It’s been quite a long wait for MTG Star Trek Klingon fans, but the precon you’ve been waiting for is finally here. Revealed today by Anna Margaret, we finally have the decklist for this new aggressive Mardu Commander deck.
Here, we’ll explore the deck’s best new cards and reprints, and briefly cover what the deck is all about. Unlike the recent Federation Fleet Commander deck, Klingon Fury has a lot of interesting stuff to offer.
Klingon Typal and Combat
In a flavorful move, Klingon Fury is a Typal deck that focuses on attacking. Battlefront for MTG Star Trek reflects this, rewarding you for attacking with creatures.
Many of your Klingon payoffs care about how many opponents you attack, making Worf, Defiant Commander the perfect centerpiece for Klingon Fury. Creating two 2/1 tokens with Haste, Worf both enables your other payoffs, and allows you dig deep into your deck.
As such, this precon includes a fair few singles that can be decent additions to all kinds of aggressive Commander decks. Kurn Son of Mogh is a great example, offering a huge refill for go-wide decks.
As long as you attack three opponents at once, Kurn can draw three cards for three life, which is an incredible rate. This makes the Klingon Warrior a fantastic addition for Commanders that go wide, like Caesar, Legion’s Emperor, or Isshin, Two Heavens as One, who can double up on Kurn’s trigger.
Klingon Fury’s new enchantments are particularly powerful for any combat-focused Commander decks, playing a lot better than they read. Between Glory of the Empire swinging for 15 while buffing your team, and Rite of Ascension creating up to three attacking tokens each combat, there are a lot of interesting cards to see.
Whether you want to Goad all of your opponent’s creatures with Galvanizing Tenor or buff your team with Kabok, Liberated Rage, combat-focused Commander decks will eat well with Klingon Fury’s new cards. If that weren’t enough, Klingon Fury has many individual cards that fit a wide range of Commander decks, including an incredible new board-wipe-adjacent effect.
MTG Right of Vengeance
For many Commander players, Right of Vengeance will be the highlight of Klingon Fury, flipping combat on its head. While the card has additional synergy in token or Klingon decks, this is a powerful combat trick in any white strategy, blowing up your opponent’s board and creating one of your own.
While this is obviously ideal against an opponent’s wide Alpha strike, token doublers like Anointed Procession
Anointed ProcessionIf an effect would create one or more tokens under your control, it creates twice that many of those tokens instead. can turn even a smaller swing into an army in a can. This makes Right of Vengeance an auto-add into Token-matters Commander decks like Baylen, the Haymaker
Baylen, the HaymakerTap two untapped tokens you control: Add one mana of any color.
Tap three untapped tokens you control: Draw a card.
Tap four untapped tokens you control: Put three +1/+1 counters on Baylen. It gains trample until end of turn..
Right of Vengeance is, notably, a legal Sunforger target, making it a great addition to Voltron decks like Captain America, First Avenger. If you can’t afford to take the damage, you could always just cast Settle the Wreckage instead, giving Sunforger players an incredible decision tree.
Frankly, Right of Vengeance is basically a slightly worse Inkshield, but you get the upside of playing this card in any white Commander deck. As such, Right of Vengeance will be the single from Klingon Fury to pick up once this deck hits shelves.
MTG Grika, Widowed Warrior
While Grilka, Widowed Warrior remains interesting for combat-focused Commander decks, she fits into many other archetypes. By stealing a creature and creating Treasure Tokens equal to its damage, Grilka can deliver both burst damage and a ton of ramp out of nowhere.
This makes Grilka a no-brainer in Treasure Typal decks like Jolene, the Plunder Queen that can maximize Grilka’s Treasure production using cards like Reckless Fireweaver. Ramping to Grilka in this archetype isn’t difficult, either, letting you get ahead on board quickly.
