Star Trek is usually about valiant explorers and handsome captains venturing off into space to meet and canoodle with alien life. Everyone’s heard of Picard or Janeway and their officers, but Lower Decks takes a different tack. Instead of the high-ranking adventurers, Lower Decks takes a look at the usually nameless, thankless lower-ranked workers that keep the ships running.
Lower Decks is a radically different look at the Star Trek universe, and now it’s coming to the crossover-em-up trading card game UniVersus in the form of four Challenger decks. Take your pick from Beckett, Boimler, Tendi, or Rutherford, and find some of these exclusive alternate art cards when the Star Trek: Lower Decks Challenger Series launches on December 6.
You can find these alternate art cards in any of the included Collector booster packs, to help bling out your deck a bit more.
Beckett Mariner Challenger Series Deck
Speedy and aggressive, the Beckett Mariner deck cares a lot about milling, flipping cards, and messing around with your opponent’s foundations. Even better, if your opponent mills a foundation, Beckett’s attacks can pack more of a punch, helping you to break through blocks while also making it trickier for your opponent to overcome your own defense.
Playing into the mill and pseudo-milling theme is Mariner’s Bat’Leth, which, on top of just looking cool as anything, dumps cards off the top of your opponent’s deck right into their card pool to further mess with their resources.
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Beckett Mariner, Chaotic Ensign Character – Champion – Ensign – 6 Hand Size – 30 Health – Chaos/Order/Water Enhance: Your rival mills 1. If they milled a foundation this way, this attack gets +2 damage. Otherwise, it gets +2 speed. |
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Beckett Mariner, Adventuring Archeologist Character – 7 Hand Size – 21 Health – Chaos/Earth/Water Enhance: This attack gets +1 damage. If your rival has 3 or more face down foundations, it gets +3 damage instead. Response [Once per turn]: After your attack deals damage, unflip 1 foundation. Flip 1 rival foundation with difficulty equal to that of the unflipped foundation. |
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Connecting The Dots Action – 2 Difficulty – 5 Check – 1 Block – Chaos Response Remove: After an enhance ability is played, add 1 foundation from your stage to your hand. The check to block this attack gets +3. |
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Beckett’s Bat’Leth Asset – Tech – Weapon – 3 Difficulty – 5 Check – 2 Block – Water Enhance Commit: Your attack gets +2 damage. If it deals damage, your rival adds the top card of their deck to their card pool face down. |
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Excited Blows Attack – Frenzy – Punch – 4 Difficulty – 3 Check – 1 Block – Water – 3 Mid Speed – 4 Damage Response: After this attack is blocked, your next attack this turn gains Frenzy. (Frenzy – Blitz:This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for each attack blocked this turn.) |
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Un-Phased Attack – Echo – Fury – Weapon – 6 Difficulty – 3 Check – 2 Block – Chaos – 4 High Speed – 7 Damage Response: After this attack is blocked, your checks to play cards get +1 this turn. (Echo – Response Spend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may try to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.) |
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Insubordination Foundation – 3 Difficulty – 5 Check – 2 Block – Chaos Response Flip: After your rival makes a check to play a non-attack card, that check gets -2. Failing that check does not end the Combat Phase. |
Brad Boimler Challenger Series Deck
An ambitious wannabe captain, there’s nobody Boimler won’t suck up to in his quest for seniority. That sucking up goes as far as letting your opponents draw extra cards, albeit with the punishment of committing a foundation if their card pool has too many attacks in it.
Foundations are a big theme across Boimler’s deck, with cards like Replicator Enthusiast letting you and your opponent both build a foundation – setting them up for hitting them with a big Inconvenient Duplication once they have enough of them.
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Brad Boimler, Acting Captain Character – 7 Hand Size – 21 Health – Fire/Life/Chaos Enhance: If it is your turn, each player discards 1 card and draws 1 card. If there are 2 or more attacks in a player’s card pool, each player commits 1 foundation. Response: After a rival commits 1 or more foundations during the Enhance Step, this attack gets +1 or -1 damage |
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Replicator Enthusiast Action – 2 Difficulty – 5 Check – 0 Block – Life Enhance Remove: Choose 1 foundation in your stage. Build 1 foundation from your discard pile with the same name as the chosen foundation. Your rival may build the top card of their deck. |
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Combadge Asset – 2 Difficulty – 5 Check – 2 Block Enhance Commit: Look at the top 2 cards of your deck and put them back in any order. |
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U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567 Asset – Unique – Ship – 6 Difficulty – 4 Check – 3 Block – Chaos/Life/Order/Void Form [Once per turn]: Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 of them to your hand, 1 to the bottom of your deck, and 1 to the top of your deck. |
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Inconvenient Duplication Attack – Echo – Ally – 5 Difficulty – 3 Check – 2 Block – Life – 3 High Speed – 3 Damage Blitz: Each player may build the top card of their deck. Blitz: This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for every 3 foundations in your rival’s stage. (Echo – Response Spend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may try to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.) |
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Survey Mission Attack – Throw – Diplomacy – 6 Difficulty – 3 Check – 2 Block – Order – 3 Mid Speed – 7 Damage Blitz: Your rival chooses 1 – – They reveal their hand. – Your attacks get +1 speed and +1 damage this turn. – Your rival commits 2 foundations. Response: After your rival draws 1 or more cards, this attack gets +2 damage. |
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Rules Stickler Foundation – 3 Difficulty – 5 Check – 1 Block – Order Response [Once per turn]: After your rival builds 1 or more foundations during the Combat Phase due to a non-character effect, commit 1 of those foundations. |
Each deck has its own unique version of U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567, meaning you’ll need to get all four decks if you want a complete set of it.
