Edward Pigman (jindrak) Tournament Report - 2E - Deep Space 9 Regional 2014-04-05 - 10:00 AM Might solve a mystery..or rewrite history..DUCK TALES! OOH-WOO-OOH! Introduction I dug out good ol' Relativity for the regional because despite my success with new Bajor, this deck is far more polished and I have plenty of games under my belt with it. It worked out fine, but as some games ground on, I really regret playing Aid Lost Colony in favor of something easier to finish. The ability to play Well Prepared Defense didnt make up for having to churn through that mission. Round 1 Al Schaefer FL (-40)View opponent's ReportView original Report This is one I was sure was in the bag. I got off to a great start with cheaper personnel and a ship than Al had. I also managed to stave off his attempts with less dilemma plays. A poor dilemma choice at his second mission, and having to brutally slog through the aforementioned Aid Lost Colony let him cap off Survey New World faster than I could keep up with. The crowning moment was having to face Personal Duty at my own planet mission. Al earned plenty of bad karma for that one. Ed was rolling Relativity and used OT-Kirk early on to force me to stack more dilemmas than I would have liked. He got out to an early 2-mission lead and I was struggling to finish my first space mission. Greasy Dukat didn't show up until late, so Ed had free reign over his lost pile. Ed nearly won, but a clutch Repressed Message forced him to face his own Personal Duty at his final planet mission and I got another turn to finish my first planet mission and take my second in one attempt. Very close game... Round 2 John Paul Veasey FW (+100) This was a pretty fun game. I didnt expect to see anything aside from a very small assimilator for Borg since Quintessence got the axe, so was pleased to see dissendents show up- I played it in 2013s DS9 regional. Unfortunately for John, my dilemma pile contains plenty of holdover tech from when Borg were far more common so I was able to keep him from completing with minimal cards ending up overcome. Round 3 Maggie Geppert FW (+60) Maggie was running DSEarth cadets which can be just as fast as Relativity, and sure enough she got a good draw with lots of cadets and a cheap ship right off the bat. Fortunately, like with Borg, I stocked a lot of tools against Fed since it never huts to tech against blue. This and some lucky random selections- stopped cadets- let me finish up comfortably. Round 4 Amber Van Breemen MW (-15) Mirror match go! Amber was running a pretty different flavor of the deck with Dyson Sphere and the card types to fuel it. I skipped equipment and interrupts altogether so was at a disadvantage due to her being able to grav-trap my events, but I had more mission points on the table so won the Well Prepared Defense battle. Really back and forth until time was called. I was under the impression that I lost since she had me on points, but it turns out planet+space trumps points, so yay me! Closing Thoughts Fun deck, but time to move on to other things. The good thing is it gets fuel every time a new blue personnel gets released, so down the road it will be good to revisit.