Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/star-trek-commander-decklists

Deck
1 The Borg Queen
1 Locutus of Borg
1 Borg Incursion
1 Emergency Regeneration
1 Join the Collective
1 Korok, Liberated Rage
1 Maturation Chamber
1 Stratagem Emulator
1 Supplementation Node
1 Type-03 Borg Vessel
1 Ambulatory Reactor
1 Borg Scout Sphere
1 Co-Option Adjutant
1 Gift of Perfection
1 Optimization Annex
1 Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct
1 Transwarp Hub
1 Võx, Child of the Collective
1 Assimilate the Wounded
1 Assimilation Assessor
1 Battle of Wolf 359
1 Extraction Integrant
1 Reclamation Specialist
1 The Best of Both Worlds
1 Collective Override
1 Deliver from Chaos
1 Hugh, First of Many
1 Jurati, Cordial Queen
1 One, Borg Evolved
1 Class-4 Tactical Cube
1 Queen’s Diamond
1 Reconnaissance Partition
1 Shore Leave Planet
1 Tempered Steel
1 Disallow
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Anguished Unmaking
1 Astral Cornucopia
1 Darksteel Plate
1 Door of Destinies
1 Forsaken Monument
1 The Immortal Sun
1 Skullclamp
1 Unwinding Clock
1 Academy Ruins
1 Choked Estuary
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Eclipsed Steppe
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Fetid Pools
1 Glacial Fortress
1 Irrigated Farmland
1 Isolated Chapel
1 Morphic Pool
1 Port Town
1 Prairie Stream
1 Shineshadow Snarl
1 Skycloud Expanse
1 Spire of Industry
1 Sunken Hollow
1 Umbral Expanse
1 Underground River
1 Command Subadjunct
1 Conquest Mission
1 Hive Mind Coprocessor
1 Locutus, the One Who Speaks
1 Dispatch
1 Return to Dust
1 Thirst for Knowledge
1 Thoughtcast
1 Bitter Triumph
1 Arcane Signet
1 Commander’s Sphere
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Sol Ring
1 Stonespeaker Crystal
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Talisman of Hierarchy
1 Talisman of Progress
1 Wayfarer’s Bauble
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Command Tower
1 Contaminated Landscape
1 Evolving Wilds
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Rogue’s Passage
1 Terramorphic Expanse
4 Plains
4 Island
4 Swamp

reminiscent of Mishra’s Research Desk, Tasha Yar is quite the value proposition. Attack early and potentially trade with a 2 or less toughness creature for some impulse draw. It’s a great design space and very nice to see on a hasty creature. Being legendary can even be a downside by simply casting a second copy to impulse draw after the legendary state-based action resolves.

To top it off, you even get to use the effect again once she’s in your graveyard by getting a hasty post board whipe swing in and a future card. It’s very efficient design and one that’s sure to see lots of play in aggressive red decks.

Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/63678/magic-sales-over-600-million-q3

Magic: The Gathering sales exceeded $600 million in Q3, a new quarterly record, Hasbro announced in conjunction with its quarterly earnings report.  Sales of the brand were up 34% to $616.1 million from $459.4 million in the same quarter last year, behind The Hobbit, which is already the fourth bestselling Magic set in history despite a leaner SKU list, and Reality Fracture, which performed better than expected, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks explained in the conference call. The Hobbit prerelease was the biggest ever for a Universes Beyond release.

Magic sales were up across new releases, backlist and Secret Lairs, with backlist sales growing faster than new release sales, Cocks said.  He cited the backlist sales as evidence that the new customers being brought to the game through Universes Beyond sets were sticking around and buying older sets to fill out their play and collections.

Distribution continues to expand, with Magic now in nearly 40,000 doors via mass channels, and WPN stores up 38% to 13,000 worldwide.

Big Magic sales mean big profits; the Wizards of the Coast and Digital Gaming segment reported operating profit of $367 million, up 46% (or even more than sales) over $252 million in the year ago period.

Hasbro sales overall were up 15% to $1,595 million from $1,388 million  in Q3 2025.  Earnings grew to $395.0 million from $233.9 million a year ago.  The third quarter results built on a similarly strong showing in Q2 (see “Q2 Report”).

Magic sales will be down in Q4, management predicted, not only because of a weaker release schedule but also because early shipments of the October set, Reality Fracture, have pulled $40 million in sales expected in Q4 into Q3. Regardless, Hasbro raised sales and profit guidance for the full year.  No headwinds for the U.S. consumer are expected in the holiday season.

In 2027, a change in Magic product configurations will produce sales increases over the big year in 2026, Cocks said.  Each of the six “Tentpole” releases in 2026 will have a full product suite, including Commander Decks and all the collectible products associated with them, which was not the case for 2026.  Adding those SKUs can raise sales for the set by 50%, experience shows, according to Cocks.

Trading cards, which include TCGs and sports cards, are now the #1 category in toys and games, Cocks said in the call.  “And we see that as a generational structural shift and not just as kind of like a onetime thing,” he said.

