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Matthew Hayes (karonofborg13)
Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Andoria Regional
2011-04-09 - 11:30 AM
TOSSecond Star to the Right and Straight on 'Til Morning
Introduction
10 Reasons why Kirk is better than Picard (and why I ultimately chose to run this deck over both a Borg deck and the Starfleet deck I brought with me as options)... 10. One word: Hair! 9. Kirk would personally throw Wesley off his bridge. 8. Kirk would never sing to children in a crisis. 7. Kirk wasn't shy about taking his shirt off. 6. Kirk can beat a Klingon bare-handed. 5. Three words: Flying Leg Kick. 4. Kirk doesn't let the doctor tell him what to do. 3. If Kirk finds a strange spinning probe, he blows it up. 2. Kirk never drinks tea, ever. 1. Kirk can beat a Vulcan at chess. [from the T-shirt I bought at Target the day before] [also, as I must give credit where credit is due, while our player Jody (aka joedlaw) wasn't able to make this gig, I did employ some "super sexy Jody tech" by including one Uninvited in my draw deck, along with Fesarius Bluff, Outmatched, and Temporal Misalignment in my dp---while forgetting to include Vault of Tomorrow to grab the TM, oh well, next time I suppose--- in order to lock out the 'last mission for the win' if/when my opponents got that far. It did help in a couple of the games, so, thanks, Jody.]
Round 1MaquisDaniel J. WasowiczFW (+65)View opponent's Report
Dan is the man. Regardless of his recent tourney report re: this event, he is a great guy, friendly and sociable as any I've come across. There was no vitriolic attitude or characteristic tendencies of that type I saw displayed by him at all throughout the entire day, so take his report with a grain of salt, if you will. He's also cool in that he supply run'd me a stock of 10 bottles of one of my favorite drinks, Black Cherry Stewart's Soda, that I like to mix with Jack Daniel's and have dubbed my concoction, "BlackJack Cherry Stewart's" (not too inventive I know, but, hey it works) from Wisconsin, so there are some good things (and people) that come from/reside there. (HA!) Anyhow, He Cascade Virus'd my Uhura, so no Uninvited d/l. oh well. I got Kirk to work a few good times, put a Raise the Stakes into play early (without my secret combo tech of the Reliant into play) so he got a boost that helped him get his first FTC mission completion after a couple of attempts. My low span of 2 range on Deliver Evidence, Track Survivors, and Assess Contamination helped to speed me to victory. FW 100-35. (I look forward to A.providing a rematch in early June when Dan's inaugural Wisconsin Regional takes place in River Falls --- and B.the opportunity to acquire more Black Cherry Stewart's!)
Round 2RomulanBen JohnsonFW (+25)
Ben and I are buddies, ever since we roomed with each other at Worlds/Gen Con in both '08 and '09. We've struck up a great friendship due to those events and have kept in touch often. He's the graphics/art dept. for my dc's and we've both thrown ideas back and forth for potential cards and tested games/decks online with each other. He stripped this Rommie deck down of the Wariness stuff and made it a pretty lean solver. He got ahead of me this game, 75-0 (having snagged PNZ and Iconia Investigation quite quickly). Lady luck turned in my favor, over the course of him trying to nab Investigate Massacre (the Dip, 2 Sci planet NZ mission), and I just kept killing his science peeps, the fourth (of I guess, five in the deck, at least what he claimed at game's end) being Karina who died to an Uninvited, (s)He Wasn't Nice grab, leaving him with only Spock for science. He changed course, as I forced him to, and tried to acquire victory by completing Collapse Anti-Time Anomaly, but in the second (or was it third?) attempt, kept him to Cunning of 33/34 while 37 was needed. My last turn, I scored my third mission for the FW, 100-75. Very good game, Ben. Always a good sportsman.
Round 3TOSAsita GoonewardenaFW (+65)
Asita, one of the Twin Cities Old Schoolers and with help from Jaeger's predictive article, I concluded, like Jaeger, that he'd very likely run LORE's TOS uber-Turn pile/deck card-for-card, the same that trounced us at our Regional in Fargo the week before. When the missions hit the table, it was no surprise. And I was relieved. Many of my deck choices were made to combat/survive the nastiness of this deck, and survive/thrive it did. YAY!! I Spock'd a TT in the opening turn, from his top four dilemmas. I Kirk'd every chance I got. After completing Deliver Evidence early, Tristan Adams came into play at 2 +2 to name TT, and -4, per his text due to DE requiring Anthro. Another YAY! So, no TT at Track Survivors. Nabbed that in two or three attempts, while plugging away at it, Asita did finally get IMA. We were sitting at my 70-his 35. I started on Assess Contamination, wherein he couldn't just throw a TT at me (man, I do likes me that mission!), so I got it in two or three attempts. FW 100-35. YES! [insert 'Data fist pump' here] No Tragic wrecking my day here, major victory. This was, without a doubt, my sweetest victory of the day. Awesome.
Round 4TOSMike HarringtonFL (-65)
Mike, a former World Champion, and an all-around class player. I knew this was going to be the most likely toughest match of my day (well, not knowing who I'd face in the final round, of course, but, of all the participants, knew this was probably going to be my first loss, thankfully it was my only loss!) and so knew we'd be slugging it out over the course of this game. He plopped down TOS Earth and I thought, great, another run through (after the previous match) of dueling TOS decks and was wondering if I'd see nearly all the same stuff as the earlier match? Luckily, not. His mission selection was vastly different from Kris' build, so that was a relief. (ESPN, TCS, and ? I don't recall), but, we both had Kirk OT, both had Shran, etc. He got McCoy to work once, if not twice, while my lone copy decided to be the top card of my deck when the game was won. I did get some good kills off of The Dal'rok, and He Wasn't Nice eliminated two copies of Nagata in one fell swoop, so it wasn't all bad. FL 35-100. Good game, we wished each other the best of luck in our upcoming final round, and went our separate ways.
Round 5StarfleetGreg BloomMW (+10)View opponent's Report
One of the Iowans I've not previously had the pleasure to meet, and certainly enjoyed getting to do so. His Starfleet build was eerily similar to mine, both in the versions I've run and the one I brought with me, so it was no surprise how well his deck played, or how well he played it. And he did, play it well, that is. He was leading me 80-0. He AWC?'d to bring him down to 75 and get an extra turn ahead of me, but, my dilemmas (mostly skill based to get around Archer and Legacy, primarily, with only 12 [of the 42 being non-skillers] of them hard 'meta-calls' for things like Cadets and such) held him from his third mission when time was called {I did flop him an Aftereffects that Archer laughed at, and that was my only misplay of the day, I'm quite sure}. He was first turn player, so I got my final turn, and was able to nab my Track Survivors (after three turns or so earlier completing Deliver Evidence) both with my single copy of Mission Accomplished in my core at the time, so DE was nabbed for 40, and TS for 45 (as Willard Decker and Kirk were in play, one stayed on the ship with crew) and his final dilemmas orchestrated me to having no 'above 6' att'd peeps in the completing team, so the mission gave me the 5 points. MW 85-75. Great comeback. Love those kinds of games.