Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Captain Kathryn Janeway: Ragtag Crew

Whoever comes aboard explores, and the crew gets bigger every turn. A 100-card green Commander deck built from singles, $53.62 for every card.

Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Ragtag Crew

Led by Captain Kathryn Janeway

Captain Kathryn Janeway card art
Colors
Mono-Green
Theme
Picking up strays: creatures that explore and grow
Set
Star Trek
Deck total
$53.62 for all 100 cards
Prices as of
November 8, 2026

Captain Kathryn Janeway lets you play an extra land each turn, and whenever she or another creature you control enters, that creature explores. To explore, reveal the top card of your library. A land goes to your hand; anything else puts a +1/+1 counter on the creature, and you choose whether the card stays on top or goes to your graveyard. Tokens count, so Hornet Queen is five explores.

So the deck is a crew picked up on the long way home: 34 creatures plus Awakening Zone, Saproling Migration and Adversary by Algorithm, so something explores nearly every turn. Path of Discovery gives each arrival a second explore, Topography Tracker doubles every one, and Twists and Turns scries before each. Kami of Whispered Hopes and Hardened Scales add a counter to every one, and Wildgrowth Walker, Champion of Lambholt and Tromell turn them into a board that Tuskguard Captain and Dominion Supervisor give trample, and Overwhelming Stampede or End-Raze Forerunners finishes. Natural Order trades a Llanowar Elves for Hornet Queen or End-Raze on the spot; it is a Game Changer, the deck's only one, so this is Bracket 3. Swiftfoot Boots keeps Janeway around. The names are the crew too, and each still earns its slot: Neelix brings the food and grows when you gain life, Generous Stray draws, Yoshimaru, Scrappy Stray fights, Hologram Stalker brings a card back, U.S.S. Voyager puts two lands onto the battlefield, and Voyager Staff blinks a creature so it explores again. Holo-Engineer, the hologram, is a trade: every token becomes a 3/3 Illusion, so Hornet Queen's insects lose flying and deathtouch and Spawn stop making mana. The extra land drop is a bonus, not the plan. Star Trek releases November 13, 2026, so its cards are priced at presale.

One rule people get wrong: explore happens after the creature enters, not as it enters. A 2/2 that explores is still a 2/2 to anything that checks power on the way in, like Garruk's Uprising's draw. And a creature that leaves before the trigger resolves still explores: a land still comes to your hand, there is just no creature to take the counter.

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All 100 cards $53.62
Our cap for this deck $59.99
Top three cards $20.35 Natural Order, Captain Kathryn Janeway, Kami of Whispered Hopes
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