Wesley's STCCG card of the day #28

Hi, folks,

today's card is the first of a series of 5 non-personnel cards which IMHO make for much more interesting reviews than yet another nice guy...:

RES-Q

Event, common
Regenerates a card. Exchange this event for any one card from your discard pile.
"Q once saved Captain Jean-Luc Picard's life following an injury from a compressed Tetryon beam"

This card seems very similar to the already reviewed Palor Toff. However it has one distinct advantage and one not so obvious disadvantage. On the one hand it can resurrect personnel, too, but ont the downside this card is one turn slower than Palor Toff and less useful in emergencies. So most players reserve this card for resurrecting their personnel and rely much more on Palor's.

There is also a much more subtle advantage to this card which is actually a psychological one. When you need to be absolutely sure to resurrect some card, you can count on your opponent not wasting a Kevin Uxbridge(U) on your Res-Q (she thinks "Oh, just some personnel"), but many smart players use Amanda Rogers(U) on Palor Toff thereby effectively getting two storng cards out of their way.

Favorite combo(s):

This card works very well in conjunction with Palor Toff(C). I stack lots of Palors and just one or two Res-Q's. When I then need a personnel I use Palor on Res-Q, when I need something else I saved myself a turn...
The above-mentioned bluff. The resurrected card will most probably be some nasty interrupt then...

Ratings for RES-Q:

Wesley's rating:                9.0        
Jon's rating:                   9.5
Allen Castaban's rating:        6.0
Tim Kwong's rating:             8.5
Jason's rating:                 8.0
Habib's rating:                 8.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.2

LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

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