Template:Realworld The Star Trek Deck Building Game is a "Deck Building" card game produced by Bandai, with its initial release planned for 7 October 2011. The "Premiere Edition" of the game – designed by Alex Bykov – focuses on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but future planned expansions will cover all the televised and film versions on Star Trek including the 2009 movie and its sequels. Unlike collectible card games (CCGs), this is a deck building game (DBG) in which all the components are included in the base set (no need to buy expansion packs to collect the whole set). Gameplay is set for two to five players age 13 and up, with an estimated gameplay time of 45 minutes.
Game materials
The Premiere Edition Set includes a 28 page rulebook, three hundred cards and five twenty-sided dice (used as damage counters).
Card list
- 25 "Grey Border" Starter Cards:
- 5 Evasive Maneuvers
- 5 Tricorder
- 5 Phasers
- 5 Diagnostic Check
- 5 Starfleet Academy
- 50 "Yellow Border" Basic Characters
- 20 Ensign
- 16 Lieutenant
- 14 Commander
- 90 "Blue Border" Starbase cards
- 37 Maneuvers
- 10 Setups
- 41 Unique Characters
- 2 "Blue Border" Special Wormhole Cards
- 15 "Purple Border" Space Deck Starships
- 5 "Gold Border" Exploration Starter Starships
- 25 "Gold Border" Exploration Space Deck Cards
- 12 Missions{*}
- 13 Events{*}
- 5 "Red Border" Klingon Civil War Starter Starships
- 25 "Red Border" Klingon Civil War Space Deck Cards
- 9 Events
- 4 Influences
- 12 Klingon Ally Starships
- 5 "Green Border" Borg Invasion Starter Starships
- 25 "Green Border" Borg Invasion Space Deck Cards
- 13 Events
- 12 Borg Cube Starships
- 30 "Green Border" Borg Cards
{*}-NOTE: Although the rulebook lists 10 Missions and 15 Events, the cards are actually divided up as listed above. Apparently, sometime between printing up the rulebook and releasing the game, two Event cards were changed to Missions.
Game play
The included rulebook allows for three different play scenarios:
- EXPLORATION: The basic "explore strange new worlds" game scenario. First player to earn four hundred or more "Mission Points" wins.
- BORG INVASION: The cooperative scenario. All players work as a team to survive an invasion of the Borg Collective.
- KLINGON CIVIL WAR: A two-on-two team scenario reenacting the Klingon Civil War; each team must gather allies to prove to the Arbiter that they can lead the Klingon Empire.
Expansions
Expansions will consist of both additional sets covering more of the Trek universes, and promotional cards made available at certain retailers.
For the Premiere Edition, two foil-printed "Preview" promo cards were made available as additional unique characters: an "Alternate Effect" Jean-Luc Picard and a Human Q (as seen in TNG: "Deja Q").[1] In addition, Bandai has brought special "Coming 2011" promo editions of the base Picard card to their promotional dates at select gaming conventions in the US. (These are functionally identical to the base Picard card in the set.)
The first full "expansion" is a complete second set of TNG game cards called "The Next Generation | Next Phase Edition". This is a "stand-alone" expansion of 300 additional cards, 5 more 20-sided dice and its own rulebook with three scenarios: another "free-for-all" Exploration scenario, a new "Romulan Reunification" scenario for multiple-player teams, and a new "Borg Invasion II" scenario featuring the Borg Queen. It can be played seperate from OR combined with the Premiere Edition, and is due in stores in January 2012.[2]