Good Card, Bad Card #39

The set Favor the Bold is a big, steaming pile of monkey crap. Numerous cards have already hit the "bad card" list. It was tough just finding one 'good card'. This set was all about dilemmas. One selling point being it had the first card designed by the community. Well, we all saw how bad that worked out. All I can be thankful for is that there was no 'broken' in the set, just a lot of bad. It was the second virtual set release by the Committee, so maybe it was just filled with terrible cards that Brad couldn't get Decipher to make.

Good Card: Neral, Seasoned Politician

Why: You're certainly getting a lot of bang for your buck with this Neral. 3 Cost for 2 Leadership, 4 other skills and a kick-ass ability. This card was required because the dilemma An Issue of Trust completely murders Romulans. Now you might wonder why I made Neral a 'good card' and not Klag, the Klingon version with the same ability. Well, Klingons were already good, played frequently Day 2 of Worlds. I've only seen Romulan once or twice, and with only Far Seeing Eyes nonsense. At the time of this cards release I remember being pissed because it made no sense that Klingons got Klag and Cardassians got nothing. They got crushed by An Issue of Trust more than anyone. Eventually they got Central Command, but at that time it was a huge mistake.

Bad Card: Let Them Worry

Why: This card makes no goddamn sense to me. I've said in the past just about all the "HQ specific" dilemmas are terrible, but this one takes the cake. It cost 3 and has lame requirements. All these HQ dilemmas stop a guy and then have a 'bonus', but this one's bonus is to stop them all. Why the hell have the first part if I'm going to stop them all anyway. Am I really going to play this in a non-Dominion deck? No way. And if I'm playing infiltration and I really not going to have 3 shape-shifters out? Of course I will. So whoever designed this dilemma gets the 'Picard Facepalm' because it's the definition of Design Fail.