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The History of Star Trek CCG: Starter Deck II
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June 16, 2004
Like the OTSD, Starter Deck II was a repack of Premiere cards with the
addition of eight new cards designed to ensure out-of-the-box playability
in sealed deck format, with 6 missions, an outpost, and a "treaty substitute."
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Released
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December 16, 1998
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Design Team
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Bill Martinson (lead), Tim Ellington, Sandy Wible
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Product Configuration
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Premiere starter deck (Beta unlimited) repacked with revised rulebook (version
1.1)/cardlist
and 8 new premium black-border cards
12 starters per display box
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New Rules
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Special rule for SD2 vs SD2 play required both players to seed Memory Wipe
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Packaging
Expansion Icon
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Factoids
- Search For Weapons was the first mission to sport five affiliation icons.
- Botanical Research contained not one but two typographical errors
in the opponent's-end mission text: the reference to the card title "Atmospheric
Ionization" was misspelled "Atmosphereic ionization."
- Geological Survey's bonus 10 points for having 3 Geology present finally
provided a use for at least part of Mortal Q's Geology x3.
Notable Cards
Whereas the OTSD assured usability of all affiliations with a three-way
treaty, Starter Deck II took a quite different approach with Memory Wipe.
This seedable event allowed your opponent's cards to mix regardless
of affiliation, and thus for Starter Deck II vs. Starter Deck II sealed
deck play, both players were required to seed it. It also had a secondary
function to be useful in constructed play – played on a non-Borg ship,
it made ship and crew Non-Aligned, which could be just as useful on your
opponent's ship as on your own if you wanted to stall him from attempting
an aligned mission.
Links
Card list (HTML)
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