Why the Hall, Not? (#6)

It's February, and as sure as that fat groundhog sees his shadow because of global warming, that means Hall of Fame nominations are over and voting begins.

Today's nominations come from the land down under and Steve Hartmann has some excellent choices.

Card: Ptol
Last Year's Vote: 60%
2020 Prediction: 55%

He's less obnoxious after the errata, but I'm judging this dickhead (this card always made me nerd angry) based on his original sin: fucking with the integrity of the dilemma pile. Romulans were #1 in the power rankings for bit (and still Top 3, at the very least) and the last thing you needed was a card that could "scan" the dilemma pile. Ptol came out in the same set as the Bird-of-Prey in '09 and they were simply everywhere for a couple of years. Usually dominating with Tal and his forever downloads. That type of career deserves a ticket to the Hall of Fame.

Card: Leonard H. McCoy, Remarkable Man
Last Year's Vote: 62.9%
2020 Prediction: 69%

Another 'one vote short' heart breaker last year. All you have to do is look at the decklists using McCoy. They say Money Never Sleeps, but it's really Old Men Never Sleep. You got a steady list from 2008-2020. And guess what, he was played in plenty decks before the CC was around. So McCoy falls into the category of "I don't want to give this card up". Hall of Fame is mostly about giving cards up and moving onto new ideas. Come on people, lets reward this remarkable card with a nice retirement.

Card: Brute Force
Last Year's Vote: Not Nominated
2020 Prediction: 40%

Not nominated last year (K'Tal isn't nominated this year, so who knows, we all have our opinions), but Brute Force definitely deserves consideration. Like the previous two cards Brute is also in over 500 decklists. Brute is also a few years older than McCoy. It's hard to remember those early 2E days, but there was the Klingon deck that was at the top of the power rankings back then. In that deck one Kahmis had all the skills for your first mission and three of them had all the skills for Brute Force. That's some lazy CCG design. On top of that you got a standard Klingon mission that you can solve with 6 (sometimes 5) personnel. It's blatantly over the power curve. So when it comes to vote on Brute remember it checks all the boxes. Solid career and overpowered.