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The Borg Queen
Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2.
Whenever The Borg Queen enters or attacks, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a creature card. Assimilate that card. They put the rest on the bottom in a random order. (To assimilate a card, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Whenever The Borg Queen enters or attacks, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a creature card. Assimilate that card. They put the rest on the bottom in a random order. (To assimilate a card, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Legendary Creature Artifact - Noble Borg
Commander
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Borg Cube
Affinity for artifact creatures
Whenever this Spacecraft enters or attacks, assimilate a creature card exiled with it. If you can't, exile up to one target creature. (To assimilate a card, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Station
12+ | Artifact creatures you control have flying.
Whenever this Spacecraft enters or attacks, assimilate a creature card exiled with it. If you can't, exile up to one target creature. (To assimilate a card, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Station
12+ | Artifact creatures you control have flying.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Borg Scout Sphere
When this Spacecraft enters, draw a card.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 6+.)
6+ | Artifact creatures you control have flying.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 6+.)
6+ | Artifact creatures you control have flying.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Class-4 Tactical Cube
When this Spacecraft enters, create two 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature tokens.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Artifact creatures you control get +1/+1.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Queen's Diamond
: Choose a color. Add one mana of that color for each charge counter on Queen's Diamond. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
8+ | Flying, vigilance, haste
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 8+.)
8+ | Flying, vigilance, haste
Legendary Artifact - Spacecraft
Swiftfoot Boots
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Equip (: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Artifact - Equipment
Transwarp Hub
When this Spacecraft enters, mill five cards. You may put up to two artifact cards from among them into your hand.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
3+ | : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery.)
3+ | : Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Type-03 Borg Vessel
Artifact spells you cast cost less to cast.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, create a 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature token.
Station (Tap another creature you control: Put charge counters equal to its power on this Spacecraft. Station only as a sorcery. It's an artifact creature at 7+.)
7+ | Flying
Whenever you cast a spell, create a 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature token.
Artifact - Spacecraft
Artifact
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Auton Soldier
You may have this creature enter as a copy of any creature on the battlefield, except it isn't legendary, is an artifact in addition to its other types, and has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than defending player, you may create a token copy that's tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at end of combat.)
Creature Artifact - Soldier Alien
Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest
Artifact creatures you control get +2/+0.
When Borg Queen enters, assimilate target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. (Put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
When Borg Queen enters, assimilate target creature card from an opponent's graveyard. (Put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Legendary Creature Artifact - Noble Borg
Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
You may have Sakashima enter as a copy of another creature you control, except it has Sakashima's other abilities.
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
The "legend rule" doesn't apply to permanents you control.
Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner.)
Legendary Creature - Human Rogue
Spark Double
You may have this creature enter as a copy of a creature or planeswalker you control, except it enters with an additional +1/+1 counter on it if it's a creature, it enters with an additional loyalty counter on it if it's a planeswalker, and it isn't legendary.
Creature - Illusion
Urza, Chief Artificer
Affinity for artifact creatures (This spell costs 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."
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."
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Urza, Lord High Artificer
When Urza enters, create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with "This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control."
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add .
: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Tap an untapped artifact you control: Add .
: Shuffle your library, then exile the top card. Until end of turn, you may play that card without paying its mana cost.
Legendary Creature - Human Artificer
Creature
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Enchantment
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Akroma's Will
Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain flying, vigilance, and double strike until end of turn.
• Creatures you control gain lifelink, indestructible, and protection from each color until end of turn.
Instant
Assimilate the Wounded
For each opponent, assimilate up to one target creature card from that player's graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. (Put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
Instant
Ephemerate
Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)
Instant
Teferi's Protection
Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.)
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Exile Teferi's Protection.
Instant
Instant
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Urza's Saga
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
I — This Saga gains ": Add ."
II — This Saga gains ", : Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'"
III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost or , put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.
