Magic the Gathering Star Trek Prerelease Events Begin Friday November 6th through Sunday November 8th!
MTG Star Trek products will be available to purchase beginning on Friday November 6th!
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 Legacy Comics and Cards. Prereleases are a great time to pick those up at participating WPN retail locations, who will be selling the full product lineup!
Captain’s log: October 20, 2026, reporting from the helm of DailyMTG. It’s time to boldly go into the final frontier with Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek™! The 60-year legacy of Star Trek is coming to Magic, bringing tales of directive-defying captains and eclectic exoplanets from across the decades. Nearly every incarnation of Star Trek, from The Original Series to the latest voyages into space, is here. Take your seat in the captain’s chair, chart a course for your local game store, and prepare for this set’s release on November 13, 2026.
The Magic team’s prime directive was to capture the most exciting parts of Star Trek in this set, and that includes the Booster Fun treatments and products. We have all the details on what you can find in this release here. If you’re just looking for the highlights, like the hand-signed headliner cards, here are the four most important things to know about collecting Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek.
The actors of Star Trek are synonymous with the franchise’s impact, and they’ve brought their gravitas and likenesses to Magic with these signed headliner cards. Each signed card was printed, physically signed by an iconic Star Trek actor, and randomly inserted into a Collector Booster. These signatures, which come paired with a portrait-style depiction of their character, are a genuine piece of Star Trek history, and you can bring them to your Magic collection.
There are 7 different signed cards in Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek. There are fewer than 250 copies of each signed card, and each features a signature from a Star Trek actor. For more information, check out this section.
Explore 10 different and strange new worlds with the 10 LCARS shock lands. Each LCARS shock land features a special frame that captures the Enterprise‘s on-board computer, and the artwork depicts one of the many unforgettable planets explored in Star Trek. Whether you’re navigating Standard with Steam Vents or charting a course through Legacy with Watery Grave, you’ll want to add these lands to your personal database.
Non-foil and traditional foil LCARS shock lands appear in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Surge foil versions of these cards appear only in Collector Boosters.
Some of Star Trek‘s most famous faces and stories are coming to Magic‘s hottest reprints in borderless Stardates cards. We took instantly recognizable cards from throughout Magic‘s history and reimagined them within Star Trek‘s universe. Take Kenrith, the Returned King, who is known here as “General Picard, Earth Warlord.”
Non-foil Stardates cards appear in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Traditional foil Stardates cards appear only in Collector Boosters.
4. Bring the Beam Me Up Bundle to the Bridge
U.S.S. Enterprise-A, Free Spirit
Treatments
Showcase | Schematics Card | Traditional FoilAvailable inBeam Me Up Bundle
Borg Cube
Treatments
Showcase | Schematics Card | Traditional FoilAvailable inBeam Me Up Bundle
Here’s an especially exciting piece of cargo: the Beam Me Up Bundle. Each Beam Me Up Bundle includes Play Boosters, a Collector Booster, and 2 of 8 traditional foil Beam Me Up Bundle promo cards. We took 8 of the most exciting Spacecraft cards from Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek and tricked them out with a new treatment that looks like a schematic from Starfleet’s records.
A war for the fate of the Multiverse is coming … and its battlefield is at Legacy Comics and Cards!
Reality Fracture tells the story of Jace Beleren, mind-mage, Planeswalker, and former ally to the Gatewatch, and his Echoverse full of warped versions of your favorite Magic characters. While the story of Reality Fracture has recently concluded (with more than a few surprises), you can become the hero or villain of your own tale at Reality Fracture Prerelease events, which kick off on September 25, 2026.
When you register for a Prerelease event, you’ll receive a Prerelease Pack, complete with a Jace-themed box. Each Reality Fracture Prerelease Pack contains the following:
6 Reality Fracture Play Boosters
1 Traditional foil promo card
1 Deck box
1 Spindown die
You’ll assemble a 40-card sealed deck using the contents of your Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Then you’ll play games against your fellow attendees’ sealed decks to find out who is the best in the Echoverse. But despite the multiversal stakes of the set’s story, these events are casual, laid-back gatherings for Magic players of all skill levels.
If you’re returning to Magic after a break, this is a great place to jump back in. You’ll see familiar and unfamiliar versions of cards and characters you recognize, experience an exciting Limited environment with echoed pairs, and meet fellow Magic players that are eager to play the game we all love.
And if you are brand new, welcome! Reality Fracture is a mind-boggling trip through the best of what Magic has to offer, so buckle up for two realities worth of action.
Reality Fracture Prerelease events begin on September 25, 2026.
Come in, come in! Take a seat at the table, join us for a bite, and prepare for your local game store’s Magic: The Gathering® | The Hobbit™ Prerelease events! Starting on August 7, you can journey into Middle-earth ahead of schedule and experience the wonder of Bilbo’s adventures in a new way. You will also be able to purchase the Hobbit sealed products a week ahead of the global release!
Prerelease events are approachable to new players and familiar to longtime fans, so bring your merriest party to the celebration.
Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Prerelease Pack
When you register for a Prerelease event, you’ll receive a Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Prerelease Pack. Each Prerelease Pack contains the following:
6 Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Play Boosters
1 Traditional foil promo card
1 Deck box
1 Spindown die
You’ll build a 40-card sealed deck from the contents of your Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Then, you’ll play friendly games of Magic against your fellow Prerelease attendees. This is the perfect place to try out new strategies, test out new mechanics, and play the cards you love with the people you cherish. It’s Magic with more cottagecore comforts than you can imagine!
Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit Prerelease events begin on August 7, 2026, a week before the set’s global release on August 14, 2026. Preorders are available now from Legacycomics.com.
Herald the arrival of Magic: The Gathering® | Marvel Super Heroes at our Prerelease events! Starting June 19, you can be among the first to play with Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes and put the power of the Marvel Universe in the palm of your hands. Your favorite Super Heroes, stories, and moments are arriving in Magic.
Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease Pack
When you purchase a Prerelease event ticket here Buy Prerelease Event Tickets, you’ll receive a Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease Pack. Each Prerelease Pack contains the following:
6 Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Play Boosters
1 Traditional foil promo card
1 Deck box
1 Spindown die
You’ll build a 40-card sealed deck from the contents of your Prerelease Pack and any number of basic lands. Then, you’ll play against your fellow attendees and their fresh decks. While the set may be full of Super Heroes, these events are super casual. You don’t need to be a Magic expert to join in the action. Don’t be afraid to ask for guidance from other players. A true Super Hero is always willing to lend a hand to those in need.
We’ve put together this guide to playing in your first Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease. By the end of the article, you’ll know how to build a deck and be ready to assemble alongside your fellow Prerelease attendees. It’s time to unite with your favorite Marvel characters for the collaboration of a lifetime!
Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease events begin on June 19, 2026, a week before the set’s global release on June 26, 2026. Preorders are available now at Preorder Magic the Gathering Marvel Super Heroes
Building Your Prerelease Deck
Your deck should include two of the five colors of Magic. This is because you likely won’t have enough cards to build a monocolor deck, and including three or more colors can make it hard to cast your spells. Start by opening your six Play Boosters and sorting your cards by color. Take note of the most exciting cards you open. These exciting cards should be the most powerful and threatening cards in your sealed pool. Magic players call these cards “threats,” and you should build your deck around them.
Threats are often rare or mythic rare cards with game-warping effects. For a few examples: Captain Marvel, Earth’s Protector is a strong, flying creature that can stabilize your life total and become indestructible. Hawkeye, Master Marksman can fire off a flurry of shots to remove small creatures while digging for relevant spells. Mole Man, Moloid Master creates a steady stream of tokens that can block your opponent’s creatures. Each of these cards offers a different kind of advantage, but they threaten to win the game if left unattended.
Your threats should form the core of the deck and dictate at least one of your colors. If you open two or three red threats, that’s a sign that one of your colors should be red. Some multicolor cards, like the green-blue Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, are great threats, but make sure you have cards in both of their colors to support them.
The other key component of your deck is removal. Removal is anything that gets rid of your opponent’s cards. These tend to be common and uncommon cards, so you’ll have plenty of them in your sealed pool. Spells that destroy creatures, deal damage, or put permanents back in their owner’s hand are key removal effects.
Below, you’ll find a list of key removal spells in this set. You can use this as a reference when building your deck or during gameplay.
Let’s say you opened two great red threats—Thor, God of Thunder and Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor—and a handful of white removal spells like Web Up and Super Villain Lockup. Congratulations! You have the makings of a great red-white deck. Once you’ve decided on the general direction of your deck, it’s time to examine the shape of your deck. Just follow the mana curve, and you’ll be a Super Hero (or Super Villain, if you prefer) in no time.
Deck Building with the Mana Curve
The mana curve helps you balance the average mana value of your cards. In short, it ensures your deck has enough low-cost spells to start off the game and some high-cost spells to finish off your opponent. Your average sealed deck should look something like this:
1 Mana: 1–2 cards
2 Mana: 7–8 cards
3 Mana: 5–6 cards
4 Mana: 3–4 cards
5 Mana: 2–3 cards
6 Mana: 0–1 card
and 17 lands!
Building your deck in this way ensures you can start the game strong and keep up the pace as the game progresses. While your deck likely won’t perfectly match this template, it’s good to keep this outline in mind.
There are several cards in this set, like Equipment, Auras, and spells with the teamwork ability, that care about the other cards you control. A shield needs someone to hold it (and throw it). While Captain America’s Shield costs two mana, it won’t do anything unless you have a creature to equip it to. The same goes for interactive spells like Take Up the Shield.
This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t include supportive cards like Take Up the Shield in your deck. Far from it! Just make sure they don’t make up the majority of your deck. For every supportive card like Take Up the Shield, you should aim to include two or three cards that can be supported by it.
Another important aspect of Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes is the power-up mechanic. Power-up abilities are activated abilities that cost less if the creature with the ability entered this turn. Ninja of the Hand costs . But by activating its power-up ability the turn it enters, it acts like a five-mana creature that makes your opponent discard a card. When placing a card like Ninja of the Hand on your mana curve, consider how likely you are to fully utilize its power-up ability.
