Greg Hodgin (tomalak) |
Tournament Report - 2E |
2012-07-21 - 12:30 PM |
Introduction |
Well, I usually play a nice Cardassian or Federation deck. This time, I thought... why not pull out a new deck? So this is my first shot at a Ferengi deck in a tournament. It did not go well but I think it can be repaired. |
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Round 1 | | Nic Brautigam | FW (+95) |
Nic was playing his Dominion Infiltration deck. My deck kicked off amazingly well; managed to play 16 counters a turn a couple of times. He simply couldn't get his infiltrators off; I destroyed his Anything or Anyone and that didn't help. His Bashir hit my ship but I had already finished my 2 missions and managed to crawl over the line with Ferengi Tradition. |
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Round 2 | | Kevin Reitzel | FW (+25) |
This was a very close game; Kevin's deck was a Federation mission solver that was just blowing through missions. My deck slowly clunked along and Kevin was running through my dilemmas but I was barely able to overcome him. One more turn and he would have had me. |
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Round 3 | | Nathan Miracle | FL (-50)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Nathan's cute Romulan/ Klingon deck got the job done. I like this new deck mechanic: my inexperience with it allowed him to squeak through my dilemmas. However, his Challenge didn't work (I pulled two 3's out of his discard pile, he pulled a 9 out of mine, thanks 10 points!) But it wasn't enough for me... he finished his three missions and that was that. |
Greg continues the theme of making me face familiar cards, as his deck makes great use of Rule of Acquisition #239. Two times over the course of the game, Par Lenor lets him spend an additional nine counters. Even though I discarded one of his Ferengi Traditions with The Great Material River, and his other two apparently got buried, the true turn in the game came when I used Inequitable Exchange to capture Par Lenor. Not only did it deny him the counters, it took out his only Geology, screwing him up at one of his missions. The 9-cost Rule did hurt me in terms of the Headbutt Challenge, so I ended up completing three missions for the win instead.
Sidebar: One copy of Toq had a VERY busy turn. I discarded him with L'Kor to exclude Duras from Personal Duty's random selection, then put him beneath the deck with Tokath to make L'Kor lose his skills for the same dilemma. At the next attempt, Secret Identity allowed me to get the SAME copy of Toq into play an in a mission attempt. He went from hand to discard pile to deck to in play all in one turn. |
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Round 4 | | Scott Baughman | FL (-50)View opponent's ReportView original Report |
Scott's Mirror Empire deck was slow but effective: he got the job done and he beat me down, sadly. It's clear the Ferengi deck is viable but it will need a bit more work to make it viable. |
Greg is my usual nemesis, but I'm actually able to pull out a win here! |