Land Enchantment - Saga Urza's
Land
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This is an optimized thematic combat deck, not a cEDH combo deck. The Star Trek cards are previewed for the November 13, 2026 release.\nOverview"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"The strategy is to accelerate early, assemble an artifact-creature and token engine, deploy The Borg Queen when she can immediately generate value or be protected, and convert the Collective into overwhelming combat damage. The Queen costs "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"{4}{W}{U}{B}"},{"insert":", gives all your artifact creatures "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"+2/+2"},{"insert":" (including herself), and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"assimilates one creature card from a targeted opponent's library when she enters or attacks"},{"insert":". Her attack trigger does not require her to deal combat damage.\nThe deck has four overlapping routes to a win:\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Collective expansion:"},{"insert":" Conquest Mission, Locutus of Borg, Maturation Chamber, Type-03 Borg Vessel, and other Borg effects create artifact creature tokens. The Queen and anthem effects make those tokens relevant threats."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Shared combat abilities:"},{"insert":" Co-Option Adjutant turns artifact-creature combat damage into cards; Locutus turns it into more drones; Primary Unimatrix Adjunct and One, Borg Evolved supply double strike; Borg Scout Sphere and a stationed Borg Cube supply flying."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Assimilation and copying:"},{"insert":" The Queen, Borg Cube, Assimilation Assessor, Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest, Ephemerate, Teleportation Circle, Panharmonicon, Roaming Throne, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, and Spark Double increase the number of creatures you acquire or the size of your board."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Combat closure:"},{"insert":" Bio-Asset Allocator drains each opponent when artifact creatures attack, even if they are blocked. Akroma's Will, Cyclonic Rift, Korok, Liberated Rage, and shared evasion make a lethal swing possible."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Among the most important supporting inclusions are:\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Acceleration:"},{"insert":" Sol Ring, Mana Vault, Ancient Tomb, Arcane Signet, the three Talismans, Mox Opal, Chrome Mox, Smothering Tithe, Urza's Incubator, and the precon's Queen's Diamond. The Diamond's mana can be spent "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"only to cast your commander"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Card advantage:"},{"insert":" Rhystic Study, Esper Sentinel, Kindred Discovery, Co-Option Adjutant, Hive Mind Coprocessor, Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct, Transwarp Hub, Skullclamp, and Reclamation Specialist."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Protection:"},{"insert":" Emergency Regeneration, Teferi's Protection, Fierce Guardianship, Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, and situational Borg Incursion or Akroma's Will."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Enablers and finishers:"},{"insert":" Roaming Throne, Panharmonicon, Sakashima of a Thousand Faces, Spark Double, Primary Unimatrix Adjunct, One, Borg Evolved, Locutus of Borg, Bio-Asset Allocator, and Akroma's Will."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Power calibration:"},{"insert":" Nine Game Changers put it in Bracket 4, but the actual win pattern is usually several turns of battlefield development, not an early deterministic combo. Expect slower kills and less stack interaction than the fastest optimized decks. Do not assume the Queen must always be cast first: sometimes Locutus, Conquest Mission, or Kindred Discovery is the more productive development play.\nMulligan strategy"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This matters more than keeping a hand full of recognizable Borg names. A seven-mana commander does not rescue an opening hand without acceleration and access to all three colors.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Keep: Accelerated, colored development"},{"insert":"\nTwo or three lands with access to white, blue, and black over the first few turns; Sol Ring, a Talisman, or Arcane Signet; and an engine such as Conquest Mission, Locutus of Borg, Rhystic Study, or Type-03 Borg Vessel."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"You can deploy an engine before the Queen, then arrive with an existing board to buff and use for stationing. With a single fast colorless source, count your actual colored pips, not just total mana."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Keep: Early token engine plus card access"},{"insert":"\nThree lands, one ramp piece, Conquest Mission or another way to develop artifact bodies, and a card-advantage source or relevant interaction."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This hand is often better than a hand with a speculative early Queen but no follow-up. Growing a board makes the Queen, Borg Cube, Mox Opal, and your shared-ability Borg much stronger."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Conditional keep: Fast Queen with protection"},{"insert":"\nTwo or three good lands, credible acceleration toward {4}{W}{U}{B}, and Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Emergency Regeneration, or another way to get immediate or protected value."