During a special livestream, Wizards of the Coast popped the cork on the Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Universes Beyond set and revealed some of the cards, mechanics and products coming to tabletops in November.
As revealed at MagicCon Atlanta 2025, Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is receiving an exclusive Universes Beyond set coming later in the year, and during that reveal, only concepts and artwork were shown off. Today, Wizards of the Coast revealed some of the cards, exclusive artworks, and treatments fans can expect when the set hits tabletops on November 13, 2026.
A few of the cards fans can expect, alongside the entire suite of retail products, have been revealed on the livestream. The Spacecraft card type returns from 2025’s Edge of Eternities to represent the iconic starships that make up the fleet of Star Trek. The USS Enterprise–D, Galaxy-Class, is a prime example of a spacecraft, and it can be seen in two treatments below by known MTG artists Scott Okumura and Pablo Mendoza.
Of course, no Magic: The Gathering set would be complete without special card treatments, and Star Trek brings its iconic identity to the equation. LCARS frame cards bring the Starfleet iconic user interface to Magic cards, with Shock Lands getting the full treatment. There are 29 LCARS frame cards and 10 LCARS frame Shock Lands in the Universes Beyond set. Another specialized treatment coming to Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek tabletops is the Enterprise treatment, which pays homage to vintage Star Trek movie posters.
Like other Universes Beyond Source Material Bonus Sheet cards, powerful cards from Magic‘s history meet Star Trek moments on stardates cards. Each Stardates card is a notable reprint with artwork from the world of Star Trek. An example was teased during the livestream, and the powerful Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, as “Khan, Engineered Evil,” which depicts the incarnation of Khan from the Kelvin timeline. This means you could technically have two Benedict Cumberbatch characters in one MTG deck. New and returning mechanics are also flooding tabletops with the November release. As mentioned, Spacecraft and Stationing returns, but joining it is Assimilate, Face a Dilemma, and Federation.
- Assimilate – When you assimilate, you take control of a creature or put a creature card onto the battlefield under your control, then a +1/+1 counter is put on that creature, and it becomes a Borg artifact creature and loses its other creature types. A powerful addition to artifact decks.
- Face a Dilemma – This triggered ability occurs whenever a player plays a modal-type spell that requires decision-making. When you Face a Dilemma, the trigger occurs as you make the decision.
- Federation – This ability word groups abilities that care about the number of creature types among non-Borg creatures a player controls. A Human and a Dog you control would make X = 2 on the card Hoshi Sato, Exolinguist shown above.
Magic: The Gathering is releasing Autographed headliner Captain cards exclusively found in Collector Booster packs. Only two of the seven Captains have been revealed so far, with Captain James T. Kirk signed by William Shatner and Captain Kathryn Janeway signed by Kate Mulgrew. Each of these headliner cards is limited in number to 200 each. Lastly, Wizards of the Coast revealed all of the products the Star Trek set will have alongside MSRP. Those can be seen below, alongside the face cards for the four revealed Commander Decks during the livestream.
- 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
Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek releases on November 13. Fans looking for more information regarding the set can head to the official Wizards of the Coast website.
