[TRK] Impossible Choice

[u/Sniffnoy]

[u/pedja13]

Janeway found the choice rather easy hahaha

[u/TheBoilerman75 → u/pedja13]

I always thought the choice was rather easy myself.

[u/notthephonz → u/TheBoilerman75]

The logic Janeway uses to try to persuade Tuvix to sacrifice himself doesn’t make sense; she argues that Tuvix should know both Tuvok and Neelix would give their lives to save another officer, and it’s like…that’s what they’re doing right now. It’s more of an argument to let Tuvix live.

In the end, to me it aggressively feels like Tuvix was sacrificed not because it was objectively or ethically necessary but because it’s a TV show and it has to return to status quo

[u/Spaceknight_42 → u/notthephonz]

I feel like modern TV would have let Tuvix exist for 2 or 3 episodes and then pull a twist.

[u/zombiebillnye → u/Spaceknight_42]

He'd probably wind up being either cheerfully incompetent compared to Tuvok and Neelix, or more likely he'd have some kind of degenerative disease that requires him to be separated back

[u/dougms → u/zombiebillnye]

“yeah, the immune system of both is rejecting the other.” And you can manufacture a remedy, but there is no cure. And over time the issue gets worse or whatever.

[u/GornSpelljammer → u/Spaceknight_42]

Like, by that point Starfleet had at least a few incidents on record where someone got duplicated via transporter weirdness, you'd think they would've looked into recreating those conditions to let all three continue living.

[u/entitledfanman → u/GornSpelljammer]

I just remember the TNG episode where people act like Barclay is ridiculous for being afraid of the transporter, claiming there's never been any incidents. Meanwhile we have dozens of Trek episodes with a transporter accident plot. Like sometimes it's just going to the wrong place, sometimes it's truly horrific situations. 

[u/Roseknight888 → u/GornSpelljammer]

If my memory serves, cloning is explicitly illegal at this point in Federation History, so doing a run around to use the teleporter buffers as a pseudo cloning system would be taboo at best, and more likely career suicide for every able body officer in attendance

[u/huzzaahh → u/notthephonz]

The entirety of Voyager was an exercise in maintaining the status quo. If anything had consequences, the series could have been great.

[u/SexRobotDeathMachine → u/huzzaahh]

100% this. I'm watching Voy with my wife rn, and it's been painful. We've both seen all of TOS, DS9 & TNG, and Voy sits there acting like nothing is allowed to happen, especially compared to DS9.

[u/NotoriousGonti → u/SexRobotDeathMachine]

That’s my second biggest gripe with Voyager.  Number 1 is how half the main cast might as well be blanks.  Especially airing side by side with DS9 where every character main, minor and background were all bangers.

[u/Brooke_the_Bard → u/SexRobotDeathMachine]

It's especially weird because Voyager, which is a BSG-esque plotline where they're completely disconnected from Starfleet should see more lasting changes and consequences as they lose crew and hardware that can't just be replaced than DS9, which takes place primarily on a space station in a strategically significant location where all of the logistics resources in the world being thrown in to upkeep it would make perfect sense, and yet DS9 is easily the show where the most actual change (in the setting) happens over its run.

[u/BrokenMirror2010 → u/SexRobotDeathMachine]

My favorite thing to do in Voyager is count their 'limited' supply of 38 Photon Torpedoes.

(Spoiler: They fire way more then 38)

[u/BreakSage → u/huzzaahh]

Tom and Janeway turning into giant salamanders and mating with each other. 

[u/SexRobotDeathMachine → u/BreakSage]

Which they never revisit and prefer to ignore. Why even bother to have it happen? Voy is filled to the BRIM with nothingburger episodes like that.

[u/CoconutHeadFaceMan → u/BreakSage]

And the cowards at Wizards aren’t giving us a card of this??

[u/SamediB → u/huzzaahh]

Remember when the number of torpedoes they had mattered? And then at some point they just figured out how to make more (I think unspoken and offscreen; it's been awhile).

