We Are the Borg Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

Everything in the We Are the Borg Commander deck: all 100 cards with current prices, what the deck is worth against the sealed price, the 33 new cards, and whether it is worth buying.

Commander · Esper

The Borg Queen

Artifact creatures you control get +2/+2. Whenever The Borg Queen enters or attacks, target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a creature card. Assimilate that card. They put the rest on the bottom in a random order. (To assimilate a card, put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter. It's a Borg artifact creature and loses all other creature types.)

Singles value

$131.40

TCGplayer market, 81 cards, basic lands counted at $0; 30 pre-sale cards at 50%; 7 not priced yet

Sealed price

$67.78

TCGplayer price for the box (Amazon $74.99) · singles are 1.9× that · MSRP $75.00

New cards

33 / 100

First printings in this deck

Bracket

Core, out of the box

Buy sealed on TCGplayer $67.78 Amazon $74.99 Decklist

Is We Are the Borg worth buying?

from MTG Star Trek Commander Decks: Are They Worth It? by Timothy Zaccagnino

If I were going to sell a kidney to buy a Star Trek deck, We Are The Borg would be the one. Blame my edgy sensibilities or whatever, but the Borg side of Star Trek looks super cool, and it feels way more MTG than anything else going on in this line-up. Reminds me a bit of the Necron Dynasties precon from Warhammer 40,000. Just machine gods and robots and a lot of generally cool art pieces and individual card designs.

This deck doesn’t go overboard on reprints, but it concentrates its value into a few decent cards, plus it looks like one of the more focused decks out of the box. I’m willing to give this two thumbs up and say this might be one worth assimilating into your collection.

How We Are the Borg plays

We Are The Borg is an Esper precon with an artifact creature theme. It uses the assimilate mechanic to amass a Borg army and overwhelm opponents with various artifact synergies.

The Borg Queen is, appropriately, the Queen of the Borg here. It has a strong buff for your artifact creatures (including itself), and you get to assimilate cards from opponents’ decks when it enters or attacks. A bit of randomness to how effective it’ll be, which can be dicey for a 7-mana commander.

Locutus of Borg is the second in command. This Borgified Sir Patrick Stewart (RIP to the goat) helps you to accumulate small artifact creatures as you deal damage to opponents, helping spread out your board before following up with a big board pump. It’s a much cheaper commander, but also has an effect that’s dependent on already having an established board, so there’s room for error with Locutus.