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 Interstellar
Treaty
by Michael van Breemen
At first glance, I know what you're thinking. "Let me get this straight.
I'm going to spend four counters in order to place a Diplomacy personnel
who costs three or less on my headquarters... and I'm going to want to do
this why, exactly?" I know I did at first and even on the second glance
when I saw that this event doesn't go to my core, which means its cost cannot
be reduced by my or my opponents' Party Atmospheres. So again, why would
you want to use it?
The essence is in the word place. Since you're placing the Diplomacy
personnel, you're not subject to rules regarding playing them at
your headquarters. Stated another way, any personnel card with Diplomacy
and cost three or less, regardless of its icons/affiliation, can be considered
for Interstellar Treaty. While, yes, this does mean that you won't get to
bring Locutus to a non-Borg side of the fence this way, he and an "assimilated"
Diplomacy personnel could bring cards such as Martok Founder or Sela (Diplomacy,
Intelligence, Leadership, Officer, 2 Treachery), or Starship Captain Jean-Luc
Picard (Diplomacy, Honor, Law, Leadership, Navigation, Officer) to their
side with this event.
Obviously, other possibilities exist as well. If you wanted Shinzon, to
be able to discard cards from hand so that you could draw cards for your
Bajorans, this could be your ticket. If you wanted Dukat (Liberator and
Protector) to not only allow your Klingons to go after Kressari Rendezvous,
but also force your opponent to discard the top three cards of their deck
whenever he uses a skill, this is for you. The combinations go on and on,
and so can your mission selection if you don't mind a little risk in having
that lone personnel of that "off-affiliation" as the key to attempting one
or more of your missions.
Still, if we're looking at a cost-benefit ratio, the seemingly limitless
options created by this card may not be worth it for every deck. Right now,
it appears the best use for this card lies with the Borg, or with decks
already focusing on Diplomacy. Such a deck might be centered around the
new Alexander Rozhenko. Specifically, with Rozhenko's ability to download
two events of his choice, as well as the reduction of cost to those events
by three, it makes those Diplomats more cost-effective. When you factor
this in, along with the fact that you're going to need those Diplomacy personnel
to solve your Diplomacy missions, it just makes sense. Suddenly, Wormhole
Negotiations is looking better and better...
December 10, 2004
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