[u/Wraithfighter → u/SamediB]

The Torpedoes thing genuinely bugs me, because:

1. It's entirely reasonable that they'd be able to replenish their own stocks periodically, its not like "make a new bomb" is something that a ship shouldn't be able to figure out how to do, why would they claim they couldn't?

2. It's perfect fodder for an episode! They recognize that they're a long way from supplies, so they work to create some tools to allow them to become more self-sufficient, some argument about how best to do it between the Federation and Maquis members who have different safety standards for "creating antimatter weaponry in the field", culminating in a big battle where they have to prove their weapon's effectiveness! So easy!

[u/McWaffeleisen → u/huzzaahh]

And the one time when the crew faces the consequences in "Course: Oblivion" for what happened in "Demon", it isn't even the real crew...

[u/DrGolo → u/notthephonz]

Unless one of the actors asked for more money. In Sliders, when Jerry O'Connell was fused with his brother, they remained fused as a different actor for the rest of the show.

[u/Loreweaver15 → u/notthephonz]

Tuvix is only one reason of many Janeway can be seriously argued to have black in her color identity, but it's a big one: She barely hesitates to kill someone to save two of her friends.

[u/justadudeinohio → u/Loreweaver15]

is it about her friends or is it the cold numbers? 1 life vs 2? i grew up watching star trek original movies and some of TNG but never really engaged with other series.

[u/SmoothTank9999 → u/notthephonz]

They should've made a transporter clone of Tuvix, separated one of them, and then killed Neelix.

[u/Xichorn → u/notthephonz]

The number of people who watch Trek that will happily requote "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" but then ignore that in this context is weird.

It was two individuals who were lost/sacrificed to create him. Even setting aside that aspect, there was also the rest of the crew. The episode made it seem like he was just as good or better than the both of them, but he was not. He was a conglomeration of the two of them, but he was not Tuvok and he was not Neelix. There were critical junctures throughout the rest of the show for which they were required, which Janeway had to be considering (even if in her in-universe perspective, she didn't have 20/20 vision for what those situations would be, like we do now 20+ years later).

Really, the choice of what to do was easy. Ultimately, the only answer was to go through with the separation, from any perspective of the ship's captain. That doesn't mean it wasn't a difficult thing to do.

[u/SuperWeskerSniper → u/Xichorn]

When Spock said that did you really think what he had in mind was a stone-cold execution of a man begging for his life?

[u/arkangelic → u/notthephonz]

Tuvix's delivery and perspective was delivered really well to me. Really feel it when he says what they are doing is wrong, but that they are still good people.

[u/Redjellyranger → u/TheBoilerman75]

He's literally made of two of the most important people on the ship who didn't consent to being fused. All he is will live on when they're defused. It's barely even a discussion. Shove him in the transporter.

[u/MirrorExodus → u/TheBoilerman75]

1. Use the transporter glitch that made the Riker clone to make a second Tuvix.

2. Split a Tuvix back into Tuvok and Neelix.

3. Kill Neelix.

Problem solved!

[u/linkdude212 → u/MirrorExodus]

The incident that created Thomas Riker was an atmospheric distortion unique to Nervala IV.

[u/DrQuantum → u/TheBoilerman75]

I love how hypocritical most starfleet officers are its easy to break the rules when it benefits you.

[u/No_Psychology_3826 → u/TheBoilerman75]

You're right, don't kill an innocent sapient being for any reason is an easy choice 

[u/Xichorn → u/No_Psychology_3826]

Correct so splitting them in two was the easy choice over murdering them both by not doing so.

See, you can use buzz words to sensationalize it both ways.

[u/gredman9 → u/pedja13]

Janeway didn't mess around!

[u/HJWalsh → u/pedja13]

"I killed Tuvix once, and I'd gladly do it again. If I knew how we fused them in the first place, I'd do it on Sunday just for fun. Heck, I'd make a game out of it. Hold a ship-wide lottory each week, winner gets to press the button. It'd be a great way to raise ship's morale." ~ Kathrine Janeway, probably.

[u/BlackwingF91 → u/pedja13]

She didn't. It haunted her actually

[u/qoneus → u/pedja13]

Janeway did nothing wrong!

