Star Trek Collector Booster Box: Is It Worth the Price?

A Star Trek Collector Booster Box is 12 Collector Boosters, and at Wizards' MSRP of $37.99 a pack that's $455.88. None of the big sellers we checked were at that price. On October 26, eighteen days before the November 13 release, the cheapest big-retailer price on the restockd.app tracker was Walmart at $539.64, the TCGplayer market price was $540.99, and Amazon was at $699.99.

Short version: the box is worth it if you want to open 12 Collector Boosters and you can get close to MSRP. It's not a way to get shock lands cheaply, and it's not a way to make money.

What you pay right now

Box prices on October 26, 2026. Image: BaseMTG chart from Wizards' MSRP, restockd.app and TCGplayer.

TCGplayer had 50 listings for the box on October 26, with the lowest at $540.00. Four days earlier the market price was $566.65 from 38 listings, so more sellers are coming in and the price is easing toward Walmart's. Local game stores set their own prices, so ask yours before paying a marketplace markup. If you're not sure what the TCGplayer number means, our TCGplayer market price explainer covers it.

What's in each pack

Every pack has 15 cards. Most of them are filler for value purposes: five foil commons, three foil uncommons, a foil common or uncommon Booster Fun card, a foil basic land, and an art card or foil token. The money is in five slots:

• One traditional foil rare or mythic from the main set. It's a mythic 13.5% of the time.
• One non-foil Commander Booster Fun card. Mostly extended-art rares from the Commander decks.
• Two non-foil rare or mythic Booster Fun cards. This is where non-foil LCARS shock lands, stardates reprints, scene cards and classic Enterprise cards show up.
• One foil rare or mythic Booster Fun card. The best slot in the pack: traditional and surge foil shock lands, surge foil LCARS and classic Enterprise cards, and the Klingon script rares.
• A signed headliner, very rarely. Wizards says they appear "in an extremely low quantity of Collector Boosters". There are seven of them and fewer than 250 copies of each.

The full slot list is on Wizards' collecting article, and our Star Trek spoilers page covers every treatment.

What one box should hold

Expected cards per 12-pack box from Wizards' slot rates. Image: BaseMTG chart.

We multiplied Wizards' published rates by 12 packs. These are averages over many boxes, so your box can land well above or below them.

For players, shock lands are the headline, and a box gives you three or four of them. Stardates are the most common hit: famous Magic cards in a Star Trek frame, about one every two packs. A surge foil shock land, the flashiest version, is less likely than not.

Can you price what's inside yet?

Not honestly. On October 26, Scryfall had prices for only 76 Star Trek cards, all from early preorder listings. The non-foil LCARS shock lands were listed at $49.99 each that day. Preorder singles prices are guesses by sellers. They'll move once boxes get opened in November, so we're not putting an expected dollar value on a box. Anyone quoting one right now is multiplying guesses.

What we can say from the rates: if a non-foil LCARS shock land ends up near the $49.99 preorder listing from October 26, three or four of them would cover a large part of an MSRP box. If they drop once supply arrives, they won't. Our Reality Fracture card prices piece shows how fast a new set's prices can fall after release.

Joel from Joel Are Magic lands in the same place in his October 20 buyer's guide. His plan, in his own description: "go to prerelease, buy the shock lands as singles about three months after release". And on the top end: "Collector Boosters are for the premium opening experience, the signed headliners are a secondary market purchase".

Cheaper ways to open a Collector Booster

You don't need a box to get the experience. Two products already include one Collector Booster each, and at MSRP they work out like this:

• Draft Night, $119.99. It has 12 Play Boosters and 1 Collector Booster. The Play Boosters alone are worth $83.88 at MSRP, which leaves $36.11 for the Collector Booster. That's less than a single pack bought on its own, and you get a draft out of it.
• Beam Me Up Bundle, $99.99. It has 8 Play Boosters, 1 Collector Booster and 2 of 8 foil Spacecraft promo cards. The boosters alone come to $93.91 at MSRP, so the promos and lands cost you about six dollars.

If you want the opening but not $500 of it, either of these gets you there. Our Star Trek release date guide has every product, MSRP and the regions where some boxes may arrive late.

What buyers are planning

Several commenters under Joel's video were splitting their budget rather than buying a box. "Ngl I'm getting a bit of everything, except for a whole collector box. The set is looking amazing so far," wrote @Influunt19. Another, @scottl9984, went the bundle route: "For now I'm getting 3 Beam me up bundle's and maybe a precon as well as 2 more collector packs."

The fans have their own math. "I'll be picking up more of the collector side of this product as a player and a big fan of ST," wrote @insomniaddictesp. That's the buyer this box is made for.

Our take

Buy a Star Trek Collector Booster Box if you're a Star Trek fan who wants to open it, and only if you can find one near the $455.88 MSRP. At the $540 to $700 we saw on October 26 you're paying an 18% to 54% markup for averages: about three or four shock lands, one or two surge foils and a stack of stardates. If what you want is the shock lands for your decks, wait and buy singles. If you want one pack's worth of excitement, Draft Night at MSRP is the cheapest way in.

For a set that's already out, our Reality Fracture Collector Booster Box breakdown prices a whole box card by card.

References

• Wizards of the Coast: Collecting Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek
• Wizards of the Coast: Star Trek Buyer's Guide
• restockd.app: Star Trek Collector Booster Box price tracker
• TCGplayer: Star Trek Collector Booster Display
• Scryfall: Star Trek cards with prices
• Joel Are Magic: What Should You Buy from Magic's Star Trek?