Michael Van Breemen (The Ninja Scot) |
Tournament Report - 2E - Canadian National |
2016-12-03 - 10:00 AM |
Twice as Big Means Twice as Good... Right? |
Introduction |
Amber told me to play this deck based on the available options. I made it more complicated than I needed to based on my searching for the high-range mission achievement along with big ship (kinda hard not to get that with a Relativity deck) by making it a two mission win option... which worked only half the time. Still, I think it was my dilemma play for the most part is what got me the win here. |
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Round 1 | | Amber Van Breemen | FW (+65) |
Amber was playing my TNG big ship all planet deck, mutual advantage deck which helped as my opening hand (while having Relativity in my opening hand) had only one personnel, two personnel in play after turn two, etc. After she got the first mission done though, I finally made it through my first mission for 50 points and made my way to Sha Ka Ree which just grinded through before she could put my personnel under the deck with an ALC bomb. |
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Round 2 | | Justin Ford | FW (+100) |
Justin didn't get a ship for six turns despite 10 cards to download a ship so that helped me a lot. I managed to get through my space mission for 50 points before getting to Sha Ka Ree. Meanwhile, I'm essentially one stopping him in space (Slightly Overbooked, both Breaking the Ice, Insurrection on the mission, two Inferiority dilemmas, etc.) so that by the time I cheated through Rogue Borg, he was almost done through his first mission. I did manage to do something cool - ditch Hurried Departure for 10 points the turn before and, the following turn, played the second one in order to have the Range to fly to Sha Ka Ree (he damaged my Relativity with Gomtuu earlier) |
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Round 3 | | Kenneth Tufts | FW (+65) |
Ken's deck was a lot faster than mine but his dilemmas was failing him with Becalmed costing four, no Well-Prepared Defenses, etc. Unfortunately, I solved my space mission sooner than expected so I had to do three missions. Solving my second space mission in one attempt thanks to Ent-J helped the time hiccup to keep up. Meanwhile, I hit Ken with two Dreamers along with Pest Control/Mugato taking out both of his Tackings stalling him at his Avert Danger. I cheated through Rogue Borg again to solve Sha Ka Ree for the win. |
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Round 4 | | Bren Tufts | FW (+70) |
Bren's dilemma play has vastly improved, keeping him in this game a whole lot longer than expected. He had almost got his second mission solved which could've won him the game (I didn't get my 50 points from my first space mission so I solved two space missions in one turn whereas he almost had a space/planet solved) Thankfully I solved Sha Ka Ree with just seconds to spare before Bren could try his space mission one last time. |
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Round 5 | | Bye | BY (0) |
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Closing Thoughts |
I guess Amber should pick my decks more often... Now, I just need the 4-range achievement to start working. |