New to MTG and in for Star Trek specifically. Already got a lot of cards. Got a Blue Welcome Deck at STLV, bought five Boosters and the Prerelease box before could get my hands on this Commander deck (“Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary” is the commander if you were wondering).
Already have so many ideas for building decks. Going to participate in a local Star Trek league beginning next week, which is Sealed format. So excited! Also buying all the Lower Decks/California-class products that Ultimate Guard have made as well for storage and play.
You can look at the Commander deck here. Hard to share my entire card collection. https://manabox.app/decks/AaHb0eK4ej-0r5YjGgd42w
A few of the cards I’ve pulled.
EDIT: I didn’t photograph the “Tricorder” card.
EDIT: I have 338 total cards (including the token cards) in one week.
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I hope you enjoy it!! I’ve been playing MTG for a little over 12 years now and it’s a lot of fun. I don’t keep up with everything, but some of these extended universes are a lot of fun, I bought a bunch of the TMNT stuff myself.
Since your new, my recommendation is stick with Commander and try not to go too crazy buying cards (it’s hard sometimes I know). Depending on your regular group, precons are a great way to start with some minor tweaks. My pod consists of 5 folks, we’ve all played a long time, and pretty much only play commander at this point. Our decks are mostly modified precons with an occasional home brew.
I hope you have so much FUN!!!
What even is this game anymore?
Fortnite trading card game
Welcome to the game! Don’t let the haters get to you, and enjoy the Star Trek set! It’s awesome.
Welcome and remember most pods are fine with proxies so you dont have to bankrupt yourself ;)
I’m happy you’re enjoying it but goddamn this is a major reason why I stopped caring about MTG
I’m not a magic player, but can’t you just play without mixing franchises?
every flgs i’ve been to only sells crossovers :(
Same reason you would think less of Star Trek as franchise for having half of their new shows be something like McDonald’s Presents: Star Trek where each week they go to a new McDonald’s and kill someone trying to unionize the workers.
Sure, it doesn’t in theory affect what was made before but it’s crass commercialism that directly makes the world of the other series worse just for being associated with it.
What you say is only “in theory” is my reality! I enjoy what I enjoy, and I don’t what I don’t. I don’t see a reason to hand over control of my happiness to some corporation.
Except it’s not crass commercialism. The cards are clearly made by people who love Star Trek. The gameplay is also fantastic.
One of the greatest things about Magic has always been the variety of different worlds that can exist within its systems. The only difference here is that people can play their favorite characters.
Yes you can. The problems are the quantity of sets that are ip based ( 2026 saw more non magic sets than magic sets) and other people’s decks.
Speaking as someone who is only in the game because of final fantasy
World building be damned. Here’s Spongebob, My Little Pony, Lord of the Rings and Star Trek. I also stopped caring.
as someone who played mtg back in the 90s and really hasn’t gotten into it since… what are commander decks?
It is one of the most popular formats. Qualifying cards in a 100 card deck are designated a “commander” (typically a legendary creature or other card with text explicitly allowing them to be such). The mana cost determines a “color identity” which limits you to cards of those colors only. Only lands can be duplicated. And there are special rules for casting a commander and additional damage they deal that can end a match.
So this deck is a precon called Federation Fleet. The commander is “Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary”. That card has generic mana, Blue mana, Red mana and White mana. So only cards of those colors can be used on top of not being duplicated. Lands can have unlimited copies as long as the deck is 100 cards total. No more, no less.
You cast the commander normally but you get the option to return them to the “command zone” or graveyard if they are killed. If they return to the command zone, they incure a tax of 2 generic mana that doubles each time they are cast from the command zone. That “command tax” is waived if they are cast by other means.
When a commander deals damage you take “command damage” on top of your 40 life points. Reach zero life points you lose the same as in Standard. If you take 21 command damage you lose as well. A match of Commander can have 2-4 players. You can play 5+ players but a match can be incredibly slow.
I’m brand new to MTG. Hopefully I explained that well enough.
Only lands can be duplicated.
oh wow, so one of each instant/artifact/sorcery etc? that’s cool
40 life points
oof
looking at the Jean Luc Picard commander card, that’s 3 different colored mana just to summon him into play… that’s interesting…
thanks for the notes, appreciate it!
As mentioned, him having three colours enables the deck to play those three colours. And there’s a lot of mana fixing in commander in the shape of mana producing artifacts and lands that produce several types of mana, so it’s easier than it looks to play a three colour card.
To add to what OP said, Commander is the most popular format nowadays, by far. It’s also a casual, multiplayer format. Usually played with four players and rarely in a competitive environment. The format also allows cards from every set with only a relatively small banlist.
It’s all about making splashy plays with pet cards.
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Technically not gambling, as I imagine Data would state.
100% gambling. All blind pack collectible cards are.
I’ve not bought a Collector Booster yet.
I started with both, and both games suffer from similar problems. They both grew so far beyond their original scopes such that old cards need errata to work under the fixed rules. It’s like trying to have fun with a lawyer present.
If you played thousands to games of MtG over the decades, you can probably recognize certain old wording on a card that makes you raise an eyebrow and call it out. “OK, I can walk you through how this works with that. No, you can’t end up how you wanted it to because of such-and-such rule.” Et cetera.
If you played only dozens of games of Star Trek CCG, you’re probably going to have some ugly strips of paper in the card sleeves or print new cards, which seems silly when you are looking at boxes of cards you already have.
That and Star Wars CCG were the best.
Very nice! I too started (back) into MTG for Star Trek. This is my pair from a couple pre release decks I got with my son:
Ultimate Guard have a play-mat that uses the Q artwork.
Edhrec.com is a good spot for deck editing ideas
I have an idea (if it is playable) for a artificial intelligence deck. Led by The Borg Queen who employees Lore as her general. Queen thinks she can use Lore, while Lore thinks he can take advantage of them. And Lore decides to include Badgey into the mix but he ends up causing chaos. The player is as much at risk as the opponent is when Badgey is there.
Start your crafting! Prefer moxfield for that myself
Bastards of the coast are cashing in big off Patrick Stewart and Walter Koenig 's deaths.
I’m not saying they made it for that, but the timing is really boosting their profits
I knew it. Wizards killed them as marketing for the new set.
Typical Hasbro.
This is the reason I decided to get into it. I had a Welcome Deck from STLV, saw a shop nearby was doing a Learn to Play and checked it out. It cheered me up. I was overwhelmed by the Chekov card I pulled.
Say goodbye to your wallet
Haha. I know.
I dabbled in the late 90s, but ultimately it wasn’t for me. The Trek sets look great, though - good luck on your journey!
To the journey!
Sorry JC shippers. No Chakotay.
I got into MTG around the time of kamigawa series and really loved the original art of the cards as a kid :) The star trek MTG to me is similar as the rest of nowadays “milking” of franchises in movie industry. Never the less enjoy and pardon me for adding my rambling to the rest of the people here who also started with MTG at least 20 years ago :D
