Matthew Zinno (commdecker) Tournament Report - 1E Sealed - Online Event 2010-11-04 - 12:00 PM PAQ OTSD deck Introduction My first games with Lackey, my first online tournament since Kedanya, and my first sanctioned tournament since MM released! Not much strategy, it's OTSD ;-) A weakness of this deck is that two missions need Astrophysics, and one of those also needs Stellar Cartography -- but each of those skills is only on one personnel in the deck. And they're both holograms! So to solve Study Lonka Pulsar, I need to get the Husnock ship (for my only Holodeck), and either Tomek or K'Tesh, and either the other one or Suna for Reflection Therapy. Ajur quite nicely has a side mission with Dukath or Taul -- I managed to get her out early and use that in one game. I was apparently unusual in padding my seed deck tp 30, using extra personnel as mis-seeds after the real dilemmas. Round 1 Christopher Coyle FL (-100) 1. lost to startrekccggeek, 100-0. (Or maybe more, I forget.) I was taken out pretty early in this game. The first dilemms I hit was Alien Parasites. My opponent then flew it to the location of his outpost (using TWC to boost the range), and ran my personnel into my Outpost Raid at his outpost, where it killed my personnel! This took out enough people that I couldn't staff the ship to fly back. I didn't really recover. Round 2 J FW (+100) 2. won against The Mad Vulcan, 100-0. Ajur came out early and discarded Portal Guard. (Good thing, there's no Honor in the deck.) I only got 95 mission points, with another 5 coming from Vulcan's Null Space. He tried stealing one of my missions after I cleared it, before I pointed out he couldn't (FKR treaty). Round 3 Mark FW (+70) 3. won against soggy_amphibian, 125-30. In a move that I'm sure was quite annoying, I played Static Warp Bubble twice in this game. (Sorry about that.) And it actually took me almost the whole deck -- there were about 7 cards left -- before I finally drew Tomek or K'Tesh so I could solve Lonka Pulsar which I had cleared earlier. It was my 4th mission, and I didn't really want to try the other two (one was too far away, and the other was duplicated so had my dilemmas too). Round 4 Austin Chandler FW (+40) 4. won against DarkSabre, 100-60. I attempted my Establish Relations early, and found there were six dilemmas there! My away team of about 8 cleared all of them, getting the last few people killed by the final one (Crystalline Entity). Oh well, at least there will be fewer dilemmas elsewhere. Next came a little ping war. He played RBM to stop my ship in front of his outpost. When he undocked, I played Hail to avoid the inevitable battle. (I don't think I've ever played that card before.) Then he did it again. When he Res-Q'd RBM to play it a third time, I had to Res-Q my Hail. Finally he stopped attacking me and solved two missions, then got his mission solvers killed by Outpost Raids at 2 of his 3 outposts. On my last two turns, I solved Establish Relations and two other missions (with 2 dils each) to win.