Ninja of the Hand can fill the role of a three-mana or five-mana creature depending on the situation. If you’re playing a black-green deck that’s focused on big creatures, you’ll likely want to pay five mana for Ninja of the Hand. But if you’re playing a white-black deck with lots of Equipment, you’ll likely pay three mana for the Ninja, then spend the rest of your mana to attach an Equipment to it.
If all of this sounds intimidating, don’t worry. You don’t need a perfect understanding of mana and the mana curve to build a solid sealed deck. Just think about the role of each of your cards and how it impacts the game, and you’ll be well on your way to soaring into battle. And lucky for you, we’ve got your battle plans right here!
Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Draft Archetypes
Each two-color pair in Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes has an associated strategy that’s shared by the cards in that color pair. These strategies are called draft archetypes, and they’re meant to guide your Limited experience and push you toward building an effective deck. There are ten two-color draft archetypes in this set. Each archetype has its style and key cards. By understanding what your deck wants to do and how it wins the game, you’ll be able to select the best cards for your deck and pilot it to victory.
Each draft archetype has its own multicolor uncommon cards. These cards prominently signal the goals of each archetype. Thor Odinson, a red-white uncommon card, wants you to cast lots of noncreature spells. This tells you the red-white archetype plays well with noncreature spells that buff your creatures, like the aforementioned Take Up the Shield.
Our greatest tactical minds have gathered intel on the different strategies in Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes. Here’s a list of the different draft archetypes, their key cards, and some tips on how to build your deck.
Teamwork doesn’t just make the dream work. It also makes your spells stronger! White-blue decks want a combination of spells with teamwork and creatures for you to tap. Captain America, Living Legend can stalwartly lead your creatures to victory. Support this deck with creatures and spells that create tokens like Borough Backup and S.H.I.E.L.D. Deployment Drone.
Control the flow of time and battle with this blue-black deck. Kang, Temporal Tyrant and its cohorts care about drawing two cards in a turn. Support them with low-cost draw effects and creatures that connive. Remember that you can trigger these abilities on your opponent’s turn, so instant-speed spells like Thirst for Knowledge and Visions of Villainy are especially impactful.
Enact your evil plans with a horde of Villains! Create a suite of Villain tokens with Madame Hydra and other powerful creatures. There are also several black Plan enchantments in this set. If you open multiple copies of The Masters of Evil and some exciting Plan cards, you can put together a delightfully devilish deck that enables cards like Doom Reigns Supreme.
Some archetypes prioritize clever plans, intense calculation, and witty maneuvers … Red-green is not one of those archetypes. Smash through your opponent’s blockers with Hulk, Gamma Goliath and other creatures with power-up abilities. Looking to double up on your creature-crushing abilities? Wonder Man, Hollywood Hero keeps the spotlight on your deck’s best creatures.
Assemble a wide board of Heroes from across the Marvel Universe! This archetype shares several key white cards with the white-blue teamwork deck. White cards that create Hero tokens will help you repeatedly trigger Black Panther, Vanguard and Wakandan Royal Guard. Once you’ve built up your board of Heroes, amplify their power with White Widow, Free Agent and Training Regimen to swing in for the win.
Support your solo agents with a suite of creatures, Equipment, and more. Crowd of True Believers, S.H.I.E.L.D. Spy Kit, and Voltaic Whip reward you when a creature attacks alone. You just need to find the right Super Hero for the job, like Luke Cage, Power Man.
Craft the world’s greatest inventions and armor up your creatures. Fill your deck with a high density of artifacts to enable Iron Lad, Diverging Destiny and HYDRA Assault Robot. This archetype cares about the quantity of artifacts you can amass, even if their effects are fairly minor. Treasure, Clue, and Robot Villain tokens all add to Iron Man, Master of Machines’s power.
Turn the deaths of your creatures into fuel for your deck. Several cards care about whether you have two or more creature cards in your graveyard. Enable these early in the game with self-mill effects or cycling creatures like Roxxon Brutes. Once you’ve dumped two creatures into your graveyard, cards like Killmonger, Scourge of Wakanda and Arnim Zola, Bio-Fanatic can win the game all on their own.
Prove yourself worthy by wielding a suite of noncreature spells. Cheap creatures with prowess like Agent of Atlas and Crimson Operative can quickly grow into game-winning creatures with just a few spells. This archetype wants more low-cost cards than your average deck, so keep an eye out for copies of Panther Pounce, Super Speed, and Vibranium Energy Daggers.
Grow your creatures and tower over your opponents! Turn your evasive creatures like Stature, Size Shifter into titanic threats with instants, sorceries, and other supportive effects. Be sure to include ways to protect your counter-rich creatures. Kid Loki can give your creatures hexproof in a pinch, while Claim the Kingdom can permanently protect your best creature with an indestructible counter.
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Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Prerelease events begin on June 19, 2026. Register now to secure your spot alongside your allies. For more information on this set, check out the Magic: The Gathering | Marvel Super Heroes Card Image Gallery.
