Nathan Miracle (GooeyChewie) Tournament Report - 2E 2015-07-25 - 11:00 AM North to Alaska Introduction Glory to the Klingon Empire! The Voq'leng led the path to victory for my Delta Quadrant Klingons. My deck uses System J-25 and Kelsid II as primary missions, and fuels B'aht Qul Challenge with Seek Savior and The Quest for the Sword of Kahless. It can complete either 40 point mission in a pinch, but prefers to get around the corner by playing the Challenge four times with Ressikan Flute. Round 1 Kevin Reitzel FW (+100) Kevin said he borrowed a deck idea from one of our players, and as soon as I saw his missions I knew he would drop a ton of 1-cost personnel. Fortunately, my deck's 40 point missions led me to use an Unfair Comparison pile, which excels at stopping loads of low-cost personnel. Where No One Has Gone Before delayed me from completing System J-25 quickly, but Kevin had trouble drawing into a ship and also felt the full wrath of Unfair Terms and Necessary Execution. On the turn I completed System J-25, I also attempted Kelsid II with five personnel despite Kevin's Transport Crash Survivors. I just wanted to get a dilemma or two under the mission, but Kevin threw six dilemmas - more than I had personnel in the attempt! Five of those dilemmas got overcome, so despite several kills I felt I was in good shape. At that point, it was simply a matter of drawing into and recurring B'aht Qul Challenge and putting in the planet mission. Round 2 Scott Baughman FW (+75)View opponent's ReportView original Report Staring across the table from two 40 point missions, I knew I would need Dukat's help to win the B'aht Qul Challenges. Fortunately fate smiled on me, as I completed System J-25 on my first attempt due entirely to an ill-advised Secret Identity. Scott captured Worf with Ensnared, but in doing so managed to discard all three copies of The Central Command. Greasy Dukat hung out at Qo'noS, but even so I had to tap dance around some of Scott's high-cost discards. Once I completed System J-25 and Kelsid II, I moved on to Seek Savior as a back-up plan, but ended up winning without completing it. Nathan's deck was a lightning-fast Delta Quadrant Klingons build that uses Baht'qul challenge to go for a two mission win! It was a thing of beauty and things went downhill for me almost from the die roll this game. His first mission attempt was at a DQ space mission with five people. I drew two copies of "Rapid Progress" with an empty discard pile, two planet dilemmas and Secret Identity. I ALMOST decided to play nothing, due to the futility of it all, but threw the SI just to get a decent kill. Hilariously, Nathan had BLUFFED and lacked the Transporters he needed to solve the mission. Thanks to my SI, he was able to fish out the Transporters and solve on his first attempt. Whelp, that was great -- NOT! Later, I played a copy of Ensnared to capture Worf and whilst milling my five cards from the top of my own deck saw ALL THREE of my copies of The Central Command go into the discard pile! Oh the HUMANITY! Things just kept getting worse for me until Nathan mercifully went for three Bah't Qul Challenges in one turn to finally win the game. Ugh... Round 3 Will Hawkins FW (+55) Bajorans can micro-team with the best of them, and neither player brought Transport Crash Survivors. My dilemma pile can hit some of the low-skilled Bajorans, but doesn't do much against the high-cost ones, so I felt Will may have an advantage out the gate. I made a critical error in forgetting Dohlem was in the discard pile, so the Orb of Contemplation allowed Will to complete Investigate Maquis Activity quickly. Hawkins' dilemmas slowed down my Klingons to the point of attempting System J-25 with 11 personnel. An Issue of Trust stopped several personnel, but also left enough to complete the mission and fly the ship to Kelsid II. There I completed the mission in one attempt with the remaining personnel, as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? stopped only Worf (who was the one who escaped An Issue of Trust earlier). A canceled B'aht Qul Challenge left me at 85 points (five from attempting System J-25 with so many personnel!), so I went ahead and took a shot at Quest for the Sword of Kahless. After dilemmas I had all the skills, but exactly 38 Strength! Ressikan Flute did retrieve two B'aht Qul Challenges, and Will was unable to prevent either of them. The final B'aht Qul Challenge only removed my other B'aht Qul Challenge, so Will and I tied at total cost 0, bringing his score up to 45 but giving me the game.