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                       Sealed Deck
                       From Jason Winter : Q@decipher.com
                       September 1996

                       The format was a standard 3-round Decipher Swiss
                       Tournament. Each player got one starter deck, a
                       premeire expansion pack, and a Warp Pack. Then,
                       each participant got any three common premere
                       cards, either from their own set or from a group
                       of commons I provided. This provided 90 cards,
                       which you needed to pare down to a 60-card deck. I
                       don't see why an Alternate Universe pack wouldn't
                       work just as well.

                        SEED DECK (15)        DRAW DECK (45)

                        Missions (6)          Romulan (13)

                        Brute Force           Galathon
                        Krios Suppression     Jaron
                        Investigate Alien     Movar
                        Probe                 Palteth
                        Plunder Site          Tallus x2
                        Relief Mission        Taul
                        Investigate Raid      Thei x2
                                              Varel x2
                                              D'Deridex
                        Missions (6)          Scout Vessel

                        Cloaked Mission       Klingon (8)
                        Covert Installation
                        Excavation            Batrell *
                        Krios Suppression     Gorath
                        Relief Mission        K'mpec
                        Test Mission          Kromm x2
                                              K'Tal
                        Dilemmas (7)          Torin
                                              I.K.C. Vorn
                        Alien Parasites
                        Chalnoth              Non-aligned (6)
                        Female's Love Interest
                        Male's Love Interest  Devinoni Ral
                        Menthar Booby Trap    Dr. Reyga
                        Microvirus x2         Narik
                                              Vekor *
                        Outposts (2)          Mercenary Ship
                                              Zibalian Transport
                        Klingon
                        Neutral               Equipment (2)

                        * indicates that the  Medical Tricorder
                        card                  Romulan Disruptor
                        was one of the three
                        selected              Event (8)
                        "bonus" commons. I had
 [Image]           [Imagthe                   Atmospheric Ionization      [Image]
                        opportunity to play inEspionage: Romulan on
                        (and win!)            Federation
                        a sealed-deck         Espionage: Romulan on
                        tournament at this    Klingon
                        year's GenCon. And I  Plasma Fire x2
                        didn't even           Q-Net
                        have to change the FAQRed Alert! *
                        to do it.             Treaty: Romulan/Klingon

                                              Interrupt (8)

                                              Countermanda
                                              Full Planet Scan
                                              Incoming Message -
                                              Federation
                                              Palor Toff - Alien Trader
                                              Rogue Borg Mercenaries x2
                                              Scan
                                              Ship Seizure

                       The deck is fairly straightforward. In my initial
                       cards, I only got 5 Federation personnel,
                       including the obligatory Scotty from the Warp
                       Pack, Richard Galen (who didn't match up well with
                       any of my missions), and Mot the Barber! Needless
                       to say, I decided to go with a Romulan/Klingon
                       deck, which I even had a Treaty for. I was short
                       on Klingon leaders, so I grabbed Batrell for one
                       of my extras.

                       I was astounded at some of the plays and
                       counterplays my opponents threw in my face. Don't
                       they have any respect for Q? In the first game, I
                       could only get out a Zibalian Transport and the
                       other players finished their games before either
                       of us could score a point! My opponent had
                       actually Devil-ed my Treaty and Countermanda-ed me
                       when I tried to get it back! But I did manage to
                       get a few personnel together and score a quick 100
                       points.

                       At one point in the second game, my opponent put a
                       Klingon in a Yridian Shuttle and left it all by
                       itself. Of course, I went over with my Mercenary
                       Ship and blew it up -- and he played a Klingon
                       Death Yell! The third game was a tense, drawn-out
                       affair. He red-shirted a mission and hit my Alien
                       Parasites, whereupon I promptly completed his
                       mission for him. The only ship I could get out was
                       a Romulan Scout Ship, but he was playing an
                       all-Romulan deck -- he couldn't attack me! I won
                       that final game by the score of 100 to 95.

                       All in all, it was a tremendously fresh change of
                       pace, and you should try it sometime! If you do,
                       test this deck out against your carefully
                       constructed deck and see how it matches up.

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