MTG’s Star Trek Commander decks include the Borg Queen, Worf, Spock, and Picard



Wizards of the Coast provided its first look at Magic: The Gathering’s Star Trek Universes Beyond set on the July 14 WeeklyMTG stream, teasing cards from across the iconic franchise’s 60-year history. The preview included the reveal of four new Commander decks allowing players can recreate Star Trek’s biggest conflicts using a mix of new mechanics and cards with deep roots in Magic history.

We Are the Borg is an Esper (white-blue-black) deck led by the Borg Queen. It focuses on a new Assimilate mechanic, which lets players put a creature onto the battlefield under their control as a Borg artifact creature with a +1/+1 counter.

“It actually started off as something just in the Commander decks, and then I liked it enough that I pulled it for a few other cards because saying that the Borg were assimilating things was just so iconic,” Magic’s principal game designer Gavin Verhey said on the stream.

The Borg will play like the iconic artifact creatures known as Slivers, bestowing benefits on all your other artifact creatures as you integrate them into the Collective. While the preview didn’t spotlight any of the Commander cards, a version of the Borg Queen found in the Black Welcome Deck gives all artifact creatures you control +2/+0 and Assimilates a creature from an opponent’s graveyard when she comes into play. The Borg canonically inject living creatures with nanoprobes to turn them into cyborgs, but we’ll forgive Magic for using the graveyard to represent defeated creatures rather than just dead ones in this case.

Klingon fans get a Mardu (red-white-black) deck led by Enterprise Chief of Security Worf, which is focused on aggressive cards that affect the whole battlefield. A Bant (green-white-blue) Landing Party deck led by Spock will spotlight characters from the original Star Trek and embrace its ‘60s aesthetic. The deck focuses on landfall (an ability that triggers whenever a land enters the battlefield under your control) and seems likely to make use of the Lander tokens introduced in Edge of Eternities.

Edge of Eternities introduced the first spacecraft Commander, but the Star Trek set hasn’t followed suit. However, a Jeskai (blue-red-white) Federation Fleet deck led by Captain Jean-Luc Picard will focus on drawing cards and stationing spacecraft. The base Star Trek set will have three versions of the Enterprise, and you can expect to see the Federation flagship here along with Voyager and other ships from ‘80s and ‘90s Star Trek.

All four decks will be available in regular and collector’s edition versions when Magic: The Gathering Star Trek will be released on Nov. 13. Expect more reveals from the set July 17 as part of MagicCon: Amsterdam.



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