Nicholas Yankovec (nickyank) |
Tournament Report - 2E - Omarion Nebula Regional |
2013-04-07 - 10:30 AM |
Regional Commodities |
Introduction |
My first Regional of the year, I was still undecided exactly what to play until about 2 minutes from the tournament starting. I was very incertain about this deck, it performed quite well a couple of weeks ago, but had since rebuilt it, adding in more Vorta and Hollow Pleasantries. I kept with the Legacy dilemma pile; everyone in London seems to be running Unfair Comparisson, so I intentionally wanted to avoid that. |
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Round 1 | | Unjustly Banned | FW (+95)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
My first game of the day, and the one I was most worried about. A TNG Loaded for Bear deck, full of weenies and running Field Studies for dilemma bypassing. Not sure why I was worried, though - James' deck was far too big and bloated to get going, despite having Ent-D in his opening hand and receiving a lot of free card draws from Hollow Pleasantries. I also question the wisdom in stopping 6 personnel to score 5 points, using Field Studies, and having one dilemma go under (the average), whereas James may have got more if he had just attempted with a larger team...
Highlight of the match: Unfair Comparisson pile losing out on cost to a Legacy pile, amazeballs! Winning 100-5 was the other highlight!!!! |
Nick was playing his Dominion Commodity deck. Its a little slow to get going, but becomes a beast when almost everyone in the deck is cunning 9 or 10. He paired the deck with a Legacy dilemma pile.
I was disappointed to win the dice roll to go first (no Historical Research download for me.) My deck made up for it though, by giving me the Enterprise-D and a weenie for my opening turn. After that, my deck just took a dump all over me. I couldn't draw into any cheap personnel, and was stuck in first gear. I managed to score a few points, burning them with an At What Cost? and two copies of Field Studies (earning me three overcome dilemmas at my space mission). Sadly, my dilemma pile had noticed how much trouble my deck was giving me and decided to join in. Nick made four mission attempts at three missions and I only managed to stop one of them. I had an Unfair Comparison fail, and two instances of not drawing enough playable dilemmas on the first attempt. The game was over in 22 minutes - before I'd made a single mission attempt of my own.
FL: 5-100 |
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Round 2 | | William Hoskin | FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
DS9 Earth... I lost 100-0. A well played Desperate Sacrifice along with some excellent dilemma plays, and trouble drawing into a ship, delayed me enough to enable Will to take the Full Win, without me ever completing a mission.
I wonder if it's worth putting in a Christening to help get a ship, and some Event prevention is needed, but not sure if I want to start adding Jemmies and Our Deaths, when it may slow the deck down. It's not quick to set up as it is. |
The key to this game was me gettign a desperate sacrifice after Nick had 8/9 events out. This seciously hampered both the offensive nature of the commodity deck and the defensive natire of the dilemma support allowing me to blow up 3 ships in consecutive turns to power through Nicks dilemmas including a Legacy that hit 3 skill dilemmas. If it had not been for the desperate sacrifice I think Nick would have been close/would have beaten me. |
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Round 3 | | Doug Hughes | FW (+70) |
Doug was playing my other Dominion deck, an Alpha deck using the Subek'somec (sp?), Crom and Strength missions, with Astro and Navigation, something the Alpha's have in abundance. It's fairly fast, and can muscle it's way through missions. It was a close game, but with my knowledge of the deck and dilemma pile it's not surprising I pulled off a Full Win. |
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Round 4 | | Daniel Giddings | FW (+35) |
Danny's infamous Bajoran deck. With a baby due any time now, this will be Danny's last tournament for a while. This was a very close game, next turn Danny would have won the game, I'm sure. It involved lots of my personnel dying to Whispers (2 successful hits) and Bajoran Resistance combat against my poor little Vorta... fun game, although this mix and match Bajoran deck still confuses me... |
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Round 5 | | Bye | BY (0) |
Had the Bye (it was a Round Robin tournament) and watched Doug and James' match. |
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Closing Thoughts |
I was very surprised, I was hoping to win 2 of the 4 games, was pleased to get 3 Full Wins.
Vorta Commodities is now very viable, and having played it several times I need to work on some the weaknesses; especially with the Danish Nationals and Regionals taking place in a few weeks! |
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