Edward Pigman (jindrak) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-03-27 - 12:30 PM Jaresh Inyo FACE SUCKA! Introduction Played a smaller version of a DS9 earth deck with a tired old TT/clown pile. In my defense, I would have liked to play a regular stop pile, but my only 2 An Issue of Trust are already in my Cardassian capture deck :( Not much strat here; get your species, go to the prom and Kirk your way past stuff. Round 1 Casey Wickum FW (+30)View opponent's ReportView original Report Close, close game. Dissident Odo stops TT- who knew? Didnt kill a lot of guys, but stopped enough with Odos text that I was able to squeak by. Casey BTW, did not get to battle at all due to Sloans Bad A$$ :) This game was extremely close, As Bajoran Resistance dudes are pretty manageable against a Tragic Turn megadeath pile... especially with Kira Nerys, Liberator who can just cheaply grab people from the discard pile. Though I didn't have her out there, Krim helped out by nixing all of the All Consuming Evils before they could hurt, though I will keep in mind that Nixing Clown also would take the dilemma pile from a Lion to a Kitten. Still though on the last attempt for the game, with 2 to draw, Ed drew a clown and crushed my hopes of Victory. :( Round 2 Eric Bieche FW (+30) Mirror match here, just different piles and I had played the deck before whereas Eric had not had much practice with his. Eric is a solid player, so I'm gonna chalk up the fact that I had games under my belt with this deck and Eric did'nt to my win. Also USS Sao Paulo stops TT, who knew? Round 3 Al Schaefer FW (+65)View opponent's ReportView original Report I feel bad for Al that he got bad beats on his draws and had to go against my jank TT pile, but not super bad, bacause I dont think ive won a game against Al since GenCon '10, and it was a practice game in our hotel room :P I agree with his tournament report that with Legacy changed to not be a super counter to TT piles, then TT needs to be reviewed since it's just going to end up being the same old song and dance at major tourneys. Ed's sound gameplay and deck-building gave him a powerful edge in this game. I knew that my cardy's were slow and the deck would win or lose based on getting a captive early and I lost this game by far because that did not happen. Yes, I should have had Inequitable Exchange, but I didn't. There's not much to report in this game other than the fact that Ed's deck worked, and mine didn't. However, I would like to make a comment on the nature of the Tragic Turn, Clown Guillotine, and All Consuming Evil themed dilemma piles. Something should be considered to try and tone this down a little bit. Almost every game that I face this dilemma pile 5-8 personnel die on the first attempt - EVERY TIME. Forget Legacy, that card may have some 'broken' sounding abilities, but I have yet to see it happen. Legacy and cards like it, imho, should be encouraged to try and phase out the nonsense that is the TT/Clown/ACE deck. I know, tons of cards get stacked and you will get the mission on the second attempt, and there are cards/decks that can be played that will beat this dilemma pile. But it was quite frustrating that by the time I did finally draw Evek and Ensnared, I no longer had 6 cardy's on table to gain the benefit of playing these cards because I had been marauded by the same combo that's been overly popular since last GenCon. Don't get me wrong, I have this dilemma pile built and I've played it too - it's just plain good, easy, and effective. But can we move on to something else, please? Round 4 Michael Moskop FW (+60) Closer game than I had thought going into this. I helped Mike build this deck, so I knew what it could do vs. kill piles. My win here was due to 3 things: one, I consumes all of my TTs and none of my ACEs. two, Mike is still a youngster, so needs to get some games under his belt to fully get into the swing of things. Guy has a scary memory tho, so when he gets going, look out. and three, my deck is just a twinge faster than Mike's. thats really it,