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Keep only if the acceleration is real and the colored mana works. Greaves can give the Queen haste the turn she enters, producing both an enter trigger and an attack trigger."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mulligan: The seven-mana creature museum"},{"insert":"\nThree lands; The Borg Queen, One, Borg Evolved, Borg Cube, and other costly cards; no rock, early engine, or interaction."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This is an attractive flavor hand that may do very little until the table has already developed a threatening position."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mulligan: False fast mana"},{"insert":"\nA one-land hand with Mox Opal but fewer than two other artifacts, or Chrome Mox with no expendable "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"nonartifact, nonland"},{"insert":" card to imprint."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Mox Opal needs metalcraft. Chrome Mox cannot imprint the deck's numerous artifact creatures or mana rocks. Neither is automatically a functioning mana source in the opener."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mulligan: Bad colors disguised by rocks"},{"insert":"\nAncient Tomb, utility lands, Mana Vault, and a hand with no realistic route to {W}{U}{B}."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Generic mana is useful, but the Queen's three colored requirements still have to be met. Do not overlook how often your early plays themselves need colored mana."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Game Sequencing"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"1. Turns 1-2: Fix colors and accelerate."},{"insert":"\nPrioritize untapped colored lands and genuine early mana. Sol Ring into Arcane Signet is excellent. A Talisman can fix a missing color. Cast Esper Sentinel or Command Subadjunct where useful. Do not treat an unenabled Mox Opal as mana; do not exile a crucial protection spell to Chrome Mox without a specific reason.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"2. Turns 2-4: Establish a Collective engine."},{"insert":"\nConquest Mission is excellent when you can follow it with nontoken artifacts. Locutus of Borg sets up a compounding combat engine. Seven of Nine can loot and put two charge counters on a Spacecraft, Queen's Diamond, or Maturation Chamber when you discard a nonland card. Type-03 Borg Vessel lowers artifact costs immediately, even before it is stationed. Use inexpensive creatures and new Borg tokens to station key ships when appropriate.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"3. Turns 4-6: Choose between the Queen and a stronger intermediate play."},{"insert":"\nCasting the Queen is best when at least one is true: you already have artifact creatures for her +2/+2; you can protect her; you have haste; or Panharmonicon/Roaming Throne will multiply her enter trigger. If not, a well-timed Kindred Discovery, Primary Unimatrix Adjunct, or engine piece can be better. Against creature-heavy decks, a single successful assimilation can swing the board substantially.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"4. Turns 5 onward: Build the protected kill turn."},{"insert":"\nUse evasion from a stationed Borg Scout Sphere, Borg Cube, Transwarp Hub, or Rogue's Passage to secure damage triggers. Finish with doubled strikes, Akroma's Will, or an overloaded Cyclonic Rift. Bio-Asset Allocator gives you a route around blockers because its life-loss triggers happen when artifact creatures attack, before combat damage.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"5. After a wipe: Rebuild selectively."},{"insert":"\nKeep Emergency Regeneration or Teferi's Protection for a genuinely expensive reset. Overflow Submatrix can cast one artifact creature spell from your graveyard on each of your turns, but that creature enters with a finality counter. Academy Ruins can recur an artifact card to the top of your library. Join the Collective is a "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"reset button"},{"insert":", not a one-sided wipe: it destroys your artifact creatures as well as opposing creatures before producing its replacement Borg tokens.\nCombos"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"These are "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"finite"},{"insert":" lines. There is no infinite-mana, infinite-turn, or deterministic two-card win in the current list. Each line names cards that are actually present in the 100.\nCombo A: The Queen's repeated assimilation engine"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" The Borg Queen + Roaming Throne (choose "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Borg"},{"insert":") + Ephemerate. Optional: Panharmonicon and Lightning Greaves.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nHave Roaming Throne on the battlefield with Borg chosen."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Resolve The Borg Queen, or blink her with Ephemerate. Her enter ability triggers "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"twice"},{"insert":", because Roaming Throne adds one extra trigger."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Each trigger can target an opponent and independently assimilate a creature card from that opponent's library."