Rick Kinney (T-Ricks) Tournament Report - 2E 2014-01-18 - 12:00 PM Khan game Introduction This was my attempt to do a Khan To Rule in Hell deck. It is a straight mission solver with little to no interaction with my opponent. Round 1 Joseph Bazemore ML (-1) Joe played Klingon and I was a little worried about Kruge. I was running a Caretaker's Array with Voyager and the Equinox and had he Kruged me, it would have been a disaster. As it was he still came over and did battle to kill several of my peeps. I ran out of time before solving all four missions and Joe got the modified win, even though I had more points. He had a planet and space mission completed. Just another reason not to play the Khan deck, IMO. So, modified loss (me 95 - Joe 50). Round 2 Ted Reebel FW (+55) Ted was playing a Terok Nor Ruling Council deck. He got off to a slow start and didn't get a lot of people into the game until I had one mission done and was working on my second. We took turns facing dilemmas with me completing all four of my missions and with him just a turn away from winning with his Kressari Rendevous, equipment and Ruling Councils. Ted didn't interact with me so I only had to worry about dilemmas and managed the full win, 130 - 45. Round 3 Sean O'Reilly ML (-1) Sean had a crippling Romulan Dissident discard deck. He made all three of his opponents deck out during his games. I was able to finish three missions, even with about three fourths of my personnel in the discard pile. I even had dilemmas under the fourth mission, but again, not enough time. Sean too got a modified win because he completed a planet and a space mission. So another dissapointing defeat and another dose of punishment for playing Khan. Result: modified loss (me 95, Sean 85). Closing Thoughts I figured people would be over the Khan deck so I decided to give it a try. I wanted the achievement mostly and didn't really expect to win. I did better than I thought I would and just feel bad that the space/planet rule makes it hard to compete with the To Rule in Hell deck design intent. UPDATE: Turns out there isn't even an achievement for playing this deck design. If I try it again, I'll use higher point planet missions and do Caretaker's Array so I can at least have a shot at a modified win. UPDATED UPDATE: I was wrong, there is an achievement - Unnatural Selection, but it requires all planet missions. I used Caretaker's Array so the deck didn't qualify. Oops, my bad.