Where to Play Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek™
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Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek™ is nearly here, with Prerelease events in November, Magic Spotlight: Star Trek events in January, and many more intergalactic excursions planned for this exciting release. Traverse the great expanse of space and enlist the aid of friends for any number of our stellar play expeditions below.
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All great voyages have to start somewhere. And for a Magic release, that means plenty of ways to play and enjoy the set. Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek releases on November 13, 2026, and is available for preorder now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold.
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(November 6–12, 2026)
Prerelease Pack
Your voyage begins at Prerelease, one of the best ways to explore the mechanics and gameplay of a new set, and a rewarding way to see characters, locations, and more from over 60 years of Star Trek history.
You'll create a 40-card sealed deck out of the contents of a Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Each Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Prerelease Pack contains the following:
- 6 Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters
- 1 Traditional foil promo card
- 1 Deck box
- 1 Spindown die
Also, you can arrive for this expedition extra-prepared by preordering other products from your local game store. Prereleases are a great time to pick those up at participating WPN retail locations, who will be selling the full product lineup!
Magic Academy
(November 13, 2026–January 28, 2027)
Looking to boldly gather for your first time playing Magic? Start out at the academy, or in this case, Magic Academy.
There are two types of Magic Academy events. Learn to Play events are for players who are just starting to play Magic. Deck Building events teach players to construct a deck of out of six Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters. You'll watch a short tutorial video at the start of the event then build a deck of your own from the contents of your Play Boosters. Each event type is perfect for any beginning ensign!
Please note that Welcome Decks for Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek are not available in all regions and that WPN stores in regions that are receiving Welcome Decks will not receive them until 2027. For specific details about what materials are available at a Magic Academy nearest you, please contact your local game store.
Two-Headed Giant Commander Night
(November 13, 2026–January 28, 2027)
Venture forth into strange new worlds with a friend and see what you can both uncover as you explore the frontiers of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek at Two-Headed Giant Commander Night!
These events feature Two-Headed Giant Commander, a variant of Commander that puts cooperation among your crew at the forefront. Register with your chosen teammate or get paired with someone new. Either way, you'll experience the adventure with the help of a comrade.
Naturally, receiving new promo cards for participating is the highly logical expectation, and Commander events such as this one and Commander Party for the release of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek will not disappoint. WPN stores will have two extended-art promo cards up for grabs: Highly Illogical with art by Patricia Pria and Munitions Enthusiast with art by Remi Tacouot.
Non-foil copies will be available at most WPN retailers, while traditional foil copies will be available at WPN Premium locations. For more information on these events, including the distribution method for these promo cards, contact your local game store for all the details.
Standard Showdown
(November 13, 2026–January 28, 2027)
Ready to test your space-faring skills and pilot your deck to victory? Standard Showdowns for Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek offer exciting new promo cards—yes, plural—that top Standard players will receive by competing at a local store.
For this release, players who do well at their local store can grab up to two extended-art promo cards: Burst Lightning with art Néstor Ossandón Leal and Deep Space Scan with art by Leon Tukker.
As two promo cards are available for this release, each store may run their Standard Showdown a little differently in terms of what is available to top finishers for each event. Be sure to contact your local game store for more information on their Standard Showdown events.
Magic Presents: To Boldly Go
(November 13, 2026–January 28, 2027)
Get ready to boldly go toward a vast universe of strategy with Magic Presents: To Boldly Go, a spin on a Sealed Deck league inspired by the Star Trek franchise.
In Magic Presents: To Boldly Go, players will start out at Starfleet Academy, where you will build a 40-card deck from six Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters and match up against three fellow cadets before graduating Starfleet Academy and venturing forth into the quadrants of outer space.
This league runs Sealed Deck over multiple weeks, and in each new week, you select one of the four quadrants—Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta—and play three matches in that quadrant. During each week, you may add one Play Booster to your pool, giving your 40-card deck more options to choose from as you explore the vastness of space.
As long as you have played three matches in each quadrant, win or lose, you still discover strange new worlds and experience strange new strategies from your opponents.
After a player has explored all of the quadrants, regardless of record, they will receive a Solemn Simulacrum extended-art promo card with art by Randy Gallegos.
This is a play event that truly goes beyond the evening, allowing you and others to explore the concepts and mechanics of a release that celebrates Star Trek history. Contact your local WPN game store for more info on a league nearest to you.
Commander Party
(November 20–26, 2026, and January 15–21, 2027)
Explore new worlds and see what discoveries await you in your next Commander game as part of this round of Commander Party events!
In Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek's spin on Commander Party, players will engage in a regular game of Commander with an out-of-this-world twist. During each player's turn, they can tap a legendary creature they control to send an away team on a mission. A mission card is turned over from the mission deck, and that creature becomes a mission specialist, with each mission having a first ability that triggers once it becomes active. While each mission is active, players gain that mission's effects. This lasts until another player sends an away team and moves on to another mission.
And just in case players have run out of eligible creatures to send on a mission, this game mode also allows you to recruit an away team leader if you don't already have one in play, with their legendary status allowing you to send them on away missions as needed!
What strange new worlds and inhabitants will you encounter? Discover for yourself in this stellar spin on the beloved Commander format.
