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Commander Spock gives Landing Party a reason to combine land development with repeated enters-the-battlefield triggers. Tomer Abramovici’s November 5 precon upgrade guide supplies the current construction: use Springheart Nantuko to produce additional Spock entries, then support the commander with cast-triggered blink effects such as Displacer Kitten and Flickering Hound.
Spock triggers when he enters or attacks. You reveal the top card and may cast it without paying its mana cost if its mana value does not exceed the number of differently named lands you control. A revealed land may instead enter tapped. If the revealed card remains on top, you draw it. The land-name count is therefore a practical deckbuilding constraint, rather than decorative set flavor: repeated basics develop mana but do not keep increasing the casting ceiling.
Bestowing Springheart Nantuko onto Spock supplies another route to that trigger. When a land enters, Nantuko’s landfall ability lets you pay for a copy of the enchanted creature. The legendary copy need not survive alongside the original to generate its entry trigger. This is a repeatable way to turn land drops and spare mana into another look at the top card, rather than requiring Spock to survive another combat step.
The blink package adds a different connection. Displacer Kitten can respond to noncreature spells, while Flickering Hound rewards creature spells. When Spock actually casts an eligible card, the appropriate support can generate another entry and another reveal. The two supports cover different spell types; they are not interchangeable copies of one trigger condition.
There are important stopping points. Putting a land onto the battlefield is not casting a spell, and a card above Spock’s current ceiling will generally become a draw rather than a free cast. Nantuko requires mana, a landfall event and a vulnerable creature setup. Neither package by itself guarantees an infinite chain through an arbitrary library.
This is a new Commander construction built around the recently revealed precon commander, not tournament evidence or an automatic infinite combo. It suits players who want Landing Party’s lands-and-blink identity to produce repeated value while accepting the costs of a varied mana base and several removable engine pieces.
Spock triggers when he enters or attacks. You reveal the top card and may cast it without paying its mana cost if its mana value does not exceed the number of differently named lands you control. A revealed land may instead enter tapped. If the revealed card remains on top, you draw it. The land-name count is therefore a practical deckbuilding constraint, rather than decorative set flavor: repeated basics develop mana but do not keep increasing the casting ceiling.
Bestowing Springheart Nantuko onto Spock supplies another route to that trigger. When a land enters, Nantuko’s landfall ability lets you pay for a copy of the enchanted creature. The legendary copy need not survive alongside the original to generate its entry trigger. This is a repeatable way to turn land drops and spare mana into another look at the top card, rather than requiring Spock to survive another combat step.
The blink package adds a different connection. Displacer Kitten can respond to noncreature spells, while Flickering Hound rewards creature spells. When Spock actually casts an eligible card, the appropriate support can generate another entry and another reveal. The two supports cover different spell types; they are not interchangeable copies of one trigger condition.
There are important stopping points. Putting a land onto the battlefield is not casting a spell, and a card above Spock’s current ceiling will generally become a draw rather than a free cast. Nantuko requires mana, a landfall event and a vulnerable creature setup. Neither package by itself guarantees an infinite chain through an arbitrary library.
This is a new Commander construction built around the recently revealed precon commander, not tournament evidence or an automatic infinite combo. It suits players who want Landing Party’s lands-and-blink identity to produce repeated value while accepting the costs of a varied mana base and several removable engine pieces.
Original source: The Ultimate Star Trek Commander Precon Upgrade Guide | Trek-Only & All Sets ↗MTGGoldfish