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If you cast Ephemerate from your hand, its rebound lets you cast it again at your next upkeep, giving another two enter triggers if the same setup remains."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"If Lightning Greaves is available, equip it after the Queen returns. Haste lets her attack, causing "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"two more"},{"insert":" assimilation triggers. Re-equip after each blink because blinking detaches Equipment."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" Two assimilations per Queen entry, and two per attack with Roaming Throne. Ephemerate can provide two separate blinks across turns. "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"With both Panharmonicon and Roaming Throne, one Queen entry produces three assimilation triggers, not four"},{"insert":"; the two additional-trigger effects add rather than multiply. Panharmonicon does not copy attack triggers.\nCombo B: Multiple Queens, one expanding Collective"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" The Borg Queen + Spark Double + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces. Optional: Primary Unimatrix Adjunct.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nControl The Borg Queen."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Spark Double copying the Queen. It becomes a nonlegendary copy with an additional +1/+1 counter and generates its own enter/assimilate trigger."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Sakashima of a Thousand Faces copying the Queen. Its different name and legend-rule-modifying ability allow the copies to coexist; it also generates an enter/assimilate trigger."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Each of the three Queen-shaped permanents gives your artifact creatures +2/+2, for "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"+6/+6 total"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Give the team double strike with Primary Unimatrix Adjunct, or attack with large Borg and an evasive Queen."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" A small 1/1 Borg token becomes 7/7 before other bonuses. The original commander becomes 10/10. Its damage is commander damage, while damage from Spark Double or Sakashima is "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" commander damage. Clones do not themselves satisfy cards that require you to control "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"your commander"},{"insert":" if the actual commander is gone.\nCombo C: Locutus's double-strike reproduction cycle"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" Locutus of Borg + Co-Option Adjutant + Primary Unimatrix Adjunct (or One, Borg Evolved) + artifact creatures that can connect.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nLocutus gives every artifact creature a triggered ability that creates a Borg token when it deals combat damage to a player."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Co-Option Adjutant gives every artifact creature a separate combat-damage ability that draws a card."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Primary Unimatrix Adjunct grants double strike to the team."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Send artifact creatures through with a stationed Borg Scout Sphere, a stationed Borg Cube, Transwarp Hub, Rogue's Passage, or favorable blocks."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"An unblocked attacker deals first-strike and regular combat damage; its Locutus and Adjutant abilities trigger on "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"each"},{"insert":" damage event."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" Each unblocked artifact creature creates "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"two Borg tokens and draws two cards"},{"insert":", before any bonuses from Kindred Discovery or Hive Mind Coprocessor. The newly created tokens did not attack this combat and cannot retroactively deal combat damage. This is a snowball engine, not an infinite loop.\nCombo D: Roaming Throne turns the Borg swarm into life loss"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" Bio-Asset Allocator + Roaming Throne (choose "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Borg"},{"insert":") + multiple Borg artifact creatures.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nBio-Asset Allocator grants each artifact creature an ability that triggers when that creature attacks: "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"each opponent loses 1 life, and you gain 1 life"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Roaming Throne doubles those attack triggers for "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"other attacking Borg creatures"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Attack with a wide Borg board, even into blockers. The triggers happen on attack declaration, not on dealing combat damage."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Use evasion, double strike, or additional pumps to finish any survivors in combat."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" Five attacking Borg creatures other than Roaming Throne produce "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"ten triggers"},{"insert":": each opponent loses 10 life and you gain 10 life total. If Roaming Throne also attacks, its own granted trigger happens "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"once"},{"insert":", not twice, because its effect only doubles abilities of "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"another"},{"insert":" chosen-type creature. Double strike does "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" double attack triggers.