No one's ever asked me "Olav, how did you get to be so good at STCCG?" But they should. It's a fascinating story. A story that, whether you like it or not, I am about to relate.

I owe it all to Wesley Crusher.

No, not him... I mean the card "Wesley Crusher." You see, back in 1996, people hated Wesley. They also really hated the card.

Back in the day, I was known for my inventive, but ultimately useless decks. I built a deck that grabbed a Tox Uthat and then sat there with Parallax Arguers, saying (in my best Dr. Evil voice) "I will blow up the earth unless you pay me... FIVE POINTS."

Being the sarcastic bastard that I am, I decided to build a deck around Wesley. It was called "Wesley's Harem." The point of the deck was that I played a lot of the girls who had loved Wesley. Because I like Vulcans, I put in a pile of Vulcans to back Wesley up.

Thematically I thought it would be cool to put in a few mindmelds so that my Spock could mindmeld occasionally.

I played the deck a lot, and lost with it a lot, until First Contact. I knew that the deck had a lot of youth in it, so when I saw "Ooby Dooby" I knew it had to go in the deck.

I started playing with a self seeded Ooby Dooby... but it always gave me way more cards than I could play. I could, I realized, play with a Red Alert, but in my opinion, that would have been cheezy. So I stuck in all 5 Devidian Doors I owned.

This really helped the deck. But I soon found a problem, which was this. I didn't always have enough Dividian Doors. I started trading for them like a madman.

It's now six years later. Over the years, cards have entered the deck, cards have left the deck. It acquired a name (Dance Dance Revolution) and has served me well. I'll never forget the look on people's faces when they started to lose to a deck based on "Wesley's Harem."