Tournament Report: Colorado Warp Speed (Constructed)
by William Springer
Weekend tournaments weren't enough for us…now we're playing in the
middle of the week! :-) Due to a distributor screwup my boxes hadn't
arrived, so Tuesday I went down to the local store and bought a box, opened
it up, and threw together a Vidiian warp speed deck. My missions
were Assist Coperative, Salvage Operation, and Reinitialize Warp Reaction;
I seeded a Vidiian Outpost, Assign Mission Specialists, and Seven of Nine.
Game 1: vs Daniel Morel
Dan is a new player who I believe just learned to play this week.
He's also using a Vidiian deck, IIRC, but he's a little slow to attempt.
I break through Assist for 40, then move over and solve Salvage for 30
for the win. 70-0
Game 2: vs Mark Brockway
Mark is playing, IIRC, a Federation deck with some Kazon mixed in.
I have some bad luck this game….I can't seem to draw any leadership and
end up losing everybody to the one dilemma that requires it, then lose
another crew to a kazon bomb. I do solve my first mission, but without
Seven of Nine, and Mark gets 2 missions for 80. 0 (-50) Total
2 (+20)
Game 3: vs Katherine Morel
Sheesh, 3 opponents I haven't played against before….anyway, she's
playing a speedy Federation deck with report-with-crew at the Caretaker's
Array. Now, in my deck I have 2 Lower Decks, a Ready Room Door, and
3 copies of the Vidiian that downloads Lower Decks. Guess how many
of them I caught? That's right, none. :-p Without the Lower
Decks out I couldn't pass some of the dilemmas (ie Spatial Rift) and Katherine
won by 25. Total 2 (-5)
Game 4: vs Nathan Dorn
Had a brief argument over Spatial Rift…for some reason 4 or 5 of the
people I've played against since Voyager released have thought that the
first part doesn't stop you. Anyway, I won that argument and solved
two missions to win by 35, putting me back in positive differential.
Total 4 (+30)
Game 5: vs Michael Morris
Haven't played against Michael in a while (or Nathan, for that matter),
but he's playing a very interesting deck. I go first for the 2nd
time this tournament (never went first last tournament!) and then on his
first turn he drops 3 Talaxians and 2 Bothan Vessels! He's got an
armada on the way to my OP, but I draw 2 officers EXACTLY when I need them
to pass Crisis. I move over to Salvage and attempt; if I get stopped
I'm in trouble, but I break through to win by 75. 6 (+105)
Game 6: vs Matt Blackwell
Regular readers of my TRs will know that I've only beaten Matt at Star
Trek once in the last year, at the warp speed sealed last weekend.
Anyway, he's got another one of those Caretaker Speed decks. Luckily
for me he spends some time building up. I go through Assist Cooperative
and solve for 40, but I don't have a ship out yet. He solves his
OP mission, moves over to his space mission, and attempts…but he doesn't
have Anthropology! My turn, I report a ship, move over, and solve
Salvage Operation for the win. I had a Distortion of the S/T Continuum
in hand, but oddly enough I never used it the entire tournament.
Total: 8 (+145)
Mark and Matt are still ahead of me, so I end up taking 3rd out of 13.
Next tournament will be a Warp Speed sealed at Attactix on Sunday.
// Note: no TR for that one, I'm afraid, but I managed to take 3rd place
AGAIN, with Josh Colwell coming in first
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