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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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