\nCombo E: Borg Cube's immediate assimilation with Panharmonicon"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" Borg Cube + Panharmonicon. Helpful: five artifact creatures to discount Borg Cube through affinity.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nEstablish Panharmonicon."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Borg Cube. Its printed mana cost is {5}{W}{B}, but affinity for artifact creatures can reduce the five generic mana to zero."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Borg Cube's enter ability triggers twice because an artifact entered the battlefield."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"With no cards previously exiled with that Cube, resolve one trigger to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"exile a target creature"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Resolve the other trigger to "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"assimilate that creature card exiled with Borg Cube"},{"insert":". Set up the triggers and any optional targets correctly when putting them on the stack."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" Panharmonicon can make Borg Cube exile and then assimilate an opposing creature from a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"single entry"},{"insert":". Normally Cube needs one trigger to exile a creature and a later trigger (often from attacking after stationing it) to assimilate it. Borg Cube is not a Borg creature just because its name says Borg; Roaming Throne choosing Borg does not double the Cube's enter trigger.\nCombo F: Stratagem Emulator becomes an entire Borg army"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" Stratagem Emulator + Skullclamp. With the Queen in play, also use Reclamation Specialist.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nWithout other buffs, equip Skullclamp to the printed 2/1 Stratagem Emulator. It becomes 3/0 and dies from state-based actions."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Skullclamp triggers to draw two cards. Stratagem Emulator's death trigger uses its last known power of "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"3"},{"insert":" to create three 1/1 Borg artifact creature tokens."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"If the Queen is already in play"},{"insert":", Skullclamp does "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" kill the Emulator automatically: it is 5/2 after the Queen's +2/+2 and Clamp's +1/-1."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"In that board state, pay {1} and sacrifice the equipped Emulator to Reclamation Specialist. 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Helpful: a substantial artifact-creature board.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nBuild a board of artifact creatures; the number you control will determine X for Battle of Wolf 359."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Battle of Wolf 359. All "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"nonartifact"},{"insert":" creatures get -X/-X until end of turn. Your artifact Borg and assimilated artifact creatures are spared."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"After opposing creatures die, and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"in the same turn"},{"insert":", cast Assimilate the Wounded."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Target up to one creature card in each opponent's graveyard that was put there "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"from the battlefield this turn"},{"insert":", and assimilate them."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Result:"},{"insert":" A potentially asymmetrical wipe followed by up to three newly assimilated creatures in a typical four-player game. Battle of Wolf 359 doesn't necessarily kill every nonartifact creature: toughness greater than X can survive. Assimilate the Wounded cannot take an opponent's creature card that was milled or discarded earlier rather than put into a graveyard from the battlefield this turn.\nCombo H: Hugh replicates the Collective's best shared abilities"},{"attributes":{"header":3},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cards:"},{"insert":" Hugh, First of Many + Co-Option Adjutant (or another nonlegendary artifact creature) + {2}{U} per replicate. Helpful: Kindred Discovery naming Borg.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Steps:"},{"insert":"\nResolve Hugh. Your artifact spells now have replicate {2}{U}."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Cast Co-Option Adjutant and pay its replicate cost once or more as you cast it."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Each paid replicate cost creates a copy of the artifact spell that resolves as a token copy of Co-Option Adjutant."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"Multiple Adjutants each grant a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"separate"},{"insert":" card-draw ability to every artifact creature you control."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"When those creatures deal combat damage to a player, each granted ability triggers. 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Alongside your commander, your artifact creatures get a combined +4/+2, before other anthems.