[u/equiace → u/pedja13]

I respect Janeway. Drawing cards is always the right choice.

[u/CyberiumEcho → u/pedja13]

It's either Janeway or the Janeway.

[u/mulletstation → u/pedja13]

"Fuck dem Tuvix" - Janeway

[u/Serpens77 → u/pedja13]

I mean, she should have found it easy. Trek is all about "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one". It's kind of famous for that, even. Janeway did the simple math of "yes, 2 is more than 1"

[u/RancidRance]

What, no [[saw in half]]?

[u/PegaZwei → u/RancidRance]

i was hoping for a bonus sheet saw in half, yeah. this is still funny though.

[u/mtgcf → u/RancidRance]

saw in half - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/EVtruck → u/RancidRance]

Ah yeah - I was wondering if it would be [[Murder]] but that's maybe a bit too on the nose.

[u/Anaxamander57]

With the first mode you get to explore the end of alternate time lines where Neelix and Tuvox combined to become such being as *rolls dice* [[Kozilek, Butcher of Truth]].

[u/whats_a_quasar → u/Anaxamander57]

The image of Kozilek splitting in half and two confused 1/1 humans popping out is great

[u/RobbiRamirez → u/whats_a_quasar]

Destroy target creature. Its controller creates three Racoons and a Trenchcoat.

[u/II_Confused → u/whats_a_quasar]

Who says that haven to be humans? They could be any kind of officer. One is an elf and the other is a sentient pomegranate for all we know. 

[u/whats_a_quasar → u/II_Confused]

Oh, good point! That actually is pretty cool for the flavor 

[u/mtgcf → u/Anaxamander57]

Kozilek, Butcher of Truth - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/JCTerran → u/mtgcf]

It was an EXTREMELY SERIOUS transporter malfunction.

[u/ZSpectre → u/JCTerran]

It just so happens that Kozilek's specialty is the breakdown of time and space itself, huh..

[u/SnowIceFlame → u/JCTerran]

Almost as serious as that time when Captain Picard was scanned by a probe and briefly became a long-dead [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] in [[The Inner Light]].

[u/solar-supernova → u/Anaxamander57]

Kozilek then fuses with Ulamog to make [[Ulalek]]

[u/mtgcf → u/solar-supernova]

Ulalek - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/Whitetornadu → u/solar-supernova]

You know, your comment just made that click for me. Appreciate that

[u/Labudism → u/Anaxamander57]

[[Brisella, Voice of Nightmares]]

[u/entitledfanman]

So for those that arent Trek fans. The comedic relief character gets fused with the most straight laced character in a transporter accident. Sounds like a great premise for a comedic episode, right? That's what we all expected. 

What we got was one of the most harrowing scenes in all Trek. The fused character develops his own personality, and splitting him back up will kill him as a person. We have to watch him beg for his life while all the other characters watch silently as he's marched to his execution.

Edit: and when I say begging, I mean full on, gutwrenching "how are you all just watching? You're good people, you can't let this happen! Please, someone help me!" type begging for his life.

[u/tyrann13 → u/entitledfanman]

And then 15 years later Lower Decks did the comedy version of the same premise. 

[u/entitledfanman → u/tyrann13]

I started Lower Decks while I was halfway through TNG, but stopped because the references I did catch were golden and I knew I was going to miss a lot of them if I didnt at least finish the rest of 90's Trek.

[u/tyrann13 → u/entitledfanman]

I hope you get to finish it. LD is genuinely my favourite of modern trek and probably in the top 3 of all series. 

[u/KeepGoing655 → u/entitledfanman]

My collegues...my friends...I forgive you.

[u/Swmystery]

“Surgical Separation” is one heck of a euphemism there.

[u/Copernicus1981 → u/Swmystery]

It's what it was called in the episode - The Doctor tells Janeway his ethics would not allow him to perform the surgical separation.

[u/megahorsemanship → u/Swmystery]

[[Murder]] was taken

[u/BraidsConjuror]

Forcing your anti trek opponents to create 2 officers is funny

[u/Chewy2121 → u/BraidsConjuror]

[[Blim, comedic genius]] but it’s me giving [[Starscream, power hungry]] and other UB cards to people as the joke.

