After a 12 months that featured alternate realities, ninja turtles, superheroes, and hobbits, the ultimate Magic: The Gathering growth of 2026 goes the place no Universes Past set has gone earlier than, as Star Trek is scheduled to launch in November.
At present, Wizards of the Coast revealed the mechanics gamers can anticipate within the set, together with dozens of recent playing cards from each the primary set and the preconstructed Commander decks. We additionally bought a glimpse at among the set’s particular remedies, together with the seven playing cards that may come signed by the individuals depicted on the art work.
This is the whole lot revealed throughout in the present day’s Magic: The Gathering Star Trek debut.
The mechanics of MTG Star Trek
Seven new mechanics–two of them discovered solely within the Commander cards–highlight the set, together with a eighth mechanic getting back from 2024’s Fringe of Eternities.
First is Beam Me Up, which lets you solid sure spells out of your graveyard by returning a creature you management to its proprietor’s hand and paying a separate value. The instance card offered is Open Communications, which usually prices a single blue mana, however you may solid it once more out of your graveyard by returning a creature to its proprietor’s hand and paying two generic and one blue mana.
Subsequent is Face A Dilemma, which provides a further wrinkle to a mechanic Magic followers are very accustomed to. Mainly, any time it’s important to select a mode in a spell, you might be “dealing with a dilemma,” and there are playing cards in Star Trek that may give additional advantages merely since you made a alternative. Seven of 9, for instance, allows you to draw a card any time you may have to choose on a modal spell.
Star Trek additionally introduces new modal spells, just like the enchantment Kobayashi Maru State of affairs. Each flip after casting this card, you need to select one of many 4 results listed on the cardboard, and you may’t select the identical one twice–which means if you cannot take away the enchantment after 4 turns, it is recreation over.
The following mechanic is Federation, which cares concerning the variety of creature sorts amongst creatures you management that are not the Borg (which is smart, as a result of the Federation and the Borg are like oil and water).
With Captain Jonathan Archer, by paying one inexperienced mana and tapping Archer, you may give one other creature +X/+X till finish of flip. As Archer is a Human Officer, and he creates a Canine token, that is at minimal +3/+3 on the primary activation.
Starfleet Academy, in the meantime, lets you pay 5 generic mana, faucet it, and select a colour so as to add one mana of that colour for each creature kind amongst creatures you management. If in case you have a large board of assorted tokens, that may very well be a large mana supply.
Unusual New Worlds is the subsequent new mechanic, which cares concerning the lands you management. The extra lands with completely different names you may have on the board, the simpler these playing cards will likely be.
Deep Area Scan, for instance, will allow you to draw a card for every in a different way named land in your aspect of the desk. Should you’re taking part in a three-color deck, and you’ve got an Island, a Mountain, and a Forest on the board, that is three playing cards coming to your hand.
Captain Pike, Fullness of Time, in the meantime, has his energy and toughness decided by the variety of in a different way named lands you management. Should you’re the kind of one who likes to play completely different non-basic lands in your Commander deck, casting Captain Pike late within the recreation might end in a large creature on the spot.
To this point, we have targeted on the nice man mechanics, now here is one for the baddies. Assimilate lets you take any creature from a sure zone and add it to your battlefield, although it is going to grow to be a Borg artifact creature as a substitute of its different sorts.
Borg Dice allows you to exile any creature on the board when it enters, after which when it assaults for the primary time, you may add that exiled creature to your board as a Borg. Then, for each subsequent assault, you may repeat the method.
Borg Dice additionally exhibits off the key returning mechanic, Fringe of Eternities’ Spacecraft and Station mechanic. A number of iconic spaceships from Star Trek’s historical past seem on playing cards within the set, and so they all have the Station mechanic, which permits a participant to faucet a creature as a way to add cost counters to the Spacecraft equal to that creature’s energy. As soon as sufficient cost counters are added, the Spacecraft turns into an artifact creature and beneficial properties additional skills.
For instance, when three cost counters are added to D-7 Battle Cruiser, it is going to create a 2/1 Klingon Warrior creature token initially of fight in your flip. When eight or extra counters are added to it, it turns into a 3/3 flying creature.
