As we speak, Magic: The Gathering is giving us our first giant have a look at Magic: The Gathering Star Trek, a brand new set that seeks to mix two main franchises. With playing cards referencing key characters and moments from throughout Star Trek’s historical past, this set goes to be an extremely standard one for brand new and previous Star Trek followers alike. Alongside the reveals, an MTG Weekly video was additionally dropped with Gavin Verhey, Lead Designer for Magic The Gathering Star Trek, and Tom Jenkot, Principal Artwork Director.
Verhey revealed that this set, like many others of the massive crossovers, has been within the works for years “however in a method I have been engaged on it for a really very long time as a result of I fell in love with Star Trek after I was about six or seven years previous.” Verhey shared a reminiscence of watching Star Trek together with his father, and talked about The Interior Gentle as his favourite episode.
Jenkot additionally talked about being an Unique Collection man. “I am tremendous excited to have labored on the collectibility plan and particular remedies […], and I’ll have performed an excessive amount of.”
Captains Kirk And Janeway In Magic: The Gathering
The primary playing cards to be proven off have been the playing cards for Captain James T. Kirk and Captain Kathryn Janeway. Kirk lets you be doing one thing each flip, making choices for the crew, however when you haven’t any playing cards in your hand he can do extra. This was created as a approach to construct a story about what Kirk is ready to do when his again is up towards the wall…
Captain James T. Kirk (Crimson – 2/2)
Legendary Creature – Human Officer
Every time Captain Kirk enters or assaults, select one. When you have no playing cards in hand, select a number of as an alternative.
– Discard a card, then draw a card.
– DCreate a 1/1 crimson Officer creature token.
Creatures you management get +1/+0 till finish of flip.
Janeway leans into discoverability by permitting you to play extra lands, and still have creatures discover. The discover mechanic enables you to reveal the highest card of your library and put it into your hand if it is a land. If not then you definitely put a +1/+1 counter on the creature that explored, after which put the cardboard again onto the highest of your deck or into your graveyard.
Captain Kathryn Janeway (Inexperienced – 2/3)
Legendary Creature – Human Officer
It’s possible you’ll play a further land on every of your turns.
Every time Captain Janeway or one other creature you management enters, that creature explores.
Every of those playing cards include a novel artwork therapy. For Kirk it is the Basic Enterprise Playing cards, an artwork therapy that’s impressed by basic sci-fi paintings. Janeway has a LCARS body impressed by the Voyager LCARS consumer interface. Officer can be a brand new Creature kind for the set.
For the primary time in MTG historical past there can be playing cards with signatures from actors who performed the characters. These playing cards haven’t got impact textual content on them however as an alternative of recent silver field with a spot to be signed. Jenkot joked that Shatner “was an absolute professional” at signing the playing cards, within the sport and the way followers would be capable of get their fingers on the playing cards.
Whereas two Autograph Playing cards have been revealed immediately it was additionally teased that there could be 5 extra autograph playing cards, that being stated… they will not all be captains. Whereas Verhey and Jenkot teased gamers that they need to guess who the remaining 5 may very well be the added trace was that clearly the actors needed to be alive in order that they may signal the playing cards. My guess could be LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge.
There can be just a little over 200 of every of the Autograph Playing cards, so ~1,400+ in whole.
Magic: The Gathering Star Trek Mechanics
Returning mechanics for Magic: The Gathering Star Trek is popping Spacecraft like the united statesS Enterprise right into a Station. To create conditions the place the gamers will make choices, equally to the choices that Begin Trek characters must make within the present, there are playing cards that can drive gamers to make choices like “Set Phasers to…” the place you’ll be able to both Stun or Kill a creature.
Within the paintings you may see all through the Magic: The Gathering Star Trek merchandise you may get to see references to each technology, main moments, in addition to some sillier occasions aboard the Enterprise.
All through the Weekly MTG video, Verhey and Jenkot took us by way of quite a lot of Sagas, playing cards from exterior the unique Star Trek, and lots of, many extra acquainted moments from the historical past of Star Trek to rejoice its sixtieth Anniversary.
Magic: the Gathering Star Trek will launch on November twentieth, 2026, with a pre-release on November thirteenth, 2026.
