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We Are The Borg

    We Are The Borg

    "Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

    Event Event

    Downloads two Borg Defense drones; discard event. OR Plays on table. Each turn, report on of your Affiliation Borg cards for free or make an additional end-of-turn draw (immune to Kevin Uxbridge).

    Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
    Requires: Affiliation Borg affiliation, Drone.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    We Are The Borg

    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)".

    From the moment this image first appeared in an advertisement for the First Contact Expansion, players were eagerly awaiting the arrival of We Are The Borg. Unfortunately, First Contact Expansion did not deliver, but Enhanced First Contact does - and in a big way. The card's first function is a great supplement to existing downloading cards. It downloads Defense drones without the restrictions Awakenimage has, but does not cost your card draw as Activate Subcommandsimage does.

    However, it is We Are The Borg's second function that will excite Borg players everywhere. If you play this card on the table, every turn you get to play a free Borg affiliation card or draw an extra card at the end of your turn. It just became twice as easy to staff a Borg Cubeimage. And don't forget that extra end-of-turn card draw can be converted into a download. You can use the special skills of various drones.... or even that of the Borg Queenimage herself. Imagine the power, downloading two cards each turn and playing a third. Or playing two cards while drawing one. Or simply using it as a Borg version of The Traveler: Transcendenceimage (complete with an icon which will probe successfully for many of your objectives). There are even more possible combinations, and it's all immune to Kevin Uxbridgeimage!

    Resistance is futile.

    Combos:

    • We Are The Borg + Seven of Nineimage: The ultimate flexibility for manipulating your resources.
    • We Are The Borg + The Traveler: Transcendenceimage: Now you've got the equivalent of a free Kivas Fajo - Collectorimage every single turn!
    • We Are The Borg + Mercy Killimage: There is a risk to using We Are The Borg... if the game goes on too long it can threaten to exhaust your deck through forced card draws. Mercy Kill will slow you down in time to leave some successful probes in your draw deck.