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Mess With Your Opponent [1E]
by Ivo Ciric

Here is a decklist for my somewhat famous Mess With Your Opponent Star Trek 1E deck. And here is the story for the creation of the deck. It all began when a friend and I talked about strange deck ideas, and I came up with an idea where the whole point of the deck was to annoy your opponent. We had seen a few cheesy deck ideas (although by some people's standards, those wouldn't be considered cheese, but I digress), and talked about a deck that would just annoy those players to a certain degree.

Mind you, this was about 2-3 years ago, and before the Black Hole ruling, where missions with no point box were supposed to be AQ. Up until then, it could be put into any quadrant.

So, I sat down one day and hammered out a deck list. It was the night before our local Star Trek tournament, and I put the deck together to have some fun with people there. I didn't expect to win at all, but I figured it would tick off a lot of people there. Now, I didn't want to annoy the non-cheesy people, but I just hoped the cheesy deck players would be there. I can't remember now if they were.

Anyways, I expected to lose badly, considering the deck didn't have any personnel. That's right -- no personnel. I said the deck was supposed to annoy your opponent. I didn't care about winning. Now here is the strange part. I actually won 3 out of 4 games! Now you are probably thinking "How the hell can that happen?" or "What the hell is he on?" Well, you have to remember that players can score negative points. So those 3 games ended with me having a higher score than my opponent (2 cases I had 0 while they were negative, and once I lost points and won to -10 to like -31). The fourth game I lost because my opponent managed to solve one mission and then said "I am not doing any more missions". I decided to call it game since there was no point after that.

But I had succeeded my goal: I had built a pretty annoying deck, and I was happy.
 

~Ivo "Entil'zha" Ciric
 

Deck list:

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Seed Cards
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Doorways
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Space-Time Portal x2
Alternate Universe Door
Q's Tent

Missions
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Space x8
Nebula x2

Other Seeds
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Mission Debriefing
It's Only A Game
Q The Referee x2

Dilemmas
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Edo Probe
The Higher...The Fewer
Borg Ship

Lack Of Preparation
The Higher...The Fewer
Dead End

Edo Probe
Firestorm
Strange Bedfellows
In The Pale Moonlight

Edo Probe
Hippocrathic Oath
Unscientific Method
Scientific Method

Edo Probe
Hippocrathic Oath
Unscientific Method
Scientific Method

Edo Probe
Punishment Box
Crisis
Hazardous Duty

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Q's Tent Side Deck
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Obelisk Of Masaka
Panel Overload
Scanner Intereference
The Wake Of The Borg
The Big Picture
Intermix Ratio
Klim Dokachin
Drag Net
Telepathic Alien Kidnappers
The Traveler: Transcendence
Scorched Hand
Black Hole
Gaps In Normal Space

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Draw Deck (71 Cards)
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Doorways
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Temporal Vortex x2
Q's Tent x6

Incident
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Obelisk Of Masaka
Panel Overload
Scanner Interference
Q The Referee x2

Events
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Kivas Fajo: Collector x3
Anti-Time Anomaly x2
Gaps In Normal Space
Masaka Transformations x2
Q-Net x4
Atmospheric Ionization x4
Subspace Warp Rift x4
Regenerate x2

Interrupts
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Disruptor Overload x4
Loss Of Orbital Stability x4
Subspace Schism x2
Kevin Uxbridge x2
Q2 x3
Amanda Rogers x3
Wormhole x6
The Wake Of The Borg x2
Palor Toff - Alien Trader x5
Oof! x2
Barclay Transporter Phobia x3
 



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