MTG Star Trek chase cards: the most expensive cards
On November 2, 2026 pre-order prices, the most expensive Star Trek printing is the foil Stardates
General Picard, Earth Warlord (a Kenrith, the Returned King reprint) at $250.00, ahead of the foil Stardates
Khan, Engineered Evil (Sheoldred, the Apocalypse) at $244.99 and the extended-art foil U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class at
$99.99. The set releases November 13, so these are early asks, and only 219 of
1,167 printings had a price at all.
Set CodesTRK · TRC · SDS
ReleaseNov 13, 2026
Top PrintingStardates General Picard, Earth Warlord
These are pre-order prices, and most cards don't have one yet
Every figure here is the TCGplayer price Scryfall carried for that exact printing on November 2, 2026, eleven
days before release. Nobody has opened a box yet, so a pre-order price is what sellers are asking, and on a
thin card it can come from one or two listings. Expect these numbers to move once boxes are opened.
Most printings had no price at all, which is why a card you expected to see may be missing. The list below
ranks only what was priced. The signed headliners, the most limited cards in the set, had no price yet.
Star Trek (TRK)155 of 581 priced
Stardates (SDS)3 of 30 priced
Commander (TRC)61 of 556 priced
Signed Headliners0 of 7 priced
Prices: TCGplayer pre-order prices via the Scryfall API, November 2, 2026. Treatments and where they come from:
Wizards' "Collecting Star Trek" article and Scryfall's collector numbers. Card names link to TCGplayer
through our affiliate link; see our affiliate disclosure.
The List
The 15 most expensive Star Trek printings
Ranked by each printing's higher price, nonfoil or foil. One card can appear twice when two of its printings
both made it, which happens 3 times here.
Commander deck cardCommander decks; surge foil in the Collector's Edition
$28.95
None yet
For a Commander deck card, the foil is the surge foil from the $159.99 Collector's Edition deck and the nonfoil
is the ordinary $74.99 deck's copy. "None yet" means no pre-order price, not a price of zero.
Card By Card
The 12 chase cards, and whether anyone will play them
The top twelve different cards, each shown in its most expensive printing. A chase card is one of two
things: a strong card in an expensive frame, or a modest card that collectors want for the art and the
name. The "Who plays it" line says which, read from each card's rules text.
Nonfoil in 1 of 25 Play Boosters and in Collector Boosters; foil in Collector Boosters only
Who plays it A real five-color commander, but an old and cheap one
The Stardates printing renames Kenrith General Picard, Earth Warlord. Kenrith is a five-color legend with one activated ability per color (trample and haste, +1/+1 counters, 5 life, a card, reanimation), and it leads real Commander decks. The card itself is not the chase. The foil Stardates price is nearly all treatment, and it rests on very few pre-order listings: the nonfoil Stardates copy was priced far lower the same day.
Cheapest priced copy $0.86, Mystery Booster 2 (MB2 13). The chase copy costs 291 times as much.
Nonfoil in 1 of 25 Play Boosters and in Collector Boosters; foil in Collector Boosters only
Who plays it Commander, Pioneer, Modern and every older format
Khan, Engineered Evil is Sheoldred, the Apocalypse: four mana, deathtouch, you gain 2 life whenever you draw a card, and each opponent loses 2 whenever they draw one. It is the only card at the top that was already expensive before Star Trek, so its Stardates copies start from a high floor. It also has the most playable demand behind it: it was in 13 Commander decks tracked in TurnZero HQ on November 2.
Cheapest priced copy $81.23, Dominaria United (DMU 369). The chase copy costs 3.0 times as much.
Who plays it Any Commander deck with creatures to station it
A three-mana colorless Spacecraft. The first time each turn charge counters go on it, you exile the top card of your library and may play it that turn, so every turn you station it is an extra card. At 7 counters it becomes a flying, vigilant artifact creature. Colorless means any deck can run it. The extended-art foil is a Collector Booster card, and it is the most expensive non-Stardates printing in the set on pre-order.
Cheapest priced copy $17.61, Star Trek (TRK 273). The chase copy costs 5.7 times as much.
Who plays it Esper artifact decks, as commander or in the 99
Four mana, Esper, from the We Are the Borg precon: artifact spells you cast have replicate {2}{U}, so every artifact can come with token copies if you have the mana. The extended-art printing comes from the Commander slot of Collector Boosters. The deck copy is the same card at a lower price, and it comes with the rest of the deck.
Cheapest priced copy $28.95, Star Trek Commander (TRC 94). The chase copy costs 1.7 times as much.
Who plays it Commander only, best under a big commander
A six-mana artifact from the Landing Party precon that enters tapped. It taps for three mana of one color, or for X mana of one color where X is the greatest mana value among your commanders, so under a seven-drop commander it makes seven. It is a ramp card built for Commander; anywhere else it is a slow six-mana rock. The extended-art copy is a Collector Booster card; the deck copy is the cheaper way in.
