John Corbett (KillerB) Tournament Report - 2E - The Void Regional 2013-05-25 - 10:00 AM Kruge should cost 5 Introduction I decided to play Tragic Turn at work 4 in the morning the day of the tournament. This is what I deserved. Round 1 Lance Stonecipher FW (+100) Lance is a new player. New players will learn not to go planet first. I played Necessary Execution, then Kruge came over and took his ship. Round 2 Jim Sharp FL (-25)View opponent's ReportView original Report Jim went first and way always a turn ahead. He went planet first. I drew 9, no NE. Then I used Voluntary Withdraw, drew 7 more, no NE. My 2nd draw was even worse and I didn't do enough damage to Jim to slow his speed deck down. His last planet mission, Rescue Prisoners, I played Temporal Misalignment and exhausted my pile to kill all his transporters. I could only manage one solved mission on my next turn (I had the Vorn out and not enough treachery klingons to boost it's range). Jim was able to solve his 4th mission clean since I had no dilemmas in my pile. Like I mentioned before this is the game I really wanted to play. I had no idea what he would bring, but I really wanted to play him to see his style. I knew from our sealed tournaments he talked like he knew what was going on and he showed that he did. I didn't know until afterwards that he was ranked so high in the world, and I see that he has earned that. We both played Klingon solvers, his more a little unorthodox though. His dilemma pile was a killer, but I have plenty of the little brown beasts running around, so I was good. He plays a little like Tyler though. They both like to have small dilemma piles (or decks) and I think that can haunt you. I noticed I had taken quiet a bit of his and he was down to only 6 dilemmas left, so I attempted a planet mission making him stick all there (knowing he would stop me) and then my dilemmas stopped him on his next attempt and I won the next turn. John is a very good player and I am sure he will get the best of me next time, because of my bluffs and misdirections that I think he caught on to, but too late. Good game. Round 3 Jonathan FW (+70)View opponent's ReportView original Report His dilemma pile had a tough time stopping Klingons. John was playing a Klingon solver with a Tragic Turn d-pile. His dilemmas were not especially effective against me (he made me glad I put two copies of Genetronic Treatment in the deck, though!), but they were enough to slow me down. Meanwhile the his mighty Klingons steadily ploughed through my dilemmas and he earned the FW (I got one mission, and was about to solve the second). Lesson learned: Klingons hate picking up rocks. Round 4 Tyler Fultz FW (+90)View opponent's ReportView original Report Tyler was 3-0, with two mod wins, with his dual-HQ "Kira Cheese" decks. I've seen this deck before thanks to BenHosp. Problem for Tyler, I was the first guy he faced who played Provoke Interstellar Incident, so I went first and got a double turn. My hand wasn't great and the double turn wasn't spectacular. When Tyler attempted his first mission I killed Ezri Dax on a 50/50 when I named geology with All-Cunsuming Evil. That was the early knockdown. Then on my next turn I drew Kruge on my 3rd counter and dropped him and Point Blank Strike. That was the knockout punch. My game with John was roughly the opposite of my game with Jim. I had a bad opening hand with no Quark, Energize, Guinan or Tongo. John was also playing the anti-HQ mission which game him an extra turn. I made up for it a little bit by hitting him with WNOHGB at his space. The problem with his deck was that I couldn't remember what skills all of his crappy Premiere and Energize Klingons had. Meanwhile, my first mission attempt was a disaster. He killed two out of the six (nigh unkillable) personnel I attempted with and then dropped a timely Kruge and battle event to steal my ship. I never got back up and running. Jaresh Inyo never showed, nor did my other At What Costs. Oh well, 3-1 will maintain my rating. Closing Thoughts I misjudged my new meta, packed a whole bunched a cards I didn't need. And a terrible Tier-1 dilemma pile that I didn't need and that I'm not good at playing. 2nd place is what I deserved.