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Star Trek arrives November 13, with Prerelease events starting November 6. If you’re opening Play Boosters, heading to a draft, or cracking Collector Boosters and looking for the most gorgeous prints, these are some of the pricey cards you’ll be delighted to pull.
Note: These prices were sourced from TCGplayer market prices on November 3, 2026, rounded to the nearest $0.50, and are subject to significant changes after the set fully releases.
For our main ranking, we’ll look at the cheapest version for each card; we’re also including cards from the supplemental Commander set (TRC) and Scene Boxes, which you won’t find in normal Play Boosters. We’ll tackle Stardates reprints and premium treatments in a separated section.
#30. U.S.S. Stargazer, Here and There – $14
A Commander-set spacecraft, U.S.S. Stargazer, Here and There becomes a 4/3 flier after six charge counters and creates an attacking token whenever it attacks. The token disappears after combat, though, and all in all the card doesn’t seem that good to cost over $10. My guess is that hype and collectors are pushing the price a lot here.
A common pattern in this ranking is that the huge majority of these cards depict a famous character or gizmo from the Star Trek franchise. Collectability seems to be an important factor in this set!
#29. The Borg Queen – $14
Now, this one is a real card: The face commander of the We Are the Borg precon, The Borg Queen buffs your artifact creatures by +2/+2 and steals (by assimilating) a creature from an opponent’s library when it enters or attacks. Seven mana is steep, but this is a big threat and a powerful anthem rolled into one.
#28. Mr. Spock, Science Officer – $14.50
Drawing cards is the best thing in life, that’s a fact. And Mr. Spock, Science Officer brings double the fun. One card drawn becomes two, and three become six: It’s perfectly logical, and potentially ridiculous in Commander decks packed with card-draw engines.
And it’s Mr. Spock! There are five different versions of this card: $14.50 is the cheapest, with premium versions costing hundreds.
#27. Georgiou, Terran Emperor – $14.50
Georgiou, Terran Emperor makes you lose 3 life and draw a card at your end step, but keeps you alive at 0 or less life, and in that case produces 10 Officer tokens. A cool, dangerous mono-black commander to build around!
#26. Jadzia Dax, Living Legacy – $14.50
You need a turn for Jadzia Dax, Living Legacy to get going, but whoa, does it get going! +1/+1 per turn, and green mana based on its counters. And it pulls double duty as a combat trick!
Mono-green decks are running rampant in Standard right now; looks like they may have a cool new toy to play with.
#25. Command Chair – $15
Command Chair costs 6 mana and enters tapped, which is a rough start for a mana rock. The payoff is producing 3 mana of one color, or potentially much more alongside an expensive commander. Doesn’t look like it’ll become the next Commander staple, but big-mana decks should put it to good use.
#24. Q, Stacking the Deck – $15
Here’s one of the strangest cards in Star Trek. And, yeah, that’s Q’s cue!
When Q, Stacking the Deck enters, you shuffle your library and exile cards until you hit a nonland card. That card then gains an ability allowing you to exile cards from your hand to create and cast copies of it. There’s a huge difference between finding a mediocre creature and a powerful spell, of course. But the ability remains on the exiled card even if Q leaves the battlefield, and it’s the type of stuff that’s begging to being broken.
According to EDHREC, at the time of writing it’s the most popular Star Trek commander (even surpassing the face commanders from the precons!). And it’s very likely a bomb in Draft or Sealed, so you should be very happy to find it among your picks.
#23. Type-03 Borg Vessel – $15
Type-03 Borg Vessel reduces the cost of artifact spells, then starts to create 1/1 tokens when stationed. Both halves are useful in artifact-heavy Commander decks, where the extra tokens also benefit from other Borg payoffs.
#22. Starfleet Communicator – $15
Casting Starfleet Communicator creates a token copy of this equipment, and you can put the copy on a different creature if you want. Equipment commanders and landfall commanders should both appreciate the value, and the flavor is pretty great here.
#21. Spot, Felis catus – $15
Of course the cat is expensive… it’s a cat!
Spot, Felis catus makes Food when your nontoken legendary permanents enter, then lets you sacrifice Food and pay mana to destroy artifacts. Repeatable (if a tad expensive) interaction is interesting, but I think the price here reflects demand among Spot fans, rather than card quality.
#20. Rom and Leeta, Unlikely Pair – $15
Rom and Leeta, Unlikely Pair creates two tapped Treasures whenever you draw your second card in a turn. Since that can happen on opponents’ turns too, instant-speed card draw makes this interesting in red Commander decks. The Treasures enter tapped, though, which is a pretty big drawback.
