Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) Tournament Report - 2E 2013-10-26 - 12:00 PM TOS with Destructi-Khan dilemmas Introduction This deck's sole purpose is to play in the Unnatural Selection Khan "To Rule in Hell" release event tournament. The dilemmas are selected to stop the NA away teams that I expect at the tournament. Round 1 Eric R FW (+65) Eric was playing the Ceti Alpha V Genetically Enhanced deck. Right off the bat I felt guilty for playing this deck. Having a good idea what your opponent will be playing is a big advantage. I was able to get The Clown Go Away on his mission early and it slowed him down a lot. Plus, I had several Sabatoged Transporters on the table and he had to wait until his event destruction took them out before he could really get going on his mission. By then, it was too late. I was able to do my missions without too much effort, doing two space and one planet, to try to keep his dilemma options restricted. I was hoping he would be stacking his dilemma pile against planet mission attempts and I can't say if he did or not, but I was able to do my missions without too much death and destruction. So I had a rare win against Eric, but I didn't really feel good about it because it really wasn't a fair fight. Full win, 100-35. Round 2 Geoffery Peterson FL (-70) Geoffery was the only player other than myself, not playing the rule in hell deck. His was a pretty nifty Bajorn mission solver with loads of bonus attributes for his personnel. He was able to solve his first two missions with only two people. Pretty cool. My dilemma pile didn't help me much with his deck design and he went on to win very easily. It didn't help that I made a serious mistake and gave him his second mission without stopping anyone. Full loss, 30-100. Round 3 Joseph Bazemore FW (+100) Playing against Joe, I felt guilty again. My dilemma pile kept him from solving Ceti Alpha V and my guys kept plugging away at my normal missions. Joe did stop me a lot, only letting me overcome one dilemma on most of my mission attempts. Gotta give credit there, the dilemmas he used were pretty good. It just wasn't fair that I had The Seen and the Unseen, The Clown Go Away, Quarren Labor Shortage and several other dilemmas that just kill a NA deck. Full win, 100-0. Closing Thoughts I don't collect cards so I had no real interest in winning the Khan foil. With that in mind, I decided to just have some fun (but still feeling like I cheated) with the knowledge that most of the players would have a predictable deck. It's amazing how good a dilemma pile you can make when you pretty much know what your opponent will have. Like I said, not really fair. I know the intent of the release event was "To Rule in Hell", but everyone there said it was too difficult of a format to win with. Everyone had similar dilemma piles to mine, they just didn't work as well against Geoffery and me. I don't think it is a coincidence that the top two of seven decks in this event were not To Rule in Hell decks, and the bottom five all were. I doubt we'll be seeing a lot of this particular NA deck design any time soon.