Funny story: while checking and checking again that the draw deck was HoF legal, I overlooked the dilemma deck, and went into the tournament with my "placeholder" dilemmas (20 unsupported Infestation). I'm as surprised at my placing as anyone...
With rare exception, the Federation are the "good guys" of Trek. Federation citizens follow the rules, and those that don't are vulnerable to Federation law enforcement. How do you capture that on a card?
The first Kid Stipulations tournament a couple of months back was a lot of fun, so the boys wanted to do a sequel. As a recap: The tournament is Standard Complete Constructed, but I have to build a Hall of Fame-legal deck (aka a "Raw Dog" situation). Then, each kid gets to name a stipluation that I have to follow as long as I can still build a deck that can plausibly win. For this event, the two stipulations were "No Headquarters, and at least one space mission" (because Allen wanted to shoot me but didn't want me playing Khan all-planet) and then Micah added "Only 2 ships in your whole deck" ... ok then. That left Voyager, Relativity, or Equinox. Looking at the achievements I didn't have, I decided on Equinox, also because I wanted to try out Pressing On, which I've seen Phil use to good effect in the past but never played myself. I also went for the everybody cost's 3 or more achievement since 3-costers is Equinox's thing.
