Jonathan (Triumph) Tournament Report - 2E - Online Event 2014-09-08 - 12:30 AM Dejarik Hologameboard Introduction This deck's goals: play with the Children of Light, and play with a Chula pile. Both have been on my "list of cards I want to try" for a while, and finally I've got around to them. Round 1 Joel Skon FL (-35) Second game I played was against Joel. He got the FW, 100 to 65. He was playing what looked like a fairly run of the mill Super Chuckles Bros. Voyager deck. The Chuckles, the cheaters (Navaar and Security Drills), Inversion mystery to ban me from playing Chula: The Game, it was more than my dilemma pile could take. That combined with some really solid dilemma plays at my second mission kept me well behind him and enabled the Voyager peeps to seize victory. However, on my last turn, I had an awesome moment where Cluttering + Deleted enabled 5 Holograms to overcome Greater Needs (which didn't matter in the long run but was still cool). By the end, I had two missions done and two dilemmas under the third. Navaar is just stupid. Like, really stupid. This has been a public service announcement. Round 2 Michael Van Breemen FW (+30) First game I played, chronologically, was against MvB, and (to my great surprise) I won, FW 100-70. We each solved our first mission on our first attempt; MvB got the solve because I forgot a boosted Morik would give the strength for Chula: The Dice, and I solved because...Cluttering, I think? Yeah, I think Cluttering gave me the Leadership for Chula: The Precipice. The Holograms' tricks (Cluttering and Deleted) proved helpful multiple times in the game. Chula: The Game also turned out to be impressively effective, even when I misplayed it some. ALC and one Whisper took away a few personnel and also helped slow down MvB's deck. He was running an achievement deck (TNG Strength + IDIC + Silver Age dilemmas), which made for an overall weaker deck than is typical for him. This was the sixth time I've played Michael (after having lost the first five times we met in online play). So, while I definitely didn't beat him at full strength (pun intended), it was still kind of gratifying to beat him at all. Round 3 Bye BY (0) Beating down the bye like nobody's business. Round 4 Ben Hosp FL (-35) My third game saw Ben score the FW over me, 100-65. Ben was playing a fast Cardassian solver with Central Command, Crell Moset, Past Dukat, AU Garak, etc., etc., etc. The Cardassians have so many tricks it makes my head hurt. He had a few capture cards, but capture seemed to be a secondary or even tertiary part of his strategy (though the fact that Evek revealed three events when he played him might have contributed to that impression). I did mess up once by playing two copies of Chula: The Game in the same mission attempt, but aside from the dilemma-busting was entirely thanks to the Cardies mad skillz. Meanwhile, Ben's Legacy dilemma pile repeatedly held me up (Legacy beats Chula, FYI) until he solved his last mission. WNOHGB cost me a turn early in the game, and Legacy hit multiple times (The Trial Never Ended helped with that). At least the skill-heavy dilemma pile gave me a couple chances for cool plays with Cluttering and Deleted. I ended the game with three dilemmas under my third mission. Round 5 Rem Boon ML (-35) Grueling slugfest for my fourth and final game. It dragged on long enough that Rem ended up with a MW, 65-30. He was playing Relativity with a Chula dilemma pile. My dilemmas did well (most of the time, at least), but his did quite a bit better.