The ultimate two mechanics are unique to the Commander format, and solely discovered on playing cards within the preconstructed commander decks. The primary is Battlefront, which grants further perks primarily based on what number of opponents you assault throughout a fight section.
Worf, Defiant Commander is the face card of the Klingon Fury precon deck, and his Battlefront capability allows you to exile quite a lot of playing cards from the highest of your library equal to the variety of opponents you attacked. Till your subsequent flip, you may play these playing cards as in the event that they have been in your hand.
Now, this capability solely cares about gamers you actively assault. Skills like myriad, which add tokens to the board already attacking, is not going to depend towards a Battlefront capability, so select correctly.
Search Out is the opposite Commander-only mechanic, and it provides an added perk everytime you draw your second card in a flip, even when the everlasting with the flexibility wasn’t on the sector whenever you drew your first card. Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary is the instance card, as he provides a +1/+1 counter to a creature and two cost counters to a Spacecraft each time you draw your second card in a flip.
Booster Enjoyable remedies
The Star Trek set will characteristic many themed remedies throughout its suite of merchandise, and all of these have been proven off throughout the stream as properly.
First up are the seven Headliner Signature playing cards, which characteristic seven outstanding faces from throughout Star Trek’s historical past. Every of those playing cards will include the genuine signature of the actor who portrayed the character; which suggests you can pull a Levar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, or William Shatner autograph out of a Collector Booster pack, amongst others.
First up are the seven Headliner Signature playing cards, which characteristic seven outstanding faces from throughout Star Trek’s historical past. Every of those playing cards will include the genuine signature of the actor who portrayed the character; which suggests you can pull a Levar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, or William Shatner autograph out of a Collector Booster pack, amongst others.
Subsequent is the LCARS Showcase therapy, designed to appear to be an entry from the united statesS. Enterprise’s Library Pc Entry and Retrieval System, or LCARS. Q, Stacking The Deck, Resistance Is Futile, and Seven of 9, Unassimilated have been among the many playing cards proven off within the LCARS body.
Subsequent is the LCARS Showcase therapy, designed to appear to be an entry from the united statesS. Enterprise’s Library Pc Entry and Retrieval System, or LCARS. Q, Stacking The Deck, Resistance Is Futile, and Seven of 9, Unassimilated have been among the many playing cards proven off within the LCARS body.
The Traditional Enterprise body is subsequent up, with frames designed to invoke the basic posters from Star Trek’s distant previous. Captain James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, Communications, and Mr. Spock, Science Officer are among the many acquainted faces featured in these frames.
The Traditional Enterprise body is subsequent up, with frames designed to invoke the basic posters from Star Trek’s distant previous. Captain James T. Kirk, Nyota Uhura, Communications, and Mr. Spock, Science Officer are among the many acquainted faces featured in these frames.
The warrior race of the cosmos can even obtain its personal particular therapy with the Klingon Showcase frames. Every Klingon Showcase card also can seem written in Klingon, so it could be time to brush up on the long-lasting language.
The warrior race of the cosmos can even obtain its personal particular therapy with the Klingon Showcase frames. Every Klingon Showcase card also can seem written in Klingon, so it could be time to brush up on the long-lasting language.
The restricted Beam Me Up Bundle will characteristic the Spacecraft of the Star Trek set in particular Schematic framing. Every bundle will embody two of a doable eight Schematic body playing cards.
The restricted Beam Me Up Bundle will characteristic the Spacecraft of the Star Trek set in particular Schematic framing. Every bundle will embody two of a doable eight Schematic body playing cards.
Lastly, the Stardates bonus sheet will characteristic highly effective playing cards from Magic’s previous re-imagined throughout the lens of the Star Trek universe. 4 Stardates playing cards have been revealed throughout the livestream, together with the next:
- Normal Picard, Earth Warlord as Kenrith, The Returned King
- Leonard McCoy, Nation Physician as Bristly Invoice, Backbone Sower
- Spock, Mirror Malefactor as Prosper, Tome-Certain
- Academy on the Bay as Minamo, Faculty at Water’s Edge
Magic: The Gathering’s Star Trek growth launches November 13 in native recreation shops and big-box retailers. Prerelease occasions at native recreation shops are set to start one week prior, on November 6.
