Ferengi certainly have lots of free HQ personnel, but there's not a lot of dilemma-beating skills among them. This is a deck designed around those free personnel with Officers (using Kits) to back them up. It comes out pretty quick and has good battle capability, which is important these days. I call it a "basic" deck because there's really nothing special about it. It's just a straightforward mission solver.

Personnel: Free at the HQ: Birta Brunt Gaila Gral Grand Nagus Gint Grand Nagus Zek Ishka x2 (a good personnel to shuffle with the 6th Rule, and speeds up your deck by allowing Latinum to play for free.) Leck Leeta Maihar'du Nilva Pel Quark As you can see, I've used all the free Security personnel, since you can't get that skill with equipment. Officers: Berik Letek Lurin x2 Omag Solok Sovak Two Mission Specialists: Dr. Borts Qol And three others for additional skills: Madam Guinan Nick Locarno Thomas Paris Ships: Krayton Kreechta D'Kora Transport B'rel Equipment: Gold Pressed Latinum x6 Ferengi Disruptor Rifle x3 Medkit x2 (in case one goes on a Hippocratic Oath trip) Science Kit Engineering Kit Plasmadyne Relay Scepter of the Grand Nagus Rules of Acquisition Rules: 6th Rule x4 33rd Rule x3 34th Rule Other stuff: Distortion of Space/Time Continuum x4 Kevin Uxbridge x2 Palor Toff x2 HQ: War Room x2

Q's Tent: (a lot of personnel can download other cards; I simply put all those in the Tent) Bribery Calandra Forced Labor Camp Hail HQ: Ferengi Credit Exchange Kukalaka Protection Racket Security Sacrifice Small Cloaking Device Writ of Accountability Hidden Fighter Quark's Treasure Establish Landing Protocols Missions: Deliver Message Gunrunning Kressari Rendezvous Runabout Search Uncover DNA Clues Sarthong Plunder (attempt with either Bribery or Forced Labor Camp, which is one of the reasons for 2 Lurins, besides the fact that he has useful skills) Other seeds: Space/Time Portal Battle Bridge (a number of Ferengi Energy Weapons are good, but otherwise you can use whatever you want) Ferengi Trading Post (for a second place to trade Latinum) D'Kora Marauder (at the trading post) Assign Mission Specialists Tower of Commerce Secure Homeworld Defensive Measures x2 (protects your missions from theft, and can get an extra Leadership for your mission requirements) 1st Rule of Acquisition Quark's Isolinear Rods Writ of Accountability Horga'hn (just because :-) Dilemmas: 2 Conundrum (to help the 34th Rule) Other than that, you can use whatever you like

Strategy:

Get Gint with the 1st Rule. Download the Rules equipment and exchange a rule from hand for the 34th. Go looking for a fight to draw some cards. You should have the advantage in firepower from your seeded ship. If the opponent is playing a fast attack deck, use that seeded ship for defense and let them come to you. Once you get a number of personnel in play, missions should be fairly easy.

Chris 'Rom' Brennan
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