D’Vana Tendi Challenger Series Deck
Decks built around regaining health aren’t quite as common in UniVersus as they are in other TCGs, but D’Vana Tendi, the Orion science officer, wants you to spend health for profit, only to gain it all back. With Eager Science Officer, you can reduce the speed and add stuns to attacks by paying health, before making checks easier when you gain it back.
If you’d rather focus on the healthgain more directly, Mistress of the Winter Constellations rewards having lots of rivals and non-Throw attacks, potentially sapping your opponent of all their health in just a few attacks.
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D’Vana Tendi, Eager Science Officer Character – Ensign – Healer – 7 Hand Size – 20 Health – Chaos/Fire/Life Response: After a player gains health, their next check gets +1. Response Lose 1 health: After an attack is played, it gets -2 speed or gains Stun: 1. |
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D’Vana Tendi, Mistress Of The Winter Constellations Character – Pirate – 6 Hand Size – 28 Health – Chaos/Death/Life Response Lose X health: After an attack is played, it gets +X or -X speed (Max. 2). Response: After your non-Throw attack deals damage, your rivals each lose 1 health and you gain 1 health for each rival you have. |
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Emergency Treatment Action – 5 Difficulty – 5 Check – 1 Block – Life This card ignores progressive difficulty. Response Remove: After a player loses health, that player gains 3 health. The next block played this turn ignores progressive difficulty. |
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T88 Asset – Tech – 2 Difficulty – 5 Check – 0 Block – Chaos Enhance Commit: Your rival mills 1. If they milled a foundation this way, their next check gets -1. Otherwise, your next check gets +2. |
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U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567 Asset – Unique – Ship – 6 Difficulty – 4 Check – 3 Block – Chaos/Life/Order/Void Form [Once per turn]: Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 of them to your hand, 1 to the bottom of your deck, and 1 to the top of your deck. |
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Extreme Methods Attack – Tech – Weapon – 4 Difficulty – 3 Check – 1 Block – Life – 4 Mid Speed – 4 Damage Blitz Spend 1 momentum: This attack gets +2 speed and +2 damage. Gain 2 health. Response: After this attack deals damage, draw 1 card. |
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Syndicate Skills Attack – Echo – 6 Difficulty – 3 Check – 1 Block – Chaos – 5 High Speed – 6 Damage This attack gets -1 difficulty and -1 to its block modifier if you have lost health this turn. Blitz: Your rival’s next check to play a block gets -2. (Echo – Response Spend 1 momentum: After this attack resolves, you may try to play it as your next Form this turn. If you do, flip it after it resolves.) |
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Unyielding Enthusiasm Foundation – 3 Difficulty – 4 Check – 3 Block – Life Response Flip 1 foundation: After you gain health, look at the top card of your deck. You may put it on the bottom of your deck. |
Sam Rutherford Challenger Series Deck
As a cyborg, Rutherford can tweak his implants to adjust his behaviour, personality, and memories, which makes his card’s ability to swap around speed and damage particularly on-brand and very, very interesting.
The deck includes lots of cards that can buff either speed or damage, giving you a much swingier attack when Sam finally swaps the two. Alternatively, you could go for the Devron Racer character instead and lean into Tech attacks, boosting their speed and forcing your opponent to commit their foundations.
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Sam Rutherford, Resourceful Engineer Character – Ensign – Inventor – 6 Hand Size – 30 Life – Order/Void/Water Response: After a non-Throw attack is played, switch its speed and damage. Enhance: This attack gets +1 or -1 speed or damage. |
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Sam Rutherford, Devron Racer Character – Inventor – 7 Hand Size – 21 Life – Air/Order/Void Your Tech attacks get +2 speed. Enhance [Once per turn]: End this Enhance Step. First Form: If your rival has 8 or more ready foundations, draw 1 card. Your rival commits 1 foundation. |
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“Strange Energies” Action – Tech – 0 Difficulty – 5 Check – 2 Block – Void Response: After your rival plays a blitz ability or a non-character enhance ability, your rival checks against a 7. |
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Badgey, Vengeful Pal Asset – Breaker: 1 – Ally – Tech – 3 Difficulty – 5 Check – 1 Block – Order Response: After you play this card, build it. Enhance [Once per turn, your turn]: Your attack gets +3 damage. Any player may play this ability. |
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U.S.S. Cerritos, NCC-75567 Asset – Unique – Ship – 6 Difficulty – 4 Check – 3 Block – Chaos/Life/Order/Void Form [Once per turn]: Reveal the top 3 cards of your deck. Add 1 of them to your hand, 1 to the bottom of your deck, and 1 to the top of your deck. |
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Charged Alien Sploof Attack – Tech – 4 Difficulty – 3 Check – 2 Block – Order – 3 Low Speed – 5 Damage Blitz: Your rival must commit 1 foundation as an additional cost to play enhance abilities during this attack. Response: After you play this attack, it gets +2 damage for each other Tech attack in your card pool. |
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Okey Dokey! Attack – Frenzy – Tech – 4 Difficulty – 3 Check – 2 Block – Void – 3 High Speed – 5 Damage Blitz: Draw 1 card and discard 1 card. This attack gains 1 keyword from the discarded card. (Frenzy – Blitz: This attack gets +1 speed and +1 damage for each attack blocked this turn.) |
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Other Self Foundation – Unique – 3 Difficulty – 4 Check – 3 Block – Order |
