Magic Precon+ · Star Trek
Captain Jonathan Archer: First Contact
Every new species on your side of the table makes Archer's pump bigger. A 100-card green Commander deck built from singles, $35.93 for every card.
Magic Precon+ · Star Trek
First Contact
Led by Captain Jonathan Archer
- Colors
- Mono-Green
- Theme
- Many creature types
- Set
- Star Trek
- Deck total
- $35.93 for all 100 cards
- Prices as of
- November 8, 2026
Captain Jonathan Archer enters with Porthos, a 1/1 Dog token. For one green mana and a tap, any time you could cast a sorcery, Archer gives one of your creatures +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of creature types among your non-Borg creatures. Archer is a Human Officer and Porthos is a Dog, so the pump is already +3 the turn after he lands.
So the deck is built to meet new species: its 39 creatures and Archer cover 49 creature types, and 27 of those creatures bring a type no other card here has. Pet Avengers is six types on one card (Dragon Cat Dog Bird Frog Hero), and the aliens the Enterprise crew met are here too: Xenobotanist is a Vulcan, Xindi Surveyors a Xindi, Cold-Blooded Crew a Gorn, Temporal Conqueror a Na'kuhl from the Temporal Cold War, and MACO Strike Team is the ship's own marines. Point the pump at a creature that tramples or is hard to block (Spider-Rex, Eel-Hounds, Fin-Clade Fugitives, or anything through Rogue's Passage), or turn it into removal with Ram Through and Rabid Bite and into cards with Soul's Majesty. Diligent Zookeeper makes the many-type cards huge (Pet Avengers gets +6/+6, Seton's Scout +4/+4), and Overwhelming Stampede gives the pumped creature's power to your whole team. Wrap in Vigor saves the board from damage wipes like Blasphemous Act, and Tamiyo's Safekeeping saves your best creature from almost anything.
The rule people get wrong is changelings. A changeling has every creature type, Borg included, so Archer doesn't count it at all, and that is why this deck has none. Each type also counts once: Porthos and the four Dog cards are one Dog between them. And X is fixed when the ability resolves, so a creature that enters later that turn doesn't make the bonus bigger.
The first upgrades, once you want to spend more: Guardian Project draws a card for nearly every creature this deck casts, since no two share a name, and Pathbreaker Ibex hands Archer's pump to every attacker. Either one would take the deck over its $39.99 cap.
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Every card is priced at its cheapest paper printing, non-foil, at TCGplayer's market price as of November 8, 2026, with the basic lands included. The button opens TCGplayer's Mass Entry with everything but the basics filled in, so pull 32 Forests from your own pile. Which sellers fill the cart moves the card total a few dollars either side of $35.93. 13 of the cards are priced at TCGplayer presale, because their set comes out on November 13, 2026; those prices will move once it is out.
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The decklist, by card type
Every card in the deck, grouped by type, with what it is there to do and what one copy costs. Tap a card to see it on TCGplayer.
Commander (1) $0.56
Creatures (39) $9.09
Llanowar Elves ↗
Ramp · $0.29
Xenobotanist ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.41
Sakura-Tribe Elder ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.31
Wood Elves ↗
Ramp · $0.22
Werebear ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.21
Ilysian Caryatid ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.20
Burnished Hart ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.11
Llanowar Visionary ↗
Draw, Ramp · $0.16
Pet Avengers ↗
Species · $0.14
Seton's Scout ↗
Species · $0.13
Spider-Rex, Daring Dino ↗
Species · $0.22
Hulkling, Burgeoning Bruiser ↗
Species · $0.14
Fin-Clade Fugitives ↗
Species · $0.18
Diligent Zookeeper ↗
Species, Pump · $0.19
Eel-Hounds ↗
Species, Pump · $0.15
Warped Tusker ↗
Species, Cycling · $0.19
Greater Tanuki ↗
Species, Ramp · $0.22
Yoshimaru, Scrappy Stray ↗
Species, Removal · $0.16
Mugato ↗
Species · $0.47
MACO Strike Team ↗
Species · $0.38
Xindi Surveyors ↗
Species · $0.86
Cold-Blooded Crew ↗
Species, Cycling · $0.72
Temporal Conqueror ↗
Species, Recursion · $0.23
Kraul Harpooner ↗
Species, Removal · $0.17
Thrashing Brontodon ↗
Species, Removal · $0.15
Reclamation Sage ↗
Removal · $0.19
Acidic Slime ↗
Species, Removal · $0.14
Bane of Progress ↗
Species, Board wipe · $0.33
Owlbear ↗
Species, Draw · $0.21
Drumhunter ↗
Draw · $0.18
Tireless Tracker ↗
Draw · $0.24
Kavu Climber ↗
Species, Draw · $0.03
Pelakka Wurm ↗
Species, Draw · $0.13
Wickerbough Elder ↗
Species, Removal · $0.13
Thragtusk ↗
Species · $0.29
Gnarlback Rhino ↗
Species · $0.10
Fierce Witchstalker ↗
Species · $0.13
Bark-Knuckle Boxer ↗
Species · $0.22
Elturgard Ranger ↗
Species · $0.16
Instants (8) $8.13
Sorceries (9) $5.55
Artifacts (3) $3.27
Enchantments (3) $3.65
Lands (37) $5.68
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