Kurtis Correia (CmdrSpork82) Tournament Report - 1E Modern - Ferenginar Regional 2012-04-01 - 01:30 PM The Empire Tag Team Introduction This is my Empire Tag Team Deck for the 2012 Regionals Tournament. It was a fun deck to play. Round 1 Julia Y-F Chen MW (+49)View opponent's ReportView original Report Julia was playing her Cardassian "Buffet Night" deck. The deck received a slow start due to not being able to play a ship on turn one, so crell couldnt have any blue rare frool steak. *sob* :( i wanted to see him eat frool! that was froolish! hahahahahahahah i know i m a dork so lets move on lol. I loved being able to transport all my people unlimited amounts of time from the mirror badlands to the alpha badlands :D. I ended up winning due to time being up. The Deck started out really slow, didn't get my ship or needed people till the 6th turns. Round 2 Roxanne Barbour FL (-13)View opponent's ReportView original Report I used my Transportimatation device to bring my people together in the alpha quadrant to kick some butt, but unfortunately roxanne won this match 100-87. but we did stall each other with matching edo probes. Kurtis had his "Portamatation Device" active (Multi-dimensional transport device), and he used it effectively. We had "Goose for Gander" Edo Probes on the table. Kurtis lost 8 points to "The Higher The Fewer". In the end, a very close game at 100-87. Round 3 James Monsebroten FL (-70)View opponent's ReportView original Report I let james go first in the match, which was a mistake apparently lol the sneaky and shifty trek player that he is lol. which was cool. He used some sneaky artifact the lets him deal with dilemmas backwards and snuck off a win!!!! Kurtis let me go first in this game, and I eagerly took the chance to play first. I got my setup started and quickly solved Bajor aquiring my artifacts and returning an orb. Kurtis, with his boat load of personnel, attempted and cleared Search & Rescue (That was where I had put my Forsaken / Occupational Hazzards combo and he had TONS of treachery!). After Kurtis got his first mission, I went to do my second and cleared through the dillemas in reverse order (though the last encountered Arsenal almost stopped me, but I got lucky that he didn't pick the uniques with my mission requirements) but I completed and I won the game. Round 4 Kenneth Tufts FL (-100)View opponent's ReportView original Report First off i have to say that i love playing in tournaments againt ken because he comes up with cool ways to challenge us in tournaments and in no way am i trying to put a negative light on ken, he played a deck that no one was expecting and i commend him for doing so. But i did not enjoy this match as much as i would have because of Time Travel Pod. i was lucky though, i would have been in a much worse state if it wasnt for the fact that my deck run two quadrants and i had drawn both Admiral Riker and U.S.S Prometheus. I had played A.R on the fed outpost in the Badlands which was Butt frick no where, and DL'ed the Future Enterprise which got me to the other end of the space line in two turns. I played the Prometheus at Romulus and placed all my roms on that one before ken played Time Travel Pod ("BOOOOOOO!!!! HISSS!!!!"). Ken won 100-0. I haven't been playing trek for that long back in the day or currently, but i have a opionion about Time Travel Pod. It should be banned the game doesn't need it and lets face it, the card is super cheesey and demoralizing even for an artifact. Also adding the way people can clear missions on one turn makes it a even more powerful card. Yes there are counters to this card, just like Temporal Rift, which was banned and then had an errata. lets face it this card needs to be looked at. Kurtis playing a new deck sorta a modification of his Empire deck to add some heavy splat with Romulans in the AQ, he was off and running fast and despite his badlands missions ending up at the wrong end of the space line thanks to the FE he made short work of the trip to Romulus to unite his 2 groups of personal. Having very little med in play and suspecting a specific combo, (later proved right) under Bajor but with Guinan in play i went for a space first and solved characterize neutrino emissions, getting McCoy out I started attempting Bajor nuking the hip Oath but by the time I hit med crisis McCoy was my only med left and I was stopped. Kurtis Split his people up about 50/50 between the FE and Prometheus and started attempting but the Arsenal Divided stalled him and on the next turn, McCoy made short work of the Medical Crisis and the Future Enterprise returned whence she came unfortunately taking a large part of Kurtis personal with her. Kurtis Prometheus cleared more dilemmas but I won before the FE could get back with some of his key personal. 4 wins today and I can easily say every one of them was due in part or entirely to TTP locking out huge chunks of my opponents personal, guess next tournament I better stock some counters to it because I expect I might just see some of my opponents playing with it :)