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Conquest Mission + Panharmonicon:"},{"insert":" Whenever a nontoken artifact enters, Panharmonicon makes Conquest Mission trigger an additional time, adding two quest counters and creating tokens twice. Reaching six quest counters increases its later token output. Token copies from Hugh's replicate do "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" trigger Conquest Mission.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Conquest Mission + The Borg Queen + Ephemerate:"},{"insert":" The Queen is a nontoken artifact permanent, so blinking her creates an assimilation trigger "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"and"},{"insert":" a Conquest Mission trigger. With Panharmonicon both entry-based triggers happen an additional time.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Kindred Discovery + Borg tokens:"},{"insert":" Choose "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"Borg"},{"insert":". Each Borg entering and each Borg attacking draws a card. Locutus, Conquest Mission, Maturation Chamber, and assimilation all feed it. Watch your library size when creating very large batches of tokens.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Jurati, Cordial Queen + Borg tokens:"},{"insert":" Once per opponent damaged by one or more of your artifact creatures in a combat-damage step, Jurati copies a target artifact token you control. With double strike there can be two such steps. The copied token can also be a Treasure from Smothering Tithe or a Construct from Urza's Saga, not just a Borg.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Korok, Liberated Rage + attacks at multiple opponents:"},{"insert":" Korok's battlefront trigger pumps your "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"entire"},{"insert":" creature team by +X/+X until end of turn, where X counts how many opponents you attacked that turn. Spreading a few attackers across three opponents can produce a larger alpha strike.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct + Maturation Chamber:"},{"insert":" Tap Seven to draw/discard. Discarding a nonland card this way adds "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"two charge counters"},{"insert":" to Chamber, speeding its {4}, tap, sorcery-speed Borg-token activation.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Seven of Nine + Queen's Diamond:"},{"insert":" Each nonland discarded to Seven can add two charge counters to Diamond. Diamond taps for one mana of one chosen color per counter, but that mana may only cast "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"your commander"},{"insert":". Diamond is not a general-purpose mana rock.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Seven of Nine + Unwinding Clock:"},{"insert":" Seven is an artifact creature, so the Clock untaps her on other players' untap steps. You can loot and put charge counters onto artifacts throughout the turn cycle, as long as she remains available to tap.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Ambulatory Reactor + Command Subadjunct:"},{"insert":" Ambulatory Reactor lets artifact creatures tap for {C} to cast artifact spells or activate abilities of artifact sources. Command Subadjunct grants vigilance, allowing attacking Borg to remain untapped and tap for artifact-related mana later. That restricted mana "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cannot"},{"insert":" cast Akroma's Will or Emergency Regeneration.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Ambulatory Reactor + Unwinding Clock:"},{"insert":" Clock untaps the Reactor and the other artifact creatures on opponents' untap steps. Their mana can pay for artifact-source activated abilities, such as Reclamation Specialist, during the full turn cycle. Unwinding Clock is strong value, "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" an infinite mana loop.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Unwinding Clock + Mana Vault:"},{"insert":" Vault untaps on opponents' untap steps through Clock, so it can help pay for interaction across a multiplayer turn cycle. Clock also untaps artifact creatures after they attack so they can block on subsequent turns.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Type-03 Borg Vessel + artifact spells:"},{"insert":" Even before stationing, it reduces artifact spell costs by {1}. At seven charge counters it becomes a flying artifact creature and creates a Borg token whenever you "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cast a spell"},{"insert":". Copies made by replicate are not cast and do not generate extra cast triggers.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Transwarp Hub + Locutus / Co-Option Adjutant:"},{"insert":" Its enter ability mills five and can return up to two artifact cards from among those milled to your hand. Once stationed to three counters, it can tap to make a creature unblockable, guaranteeing combat-damage triggers if that creature actually deals damage to a player.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Borg Cube + existing drones:"},{"insert":" Affinity for artifact creatures can make the seven-mana Cube cost just {W}{B} once you control five artifact creatures. At twelve station counters it grants flying to your entire artifact-creature team.