#19. Khan, Vengeful Heart – $15.50
A 4-mana 5/3 isn’t too impressive, even by Standard standards (let alone Commander), but drawing two cards from sacking a creature or artifact is pretty strong. Yet Khan, Vengeful Heart most interesting ability is the second: You can cast it from exile.
You can play it alongside impulse draw effects like Worf, Defiant Commander, which exile cards and let you play them for a limited time. Khan’s ability allows you to work around the “until…” part, and there are tons of effects that exile one of your cards that could use Khan as a target.
#18. Captain Kathryn Janeway – $16
Turns out Jadzia Dax, Living Legacy isn’t the only reinforcement for mono-green decks in Standard (as if they needed any!). Captain Kathryn Janeway lets you play an extra land per turn, and gives explore to your creatures, Janeway included.
I have a hunch we’ll be talking more about this human officer in our Weekly Price Spikes articles….
#17. Dr. Joseph M’Benga – $16.50
Dr. Joseph M'Benga doubles counters placed on your creatures (any type of counter, not just +1/+1 counters), with hexproof on top.
It doesn’t make counters itself, though, so M’Benga is more of a team player than the main character. But being a sort of “hexproof anthem” in a counters deck, on top of being a counter doubler, certainly makes Dr. Joseph M'Benga interesting.
Oh, and guess what: Fits into mono-green!
#16. Death Is Irrelevant – $17
Death Is Irrelevant makes your artifact creatures indestructible and assimilates a creature from a graveyard each of your end steps. Eight mana is a lot, but we’re talking about a huge payoff here.
And an interesting detail is that it’s one of the very few cards in this ranking that is not named after a famous character, famous cat, or famous gizmo (although it depicts the Borg Queen), which would make you think it’s one of the cards that players are buying because they think it’s powerful, rather than because it’s their favorite character.
Slam-dunk pick if you’re drafting this set: It’s expensive to cast, but potentially game-winning if you get there.
#15. Starship Enterprise – $17.50
Yeah, drawing cards is great, you don’t have me to sell on that. But let’s be real: There’s no way a 5-mana 4/6 spacecraft, with no immediate effect and that needs you to fly through hoops to get it going, costs more than a couple of bucks.
Unless it’s the spacecraft. Like, the Starship Enterprise. So of course collectors are channeling Philip J. Fry.
#14. Dr. Beverly Crusher – $18
Dr. Beverly Crusher makes abilities triggered by gaining life trigger an additional time, including its own. So, yeah, it’s very much a Panharmonicon for lifegain triggers, attached to a growing creature.
I very much doubt it’ll make a dent in Standard (which would help to keep it pricey), but Commander decks do love lifegain shenanigans.
#13. Crystalline Entity – $18.50
Star Trek has a pretty clear artifact creature theme, and Crystalline Entity is sort of their trump card: a colorless board wipe that destroys all nonartifact creatures, provided that you cast it (reanimating, blinking, or cheating it into play doesn’t trigger its ETB).
Artifact-heavy Commander decks are gonna like this one, and it fits any deck that wants it since its colorless.
#12. One, Borg Evolved – $19
Keyword soup, anyone? One, Borg Evolved gives your artifact creatures flying, double strike, vigilance, menace, lifelink, and ward . And for once, we have to admit that keyword soup is the perfect flavor!
One, Borg Evolved doesn’t do much by itself, but with a full board should wrap up Commander games on the spot.
#11. Locutus of Borg – $20
An alternative leader for the We Are the Borg Commander precon, Locutus of Borg lets your artifact creatures create 1/1 Borg tokens whenever they deal combat damage to players. Those tokens get the same ability (since they’re artifact creatures themselves), so an evasive artifact army can snowball quickly. Resistance will indeed be futile!
#10. Scotty, Chief Engineer – $20
Scotty, Chief Engineer lets you tap an artifact to make a creature unblockable for the turn; not useless, but nothing to write a check with $20 on it about!
Limited distribution is probably inflating prices here: Scotty comes from the Divergent Timeline Scene Box (although you can get non-foil copies in Collector Boosters).
#9. Q, Your Illustrious Host – $20
Another Scene Box exclusive, Q, Your Illustrious Host is a 5-color faerie commander. Tap three untapped faeries and Q exiles cards until you hit a nonland card, which you may cast for free!
Making Q into a faerie commander sure is an interesting design decision (although they didn’t go so far so as to make it an actual faerie; Q is just… Q!).
#8. Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary – $20
The face commander of the Federation Fleet Commander precon, Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary draws you a card whenever another historic permanent (saga, artifact, or legendary permanent) with mana value at least enters under your control.
