Today’s WeeklyMTG stream gave us our first real look at the Star Trek set closing out 2026, and I need you to understand something about me: before I was a Magic dad, I was a kid watching Star Trek reruns on a wood-paneled TV. This crossover was engineered in a lab to get my money, and having now seen the first cards — reader, the lab succeeded.
The Captains Have Arrived
The headliners revealed today are exactly who you’d want: Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Kathryn Janeway, both mythics, both looking like the most convincingly human humans Magic has ever printed. They introduce a new Officer creature type, which tells you the set is taking its Starfleet structure seriously.
The set is a celebration of the franchise’s 60th anniversary, pulling from the whole buffet — the classic shows, the movies, even the animated stuff. There’s a "Stardates" bonus sheet drawing on the newer film universe, and get this: Collector Boosters will include autograph cards signed by actors including William Shatner and Kate Mulgrew. Actual signatures. In Magic packs. My inner twelve-year-old needs a moment.
Also confirmed, and I say this with love and mild terror: the Borg are in the set as artifact creatures with what’s being described as a sliver-like quality — meaning they buff and build on each other. The Borg, functionally, assimilate. Whoever designed that deserves a raise.
Four Precons, Two Captains We Know About
The set ships with four Commander precons, and the two glimpsed so far are perfect: a Federation Fleet deck covering the Next Generation/Voyager era — with Jean-Luc Picard apparently at the helm and a spaceships-and-card-draw plan — and a Landing Party deck themed on the original series with Spock leading a lands-matter strategy. Away teams beaming down to planets as a landfall theme? Flavor of the year, no contest.
The set builds on the spaceship mechanics Magic developed for its own sci-fi set last year, so this isn’t Magic awkwardly cosplaying science fiction — the rules framework already exists. That’s the same trick that made the Marvel set work mechanically, and it makes me optimistic.
The Dad Take
Here’s what strikes me most, one crossover-heavy year into this era: Wizards has gotten good at these. The Final Fantasy set, the Marvel sets, and now this — each one clearly built by people who love the source material. Star Trek at 60 is multigenerational in the same way Magic is becoming at my house: I loved it because my parents watched it, and now there’s a version of it my kids can literally hold.
The set lands this November, so there’s a long runway — and if the Final Fantasy and Marvel launches taught us anything, the Collector Boosters will vanish instantly while everything else sticks around. Translation for the budget crowd: don’t panic-preorder. The regular products will be there, and the set’s best surprise for normal players isn’t the autographs anyway. It’s something much more practical — and it gets its own post, because it deserves one. Live long and prosper, friends.