Star Trek Spoiler Season Kickoff Highlights Include Card That Turns Your Entire Hand into Any One Card

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 Scroll Rack {1}, {T}: Exile any number of cards from your hand face down. Put that many cards from the top of your library into your hand. Then look at the exiled cards and put them on top of your library in any order. or Sensei’s Divining Top Sensei’s Divining Top {1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order.
{T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library. , 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 Jeska’s Will Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand.
• Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn. 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 Fortune Each 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 Lion’s Eye Diamond Discard your hand, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Activate only as an instant. 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 Lotus Bloom Suspend 3—{0} (Rather than cast this card from your hand, pay {0} and exile it with three time counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a time counter. When the last is removed, you may cast it without paying its mana cost.)
{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. or Living End Living End Suspend 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 Pride First 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 Breya, Etherium Shaper When Breya enters, create two 1/1 blue Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying.
{2}, Sacrifice two artifacts: Choose one —
• Breya deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker.
• Target creature gets -4/-4 until end of turn.
• You gain 5 life. , Korvold, Fae-Cursed King Korvold, Fae-Cursed King Flying
Whenever Korvold enters or attacks, sacrifice another permanent.
Whenever you sacrifice a permanent, put a +1/+1 counter on Korvold and draw a card. , and Super-Skrull Super-Skrull Flying
{2}{W}: Create a 0/4 colorless Wall creature token with defender.
{3}{G}: Super-Skrull gets +4/+4 until end of turn.
{4}{R}: Super-Skrull deals 4 damage to target creature.
{5}{U}: Target player draws four cards. 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 Vihaan, Goldwaker Other outlaws you control have vigilance and haste. (Assassins, Mercenaries, Pirates, Rogues, and Warlocks are outlaws.)
At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may have Treasures you control become 3/3 Construct Assassin artifact creatures in addition to their other types until end of turn. 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 Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control.
Cheer — Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn. or The Wise Mothman The Wise Mothman Flying
Whenever The Wise Mothman enters or attacks, each player gets a rad counter.
Whenever one or more nonland cards are milled, put a +1/+1 counter on each of up to X target creatures, where X is the number of nonland cards milled this way. are the most obvious homes for Data, but he could play well in artifact Typal Commander decks like Urza, Chief Artificer Urza, Chief Artificer Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact creature you control.)
Artifact creatures you control have menace.
At the beginning of your end step, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control." , 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 Agatha’s Soul Cauldron You may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to activate abilities of creatures you control.
Creatures you control with +1/+1 counters on them have all activated abilities of all creature cards exiled with Agatha's Soul Cauldron.
{T}: Exile target card from a graveyard. When a creature card is exiled this way, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. 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 Branching Evolution If one or more +1/+1 counters would be put on a creature you control, twice that many +1/+1 counters are put on that creature instead. 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 Atraxa, Praetor’s Voice Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.) or Animar, Soul of Elements Animar, Soul of Elements Protection from white and from black
Whenever you cast a creature spell, put a +1/+1 counter on Animar.
Creature spells you cast cost {1} less to cast for each +1/+1 counter on Animar. .

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 Emry, Lurker of the Loch Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
When Emry enters, mill four cards.
{T}: Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. You may cast that card this turn. (You still pay its costs. Timing rules still apply.) , solving some of the card’s biggest weaknesses in Modern. By giving Emry Haste immediately, this card can help execute the Sewer-Veillance Cam Sewer-Veillance Cam Flash
When this artifact enters or leaves the battlefield, you may tap or untap target creature.
{3}{U}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw two cards. 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 Colossus Trample, 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 Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger When you cast this spell, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library. . 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 Karn, the Great Creator Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated.
+1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value.
−2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand. in Modern Tron decks, fans of the niche Shape Anew Shape Anew The controller of target artifact sacrifices it, then reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal an artifact card. That player puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles all other cards revealed this way into their library. 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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