Keith Morris (Foreman) Tournament Report - 2E Standard - Andoria Regional 2011-04-02 - 12:00 PM Ferengi Nonsense- Fargo Regional Version Introduction So I'm really trying to get these ferengi to work, but they are still a bit Janky. Round 1 Jerad Berhow MW (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report As soon as I sat down and saw Unicomplex, I got a bit worried. Jerad had said he would probably be playing a different deck today, but I guess he lied or changed his mind. Luckily I knew his deck pretty well, since I had studied it a bit. I managed to avoid being assimilated for quite a few turns, which allowed me to get my first planet mission. When time was called, Jerad finished his turn with 65 points (He used 5 points on a Knowledge and Experince). I was sitting at only 40 and had one card left in my draw deck, so Jerad Interlinked his whole deck. I managed to play exactly 7 counters from my hand, which meant that I got to play my last turn, and I completed my space mission to put me at 70 points. Modified win, but I was happy to have passed the borg deck. MW 70-65 More assimilation based than battle this was a bad match for me in terms of strat. I pushed at missions early as I couldn't get my key stuff. I watched him use something close to 30 counters during a turn at least once. I pushed for 1 mission early for a easy solve and interlinked to my queen when he pulled a caretaker's guest. I used some interlink to keep my deck low and recycle key cards. Last turn I had him by 25 points with 1 card in his deck after I interlinked mine, to my dismay he could use 7 counters without drawing and solved for a mod win. Round 2 Jody Lamb FL (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report Jody Crushed me. My deck was a bit clogged at the beginning of the game meaning I had several turns where I had to discard down to 7. I stupidly dropped one of my 3 ships into my discard pile. (Don't do this when playing against klingons.) I did get a few personnel out, and went to attempt a mission. I knew Jody liked to play TT piles, but his pile was so big, I figured he must be doing something else. He then proceded to grab TT using Not Easily Avoided, and wiped out my 6 man crew, which would have been OK excpet that I was short 1 staffing icon on my ship, I should have attempted with 5. I managed to get a few more attempts in, but he used univited to grab 0 cost dilemmas to throw at me, which proved very effective with a tragic turn on the mission. My dilemma pile was pretty useless against his klingons. FL 0-100 Wow, what a first round pairing and now I gotta sit down with Keith for my second match?! How did this happen? Keith was playing this crazy Ferengi deck that can get potentially 40+ counters on turn two, which is just insane. I had a solid opening draw and was just chugging along like "The Klingon Train" does... He gets his three high cost peeps into play to get his extra counter's and has 8 total in play at the time of his first attempt. Fished out a TT with Not Easily Avoided and picked up six dilemma's... I gave him a combo of Tragic Turn, Unfair Terms and Biochemical Hyperacceleration... I pulled a perfect three for Unfair Terms and was able to kill four, and Biochemical tossed the other two back to hand. He already had a huge hand so he had to pitch down to seven which was also nice. Attempted with six and six were dead, ship stranded with two high cost peeps on it and no more extra counter's, pretty successful first mission defense for me! The rest of the game was pretty much straightforward... I attempted through his dilemma pile and he tried to rebuild his forces.. His deck is somewhat of a one-trick pony(especially since he had no In A Mirror Darkly,) with the extra counter's coming from discarding equipment and exhausting events. 100-0 Round 3 MatthewScott Dale FW (0) This game was probably my best starting hand. I was double teaming my planet mission by my third turn. Unfortunately for me MatthewScott had a couple of timescapes in his dilemma pile, so that slowed me down. By the time he had his ship staffed, I was already on my second mission. He managed to cmoplete his mission for 45 points though, the turn before I finished my last mission. FW 100-45 Round 4 Chris Volk FW (0) My deck was workign pretty well against Chris, and I think I was off atempting on my 3rd turn again. He also used timescapes to slow me down. Chris made some mistakes on his side of the table though that meant a lot of his people ended up in his disacard pile. He didn't really ever recover from that. FW 100-0