Scott Baughman (Neelix) Tournament Report - 2E 2012-08-31 - 12:00 PM DragonCon sealed 8-31-12 Introduction I played TNG with a few modifications including adding Chula to the dilemmas and Boarding Party and the Clown: Guilliotine. The Guillotine was huge in this format. As my four booster packs I chose four WYLB, because I need more copies  of cards from the set and I hoped to get a Moral Choice - I did and it was huge in a Fed-heavy field. Round 1 Rick Kinney FW (+100) Rick was playing Romulans and had trouble getting early people. I had Capt. Picard in my opening hand so it was a pretty good draw. I also played Pran Tainer and a USS Nebula on my fourth turn and was out attempting missions before Rick. However, he played two Cry Havoc and later a Pierce Their Defenses. Was he going to start attacking me?! I solved missions very easily usually in two attempts as my personnel that got stopped by his dilemmas were not all that important. I used the gulliotine to kill off two leadership personnel at Tzenketh and Rick was denied leadership. No engagements for him! Whew! Later he managed to play Power to the Weapons and came over to attack the USS Reliant to kill one person with Cry Havoc. I get the full win and he reveals that the events weren't really for engagements but they were there to power his Orion slave girls! Round 2 Kevin Reitzel FW (+65) Kevin had a very slow start not seeing a starship for the first five or six turns! I had a slow one myself with no early Picard or Worf or Pran forcing me to attempt Intercept Renegade first. But after three attempts, I'm able to solve it. Note, Kevin stopped me one time with Moral Choiice, but I didn't complain too loudly as I was running that one, too. Kevin finally got a ship and started double teaming missions. He solved Geological Survey on his second attempt and I knew I had to start hustling. I got stopped at my own Geological Survey again and had to draw hunting for another Navigation before I felt comfortable enough to attempt Metaphasic shield test. Kevin goes for his own Metaphasic mission and I crush him with a guillotine calling Navigaton (killing the only two he had in play) followed by a boarding party killing two more people. Ouch. I solve two missions on my next turn for the win.  Round 3 Will Hawkins FW (+65) Will and I are running very similar decks but he's added Mot the Barber and Sirna Kolrami from his boosters. I don't draw Pran Tainer early and instead head out to Geological Survey with my trusty Tricorder and Davies. Thanks to some well-timed Moral Choice, Guillotine for biology and Boarding Party, I shut will out of his space missions. He does solve Geological Survey, but by then I've got two crews, one on a Nebula and one running the Reliant. I use Tosk to help solve Metphasic and Geological survey in the same turn for the win. Round 4 Aaron Killian FW (+65) Hmmm...more TNG, I'm sensing a pattern here. I don't draw Pran Tainer early so instead Picard, Worf and some others take Shelby and attempt to Intercept a Renegade. Aaron stops me three times at this mission. But I'm stopping him at Geological Survey right back! We played about six dilemmas each on the respective missions just churning away with nobody scoring any points. I get a good Chula against him stopping three people once. At Geologcial Survey I also use guillotine to kill two Biology people. Later, he faces Guillotine again and I kill two Exobiology people. He tries to use a slave girl to prevent the death by destroying his copy of A Few Minor Difficulties, but i helpfully remind him guillotine only costs 2! On my final turn, I need to complete Geological Survey and then solve Metphasic Test on the first try. I have four dilemmas over come at Geo. Survey, but I need six people to attempt to get enough cunning. I decide to use Worf to peek at the top two dilemmas of his stack and I find Equipment Malfunction and Command Decisions. Both useless! I attempt with six, he gets those dilemmas and throws nothing. I solve Geological Survey and fly back to earth to switch ships and get a perfect crew to solve Host Metaphasic on the first try.  Closing Thoughts I win, totally undefeated!  For prizes Rick has a HUGE spread and I get a pack of TATV and a foil AI Dignataries and Witnesses.