Magic Star Trek Q, Stacking the Deck Tops EDHREC TRK/TRC Commanders
Draftsim reports Q, Stacking the Deck is the most built Star Trek commander on EDHREC, thanks to memes. Its author still rates the card weak.
Q, Stacking the Deck is reportedly the most built commander from the Magic: The Gathering Star Trek set (TRK/TRC) on EDHREC, according to Draftsim. The site credits memes for the popularity, not raw power.
What Q, Stacking the Deck Does
Q is a mono-red Commander card. When it enters the battlefield, it exiles a random card from the top of its controller's library. That card can be cast from exile if you exile a card from hand as an additional cost.
Q also shuffles the deck, so setups that rely on library order are unreliable.
The 98 Mountains Meme Build
The joke build runs Q with 98 Mountains and one other card. Redditor -theslaw- proposed Glaring Fleshraker for that slot.
The clock, as laid out:
- Turn 4: Q
- Turn 5: 1 Fleshraker
- Turn 6: 2 Fleshrakers, and the win
A commenter, Itfailed, suggested the saga Maximum Carnage as a slower route that forces opponents to attack each other.
Storm Build Ideas for Q
Draftsim argues that Q's multiple enters triggers produce multiple exiled cards to cast. Cheap red copy spells such as Twinflame, Molten Duplication, and Heat Shimmer therefore suit a storm-style deck.
Suggested payoffs are Price of Progress, Delayed Blast Fireball, and Terror of the Peaks. The suggested mana base is about 87 lands with 12–20 great red spells.
Manamorphose with Q reportedly generates storm, and storm of 80+ wins most games.
Why Draftsim Calls Q Weak
Draftsim's author judges Q weak as a commander. The meme builds are slow and fold to a single Counterspell or Drannith Magistrate. Q also consumes cards from hand, so it needs a steady supply of them.
Suggested fixes include Wheel of Fortune to refill cards for the exiled spells. Other suggestions for the 99 are Time Warp, Manamorphose, Uncover the Moon-Letters, and Prosper, Tome-Bound.
TCGKing's take: a commander can top a popularity chart for being funny, and 98 Mountains is a very funny deck. Treat the ranking as a measure of memes, not of strength, which is exactly how Draftsim frames it.
Q also appears in TCGKing's earlier coverage of the Star Trek scene box, which reportedly packs six Faerie legends built around Q.
What is still unknown
- Exact EDHREC deck counts are not given.
- No official publisher statement is included.
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