Scott Baughman (Neelix) Tournament Report - 2E 2013-03-25 - 07:00 PM Relatively Easy Introduction Last time I played this deck - at the A Matter of Time release event - I got second place losing a tight match to Will Hawkins and his Loaded for Bear deck. This time, I've got to play smarter. Round 1 Will Hawkins FW (+60) And here's the rematch from our A Matter of Time release event. I remembered in our last game, Hawk solved two missions early and just parked it at home to score the rest of his points with the Bear. I almost won but I lost Data to a Secret Identity on a key mission attempt. This time, I used Ohhh, Nothing Happened to remove his Secret Identity from the game! Later, after he had Bear running he tried to play At What Cost? to lose those five points and catch up some. I shut it down by throwing a Tricorder at it with Grav Plating Trap! I won't say I cruised to the win, but I was able to use Ohhhh, Nothing Happened to remove a few other dilemmas, too, and finally, beat the Bear! Round 2 Mike Camp Sr FW (+65) Big Mike was playing a "Dial-a-Skill" variant of Borg where he uses Guardian of the Hive Borg Queen to replace Borg Drones at key moments. In this game, my Tragic Turn dilemma pile worked very well - with Overbalanced getting three kills one time. I also got a surprise "stop" against him by using Psychokinetic Control to deny him the ability to interlink exobiology. I got JTK Original Thinker to work twice against him and later solved with James T. Kirk, Living Legend and Spock on the Relativity. Man, Temporal Transporters rocks! Round 3 Nathan Miracle FW (+30) Nathan really had me sweating it when he laughed in the face of several of my dilemmas and stopped me cold with several bouncing dilemmas that I had no answer for such as Occupational Hazards and Healing Hand. Eventually, though I got Ohhh, Nothing Happened online and named - The Oracle's Punishment (which is a bane of James T. Kirk, Original Thinker) but Nathan wasn't playing it! D'Oh! Strike One! Later I used Ohhh, Nothing Happened to name Personal Duty as it is a bane for this deck. But Nathan didn't HAVE IT! Strike Two! Lastly, I played another Ohhh, Nothing Happened and named Secret Identity. BUT NATHAN DIDN'T HAVE IT! Strike Three! But thankfully, I kept recurring Scotty, Relic and had plenty of Astrometrics PADDs to keep his special power online. Several of Nathan's dilemmas required Transporters in some way, so Scotty was MVP and I win the tournament! Closing Thoughts I didn't win the league, but it was great to get a measure of revenge against Hawk's Bear deck and get a hard fought win against Nathan despite my flubbing three copies of Ohhh, Nothing Happened.