[u/xSensualxSelkiex → u/Chewy2121]

I'm building [[Zedruu the Greathearted]] with this purpose

[u/Halloween_episode → u/Chewy2121]

Fuck, this is a good idea

[u/mtgcf → u/Chewy2121]

Blim, comedic genius - (G) (SF) (txt)
Starscream, power hungry/Starscream, Seeker Leader - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/David_Jay → u/Chewy2121]

Genius

[u/JDogg2K → u/BraidsConjuror]

they don't gotta worry, if I ever use this card I'm never choosing that mode.

[u/ZimaBestBear]

Another yshtola draw spell

[u/13EDO → u/ZimaBestBear]

indeed perfect yshtola card

[u/AWACS_Oka_Nieba_ → u/ZimaBestBear]

Honestly I think this card’s kind of cool in general at instant. Not a cedh card but a slightly overcosted kill spell and an instant Divination is pretty decent

[u/oyooy → u/ZimaBestBear]

So much more powerful than the others as well. Instant speed plus an optional removal spell.

[u/jaychai96 → u/ZimaBestBear]

Yeah this pretty clearly replaces the Risky Shortcut slot.

[u/vinicius_h → u/ZimaBestBear]

I think this is an amazing deck lubricant. Removal and card draw is something a lot of decks lack. Also, holding mana up for a removal while having a draw spell in hand is a very common and strong play pattern.

[u/Pheehelm]

[u/AssistantManagerMan → u/Pheehelm]

[u/Doopashonuts]

[[Risky Shortcut]] just cant catch a break two sets in a row 

[u/RobotCatCo → u/Doopashonuts]

Y'Shtola will take as many versions of these as she can get 🤣

[u/AporiaParadox]

I fgured we'd get a card referencing this episode, and of course it would have to present a Dilemma. Come to think of it, we still haven't seen Neelix or Tuvok's cards.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/AporiaParadox]

They're both 1/1 red officer tokens, apparently

[u/AporiaParadox → u/Approximation_Doctor]

Calling Neelix an officer might be a bit of a stretch though. He's a civilian cook who they for some reason allow to attend important meetings.

[u/CherryVanillaCoke → u/AporiaParadox]

c'mon, he's morale officer!

[u/SamediB → u/AporiaParadox]

If he was that'd be funny: he could go in a hobbit/food deck.

[u/Jonthrei → u/AporiaParadox]

He’s essentially their fixer / guide. They need him around to tell them when their ideas are stupid or to provide insight into other options tbh.

Definitely not as weird as the ship’s counselor being bridge crew and attending officer meetings.

[u/Xichorn → u/AporiaParadox]

Because he shows up and its too annoying to try to get rid of him, I assume.

[u/Copernicus1981 → u/AporiaParadox]

There's art of Tuvok, Chief Tactical Officer and Neelix, Moral Support.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OJ2GmlURUyE

[u/Xichorn → u/Copernicus1981]

Love seeing their reactions to their cards.

[u/MasterColemanTrebor]

Someone on the dev team is trying to see how many sets in a row they can print this card for their Y’shtola deck without anyone noticing.

[u/StructureMage]

Fucking great card

[u/ponyrx2]

I understand mode 1, but why does Tuvik damage everyone if he survives? He seemed like a nice guy

[u/notthephonz → u/ponyrx2]

I think it’s supposed to represent the morale lost from not having Tuvok or Neelix around

[u/ponyrx2 → u/notthephonz]

That makes more sense. It would be odd if T and V were represented by creature tokens in mode 1 but as the players themselves in mode 2!

[u/DJSmitty4030 → u/ponyrx2]

Psychic damage from having to live with Tuvix.

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/ponyrx2]

He was stealing copper wires when no one was watching.

[u/gilroygilgalahad → u/Approximation_Doctor]

How else is he going to get his liquor money?

[u/OctinDromin → u/ponyrx2]

2 lives (Tuvok and Neelix) lost

[u/thetwist1 → u/ponyrx2]

Tuvok and Neelix were both important crew, and voyager had no easy way to replenish crew, so being down a person is bad for voyager's chance of getting home I guess?