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Assimilation Assessor + Roaming Throne:"},{"insert":" Assessor exiles a target opponent's graveyard when it enters, then assimilates a creature card exiled with it each time it attacks. Roaming Throne choosing Borg doubles its attack trigger, potentially assimilating two cards per attack if at least two suitable creature cards remain exiled with that Assessor. Blinking Assessor creates a "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"new"},{"insert":" object; it cannot use the former object's linked exiled cards.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Overflow Submatrix + dead Borg:"},{"insert":" Once during each of your turns, you may cast an artifact creature from your graveyard. It enters with a finality counter, so if it would die again it is exiled instead. This is recursion, not an unrestricted loop.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Collective Override + an attack with many creatures:"},{"insert":" With your actual commander on the battlefield "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"as you cast"},{"insert":" the spell, choose both modes: create a Borg token for each attacking creature and draw that many cards. It counts attacking creatures controlled by "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"any"},{"insert":" player, so it can also be a strong response to an opponent's attack. The new tokens are not attacking, but if created before blockers they can block.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Borg Incursion + an attack:"},{"insert":" Create two tokens, then give artifact creatures protection from a chosen color. This can protect the army from a targeted removal spell of that color or help it pass blockers of that color. It does not give protection from colorless permanents.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Emergency Regeneration + artifact board:"},{"insert":" For {1}{W}, all artifacts you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. It protects the Queen and artifact tokens from most destruction wipes, but not exile, sacrifice, or -X/-X effects.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Akroma's Will + Queen:"},{"insert":" If you control the actual commander as you cast it, choose both modes: flying/vigilance/double strike, plus lifelink/indestructible/protection from each color. This can be a one-card finishing blow. A Queen copy alone is not your commander.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cyclonic Rift + a Borg army:"},{"insert":" Overload Rift on the end step before your turn or precombat to return opposing nonland permanents. Your developed artifact army remains in place for a potentially lethal attack. Use this only if opponents have no response that materially changes the line.\nTutor synergies that assemble the combos"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"insert":"This deck does "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"not"},{"insert":" have the large tutor suite from the Picard list. Its true library searches are "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Demonic Tutor"},{"insert":" and "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Urza's Saga"},{"insert":". Transwarp Hub and Academy Ruins are selection/recursion rather than universal tutors.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Demonic Tutor targets when you need acceleration:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sol Ring or Mana Vault:"},{"insert":" Only if an unusual hand truly needs early generic mana and your colors are otherwise covered. Most of the time, develop an engine instead of spending a tutor to find a rock."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Smothering Tithe:"},{"insert":" Stronger in games likely to continue several more turns."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cavern of Souls:"},{"insert":" A situational search when protecting a key Borg creature spell from countermagic is worth the tutor."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Demonic Tutor targets when you need an engine:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Locutus of Borg:"},{"insert":" A repeatable token engine if you can deal combat damage."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Conquest Mission:"},{"insert":" Early board development if you have a sequence of nontoken artifacts to cast."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Kindred Discovery:"},{"insert":" Sustained cards if your Borg are ready to enter or attack."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Roaming Throne / Panharmonicon:"},{"insert":" Increase The Borg Queen's assimilation triggers; choose based on whether you care more about attack triggers (Throne) or artifact/creature enter triggers (Panharmonicon)."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Demonic Tutor targets when you can win:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Akroma's Will:"},{"insert":" A board-wide combat finish, especially while controlling the actual Queen."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Bio-Asset Allocator:"},{"insert":" Lethal or near-lethal attack-triggered drain from a large Borg board."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Primary Unimatrix Adjunct / One, Borg Evolved:"},{"insert":" Double-strike payoff for an evasive artifact army; Adjunct is considerably cheaper."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Cyclonic Rift:"},{"insert":" Clear blockers and opposing nonland permanents before a decisive attack."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Demonic Tutor targets for survival:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Emergency Regeneration:"},{"insert":" Defend a large artifact board against destruction or spot removal when it is the specific answer you need."