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Caught Red-Handed

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

    Caught Red-Handed

    Odo used his instincts as both an investigator and a shape-shifter to expose a Founder spy masquerading as Admiral Leyton on Earth in 2372.

    Interrupt Interrupt

    Exposes (may capture) an opponent's infiltrator present with your shape-shifter OR prevents a changeling from morphing this turn OR nullifies Common Thief. (May not be nullified.)

    Characteristics: Capture.
    Requires: "Morph"-related cards, Infiltrator, Shape-shifter, Thief, Changeling species.

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

    		Caught Red-Handed

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

    While you may expose an infiltrator by bringing him face-to-face with the persona he's impersonating, that may be impossible if you don't happen to have Lovokimage, for example, in your Romulan deck to confront the impostor. Worse, your opponent may be using an impersonator with a different infiltration icon from your affiliation, by seeding a Memory Wipeimage to make your cards compatible with all affiliations. But by having your own shape-shifter available (Anyaimage and Saliaimage can work with everyone but Borg), you can play Caught Red-Handed to expose any infiltrator.

    Even if you aren't being infiltrated, this interrupt can be handy to prevent your opponent from morphing a changeling with one of several interrupts or from turning a universal Founderimage into something more sinister from his hand. And if your opponent isn't even playing Dominion, it can nullify a Common Thiefimage, keeping your opponent from killing one of your personnel if you don't have any equipment to lose.

    Combo:

    • Caught Red-Handed + opponent's You Dirty Ratimage: You needed your Founder back so you thought you'd just discard that You Dirty Rat? Not this turn...