Subject: Wesley's STCCG Card of the Day #399

Hi, folks, 

after a rather long COTD-less time (sorry, folks, you don't want to have 
my schedule ;-) ), here's some material for you again... 

Before you ask: I won't join the First Contact fray in a hurry. This set 
is rather complicated and I don't like to make about a thousand mistakes 
in ten articles. Thus, I'll do a few more Fajo cards before jumping into 
the big new thing. 

How about one for the Federation today: 

GUINAN 
Personnel, Federation, ultra-rare FJ. 
Integrity 10 
Cunning 9 
Strength 7 
CIVILIAN, Once per turn, may nullify any [AU] icon or [Q] icon Interrupt, 
Event or Dilemma where present. If on any Enterprise, doubles Captain's 
Log there. Staff Star. 
"500-year-old El-Aurian. U.S.S. Enterprise bartender. Trusted advisor and 
confidant of Jean-Luc Picard." 

Nice card ? Sure. This Guinan replaces two cards at once - Madam Guinan 
and I Am Not A Merry Man - and means a powerful defensive addition to 
any Federation deck. Worried about Brain Drain ? Nullify it. Thought Fire ? 
No problem. Penalty Boxes and Bailiffs ? Who cares. And now ? Just four 
cards ? No way. However, the others aren't the ones you see in tournaments 
everyday. 
Events: Wartime conditions - makes little sense as you probably had a 
reason for playing it and it can't hurt. Rishon - well okay, but who ever 
sees a Rishon on an Event on a location ? Doppelganger ? Never seen. 
Drought Tree - small benefit as you don't need Guinan to bbe unopposed. 
On the Interrupt side - Vorgon Raiders, unlikely but you'll be glad if you 
can cancel it, Dead in Bed will become more important in the future, Wolf 
won't usually target the right location for Guinan to work, same for Eyes 
in the Dark and Devidian Foragers. And Temporal Narcosis doesn't target any 
location at all and can thus not be nullified by Guinan anyway. 
Leaves us with Dilemmas. Frame of Mind, Maman Picard and Parallel Romance. 
All not the most common ones to see, but devastating if they hizt. Better 
to get rid of them. Then Empathic Echo (which can easily be a wall and thus 
very  annoying). Conundrum and Interphasic Plasma Creatures also tend to 
stall more often than not and are thus Guinan targets. The rest - Android 
Nightmares, the Royale Casino cards and Quantum Singularity Lifeforms are 
highly unlikely candidates for nullification - you usually won't encounter 
any detrimental effect from them in a Fed deck. 
Okay, I won't even go into Q-cards, just remember you can't nullify a 
Gift of the Tormentor gone wrong with Guinan... 
A doubled Captain's Log on any Enterprise is also quite okay when you try 
to make a First Contact inspired Enterprise space dominance deck (which 
should be quite possible with the new deck sizes. Just don't forget a 
few Incoming Message: Attack Authorization to get your deck rolling.) 
The attributes - inferior only to Data and Soong-Type Androids in total 
points, well distributed to boot. The only thing I'd have liked to see 
on top of this would have been one regular skill - Anthropology would have 
fit nicely... 

Favorite combo(s): 

- Guinan + Madam Guinan + opponent's Traveler / Thought Fire lock deck. 

Ratings for : GUINAN 

Wesley's rating:                8.4 
Picarde's rating:               6.5 
Rothspar's rating:             10.0 
Tebok's rating:                 7.5 
Tony's rating:                  9.0 
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.1 

I hate lazy raters. I also hate lazy COTD writers. OOPS ! ;-) 

PS: Could someone please post this on the BBS in my name - I seem unable to
post for some network error - I hate patched access :-(

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LLAP, 

Wesley Crusher 
Temporarily AOLing STCCG Lord :-(

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