With a sacrifice outlet like Phyrexian Altar, however, Grilka can turn into outright removal, making her quite powerful alongside Commanders like Akul, the Unrepentant or Ayara, Widow of the Realm. Arm Grilka with cards like Kaya’s Ghostform or Not Dead After All, and you can even steal multiple creatures with Grilka, setting up mass sacrifice synergies.
Similarly, Blink strategies can use cards like Ephemerate
EphemerateExile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.) or Panharmonicon to double Grilka’s trigger, stealing multiple creatures. While there aren’t a ton of red-colored Blink Commanders out there to abuse this, it could make Grilka a unique addition to decks like Shiko, Paragon of the Way.
Voq, Torchbearer
Voq, Torchbearer offers Commander players a second, and stronger, copy of Superior Spider-Man, which has been making waves in Standard right now. Thanks to entering as a copy of a creature after being cast from your hand, Voq can abuse the entry triggers of cards like Bringer of the Last Gift, Uldaros Theorix, or Deceit, creating tons of value for just four mana.
For Reanimator Commander decks, Voq, Torchbearer will essentially be an auto-include, fitting like a glove with Commanders like Meren of Clan Nel Toth or Hashaton, Scarab’s Fist. Unlike Superior Spider-Man, Voq doesn’t exile your targeted card, either, allowing you to reanimate it again later in the game.
Unfortunately, Voq, Torchbearer will not be Standard legal, like almost all of the cards in these Commander precons, but this Klingon Spy looks incredible for Reanimator decks regardless.
Best Reprints
Compared to the other MTG Star Trek Commander Precons so far, Klingon Fury really shines in the reprint department. With tons of $5 reprints and a few at $10 and up, this precon is reprinting all kinds of aggressive goodies.
Similar to Federation Fleet, the highlight reprint in Klingon Fury is Vault of Champions
Vault of ChampionsThis land enters tapped unless you have two or more opponents.
{T}: Add {W} or {B}. for $16, an Orzhov land that always enters untapped in Commander. Eclipsed Steppe is yet another decent reprint in this deck’s manabase, currently going for about $5.
Only two other reprints in Klingon Fury go for above $10: World at War and Sword of Light and Shadow. World of War is particularly powerful for combat decks, giving you multiple extra combat steps, while Sword of Light and Shadow can turn any attacking Klingon Token into a threat.
While things do drop off after this, there are still a fair few strong reprints. Lightning Greaves
Lightning GreavesEquipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.)
Equip {0}, for example, is an incredible Haste and Protection enabler for $5, while Duelist’s Heritage can give attacking creatures Double Strike for $2.50.
Continuing with strong reprints for combat decks, Warleader’s Call is yet another notable reprint at $4, rewarding you for going wide with buffs and damage. Shared Animosity is, arguably, an even better go-wide payoff for Typal decks at $4.50, easily scaling into lethal damage.
A particularly notable reprint here is Professional Face-breaker, which retains a $4 reprint value despite having tons of reprints. Even if you aren’t playing an overly aggressive deck, Menace makes ramping, or Impulse Drawing, with this creature easy.
With an evident Goad subtheme, Disrupt Decorum is another notable reprint available for $4. Even if you aren’t playing a Goad-themed deck, forcing all of your opponents to swing at one another for a turn can both remove some threats and buy you a lot of time.
Pest Control is a particularly strange $3.50 card seeing its first reprint, but it is notable. By wiping out all permanents with mana value 1 or less, it sees occasional competitive play and excels at removing tokens in Commander.
This, shockingly, puts Klingon Fury at a $68.50 reprint value, and that’s not even counting smaller $1 reprints like Sol Ring. Since this precon is mostly new cards that don’t currently have a reprint value, that’s a ton of value for a $75 MSRP.
All in all, Klingon Fury looks like it’s a step ahead of We Are the Borg and Federation Fleet, offering a deck that’s both good to play out of the box and to take apart. Aggressive Commander precons have often outperformed their peers, too, which makes me think Klingon Fury might be a fearsome deck to face down.
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