MTG Star Trek spoiler season is finally under way, and lots of new cards are hitting the internet at warp speed. Featuring tons of new rares and mythics featuring iconic characters, MTG is getting a whole bunch of powerful new designs. Among the new cards revealed during the kickoff of MTG’s Star Trek spoiler season, here are the highlights.
MTG Q, Stacking the Deck
With its bizarre entry effect, Q, Stacking the Deck could easily become a build-around card in Commander. With topdeck manipulation effects like Scroll Rack or Sensei’s Divining Top, you can set up what Q exiles, turning every redundant card in your hand into another copy of something ridiculous. It may not seem too impressive at first, but Q has the potential to be unreal levels of broken.
Exiling something like Jeska’s Will is especially scary, letting you turn every card in your hand into red mana and three Impulse draws. Similarly, if you can set up something like Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of FortuneEach player discards their hand, then draws seven cards. under Q, you can continuously wheel your hand, drawing Ritual effects to create Storm-like sequences. In older formats or higher-powered Commander tables, exiling Lion’s Eye Diamond is especially silly, turning every card in your hand into a 3-mana burst.
Making Q work in Constructed is far more difficult, but there could still be places to experiment with it. Q should work particularly well with the zero-mana suspend cards like Lotus Bloom or Living End
Living EndSuspend 3—{2}{B}{B}
Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield., since his added ability should make those castable without Suspension. Heck, even including Q in a Boros Energy list in Modern and turning your extra lands into Ocelot Pride
Ocelot PrideFirst strike, lifelink
Ascend (If you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game.)
At the beginning of your end step, if you gained life this turn, create a 1/1 white Cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing, for each token you control that entered this turn, create a token that's a copy of it.s could be worthwhile.
Q, Stacking the Deck is easily the flashiest card in this MTG Star Trek spoiler season kickoff, and has the potential to become an extreme powerhouse. That said, four mana is rather expensive nowadays, so it could easily be too slow to do enough.
Quark, Humble Proprietor
Don’t let that first line fool you; Quark, Humble Proprietor is one of the best Treasure token generators in MTG. Creating a Treasure token on each player’s Upkeep is absurd in Commander, ramping you four mana per turn rotation. The key is having a way to pick off your own Quark when you want to use your Treasures, which is easy for many Commanders.
This makes Quark particularly powerful in Breya, Etherium Shaper, Korvold, Fae-Cursed King, and Super-Skrull decks as both an artifact token and a mana producer. All of these Commanders have abilities that can directly kill the Farengi, turning on your Treasures at any time. Otherwise, Commanders that can use Treasures without sacrificing them, like Vihaan, Goldwaker can get a ton of value from Quark without removing him.
Quark’s Treasure-making capabilities are so good that this card could even see some 60-card play. The Farengi seems particularly strong in creature-focused formats, since Quark makes for a great ramp piece that doubles as a chump blocker. Trying the Farengi out in the semi-recent Standard Eldrazi Ramp deck, for example, could make it a real contender.
MTG Lieutenant Commander Data
Among MTG Star Trek’s early cards, Lieutenant Commander Data looks promising. This artifact creature grows when any player casts a noncreature spell, racking up +1/+1 counters quick. This makes Data a great addition for or against Spellslinger decks in constructed and a natural Commander inclusion. With four players at the table, Data should be able to start drawing you cards quickly with his second ability.
Commanders that care about +1/+1 counters, like Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian or The Wise Mothman are the most obvious homes for Data, but he could play well in artifact Typal Commander decks like Urza, Chief Artificer, too. Heck, Data could even be an interesting inclusion in Vivi Cauldron decks in Pioneer due to generating tons of mana in play and being a decent Agatha’s Soul Cauldron target itself.
Dr Joseph M’Benga
Dr. Joseph M’Benga offers Commander players another instant staple, this time for any Commander deck that cares about any kind of counter. Offering an upgraded Branching Evolution effect stapled to a Hexproof enabler, Dr. Joseph is easily a remove-on-sight card in the 99 of Commander decks like Atraxa, Praetor’s Voice or Animar, Soul of Elements.
While this gives Dr. Joseph a ton of incredible homes in Commander, the card is rather straightforward. Still, as this card shows, simplicity doesn’t take away from its potential.
Hit it!
If you’re looking for a Haste enabler for your Commander deck, Hit it! might be one of the best enablers in the game right now. Its entry effect is a massive boon compared with other options, letting you ramp ahead of schedule and fill your graveyard with cards. Frankly, this makes Hit it! an auto-include in any Gruul Creature-oriented Commander decks, and it could even see some competitive play.
Hit it! is particularly strong with Emry, Lurker of the Loch, solving some of the card’s biggest weaknesses in Modern. By giving Emry Haste immediately, this card can help execute the Sewer-Veillance Cam and Grinding Station
Grinding Station{T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Target player mills three cards.
Whenever an artifact enters, you may untap this artifact. combo as soon as it enters play, milling your opponent out. This gives your opponent a far smaller window to take Emry out, which is huge for dodging sorcery-speed removal. Hit it! also helps fuel your grave, finding Emry’s combo pieces.
Between Commander, Modern, and other competitive formats, I wouldn’t be surprised if Hit it! ends up being a stronger card than players expect.
Deep Space 9
Deep Space 9 is the biggest and flashiest spacecraft MTG has seen so far, with an incredibly powerful effect. Putting a continuous stream of permanents into play, this card’s value is extremely difficult to beat in longer games. Since this card puts any permanent into play, cheating in massive bombs like Blightsteel Colossus
Blightsteel ColossusTrample, infect, indestructible
If Blightsteel Colossus would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, reveal Blightsteel Colossus and shuffle it into its owner's library instead. or Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger. This could even make Deep Space 9 an intriguing Commander, but it’s far more effective in the 99 of other decks.
This card is powerful enough to make appearances in competitive MTG, too. Alongside being an intriguing tutor target for Karn, the Great Creator in Modern Tron decks, fans of the niche Shape Anew decks have a new card to try and cheat into play.
While these are some of the most exciting cards from the MTG Star Trek spoiler season kickoff, they’re far from the only cards seen there. With so many cards hitting the internet, keep an eye on this space for the best MTG Star Trek has to offer.
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