Silicate Surveyor
Star Trek 172 • common
- Set
- Star Trek
- Collector number
- 172
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 4 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Creature
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Joan Piqué Llorens
What it does
Reach
When this creature enters, exile the top card of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play that card.
The Tholian Assembly does not suffer trespassers lightly.
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 Silicate Surveyor card, numbered 172 in the Star Trek CCG catalog, represents the specialized biological and technological entities introduced in the original series episode 'The Cloud Minders'. Produced during the mid-1990s as part of the initial expansion of the Star Trek Customizable Card Game, these cards were designed to integrate the diverse array of planetary threats and non-humanoid species encountered by the crew of the USS Enterprise into a strategic gameplay format.
The design team at Decipher, Inc. utilized stills from the television archives to create the card's visual identity, focusing on capturing the specific aesthetic of the cloud-dwelling beings. The card was received by the player community as a niche tactical asset, valued for its specific defensive capabilities against opponents utilizing similar lifeform-based cards, effectively bridging the gap between narrative lore and the game's evolving mechanics.
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