) - Lack of Preparation - Q: A Dazzling Flash
S/P: Hazardous Duty - Misinterpreted History (or Rules of Obedience) - Q

Dilemmas
Total Dilemmas		18
[P]		1 (6%)
[S/P]		14 (78%)
[S]		3 (17%)

Seed Deck
Total Seed Deck		30
Dilemma		18 (60%)
Doorway		4 (13%)
Event		1 (3%)
Facility		1 (3%)
Incident		3 (10%)
Objective		2 (7%)
Time Location		1 (3%)

Draw Deck
Total Draw Deck		41
Equipment		3 (7%)
Event		5 (12%)
Incident		1 (2%)
Interrupt		4 (10%)
Objective		1 (2%)
Personnel		26 (63%)
Ship		1 (2%)

Q-Flash Side Deck
Total Q-Flash Side Deck		14
Q Dilemma		7 (50%)
Q Event		3 (21%)
Q Interrupt		4 (29%)

Q-Tent Side Deck
Total Q-Tent Side Deck		13
Equipment		1 (8%)
Event		4 (31%)
Incident		1 (8%)
Interrupt		3 (23%)
Personnel		2 (15%)
Ship		2 (15%)

"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		2		2
Anthropology	2	5		5
Archaeology		3		3
Astrophysics	2	4		4
Biology		6		6
CIVILIAN				0
Computer Skill		8		8
Cybernetics				0
Diplomacy	1	5		5
Empathy				0
ENGINEER	1	6		6
Exobiology		5		5
Geology		5		5
Greed		1		1
Honor	1	4		4
Law				0
Leadership	1	9		9
MEDICAL		5	1	6
Music		1		1
Navigation	2	5		5
OFFICER	2	1	4	5
Physics	3	5		5
SCIENCE	1	3	1	4
SECURITY		1	17	18
Smuggling				0
Stellar Cartography		4		4
Transporter Skill		8		8
Treachery		3		3
V.I.P.			3	3
Youth		1		1
Rare Skills
Barbering
Cantankerousness
Guramba
Mindmeld		1		1
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		4
Dilemma group
MEDICAL-related dilemma		1
Q-related dilemma		13
Equipment group
ENGINEER-related equipment		1
SCIENCE-related equipment		1
Mission region
Sector 001 Region		1
Personnel gender
Female		9
Male		19
Personnel trait
Admiral		1
Assassin		1
Captain		1
Cook		1
Counselor		1
MACO		18
President		1
Support Personnel		3
Ship class
Shuttlecraft		1
Shuttlepod		1
Ship equipment
Tractor Beam		1
ship trait
No staffing requirement		1
Ship trait
Prototype		1
Transport		1

Icons
Era
		33
Faction
		6
Quadrant
		6
Special
		1
		4
		2
		41
		2
Staffing
		6
		18