Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) Tournament Report - 2E 2020-08-22 - 12:00 PM A horse of a different color Introduction This deck is designed to only use Danube Class ships for the "Good Things Come in Small Packages" and multi-affiliations for the "Common Cause" achievements. Round 1 Eric R FW (+50) Eric and I usually have pretty good games and this was another one. He was playing a Borg Dissident deck so he had to wait for me to leave my HQ before he could start doing his free Dissident string of card plays. I got lucky on my first mission attempt and solved in one try. With only 3 range on my ship I was somewhat limited on how many people I could put on the ship without losing too much range. My second mission attempt took two tries I think and by now Eric was playing tons of Borg dissidents using the Sphere 117 that makes Drones into Dissidents. I held him off for a couple of tries at his first mission but not too long. While I was working on my third mission, Eric started his second. His deck is designed to be a two-mission win deck, so it was still anybody's game. Luckily, I drew an Intimidation to stop him on his planet mission and I was able to solve my last mission for the full win, 100 - 50. Round 2 Martin Drake FW (+25) Martin played a Temporal Future Fed deck and did really well with it. It was actually my most difficult game of the three I played. He was able to stop me fairly consistently and I only did slightly better against him. I don't remember too many specific details, but we both just kept attempting our missions without too much interference from the other. I was able to complete my third mission before he was, but it was really close. Full win, 100-75. Round 3 CJ Ash MW (+65) CJ was playing a very interactive Romulan disruption deck. You will have to check out his deck list to see all the things he had going, and they were pretty much all in play by the end of the game. I kept plugging away, taking lots of personnel loss, loss of cards from hand, and loss of cards from deck. But I have a lot of personnel in this deck so I was able to weather the storm to continue through it all to get a 70 - 5 mod win. CJ's points came off a Prejudice and Politics event draw. I think I was able to survive because of all the moving parts CJ's deck had. He didn't remember to use everything at all the right opportunities. But, that can happen when you have a lot going on. It was a good game none-the-less. Closing Thoughts To be honest, with this deck I just wanted a couple of new achievements. I didn't plan for it to actually work as well as it did. But, sometimes things work out just right. Today was one of those times.