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I was doing some work recently and thought about the Archive (A) rarity foils in Strange New Worlds, To Boldly Go, Captain's Log, These Are the Voyages, In a Mirror, Darkly, and What You Leave Behind. It's definitely an interesting selection sometimes. I mean, Where No One Has Gone Before is a choice that has stood the test of time, but maybe not as much for Code of Honor or Proximity-Actuated Field. If you had to pick the foils for those sets, which would you pick?
Let's start with Strange New Worlds. I don't want to enforce any rules on the exercise, but I imagine you would want to have a sampling of as many affiliations as possible, at least one of each card type available, an even spread of image sources (so no one can say, "They always give DS9 the shaft and that's my favorite!"), star power, and images that would look good foiled. Not to mention, this is the Ferengi debut, so they probably get a bigger than normal share. But also, maybe not. Maybe you just want all the and cards. So, with the gift of hindsight, what would you do? The rares are: (Decipher's picks marked with .)
Code of Honor
Entanglement
Molecular Reversion Field
Proximity-Actuated Field
Where No One Has Gone Before
Brinkmanship
Exceed Engine Output
Provoked Attack
Rule of Acquisition #6
Rule of Acquisition #141
Rule of Acquisition #144
Temporal Incursion
Ascertain
Delegated Assignment
Tekeny Ghemor, Prominent Official
Goran'Agar, Trusted Commander
Omet'iklan, Steely Disciplinarian
Leonard H. McCoy, Remarkable Man
Montgomery Scott, Relic
Arridor, "Great Sage"
Brunt, FCA Liquidator
Ishka, Moogie
Kazago, First Officer
Leck, Eliminator
Lurin, Renegade DaiMon
Quark, True Ferengi
Sovak, Treasure Hunter
Taar, Bristling DaiMon
Zek, The Grand Nagus
Jean-Luc Picard, Worf's cha'Dich
B-4, Dangerous Simpleton
Ira Graves, Noted Molecular Cyberneticist
Kivas Fajo, Collector
Noonien Soong, Often-Wrong
Tolian Soran, Renegade Scientist
Vic Fontaine, Vegas Crooner
Spock, Celebrated Ambassador
Aurulent
Kurdon
Devoras
I was doing some work recently and thought about the Archive (A) rarity foils in Strange New Worlds, To Boldly Go, Captain's Log, These Are the Voyages, In a Mirror, Darkly, and What You Leave Behind. It's definitely an interesting selection sometimes. I mean, Where No One Has Gone Before is a choice that has stood the test of time, but maybe not as much for Code of Honor or Proximity-Actuated Field. If you had to pick the foils for those sets, which would you pick?
Let's start with Strange New Worlds. I don't want to enforce any rules on the exercise, but I imagine you would want to have a sampling of as many affiliations as possible, at least one of each card type available, an even spread of image sources (so no one can say, "They always give DS9 the shaft and that's my favorite!"), star power, and images that would look good foiled. Not to mention, this is the Ferengi debut, so they probably get a bigger than normal share. But also, maybe not. Maybe you just want all the and cards. So, with the gift of hindsight, what would you do? The rares are: (Decipher's picks marked with .)
Code of Honor
Entanglement
Molecular Reversion Field
Proximity-Actuated Field
Where No One Has Gone Before
Brinkmanship
Exceed Engine Output
Provoked Attack
Rule of Acquisition #6
Rule of Acquisition #141
Rule of Acquisition #144
Temporal Incursion
Ascertain
Delegated Assignment
Tekeny Ghemor, Prominent Official
Goran'Agar, Trusted Commander
Omet'iklan, Steely Disciplinarian
Leonard H. McCoy, Remarkable Man
Montgomery Scott, Relic
Arridor, "Great Sage"
Brunt, FCA Liquidator
Ishka, Moogie
Kazago, First Officer
Leck, Eliminator
Lurin, Renegade DaiMon
Quark, True Ferengi
Sovak, Treasure Hunter
Taar, Bristling DaiMon
Zek, The Grand Nagus
Jean-Luc Picard, Worf's cha'Dich
B-4, Dangerous Simpleton
Ira Graves, Noted Molecular Cyberneticist
Kivas Fajo, Collector
Noonien Soong, Often-Wrong
Tolian Soran, Renegade Scientist
Vic Fontaine, Vegas Crooner
Spock, Celebrated Ambassador
Aurulent
Kurdon
Devoras