Two titans of nerd culture are about to collide in spectacular fashion. Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek brings sixty years of Starfleet adventures to the tabletop, and it looks like Wizards of the Coast has pulled out all the stops to honour the franchise. With hand-signed actor cards, a dizzying array of Booster Fun treatments, and products catering to everyone from brand-new players to die-hard collectors, this is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious Universes Beyond releases yet.
According to the official Wizards of the Coast reveal, the set launches globally on 13 November 2026, with prerelease events running from 6-12 November 2026 and the MTG Arena digital release on 10 November 2026. Preorders are live now through local game stores, TCGplayer, and Amazon.
What’s Inside: Products and Pricing
The product line-up for Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is extensive, covering virtually every way you might want to crack packs or sleeve up a deck. Here’s the full roster with confirmed MSRPs:
- Play Booster - £5.49
- Collector Booster - £29.99
- Commander Deck - £59.99
- Collector’s Edition Commander Deck - £129.99
- Bundle - £54.99
- Beam Me Up Bundle - £79.99
- Beginner Box - £27.99
- Draft Night - £94.99
- Scene Box - £32.99
Each Play Booster contains 14 Magic cards - seven commons, three uncommons, a wildcard of any rarity, a traditional foil, a rare or mythic rare, and a land - plus a double-sided token. Play Booster boxes ship with 30 packs. Collector Boosters, meanwhile, pack 15 cards apiece, weighted heavily towards foils and Booster Fun treatments, with boxes containing 12 packs. Notably, in one out of every 25 Play Boosters, a stardates card replaces a common slot, giving drafters a chance to open reprints with Star Trek-themed artwork.
Four Commander decks are available, each a ready-to-play 100-card list featuring 32 new-to-Magic cards and a traditional foil borderless face commander. Collectors willing to pay the premium can opt for the Collector’s Edition Commander Decks, which upgrade every card - including all ten double-sided tokens - to surge foil. The Beam Me Up Bundle is a particularly interesting hybrid product: eight Play Boosters, one Collector Booster, 30 basic lands (half foil, half non-foil, with full-art lands among them), and two traditional foil Beam Me Up Bundle promo cards depicting Spacecraft schematics. There are eight different promo Spacecraft cards in total, and each bundle includes two at random.
For players entirely new to Magic, the Beginner Box offers ten themed Jumpstart half-decks - two of which are tutorial decks designed to be played against each other - alongside gameboard playmats, how-to-play guides, reference cards, and spindown dice. It’s a smart entry point for Star Trek fans who’ve never tapped a land.
Signed Cards, Stardates, and Booster Fun
The headline collectible here is extraordinary: seven different cards, each hand-signed by the Star Trek actor who portrayed the depicted character, randomly inserted into Collector Boosters. According to the source, approximately 250 copies of each signed card exist, and they always appear in English regardless of the booster’s language. Nothing quite like this has been attempted for Magic before, and it should set the collector market alight.
Beyond the signed headliners, the Booster Fun suite draws from every era of the franchise. Stardates cards are powerful Magic reprints reimagined with Star Trek artwork - 30 cards in total. One standout example is Sheoldred, the Apocalypse appearing as “Khan, Engineered Evil,” depicting the Kelvin-timeline incarnation of the character. LCARS frame cards channel the iconic Enterprise computer interface across 29 cards plus all 10 shock lands - a welcome reprint for Standard players who need their mana bases sorted. Classic Enterprise cards (24 in total) adopt a painterly, vintage-poster aesthetic evoking The Original Series, while 25 borderless scene cards depict moments spanning multiple cards. A scene card version of Captain Kathryn Janeway has already been previewed, showing her in a notably more mechanical form than her main set counterpart.
Two Scene Boxes round out the Booster Fun offerings. One features Q causing chaos on the bridge; the other depicts familiar U.S.S. Enterprise crew members with alternate faces. Each Scene Box includes three Play Boosters, six traditional foil borderless scene cards, six art cards, and a display easel.
New Mechanics and Format Legality
The set introduces several new and returning mechanics tailored to the Star Trek flavour. Assimilate is a keyword action that lets you take control of a creature or put one onto the battlefield under your control; it gains a +1/+1 counter and becomes a Borg artifact creature, losing its other creature types. Face a dilemma triggers whenever a player chooses one or more modes for a spell or ability - rewarding modal spellcasting with bonus effects, as demonstrated on Seven of Nine. The federation ability word cares about the number of creature types among non-Borg creatures you control, leaning into the diversity ethos of the United Federation of Planets. Spacecraft and station return from Edge of Eternities, letting artifacts gain abilities through charge counters and eventually transform into creatures.
On the legality front, the main set (TRK) is legal in all formats. The Commander-specific cards (TRC) and stardates cards (SDS) are legal in Commander, Legacy, and Vintage, with individual cards also legal wherever they already exist in other formats.
Key Dates and Events
Wizards has mapped out a full calendar of events around the launch:
- 17-19 July 2026 - MagicCon: Amsterdam
- 5-9 August 2026 - ST:LV Trek to Vegas
- 6-12 November 2026 - Prerelease Events
- 10 November 2026 - MTG Arena Release
- 13 November 2026 - Global Tabletop Release
- 13-15 November 2026 - MagicCon: Atlanta and World Championship 32
- 13 November 2026 - 28 January 2027 - Magic Presents: To Boldly Go
- 20-26 November 2026 - Commander Party, Round 1
- 11-17 December 2026 - Commander Party, Round 2
Play event promos include Highly Illogical (art by Patricia Pria) and Munitions Enthusiast (art by Rémi Jacquot) for WPN Commander events, a traditional foil Solemn Simulacrum (art by Randy Gallegos) for Magic Presents: To Boldly Go participants, and a Burst Lightning (art by Néstor Ossandón Leal) for Standard Showdown winners during the set’s season.
With preorders already open and reveals continuing through the summer, Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is building serious momentum. Whether you’re chasing a hand-signed headliner or simply want to crew the Enterprise with your mates on Commander night, 13 November 2026 is the stardate to mark in your calendar.
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