Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Captain Benjamin Sisko: Emissary's Dilemma

Every copy of Deceiver Exarch is a dilemma, and Kiki-Jiki or Splinter Twin makes as many copies as you want. A 100-card white and blue and black and red and green Commander deck built from singles, $190.30 for every card.

Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Emissary's Dilemma

Led by Captain Benjamin Sisko

Captain Benjamin Sisko card art
Colors
Five-Color (white, blue, black, red and green)
Theme
Deceiver Exarch combo and dilemma drain
Set
Star Trek
Deck total
$190.30 for all 100 cards
Prices as of
November 11, 2026

Captain Benjamin Sisko cares about one Star Trek word: dilemma. You face a dilemma each time you choose one or more modes for a spell or ability, so every charm and command counts, and so does a triggered ability that asks you to pick. At the beginning of your end step, Sisko makes a 1/1 red Officer token for each dilemma you faced that turn. His second ability costs seven mana, one of each color, and a tap: exile the top five cards of your library and cast, for free, any of them with mana value no higher than the number of Officers you control.

This build is a real Bracket 4, and it wins with combos. Deceiver Exarch's enter trigger makes you choose a mode, so each copy of it is a dilemma. Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker makes a hasty copy that untaps Kiki-Jiki, and Splinter Twin on Exarch does the same, so either one makes as many hasty Exarchs as you like. With Elim Garak, Simple Tailor out, each copy drains every opponent for 2, so the loop wins with no attack; Seven of Nine draws a card per copy, and at your end step Sisko makes an Officer for every loop you ran. Seven more creatures go infinite with Kiki-Jiki (Pestermite, Zealous Conscripts, Restoration Angel, Felidar Guardian, Village Bell-Ringer, Bounding Krasis and Breaching Hippocamp), and five of them with Splinter Twin. Dualcaster Mage goes infinite with Twinflame or Heat Shimmer, and Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation is the instant-speed backup. Eleven tutors find the pieces, from Imperial Recruiter and Eladamri's Call to Diabolic Intent and Wishclaw Talisman, and Dark Ritual, Simian Spirit Guide, six mana creatures and ten mana rocks make the mana. Only the Exarch loop triggers Garak, Seven and Sisko: the other untappers have no modes.

It is Bracket 4 because of its cheap, early two-card combos: Thassa's Oracle and Demonic Consultation cost three mana together, and Bracket 3 allows two-card infinites only in the late game. It plays two Game Changers, Thassa's Oracle and Narset, Parter of Veils. It is not cEDH: in our goldfish sims (10,000 games on the play, one opponent, no interaction) it won by turn 6 in about 3 of 10 games and by turn 8 in about half, and the fastest wins came on turn 3. Kiki-Jiki and the Dualcaster lines each need three red mana, so the 14 red lands, the Talismans and Simian Spirit Guide matter. Sisko himself is the five-color shell and a dilemma payoff; the 99 do the winning. The Star Trek cards are priced at TCGplayer presale market prices until the set is out on November 13.

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