---
name: "First Contact"
mana_cost: "{1}{G}"
cmc: 2
type_line: "Instant"
colors: ["G"]
color_identity: ["G"]
keywords: ["Mill"]
set: "TRK"
set_name: "Star Trek"
collector_number: "199"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Kieran Yanner"
oracle_id: "81229e0a-8413-40cf-8087-9d580cbb21c3"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/first-contact-trk"
legalities:
  commander: "not_legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "not_legal"
  vintage: "not_legal"
  pauper: "not_legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# First Contact
- **Mana Cost:** `{1}{G}` (CMC: 2)
- **Type:** Instant
- **Keywords:** Mill

## Oracle Text
Mill four cards. You may put a permanent card from among them into your hand. If this spell is the first spell you've cast this game, you gain 2 life. (To mill four cards, put the top four cards of your library into your graveyard.)

> *Interspecies diplomacy isn't a calling for the faint of heart.*

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Once Upon a Time](/printing/once-upon-a-time-eld.md) — Instant
2. [Ripples of Undeath](/printing/ripples-of-undeath-mh3.md) — Enchantment
3. [Seed of Hope](/printing/seed-of-hope-mom.md) — Instant
4. [Rapid Rescue](/printing/rapid-rescue-msh.md) — Instant
5. [Wasteful Harvest](/printing/wasteful-harvest-bro.md) — Instant
6. [Millikin](/printing/millikin-ody.md) — Artifact Creature — Construct

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Star Trek (TRK) #199
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Kieran Yanner

## Format Legalities
Commander: `not_legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `not_legal` | Vintage: `not_legal` | Pauper: `not_legal` | Penny: `not_legal`