Quick Hits

• Star Trek spoiler season hit peak warp: MTGGoldfish rounds up October 21–26, revealing the first Borg Commander precon alongside a pile of main-set cards — including Võx, Child of the Collective, whose full gallery landed on r/magicTCG.
• WotC quietly reversed a rules decision on double-sided cards — Draftsim has a PSA on what changed and why it matters for meld and DFC corner cases. Worth a read before your next game night.
• Mark Rosewater says Planeswalker counts have risen in Multiverse sets to compensate for UB-heavy Standards that won't feature them — while confirming storm is still a 10 on the Storm Scale ("larger use, not comeos").
• Khan, Vengeful Heart is "the new face of cEDH Food Chain combo," per EDHREC's deep dive into the archetype's latest benchmark commander.
• Warhammer 40,000 decks are getting a new print run, and Draftsim already has a 17-change Forces of the Imperium upgrade guide ready — a major win for staple supply.

Set News

The Star Trek preview train keeps rolling. MTGGoldfish's spoiler roundup covers the inaugural Borg precon and a stack of main-set cards, the Weekly Update recaps the week, and Podcast 611 digs into the Standard implications. Meanwhile, Draftsim argues the flood of new creature types in Star Trek highlights a bigger problem for MTG's type lines as UB sets proliferate.

Looking past this set, Draftsim ranked the 10 best properties for future Universes Beyond collabs, though Rosewater offered a dose of reality on in-universe adaptations: Magic "can't use other properties' proprietary materials outside cards representing that property." So no Magic-original Vulcans or Custodes in Multiverse sets.

Commander Corner

Preview-season brews are already flowing: EDHREC has a Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest deck tech and a budget Seven of Nine Dimir list — the latter built around what they call a fresh name for a card style we've seen for decades. From Reality Fracture, there's also a $150 five-color Codie, Ravenous Codex "prepared-spell" build.

On the competitive end, EDHREC's Khan, Vengeful Heart piece traces Food Chain's lineage — a combo "practically as old as cEDH" — and makes the case that Khan is the archetype's new benchmark. And for a spicy table-talk debate: MTGStocks asks whether Sol Ring actually belongs in every deck, questioning the auto-include artifact orthodoxy. EDHREC also wades into pod politics with When Is It Okay To Spite Play?

List season is in full swing: Draftsim ranks the 18 best Sea Creature commanders, all 9 snow commanders, and the best Vampire commanders per bracket, plus the best Plains arts and enchantment lands for the aesthetes. (Yes, Draftsim's Star Trek chair tribal "revolution" piece is satire — but Command Chair enjoyers can dream.)

Competitive Scene

MTGGoldfish's Best Standard Deck Ever bracket pits Sphinx's Revelation Control (2013) against Temur Reclamation (2020) with a top-16 slot on the line — Think Twice versus Wilderness Reclamation is a genuine clash of Standard eras.

Finance & Market

The newly announced Warhammer 40,000 print run is a supply win for players chasing staple cards, and Draftsim's Forces of the Imperium upgrade guide walks through 17 easy swaps for the reprint. Value-minded Star Trek buyers should check the community-compiled We Are The Borg precon reprint list — the colorless artifact slotting is the real story in any Borg list. For long-game reprint watchers, EDHREC's top 10 most-played Modern Horizons 2 cards is a solid snapshot of what's carrying the most Commander demand.

Design & Lore

Rosewater's blog delivered a trove this week. Birthday trivia: Garruk was the very first planeswalker ever designed, and he shared an early version under a different name. On set structure, he explained that leaving blocks behind was driven by player preference — mechanically focused more than narrative — and that after twenty-two years of experimentation, the data is clear: players prefer bouncing between worlds.

Storm Scale check-ins: conspiracies rate a 9, with draft-matters mechanics "a smidgen lower, maybe an 8" — an 8 meaning a long shot, but possible if the stars align. For Limited grinders, draft archetypes get a first stab in vision design but are finalized in set design, with faction sets getting more upfront detail. And in the "questions we didn't know we needed" department: a card named Bananabarbs would cause Mark nightmares. Same, Mark. Same.