Johannes Klarhauser (Kaiser) Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event 2013-02-08 - 12:00 AM Professor Kotrapali's Devastating Deckout Device Introduction This format is a mess, but great fun. Mission attempts are brutal with all the evil dilemmas in theree. Round 1 Daniel Matteson FW (+20) I quickly set up Kotra, then used Josephs 3 or 4 times to bring our decks down. Daniel attempted first, but he lost several personnel to my dilemmas and got his Qo'noS blocked by Instigate Dissension. As I was ahead in points when he got close to completing a mission, I did the dirty thing and drew cards to deck as both out. FW, 20-0. Round 2 Michael Van Breemen FW (+15)View opponent's ReportView original Report MVB playes cheap Rommies and Bajorans coupled with his infamous dilemma pile. I lost quite some personnel to kill dilemmas, and I actually had to complete a mission (no easy work), as he went ahead by doing Rescue Prisoners. He played a slim deck, though, so Josephs worked really well here. Also, I drew into Neural Parasites on consecutive turns, so in the end we had to play out 10 turn or so just replenishing my deck via SNW in order to get enough uses out of Dukat so Michael could not use Back to Basics to get mission skills back. With him locked out, I completed a mission and went for the double deckout. FW, 45-30. Completely forgot about Josephs in this format and Kotra is just money with Josephs. I managed to get a mission in but couldn't get too (didn't have way to get people back.) Round 3 William Hoskin FW (+60) Will played Romulans with P+P and Donatra, with a Bajoran side to get personnel back. His three biggest assets in this game were Transport Crash Survivor, which eliminated my deck-replenishing, 3 copies of Dukat (one of them early, so I couldn't afford to discard too much), and lots of core events to fuel the 8-cost dilemmas. I killed lots of guys with 2x Unbelievable Emergency, 2x Neural Parasites, Dal'rok, SI, etc, always trying to go after mission skills. Will removed all my Dal'roks, Instigates and Dreamers with Patience Has Limits over the course of the game, but it was stil slow going. I captured some mission skills with Odo, killed Dukat once with Toran, and Ptol on the next turn, but I lost lots of guys on my own mission attempts. When will was just about to complete his planet next turn (he would have taken the lead then with planet/space to my two planets), and as we were down to 2 and 5 cards in our decks, he could have gone for the double deckout win himself. However, my desperate attempt at Investigate Destruction with none under miraculously worked - Will's Unfair Comparison fizzled, as did the Dal'rok that followed, and the three kills to the Tsiolkovsky Infection didn't matter. Great game! FW, 100-40. Closing Thoughts A really interesting format. In a way it's very predictable (dilemmas!), so the ways that players used to deal with this were all the more unpredictable. Good stuff.