Jack of Harts

I took part in my second launch event for the Magic card game this weekend. Their Star Trek set was coming out, and I am a Star Trek geek. So I jumped in to play in that. I even showed up with a nice hat with a Federation badge on it. And multiple players came with full uniform shirts. I am used to being the biggest Star Trek geek in the room, so that was an interesting surprise to me.

The game itself is a lot of fun. Basically all of it was overhauled to make the Star Trek theme fit Magic. You play individual crew members like Kirk, Spoke, Bones, or the famous red shirt security officers. And they’ve got cards from every series, from Enterprise to Destiny, and the Pine movies as well. The character descriptions and abilities make sense per Star Trek lore, and the look on people’s faces when I dropped Kirk or Spoke was so much fun. One of the games I won actually ended up being a zergling rush of a bunch of red shirt security officers led by a charging Kirk to win the battle.

One thing I was wondering about was how they would handle starships. In the end, they treated them as artifacts and gave them this cool charging mechanic that let them be seriously powerful when they showed up for battle, but it took serious time and preparation to launch them into battle.

In the end, the game felt like I was playing Star Trek battles with a bunch of friends, using Magic mechanics. And it made sense. I loved it. Totally fun and I do recommend if you have even a passing like for either the game or the series.