Al Schaefer (ltkettch17) Tournament Report - 2E 2014-11-23 - 12:00 PM Ghostly Holograms Introduction Does 'fortune favor the bold'? Is it 'bold' to play a mission that requires Leadership when you only have one personnel with Leadership in your deck? Do I have the word 'bold' and 'stupid' mixed up? Will I ever 'learn my lessons'? Round 1 Bye BY (0) Got the random Bye. Played Brian (who decided not to make a Virtual deck for today) with my Dominion exclusion against his Voyager - which was pretty much a rematch of our game from Regionals. Everything went my way this time and we talked about fantasy football while waiting for the other games to finish. Round 2 Eric Bieche FW (+100) Eric printed out his deck last night and was definitely unfamiliar with the inner workings of Cardassia. My holograms ground through my missions with only In Development slowing me down. An Evek whiff was just icing on the cake and this game went much more smoothly than I thought it would. Round 3 Michael Moskop FL (-35)View opponent's ReportView original Report Michael's running the new Bajorans with Orbs and stuff. I used 2x Deleted Subroutines on my first mission attempt to get past An Issue of Trust and WNOHGB, and felt that things were going to go my way again. I held onto Iden till I was ready to attempt Settle Holographic Colony, but a well played Greater Needs delayed my attempt. My dilemmas were holding off the Bajorans in Space and I thought I had a good lead until Michael played Holding Cell on Iden. Having used 2 of my 3 interrupts already, I had only to play for the mod-win since my only Leadership was now out of reach and my other two missions would only add to 95 points. The Bajorans finally finished in space and now had a sizable force to power out missions. I played as well as I could with the limited resources I had, but it was not enough and Michael came away with another hard fought win. As soon as I saw Al's mission selection, I knew this game was going to be a straight up horserace to 100 points. Al said that his deck was a modified version of the Hologram Academy deck that he played in our last league season and was going for straight Non-Aligned this time. He completed Liberate Photonic Servants on his first mission attempt even after hitting AIoT so I was on the defensive the whole game. Honestly, the game hinged on a clutch draw of Holding Cell after that attempt. I was trying to decide between taking Iden for skills or The Doctor for cunning and ended up just blurting out Iden. Thank God it was the right call and took the skills he needed to complete Settle Holographic Colony. This forced him to move to Investigate Unknown Element and TCS. All of this gave me the time to build a megateam and complete my missions for the win. Closing Thoughts Playing with Settle Holographic Colony was too tempting and I tried to force the lack of Leadership to a win today and it just didn't work. I probably could have found another planet mission worth 35 points, but Investigate Known Element was super easy and in the Delta Quadrant, so I just couldn't pass it up. Without Cyrus Redblock as a backup for Leadership, Iden is an easy target especially for Holding Cell. I should have gotten a few attempts in on SHC before playing Iden and getting the win. I'm not really a fan of allowing VP's in virtual format. Having to face dilemmas like Hard Time, AIoT, and WNOHGB, felt too much like standard format for my taste. That's all for our constructed formats for the league this year. Next month is Deck Lottery, then Sealed, then Draft, then Constructed for the finals.