Card Extra

Obelisk of Masaka from Kathy McCracken (06/27/2000)

A variety of useful counters rolled into one card, Obelisk of Masaka starts off by squelching the Borg strategy of converting massive card draws into a fistful of downloads, whether by encountering self-seeded Ooby Doobies or playing Masaka Transformations on a random hand of cards. Reveal this hidden agenda when your opponent hits his first Ooby Dooby, and one download plus more random card draws is all he will get.

K'Vort and Interceptor armadas will become harder to get up and running by one more card per ship, when two crew members instead of one are required to move or start a battle, giving you more time to prepare your defenses - and solve missions.

Finally, if you'd love to exchange a bad hand for a (hopefully) better one, but you haven't even been able to draw the Masaka Transformations you need to do it, you can download it in return for discarding the incident. Of course, you won't be able to convert more than one of those draws into a download (because the Obelisk doesn't discard until Masaka has resolved), but you'll still have a fresh hand to work with.

Combos:

• Obelisk of Masaka + Q The Referee: Seed it if you want to, but a seeded Q The Referee will get it for you if that's the card you need.
• Obelisk of Masaka + a madly Devidian Door-ing opponent: He'd better hope he has The Mask of Korgano in play, or those Devidian Doors are likely to disappear from hand before he gets a chance to show them.