Wesley's STCCG card of the day #186

Hi, folks,

A card they obviously had to make. But then, couldn't it have done something better ?

THE MASK OF KORGANO

Event, common AU.
Plays on one of your personnel. While in play, changes it from normal to AU icon personnel or vice versa.
"In legend, Masaka was chased by Korgano across the sky like the Terran moon chases the sun. Jean-Luc Picard masked himself as Korgano to fool Masaka."

Two uses, one card. So far this is good (remember my insistence on flexibility ?) Use #1: Remove an AU icon from one of your personnel cards. Oops. The only time I would prefer not having an AU icon is when I have to play the card and my AU door somehow gets closed. But I cannot use the mask on a personnel just being played (by card text and by the rules - I cannot play an event in the same turn as personnel even with a Red Alert). Net result: Nil.

Use #2: Add an AU icon. Better. I could need that to seed a personnel under a cryo... NOT! It only works on cards in play, so again, zip. Or, I could use the extra AU to add to the staffing requirements of a good AU ship. Hmm. Shouldn't I rather put another AU personnel in my deck instead? One that has an AU icon like the mask can give, but also adds some skills and attributes and does not even cost me a turn when I have a Red Alert? Grmph.

But there is still one situation left open. What if I want to remove the staffing requirements from one of my ships to stop it from moving ? Which of course only applies when my ship is controlled by something nasty like Cytherians, as otherwise I can just stop. Hmm. Cytherians or Incoming message? Why should I delay getting rid of the nasty if I cannot remove it anyway ? And even if I would, why not just use an Emergency Transporter Armband and beam somebody off at the nearest planet ? Zero, fourth time.

And that is the final rating for myself (you'll find some disagreement from others) Zero. Err, One, to go by the rules.

Favorite combo(s):

You playing a deck with 5 masks against me.

Ratings for : THE MASK OF KORGANO

Wesley's rating:                1.0
Cole's rating:                  1.0
Conner's rating:                5.5 (?)
Hal's rating:                   9.5 (You did that to tease me ?)
Heather's rating:               4.0
Jack's rating:                  7.6 (Quote: "I actually use it" ?!?!?)
John's rating:                  5.0
Lore's rating:                  9.0 (Quote:" Almost necessary for AU")
Movar's rating:                 5.0
Ray's rating:                   3.5
Serge's rating:                 2.0 ("Favorite combo: ")
Tony's rating:                  2.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 4.6

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