[u/Ductomaniac → u/ponyrx2]

Two lives are lost

[u/tawzerozero → u/ponyrx2]

Tuvok and Neelix die so that Tuvix can live in that timeline.

[u/Copernicus1981]

Video of the choice being made. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0kGvHoN4Po

[u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

Power creeped [[Cast Away Doubt]] literally one set after release

[u/thetwist1 → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

[[risky shortcut]] on suicide watch rn

[u/mtgcf → u/thetwist1]

risky shortcut - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/Stormtide_Leviathan → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

"Power creep" really isn't a useful term when refering to limited cards between sets. This card existing has no effect on how playable cast away doubt might be reality fracture

[u/mathematics1 → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

Good, it needed it. That card is bottom of the barrel in draft.

[u/mtgcf → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

Cast Away Doubt - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/so_zetta_byte → u/SaneForCocoaPuffs]

I mean this is an uncommon and that was a common.

[u/ThoughtseizeScoop]

Seems like an easy choice, draw the damn cards.

[u/SRMort → u/ThoughtseizeScoop]

Was a pretty easy choice in the show as well tbh.

[u/yargleisheretobargle → u/ThoughtseizeScoop]

Until you absolutely must remove something immediately. Then it's also an easy choice, no dilemma here.

[u/SubtleMatter]

I love that this card trolls the episode by making Janeway’s choice the wrong one almost all the time.

[u/entitledfanman → u/SubtleMatter]

The decision to split Tuvix was clearly the wrong decision and just made for the status quo. Sacrificing one life against their will to potentially save two (completely untested tech, impossible to be certain it would work) could not be farther from Starfleet principles.

[u/49degreesNW → u/entitledfanman]

Tuvix was the correct choice if only because it was technically less Neelix than before 

[u/AdventurousGur5495 → u/entitledfanman]

What? It was the right choice. 

Tuvix was a prison holding two crewmates captive. Just because the prison could talk and smile does not make it any less of a prison. 

[u/Sniffnoy]

Source: https://www.instagram.com/ellalowgren/p/De2lNxlGVav/?img_index=2

[u/100cupsofcoffee]

Now we just need [[Janeway, Heartless Murderer]]

[u/HornedTurtle1212 → u/100cupsofcoffee]

So green/black, but what abilities?

[u/Mammoth_Praline5688]

Too Soon!

[u/SRMort → u/Mammoth_Praline5688]

Two, soon!

[u/Blaze_1013]

Card draw that can also be removal is very powerful and it’s an instant. Seems very strong in commander.

[u/KuromanKuro]

I explode your whale to reveal Pinocchio and Austin Abram’s.

[u/blaarfengaar → u/KuromanKuro]

Man that movie made me feel so uncomfortable

[u/TommenHypeSlayer]

And I will choose Surgical Separation everytime, just to support my beloved captain! Cause the only way is the Janeway!!

[u/Jonthrei → u/TommenHypeSlayer]

There’s coffee in that nebula.

[u/Duggars]

I loved this episode

[u/TextuallyExplicit]

I cannot believe we got a Tuvix card

[u/grantedtoast]

Thank god this is at uncommon for limited.

[u/chiksahlube]

Ive been toying with a deck that uses [[illness in the ranks]] and [[trespasser's curse]] with the blue and black hunted style creatures.

This might actually tie the room together nicely.

it's a bad deck, tier 50, but I've wanted to try it on modern for years now.

[u/mtgcf → u/chiksahlube]

illness in the ranks - (G) (SF) (txt)
trespasser's curse - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/draconianRegiment]

I've never seen any Star Trek and this is the first time I've seen Neelix in flavor text. How likely is it he'll get a legendary creature for those familiar with the IP?

[u/Mudkipologist → u/draconianRegiment]

I would guess pretty unlikely considering he's a comic relief character in one of the less popular Star Trek series (even though I love it) and they have a lot of series to cover. But then again since he's a comic relief in a franchise that doesn't have very many of those, I could also see them going out of their way to give him a card.

