Good Card, Bad Card #43

Today's GCBC comes to you from Wheeling, West Virginia. After an exhausting family vacation in our nation's capitol last weekend (we all stayed at "Spooky Uncle BenHosp's" place), I've decided to hit the road for a little solo "business/dork" trip. On the way to the regional in Columbus is a poker room in Wheeling. So I figured I could probably pay for the trip. I arrived yesterday and was told it was $150 a night for a room at the casino, no poker rates, nothing they could do for me. I guess you can act like that when you're the only joint in town. So I told them they're nuts and drove over the spooky Wheeling Suspension Bridge (it's like Mothman Prophecies, same river too) and found a cheap room. Went back to the sad poker room to play, but the table broke up after 45 minutes. Today, the 'Wheeling Expedition' got off on the wrong foot, after a early lunch I hit the poker room and quickly lost $300. It's different here, usually you buy in for a $1/2 no limit game for $300, but here it's only $200. The games are soft (passive/bad players), which is sometimes bad for me because I'll lose my patience. I figured since I was in the "bizarro world" of poker I'd change it up, leave for a little while and come back for the tournament tonight. I'm a decent cash game player, but a terrible tournament player. Maybe here it's reversed. I got the rest of tonight and half of tomorrow to dig out of the hole before heading to Columbus to meet the esteemed CC Chairman, Charlie Plaine. I'd be happy at this point to break even in Wheeling.

Since I'm on "time out" until the tournament I can return to GCBC. We're on to the set In the Mirror Darkly now. I'm not a fan of this set. It's not terrible, but I don't like the themes. Mirror Starfleet never did it for me, and the revised Voyager stuff makes me sad. I also need to decide what deck I'm playing Saturday, I have 3 to choose from. I haven't played in Ohio in about 2 or 3 years, but I used to come here regularly. It's usually mostly jobbers and 2 or 3 solid players. It'll all depend how much I suspect I'll see OT Kirk. When it gets to bigger events, midwest fools love to 'go blue' (play Federation).

Good Card: The Dal'Rok

Why: This card is good because it's double hate. It's anti-weenie AND anti-dual HQ. Two meta cards for the price of one is never bad. Another boost for Dal'Rok is that it returns to the dilemma pile. It's always satisfying when your opponent gets cute early game and attempts with 6 and you play Hard Time + The Dal'Rok. They just lost two fools and got nothing accomplished.

Bad Card: Lam

Why: Man, the Breen could've been so awesome in 2E. Instead, they made them lame and useless. They had a few chances to make Dominion a good affiliation, but they always screwed it up. I just don't understand Lam. So he's a weenie with a drawback, which means he should have some cool extra stuff a normal one cost guy doesn't. Lam had 4 skills, instead of the usual 3 on a 1-cost personnel. But they're usual skills, nothing great. And for attributes, he has strength 7. Now riddle me this Batman, if I'm playing Dominion why the hell would I need another high strength guy? I have a whole race of 8-strength drugged-up warriors, it's the one attribute I got covered. Come on, give me some Integrity to help out my shady Vorta and dirty Changelings. And what the hell am I going to do with this guy late-game? Stop dudes I need just to have this clown in play? Just like I told the lady at the casino, "No thanks, I'll find something else."