Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) Tournament Report - 2E Standard 2011-04-03 - 01:00 PM Cheaters R Us Introduction I thought that I'd see how an all-consuming dilemma pile could've worked... without All-Consuming Evil. It didn't work out as well as I would've liked but fun was to be had by all. Round 1 Amber Van Breemen FL (0)View opponent's ReportView original Report My deck was moving as fast as I wanted it to be but unfortunately, so was hers. Her Tragic Turn pile was more of the raw stoppers with some choice kills along the way whereas mine wasn't killing anyone. For every Final Adventure, she had an Escape to prevent the Tragic Turn kill and for almost every A Royal Hunt stop, she had Dukat to prevent the stop for the mission solve. Between that and some timely Unexpected Difficulties for some one stoppers, I didn't have a chance. Even afterwards when I used an extra turn, I still wouldn't have solved my space mission. Thankfully, she won the entire tournament and I love her so I'm okay with the loss :) I was somewhat concerned going in, as I knew his deck would be fast & he was packing Tragic Turns. Thankfully, I drew an Escape in my opening hand so was able to get over & attempt Eliminate Harvesters by Turn 3 without worrying too much about death. Enough dilemmas were consumed for me to complete EH the next turn, then work on Abduction Plot. That mission & Intercept Renegade were completed in good order, as my dilemmas (and Unexpected Difficulties) were able to hold Michael off (thank you, Triage). FW, 100-35 Round 2 Carlos Pabon FW (0) Carlos was running a GQ mission deck with DS9 and, when I saw Medical Teams hit the table, I'm expecting a repeat issue of not being able to stop people enough in order to even have a shot. My draw deck was rocking through the mission solving but it was his second mission attempt that sealed the win. Tragic Turn + Urgency + Final Adventure + A Royal Hunt + Biochemical just smacked him around. Round 3 Everett O'Shogay Jr. FW (0) This game was all about me being able to cheat around almost everything that he gave me. First mission, solved Avert Danger by using Living Legend Kirk to get around a Picking up the Pieces/Captain's Holiday. Second mission, after the first attempt, got around Center of Attention with Leyton/Sisko and a Security Drills. If it wasn't for moving straight to Investigate Sighting and super cheating around a Hard Time/Temptation by using Rite of Emergence to give Lenara her Treachery and used the discarded cards from that to give Bashir his Treachery with Leyton having his own version of Treachery. He would've likely have won on his turn with Urgency + Royal Hunt + Final Adventure doing little at his final mission (didn't help that I consumed the other two Tragic Turns on his first mission attempt.) *Edit* Didn't realize that he had two HQ's so Final Adventure and A Royal Hunt should've been doubled but oh well.