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Star Trek is usually about valiant explorers and handsome captains venturing off into space to meet and canoodle with alien life. Everyone’s heard of Picard or Janeway and their officers, but Lower Decks takes a different tack. Instead of the high-ranking adventurers, Lower Decks takes a look at the usually nameless, thankless lower-ranked workers that keep the ships running.
Lower Decks is a radically different look at the Star Trek universe, and now it’s coming to the crossover-em-up trading card gameUniVersusin the form of four Challenger decks. Take your pick from Beckett, Boimler, Tendi, or Rutherford, and find some of these exclusive alternate art cards when the Star Trek: Lower Decks Challenger Series launches on December 6.
You can find these alternate art cards in any of the included Collector booster packs, to help bling out your deck a bit more.
Beckett Mariner Challenger Series Deck
Speedy and aggressive, the Beckett Mariner deck cares a lot about milling, flipping cards, and messing around with your opponent’s foundations. Even better, if your opponent mills a foundation, Beckett’s attacks can pack more of a punch, helping you to break through blocks while also making it trickier for your opponent to overcome your own defense.
Playing into the mill and pseudo-milling theme is Mariner’s Bat’Leth, which, on top of just looking cool as anything, dumps cards off the top of your opponent’s deck right into their card pool to further mess with their resources.
Name And Description
Beckett Mariner, Chaotic Ensign
Character - Champion - Ensign - 6 Hand Size - 30 Health - Chaos/Order/Water
Enhance: Your rival mills 1. If they milled a foundation this way, this attack gets +2 damage. Otherwise, it gets +2 speed.
Beckett Mariner, Adventuring Archeologist
Character - 7 Hand Size - 21 Health - Chaos/Earth/Water
Enhance: This attack gets +1 damage. If your rival has 3 or more face down foundations, it gets +3 damage instead.
Response[Once per turn]: After your attack deals damage, unflip 1 foundation. Flip 1 rival foundation with difficulty equal to that of the unflipped foundation.
Connecting The Dots
Action - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Chaos
ResponseRemove: After an enhance ability is played, add 1 foundation from your stage to your hand. The check to block this attack gets +3.
Beckett’s Bat’Leth
Asset - Tech - Weapon - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Water
EnhanceCommit: Your attack gets +2 damage. If it deals damage, your rival adds the top card of their deck to their card pool face down.
Excited Blows
Attack - Frenzy - Punch - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - Water - 3 Mid Speed - 4 Damage
Response: After this attack is blocked, your next attack this turn gains Frenzy.
(Frenzy-Blitz:This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for each attack blocked this turn.)
Un-Phased
Attack - Echo - Fury - Weapon - 6 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Chaos - 4 High Speed - 7 Damage
Response: After this attack is blocked, your checks to play cards get +1 this turn.
(Echo-ResponseSpend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may try to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.)
Insubordination
Foundation - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Chaos
ResponseFlip: After your rival makes a check to play a non-attack card, that check gets -2. Failing that check does not end the Combat Phase.
An ambitious wannabe captain, there’s nobody Boimler won’t suck up to in his quest for seniority. That sucking up goes as far as letting your opponents draw extra cards, albeit with the punishment of committing a foundation if their card pool has too many attacks in it.
Foundations are a big theme across Boimler’s deck, with cards like Replicator Enthusiast letting you and your opponent both build a foundation - setting them up for hitting them with a big Inconvenient Duplication once they have enough of them.
Brad Boimler, Acting Captain
Character - 7 Hand Size - 21 Health - Fire/Life/Chaos
Enhance: If it is your turn, each player discards 1 card and draws 1 card. If there are 2 or more attacks in a player’s card pool, each player commits 1 foundation.
Response: After a rival commits 1 or more foundations during the Enhance Step, this attack gets +1 or -1 damage
Replicator Enthusiast
Action - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 0 Block - Life
EnhanceRemove: Choose 1 foundation in your stage. Build 1 foundation from your discard pile with the same name as the chosen foundation. Your rival may build the top card of their deck.
Combadge
Asset - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block
EnhanceCommit: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put them back in any order.
U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567
Asset - Unique - Ship - 6 Difficulty - 4 Check - 3 Block - Chaos/Life/Order/Void
Form[Once per turn]: Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 of them to your hand, 1 to the bottom of your deck, and 1 to the top of your deck.
Inconvenient Duplication
Attack - Echo - Ally - 5 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Life - 3 High Speed - 3 Damage
Blitz: Each player may build the top card of their deck.
Blitz: This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for every 3 foundations in your rival’s stage.
Survey Mission
Attack - Throw - Diplomacy - 6 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Order - 3 Mid Speed - 7 Damage
Blitz: Your rival chooses 1 -
- They reveal their hand.
- Your attacks get +1 speed and +1 damage this turn.
- Your rival commits 2 foundations.
Response: After your rival draws 1 or more cards, this attack gets +2 damage.
