MTG x Star Trek: Release Date, Cards, and Everything Confirmed

Magic: The Gathering is beaming up one of the biggest crossovers in its Universes Beyond history. Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek was revealed at MagicCon: Atlanta as a special tribute set celebrating Star Trek’s 60th anniversary, and Wizards of the Coast has now confirmed the release date, product lineup, and first wave of cards. Here is everything that’s actually been announced so far — no speculation, just what Wizards and Star Trek have confirmed.

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What Is Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek?

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is a Universes Beyond tribute set built to mark Star Trek’s 60th anniversary. Rather than a small Secret Lair drop, it’s a full standalone product line spanning decades of the franchise — The Original Series through The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the Kelvin timeline films are all represented among the confirmed cards. Wizards describes the set as capturing “the spirit of exploration, discovery, and imagination” that defines Star Trek.

Release Date and Where to Buy

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek launches worldwide on November 13, 2026. Products span a wide price range: $6.99 Play Boosters at the entry level, up to $159.99 Collector’s Edition Commander Decks at the top. Between those sit standard Commander decks, Collector Boosters, and five mono-colored Welcome Decks — one for each of Magic’s five colors — aimed at players jumping in for the first time.

New Mechanics: Spacecraft, Assimilate, and Federation

The set brings back Spacecraft and the Stationing mechanic from 2025’s Edge of Eternities, representing iconic ships like the U.S.S. Enterprise-D as vehicles that can crew up and attack. Three new keywords round out the set:

• Assimilate — when triggered, lets you take control of a creature or put a creature card onto the battlefield under your control, echoing the Borg’s signature threat.
• Face a Dilemma — triggers when a player makes a choice on a modal spell, tying into Star Trek’s long history of moral and tactical dilemmas.
• Federation — an ability word that counts the number of different creature types among non-Borg creatures you control, rewarding multi-species crews.

Assimilate is drawing the most early attention from Commander players, since it lets a Borg-themed deck turn an opponent’s board wipe or removal spell into a net gain — your creature dies, but you walk away with something new under your control. Federation rewards the opposite approach: stacking as many different creature types as possible (Human, Vulcan, Klingon, Android) onto one battlefield to scale up a single payoff card. Early previews suggest at least one of the four Commander decks is built entirely around maximizing that count.

The Autographed Chase Cards: Kirk and Janeway

The headline chase cards for collectors are two autographed Collector Booster pulls: Captain James T. Kirk, signed by William Shatner, and Captain Kathryn Janeway, signed by Kate Mulgrew. Wizards has confirmed only 200 copies of each autograph exist, making them among the rarest pulls Magic has ever produced.

Beyond the signed cards, both captains also appear as standard non-autographed versions — Captain Kirk, Boldly Going and Kirk, Enterprising Captain among them — so players who just want the character in their deck aren’t locked out by the autograph lottery.

LCARS Frames and the Stardates Cards

Two card treatments define the set’s visual identity. LCARS frame cards — 29 of them, including 10 LCARS-framed Shock Lands — wrap the card in Starfleet’s iconic computer interface design. Separately, 30 Stardates cards take powerful reprints from Magic’s history and re-skin them with Star Trek art and characters. The best-known example: Sheoldred, the Apocalypse reimagined as Khan, Engineered Evil, depicting Khan from the Kelvin timeline films — same card text, entirely new identity.

There’s also an Enterprise treatment, a special full-art frame styled after vintage Star Trek movie posters, applied to a handful of ship and captain cards throughout the set.

How It Compares to Magic’s Other Crossovers

Star Trek joins a growing list of Universes Beyond tribute sets, and it’s worth knowing where it fits before you decide how much to spend. Unlike a Secret Lair drop — a small, limited run of alternate-art cards with no new mechanics — this is a full standalone product line with three new keywords, a complete four-deck Commander lineup, and its own Play Booster and Collector Booster structure, closer in scope to Magic’s Marvel and Lord of the Rings crossovers than to a one-off promo. If you followed NerdSnack’s coverage of MTG’s Hobbit set, the shape will feel familiar: scene-accurate reprints, faction-based Commander decks, and a handful of ultra-rare signed chase cards driving Collector Booster demand. The autographed captains play the same role Sauron’s serialized cards played in the Hobbit release — a small print run designed to pull secondary-market prices well above the box price the day the set launches.

Commander Decks: Four Factions

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek ships with four ready-to-play Commander decks, each built around a different faction and led by its own commander — confirmed legendary creatures include Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest and Benjamin Sisko, Besieged, alongside decks led by other franchise-spanning captains. Each deck is built to be playable straight out of the box, with the Collector’s Edition versions featuring premium foiling for $159.99.

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Should You Preorder Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek?

If you collect Universes Beyond crossovers, this is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious yet — the autographed Kirk and Janeway cards alone make Collector Boosters worth a look for franchise fans, even outside the Magic community. Commander players get four decks built around genuinely different factions rather than reskins of the same strategy, and the Stardates reprints give cube and cEDH players real reasons to care about pulls beyond the flavor. Play Booster boxes at $6.99 a pack remain the cheapest way to build a casual Star Trek-themed collection without chasing autographs.

New or lapsed players who just want to try the format have an easy entry point too: the five mono-colored Welcome Decks are priced for impulse buys and built to be playable straight out of the box against a friend’s deck, no deckbuilding required. If your only goal is owning a piece of the crossover rather than competing with it, a single Welcome Deck plus a couple of Play Boosters gets you there for well under $40.

Final Verdict

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek isn’t a token crossover — it’s a full set with new mechanics, four Commander decks, and a chase-card structure built around real franchise history rather than generic reprints. With a confirmed November 13, 2026 release date and pricing already locked in, the only open question left is which faction deck you’ll captain first. We’ll update this piece as Wizards previews more of the set’s 61 cards between now and launch.