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Captain Kirk, Boldly Going

Legendary Creature — Human Officer1 generic manaGreen manaWhite manaBlue mana

A tribal lord for a creature type that barely exists yet, bolted to a tutor that keeps its own payoff on tap. The +3/+3 anchor points at Spacecraft creatures, a niche category, so the card refuses to strand you when the board is empty: every entrance and every attack fetches either a basic land or Starship Enterprise specifically, meaning the same trigger that would be a dead lord in a normal tribal deck instead assembles the flagship it exists to buff. That is the tension worth dwelling on. Most lords are useless without bodies already down; this one manufactures the body it wants, tutoring the named payoff to hand where the +3/+3 makes it a genuine threat rather than a fragile hull. The land-or-Enterprise split also does double duty as fixing, smoothing a three-color mana base while it hunts for the centerpiece, and the search reaching both library and graveyard means a Enterprise that has already died is not gone, just delayed. Vigilance completes the loop: attacking triggers the search without surrendering the blocking body, so the tutor engine and the defensive posture share one activation. Read as pure design, it is a lord built for a deck that has to build itself, front-loading consistency into a strategy that would otherwise choke on drawing its lords before its bodies.

Captain Kirk, Boldly Going (trc)
TRC · #85mythic
Oracle Text

Rules text

Vigilance Spacecraft creatures you control get +3/+3. Whenever Captain Kirk enters or attacks, search your library and/or graveyard for a basic land card or a card named Starship Enterprise, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
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