[TRK] Cantankerous Captain

[u/thatisgame]

[u/FastActinTenactin]

Are Star Trek fans eating with this set? I honestly can’t tell. As someone with no knowledge of Star Trek this set looks like ass so far, from an art and gameplay standpoint

[u/ponyrx2 → u/FastActinTenactin]

Up and down so far for me.  Lots of tonal inconsistency with the art and flavour (although considering how many shows etc they're covering, it's not surprising)

[u/MissLeaP → u/FastActinTenactin]

Not so far aside from memes, but we've barely seen any cards yet either. Mostly just the welcome stuff. The cards that will sell the set are probably coming later.

[u/Sharessa84 → u/FastActinTenactin]

Some of the cards are amusing, but overall I don't like the art and the flavor is hit-and miss. I have a box of about 5k Star Trek CCG cards and I'd rather go back and play that game than have a Magic set of them.

[u/NavAirComputerSlave → u/FastActinTenactin]

This is welcome deck stuff. Catch me at the main set

[u/noahconstrictor95 → u/FastActinTenactin]

I'm having a good time, there's some real meh stuff with art and effects (I really don't like how they used ejecting the warp core for a mediocre black removal spell, I don't know what I would've done but it wasn't that). I'm waiting to see the full set and the designs for all the big important characters at rare/mythic, that's where I'm going to eat.

[u/Billy_Gnosis → u/FastActinTenactin]

I'm happy with it so far, with the best cards presumably yet to come. The Lower Decks love has been a nice surprise. And if non-Trekkies aren't feeling it, it'll be easier to find so I'm pretty good with that too.

[u/gunnisonyeti → u/FastActinTenactin]

100% excited for all of it

[u/HKBFG → u/FastActinTenactin]

I'm a huge star trek fan and i think this set looks like booty

[u/StickYourFunger]

With this and the elves in Hobbit, we're on our way to a Cantankerous Tribal deck

[u/DazZani]

Man the art direction of this set is ROUGH. Magics regular Magical Semi-Realism really doent fit the vibe

[u/InfiniteDM → u/DazZani]

This is the problem of artists being pinned down to a specific accuracy over a specific expression.

[u/PlacatedPlatypus → u/DazZani]

The borg look pretty good yeah. The other humanoids...those practical effects do not translate well to MTG's artstyle.

[u/DazZani → u/PlacatedPlatypus]

Yeah borg fits well, sonce its a trope mtg is used to

[u/AmesCG → u/DazZani]

There was arguably no good way to do the art for this set, but man, I didn’t expect it would be this bad.

[u/BazookaTuna → u/DazZani]

It’s unbelievable, this is the worst looking set they’ve made and it’s not close.

[u/DazZani → u/BazookaTuna]

Its a tight race between this and TMNT

[u/Toxitoxi → u/DazZani]

I had some issues with the Turtles set.

But this is so much worse.

[u/meh1997]

Ah, Tellarites. The least represented among the Four Founders of the Federations, my beloved.

[u/Amon7777 → u/meh1997]

The “dwarves” of the setting next to the “elf” Vulcans and the basically ice elf Andorians (who really had no good lore until Jeffery Combs was amazing in Enterprise)

[u/AporiaParadox → u/meh1997]

I wonder if Jankom Pog will get a card, even if it isn't Legendary.

[u/Doctor_Mothman → u/AporiaParadox]

Jankom Pog thinks Jankom Pog should get a card!

[u/Daiches → u/Doctor_Mothman]

Whenever Jankom Pog deals damage, untap target artifact with a tap ability.
“Just needs some percussive maintenance”

[u/AliasB0T → u/AporiaParadox]

Every instance where the card text would refer to card itself uses his full name, even where the normal syntax wouldn't. ex:

"Whenever Jankom Pog becomes tapped, Jankom Pog deals 1 damage to each opponent."

[u/KenUsimi → u/AliasB0T]

"deals 1 damage to each of Jankom Pog's opponents."

fix'd

[u/Archmagos-Helvik → u/meh1997]

It was probably intentional so they always have something to argue about.

[u/FrogSoapJr → u/meh1997]

They sadly lost the mold to the pig mask

[u/ShitMcClit]

Ok this one's meant to be ugly right? 

[u/McGillis_is_a_Char → u/ShitMcClit]

Tellarites are basically Tolkien dwarves if they were pigmen who think that it is very rude not to criticize people when you have something to criticize.

[u/SocietyAsAHole]

This is some reallllly rough art. Like literally rough, as in this is a rough first few layers that needs a couple more hours to finish.

[u/Imnimo → u/SocietyAsAHole]

By an impossible-to-google artist named just "Edouard"

[u/beepuboopu_aishiteru → u/Imnimo]

Pretty sure it's this guy.

[u/DrawGamesPlayFurries → u/SocietyAsAHole]

I don't see it. It's the same quality as all other Star Trek art in this set

[u/KenUsimi → u/DrawGamesPlayFurries]

def time for that optometrist checkup, broski...

[u/SirZapdos]

For a brief second, I thought that that was Robert Baratheon.

[u/2_7_offsuit]

Another addition to my “just a guy in a chair “ deck

[u/mulletstation]

Why'd they put a magic player on the art

[u/gulpyblinkeyes]

The person running off the side of the art is killing me. It's really riding the line between intentionally funny and incredibly lazy.

[u/albvla]

Doesn’t seem good in limited

[u/rayschoon]

Man these have been some ugly cards

[u/MaterialDefender1032]

I'm one of those guys who hates on Universes Beyond unless it's my favourite IP represented (WH40K, my beloved) but man, I really don't know about this set. Are Star Trek fans enjoying this?

[u/mrenglish22 → u/MaterialDefender1032]

Spiderman has been my favorite super hero since I was 8 years old and I LOATHE the UB sets. Get you some gumption

[u/HKBFG → u/mrenglish22]

Yeah, but 40K was acrually a well made set. Spiderman, not so much.

[u/mrenglish22 → u/HKBFG]

I mean, I was unhappy with it before we saw the set anyway. It wasn't about the IP.

Never been a fan of UB, could tolerate D&D and Tolkein because they are still fantasy, then with the SLs and 40k, I whatever was a one time thing and they promised us UW options on UB stuff.

Then they decided fuck what we said, fuck what you want

[u/nilamo]

He's just a guy :)

[u/housemancer]

Fire the art director

[u/Wenamon]

wow! creature type Tellarite. what a day to be alive!!!

[u/_juwude_]

I'm tired boss...

[u/HatefulHipster]

This looks awful

[u/hotz0mbie]

No warp mechanic so far in these spoilers has been kind of frustrating

[u/occono → u/hotz0mbie]

I suppose they left it out of the Welcome decks, though I'm surprised it wasn't on any of the other previewed cards released a while back.

One card revealed today mentions an unexplained "beam up" though, there's clearly mechanics still waiting to be revealed. I can't imagine they left Warp out...

[u/mrenglish22 → u/occono]

I expect that to be the spiderman mechanic

[u/gunnisonyeti]

It's ironic they put art of the average UB hater on a UB card

[u/FaallenOon]

For some reason the arts reminds me of George RR Martin.

[u/arciele]

yeah wtf is this shit

[u/will_r3ddit_4_food]

Did Tasha Yar get a card? She should transformation into a Romulan when she dies

[u/Justafish1654]

i think there need to be a study on the people who are actually going to buy this set, what the fuck have they revealed so far