Sure, it just creates one token in the beginning but it’s tap ability makes a token of any other token you control. Wether you are a commander token afficianado or a Simulacrum Synthesize Enthusiast in Standard and everything else in between, this card is sure to find a home. Being an artifact that costs two mana is always a great place to be for the next big broken Magic: the Gathering card 🙂

The global tabletop release date for Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek is November 13, 2026. [1]

Key Launch Dates

• Prerelease Events: November 6–12, 2026
• MTG Arena Release: November 10, 2026
• Global Tabletop Release: November 13, 2026
• Commander Parties (Round 1): November 20–26, 2026 [1, 2]

Source: https://mtgrocks.com/mtg-engineered-explosives/

Engineered Explosives

has long been a Modern staple with tons of applications. Thanks to its Sunburst ability, multi-color archetypes get access to a disruptive tool that scales over the course of the game. Of course, the more cards you can answer with this artifact, the further you’ll pull ahead on resources.

With this in mind, Explosives should be an incredible answer to go-wide decks in Standard. Obviously, this includes answering token armies generated by Sapling Nursery

out of Landfall or Simulacrum Synthesizer

out of Jeskai Artifacts. On top of that, though, decks that rely on a specific point in the curve get wrecked. Rakdos Lizards, for example, plays tons of two-drops to maximize Flamecache Gecko‘s mana production, and Explosives punishes them for overextending.

Notably, Explosives isn’t limited to just hitting creatures, which is a huge deal in the current Standard environment. Jund Sacrifice, one of the format’s best decks, leans on Obsessive Pursuit

to generate artifact sacrifice fodder and Biotech Specialist

to convert those Clues into damage, and Explosives kills both with one card. Similarly, Lifegain shells play a ton of one-drop Soul Sisters effects, including Case of the Uneaten Feast

, and Explosives cleans them all up.

These use cases make Explosives a very appealing sideboard card at minimum. Decks like Dimir Midrange and Dimir Reanimator that lack good answers to artifacts or enchantments should use this tool particularly well.

Interestingly, Explosives’ impact will likely be even higher in Pioneer, mainly because threats are more efficient. Both Izzet Prowess and Mono-Red Aggro play tons of one-drops like Monastery Swiftspear

and Soul-Scar Mage

that Explosives can sweep. Sacrifice decks are on the rise thanks to the printing of The Sackville-Bagginses

, too, so having clean answers to Witch’s Oven
is a priority.

Notably, this will also be the first time Explosives is legal in Arena-only formats, and boy does it looked poised to make a splash in Historic Affinity. This card joins Urza’s Bauble
as an elite zero-drop artifact that triggers Pinnacle Emissary

and reduces Kappa Cannoneer

‘s cost. You can also rebuy Explosives with Emry, Lurker of the Loch

for continuous disruption.

Affinity could also emerge as a new Standard deck thanks to this zero-drop. While you miss out on Cannoneer as a big finisher, Emissary and Ravenous Robots

can create a wide board state in a heartbeat. Weapons Manufacturing
also provides plenty of extra reach, and the fact that Explosives for X=0 can destroy and trigger all of your Munitions tokens on a whim is quite powerful. You also have Krang, Master Mind

as an extremely powerful Affinity payoff to build towards.

Of course, the card also includes Pinnacle Emissary and answers Manufacturing, so it could easily be a decent anti-Affinity sideboard card.

With MTG Star Trek’s Engineered Explosives reprint introducing the card to Standard, Pioneer, and MTG Arena as a whole, we may be seeing a lot of this card soon.

Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/63672/wizards-coast-unveils-new-details-magic-the-gathering-star-trek

Wizards of the Coast unveiled new details for Magic: The Gathering – Star Trek, a new Universes Beyond booster set, which will hit retail on November 13, 2026.

The new set explores 60 years of Star Trek with a variety of new and reprinted Magic cards. As noted before (see “Star Trek’ Booster Set“), the Headliner cards for this set are actor-autographed cards featuring various characters from Star Trek. The signed cards include Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Mr. Spock, Science Officer, Lietenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner), Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), Seven of Nine, Unassimilated (Jeri Ryan) and Lt. Cmdr. Georgi La Forge (Levar Burton).  Each of these cards are limited to a total of 250 copies to be found in Collector Boosters.

The set will also contain LCARS shock lands. These cards have a special frame that is a homage to the Enterprise’s on-board computer, and features artwork of iconic planets from Star Trek. There will also be borderless Stardates cards that are reprints of powerful cards from Magic’s history, including Kenrith, the Returned King; Bristly Bill, Spine Sower; Prosper, Tome-Bound and Minamo, School at Water’s Edge. There are a total of 30 Stardates cards to be found in both Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.

This set also contains classic Enterprise cards, which are a tribute to some of vintage Star Trek movie posters. There are 5 uncommon, 13 rare, and 6 mythic rare cards that come in this treatment, as non-foil and foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters and also as Surge foils in Collector Boosters. The set also has Klingon frame and Klingon script cards; Klingon frame cards appear in both Play and Collector Boosters, the Klingon script cards only appear in Collector Boosters. There is a common, 6 uncommons, and 3 rare Klingon frame cards in this set.

