MTG Star Trek Spoilers: New Cards, Mechanics & Reveals So Far

Last updated: October 9, 2026

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek preview season is beginning to accelerate.

The set does not release until November 13, but Wizards has already revealed major characters, mechanics, Spacecraft, collector treatments and dozens of cards through its First Look and Star Trek Welcome Decks. New cards have now also begun appearing from New York Comic Con, giving us the first wave of spoilers ahead of the main preview season.

This page will serve as our running MTG Star Trek spoiler hub. We will update it as new cards are officially revealed, with particular attention to Commander cards, powerful Constructed options, valuable reprints and anything that could become a major chase card.

If you are mainly interested in the four preconstructed decks, we also have a separate guide to all four MTG Star Trek Commander decks.

Latest MTG Star Trek Spoilers

The newest Star Trek cards appeared around New York Comic Con on October 8 and 9.

At the time of writing, several of these cards are circulating through convention-floor photos rather than the official Wizards card gallery. That distinction matters, especially because the canceled Beginner Box has created uncertainty around where some previously designed cards will ultimately appear.

Here are the most important recent reveals.

The most interesting card from the latest group may be Starfleet Communicator.

Starfleet Communicator Introduces Communicator Equipment

Starfleet Communicator appears to introduce Communicator as an Equipment subtype.

The card is built around moving the Equipment between creatures and generating additional value as you use it. Early reactions have focused on its potential in Commander decks capable of producing many creatures, where repeatedly equipping different bodies is much easier than in a Voltron strategy.

The exact importance of Communicator as a subtype will depend on how many other Star Trek cards reference it.

If Communicators receive meaningful typal support across the set or Commander products, Starfleet Communicator could become much more than a standalone value artifact.

For now, it is also one of the clearest signals that Star Trek will lean heavily into recognizable technology rather than treating every piece of equipment as a generic Magic artifact.

Join the Collective Is a Very Borg Way to Clear the Board

Join the Collective is exactly the kind of card you would expect from the Borg.

Rather than simply destroying creatures, it turns a chaotic battlefield into an opportunity to build an army of Borg.

Its high mana cost means it is unlikely to become a universal Commander staple, but decks already interested in tokens and artifact creatures could exploit it much more effectively than a normal board wipe.

It is also an obvious thematic fit for the upcoming We Are the Borg Commander deck.

That does not confirm that it appears in the precon, however. Until Wizards publishes the full decklists, its exact product placement should still be treated as unknown.

Borg Queen, One Who Is Many Raises a Bigger Question

Borg Queen, One Who Is Many may be more interesting for what it tells us about the product line than for its raw power.

The rare legendary artifact creature appears to reward artifact-heavy Borg strategies, which gives it natural synergy with the wider assimilation theme.

The bigger issue is availability.

The card has been associated with content originally expected to appear in the now-canceled Star Trek Beginner Box. Wizards canceled that product worldwide because of production, logistics and shipping problems, but it has not yet provided a complete card-by-card explanation of what will happen to designs originally intended for it.

We covered that situation separately in our Star Trek Beginner Box cancellation guide.

Until Wizards confirms where Borg Queen, One Who Is Many will appear, it is worth treating its final availability as unresolved.

Tricorder Looks Built for Limited

Not every spoiler needs to become a Commander staple.

Tricorder is a cheap Equipment that appears much more likely to matter during Draft and Sealed than at high-powered Commander tables.

That is still useful information this early in preview season.

Cards like this often reveal how a Limited environment is supposed to function before Wizards publishes its full archetype breakdown. Cheap artifacts and Equipment can also matter more than their individual power level suggests if the set rewards artifact counts, equipped creatures or specific technology subtypes.

Once more commons and uncommons are revealed, we should have a much clearer idea of whether Star Trek Limited has an artifact-heavy foundation.

The Biggest Official Star Trek Cards Revealed So Far

The NYCC cards may be the newest, but Wizards already showed several much more important cards during the original Star Trek First Look.

The most recognizable include Captain James T. Kirk, Captain Kathryn Janeway, Dr. Beverly Crusher, Crystalline Entity, Salt Vampire and U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class.

We have also seen cards representing some of the franchise’s most recognizable moments, including Amok Time and The City on the Edge of Forever.

