Magic: The Gathering’s Star Trek set arrived in game stores Friday, Nov. 13, three days after its digital debut on MTG Arena. A $6.99 Play Booster is the cheapest way to open a pack. A $74.99 Commander deck is the most direct purchase for someone joining a Commander game. For four players meeting to draft, the price of the $119.99 Draft Night box is easier to judge once you know how much of it will make it onto the table.
Those are Wizards of the Coast’s suggested US prices. On release morning, Target listed a single Collector Booster at $44.99, $7 above the suggested price. It listed the regular Federation Fleet Commander deck at $84.99, $10 above the suggested price. Compare the same edition and pack count across stores. A Collector Booster and a Collector’s Edition Commander deck are two different products.
Play Boosters and Draft Night
The $6.99 Play Booster has 14 cards, including at least one rare or mythic rare and a foil card. The contents vary by pack. Buy one if you want a small sample of the set or something to open as a gift. For a game, the number of packs you need depends on the format.
In Sealed, each player opens six packs and builds a deck of at least 40 cards from that pool and basic lands. Six Play Boosters at the suggested price cost $41.94. If you’re going to a store event, check whether the entry fee covers the packs and lands before buying anything separately.
In a draft, players choose cards and pass the rest around the table. Wizards designed Draft Night for four players using its Pick-Two format. The box has 12 Play Boosters, three per player, plus one Collector Booster, 90 basic lands and 10 double-sided tokens. The Play Boosters supply the cards for the draft. Your group can decide what to do with the single Collector Booster before you open the box.
Twelve loose Play Boosters cost $83.88 at suggested prices, $36.11 less than the box. If your group also wants the Collector Booster, buying all 13 packs separately comes to $121.87, or $1.88 more than Draft Night. Use the prices on the shelf for the final comparison, especially if someone already has basic lands to bring.
Commander decks you can play out of the box
Each regular $74.99 Commander deck comes with a fixed 100-card list and 10 double-sided tokens. The four choices are Federation Fleet, Landing Party, Klingon Fury and We Are the Borg. If you’re buying for an existing Commander player, ask which deck they want or look up its published list before choosing by the character on the box.
Each $159.99 Collector’s Edition has the same deck list as the corresponding regular version. The $85 difference buys surge foil treatment on the cards, including the lands. Both editions give a player the same cards to bring to a Commander table.
What a Collector Booster buys
The $37.99 Collector Booster has 15 cards and access to treatments such as foil cards printed in Klingon script and surge foil cards with the Star Trek computer display frames known as LCARS. Wizards says it made seven signed headliner cards, with fewer than 250 copies of each. It inserted those cards randomly in Collector Boosters. If you want one particular card or finish, look up the price of that single card before spending the same money on packs.
Where to play the new set
Wizards lists its To Boldly Go store events from Nov. 13 through Jan. 28, 2027, and the first Commander Party from Nov. 20 through Nov. 26. Check the organizer’s event guide for the format, then confirm the date, cost and materials with your store. For a first game, ask whether the store has a learn-to-play session or a table for new Commander players.
