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{"ops":[{"insert":"ELEVATOR PITCH\nThis is an Esper Borg artifact-creature deck. The visible plan is to build and enhance a Borg army; the less obvious finish is to turn combat damage into more Borg, then use token multiplication, artifact anthems, evasion, and assimilation to make one attack grow into a table-ending board.\n\nTHE RUG PULL — INVISIBLE THREAT\n- MASK — VERIFIED (Scryfall live card text, 2026-11-03): Locutus has lifelink. Artifact creatures you control gain a trigger that creates a 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature token whenever they deal combat damage to a player.\n- FLIP — VERIFIED (local Oracle plus Scryfall live text): Anointed Procession doubles tokens; Hugh, First of Many can replicate artifact spells; Jurati, Cordial Queen can copy an artifact token after artifact creatures deal combat damage; One, Borg Evolved grants artifact creatures flying, double strike, vigilance, menace, lifelink, and ward {2}. The result is a self-reinforcing combat army, not just a pile of artifacts.\n- FLIP TURN — Target window: turns 4–7 after the product is released. Not goldfish-tested.\n- TELLS — Anointed Procession, the Borg token makers, a Spacecraft near its station threshold, and One, Borg Evolved. These are the clearest signs that the board is about to snowball.\n- RESILIENCE — Commander cost {1}{W}{U}{B}; first taxed recast {3}{W}{U}{B}; after two previous command-zone casts {5}{W}{U}{B} (VERIFIED, CR 903.8). Borg token makers and artifact anthems continue without Locutus.\n- POD FIT — UNVERIFIED until release: 31 card names in this list were absent from local Oracle data. Scryfall records show a 2026-11-13 release date; 23 full records explicitly report Commander not_legal, and the other eight had text and release date verified but not the full legality field. Do not treat the deck as released/legal today.\n\nHOW THE DECK PLAYS\n- TURNS 1–3: Fix Esper mana and develop rocks or cheap Borg. Keep a protection spell for a key token engine.\n- TURNS 4–6: Establish token production and a multiplier. Station Spacecraft with creatures that can spare the tap; prioritize a draw or anthem engine before exposing the whole board.\n- FLIP: Turn combat damage into additional Borg and use the anthem/evasion package to make the next attack decisive. The effect is supported by multiple independent producers, so Locutus is not the only engine.\n\nKEY CARDS\n- VERIFIED (Scryfall, 2026-11-03): Borg Incursion makes two Borg and gives artifact creatures protection from a chosen color for the turn; Class-4 Tactical Cube makes two Borg; Maturation Chamber makes Borg tokens from charge counters; The Best of Both Worlds assimilates an opposing nonartifact creature, then boosts artifact creatures on its second chapter.\n- VERIFIED (local Oracle): Chief of the Foundry, Door of Destinies, Tempered Steel, Forsaken Monument, Skullclamp, and Unwinding Clock support the artifact board.\n\nREAL BRACKET\nUNVERIFIED. Local data shows 0 Game Changers among the cards it contains, but 31 new cards are missing from that source, so the total cannot be certified. No extra-turn or mass-land-denial effect was found in the reviewed text; no two-card loop was identified, but this is not a complete pair audit. Recheck the full WotC Game Changer list and Commander legality after 2026-11-13.\n\nBRACKET CONVERSION\nNot configured; this is a primer-only rewrite. No decklist or sideboard changes were made.\n\nRESILIENCE\nMANUAL FOUR-TURN CHECK ONLY; no Jev score or playtest was run. Without Locutus, Anointed Procession, Borg Incursion, Class-4 Tactical Cube, Maturation Chamber, Hugh, and the independent artifact-anthem package still produce and strengthen tokens. SECOND WIN PATH: a wide, boosted Borg board can win by combat without the commander. PLAN B if the token flip is exposed: lean on The Borg Queen / The Best of Both Worlds assimilation and artifact draw rather than overextending into a wipe.\n\nINTERACTION & PROTECTION\nVERIFIED (local Oracle): Anguished Unmaking, Despark, Swords to Plowshares, Disallow, and Toxic Deluge. VERIFIED (Scryfall live text): Emergency Regeneration gives artifacts hexproof and indestructible for the turn. Darksteel Plate and Swiftfoot Boots are also in the list.\n\nMANA BASE\nUpdated with the live-verified new cards: 36 true lands / 0 MDFC lands / 8 mana rocks / 0 mana dorks / 44 total sources. Queen's Diamond is counted as a rock; Shore Leave Planet as a land. Ambulatory Reactor grants a mana ability to artifact creatures but is not counted as a rock or dork.\n\nMULLIGAN NOTES\nKeep a hand with two or three colors, early mana, and either a token maker or draw engine. Do not keep a hand that relies on Locutus connecting before any other artifact-creature engine is established.\n\nTOP 5 ORACLE TAGS\n- synergy-artifact-creature\n- anthem\n- power-boost-to-all\n- toughness-boost-to-all\n- synergy-artifact\n"}]}
Anthem
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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
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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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
Copy
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Assimilation Assessor
When this creature enters, exile target opponent's graveyard.
Whenever this creature attacks, assimilate a creature card exiled with it. (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 this creature attacks, assimilate a creature card exiled with it. (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.)
Creature Artifact - Borg
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
Creature
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Draw
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The Best of Both Worlds
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — Assimilate target nonartifact creature an opponent controls. (Gain control of it and put a +1/+1 counter on it. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
II — Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
III — Exile the Borg assimilated with this Saga, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
I — Assimilate target nonartifact creature an opponent controls. (Gain control of it and put a +1/+1 counter on it. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)
II — Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2 until end of turn.
