Draftsim Ranks Magic's Star Trek Lands for Commander, Shore Leave Planet #1
Draftsim has reportedly ranked the Star Trek lands for Commander, and its verdict is that few of them are high-impact. Shore Leave Planet takes #1 for a costly clone ability that copies your commander and skirts the legend rule, ahead of The Unicomplex at #2 and Quark's Bar at #3. The ten planet gain lands rank last, out of 23 new lands printed across the main set and the Star Trek Commander decks, most of them sorted into cycles.
Federation Outpost lands at #4: it gains life, enters untapped most of the time, and fixes mana. Starfleet Academy follows at #5; it is colorless until you control creatures of diverse creature types, and the author says roughly four such creatures are needed for it to make mana-positive.
Unexplored Territory sits at #6 and is described as a functional reprint of Promising Vein, while Ni'Var Science Academy is #7, with a mode that grants flying temporarily. The Q Continuum cycle ranks #8. These modal dilemma lands enter untapped if they are your third land or later, like slow lands, and let you surveil or choose a color-appropriate mode. The green mode gives +1/+1 and vigilance. Draftsim compares the dilemma lands to the land cycle from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Quark's Bar pings the opponent and can trigger land-drop effects, while The Unicomplex is a dilemma land with a mode that puts a creature on top of its controller's library, alongside the surveil option. The Anomaly cycle is #9: five colorless lands (Artificial, Gaseous, Spatial, Subspace and Temporal Anomaly), each of which can be sacrificed for an effect and replaces itself with a New Planet token.
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