MTG Star Trek Limited Review: Draftsim Details 10 Draft Archetypes
Draftsim, a community site, has published a Limited set review of the Magic: The Gathering Star Trek set, covering Booster Draft and Sealed Deck. The review is based on initial impressions and rates cards on a 0-10 scale.
According to Draftsim, the set is a full Draft set with the standard 10 two-colour archetypes. These run from Azorius (W/U) Engineers and Spacecraft and Dimir (U/B) Facing Dilemmas to Rakdos (B/R) Klingon Aggro, Gruul (R/G) Landfall and Selesnya (G/W) Doctors, which care about counters. The list continues with Orzhov (W/B) The Borg, built around artifact creatures, Izzet (U/R) Scientists, a noncreature-spells deck, Golgari (B/G) Gravebreak, Boros (R/W) Command Crew, which wants creatures with total power of 8 or greater, and Simic (G/U) Strange New Worlds.
Draftsim also says the Star Trek set is the draft format for the World Championship in November and for the newly announced Spotlight Series events in January.
The review walks through the set's mechanics. Beam Me Up is similar to flashback: it lets you cast spells from your graveyard, with the additional cost of returning a creature you control to your hand. Face a Dilemma covers the many modal spells and abilities in the set, and some cards trigger if you have faced a dilemma, meaning you chose a mode for a spell or ability.
Federation is an ability word that counts the number of different creature types among the non-Borg creatures you control, and species such as Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans appear as their own creature types. Strange New Worlds counts the number of differently named lands you control. The set has multiple cycles of dual lands and utility lands, and a few cards with the mechanic already appeared in Edge of Eternities.
Spacecraft return from Edge of Eternities. A spacecraft is an artifact with the station keyword: you tap an untapped creature you control to put charge counters equal to its power on the spacecraft. With enough counters it becomes a creature, usually with extra abilities. Assimilate is the Borg mechanic, which puts the card onto the battlefield under your control as a Borg artifact creature with a +1/+1 counter. It appears on only a handful of cards at higher rarities.
Among the individual cards, Draftsim rates the white 70,000 Light-Years from Home 6/10. It exiles a creature or spacecraft and is compared to a weaker Path to Exile. The article also shows Sarek, Federation Ambassador, The Traveler, U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class, Borg Cube, Pure Energy, Command Decision and Seven of Nine. Art credits named include Will Riker, First in the Field, illustrated by Zezhou Chen, and Exploratory Mission, illustrated by Jason Pastrana.
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