Nicholas Yankovec (nickyank) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Omarion Nebula Regional 2012-04-15 - 10:30 AM DS9 Commodities Introduction And so begins a story of woe... not one to give up on a deck I like, I've been struggling to get a Commodity deck to work. Once everything is up and running, then the personnel are potentially attribute horses, but it's very open to event discards. So my solution - dual HQ deck, using DS9 Dax Problem Solver and Transporter Buffer to protect and/or retrieve my events. Plus, I then get to throw in a couple of Acquisition Ferengi (Quark and Nog) to help with missions and boost the Karemma Freighter to 9 Range. Despite finishing 7th out of 8 players, the deck worked well. The problems were the dilemma pile and the player! Round 1 Daniel Giddings FW (+25)View opponent's ReportView original Report My first game was against Danny and his Cardasians. I've played so many decks against Cardies, that I knew them pretty well. Danny did well in this tournament, but he had the same problem as me, a poor dilemma pile. Neither of us could stop the other at missions, although the inclusion of Swahbuckler did manage to stop him once, with An Issue of Trust. Danny was slow starting due to lack of a ship, plus I went first, which gave me the Full Win. Confidence boosted about this deck, I played my 2nd round... I’d seen Nick makes comments regarding the reliability and viability of a Dominion Commodities deck (and how it wasn’t reliable or viable enough to take to Regionals), so I was surprised when DS9, the Founder HQ and a bunch of Acquisition mission hit the table. I was able to play events and personnel, but I couldn’t find a ship (or ship downloader) for love nor money. By the time I did get a ship and send it out, Nick had two missions under his belt (my dilemma combo of Inequitable Exchange and Broken Captive doing little to slow him down as his personnel had plenty of skills many times over). Nick had similar dilemma issues, and I managed to then complete a couple of missions, plus scored some bonus points (alas, I can’t remember whether it was through Quite a Coincidence or Prison Compound), all the while holding Nick off at his last attempt. It then came down to whoever could complete their third mission for the win. That turned out to be Nick. Full Loss: 75-100 Round 2 Doug Hughes FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report Doug had turned up with a Klingon Starter deck, as he had an excuse about not being able to finish building his Romulan deck in time. I helped him design it about *5* weeks ago, so the real excuse was laziness :p My biggest mistake of the day was lending Doug my Klingon solver, which is good. Better than my deck. And so easy to play, even Doug could play it! Yeah, Doug beat me 100-0, after beating James 100-0 in the previous round. Highlight of this game: Doug excluding his Honor personnel when I played Temptation! This man built my deck ... so should know how to beat it. :) Nope... another easy victory for me. Round 3 Peter H. Møller FL (-65) Peter was playing a Voyager deck with the chuckle brothers. It was during my game with Doug that I realised I had an unfinished dilemma pile. My Chula: Chandras were not in there, no WNOHGB, none of the good cards I needed to make it work! Apart from An Issue of Trust and Personal Duty I didn't have any heavy duty filters, and few All Stopped dilemmas. Add to this I can't actually count (twice I played overcosted dilemmas) and my deck fell apart. Second Full Loss, things were not looking good. Round 4 Unjustly Banned FL (-30)View opponent's ReportView original Report A very even game from the outset, my dilemmas proving slightly more effective against this Bajoran Resistance deck. However, I was struggling at my 2nd Space mission. My last turn - 6 dilemmas under my 2nd mission, but not enough personnel left to complete with TCS on the table. I then had the stupidest idea in the history of lamebrained moronic ideas - leave that mission till last, and go and complete my planet mission. I'd go and complete the space mission the turn after. James had 45 points from Kressari, and some dilemmas beneath his 40 point planet mission; he still had to complete a 3rd mission to win is what I thought, despite seeing Just Like Old times sitting in his core when I checked for any dilemma manipulation events there. So, I attempted the planet, double teamed, and completed with my 2nd team. I then realised he had 15 bonus points sitting in his core to come and battle me for. He completed the mission, then came over and battled for the win. The deck didn't lose, but I did. Highlight of the game: James playing Clown Guillotine, and consuming All Consuming Evil. He named a skill I needed for the mission; sensible choice except for Hanok, who made the 2 personnel lose their skills, and couldn't be targeted by ACE, and then he couldn't name that same skill for Guillotine. Ha! Nick was playing his Dominion Commodity deck. He had improved it by adding DS9 and Jadzia Dax to help save his events. I'm not sure it made much of a difference, but then I kept forgetting to blow his events up with Quinn anyway. I can't remember much about this game. I do remember that neither of played particularly well, and that Nick would have completed his third mission the turn after I battled for the win. My lowly Bajorans out-muscling his Jem'Hadar by about 40 Strength to give me the win. (more to come once Nick writes his report and reminds me what happened) FW: 100-70 Round 5 Stuart Marsh MW (+5) Stuart was playing his Walk The Line DS9 deck; a very good deck. With the Sao Paulo preventing kills, and WtL preventing stops, it's very hard to stop. Our match was a bit of a battle, and it went to time, with my winning from 5 bonus points from Survey Star System. Very close...