First Look ✦ Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek
Magic: The Gathering Releases November 13, 2026 Star Trek Just Beamed Into Magic Wizards dropped the official First Look today — captains, crews, and a whole new set of mechanics. Here's everything revealed so far. |
We called it in our MagicCon Amsterdam preview: Star Trek news was coming any day. Today's the day. Wizards published the official First Look at Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek, and WeeklyMTG showed off the cards live—captains, starships, a Borg mechanic, and some of the most ambitious booster fun treatments Magic has ever done. The set releases November 13, 2026. Here's the full briefing.
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First Look
Meet Your Captains
Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Kathryn Janeway lead the reveal as mythic rares, introducing a brand-new Officer creature type to Magic. Both come with multiple alternate arts, including surge foil treatments. Janeway's card carries the Explore ability—though Wizards has confirmed Explore itself won't be a main mechanic of the set, just a nod on her card specifically.
A new creature type built specifically for this set is a good sign — it means Wizards is treating Star Trek as a real design pillar, not just reskinned characters. Expect Officer-matters cards throughout the set and in the Commander precons below.
How It Plays
Four New Mechanics
| Assimilate | Resistance is futile. This keyword action gives you control of a creature (or puts one onto the battlefield under your control), puts a +1/+1 counter on it, and turns it into a Borg artifact creature—stripping its other creature types. |
| Face a Dilemma | Some cards trigger whenever a player "faces a dilemma"—meaning they chose one or more modes for a spell or ability. Set phasers to stun or kill; either way, something happens. |
| Federation | An ability word that scales up based on how many different creature types you control among your non-Borg creatures—deliberately kept flavorful so it doesn't go haywire with Changelings. |
| Spacecraft & Station | Returning from Edge of Eternities. Spacecraft start as artifacts and gain abilities as you add charge counters via stations—with the right setup, you can even turn your ship into a creature. |
Spoilers
Card Highlights From the Reveal
Beyond the two captains, a handful of cards from today's reveal are already turning heads:
- U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class — a Spacecraft that appears at rare, uncommon, and mythic rarity across different versions.
- Highly Illogical — a clean, efficient counterspell (also available as a Commander event promo).
- Salt Vampire — a disruptive 2-drop with an effect in the same family as Vendilion Clique and Revealing Eye.
- The City on the Edge of Forever—one of the set's 10 sagas and the one that breaks the "kept simple" trend with a new phasing effect.
- Dr. Beverly Crusher—an Ajani's Pridemate variant that brings the Doctor creature type back into Magic.
- Crystalline Entity — a top-end artifact creature that doubles as a sweeper for artifact-heavy boards.
- Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign, and Beckett Mariner, Impetuous Ensign—Lower Decks characters that reportedly play well together in Limited.
- Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest — showcases the Assimilate mechanic in action.
Collectibility
Booster Fun: The Collector's Side
Wizards leaned hard into collectibility for this crossover. Here's the full lineup of special treatments, straight from the official First Look:
| Signed Headliners | 7 cards, hand-signed by the actual Star Trek actors who played the character (William Shatner, Kate Mulgrew, and more confirmed). ~250 copies of each, Collector Boosters only. |
| Stardates Cards | 30 reprints of classic Magic cards with Star Trek-themed art—e.g. Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, reimagined as "Khan, Engineered Evil." Not standard legal; found in Play and Collector Boosters. |
| LCARS Frames & Shock Lands | 29 LCARS-frame cards plus all 10 shock lands, styled after the Enterprise's computer interface. Big deal for Standard — every shock land in the format lives in this one set. |
| Classic Enterprise Cards | 24 cards styled like vintage Star Trek movie posters — painterly, textured, unmistakably retro. |
| Scene Cards | 25 borderless cards forming four multi-card panoramic scenes, plus two dedicated Scene Boxes (Enterprise-Q and Divergent Timeline). |
What's Coming
Full Product Lineup & MSRP
| Product | MSRP |
| Play Booster | $6.99 |
| Collector Booster | $37.99 |
| Commander Deck | $74.99 |
| Collector's Edition Commander Deck | $159.99 |
| Bundle | $69.99 |
| Beam Me Up Bundle | $99.99 |
| Beginner Box | $34.99 |
| Draft Night | $119.99 |
| Scene Box | $41.99 |
MSRPs per Wizards' official First Look article. Saga pricing may vary at launch.
Four Commander decks lead the precon lineup, each also available in a premium Collector's Edition (full surge foil). Here's the full breakdown—face, commander, color identity, and what each deck is built to do:
Left to right: Klingon Fury, We Are the Borg, Landing Party, Federation Fleet. Official box art via Wizards of the Coast.
| Deck | Face Commander | Colors | Built To |
| Federation Fleet | Captain Jean-Luc Picard | U/W/R — Jeskai | Card draw + Spacecraft/Station |
| Landing Party | Spock | G/W/U — Bant | Landfall |
| Klingon Fury | Worf | R/W/B — Mardu | Aggro, hits artifacts/enchantments |
| We Are the Borg | The Borg Queen | W/U/B — Esper | Tokens + Assimilate |
Wizards has also confirmed Legendary Creature cards for Kirk, Sisko, Janeway, Seven of Nine, Hoshi Sato, Dr. Beverly Crusher, Ensign Boimler, Ensign Mariner, Khan, and Trelane — not confirmed as deck-fronting commanders, but all buildable if a customer wants to brew their own. Deck details per CBR's commander deck breakdown.
Timeline
Mark Your Calendar
| Jul 17–19 | MagicCon: Amsterdam |
| Aug 5–9 | ST:LV — Trek to Vegas |
| Nov 6–12 | Prerelease Events |
| Nov 10 | MTG Arena Release |
| Nov 13 | Global Tabletop Release |
| Nov 13–15 | MagicCon: Atlanta & World Championship 32 |
Our Take
This is exactly the kind of crossover that could either lean too hard into gimmick or land as a genuine love letter—and from what's shown so far, it's leaning toward the latter. A dedicated Officer creature type, an Assimilate mechanic that actually captures what makes the Borg scary, and five different collector treatments (including cards signed by the actual actors) is a lot of care for a licensed set. Ten shock lands returning in a single set is also just good news for Standard, crossover or not. Nothing's up for pre-order at Saga yet, but we'll have it live the moment allocation confirms.
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