We Are the Borg Precon Upgrade Guide: The Borg Queen
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We Are the Borg (Star Trek)
- Commander
- The Borg Queen
- Colors
White, Blue, Black- Released
- November 13, 2026
- Card value
- ≈ $238.96
27 cards not priced yet - Key cards
- Locutus of Borg, Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct, The Immortal Sun
We Are the Borg is the Esper deck from the Star Trek Commander release, led by The Borg Queen. She gives your artifact creatures +2/+2, and whenever she enters or attacks she steals the first creature from an opponent’s library and assimilates it as a Borg artifact creature.
The deck wants a big board of artifact creatures that the Queen pumps. At seven mana she is expensive, so the stock list leans on mana rocks that don’t do much else. The upgrades replace those with cost reducers and artifact payoffs, so the board grows before and after she lands.
The precon releases on November 13, 2026. Prices for the new Star Trek cards are early preorder prices and usually drop after release. The upgrade cards themselves are all reprints you can buy today.
Recommended upgrades
Pick a budget tab. Every row tells you which card to take out and what to put in, plus why.
Cheap swaps that fix the weakest slots first.
| Cut | Add | From | Why | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wayfarer’s Bauble | Etherium Sculptor | $0.42 €0.51 | Makes every artifact one mana cheaper from turn two. The Borg flood the board much faster. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Astral Cornucopia | Foundry Inspector | $0.32 €0.14 | A second cost reducer that is also an artifact creature, so The Borg Queen makes it a 5/4. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Thirst for Knowledge | Thought Monitor | $0.27 €0.44 | Draws two and leaves a flier behind, often for two or three mana in this deck. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Commander’s Sphere | Steel Overseer | $0.29 €0.37 | Puts a +1/+1 counter on every artifact creature each turn. Your Borg drones grow out of removal range. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Darksteel Plate | Skorpekh Lord | $2.22 €1.57 | Gives all your artifact creatures +1/+0 and menace, and comes back from the graveyard with unearth. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Return to Dust | Organic Extinction | $0.37 €0.38 | Destroys every nonartifact creature and leaves your Borg untouched. Improvise makes it cheap. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Total | $3.89 | |||
Stronger synergy pieces that make the commander’s plan more consistent.
| Cut | Add | From | Why | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Door of Destinies | Urza, Chief Artificer | $5.50 €3.14 | Your artifact creatures get menace and you make a growing Construct every turn. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Bitter Triumph | Phyrexian Metamorph | $2.73 €2.46 | Copies your best artifact or their best creature, and it is always an artifact for The Borg Queen. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Stonespeaker Crystal | Mystic Forge | $2.66 €2.27 | Lets you cast artifacts off the top of your library, which is like drawing an extra card every turn. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Total | $10.89 | |||
Bigger upgrades for when you want the deck to hit harder.
| Cut | Add | From | Why | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Best of Both Worlds | Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge | $16.45 €12.92 | Gives your creatures affinity for artifacts and drains each opponent for your artifact count. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Skycloud Expanse | Hallowed Fountain | $7.30 €7.44 | An untapped white-blue dual instead of a filter land that only makes colored mana with help. | TCGplayer · Cardmarket |
| Total | $23.75 | |||
Load the stock We Are the Borg list into our free tools: see its mana, curve and bracket, or play a few practice games before you buy upgrades.
The decklist
Commander (1)
- 1The Borg Queen$13.90
Creatures (19)
- 1Ambulatory Reactor—
- 1Assimilation Assessor—
- 1Co-Option Adjutant—
- 1Command Subadjunct$1.62
- 1Extraction Integrant—
- 1Hive Mind Coprocessor—
- 1Hugh, First of Many$28.95
- 1Jurati, Cordial Queen—
- 1Korok, Liberated Rage—
- 1Locutus of Borg$19.33
- 1Locutus, the One Who Speaks$1.87
- 1One, Borg Evolved$49.95
- 1Optimization Annex—
- 1Reclamation Specialist—
- 1Reconnaissance Partition—
- 1Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct—
- 1Stratagem Emulator—
- 1Supplementation Node—
- 1Võx, Child of the Collective—
Instants (11)
- 1Anguished Unmaking$1.75
- 1Assimilate the Wounded—
- 1Bitter Triumph$0.33
- 1Borg Incursion—
- 1Collective Override—
- 1Deliver from Chaos—
- 1Disallow$0.36
- 1Dispatch$0.42
- 1Emergency Regeneration—
- 1Return to Dust$0.12
- 1Thirst for Knowledge$0.21
Sorceries (5)
- 1Battle of Wolf 359—
- 1Gift of Perfection—
- 1Join the Collective$9.95
- 1Thoughtcast$0.77
- 1Toxic Deluge$5.28
Artifacts (23)
- 1Arcane Signet$0.33
- 1Astral Cornucopia$0.30
- 1Borg Scout Sphere—
- 1Class-4 Tactical Cube—
- 1Commander’s Sphere$0.21
- 1Darksteel Plate$2.95
- 1Door of Destinies$2.33
- 1Everflowing Chalice$0.28
- 1Forsaken Monument$3.95
- 1Maturation Chamber—
- 1Queen’s Diamond$9.95
- 1Skullclamp$4.60
- 1Sol Ring$1.18
- 1Stonespeaker Crystal$0.27
- 1Swiftfoot Boots$1.77
- 1Talisman of Dominance$0.52
- 1Talisman of Hierarchy$0.39
- 1Talisman of Progress$0.22
- 1The Immortal Sun$11.68
- 1Transwarp Hub—
- 1Type-03 Borg Vessel$14.95
- 1Unwinding Clock$20.39
- 1Wayfarer’s Bauble$0.25
Enchantments (3)
- 1Conquest Mission$1.87
- 1Tempered Steel$1.13
- 1The Best of Both Worlds—
Lands (38)
- 1Academy Ruins$4.32
- 1Arcane Sanctum$0.28
- 1Choked Estuary$0.25
- 1Command Tower$0.20
- 1Contaminated Landscape$0.11
- 1Drowned Catacomb$0.32
- 1Eclipsed Steppe$5.05
- 1Evolving Wilds$0.10
- 1Exotic Orchard$0.21
- 1Fetid Pools$0.28
- 1Glacial Fortress$0.27
- 1Irrigated Farmland$0.16
- 4Island$0.10
- 1Isolated Chapel$0.23
- 1Morphic Pool$9.95
- 1Path of Ancestry$0.18
- 4Plains$0.10
- 1Port Town$0.14
- 1Prairie Stream$0.16
- 1Rogue’s Passage$0.38
- 1Shineshadow Snarl$0.22
- 1Shore Leave Planet—
- 1Skycloud Expanse$0.15
- 1Spire of Industry$0.25
- 1Sunken Hollow$0.29
- 4Swamp$0.10
- 1Terramorphic Expanse$0.08
- 1Umbral Expanse$0.42
- 1Underground River$0.63
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What the deck does well
- The Borg Queen pumps your whole board and steals a creature every attack.
- Lots of artifact creatures that all get bigger with the Queen.
- Esper colors offer removal, sweepers and card draw.
Where it struggles
- The Queen costs seven, and the deck has few ways to make her cheaper.
- Several mana rocks and slow card draw spells take up slots.
- Some removal like Return to Dust can hit your own artifacts.
Where to buy the precon
Want the deck? Find We Are the Borg (Star Trek) on TCGplayer or on Cardmarket.
Verdict
We Are the Borg is a strong artifact deck with a commander that wins games on her own. The budget tier makes the deck faster and more consistent, and the mid-range tier adds real artifact engines.
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