Wesley's STCCG card of the day #61

Hi, folks,

let's try a beginner's card...

NEUTRAL OUTPOST

Outpost, common AU/WP.
Shields 24
Seed one at any Space location OR build later at a Space location where any ENGINEER is present. No repairs here.
"A common space station design used by many races for research or trade. Personnel and ships from all affiliations are frequent visitors at such facilities."
Now what can we do with this? At least we can play with it, and the card actually has a use. Of course, when you own the affiliated outposts, this card is only useful when you are playing multicolor decks. For these cases, seeding one would be futile (you don't get to seed the affiliated cards), but keeping one as a backup would be a very valid strategy, as you could use it to quickly shift a few personnel to whatever affiliation you just want to reinforce right now. Enhance it with a spacedock and you'll have a versatile backup outpost for whatever you need it for. Especially those decks that play dual affiliation without relying on a treaty card can benefit from having a Neutral Outpost, but these are more on the fun side than being serious "kill anything" stuff.

I will use this in my all-purpose Klingon/Federation deck, the one designed to give your opponent fun in play while still winning 75-80% of the games played with it... In those ten-turn-crush-everybody-hundred-nil bom'bs, there won't be a card slot for stuff like this.

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Ratings for : NEUTRAL OUTPOST 

Wesley's rating:                4.0
Allen Castaban's rating:        5.0
Data's rating:                  ---
Habib's rating:                 6.0
Jeff's rating:                  ---
Jason's rating:                 5.0
Tim's rating:                   7.0
Conner's rating:                5.0
Owen's rating:                  7.8
Mike's rating:                  3.2
Ian's rating:                   6.9
MacPhisto's rating:             6.5
Jack|s rating:                  5.9
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AVERAGE RATING:                 5.66
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LLAP,

Wesley Crusher, the new STCCG Lord

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