Elestrals Snowshade puts Divine Champions on ice and Hades in charge

Elestrals Snowshade is the eighth Elestrals TCG expansion and the final set in the Divine Champions block. Hades brings the new Sever mechanic, Athena brings a Lunar Nexus control deck, and the September banlist removed Earthquake before launch. Here's how Sever works, what changed in the banlist and Snowshade season organized play, and why this set shows Elestrals growing into a game with a long-term plan.

Everything you need for the MTG Star Trek prerelease, running November 6th through 12th at local game stores. We cover what comes in the Prerelease Pack, what your six Play Boosters will realistically give you, how to build a 40-card Sealed deck, and how beam me up, station, face a dilemma, federation, strange new worlds, and assimilate actually play in Limited. Plus what to bring and what you won't find at the event.

A full breakdown of assimilate and federation, the two MTG Star Trek mechanics built to fight each other. We cover how assimilate turns creatures into Borg artifact creatures, how federation counts creature types, why every assimilated creature drops out of the federation count, and rules questions on changelings, blink, commanders, and players leaving the game. Then we get into how to build a Borg deck and a federation deck that actually work.