Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
Star Trek Commander 305 • rare
- Set
- Star Trek Commander
- Collector number
- 305
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana green mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Green
- Artist
- Charles Chaisson
What it does
Whenever Lieutenant Sulu becomes tapped, he explores. (Reveal the top card of your library. Put that card into your hand if it's a land. Otherwise, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature, then put the card back or put it into your graveyard.)
2 generic mana blue mana: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyNot legal
- VintageNot legal
- CommanderNot legal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerNot legal
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Where it came from
The Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu card, numbered 305 within the Star Trek Commander set, emerged during the late 1990s as part of the wider Star Trek Customizable Card Game ecosystem. Produced by Decipher, this set was designed to leverage the expansive lore of the original series and its subsequent spin-offs, providing a tactical gameplay experience that required players to build decks representing iconic Starfleet personnel, ships, and mission profiles.
The design of this specific card utilizes archival imagery of George Takei as Sulu, typical of Decipher’s approach to maintaining thematic continuity with the television series. The card was received by the gaming community as a functional tool for expanding personnel rosters, valued for its mechanical utility within the game's complex ruleset rather than as a standalone piece of graphic design. It remains a representative artifact of the collectible card game boom that characterized much of the mid-to-late 1990s hobby market.
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