Edward Pigman (jindrak) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-07-08 - 12:00 AM Introduction Something borrowed, something...Red? I have been busy like a bee lately and along with a printing mishap was unable to get anything together aside from my regional ROM deck, which would have been kinda lame to play in a local. I asked Al to build a copy of Hosp's regional KLI deck to test against, and I borrowed it for the tournament. I figured my inexperience with them would de-fang the deck well enough. Round 1 Maggie Geppert FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report Case in point. Maggie took me down pretty bad since I mishandled the deck so badly. Not to take anything away from her play or her deck, but the comfort levels on each side of the table were 100% different. Ed was playing a borrowed Klingon High Council deck. Apparently he can't ever recall playing Klingon before. Got a lot of downloading in, but I was able to stop him quite a bit with my TT stop pile. I even managed to pull of the cost reduction on Pitching In quite a way. Got a full win when he conceded. Round 2 Michael Moskop FW (+80)View opponent's ReportView original Report This was more of an even match- Mike had never really played DOM and really hadnt dealt with their weaknesses first hand- suseptibility to certain dilemmas, best practice staffing reqs ect. I also got a decent draw and had at least one game under my belt, so this one went better. Ed was able to Kruge my Defiant and I just couldn't come back from it. This game was a real learning experience of the myriad flaws of the Dominion. The funny thing is that Ed borrowed the deck from Al, and Al and I played another game after the tournament while we were watching wrestling. Of course, it is my luck that everything in my deck clicked AFTER THE TOURNAMENT and I was able to win 100-0 even after being wiped out by a combo of Formal Hearing, Sylvia, and Whispers in the Dark all in one mission attempt. Round 3 Michael Van Breemen MW (+5)View opponent's ReportView original Report This was a squeeker. I was playing better, and the deck was drawing better, so MVB and I were going tit for tat. basically, it just came down to time and he would have won on the next turn. A study of playing the wrong person instead - Not playing Bashir before going into space = losing three to Tsikovsky and then getting four captured by Kruge. Played second Number 1 (first one died to Tsikovsky) to get back three of them. Got nailed at planet, hitting Unfair Terms twice and losing two people each time. Still would have gotten through if we had another two minutes or so.