Wesley's STCCG card of the day #29

Hi, folks,

today's card is probably my favorite dilemma:

BARCLAY'S PROTOMORPHOSIS DISEASE

Planet/Space Dilemma, rare
Point value: 10
Entire crew or away team (except andriods) de-evolves (dies) unless MEDICAL, SCIENCE and SECURITY present. Discard Dilemma.
"Contagious affliction which causes animals to de-evolve into ancestral forms. Disease named for Lieutenant Reginald Barclay."

This Dilemma qualifies as my most used in any deck type and against any opponent, because it has three distinct features:

The Planet/Space distinction makes it useful even against those "6 planet" or "6 space" surprise decks.
Its effects are great.
It's not too easy too overcome.

Many players seem to get panicked when they fall behind on points and that's probably the best time to nail them with this dilemma. Also, if I can figure out where my opponent is going to place her outpost, that's the location to place this. She will probably try to uncover an artifact there quickly and beam down with an incomplete crew - BAM!

The card is effective alone (when you are short on usable dilemmas) or even more so behind cards which drag away personnel. Useful preparations for this card include the Tarellian Plague Ship(U) or the Love Interests(C). A quick Disruptor Overload on a Medical Kit is another way of increasing the effectiveness of this card.

Favorite combo(s):

This one after a female love interest(C). The latter will suck up what will most probably be a SCIENCE or MEDICAL and your chances of nailing somebody suddenly improved!

Ratings for BARCLAY'S PROTPOMORPHOSIS DISEASE:

Wesley's rating:                9.5
Jon's rating:                   8.0
Allen Castaban's rating:        7.0
Tim Kwong's rating:             8.5
Jason's rating:                 8.5
Habib's rating:                 8.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.3

Wesley calls for help! Does anybody out there have a file with the text on all cards (both game effects and flavor text)? I have better uses for my time than retyping the card text...

Please direct all email concerning card of the day to: blohmer@pips11.informatik.uni-mannheim.de

LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

"A couple of lightyears can't keep good friends apart"