Star Trek’s Full-Art MTG Lands Give Off Big Edge of Eternities Vibes

Last updated on July 14, 2026

Illustration by Raymond Swanland

Ahead of today’s WeeklyMTG stream with a first look at the upcoming Star Trek set, the official Magic: The Gathering Bluesky account released art from the set featuring 10 different lands.

We’ll learn more about Star Trek in general, and potentially these arts specifically, in WeeklyMTG’s First Look at Star Trek today on Twitch at 10am PT.

The Art

Are These Basic Land Arts?

The big question regarding these lands is whether or not these are basic lands or dual lands. Of course, there could be a mix, and this is all speculation. There are 10 lands total, each with full vertical art, and each seeming to represent two colors based on the art alone. These could be simple gainlands like Rugged Highland again, or a full cycle of rare duals.

One art I would be surprised to see on a basic land is Swanland’s jagged, dark landscape of sharp rocks struck through with gold. It’s foreboding enough be a Swamp but the black-and-gold color scheme screams Orzhov () land to me. Similarly, Sam Burley's purple moon could very well be a Swamp, but fits a Dimir motif perfectly.

I could buy Engel’s twisted vistage of pillars of rock struck through with shadows as a Rakdos () land marked by the bat’leth, but it could also just be a shadowy Mountain. Of all the arts above, this feels most like a basic land, though it has a destinctly Rakdos color pallete.

Romanovsky’s land strikes me as Golgari (). I could buy a Forest with the verdant, colorful life growing everywhere, mostly above the ground in sweeping trees, but the skeletal remains and the phaser offer a stark contrast of death that tracks with what you expect when green and black meet.

Poole’s land could be an Island but I could also accept a blue-green land; flora and fauna are as prevalent as the water. Also, the overgrown ship and the crumbling pillars above that have been overgrown by plant life, as though reclaimed by nature, is a motif I associate with green lands.

If these are basic land arts, I would expect them to be on full-art lands. These could even be part of a promotional product, like the pizza lands including in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Bundle—except infinitely more stylish.

What Nonbasic Land Cycle Could Star Trek Have?

Horizon Explorer | Illustration by Filip Burburan

Let’s say these are meant to be duals; which lands could come in Star Trek?

The most exciting are, almost always, shock lands and fetch lands. Shock lands seem awfully unlikely as those have very recently been printed into Standard. Their presence there makes it highly unlikely these would represent fetch lands as Wizards has previously stated they don’t want fetch lands and fetchable lands in Standard (though they said the same thing about Universes Beyond). Those are also too high-caliber for reprints in precons. I wouldn’t bet on shocks or fetches unless today’s stream announces a bonus sheet or box toppers or other promo.

If these were to reprint a land cycle into Standard, I'd bet on something a little bit safer. We could see a redux of the check lands like Glacial Fortress, but that might be too much basic-matters with the Verges in Standard. If Wizards wants to compliment the Verges, we could see the cycling lands return, though I don't know how much play those would see with surveil lands occupying tapped land slots. My guess is either cycling lands or tango lands as reprints, though the most likely scenario is a wholly new cycle of lands or Star Trek themed gain lands.

I'd also be remiss to not acknowledge the possibility of something more than basics or duals lands. It's pretty much a given that Star Trek will include spacecraft, so these could be the art for a new cycle of planets. While the art is much more intimate than that on Edge of Eternities‘ planets, that could be a choice to show the teleporter technology that allows Starfleet to scout new planets.

Whether these lands end up being basics or part of a new dual land cycle, I think the art’s pretty good. Anything would be better than a redux of New York again. If Wizards delivers more art like this, Star Trek could be a lovely set.