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Teferi's Protection:"},{"insert":" Preserve your position against a broader range of threats when your survival is the bottleneck."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Fierce Guardianship:"},{"insert":" Stop a key noncreature spell, especially if the Queen is already out and the counterspell is free."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Urza's Saga targets:"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Sol Ring:"},{"insert":" The default raw-mana grab."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mana Vault:"},{"insert":" A burst of generic mana for an upcoming expensive play."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Skullclamp:"},{"insert":" Draw with small Borg, or pair with Stratagem Emulator and Reclamation Specialist."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mox Opal:"},{"insert":" Colored fixing once metalcraft is established."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Chrome Mox:"},{"insert":" Colored fixing "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"only if"},{"insert":" you have an expendable nonartifact, nonland card to imprint."},{"attributes":{"list":"bullet"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Important:"},{"insert":" Urza's Saga finds artifact cards with an actual mana "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"cost of {0} or {1}"},{"insert":", not every artifact with mana value one. It cannot fetch Esper Sentinel (cost {W}), Arcane Signet, Maturation Chamber, or artifact lands with no mana cost."},{"attributes":{"blockquote":true},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Transwarp Hub selections:"},{"insert":"\nIts enter trigger mills five cards and can return up to two artifact cards among them to your hand. Prefer high-impact artifact engines such as Locutus of Borg, the relevant Spacecraft, or Mana Vault when the board requires them. It is not a search of your whole library and cannot find enchantments or instants.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Academy Ruins targets:"},{"insert":"\nPut an artifact card from your graveyard on top of your library, especially Borg Cube, Maturation Chamber, a destroyed key Spacecraft, or a major artifact creature. This is card recovery at the cost of a future draw, not card advantage by itself.\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Overflow Submatrix targets:"},{"insert":"\nReuse an artifact creature with an important entry effect or shared ability, such as Co-Option Adjutant, Stratagem Emulator, or the appropriate Borg creature. Remember finality counters and that a Spacecraft which is a noncreature artifact card in the graveyard is not an artifact "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"creature"},{"insert":" spell to cast through Submatrix.\nImportant rules and pilot traps"},{"attributes":{"header":2},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Station timing:"},{"insert":" Station only as a sorcery. You may tap a creature that entered this turn to station a Spacecraft because the station ability belongs to the Spacecraft, not that tapped creature. The target thresholds are Borg Scout Sphere "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"6"},{"insert":", Class-4 Tactical Cube "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"7"},{"insert":", Type-03 Borg Vessel "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"7"},{"insert":", Queen's Diamond "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"8"},{"insert":", Borg Cube "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"12"},{"insert":", and Transwarp Hub "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"3"},{"insert":"."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Borg Cube is not a Borg:"},{"insert":" Before and after stationing, it is a Spacecraft, not a creature with the Borg subtype. Its name alone does not make it a Borg for Roaming Throne or Kindred Discovery."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Attack triggers and damage triggers are different:"},{"insert":" The Queen and Bio-Asset Allocator trigger when creatures attack; double strike does not repeat those triggers. Locutus and Co-Option Adjutant trigger on combat damage and "},{"attributes":{"italic":true},"insert":"can"},{"insert":" trigger twice with double strike."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Panharmonicon and Roaming Throne:"},{"insert":" Queen entry with both means "},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"three"},{"insert":" triggers, not four. Only Roaming Throne affects her attack triggers."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Skullclamp and buffs:"},{"insert":" A 1/1 Borg token survives being equipped with Skullclamp while the Queen gives it +2/+2. Use the Reclamation Specialist sacrifice outlet, or equip Clamp before the buffs arrive."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Queen's Diamond is restricted:"},{"insert":" It can supply multiple mana of a single chosen color, but that mana is usable only to cast your commander, including commander tax. It cannot pay for Akroma's Will or a generic artifact spell."},{"attributes":{"list":"ordered"},"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"bold":true},"insert":"Mox Opal and Chrome Mox are conditional:"},{"insert":" Metalcraft requires three artifacts. 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