Wesley's STCCG card of the day #368

How about another "Sneak Peek" card ?









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Then scroll down...

Okay, here's a card that will allow you some sneak peeks :

TARMIN

Yep, another Jaglom-type information broker. But this time, we are talking about side decks. And we are talking a card that, even if it had the same effect as Jaglom, has a few unique advantages and disadvantages, namely:

• You must play it as your normal card play. This means you must play it at the beginning of your turn and you lose that turn's card unless you have a Red Alert.
• You get a 6/6/3 Empathic VIP in addition to your Jaglom effect. While this is not great, the other VIP Empaths aren't that much better.
• You cannot use more than one during a game, even if you get your Tarmin killed and play a new one (this is a Q ruling).
• He can't be nullified.

Okay, so far so good. Now the main effect. Glance at a side deck's contents for 10 seconds. This is pretty short and you won't usually be able to either make a very quick check for some card's presence or remember the top three or so cards. Now there are four possible side decks you might want to look at:

• Opponent's Q's Tent. A very useful look if you hold a Revolving Door and want to find out whether there's something in that tent that would make the Door worthwhile. Or, just check if the one nasty card that could stop the combo you are planning is there.
• Opponent's Q-Flash. Probably the most common application. You suspect he's using a Flash under a mission you want to attempt but are unsure whether to try redshirting or to rush in with a big crew. A scan of the nasties awaiting your crew might just bring the information you need to decide correctly.
• Your own Q's Tent. Really useless. Q's tent does instruct you to select the card randomly if you don't use the "your choice" ability , so even if you know what card is on top, your opponent can demand you reshuffle the tent cards before drawing...
• Your own Q-Flash. A very limited but potentially game-saving use. When you are using Gift of the Tormentor, you might just want to know when the first one turns up so you know whether to save that Countermanda or whether you can use it on your opponent's Palor play.

A special effect well in flavor for the card, but too limited to be really useful. Now if it were "any deck"...

• Not really. I wouldn't know what to combine it with.

Wesley's rating:                4.5
Allen's rating:                 4.0
Cole's rating:                  1.5
Cpt. Stasis' rating:            6.5
Cpt. Targ's rating:             5.0
Data's rating:                  7.00001 
Drew's rating:                  6.0
EHCCGPP's rating:               5.0
Hal's rating:                   7.0
Jack's rating:                  6.5
Locutus' rating:                7.0
Mot's rating:                   5.5
Nanite's rating:                6.0
Nog's rating:                   4.0
Picarde's rating:               5.5
Ranger's rating:                ---
Rothspar's rating:              5.5
Tebok's rating:                 6.0
Tony's rating:                  6.0
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