All 45 New Cards Revealed From MTG's Star Trek Spoiler Debut

Timothy Zaccagnino 17 days ago MTG Cards, MTG News

Last updated on October 20, 2026

Common Goal | Illustration by Ioannis Fiore

Boldly going where Magic has already once gone before, just last year with Edge of Eternities. But what if the space setting had way less Tezzerets and kavus and way more Sir Patrick Strewart and Klingons? That’s the question Magic: The Gathering is answering with its final set of 2026.

Cards from Star Trek have been trickling in here and there throughout the latter half of the year, but today marks official spoiler season, leading up to the set’s release on November 13 (prereleases on November 7).

Here’s everything new spoiled from the set’s debut video, and remember to bookmark Draftsim’s spoiler page for a full look at Star Trek and beyond as previews come out.

Every New Card Revealed

The “strange new worlds” mechanic was revealed, which tracks the number of differently named lands you control, something that was actually an unkeyworded part of Edge of Eternities. We saw this on Deep Space Scan and Captain Pike, Fullness of Time. Seven of Nine, Unassimilated plays into this with its activated ability.

Federation was a previously revealed mechanic that cares about the number of creature types you have across all non-Borg creatures you control (that way it discounts changelings). Captain Jonathan Archer and Starfleet Academy were newly spoiled with this mechanic.

Captain Benjamin Sisko shows off the “face a dilemma” mechanic, which simply means selecting one or more modes on a modal spell or ability (AKA picking a choice from a bulleted list). There are a ton of modal spells in this set, so you’ll be facing dilemmas quite often. Kobayashi Maru Scenario represents a dilemma that you can face once per upkeep, kind of like a blue Demonic Pact.

Landfall is a deciduous mechanic now and we see at least a couple landfall cards in most sets, but it’s a major part of Star Trek, and plays into the strange new worlds theme and mechanic as well. Captain Michael Burnham showcases a landfall pinging ability we’ve been seeing more of lately.

Spacecraft are obviously back, and they still use the station mechanic to build up charge counters, which turns them into creatures once they’ve accumulated enough counters. U.S.S. Discovery, at Black Alter gives us a new green spacecraft that discovers on entering or attacking (discover will show up a bit in this set as well). U.S.S. Enterprise-A, Free Spirit is a mythic rare take on the most popular spaceship from Star Trek. U.S.S. Reliant, From Hell's Heart represents Khan’s spacecraft, and works as a repeatable recursion engine.

Borg Cube melds a new spacecraft with the assimilate mechanic, which pulls a creature from another zone and puts it into play as an artifact creature with a +1/+1 counter and the borg creature type, removing all its other types. Unrelated, Hit It! gives us a ramp piece that also serves as a haste enabler.

A few more major characters that appear on cards in this set include Mr. Spock, Science Officer, Dr. Joseph M'Benga, Nyota Uhura, Communications, Q, Stacking the Deck, Quark, Humble Proprietor, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

Star Trek is not exactly a “typal set”, but does contain a number of cards that reference creature types, like Picard above and Worf, Intelligence Contractor‘s ability to turn creatures into warriors. There’s a little bit of emphasis on Klingons, including an entire “Klingon Fury” Commander precon. The Klingon spacecraft D-7, Battle Cruiser was revealed here as well.

Replicator is a new token-copying artifact that spots you a Food token to get started with if you’ve got nothing else to clone. Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge is a rare counter doubler, though it only works for charge counters, which matters for spacecraft as well as the spoiled Engineered Explosives reprint.

Live Long and Prosper is quite literal, doubling your life total, cards and hand, and stripping the hand size restriction, for a generous 7 mana. Also, Tribbles. Sounds like something that fans of Star Trek will be well familiar with.

All seven of the signed Headliners have now been revealed as well, exclusive to Collector boosters, with about 250 copies of each printed.

“Classic Enterprise” is one of the Booster Fun treatments you’ll see in this set, with more cards revealed using this frame. There are surge foil versions of these, likely exclusive to Collector boosters.

Lcards is another frame with a much more busy Booster Fun treatment. One of these is Lieutenant Commander Data, a new card that gets bigger as you cast noncreature spells, then converts its counters into card draw.

There are also borderless lands beyond the already-known borderless shock land reprints. Federation Outpost, The Unicomplex, and Quark's Bar are among the lands in this set (normal versions below), and show off some new mono-colored surveil lands that let you face a dilemma.

Stardates is the name of the set’s 30-card bonus sheet, composed of reskinned reprints. We all say the Benedict Cumberbatch Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, but we now know the following:

You can get Klingon versions of some of the cards in this set as well.

Schematic-art cards are exclusive to the Beam Me Up Bundle (the equivalent of Reality Fracture‘s Secret Lair Bundle).

Face commanders for this set’s precon line-up were revealed:

Landing Party: Commander Spock + Captain Kirk, Boldly Going
Federation Fleet: Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary
Klingon Fury: Worf, Defiant Commander
We Are the Borg: The Borg Queen + Locutus of Borg

Some non-face commander cards revealed from the precon include Command Chair and Starship Enterprise (Landing Party), Guinan, Ancient Advisor and Spot, Felis Catus (Federation Fleet), The Sword of Kahless and Koloth, Tribble Hunter (Klingon Fury), Join the Collective (We Are the Borg).

“Seek out” is introduced as a new mechanic exclusive to the Commander precons, and is a shortened keyword for drawing your second card each turn. There’s also a new “battlefront” mechanic that works kind of like melee, but scales different effects to the number of opponents you attack in one combat.

Some reprints that were confirmed by art tags alone, likely from the Commander precons, include:

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Timothy Zaccagnino

Timothy has been a Magic enthusiast since picking up the game in 2012, with a love of Limited and Commander. He's the co-creator of Jank Diver Gaming and host of The Jank Tank podcast. These days you can find him at the draft table, brewing his 20th EDH deck or cubing with friends on Arena.