Can’t see this Jeskai commander () being too strong, to be honest, but being a card for a Star Trek captain and the recent passing of Sir Patrick Stewart may make Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary desirable for collectors.
#7. Data, Professor of Humanities – $20
Turns out it’s not just Q who has a thing for faeries! And in case you were wondering: Nope, that’s not Star Trek canon; that’s WotC being allowed some creative liberties for the Enterprise-Q Scene Box.
Like other Scene Box cards, the price here is very likely inflated thanks to these cards being unavailable in Play Boosters, plus having very famous characters.
#6. Hugh, First of Many – $20.50
Hugh, First of Many gives your artifact spells replicate for . Copying artifacts with useful enters triggers can create enormous value, and there’s no restriction here other than having the available mana.
#5. Own the Day – $23
Here’s another card that isn’t named after a famous face or gizmo, and this one doesn’t even have a recognizable scene in it. Which may suggest the price is more about how cool or competitive Magic players see the card, versus how much collectors are willing to pay for their favorite character.
Own the Day is pretty simple: You get an extra combat and an extra main phase, and it can cost as little as if you’ve already attacked three players that turn. That’s strictly better than Relentless Assault, which gives you the exact same effect for .
#4. Captain Jean-Luc Picard – $24.50
A slam-dunk pick in your Star Trek draft, and it’ll probably make waves in Standard. Captain Jean-Luc Picard gets you a +1/+1 anthem, spawns a 1/1 token whenever you cast a creature or spacecraft, and has a massive payoff if you happen to have enough officers.
#3. The Beacon of Kahless – $28.50
WotC seems to be trying to push 3-mana rocks, and The Beacon of Kahless is a very good try: Thanks to the battlefront ability, this Beacon could pay for itself the same turn you play it. A great deal for aggressive decks!
#2. Jean-Luc, Mon Capitaine – $30
Yet another pricey faerie-matters card courtesy of the Enterprise-Q Scene Box, Jean-Luc, Mon Capitaine makes faeries enter with extra +1/+1 counters based on the number of different creature types you control. It’s a bit convoluted (it rewards one creature type, but wants you to have different types; and the federation mechanic doesn’t work with changelings, since they are Borg), so again I suspect supply and character popularity are behind the price here.
#1. Deep Space 9 – $33
Nine mana is a lot. But, yeah, Deep Space 9 just had to cost that much, no way around it!
That payoff seems on point, though: You cheat into play all the permanents among the four top cards of your library as soon as this spacecraft enters (so, potentially, all four cards!), you bury your opponents in value if this stays alive for even one turn, and you really don’t even need to station it for it to be amazing.
Seems unplayable in Standard (where is unreasonable), but casual Commander decks are gonna love this one.
Promos, Alternate Art, and More
As you can probably guess, alternate art versions and special treatments tend to be a lot more expensive… and prerelease prices a lot less reliable! Please do additional research if you’re thinking about buying or selling any of these.
Stardates Bonus Sheet
The 30 Stardates cards are a bonus sheet of reprints with Star Trek artwork. The big piece here is Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, depicted as Khan, Engineered Evil, which is currently listed at close to $200… and it’s very likely that it’ll remain extremely expensive: The cheapest existing copies from Dominaria United are worth north of $80.
It’d be fair to expect all Stardates cards to be pricey, but at least half of them are reprints of cards that you can currently get for less than $1.
LCARS Shock Lands
All 10 shock lands have LCARS variants. Watery Grave is currently the most expensive, at about $43 (for reference, the regular version from Edge of Eternities costs about $11).
The LCARS versions of Steam Vents and Sacred Foundry are listed at around $27, while Breeding Pool and Overgrown Tomb are listed at about $25.
Signed Headliner Cards
If you were wondering about the absolute priciest cards of all, the answer is easy: There are seven different Headliner cards physically signed by Star Trek actors, with fewer than 250 copies of each. They’re Collector Booster exclusives.
If you were wondering how much these are gonna cost… your guess is as good as mine. I’d say cheaper than a kidney… but wouldn’t be willing to bet on it!
Wrap Up
Captain Kathryn Janeway | Illustration by Jason Pastrana
And that’s the most expensive Star Trek cards as of November 3, 2026, looking at TCGplayer market prices. They are subject to significant changes after the set fully releases.
If you’re drafting, check our full Star Trek Limited review to see which expensive pulls are actually worth playing. And if you find a lottery ticket in your booster, tell us in the comments or on the Draftsim Discord.
I hope you’ve enjoyed this deep dive into Star Trek‘s priciest cards, and good luck out there!
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