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Mr. Garak

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Sat, 12/22/2001 - 21:00

    Mr. Garak

    The Cardassian Elim Garak taught Secret Agent Julian Bashir: "There comes a point when the odds are against you and the only reasonable course of action is to quit."

    Non-aligned Non-Aligned icon  Personnel Personnel
    Gender: male. Species: Cardassian.
    Classification: CIVILIAN
    Red Dot Treachery   Red Dot May end a mission attempt he is involved in just after any dilemma killed your personnel.
    INTEGRITY: 5  CUNNING: 8  STRENGTH: 6

    Characteristics: "Reshape the Quadrant"-related cards, Affiliation Non-Aligned "affiliation", any Garak, "Secret Agent Julian Bashir"-related personnel, Cardassian species.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		Mr. Garak
    List of mirror universe related cards for Mr. Garak:
    - Security Chief Garakimage (11 R+ 61) from Mirror, Mirror Mirror, Mirror

    This Card-Review article was written by Michel M. Albert and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Dec 22nd, 2001.

    Agent: Code name Mr. Garak. Retired spy. Non-supportive support operative.

    Mission profile: The CIVILIAN/Treachery combo is perfect for enabling War Council's card draws, or simply for benefitting from the card's free reporting and CUNNING boost. Mr. Garak can later retire for real at a Colony where he scores double points.

    Special Talents: Your operatives are on a mission attempt, and someone gets killed by a requirement-less dilemma (The Clown: Playing Doctor, or Flash Plasma Storm, for example). That dilemma makes you plunge headlong into another dilemma for which you are no longer prepared since the loss of the previous personnel. Sound familiar? Mr. Garak can change all that. After the first death in an immediately recognizeable dilemma combo, he can stop the mission attempt in its tracks, giving your crew or Away Team the chance to regroup and re-attempt.

    Aliases: Mr. Garak is a version of the Elim Garak persona, which has 3 other instances, all Cardassian. In a Cardassian deck then, it may be interesting to start out your mission attempt with Plain, Simple Garak (who allows you to switch versions at any time) and turn him into Mr. Garak to stop that attempt at the appropriate moment (switching instead to Elim Garak to save himself specifically, or Elim to make some random selection your choice, according to the exact situation).

    Combos:

    • Mr. Garak + Scan or Full Planet Scan: Just so you know which Garak to use on that mission attempt.
    • Mr. Garak + Secret Agent Julian Bashir: The only two flesh and blood personnel that can report for free or download to Dr. Noah's Mountain Retreat. No Mobile Holo-emitters or Holo-projectors required.
    • Mr. Garak + Garak + Data, Keep Dealing: Garak can substitute for your personnel actually selected to die (especially if it was Mr. Garak), Mr. Garak can end the mission attempt right there, then play Data, Keep Dealing to place Garak back into your draw deck to repeat the experience.