
First Look at The Borg:
The Delta Quadrant Journey Continues
In May, a whole new quadrant opened up to Star Trek CCG exploration,
as the Voyager expansion introduced two new affiliations,
the Voyager environment, and constructed deck Warp Speed.
The companion set, The Borg, will join Voyager on September
19, with continued support for the stand-alone environment
and new Warp Speed rules to incorporate the Borg affiliation
into constructed Warp Speed play.
The Borg will be available in 11-card expansion packs containing
one rare card and a mixture of ten uncommons and commons,
at a suggested retail price of $3.29 per pack. The set contains
40 commons, 40 uncommons, 50 rares, and 1 ultra-rare card.
While the set includes 11 common and uncommon cards from
First Contact, updated with all-new Star Trek: Voyager images
and lore to support basic Borg-affiliation gameplay, the Borg
personnel are all-new (with the sole exception of the black-border
version of Seven of Nine, previewed in The Dominion), with
a new Borg Queen and drones both unique and universal. New
ships, a new facility, and new objectives, incidents, events,
and equipment make the "new" Borg completely playable
in the stand-alone environment as well as complementary to
the existing Borg in the full environment. For example, Alas,
Poor Drone will work equally well with either First Contact
or The Borg drones.
There's more to The Borg than Borg, of course. Another new
affiliation, the hunt-happy Hirogen, brings to five your choices
for Delta Quadrant deck-building. Hunt, capture, and kill
your prey for bonus point "trophies"! Lots of Non-Aligned
personnel (including new "former Borg") will augment
any of the non-Borg affiliations, or even work as a self-sufficient
independent affiliation. Additional personnel for several
of the other affiliations, new ships, and additional dilemmas,
missions, and other support cards round out the set.
Beginning next Wednesday, when we reveal the ultra-rare card
and announce the winner of the Guess the Ultra-Rare contest,
watch Decipher.com each weekday for new card images, strategy
articles, rules, and a full card list and spoiler list.
Kathy McCracken
majorrakal@decipher.com
August 1, 2001
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