MTG Star Trek Leaks Showcase Token-Spewing Commander Board Wipe

Last updated on October 9, 2026

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Magic: The Gathering is headed to New York Comic Con, with a big set announcement expected for one of MTG’s upcoming Universes Beyond sets. Tangential to that we also got an early look at some Star Trek cards from Magic’s final set of 2027. These are likely going to be officially showcased during MTG’s Friday night panel, but they leaked a day early, showing off a couple new cards from the set. Among them were a piece of equipment with a completely new artifact subtype, as well as an intriguing white board wipe that looks like it’ll have an immediate place in Commander.

Let’s focus on the latter, and remember that you can follow spoilers for Star Trek and anything else that gets revealed over on the Draftsim spoiler page.

Join the Collective

Join the Collective is for a rare sorcery that reads: “Destroy all creatures. Create X 1/1 colorless Borg artifact creature tokens, where X is the number of nonartifact creatures destroyed this way.” The TRC set code indicates this will be part of a Commander precon, likely We Are The Borg.

The immediate comparison is to Martial Coup and White Sun's Twilight, both cards that, at 7 mana, destroy all creatures an leave behind a small army of 1/1 tokens. As with all analogs, these cards have pros and cons when compared to one another:

• Martial Coup can be cast for less than 7 mana to make a smaller army, ignoring the board wipe. It makes soldiers for decks that care about the creature type, and it can also scale up for greater X amounts to make more tokens. It’s also incredibly cheap after multiple reprints.
• White Suns' Twilight has the same token-making potential as Martial Coup. It makes artifact creature tokens, but ones that can’t block. The mites also have toxic 1, so they can actually close out a game on their own pretty quickly via poison kills. The Reality Fracture Commander version is about a quarter, so it’s also quite cheap.
• Join the Collective makes a variable amount of creature tokens, though it can make many more than five for the same investment as the other spells. It also makes artifact creature tokens, though it also has a much lower floor of potentially making fewer tokens on a board with just a couple creatures.
• Ceaseless Conflict is also worth adding to the conversation, as another white wrath that ideally leaves some token material in play after it resolves. It’s different enough from the other three to stay out of a direct comparison.

As far as “7 mana, wipe the board, make some tokens” goes, Join the Collective looks quite strong. It’s inflexible, but the output for 7 mana should be more than what you get out of the alternatives on a typical, cluttered casual Commander board state.

Blasphemous Act often costs 1 mana, and Vanquish the Horde is reliably just to cast. If you assume those statements to be true, it’s fair to say most Commander boardstates have 6+ creatures on board when a board wipe becomes necessary, and at six or more creatures on board, Join the Collective is making more tokens for 7 mana than the other two X-spells would make (though those give you options to spend more for additional tokens). And the ceiling is much higher: This could very easily put 20 tokens on board when it resolves.

What Decks Want This?

First and foremost, this might just be generically good to run without much consideration for synergy. If you’re looking for a utility board wipe and you’re not shying away from an expensive one, this seems like a good option.

That said, you’ll likely want it in the same sorts of decks that want Martial Coup and White Sun's Twilight already. Basically, it’ll be a board wipe that slots into token decks that want access to a sweeper but don’t want to set themselves completely back by wiping the board clean. Boros decks using Impact Tremors and Warleader's Call come to mind. Arabella, Abandoned Doll might be a bit too streamlined for a 7-mana sweeper.

According to EDHREC, Martial Coup is most popular with Caesar, Legion's Emperor, Marneus Calgar, and Zinnia, Valley's Voice, all of which seem like good starting points for this newcomer.

Artifact decks will be a bit of a double-edged sword. While most artifact decks would love to dump 10-15 artifact creatures on board at once, this board wipe doesn’t replace artifact creatures it destroyed. That dampens its potential both in and against decks full of thopters, golems, etc. Chances are you’ll still be destroying enough non-artifact creatures to be worth it, you just won’t always replace your own board 1:1.

Aristocrats is a compelling place for this. Universal board wipes are already pseudo-synergy pieces for decks that care about their creatures dying. And this one replaces most everything that died with a new board of sacrifical pawns. The big issue is that it also sweeps away your Blood Artist and friends, though any self-respecting aristocrats deck has a lot of redundancy and recursion for that sort of effect. This could be a great option for Nethroi, Apex of Death, for example.