Wesley's STCCG card of the day #59


Hi, folks,

I hope this finally arrives at your terminal, this is the 3rd try as about everything is screwed up at our place... We could really use a Miracle Worker here which leads right to today's card:

MONTGOMERY SCOTT

Personnel, Federation, common AU/WP.
Integrity 7
Cunning 8
Strength 3
ENGINEER x 2, Astrophysics, Honor, Miracle Worker, Command Star (*).

This is a common with the stats of a $30 rare. In the whole game, the only card that is close to equal is good ole Geordi. Even better, Scott has Honor which is an uncommon but very useful skill. Also, Astrophysics seems somewhat better than regular Physics. The only disadvantage is that Miracle Worker is not (yet) used anywhere.

As far as stats are concerned, the two important stats (Integrity and Cunning) are quite high, only Strength is a little on the low side, but this is the least important attribute as long as there aren't too many away team battles.

Scotty is also a very versatile card, neither slanted too much towards space missions (Honor is much more useful on planets) not towards planet missions (Astrophysics is space-oriented). So, especially for a planet-mission deck, Scotty makes a more than fair substitute for a Geordi, even if you do play "Evaluate Terraforming", as the latter can also be solved with a Beverly Crusher alone.

With a card or two that need Miracle worker, Scotty might easily become the second or third best Federation card. He's already a top ten card without counting it! (For those who still remember the skill->points conversion, [I mentioned that when doing Vekor, I believe, so look it up there...] our Scotty has a total of 58 right now and every "Miracle Worker" require- ment on a mission would add 10 more to it [provided there aren't any more Miracle Workers out there]. For comparison: Geordi is a 70 pts card, Bev is 78 and Data is 92. On the other end, Mot is a meager 15...)


Favorite combo(s):
Ratings for : MONTGOMERY SCOTT

Wesley's rating:                8.5 (Not counting Miracle Worker...)
Allen Castaban's rating:        7.5
Habib's rating:                 8.0
Jeff's rating:                  ---
Jason's rating:                 8.0
Mike Love's rating:             9.2
Data's rating:                  ---
MacPhisto's rating:             8.5
Conner's rating:                8.5
Tim's rating:                   9.0
IMP's rating:                   8.1
Owen's rating:                  9.0
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AVERAGE RATING:                 8.43

A good bunch of new raters! Welcome to everybody!

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LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

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