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Founder Leader

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Mon, 01/11/1999 - 21:00

    Founder Leader

    Female changeling. Center of power for the entire Dominion. Key figure in The Great Link. Told Odo of his origin: greatly desires his return to the Link.

    Dominion Dominion icon  Personnel Personnel
    Gender: female. Species: Changeling.
    Command & Staffing abilitys: Command
    Icons (other): Gamma Quadrant
    Classification: V.I.P.
    Red Dot Treachery x2   Red Dot Leadership   Red Dot Exobiology  
    Red Dot SCIENCE   Red Dot Law   Special Download Shape-Shift.
    INTEGRITY: 3  CUNNING: 9  STRENGTH: 8

    Characteristics: "Reshape the Quadrant"-related cards, Affiliation Dominion affiliation, Founder, Shape-shifter, Changeling species.

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

    		Founder Leader

    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jan 11th, 1999.

    The center of power for the entire Dominion, the Founder Leader is as Treacherous as they come; only Keevanimage can match her Treachery x2. She also has the skill of Leadership, making her a major asset to a strategy based on ship battle (though with an 8 STRENGTH, she'll do alright for herself in a personnel battle too). Add to that the incredibly valuable skills of SCIENCE and Exobiology, which will save you from a number of killer dilemmas, and Law to help in still more situations.

    Perhaps best of all, once you've drawn the Founder Leader, you've effectively drawn the Founder of your choice from your deck. Because she can download Shape-Shiftimage (which can in turn download any Founder from your deck if need be) the Founder Leader can almost literally do it all - "become" an infiltrator to interfere with your opponent, "change" her skills to whatever you may need at that moment, even allow you access to other special downloads on the other Founders she can become!

    Combo:

    • Founder Leader + Leyton Founderimage: If you just got caught unprepared by a dilemma that would kill off one of your Founders (and consequently all your Jem'Hadar present), you can suspend play to Shape-Shift the Founder Leader into the Leyton Founder, then he can suspend play to download Flight of the Intruderimage any safely return all your Founders present to your hand!