Universes Beyond
What this set is
Star Trek is the last Magic set of 2026: a Universes Beyond expansion with four Commander precons, five Welcome Decks for new players and a Stardates bonus sheet. Previews run through October 29 and the full gallery posts October 30, so this page covers what Wizards has shown so far.
Its two headline mechanics pull against each other. Federation rewards a crew of many creature types, and assimilate turns whatever it touches into Borg. All ten shock lands are in the main set too, so packs carry mana base staples as well as the crossover art.
Collectors get two extra layers. Stardates is 30 mythic reprints of famous Magic cards, renamed for Star Trek characters and found in 1 in 25 Play Boosters. Seven signed headliner cards, each under 250 copies, are in Collector Boosters at odds Wizards hasn't published.
Peace in Our Time ↗
Win at twelve peace counters
Join the Collective ↗
A wrath that leaves you Borg
Live Long and Prosper ↗
Double your life and your hand
The Wrath of Khan ↗
Saga: steal, loot, edict
Troubling Tribbles ↗
Copies itself every upkeep
Khan, Vengeful Heart ↗
Sacrifice to draw two
The Sword of Kahless ↗
Attacks find Klingons and Warriors
Command Chair ↗
Taps for your commander's mana value
Starfleet Academy ↗
Federation mana land
Themes
Every mechanic in Star Trek
Assimilate
The Borg mechanic, and the backbone of the We Are the Borg precon. To assimilate a creature card, you put it onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter, and it becomes a Borg artifact creature that loses its other creature types. Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest assimilates from an opponent's graveyard, so your opponents' dead creatures become your collective.
Federation
An ability word that counts the creature types among non-Borg creatures you control. Hoshi Sato, Exolinguist looks at that many cards, and Saavik, Stoic Student deals that much damage. It rewards a mixed crew, and it ignores Borg, so the two headline mechanics want incompatible boards.
Face a Dilemma
You face a dilemma whenever you choose one or more modes for a spell or ability, so every modal card in the set counts, even one that is countered afterward. Seven of Nine draws a card each time you do, and Command Decision and Resistance Is Futile are two of the modal spells that feed it.
Strange new worlds
An ability word that counts the differently named lands you control. Christine Chapel, Combat Medic gains you that much life when she enters. It points straight at the Landing Party precon's lands theme.
Beam me up
Cast certain instants and sorceries from your graveyard by also returning a creature you control to its owner's hand, then exile the spell. Returning the creature is part of the cost, so it can't be removed in response. Open Communications draws a card for one mana, then again from the graveyard for three.
Battlefront and seek out
Two ability words found only in the Commander decks. Battlefront counts the opponents you attacked this turn, which is the Klingon Fury deck's theme. Seek out triggers when you draw your second card each turn.
Spacecraft
Back from Edge of Eternities. U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class is a Spacecraft that exiles the top card of your library to play each turn it gets charge counters, and Captain Kirk, Boldly Going gives your Spacecraft +3/+3.
Station
The companion mechanic to Spacecraft: tap another creature you control to put charge counters equal to its power on the vessel, crewing it up over several turns until it comes online.
Collective Drone ↗
Borg: grows with your artifact creatures
Saavik, Stoic Student ↗
Federation: damage per creature type
Resistance Is Futile ↗
Dilemma: removal or reanimation
Christine Chapel, Combat Medic ↗
Strange new worlds: life per land
Open Communications ↗
Beam me up: draw twice
U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class ↗
Spacecraft: card advantage when charged
D-7 Battle Cruiser ↗
Station: hasty Klingons at 3
Where You Can Play It
Format legality
A release usually ships more than one set code, and they don't all share the same legality: the main set is Standard-legal while Commander cards are eternal-only. Here's each code in Star Trek.
A bonus-sheet printing doesn't change a card's legality. Each card is legal wherever that card already was. A reprint of a Standard-legal card is fine in Standard; a reprint of an older card is not.
Standard legality is current as of August 2026. There is no rotation in 2026. The next one is February 2027, when 2025–2027 sets become the Standard pool, so everything above stays legal through it. Commons from any set are Pauper-legal; that isn't listed per set here.
Spoilers
Legends and headline cards revealed so far
Draft archetypes haven't been laid out yet. What is public is a long list of legends and headline cards, from the original series through Lower Decks. The first group is from the main set; the second is from the Welcome Decks, whose cards are printed in the Commander set (TRC) but are simple teaching designs, not the precons' commanders.
Captain Kirk, Boldly Going
Commander set · The Original Series
Four mana with vigilance. Your Spacecraft get +3/+3, and each time he enters or attacks he finds a basic land or Starship Enterprise from your library or graveyard. He matches the Landing Party deck's colors.
