GenCon decks are ready to go. I usually bring 3 decks to GenCon. Two serious decks, and a fun deck so I can scrub out in side events. But since this GenCon is all screwy this year, with a 1-day Continentals and meaningless vanilla side events (really, GenCon is for side events with silly formats. And draft doesn't count. Fuck draft, fuck it in it's stupid ass. Thumbs down to the schedule this year.) I figured what the hell and made a bunch of decks. Two are serious decks, two are almost Tier-1, one is a Biermeister exclusive and one is a pile of monkey crap. Honestly, I'm just going this year for the Annual 1E Multiplayer Battle Royal (you have to talk to Josh Sheets and Steve Rotz to play) played with the original, horrible 1E rules. The best part of last year was me winning and one guy taking the game way, way too serious. Maybe I'll finally snag that dirty LARPer chick that's been eluding me all these years. I think you have to LARP to get a dirty LARPer, and I'll do anything for love... but I won't do that.
Today's GCBC we look into one of my least favorite sets: Allegiance. Ahhh... teams, teams, teams. Terrible, shitty, sometimes broken teams.
Why: The one solid, simple card in the set. Kill prevention is pretty simple most of the time. Do I play Escape or ETU? Blah, blah, blah. Well, here's a nice alternative. Instead of paying a random card from hand, which can bite you in the ass sometimes, or paying for equipment, I can stop a jobber instead of good personnel. But Genetronic can live forever if I pay a little extra. With the trend towards big decks these days that's not such a great thing. I probably won't get it back during the game. But if you're playing a tight 40-45 card deck it's probably worth it. I used this card in my Terok Nor Worlds deck in Germany. What's that? You wanna kill Dukat? Nah, I think I'll stop a 1-cost Magren instead.
Why: Ulis is fine, it's what he's turned Ferengi into that's the problem. Nobody plays Ferengi pirates, they suck. They just use Ulis as a bodyguard for Dr. Reyga. Once you get The Play's the Thing out and give Reyga the past icon things get real stupid. Secret ID don't work no more. Oracle's Punishment, not going to cut it. So Ferengi now is this mash-up of stupid one-trick lame personnel. It's get x,y,and z out and then turn dilemmas into blanks. It's no fun to play, it's no fun to play against. It's 2E at it's worst.
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Don't forget to bring your Borg Ship dilemma for the Iron Man match!
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