Villagers With Torches

Ooooh! That puts an end to redshirting real quick. That's gotta sting! Beef up all those nasty dilemma combos of yours with a card that doesn't necessarily require one of those precious seed slots.

As long as you have Q The Referee revealed on table, you can just go ahead and download Villagers With Torches, revealing it as a valid response to your opponent sending fewer than three personnel down to the surface for reconnaissance. Beware of Kevin Uxbridge or Quinn who might foil your plans.

Now that Villagers With Torches requires basic numbers you might want to go for skill-based walls instead of the attribute-based wall dilemmas you've been using to keep your opponents at bay. Focus on a particular field of expertise while your Battle Bridge Side Deck supported armada swarms out to hunt down those very same experts. Use dilemmas such as Spatial Rift and Berserk Changeling that kill and function as a wall at once. Just watch your opponent squirm.

Opponent's planet missions may very well require fewer dilemmas to counter their strategy effectively, which will only make it harder on them to reach the minimum of four cards for their Ajur/Boratus Shuffle and will leave you more room in your seed deck to protect the Senior Staff Meeting-susceptible space missions. Back that up with The Big Picture and you're set.

Combos:

• Villagers With Torches + Thine Own Self: Should I kill'em or just make them go AWOL?
• Villagers With Torches + Implication + Odo's "Cousin": Just one of many, give it your best shot and oh, don't look now but there's my Kazon Warship!
• Villagers With Torches + Atmospheric Ionization + your walls: Up for a long wait?