Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Captain Michael Burnham: Spore Drive

Every land is a jump: Burnham burns the whole table, Valakut and Fiery Emancipation make it lethal. A 100-card red Commander deck built from singles, $89.00 for every card.

Magic Precon+ · Star Trek

Spore Drive

Led by Captain Michael Burnham

Captain Michael Burnham card art
Colors
Mono-Red
Theme
Landfall burn
Set
Star Trek
Deck total
$89.00 for all 100 cards
Prices as of
November 8, 2026

Captain Michael Burnham is a 3/3 with trample for three mana. Whenever a land enters under your control, she deals 1 damage to each opponent, and the second time that happens in a turn she also gets a +1/+1 counter. Play a fetch land and crack it, and that is two lands in one turn: two pings around the table and a bigger Burnham.

The deck plays like Discovery's spore drive, with lands jumping in and out. Eleven fetch lands, Myriad Landscape and Unexplored Territory among them, each count twice, and Zell Dincht, Ghirapur Orrery and Nahiri's Lithoforming add land drops. Will Riker, First in the Field puts two lands from your library onto the battlefield at every combat, which is Burnham's counter each turn on its own. Erica Ortegas, Plucky Pilot flies the Enterprise rather than Discovery, but her trick is the jump: a land goes in when she attacks and comes back to your hand at end step to play again, as Zell and Dormant Volcano do too. Spatial Anomaly and Genesis Effect trade a land for a New Planet token, which is a land. Koth, Tunneling Geopede, Sabotender and Spitfire Lagac ping beside her, Torbran, Thane of Red Fell adds 2 to every ping, and Moraug, Fury of Akoum turns each main-phase land into another combat, where Riker brings two more lands. Exploratory Mission and Valakut Exploration turn lands into cards, and Akroma, Angel of Fury is our Red Angel. We built it for Bracket 4. Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle deals 3 damage whenever a Mountain enters once you have five others, and with 20 Mountains and eleven fetch lands to find them, it fires most turns once the game goes long. Fiery Emancipation triples every source, so a cracked fetch land deals 6 to each opponent from Burnham alone. Gamble, a Game Changer, and Expedition Map find whichever piece is missing. Nothing in it is restricted at Bracket 3: one Game Changer, no two-card combos, no extra turns. We call it 4 for how fast the pings add up, but at a table of real Bracket 4 decks with fast mana, tutors and two-card combos it will be the slowest deck there. Seventeen cards are priced at their Star Trek printings, on presale until the set is out on November 13, 2026.

One rule people get wrong: Burnham counts how many times her ability has resolved this turn, not how many lands you played. The counter comes on the second resolution only, so a third land pings again but adds no counter. Lwaxana Troi, Charming Guest pays {2} and taps to point at Burnham, and for as long as Lwaxana stays tapped each land triggers Burnham twice, so the first land of the turn already gets the counter. And only Riker's own lands are sacrificed at your end step, so crack any fetch land he finds before then: the basic it fetches is one more trigger, and it stays. If he flips Valakut, it goes too, and Scaretiller can bring it back.

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All 100 cards $89.00
Our cap for this deck $99.99
Top three cards $36.77 Gamble, Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle, Fiery Emancipation
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