Cheapest priced copy $19.95, Star Trek Commander (TRC 111). The chase copy costs 2.5 times as much.
Play Boosters; foil in Play and Collector Boosters
Who plays it White creature and Spacecraft decks in Commander
Three mana: other creatures you control get +1/+1, each creature or Spacecraft spell you cast makes a 1/1 Officer, and tapping seven Officers finds a Spacecraft and puts it onto the battlefield with seven charge counters. Here the premium is the finish, not a frame. The plain foil out of boosters is the expensive copy, ahead of the LCARS showcase printing.
Cheapest priced copy $22.61, Star Trek (TRK 7). The chase copy costs 2.2 times as much.
Commander decks; surge foil in the Collector's Edition
Who plays it Esper artifact creature decks
Seven mana: your artifact creatures have flying, double strike, vigilance, menace, lifelink and ward {2}. It is the most expensive priced card from an ordinary precon on pre-order, from We Are the Borg, and it is the regular nonfoil copy, not a special treatment. If you want it and anything else from the deck, the deck is the better buy.
Cheapest priced copy $49.95, Star Trek Commander (TRC 100). This is the chase printing itself.
Play and Collector Boosters; surge foil in Collector only
Who plays it Commander and constructed decks in blue and black
The LCARS shock land. A dual land that enters untapped for 2 life is a staple wherever it is legal, and Watery Grave has been printed many times, so the LCARS copy costs several times the cheapest one for its frame alone. Unlike the extended-art cards above it, an LCARS shock land can also come out of a Play Booster.
Cheapest priced copy $9.63, Edge of Eternities (EOE 261). The chase copy costs 5.2 times as much.
Play Boosters; foil in Play and Collector Boosters
Who plays it High-mana Commander decks with creatures to station it
A nine-mana legendary Spacecraft. When it enters and at the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top four cards of your library and put every permanent card among them onto the battlefield. At 9 charge counters, creatures you control get +3/+3. It is the most expensive nonfoil card in the plain main-set frame, so its price is about the card, not the art.
Cheapest priced copy $49.83, Star Trek (TRK 263). This is the chase printing itself.
Play Boosters; foil in Play and Collector Boosters
Who plays it Blue Commander decks that draw a lot
Four mana, mono-blue: if you would draw a card, you draw two instead. Every draw you make doubles while he is on the battlefield, and both his nonfoil and foil copies are among the most expensive main-set printings.
Cheapest priced copy $26.36, Star Trek (TRK 74). The chase copy costs 1.7 times as much.
Play Boosters; foil in Play and Collector Boosters
Who plays it Lifegain decks in Commander
Three mana, mono-white: when your gaining life triggers an ability of a permanent you control, that ability triggers an additional time, and Crusher gets a +1/+1 counter whenever you gain life. A build-around for lifegain decks, priced as one in its plain main-set frame.
Cheapest priced copy $41.81, Star Trek (TRK 13). This is the chase printing itself.
Play Boosters; foil in Play and Collector Boosters
Who plays it Red decks that count artifacts or Treasures
Three mana: at the beginning of each upkeep, yours and every opponent's, you create a Treasure, and you can't sacrifice Treasure tokens. While Quark is out you collect Treasures you cannot cash in, so he belongs in decks that want artifacts on the battlefield rather than mana. The foil is where the price is; the nonfoil was a fraction of it.
Cheapest priced copy $13.63, Star Trek (TRK 166). The chase copy costs 2.9 times as much.
"Cheapest priced copy" is the lowest priced paper printing of the card in any set on November 2, 2026. For a card
new in Star Trek, a cheaper printing may exist that has no pre-order price yet.
What Drives The Price
Which treatments sit at the top, and where they come from
Two kinds of card lead the list. Stardates reprints of cards that were already in demand take the top two
spots, and Collector Booster extended art (from the main set and from the Commander slot) takes the next
three. Below them, the plain main-set mythics hold up better than you might expect: Deep Space 9,
Dr. Beverly Crusher and Mr. Spock are priced on what they do, not how they look.
Treatment
Where it comes from
Priced
Top printing
Stardates
Nonfoil in 1 of 25 Play Boosters and in Collector Boosters; foil in Collector Boosters only
The practical split is Play Boosters against Collector Boosters. Stardates (nonfoil), LCARS shock lands, the
scene cards and the other main-set showcase frames can all come out of a $6.99 Play Booster, rarely.
Extended art, Klingon script, surge foil, foil Stardates and the signed headliners need a $37.99
Collector Booster. The Commander cards on this list come in the four $74.99 precons, which is usually
the cheapest place to get them.
SDS
Stardates: the top two cards in the set
Stardates is a 30-card bonus sheet of mythic reprints renamed for Star Trek characters. Only
3 of the 30 had a pre-order price on November 2, 2026, and two of those are the
two most expensive printings in the whole set. For every Stardates card, the full lineup and what each one
reprints, see our Star Trek Stardates list.
