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    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Fri, 08/17/2001 - 20:00

    Feedback Surge

    Incident Incident
    Special icons: Hidden Agenda Referee

    Seeds or plays on table. If opponent completes Establish Gateway targeting a mission they did not seed, you score those points (instead of opponent). Also, if opponent discards any seed cards using Ajur, Boratus, Senior Staff Meeting, or their own dilemma, you may immediately re-seed them under any mission(s); opponent loses 10 points for each such card.

    Textual description about -10 bonus points (your opponent score points, when you play or use this card).

    Characteristics: bonus points.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This incident causes your opponent to lose 10 points for each seed card he discards using the listed cards, whether you reseed them or not.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    		Feedback Surge

    This Card-Review article was written by Michel M. Albert and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Aug 17th, 2001.

    The Borg expansion's Referee icon card comes at a perfect time in the game's history.

    First, there's the revitalization of the Borg as an affiliation, which gives the Collective incentives to Establish Gatewayimage. Not only does Resistance Is Futile still make the objective more lucrative, but now Nine of Twelveimage makes probing for it easier than ever. Okay, let them complete their objective at your mission if it's so easy. What they don't know is that your Hidden Agenda is Feedback Surge, and that those points are now yours. You can still sweep in and solve your mission, now dilemma-less, for its actual points. A better counter than Access Deniedimage in my book!

    Second, players have been screaming for an Ajurimage'n'Boratusimage counter, the duo being responsible for the shuffling of many a dilemma combo. Your opponent might now think twice before trying to eliminate multiple dilemmas from a mission. As long as you seed at least 4 dilemmas under planet missions, the Vorgons will cost your opponent at least 10 points when they do their thing.

    And as better and better dilemmas come out, the temptation to use either Ajur and Boratus or Senior Staff Meetingimage to get rid of them definitely increases. What's worse? Losing lots of personnel to Ankari "Spirits" or Replicator Accidentimage? Or taking a 10 point penalty for removing the dilemma? Of course, it doesn't disappear into thin air - you get to re-seed the killer card(s), even under the same mission!

    At the same time, we get a new and very powerful counter to Q-bypass strategies. Definitely worth a surge of positive feedback ;-).

    Combos:

    • Feedback Surge + opponent's Q + your 5 dilemmas at same mission: -50 points and you can re-seed the dilemmas right back under there.
    • Feedback Surge + opponent's Establish Gateway + your Investigate Quantum Singularityimage: 70 points for a mission with no dilemmas.
    • Feedback Surge + Q the Refereeimage: Don't want to tip your hand with an obvious Hidden Agenda on the table? Suspend play with Ref-Q to get the Surge into play after your opponent is in too deep.