That gives us an early sense of the set’s scope.

Wizards is not concentrating only on one series or one generation of characters. Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is drawing from across roughly 60 years of the franchise.

That approach is also reflected in the mechanics.

Assimilate Is the Borg Mechanic

Assimilate may be the most flavorful mechanic in the entire set.

When a card assimilates a creature, that creature comes under your control or enters the battlefield under your control, receives a +1/+1 counter and becomes a Borg artifact creature while losing its other creature types.

Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest is one of the cleanest examples revealed so far.

She strengthens your artifact creatures and can assimilate a creature card from an opponent’s graveyard when she enters the battlefield.

That creates obvious Commander potential.

Assimilated creatures becoming artifacts opens interactions with years of artifact support, while stealing cards from opposing graveyards gives Borg decks access to resources that were never originally part of their own deck.

Expect this mechanic to be one of the defining identities of We Are the Borg.

Face a Dilemma Rewards Choices

Star Trek stories are filled with captains choosing between imperfect solutions, and Magic translates that idea through face a dilemma.

A player faces a dilemma whenever they choose one or more modes for a spell or ability.

That means the mechanic interacts naturally with modal cards.

Set Phasers to . . . demonstrates the theme directly, while Seven of Nine rewards players for facing dilemmas.

This is potentially much more interesting for Commander than it first appears.

Magic already has a huge library of modal spells, so cards that reward dilemmas do not necessarily need a deck built entirely from Star Trek cards. Older modal spells could immediately become part of the strategy.

That gives the mechanic far more long-term deck-building potential than a completely isolated Universes Beyond mechanic would have.

Federation Rewards a Diverse Crew

The federation ability word represents another major Star Trek theme: different species and cultures working together.

Federation cards care about the number of different creature types among your non-Borg creatures.

Hoshi Sato, Exolinguist is one of the early examples.

For Commander players, this immediately suggests a typal strategy that works in the opposite direction from traditional tribal decks.

Instead of filling your battlefield with ten Humans or ten Elves, Federation rewards diversity.

A Human, Vulcan, Android and other different creature types can collectively produce a larger payoff than repeatedly playing the same type.

That may also make cards with unusual creature types disproportionately useful once players begin building around Federation commanders.

Spacecraft and Station Return

Spacecraft and station return from Edge of Eternities and are a major part of Star Trek.

Spacecraft begin as artifacts. Players can use station to place charge counters on them, gradually unlocking additional abilities and eventually turning some ships into creatures.

U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class is the obvious showcase.

This mechanic is an almost perfect fit for Star Trek because ships do not need to begin every game as ordinary creatures. Instead, the crew effectively prepares and powers the ship before it becomes an active threat.

The mechanic should also matter heavily for the Federation Fleet Commander precon.

Existing Spacecraft support from Edge of Eternities may become especially interesting once the full Star Trek decklists are available.

Star Trek Welcome Decks Have Already Revealed Dozens of Cards

Wizards has also published the lists for five mono-color Star Trek Welcome Decks.

These products are intended to teach new players Magic, but their decklists quietly revealed a large amount of the Star Trek card pool ahead of the main preview season.

The white deck includes cards such as Picard, Steadfast Captain, Will Riker, Assuming Command, Picard, Leading by Example, Saavik, Stoic Student and Set Phasers to . . ..

Blue introduces cards including Spock, Logical Choice, V’Ger, the Intruder, La Forge, Perceptive Engineer, Trelane, Squire of Gothos, Pelia, Immortal Innovator and T’Pol, Vulcan Representative.

Black includes the Borg-heavy side of the set with Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest, Resistance Is Futile, Collective Drone, Cybernetic Specialist and Ceti Eel.

Red contains Kirk, Enterprising Captain, La’An Noonien-Singh, Security, Kruge, Genesis Seeker, Klingon Strike Force and Munitions Enthusiast.

Green brings some of the stranger inhabitants of the Star Trek universe, including Moopsy, Gorn Captain, Dathon and Picard at El-Adrel, Benjamin Sisko, Besieged, Mugato and First Contact.

This is already enough to show that the main set goes considerably deeper than simply putting the most famous captains on mythic rares.

All Ten Shock Lands Are in MTG Star Trek

One reveal that could matter enormously for both players and collectors is the return of the complete shock-land cycle.