Seven of Nine
Main set · Voyager
A four-mana artifact creature that draws a card every time you face a dilemma.
Captain Kathryn Janeway
Main set · Voyager
An extra land drop each turn, and every creature you control explores as it enters, Janeway included.
Captain James T. Kirk
Main set · The Original Series
Whenever he enters or attacks you choose to loot, make a 1/1 Officer, or pump your team. With an empty hand you choose any number of those modes.
Dr. Beverly Crusher
Main set · The Next Generation
Lifegain triggers on your permanents trigger an additional time, and she grows with each life gain.
Crystalline Entity
Main set · The Next Generation
Colorless, eight mana, a 7/7 flyer that destroys all nonartifact creatures when you cast it. It is an artifact, so it survives its own wipe.
Mr. Spock, Science Officer
Main set · The Original Series
Four mana. If you would draw a card, you draw two instead. A headliner printing exists too.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Main set · The Next Generation
Three mana. Your other creatures get +1/+1, each creature or Spacecraft spell makes a 1/1 Officer, and tapping seven Officers puts a Spacecraft from your library onto the battlefield with seven charge counters.
Q, Stacking the Deck
Main set · The Next Generation
When Q enters, you exile from the top of your library until a nonland card, and on your turns you can exile a card from your hand to cast a copy of it, again and again.
Kobayashi Maru Scenario
Main set · The Wrath of Khan
A bounce, two cards and two Officers over three upkeeps, then the only mode left is Abandon Ship: you lose the game. Get rid of it before the fourth upkeep.
Deep Space 9
Main set · Deep Space Nine
Colorless, nine mana. On entering and every upkeep it exiles your top four cards and puts the permanents onto the battlefield. Stationed to 9, your creatures get +3/+3.
Borg Cube
Main set · The Borg
A seven-mana Spacecraft with affinity for artifact creatures. It assimilates or exiles a creature each time it enters or attacks, and stationed to 12 it gives your artifact creatures flying.
Quark, Humble Proprietor
Main set · Deep Space Nine
Three mana. You get a Treasure at the beginning of every upkeep, yours and your opponents', but you can't sacrifice Treasures.
Dr. Joseph M'Benga
Main set · Strange New Worlds
Doubles every counter you put on your creatures, and your other creatures with counters on them have hexproof.
General Chang, Cold Warrior
Main set · The Undiscovered Country
A one-mana sacrifice outlet that puts a +1/+1 counter on each Klingon you control.
Hoshi Sato, Exolinguist
Main set · Enterprise
Federation card selection: look at one card for each creature type in your crew and keep one.
Brad Boimler, Eager Ensign
Main set · Lower Decks
Lifelink, and whenever he becomes tapped your counters that turn arrive with one extra of each kind.
Beckett Mariner, Impetuous Ensign
Main set · Lower Decks
First strike. She gets a promotion counter each time she taps, and at three she deals 2 damage to each opponent.
Picard, Steadfast Captain
White Welcome Deck
Six mana. Each time he enters or attacks, another creature you control gets two +1/+1 counters.
Spock, Logical Choice
Blue Welcome Deck
Five mana with vigilance and a tap ability that draws a card.
Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest
Black Welcome Deck
Your artifact creatures get +2/+0, and she assimilates a creature card from an opponent's graveyard when she enters.
Benjamin Sisko, Besieged
Green Welcome Deck
Play with the top card of your library revealed, and play lands and creatures from it.
Commander
The four Commander precons
One per faction, spanning the franchise rather than a single show. Each is a 100-card deck with a traditional foil borderless face commander and ten double-sided tokens, and each has a Collector's Edition with all 100 cards in surge foil. The four face commander cards were revealed on October 20; the full decklists come later. Each theme in quotes is the line printed on the deck's box.
Federation Fleet
Jeskai · WUR · Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary
"Seek out card draw, charge your starships." Picard costs four and draws a card whenever another historic permanent with mana value 3 or more enters under your control. His seek out trigger, on your second draw each turn, puts a +1/+1 counter on another creature and two charge counters on a Spacecraft.
Landing Party
Bant · GWU · Commander Spock
"Strange new worlds, trigger landfall." Whenever Commander Spock enters or attacks, you reveal your top card and may cast it free if its mana value is no more than your number of differently named lands. A land goes onto the battlefield tapped instead. Starship Enterprise, a Commander-set Spacecraft, gets four charge counters on each landfall.
Klingon Fury
Mardu · RWB · Worf, Defiant Commander
"Show your aggression." Worf makes a 2/1 Klingon Warrior with haste when he enters. His battlefront trigger exiles one card from the top of your library for each opponent you attacked this turn, and you may play them until the end of your next turn.