Players who participate in a Commander Party event will receive either a Munitions Enthusiast or Highly Illogical promo card. For exact distribution and more precise details on your local Commander Party events, reach out to your local WPN retail location for more info.
MagicCon: Atlanta Featuring World Championship 32
(November 13–15, 2026)
Celebrate the release of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek at one of Magic's biggest traveling celebrations: MagicCon!
MagicCon is coming to Atlanta, Georgia! While tickets to the event are sold out, we're excited to be hosting tens of thousands of Magic fans for the release weekend of the latest set as players at the event explore Limited with Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters in scheduled events, experience the new themes and strategies from the Commander decks, and take part in all other things Magic, all weekend long.
MagicCon: Atlanta will also play host to Magic: The Gathering World Championship 32, where a little over a hundred of the world's best Magic players will compete over three days for their share of a $1,000,000 prize pool! The field was decided at MagicCon: Amsterdam earlier this year, and you can tune in for all three days of coverage on both Twitch and YouTube as players compete in Standard Constructed and Booster Draft featuring Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters.
Players competing in this event will receive the Pro Tour promo card for this year in non-foil—Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student // Tamiyo, Seasoned Scholar—capping off the Pro Tour season as we head toward 2027, with the Top 32 competitors receiving a traditional foil copy as well!
Additionally, all participants in Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek events* run at MagicCon: Atlanta, including World Championship competitors, will receive a non-foil, extended-art Encounter the Unknown promo card, with art by Joan Piqué Llorens, while supplies last. For Starfleet Academy League, participating guests will receive a traditional foil version for enlisting and climbing the ranks! Check the MagicCon: Atlanta Ticketed Play schedule to see which events you can sign up for.
*This participation promo card does not extend to PTQs and LTQs.
PAX Unplugged
(December 4-6, 2026)
Fans attending PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will also have an opportunity to pick up the Encounter the Unknown promo card. Select Magic side events will earn players the Encounter the Unknown promo card simply for participating!
If you're attending PAX Unplugged, check out the Pastimes Events website to learn more about Magic play events taking place all weekend.
CommandFests in Melbourne, Alexandria, and Marl
(December 2026)
Three CommandFest events—gatherings that celebrate all things related to Commander play—will close out 2026 following the release of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek.
Events will take place on the following weekends and in the following locations:
- December 4–6, 2026, in Melbourne, Australia—presented by Let's Play Games
- December 11–13, 2026, in Alexandria, Virginia—presented by eSports Admin
- December 12–14, 2026, in Marl, Germany—presented by JK Entertainment
These events will also feature promo cards themed after Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek!
Attendees of CommandFests in December who go to an event via a single-day pass and attendees of CommandFests held at Magic Spotlight: Star Trek events in January via any day or weekend passes will receive one non-foil copy of Nyota Uhura, Communications with art by Wei Guan. Attendees of CommandFests in December with weekend passes will also receive a traditional foil copy!
Eternal Weekend Europe and Asia
(November 28–29 in Japan and December 3–5 in Italy)
The final two Eternal Weekend events take place over the course of the first week of December, with the Vintage and Legacy Championship events taking place in Europe and Asia.
- November 28–29, in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan—hosted by Hareruya
- December 3–6, 2026, in Lucca, Italy—hosted by 4Seasons
Each Eternal Weekend event will host a Legacy Championship and Vintage Championship. The Top 32 players of each Legacy Championship will receive a non-foil retro frame Life from the Loam promo card with art by Hristo D. Chukov, while the Top 32 players of each Vintage Championship will receive a non-foil retro frame Treasure Cruise promo card with art by Ralph Horsley. The Top 8 players of each of these events will also receive traditional foil versions of their respective promo cards.
Please note that the new-to-Magic cards from Mystery Booster Commander Edition will not be legal in Legacy and Vintage until January 1, 2027. For more information on these cards, see this article.
Aside from the Legacy and Vintage Championships, each Eternal Weekend will also feature side events, artist signings, and other activities for fans to participate in. Full details for each event can be found at the Hareruya and 4Seasons event pages.
Magic Spotlight: Star Trek
(January 8–10, 2027, in Minneapolis and Lille)
The first two Magic Spotlight Series stops of 2027 will feature strange new worlds, or at least a strange new Limited format, as the two-day open main event at both stops will feature Sealed Deck on Day One and Booster Draft on Day Two using Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Play Boosters.
The full details for these events were announced last week, and you can read the full article for details about what players can do at both Magic Spotlight Series stops.
Regional Championship Qualifiers
(December 11, 2026–March 7, 2027)
The next round of Regional Championship Qualifiers (RCQs) will commence on December 11, 2026. WPN stores who opt in to an RCQ may run them as either Standard Constructed or Limited.
Players get a borderless, non-foil Strategic Betrayal promo card for participating, while top finishers will earn a borderless, non-foil Archenemy's Charm promo card.
For the full details on Regional Championship Qualifiers and what this round has in store for competitors, please refer to the following article.
Explore the Vastness of Space Through Play
With so many destinations and directions for all sorts of Magic fans, events following the Prerelease of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek have plenty to offer players at all levels, from ensign to fleet admiral.
Prepare for your next mission: the release of Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek on November 13, 2026, with preorders available now from your local game store, TCGplayer, Amazon, and elsewhere Magic is sold.