Star Trek contains:

Hallowed Fountain, Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Stomping Ground, Temple Garden, Godless Shrine, Steam Vents, Overgrown Tomb, Sacred Foundry and Breeding Pool.

All ten receive special LCARS treatments inspired by Star Trek’s Library Computer Access and Retrieval System.

That matters beyond collectors.

Shock lands are some of the most important dual lands in Magic, and another large printing can affect both availability and secondary-market pricing.

It also gives Star Trek Collector Boosters an obvious class of desirable pulls even before the rest of the chase cards are known.

Stardates Cards Bring Magic Reprints Into Star Trek

The Stardates bonus sheet takes established Magic cards and pairs them with moments and characters from Star Trek.

There are 30 Stardates cards in the set.

The first revealed example is Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, represented through Star Trek artwork as Khan, Engineered Evil.

This is one of the collector elements worth watching most closely.

A strong Stardates lineup could dramatically improve the appeal of Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, especially if Wizards chooses expensive or widely played Magic staples for the remaining slots.

Nonfoil Stardates cards can appear in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, while traditional foil versions are limited to Collector Boosters.

Seven Actor-Signed Headliner Cards Are the Ultimate Chase

Star Trek also introduces one of Magic’s rarest modern collectible treatments.

Seven different Headliner cards have versions physically signed by Star Trek actors.

Wizards says there are approximately 250 copies of each signed card, and they can only appear in Collector Boosters.

Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Kathryn Janeway were among the first examples shown.

These are not mechanically unique cards. The signed versions use the same game pieces as other treatments.

From a collector perspective, however, this is completely different from opening a normal foil or alternate-art mythic.

With only a few hundred signed copies of each design, they will likely sit at the extreme high end of the Star Trek market once Collector Boosters begin opening.

Star Trek Commander Spoilers Are Still the Biggest Missing Piece

The four Commander decks are already confirmed:

Federation Fleet
Landing Party
Klingon Fury
We Are the Borg

What we do not yet have are the complete 100-card decklists.

Each deck contains 32 new-to-Magic cards, meaning the Commander release alone still has a substantial number of exclusive designs to reveal.

That is where some of the most important spoilers for PreconForge will eventually appear.

Once Wizards publishes the complete lists, we will be able to compare reprint value, new cards, mana bases and out-of-box power instead of judging the decks only from their themes.

We will also add them to the PreconForge Commander database once enough pricing data becomes available.

For a deeper look at what we already know about each deck, see our complete MTG Star Trek Commander deck guide.

When Does MTG Star Trek Release?

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek releases globally on November 13, 2026.

Prerelease events begin on November 6, while the set launches digitally on MTG Arena on November 10.

That leaves roughly a month between the current NYCC reveals and the final release, which means preview activity should increase significantly from here.

The official card gallery is still far from telling the complete story.

What We Are Watching Next

The next major wave of Star Trek information could arrive very quickly.

Magic is holding an official NYCC panel on October 9, with Wizards promising new Magic reveals during the event. Star Trek is also one of the major attractions at the company’s convention booth throughout the weekend.

The biggest things we are watching are the face commanders for the four precons, additional Stardates reprints, more Spacecraft, the remaining Headliner cards and confirmation of where cards originally associated with the canceled Beginner Box will appear.

There is also the much larger question of which cards will actually matter after release.

A popular character does not automatically make a good Commander card, and a visually spectacular mythic does not automatically become a Constructed staple.

As the spoiler season continues, we will separate the cards that are simply exciting reveals from the ones that look genuinely powerful.

The Star Trek Spoiler Season Is Only Getting Started

We already know considerably more about Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek than we did a few weeks ago, but the most important part of preview season is still ahead.

Wizards has established the set’s core identity through Assimilate, Federation, dilemmas and returning Spacecraft. The Welcome Decks have exposed a large portion of the lower-rarity card pool, and the first NYCC reveals are beginning to show what the next wave of previews may look like.

Now the focus shifts to the cards that can define formats and Commander decks.

We will keep updating this page throughout the Star Trek spoiler season as new cards are revealed, Commander decklists arrive and the biggest chase cards become clear.

For now, resistance is futile. Preview season has begun.