Wesley's STCCG card of the day #327

Hi, folks,

yesterday I did a card that could have been for the Klingons, so let's today discuss one that is actually made for them:

I AM NOT A MERRY MAN

Event, rare QC.
Plays on any one Klingon. While in play, once per turn that Klingon may nullify one [Q] icon interrupt, event or dilemma where present. (Not duplicatable)
"'I will not play the fool for Q's amusement'"
Yes, that's it. I still see one reason for using a Q-Flash in your draw deck: You are playing Romulan. With all those decent blue Klingons, there should not be too many Fed or Klingon decks without this card being at least in your Q's tent (which is where you'd want it in a Fed deck - you don't want it in your hand before you have drawn a Klingon) But otherwise, why use a Q-Flash to nullify one Q-Icon card if you can as well nullify one per mission attempt? All of that Q-Continuum stuff was about what I preach nearly since COTD #26: Card advantage. If you can get rid of two cards of your opponent with just one of yours, you have gained a 1.7% advantage (1 in 60). And the Q-Flash was the ultimate in card advantage with (realistically) up to 8 nasty effects hitting your opponent for the price of one measly card. But the weakness of the Flash is that those cards are weaker than a standard card. But to nullify them, you'd still need a full card in your draw deck - a bad ratio, considering that, on the average, you are only nullifying about 1/4 of a card.

Now this event gets us back in line. With just one card, you can probably select two to four Q-cards to nullify and they will always be the ones that hurt you as you can have a look at them (however, you can't wait until the resolution of the random selection), but anyway, getting out of the way of the best card out of each Q-Flash is not the worst thing. That will at least save you from those Penalty Boxes. So in the net effect, you will on the average nullify a full card (if I assume 1 out of the average 4 Q-Flash cards will be ineffective and thus the other 3 will count for about 1/3 of a card) by attempting three missions, you have just taken away the best third of your opponent's Q-Flash advantage without incurring a further card disadvantage. Seems to work for me.

Just make sure you get it out early as it's not duplicatable. Also, I'd usually stick this card into the tent even if playing Klingon to make sure I won't have an ineffective card in my draw deck if my opponent does not use the Q-Continuum side deck.

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Ratings for : I AM NOT A MERRY MAN 

Wesley's rating:                7.5
Allen's rating:                 7.0
Cole's rating:                  5.5
Data's rating:                  7.5 
Drew's rating:                  8.7
Gowron's rating:                6.2
Hal's rating:                   7.1
Jack's rating:                  6.8
Mot's rating:                   6.5
Nanite's rating:                8.0
Nog's rating:                   9.0
Nouwa's rating:                 8.0
Picarde's rating:               6.5
Q's rating:                     7.5
Ranger's rating:                7.6
Rothspar's rating:              9.0
Tebok's rating:                 8.5
Tony's rating:                  9.2
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AVERAGE RATING:                 7.6
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