Last updated on July 15, 2026
Picard, Steadfast Captain | Illustration by Mark Spears
Our first transmission about Star Trek hit yesterday, when WeeklyMTG previewed 16 new cards, reprints of all ten shock lands, and a bunch of alternate arts. Perhaps more interesting, they also previewed the art, names, and themes of the four Commander precons: Federation Fleet, Klingon Fury, Landing Party, and We are the Borg. While we don’t know what the commanders do, the themes are enough for speculation.
Federation Fleet
Federation Fleet is a Jeskai () deck with Jean-Luc Picard as the face commander. It promises to “seek out card draw” and “charge your spaceships.” The return of spacecraft was expected, so it isn’t particularly surprising to see them featured in a precon. It’s even the same colors as the previous spacecraft precon, Counter Intelligence.
It’s hard to imagine that the deck wouldn’t draw on similar synergies as Counter Intelligence, namely proliferate. I wouldn’t expect proliferate cards with Phyrexian flavor to get reprinted, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see cards like Contentious Plan and Expansion Algorithm. This would be a good place to print spacecraft payoffs, which are virtually nonexistent in Magic—there’s Drill Too Deep and the upcoming Captain Kirk, Boldly Going, and… that’s it.
As for Picard, I’m guessing it’s a cheap creature to play early that combines card draw and spacecraft. It might enter and dig for a spacecraft, or draw a card when you station a spacecraft for the first time each turn. I expect a more direct spacecraft commander than Kilo, Apogee Mind.
- THE SHIP IS YOURS, CAPTAIN—Outwit and outmaneuver your friends in Star Trek’s final frontier with Commander, Magic’s most popular multiplayer format
- MAKE IT SO—Bring the formidable Federation to the field with Jean-Luc Picard. Strengthen your crew and charge your starships, making a compelling case for your ultimate victory
- 33 NEW COMMANDER CARDS—Each ready-to-play deck includes 33 Star Trek-themed Commander cards entirely new to Magic: The Gathering
- FOIL BORDERLESS COMMANDER—Command your deck in style with 1 Mythic Rare Legendary card featuring Borderless art and a shiny Traditional Foil treatment
- EPIC MULTIPLAYER GAMES—Best with 3–5 players, Commander is an action-packed, free-for-all battle full of strategic plays and social intrigue
Klingon Fury
Klingon Fury is a Mardu () deck lead by Worf that promises to be aggressive and “hit the whole battlefield.” The product description mentions that “the more enemies you attack at once, the stronger your Warriors will become.” The capitalization of Warrior makes me suspect typal synergies while attacking the entire table brings melee to mind.
Melee is a mechanic from Conspiracy: Take the Crown that makes your creatures larger when you attack multiple opponents, as seen on Adriana, Captain of the Guard. It’s hard to see the description implying another mechanic, unless Wizards prints something melee-adjacent. Since combat matters, expect attack triggers and extra combats—the Klingon Civil War sounds like a perfect excuse to reprint World at War. While Magic has some warrior synergies, I wonder if cards like Mindblade Render or Seasoned Dungeoneer can make the flavor jump to Star Trek.
I expect Worf to double down on melee or any adjacent mechanic Wizards uses. That could be by supplying extra combats or doubling melee triggers, though I wonder if that isn’t too vanilla for a modern precon commander. Perhaps it could come with a bonus for dealing combat damage to all your opponents at once?
- FIND HONOR IN COMBAT—Outwit and outmaneuver your friends in Star Trek’s final frontier with Commander, Magic’s most popular multiplayer format
- GLORY TO THE EMPIRE—Work with Worf to display the bravery and ferocity of the Klingons while you take simultaneous swings at the entire table. The more enemies you attack at once, the stronger your Warriors will become
- 33 NEW COMMANDER CARDS—Each ready-to-play deck includes 33 Star Trek-themed Commander cards entirely new to Magic: The Gathering
- FOIL BORDERLESS COMMANDER—Command your deck in style with 1 Mythic Rare Legendary card featuring Borderless art and a shiny Traditional Foil treatment
- EPIC MULTIPLAYER GAMES—Best with 3–5 players, Commander is an action-packed, free-for-all battle full of strategic plays and social intrigue
Landing Party
Landing Party is the latest iteration of Bant () goodstuff, with Commander Spock leading a deck themed around landfall and controlling lands with different names, per the Amazon product description.
