Matthew Zinno (commdecker) Tournament Report - 2E 2019-07-17 - 06:00 PM The Perfect Krem Introduction Local 2E tournament on a weeknight, which is good for me since my work is much closer to the venue than my home is. And I brought a new player! Round 1 Lucas Thompson FL (-70)View opponent's ReportView original Report Dereliction of Duty takes away Keywords too? Seriously? That made all my people not Thieves, so not boosted by Soft Sell. Anyway, I was glad to be facing Lucas first b/c he had told me to build a Thief deck since the time I won the Fortune as a prize. I used a Pooling Resources early on to get Display of Wealth, but he had a Deep Hatred for it, which slowed down the DOW plot. I ended up doing pretty well with re-attempts because he comsumed a lot of dilemmas, trying (but failing) to hit All-Consuming Evil. I had a rough time getting a large volume of kills in this game, but fortunately I killed the right people off. Matt had dilemmas under both of his remaining missions, but no longer had the skills in play for either one at the end of the game. This situation was fortunate, because I had a relatively slow start. I think I had to pay something like 5 cost for the Scimitar. He didn't have much weenie hate though, and my personnel were light on the skills that Matt's piles like to punish. Round 2 Chris Morse FW (+70) I suppose Chris was playing Klingons, but really I was facing Infestation Tribbles. It's tough to megateam, because adding one person to an attempt means he'll draw and play a 1-cost Infestation, to stop two. But I managed to get enough under to eventually solve things. Fun counter-play was when I gave him Accelerated Aging at [the infestation Anth mission], only to see Outlaw Sisko had Anth after Acq … but then it happened to take away all his Geology instead! That was the 2nd of two times that Dreamer and the Dream triggered, too. Also, I played Organized Crime to steal his Surprise Party, and kept it and used it rather than put it on DOW. On the last turn, I sent two teams at my 40-point mission; the first had 8 with 7 under, and he stopped me with Infestation. The second had 7 with now 8 under, and they solved (and mission text gave me finally 6 on DOW), and then went on and also solved another planet mission for a FW. Then I pointed out to him how he could have stopped me at that 40-point mission: he had loaded me up with Inferiority during my first solve, and forgotten it. Round 3 Bye BY (0) I introduced Matt to the game and encouraged him to come today (and lent him my old Android deck). He had fun, but couldn't stay for round 3. But I had played him over lunch, so he could learn the android mechanisms better (and so I could try out the thief mechanics … it's the only game of the day where I used the Combat Vessel ability). Closing Thoughts This deck needs a little more work and a little more focus. It probably still won't win, but might work a little better.