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Villagers With Torches

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Fri, 04/20/2001 - 20:00

    Villagers With Torches

    After years of poverty, the Takarians were eager to be rid of their Great Sages. Fortunately, Chakotay and Tom Paris were there to keep them from being sent away on "wings of fire."

    Event Event
    Special icons: Hidden Agenda Referee

    Seeds or plays on table. Whenever opponent begins a planet mission attempt with fewer than three personnel, all are killed unless opponent has Thermal Deflectors in play.

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

    		Villagers With Torches

    This Card-Review article was written by Sean O'Reilly and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Apr 20th, 2001.

    If you aren't playing fair, Referee Q will blow his whistle, call time out, and place your personnel on a bonfire until they're well done.

    This card is the ultimate anti-red shirting card. If you attempt a planet mission with one or two personnel - you can't say I didn't warn you! Since Villagers With Torches has a Referee icon, your opponent will be able to suspend play with Q the Refereeimage to download it to the table and then reveal it to kill your personnel.

    Within a Voyager-only environment this card becomes very powerful. Without having Thermal Deflectorsimage and with just a single card to nullify it, you can seed the event face-down since it's a hidden agenda. Then, reveal it to wreck havoc on an opponent's one- or two-personnel Away Team that's attempting a mission.

    Combos:

    • Villagers With Torches + Rishon Uxbridgeimage: Protect the event from nullification by Kevin Uxbridgeimage.
    • Villagers With Torches + Issue Secret Ordersimage: Infiltrate your opponent's small crew to force them to attempt a planet mission and die before they see any dilemmas.