Edward Pigman (jindrak) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2012-08-26 - 12:00 PM Introduction 3rd times the charm eh? After playing a copy of someone elses k'mtar deck, and trying out a past/riker/sword deck, I started from scratch (as much as one can) and built a high council deck from the ground up. I have my own personal guidelines for skill matrices and card count, so I figured I would be more comfortable crunching the numbers personally. Worked pretty well. despite play errors (lots) and some glaring holes that could easily have torpedoed me, I did good. Already made some tweaks, and dont have the deck in the builder yet, will submit it when i get a chance. Round 1 Brian Leonard FW (+100)View opponent's ReportView original Report This was the first game where a glaring error almost locked me out of winning completely. Brian stopped me a bunch of times at my main space mission, then dropped biogenic on it. event destruction in this deck? nope.avi. so I had to try my other space mission. It required astro. I had 1 astro in my whole deck :P If brian had been able to zap that person, it would have gone downhill pretty fast. I should have been paying more attention to his skills. It didn't matter as his dilemma pile locked me out. Round 2 Al Schaefer FW (+35)View opponent's ReportView original Report This game started out fast on both sides. Al had quintessence and fourth in his opening hand, so got AWC and quint'ed for annex drone and got out of the blocks pretty quick. like he said in his report, I covered the table with events so was able to play the 8-costers and the 6-cost reduced by 40pt missions and stop him a bunch. He was pretty much forced to 2 of 9 my no win situation over and over which let me keep my manheims, unexpecteds and hinderance on the table. I made some pretty boffo errors mid/late game, and may have took a dive if he wasnt missing some cards. I rarely win against Al, so I'll take this one gladly. Ed was playing a solid Guidance of the Council Klingon deck. I thought this would be an even match, but no Tea Ceremony on either side really gave Ed the advantage. He vomited events onto the table faster than I could keep up with. I was torn between destroying Hindrance and No Win Situation, and I even now I don't know which would have been better. I went with No Win, but leaving Hindrance on the table allowed him to play K'mtar 3 times which allowed him to download and play more No Wins. Next time I'm going for Hindrance. Ed got out to a hot start and while I was slightly slower than my game with Corbin, I was holding my own. I threw myself for a loop in this game, thinking that I had at least two copies of Third and Secret Identity in my dilemma pile, I really got derailed when I couldn't find the cards I thought were in my deck. To make a long story short, Ed was able to Manheim effect Intimidation a couple times and stopped me without really breaking a sweat. I almost had a chance to come back, but he had so many events in play and without SI to get rid of Klag, I really didn't have a prayer. Congrats to Ed. Round 3 Jason Beyer FW (+80) Jason was racking up kills and was 2-0 at this point, but it seems my setup was enough to put a kink in that. he had no event destruction except for papa decker (who he played early) and reliant, which needed a complete mission to use. this let me plop 3 no win situations on him and keep them for most of the game. also he went crazy late game and started tossing around AWC and field studies just to flip me the bird. good for him! Closing Thoughts This went well. critical errors were covered by the strength of the affiliation and a slight lack of event destruction this go around. I like the deck and even tho its been done to death, I may try to tune and practice with this as a go-to for a strong deck.