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Temporal Vortex

    Temporal Vortex

    Doorway Doorway
    Special icons: Alternate Universe Countdown 3

    Plays on a time location. While in play, any ships may time travel between here and corresponding spaceline location. OR Suspends play while you place doorway on Borg Ship dilemma or The Sheliak. While in play, dilemma disappears. OR Plays on table. While in play, nullifies Distortion Of Space/Time Continuum. OR Relocates one of your ships at a time location to spaceline location of opponent's choice.

    Characteristics: time location related cards.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an erratum:

    Errata'd on 2017-04-03: Ref icon not needed due to other errata; removing it leaves space for other time travel cards.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    This card has an clarification:

    When played for its last function, this doorway relocates only one ship, one time. Although it has a countdown icon, it cannot perform any additional relocations during the countdown. (Play the doorway on the ship, and discard it at the end of the countdown.)

    If played on a Borg Ship when encountered, the dilemma does not attack (so your cards are not “stopped”), nor does it attack when it reappears after the countdown expires or if the doorway is “closed.”

    If a mission that corresponds to a time location in play is destroyed by a Supernova, the location remains the “corresponding spaceline location” for time travel using this doorway.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    Temporal VortexTemporal Vortex (first version)

    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jan 11th, 1998.

    As future expansions unveil more time locations, this card will only grow more useful. Even now, there's still plenty of reasons to use Temporal Vortex. It will get a Borg player to the Montana Missile Complex for either of the time-disrupting Borg objectives, or return a non-Borg player's personnel to the present if they were forced to report there. Temporal Vortex will buy you precious time against two of the nastiest dilemmas out there: Borg Ship and The Sheliak. It will also frustrate your opponent's abuse of Distortion of Space/Time Continuum. Don't forget the ability of the Queen's Borg Sphere to download this card for immediate use at its location.

    Combos:

    • Temporal Vortex + Montana Missile Complex + Stop First Contact: Complete scouting in the present, and get a probe draw rigged and ready. You can go to the past, disrupt Earth's history, and be back before the Vortex closes.
    • Temporal Vortex + opponent's Sheliak/Q: The 3 countdown is plenty of time to get out of this popular (and deadly) dilemma combo.
    • Temporal Vortex + your Sheliak/Q: Keeps your opponent from using Distortion of Space/Time Continuum to get out of the same combo.