Interestingly, lands with different names was also a synergy in Edge of Eternities, albeit a sparse one. At the very least, expect a Survey Mechan reprint, maybe Realms Uncharted. Field of the Dead is easily the most famous card with this text, though I doubt Wizards would reprint it in a precon. As for landfall synergies, some of the stronger landfall cards like Aesi, Tyrant of Gyre Strait and Bristly Bill, Spine Sower almost certainly won’t get reprinted in the Universes Beyond set without a reskin, but we could see more generic cards like Scute Swarm.
There are so many paths Wizards could take Spock that I’m unsure of where to start. Could it be a payoff for landfall or collecting diverse lands, or an enabler? Probably both since Wizards doesn’t print build-arounds like they used to. Adding explore could be a nice touch—maybe Spock makes a creature explore for each differently-named land you control?
- DISCOVER STRANGE NEW WORLDS—Outwit and outmaneuver your friends in Star Trek’s final frontier with Commander, Magic’s most popular multiplayer format
- A MOST FASCINATING DISCOVERY—Beam down with a landing party led by Commander Spock and gather bonuses for having a variety of differently named lands. Give even more power to your mana engine with landfall effects—it’s only logical
- 33 NEW COMMANDER CARDS—Each ready-to-play deck includes 33 Star Trek-themed Commander cards entirely new to Magic: The Gathering
- FOIL BORDERLESS COMMANDER—Command your deck in style with 1 Mythic Rare Legendary card featuring Borderless art and a shiny Traditional Foil treatment
- EPIC MULTIPLAYER GAMES—Best with 3–5 players, Commander is an action-packed, free-for-all battle full of strategic plays and social intrigue
We are the Borg
The final deck, We are the Borg, features the Borg Queen at the helm of an Esper () deck all about assimilating your opponents and creating Borg tokens. There’s much to like here, and I appreciate Wizards making the villains of the UB set a color combination other than Grixis () for once.
Previews for the Welcome Decks gave us a peek at assimilation in Magic:
That’s a pretty strong ability already and this is a Welcome Deck card, so it’s probably weaker than anything in the precon. The other borg spoiled also shows off the themes Gavin Verhey spoke of: The Borg will function like artifact creature slivers, giving artifact creatures abilities as seen on Bio-Asset Allocator. Reprints are tricky; cards like Cyberdrive Awakener make sense but it’s unclear how many of the 33 unique cards in the deck will be borg. At the very least, I expect Organic Extinction, maybe Their Name Is Death.
I’m sure the Borg Queen does a little of everything: give you an assimilate payoffs, make some tokens (make a borg token when you assimilate a creature seems like an easy guess) and make them stronger. It might even be a source of assimilation itself.
- ASSIMILATE YOUR ENEMIES—Outwit and outmaneuver your friends in Star Trek’s final frontier with Commander, Magic’s most popular multiplayer format
- RESISTANCE IS FUTILE—Add your mind to the Borg Queen’s Collective and deploy waves of Borg tokens in your conquest of the universe. Even if your own forces fall, assimilate your enemies to add their strength to the Borg
- 33 NEW COMMANDER CARDS—Each ready-to-play deck includes 33 Star Trek-themed Commander cards entirely new to Magic: The Gathering
- FOIL BORDERLESS COMMANDER—Command your deck in style with 1 Mythic Rare Legendary card featuring Borderless art and a shiny Traditional Foil treatment
- EPIC MULTIPLAYER GAMES—Best with 3–5 players, Commander is an action-packed, free-for-all battle full of strategic plays and social intrigue
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