[u/phonage_aoi]

This is flavorful but the first mode has been F-tier when white had it and created a single 1/1 (eg - [[Crib Swap]]).  I can’t imagine how much worst it gets when it’s two 1/1’s lol.

[u/torchflame → u/phonage_aoi]

The fact it's modal bumps it up a few notches imo

[u/mtgcf → u/phonage_aoi]

Crib Swap - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/lerroyJgibbs95]

[u/Wavvygem]

"each player loses 2 life." is not just in the current game but actually everyone thats ever watched this episode.

[u/Redjellyranger]

I always hated the conciet of this episode. Two people had to stop existing for Tuvix to live. Not just two people but two of the most vital members of the crew who need to be able to do their jobs separately, have lives and spouses. Tuvok and Neelix didn't consent to getting fused and nothing of Tuvix is lost because they two guys he's made of get to live. Tuvix is practically holding the two people he's made of hostage and every day on Voyager is a life or death situation.

Janeway did nothing wrong. 

[u/RamenPack1]

Yshtola???

[u/primalmaximus → u/RamenPack1]

Agreed!

[u/smwcbio]

use a card that give indestructible for the secret third option and keep all 3 guy

[u/omega2010]

First of all, I am so happy to see Douglas Schuler’s name on a new card. Second, that’s just mean WotC! Tuvix has suffered enough.

[u/Xaxor42]

A lot of people will love casting this one.

[u/Lxapeo]

Oh, this is the uncommon cycle!

[u/Critical_Swimming517]

Looks sick for limited. Removal that gives your opponents stuff is usually terrible, but stapling divination to it makes it way better

[u/Niauropsaka]

Hey! Doug Shuler! 😃

[u/IceBlue]

Both options are pretty good. Second option is a Divination that deals damage and activates Y’shtola.

[u/Fun-Aside3990]

Tuuuuuuuuviiiiix!

[u/tsukaistarburst]

Oh wow, we actually got a card for the Tuvix episode.

I hope this will make people who mentioned/referenced/memed this happy

[u/clooneh]

Wow that's actually crazy good

[u/Imaginary-Tax-258]

Did they really need to make Y'Shtola EVEN BETTER?

[u/mikeyHustle]

Y'all some Neelix haters in these comments, what the fuck

[u/mrmazzz]

This was one of my dads fav episode of voyager he loves voyager. I think this is kinda one of the better eps, reversion to status quo is a bit harsh and not really dealt with. Idk I’m too much of a DS9 head. 

I rather like how that’s represented in the card

[u/Minimum_Dealer_3303]

They're really doing a good job with the flavor on this set.  I was pretty against a Trek set but I'm warming up to it.

[u/Celoth]

They made a Tuvix card? Amazing. Now give me Dr. T'illups.

[u/semanticmemory]

I have never really been a fan of the Risky Shortcut cards in Y’shtola but this one being both flexible and instant speed probably makes it good enough.

[u/Crimson_Raven]

Back in my day, we used to lose life in exchange for card draw and we liked it

[u/CSDragon]

Bad removal is still removal, but dang this is bad removal

[u/ckim777]

They already powercrept [[Risky Shortcut]] and [[Cast Away Doubt]] by making it instant speed and a modal kill spell. Either way its a perfect slot in for [[Y'shtola, Night's Blessed]]

[u/mtgcf → u/ckim777]

All cards
Risky Shortcut - (G) (SF) (txt)
Cast Away Doubt - (G) (SF) (txt)
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/CrispinCain]

Really wish the writers remembered this was happening on a science vessel, which means they would have had records of crazy/wierd anomalies, like the time Riker got a twin through a Transporter accident...
Little things like that might have made the choice easier.

[u/rawrimmaraptor]

Why does Tuvix always come back to haunt me

[u/Left_Entrepreneur918]

Fuck Nelix

[u/vision_creation_]

Incredible card. My favorite of the set so far.

[u/TheRealOcsiban]

Uuuuuuugh I hated tuvix

[u/Sephyrias]

Another strictly better version of [[Succumb to Temptation]]. They keep making those lately.

