Exciting Blaze of Glory Tournaments and Important Rules Change

GenCon and San Diego Comic Con are about to get much more exciting for fans of the Star Trek CCG. In addition to Open and Invitational Qualifiers, and the much-anticipated Team tournaments, we are now announcing a special Blaze of Glory sealed deck format for both conventions.

Players of the Blaze of Glory sealed deck tournament will receive:

• One Starter Deck II
  

• Four expansion packs of Blaze of Glory
  

• One complete set of common Tactic cards (plus one Battle Bridge Door) from Blaze of Glory (17 cards total)

Players will then use these cards to construct a deck under the normal 30-30 rule, which will include a functional battle side deck. With fewer dilemmas available in the Sealed Deck environment, you can expect those side decks to see a lot of use!

Remember, as this tournament is based on Starter Deck II, you will be required to seed a Memory Wipe as described in that product's rulebook:

"The Memory Wipe event implements a special play environment when playing Starter Deck II vs. Starter Deck II. You and your opponent each seed the card and agree not to nullify it. This allows each player's cards of different affiliations to mix without having to use one or more Treaty cards."

Thus cards such as Intruder Alert! and Kevin Uxbridge cannot be used to nullify the Memory Wipe. Other regular tournament rules will apply. In addition, we are announcing the following ruling which will be effective immediately in all tournament play (but is of particular importance in Sealed Deck formats):

Seeding - No player may seed a mission with cards that cannot be legally seeded under missions. This includes (but is not limited to) sites, equipment, interrupts, events, and personnel. If it is discovered during play that a player has illegally seeded any missions in this manner, they immediately forfeit the game. They would receive a 0 (-100), and their opponent a 2 (+100).

Special game text on specific cards can override this rule. For example, Cryosatellite, Search for Survivors and Mirasta Yale have game text allowing personnel to be seeded legally under missions. Search for Weapons allows the seeding of certain equipment ("hand weapons") as described. Q-Flash is a doorway that may seed under a mission according to its game text.

True "mis-seeds" are not grounds for forfeiture. For example, artifacts discovered under space missions or space dilemmas under planet missions are examples of mis-seeded cards, but are not grounds for forfeiture, as dilemmas and artifacts are card types that may be seeded under missions. Also, cards seeded legally cannot be made "illegal" later in the game. For example, using a Pla-Net to discard a Cryosatellite will not make any personnel seeded with the artifact grounds for forfeiture.

Again, although this ruling has not yet appeared in a Current Rulings document, it is effective immediately in all tournaments, so spread the word.

We hope to see you at one of these exciting Blaze of Glory tournaments in August!

Evan Lorentz
Mot the Barber (mot@decipher.com)
date: 28 July, 1999