The Star Trek booster set also has various full-art basic lands. These lands come as a holodeck version and an away team version. There are also ship cards that feature schematic plan artwork in the Beam Me Up Bundles.

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Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/star-trek-commander-decklists

Picard, Spock, Worf, and the Borg Queen have arrived in Commander with the Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek™ Commander decks! Each deck spans the Star Trek franchise and features 32 new-to-Magic cards to engage even the most battle-hardened captains. There’s a card for your favorite character, your favorite episode, and your favorite starship. All you have to do is seek it out!

Each Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Commander deck includes the following:

• 1 Ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck
  • 1 Traditional foil face commander with borderless art
  • 99 Non-foil cards, including 32 new-to-Magic cards
• 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens
• 1 Reference card
• 1 Deck box

The pristine, shining aesthetic of the Federation’s starships has traversed the galaxy to be in your collection! Collector’s Edition Commander decks include the same ready-to-play Commander deck, but every card is in surge foil! Each Collector’s Edition Commander deck includes the following:

• 1 Ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck
  • 1 Surge foil face commander with borderless art
  • 99 Surge foil cards, including 32 new-to-Magic cards
• 10 Surge foil double-sided tokens
  • These tokens are surge foil on one side and non-foil on the other side.
• 1 Reference card
• 1 Deck box

You can find the decklists for each of the revealed Commander decks below and browse the complete set once it has been revealed in the Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Card Image Gallery.

• Federation Fleet (Blue-Red-White)
• Landing Party (Green-White-Blue)
• Klingon Fury (Red-White-Black)
• We Are the Borg (White-Blue-Black)

Bring along these Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Commander decks and spend your shore leave playing Magic with friends! Commander decks, Collector’s Edition Commander decks, and more release on November 13, 2026, and are available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold.

Federation Fleet

Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Commander decks, Collector’s Edition Commander decks, and more release on November 13, 2026, and are available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold.

Explore new cards, mechanics, and fantastic art featuring captains, starships, and adversaries from 60 years of Star Trek—now yours to command.

Source: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news

Star Trek card Gakkery: https://magic.wizards.com/en/products/star-trek/card-image-gallery

Wizards of the Coast announced Secret Lair Countdown Kit: Marvel’s History of Heroes, new drop set for Magic: The Gathering, which will be available for DTC preorder on November 2, 2026.

At NYCC, WotC revealed two new Secret Lair drops in addition to their Marvel: Darkhold Destiny announcement (see “‘Marvel: Darkhold Destiny’“). The first drop is Secret Lair Countdown Kit: Marvel’s History of Heroes; this is the first Secret Lair Countdown Kit released since the Encyclopedia of Magic (see “Delayed Twice“). This drop is a 30-card collection that celebrates iconic moments and heroes from Marvel’s storied comic book history. It features artwork from 30 different Marvel artists, and will retail for $199.99.

WotC also announced Secret Lair x Marvel: Doomsdrop, another drop set. This set will showcase predominantly Doctor Doom-themed cards. Additionally, WotC will give away an exclusive Doctor Doom card at Regal Cinemas to fans who see Avengers: Doomsday during the opening weekend (see “‘Avengers: Doomsday’“). 

Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/63618/wizards-coast-announces-three-magic-the-gathering-reality-fracture-secret-lair-bundle-bundles

Wizards of the Coast announced three Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle Bundles, for Magic: The Gathering.

The Reality Fracture set has already flipped the Magic Multiverse upside down, and now WotC is, per usual, going one step further. As part of the Reality Fracture release, WotC will release the Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle on October 23, 2026 (see “‘Magic: The Gathering – Reality Fracture’“). To celebrate this release, WotC has unveiled three Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle Bundles that will be available for DTC preorder through the ever unpredictable Chaos Vault (see “Experiences Technical Difficulties“).

These bundles contain two new Secret Lair drop sets: Strange School and Duality Distorted. The Strange School set highlights Japanese artists on black and white cards; these cards have a school manga theme. It comes with an Attrition; Bitter Ordeal; Ophiomancer; Sign in Blood and a Soul Spike (MSRP Non-Foil $29.99; MSRP Foil $39.99).

The Duality Distorted set features retro-framed cards with homage art to older Magic cards. It contains a Pyroblast by Mark Poole that is a homage to his original Counterspell art, a DiTerlizzi Thoughtseize that is a homage to his Brainstorm artwork, a Desperate Ritual by Sandra Everingham that is a homage to her original Dark Ritual art, and a Tribute to the World Tree by Phil Foglio that is a homage to Presence of the Master (MSRP Non-Foil $29.99; MSRP Foil $39.99).

The Bundles include an Everything Bundle for $234.99 (comes with all the foil/non-foil sets and a Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle); a Non-Foil Bundle for $159.98 (comes with all the non-foil sets and a Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle) and a foil Bundle for $179.98 (comes with all the foil sets and a Reality Fracture Secret Lair Bundle).