Wesley's STCCG card of the day #244

Hi, folks,

let's try a card type of which I have only done one yet - equipment...

I.P. SCANNER

Equipment, common AU.
Where present, nullifies Interphasic Plasma Creatures, Brain Drain and Phased Matter.
"The Interphasic Scanner has been used to detect signatures of phased matter,invisible interphasic creatures and being from other subspace domains."

Yet another card of the "nullifies ..." type, listing a few Dilemmas or Interrupts. Let's see what we can get rid of with it.

Interphasic Plasma Creatures: Okay, it drains my Strength. Not really important, but someday it might become important and I don't like it sapped. So I could use the scanner, right? I could also use a Mindmeld personnel and not care about the Dilemma at all. And if I understand it right, the scanner can only prevent the drain, but not later nullify it, as the effective Dilemma "plays on table as an event", so I cannot ever nullify it "where present", because my guys are on the spaceline and nowhere else. (Q, correct me if I'm wrong here) Next.

Brain Drain: An interrupt that disables one of my crew for a turn, or doubles the previous Dilemma. Now, if the latter, I ned not fear if I have a Mindmeld guy, and for the former, if I really need that crewmember (in the middle of a mission attempt), why not just use an Amanda? Again, next.

Phased Matter: I need a SCIENCE and an ENGINEER. Well, if I do not have an ENGINEER, I should be beaten up, and SCIENCE? Did I mention Mindmeld? So I could for example use T'Pan (SCIENCE x2 + Mindmeld). Once more, next.

What? No more "next"s? Uh, then it seems this card is a T'Pan with attributes 0/0/0 who cannot use Vulcan Mindmeld, has no SCIENCE ability and no staff star.
YUCK !!!

Favorite combo(s):

- Arrgh. Grrr. Well, any two cards that do *not* include I.P. Scanner.

Ratings for : I.P. SCANNER

Wesley's rating:                1.0
Cole's rating:                  1.1
Conner's rating:                5.5
Data's rating:                  4.0
Q's rating:                     3.0
Ranger's rating:                3.5
Tania's rating:                 3.0
Tony's rating:                  3.0
Jack's rating:                  4.0
Nanite's rating:                4.5
Ray's rating:                   5.5
Nouwa's rating:                 3.0
Rothspar's rating:              "Not used yet"
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AVERAGE RATING:                 3.4

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