A nonfoil Stardates card replaces a common in 1 of 25 Play Boosters. In a Collector Booster, each of the two
rare or mythic Booster Fun cards is a nonfoil Stardates card 23.1%
of the time and a foil one 5% of the time. Foil Stardates come only in
Collector Boosters (Wizards). A Stardates card plays as the original and is legal wherever the original is.
The Rarest Cards
The signed headliners have no price yet
The scarcest Star Trek cards are the 7 signed headliners. Wizards says each was hand-signed by
the actor who plays the character, fewer than 250 copies of each exist, and they are randomly inserted into an
extremely low number of Collector Boosters, always in English. Scryfall lists them, but none had a pre-order
price on November 2, 2026, and with a few hundred copies each, any number would be a guess until copies sell.
Wizards' collecting article lists no serialized cards for Star Trek, so these are the set's limited cards.
Buy the single. Wizards publishes the odds for each Collector Booster slot but not for each card, so the
figures below divide a slot evenly across the printings in it. That is an assumption, but it gives the right
order of magnitude.
What chasing costs
One specific foil Stardates card: each of the two rare or mythic Booster Fun cards in a Collector Booster has a 5% chance to be a foil Stardates, split 30 ways, so about 1 in 300 packs. That is roughly $11,397 of Collector Boosters at MSRP for a card priced at $250.00.
The extended-art foil Enterprise-D: the one foil Booster Fun card in a Collector Booster is a foil extended-art rare 24.9% of the time, split across 28 of them, so about 1 in 112 packs, or roughly $4,255 at MSRP for a $99.99 card.
One specific nonfoil Stardates card: about 1 in 65 Collector Boosters, or 1 in 750 Play Boosters.
When the single wins most clearly
You want the card, not the frame. Sheoldred costs $81.23 in its cheapest printing against $199.99 for the nonfoil Stardates copy. Watery Grave is $9.63 against $49.92 for LCARS. The game can't tell them apart.
It is a precon card. One, Borg Evolved was $49.95 on its own, and the whole We Are the Borg deck it comes in is $74.99.
You can wait two weeks. Pre-order asks are set before anyone has opened a box. Prices after release reflect how many copies were actually opened.
Open Collector Boosters because you enjoy opening them, and treat anything on this page as a bonus. For a
card you want in a deck, the single is cheaper in every case above. None of this is financial advice.
Building With Star Trek
Where the playable chase cards go
Three of the twelve cards above come in the Commander precons: Hugh, First of Many and One, Borg Evolved in We
Are the Borg, and Command Chair in Landing Party. The Beacon of Kahless, just below the top
15, is in Klingon Fury. Our
comparison of the four Star Trek precons says which deck is the best
buy. For the set's mechanics, start with the Star Trek set guide, and if you are
opening packs at a prerelease, the Star Trek prerelease guide
covers the kit and how to build.
FAQ
Star Trek chase card questions
What is the most expensive card in MTG Star Trek?
On pre-order prices from November 2, 2026, the most expensive printing is the foil Stardates General Picard, Earth Warlord (a reprint of Kenrith, the Returned King) at $250.00, then the foil Stardates Khan, Engineered Evil (Sheoldred, the Apocalypse) at $244.99. The most expensive card new to Magic is the extended-art foil U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class at $99.99. These are pre-order prices and most printings had none yet.
Are Star Trek prices going to drop after release?
Nobody can promise either way, but pre-order prices are set by sellers before anyone has opened a box, and most of these numbers come from a few listings. Prices on new sets usually move a lot in the first two weeks as supply arrives. If you want a card to play, waiting until after November 13 costs little.
Which Star Trek cards come only in Collector Boosters?
Per Wizards, the extended-art cards (main set and Commander), the Klingon script cards, the surge foils, the borderless Commander cards, foil Stardates and the signed headliners. Nonfoil Stardates, the scene cards, LCARS frame and LCARS shock lands, classic Enterprise and Klingon frame cards can also come in Play Boosters.
Is a Stardates card the same as the original?
Yes for play. A Stardates card is a reprint renamed for a Star Trek character, with the Magic card's name printed under the new one. It plays as the original and is legal wherever the original is, so Khan, Engineered Evil is a Sheoldred, the Apocalypse in any deck.
How much are the signed Star Trek cards?
There was no price yet. Scryfall lists the 7 headliner printings, but none had a pre-order price on November 2, 2026. Wizards says each signed card was hand-signed by the actor on it, fewer than 250 copies exist of each, and they turn up in an extremely low number of Collector Boosters.
Should I buy Collector Boosters to get the chase cards?
Only if you enjoy opening them. On Wizards' published odds, any one specific foil Stardates card is about 1 in 300 Collector Boosters, and the extended-art foil Enterprise-D about 1 in 112, if each card in a slot is equally likely. At $37.99 a pack, buying the single is far cheaper for any one card.