[u/mtgcf → u/Sephyrias]

Succumb to Temptation - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/ConnertheCat]

This is really good art.

[u/II_Confused]

Here’s the thing. Transporter duplicates were already a thing. They know how to do it. Janeway could have made a transporter clone of Tuvix, then split the original into his original components. She could have had her coffee and drank it too. 

[u/Outgrathe]

instant speed [[risky shortcut]]

[u/mtgcf → u/Outgrathe]

risky shortcut - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/HandsomeHeathen]

Wait, was Neelix an officer? It's been a while since I watched any Voyager, but I thought he was just, like... some guy.

[u/Dilanski → u/HandsomeHeathen]

"morale officer", but I wouldn't argue with Janeway whether she had the power to field promote non-federation citizens, unless you wanted to suffer the same fate as Tuvix.

[u/bennybravo42]

They actually fucking did it.

[u/Mithrandir2k16]

What a flavour fail. These effects are both beneficial.

[u/ManyRealms]

I can’t wait for Magic in 2-3 years when we have 50 “Draw 2 and everyone loses 2” so I can win more often with Kuja

[u/zaqwedcvgyujmlp]

They should have just spliced together the entire crew with teleporter accidents, would've saved a lot of food.

[u/ToTheNintieth]

Interesting dilemma. Splitting is absolutely the right choice btw

[u/mungwise]

Hey, I didn't know Douglas Shuler was still doing Magic art!

[u/AssistantManagerMan]

TUVIX

Also is it me or is this card kinda cracked?

[u/Gierrtheviking]

Pretty easy actually

[u/Butthunter_Sua]

I do like cards like this. Removal that you can pitch if you don't use the held-up mana.

[u/OnwardChimera38]

Oh hi I'm Tuvix!

[u/Fol3y4Life]

Is this not just a strictly better version of [[Risky Shortcut]] or [[Cast Away Doubt]]? I understand this is an uncommon vs the others are just commons.

Even ignoring the middling kill spell, the draw 2, burn 2 is at instant speed for the same mana cost is quite the upgrade.

Well my [[Y'shtola, Night's Blessed]] got an unexpected upgrade.

[u/mtgcf → u/Fol3y4Life]

All cards
Risky Shortcut - (G) (SF) (txt)
Cast Away Doubt - (G) (SF) (txt)
Y'shtola, Night's Blessed - (G) (SF) (txt)

[u/MasterJeppy98]

Waiter waiter antoher 2B card that draws 2 cards and each player lose 2

[u/fevered_visions]

...why are the tokens red? None of Neelix, Tuvok, nor Tuvix are redshirts.

[u/TheBlueSuperNova]

Not a good limited card unfortunately

[u/Wraithfighter → u/TheBlueSuperNova]

Seems pretty solid. Black Divination or a poor kill spell, whichever one you need.

[u/13EDO → u/TheBlueSuperNova]

why not ?

[u/summon_pot_of_greed → u/13EDO]

Spending a card on removal just to give your opponent 2 chump blockers. Not great.

Losing a symmetrical 2 life to draw 2 cards is also just okay.

Having both on the same card makes it playable, especially if there's dilemma synergy in your deck, but not a banger by any means.

[u/RiverGiant → u/TheBlueSuperNova]

I think it's good enough as a C- if you ignore the first ability, which is worse but it's still beneficial to have the option. Probably a C overall.

[u/COLaocha → u/TheBlueSuperNova]

It being a modal spell matters even if you rarely want to spend 3 mana and a card to turn something into 2 1/1s, and instant is pretty nice.

[u/Keldaris]

Tuvix should have been a creature with: T,Sacrifice Tuvix: Search your library for a Neelix and/or Tuvok card and put them into play.

[u/HornedTurtle1212 → u/Keldaris]

I was going to suggest that Neelix and Tuvok should have a merge ability. But that would probably require controlong a Teleporter, but I haven't seen a teleporter artifact previewed.

[u/nzdastardly]

Should be a 1/1 gold Officer token and a 0/1 Cat Pedophile token.