Rules Stickler
Foundation - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Order
Response[Once per turn]: After your rival builds 1 or more foundations during the Combat Phase due to a non-character effect, commit 1 of those foundations.
Each deck has its own unique version of U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567, meaning you’ll need to get all four decks if you want a complete set of it.
D’Vana Tendi Challenger Series Deck
Decks built around regaining health aren’t quite as common in UniVersus as they are in other TCGs, but D’Vana Tendi, the Orion science officer, wants you to spend health for profit, only to gain it all back. With Eager Science Officer, you can reduce the speed and add stuns to attacks by paying health, before making checks easier when you gain it back.
If you’d rather focus on the healthgain more directly, Mistress of the Winter Constellations rewards having lots of rivals and non-Throw attacks, potentially sapping your opponent of all their health in just a few attacks.
D’Vana Tendi, Eager Science Officer
Character - Ensign - Healer - 7 Hand Size - 20 Health - Chaos/Fire/Life
Response: After a player gains health, their next check gets +1.
ResponseLose 1 health: After an attack is played, it gets -2 speed or gainsStun: 1.
D’Vana Tendi, Mistress Of The Winter Constellations
Character - Pirate - 6 Hand Size - 28 Health - Chaos/Death/Life
ResponseLose X health: After an attack is played, it gets +X or -X speed (Max. 2).
Response: After your non-Throw attack deals damage, your rivals each lose 1 health and you gain 1 health for each rival you have.
Emergency Treatment
Action - 5 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Life
This card ignores progressive difficulty.
ResponseRemove: After a player loses health, that player gains 3 health. The next block played this turn ignores progressive difficulty.
T88
Asset - Tech - 2 Difficulty - 5 Check - 0 Block - Chaos
EnhanceCommit: Your rival mills 1. If they milled a foundation this way, their next check gets -1. Otherwise, your next check gets +2.
Extreme Methods
Attack - Tech - Weapon - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - Life - 4 Mid Speed - 4 Damage
BlitzSpend 1 momentum: This attack gets +2 speed and +2 damage. Gain 2 health.
Response: After this attack deals damage, draw 1 card.
Syndicate Skills
Attack - Echo - 6 Difficulty - 3 Check - 1 Block - Chaos - 5 High Speed - 6 Damage
This attack gets -1 difficulty and -1 to its block modifier if you have lost health this turn.
Blitz: Your rival’s next check to play a block gets -2.
Unyielding Enthusiasm
Foundation - 3 Difficulty - 4 Check - 3 Block - Life
ResponseFlip 1 foundation: After you gain health, look at the top card of your deck. You may put it on the bottom of your deck.
Sam Rutherford Challenger Series Deck
As a cyborg, Rutherford can tweak his implants to adjust his behaviour, personality, and memories, which makes his card’s ability to swap around speed and damage particularly on-brand and very, very interesting.
The deck includes lots of cards that can buff either speed or damage, giving you a much swingier attack when Sam finally swaps the two. Alternatively, you could go for the Devron Racer character instead and lean into Tech attacks, boosting their speed and forcing your opponent to commit their foundations.
Sam Rutherford, Resourceful Engineer
Character - Ensign - Inventor - 6 Hand Size - 30 Life - Order/Void/Water
Response: After a non-Throw attack is played, switch its speed and damage.
Enhance: This attack gets +1 or -1 speed or damage.
Sam Rutherford, Devron Racer
Character - Inventor - 7 Hand Size - 21 Life - Air/Order/Void
Your Tech attacks get +2 speed.
Enhance[Once per turn]: End this Enhance Step.
First Form: If your rival has 8 or more ready foundations, draw 1 card. Your rival commits 1 foundation.
“Strange Energies”
Action - Tech - 0 Difficulty - 5 Check - 2 Block - Void
Response: After your rival plays a blitz ability or a non-character enhance ability, your rival checks against a 7.
Badgey, Vengeful Pal
Asset - Breaker: 1 - Ally - Tech - 3 Difficulty - 5 Check - 1 Block - Order
Response: After you play this card, build it.
Enhance[Once per turn, your turn]: Your attack gets +3 damage. Any player may play this ability.
Charged Alien Sploof
Attack - Tech - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Order - 3 Low Speed - 5 Damage
Blitz: Your rival must commit 1 foundation as an additional cost to play enhance abilities during this attack.
Response: After you play this attack, it gets +2 damage for each other Tech attack in your card pool.
Okey Dokey!
Attack - Frenzy - Tech - 4 Difficulty - 3 Check - 2 Block - Void - 3 High Speed - 5 Damage
Blitz: Draw 1 card and discard 1 card. This attack gains 1 keyword from the discarded card.
(Frenzy-Blitz: This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for each attack blocked this turn.)
Other Self
Foundation - Unique - 3 Difficulty - 4 Check - 3 Block - Order
UniVersus
Formerly known as the Universal Fighting System (UVS) UniVersus is a collectible card game in which you build decks of cards, with an additional Character Card that represents you and can access powerful Enhance abilities.
