Star Trek’s release approaches, with the set out for everyone to enjoy on November 13. It’s heavy on nostalgia, sure – but also heavy on playables and cool mechanics. Here are our top-selling Star Trek cards so far – the most pre-ordered cards in our pre-sale.
OUR TOP SELLING STAR TREK CARDS OF THE WEEK
10. Dr Joseph M’Benga & Primary Unimatrix Adjunct
The number 10 slot is a joint one, with both cards selling equally. Dr Joseph M’Benga does a lot for four mana; giving you creatures with counters hexproof, and acting as a doubler for counter production. It’s easy to see the demand here for Commander. Primary Unimatrix Adjunct is also a beater at four mana, granting double strike to all of your artifact creatures. Both cards are generating plenty of Commander interest.
9. Lwaxana Troi, Charming Guest
Lwaxana Troi, Charming Guest is essentially a part-installment Strionic Resonator that has the potential to give you way more than just the one copied ability. For the same mana cost (and waiting a turn or granting her haste) you get to enjoy extra abilities for the rest of the time you control her. That’s pretty strong – and another big Commander pick up.
8. Antagonist Incorporator
It’s not quite Pack Rat, but Antagonist Incorporator is still an aggressively costed token producer. A two mana 2/3 is a solid statline, and flooding the board with spare mana is a legit way to win a game. Probably not good enough for older formats, but definitely a sleeper for Standard.
7. Mr. Spock, Science Officer
Teferi’s Ageless Insight is a widely played blue staple in Commander. Why not play another copy of it, stapled to a creature? It even turns your draw step into two cards. Spock, Science Officer is a huge Commander pickup – probably to an unsettling degree. Most blue decks are gonna be happy to jam this.
6. Quark, Humble Proprietor
Quark, Humble Proprietor is a pretty productive engine for making treasures with a very real downside – you don’t get to crack any of them (including others you make with other cards) while Quark is in play. Is that enough to make Quark a risky pick? Absolutely not, as you can happily sacrifice him or chump block with him to unlock your savings. Needs a little maneuvering to be good, but when it’s good? It’s great.
5. Replicator
Replicator comes in and makes a Food, which is kind of enough for a lot of Food decks to immediately consider running it. What takes it from being a forgettable durdly artifact to somewhere better is the ability to make a tapped token copy of any token you control – not just artifact tokens. If you’re running a deck that makes a lot of token copies – even ephemeral ones that last a turn, or a combat step – this is well worth a look.
4. Lieutenant Commander Data
What makes Lieutenant Commander Data such an interesting card is the ability to remove counters from your creatures. Sure, you can convert +1/+1 counters into cards, but it’s way more interesting to remove Lore Counters from Saga creatures, or Finality counters, or Stun counters, right?
Data might well be one of the chase cards from the set, as it synergizes really well with popular commanders like Tidus, Noctis and Terra from Final Fantasy.
3. Deep Space 9
Big colorless top-end haymakers are enduringly popular, and Deep Space 9 is one of the more intriguing we’ve seen in a hot minute. It echoes back to both iterations of Etali in a way – up to four permanents into play for free every upkeep and when it enters is kinda bonkers. Cheating it into play is the preferred modus operandi here, and we have plenty of ways to Refurbish from the grave if that’s your jam.
2. Jadzia Dax, Living Legacy
Jadzia Dax, Living Legacy enters Standard in the wake of Badgermole Cub’s exit. While she’s decidedly not a landfall card, she is a two drop with a massive textbox that makes a bunch of mana, so that’s pretty close to Standard playable if you ask me. With minimal counters synergies, her mana production skyrockets. Still probably seeing most demand from Commander, but don’t count her out.
1. Salt Vampire
If there was ever card in the set to be a best-seller, it was always going to be a two mana hand attack creature. Salt Vampire is among the best we’ve seen printed; it’s unconditional exile of the best nonland card in their hand, without a way to get it back – aside from the low chance of drawing one of the other copies in the deck off of the replacement card.
Being a 2/2 with Lifelink lifts Salt Vampire even higher – compare it to Deep-Cavern Bats, which is not on the level of Salt Vampire but saw a lot of play.
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Those are our top–selling Star Trek cards from our pre-sale. Prerelease for the set starts November 6, with the retail release on November 13. There’s still plenty of time to get to grips with the set and pick up some hot pre-orders. Let us know what you’re looking forward to most on socials.
Kristen is Card Kingdom’s Head Writer and a member of the Commander Format Panel. Formerly a competitive Pokémon TCG grinder, she has been playing Magic since Shadows Over Innistrad, which in her opinion, was a great set to start with. When she’s not taking names with Equipment and Aggro strategies in Commander, she loves to play any form of Limited.