III — Exile the Borg assimilated with this Saga, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control.
Enchantment - Saga
Enchantment
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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
Instant
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Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Land
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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
Protection
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Ramp
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Removal
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Gift of Perfection
Each opponent reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card. Assimilate one of the creature cards revealed this way. Then each opponent puts the other cards they revealed this way on the bottom of their library 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.)
Sorcery
Sorcery
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{"ops":[{"insert":"ELEVATOR PITCH\nThis is an Esper Borg artifact-creature deck. The visible plan is to build and enhance a Borg army; the less obvious finish is to turn combat damage into more Borg, then use token multiplication, artifact anthems, evasion, and assimilation to make one attack grow into a table-ending board.\n\nTHE RUG PULL — INVISIBLE THREAT\n- MASK — VERIFIED (Scryfall live card text, 2026-11-03): Locutus has lifelink. Artifact creatures you control gain a trigger that creates a 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature token whenever they deal combat damage to a player.\n- FLIP — VERIFIED (local Oracle plus Scryfall live text): Anointed Procession doubles tokens; Hugh, First of Many can replicate artifact spells; Jurati, Cordial Queen can copy an artifact token after artifact creatures deal combat damage; One, Borg Evolved grants artifact creatures flying, double strike, vigilance, menace, lifelink, and ward {2}. The result is a self-reinforcing combat army, not just a pile of artifacts.\n- FLIP TURN — Target window: turns 4–7 after the product is released. Not goldfish-tested.\n- TELLS — Anointed Procession, the Borg token makers, a Spacecraft near its station threshold, and One, Borg Evolved. These are the clearest signs that the board is about to snowball.\n- RESILIENCE — Commander cost {1}{W}{U}{B}; first taxed recast {3}{W}{U}{B}; after two previous command-zone casts {5}{W}{U}{B} (VERIFIED, CR 903.8). Borg token makers and artifact anthems continue without Locutus.\n- POD FIT — UNVERIFIED until release: 31 card names in this list were absent from local Oracle data. Scryfall records show a 2026-11-13 release date; 23 full records explicitly report Commander not_legal, and the other eight had text and release date verified but not the full legality field. Do not treat the deck as released/legal today.\n\nHOW THE DECK PLAYS\n- TURNS 1–3: Fix Esper mana and develop rocks or cheap Borg. Keep a protection spell for a key token engine.\n- TURNS 4–6: Establish token production and a multiplier. Station Spacecraft with creatures that can spare the tap; prioritize a draw or anthem engine before exposing the whole board.\n- FLIP: Turn combat damage into additional Borg and use the anthem/evasion package to make the next attack decisive. The effect is supported by multiple independent producers, so Locutus is not the only engine.\n\nKEY CARDS\n- VERIFIED (Scryfall, 2026-11-03): Borg Incursion makes two Borg and gives artifact creatures protection from a chosen color for the turn; Class-4 Tactical Cube makes two Borg; Maturation Chamber makes Borg tokens from charge counters; The Best of Both Worlds assimilates an opposing nonartifact creature, then boosts artifact creatures on its second chapter.\n- VERIFIED (local Oracle): Chief of the Foundry, Door of Destinies, Tempered Steel, Forsaken Monument, Skullclamp, and Unwinding Clock support the artifact board.\n\nREAL BRACKET\nUNVERIFIED. Local data shows 0 Game Changers among the cards it contains, but 31 new cards are missing from that source, so the total cannot be certified. No extra-turn or mass-land-denial effect was found in the reviewed text; no two-card loop was identified, but this is not a complete pair audit. Recheck the full WotC Game Changer list and Commander legality after 2026-11-13.\n\nBRACKET CONVERSION\nNot configured; this is a primer-only rewrite. No decklist or sideboard changes were made.\n\nRESILIENCE\nMANUAL FOUR-TURN CHECK ONLY; no Jev score or playtest was run. Without Locutus, Anointed Procession, Borg Incursion, Class-4 Tactical Cube, Maturation Chamber, Hugh, and the independent artifact-anthem package still produce and strengthen tokens. SECOND WIN PATH: a wide, boosted Borg board can win by combat without the commander. PLAN B if the token flip is exposed: lean on The Borg Queen / The Best of Both Worlds assimilation and artifact draw rather than overextending into a wipe.\n\nINTERACTION & PROTECTION\nVERIFIED (local Oracle): Anguished Unmaking, Despark, Swords to Plowshares, Disallow, and Toxic Deluge. VERIFIED (Scryfall live text): Emergency Regeneration gives artifacts hexproof and indestructible for the turn. Darksteel Plate and Swiftfoot Boots are also in the list.\n\nMANA BASE\nUpdated with the live-verified new cards: 36 true lands / 0 MDFC lands / 8 mana rocks / 0 mana dorks / 44 total sources. Queen's Diamond is counted as a rock; Shore Leave Planet as a land. Ambulatory Reactor grants a mana ability to artifact creatures but is not counted as a rock or dork.\n\nMULLIGAN NOTES\nKeep a hand with two or three colors, early mana, and either a token maker or draw engine. Do not keep a hand that relies on Locutus connecting before any other artifact-creature engine is established.\n\nTOP 5 ORACLE TAGS\n- synergy-artifact-creature\n- anthem\n- power-boost-to-all\n- toughness-boost-to-all\n- synergy-artifact\n"}]}