We Are the Borg
Esper · WUB · The Borg Queen
"Grow your ranks, assimilate the enemy." The Borg Queen gives your artifact creatures +2/+2. Whenever she enters or attacks, an opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until a creature card, and you assimilate it. Locutus of Borg, also in the Commander set, makes a 1/1 Borg token whenever one of your artifact creatures connects.
Building one of these into something of your own? The precon buying guide covers how to judge a deck, and the Commander deck template is the shape to build toward. See how these stack up against every other precon we've rated on the precon directory.
FAQ
Common questions
When does the MTG Star Trek set release?
November 13, 2026, with prerelease events November 6–12. It is a Universes Beyond expansion and the last Magic set of 2026. Set codes are TRK for the main set, TRC for the Commander decks, and SDS for the Stardates bonus sheet.
When are the Star Trek previews?
Official previews began with the debut stream on October 20, 2026, and run through October 29. Wizards posts the complete card image gallery on October 30. Some cards were shown earlier, at the July First Look, in the Welcome Deck announcement and at conventions. The Commander decklists started on October 26 with We Are the Borg; Federation Fleet and Klingon Fury followed, and Landing Party is the last still to come.
What are the new Star Trek mechanics?
Assimilate, the Borg mechanic, puts a creature card onto the battlefield under your control with a +1/+1 counter as a Borg artifact creature. Federation counts the creature types among your non-Borg creatures. You face a dilemma whenever you choose modes for a spell or ability. Strange new worlds counts your differently named lands. Beam me up lets you cast certain instants and sorceries from your graveyard by returning a creature you control to your hand. The Commander decks add battlefront, which counts the opponents you attacked this turn, and seek out, which triggers on your second draw each turn. Spacecraft and Station return from Edge of Eternities.
How do Assimilate and Federation interact?
They are deliberate opposites. Federation rewards a board with many different creature types and ignores Borg, while Assimilate turns everything it touches into a Borg artifact creature with no other types. The two mechanics want incompatible boards, which is the design joke, so the set's two headline strategies pull in different directions.
What are the four Star Trek Commander decks?
Federation Fleet (Jeskai, led by Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary: card draw and Spacecraft), Landing Party (Bant, led by Commander Spock: landfall and differently named lands), Klingon Fury (Mardu, led by Worf, Defiant Commander: Warriors that reward attacking several opponents), and We Are the Borg (Esper, led by The Borg Queen: assimilate). Each is $74.99, or $159.99 for the Collector's Edition with every card in surge foil. The face commander cards were revealed on October 20. We Are the Borg's full decklist went up on October 26, Federation Fleet's and Klingon Fury's followed, and Landing Party's is the last still to come.
Are Picard, Steadfast Captain and Spock, Logical Choice the precon commanders?
No. They are mono-color legends from the Star Trek Welcome Decks, five 40-card teaching decks, one per color. The Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest and Benjamin Sisko, Besieged cards are Welcome Deck cards too. The Commander precons are three-color decks led by different cards: Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary; Commander Spock; Worf, Defiant Commander; and The Borg Queen.
Which Star Trek cards have been revealed?
Most of the mythics are out. From the main set: Mr. Spock, Science Officer; Captain Jean-Luc Picard; Q, Stacking the Deck; Lieutenant Commander Data; Kobayashi Maru Scenario; Deep Space 9; Borg Cube; Captain James T. Kirk; Captain Kathryn Janeway; Dr. Beverly Crusher; and Crystalline Entity, plus all ten shock lands and an Engineered Explosives reprint. From the Commander set: Captain Kirk, Boldly Going and Christine Chapel, Combat Medic. Previews run through October 29, so the list will keep growing.
What is Stardates (SDS)?
Stardates is the Star Trek set's bonus sheet: 30 mythic reprints of famous Magic cards, each renamed for a Star Trek character with the Magic name printed under it. One is in 1 in 25 Play Boosters, and foil versions come only in Collector Boosters. A Stardates card plays exactly like the original and is legal wherever the original already was. Five are public so far, including Sheoldred, the Apocalypse as Khan, Engineered Evil and Kenrith, the Returned King as General Picard, Earth Warlord.
What are the signed Star Trek cards?
Seven signed headliner cards, each autographed by a Star Trek actor and limited to fewer than 250 copies. They are randomly inserted into Collector Boosters, always in English, and Wizards has not published the odds. They play the same as the card's other printings.
All card names, art, and mechanics belong to Wizards of the Coast. Star Trek is unreleased. Details reflect previews as of July 2026 and may change before launch. Sources: Wizards of the Coast set pages and release notes, Draftsim, Untapped.gg.
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