Wesley's STCCG card of the day #50

Hi, folks,

welcome to the gold jubilee edition of Card of the Day ! Of course, I will celebrate this and so I have appended the poll results... (see followup) Today's card? Well, lets try...

MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY

Dilemma, planet, uncommon.
Cannot get past unless at least two female Away Team members are present.
"The planet Angel One was dominated by its women who were intolerant of dealing with men."
Oops, finally a REALLY short card text. So what about it? It's one of the rarer "persistent" dilemmas, and amongst those one of the strongest as it offers quite a few opportunities to strengthen it. Its effect is simple but powerful. If it kicks in, the opponent is stopped and denied from ever solving this particular mission until he brings in reinforcements.

So, as with many things you can use this in two fashions.

First way to place it is seeding it first, so it will come up last. Before it, you can then throw Female Love Interest and any of the "Opponent's choice" dilemmas (for convenience: Chalnoth and Microvirus.) Or use an Anaphasic Organism which has the advantage that is immune to Genetronic Replicator. So with all these, matriarchal Society effectively no longer reads "two females" but "three females, MEDICAL, SECURITY and STRENGTH > 40". Ouch!

Well, of course you can also seed it first and place some "Kill everybody" Dilemmas behind it. The first will disable redshirt attempts and the second, R.I.P. ! For the fun of it, a Barclay's Disease is much better here than a Crystalline Entity as the latter requires no SECURITY which is quite uncommon amongst females whereas SCIENCE and MEDICAL are typical female skills.

What? You ask why you should put all these Dilemmas under one mission? C'mon, I told you, FAST decks have 6 Missions, 1 Outpost, 2 Artifacts and 21 Dilemmas just to keep your draw stack down to 30. So you can average a whopping 3.5 Dilemmas for each mission of your opponent.

Favorite combo(s):
Ratings for : MATRIARCHAL SOCIETY 

Wesley's rating:                8.0
Allen Castaban's rating:        6.5
Data's rating:                  5.8
Habib's rating:                 6.5
Bryan's rating:                 8.5
Jeff's rating:                  8.75
Holt Kernodle's rating:         6.5
Jack's rating:                  8.0
Jason's rating:                 7.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 7.4
And now: the POLL RESULTS (in followup, so it won't clutter your COTD savefile :-) )

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LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

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