Star Trek MTG Card Prices: What Fell Before Release

Star Trek MTG card prices on November 3, 2026 put Dr. Beverly Crusher at the top of the main set at $33.90, with Deep Space 9 just behind at $32.83. Those are Scryfall's nonfoil prices, and Scryfall links each one to the card's TCGplayer product; TCGplayer's own market price for the two was $32.97 and $32.02 the same evening. A week earlier, on October 26, Crusher was $49.97 and Deep Space 9 was $58.31. Only five printings outside the main set cost more: two showcase cards, the LCARS Watery Grave ($43.41) and Genesis Device ($39.82), and three Commander deck printings.

Apart from those five, nothing in either set was priced above Crusher that night. We had 75 Star Trek printings with a nonfoil price on both October 26 and November 3: 56 got cheaper, 12 got more expensive and 7 didn't move. Prerelease events run November 6 to 12, the set comes to MTG Arena on November 10, and the tabletop release is November 13, so these are still preorder prices on cards almost nobody has opened yet.

Should you preorder Star Trek cards now?

Mostly no. Here's what we'd do, group by group.

Wait on the big mythics. Crusher, Deep Space 9, Crystalline Entity and Death Is Irrelevant were lower on each date we checked. Crystalline Entity went from $46.98 on October 22 to $18.42 on November 3, 60.8% off in under two weeks, and Crusher was lower on all four dates, from $54.72 down to $33.90. Nothing in those numbers says the slide has stopped.

Wait on Picard too, even though it's rising. Of the 15 cards we priced on both October 31 and November 3, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is the only one that gained more than 10% at both later reads: $17.60 on October 26, $21.10 on October 31, $24.15 on November 3. Its EDHREC deck count went from 572 to 921 in those last three days, so the interest is real. But that $24.30 TCGplayer market price came from 17 listings by 15 sellers. Captain Kathryn Janeway, at two thirds of the price, had 28.

Don't wait for the Star Trek shock lands. For six of the nine with a listing, the Star Trek preorder is within $1.80 of the cheapest older printing, and for the other three the older copy is $2.34 to $3.96 cheaper. Any printing is legal in Standard. More on that below.

Skip Commander deck singles at today's prices. Some have one listing or none, and on One, Borg Evolved, Scryfall's price is more than double TCGplayer's.

Star Trek card prices on November 3

The 15 most expensive main-set cards (collector numbers 1 to 306), nonfoil, on Scryfall at 22:03 on November 3 (UTC+7), with the earlier reads we saved and TCGplayer's own numbers from six minutes later. A dash means that card had no price in that read.

Only 198 of the 306 main-set cards had a Scryfall price at all on November 3. The first rare on the list is U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Galaxy-Class at $13.36, down from $31.32 on October 22.

Prices this early change by the hour, so open the card's TCGplayer page before you buy; our explainer on what the TCGplayer market price measures covers why it can sit above the cheapest listing.

Image: BaseMTG chart. Data: Scryfall nonfoil prices, October 26 and November 3, 2026.

The biggest drops, and the four cards over $10 that went up

Of the 27 printings that cost $10 or more on October 26, 22 fell, 4 rose and 1 stayed put. Their median change was a 39.9% drop. Six of the 27 are LCARS shock lands that all started at $49.99; counting only the 21 main-set cards, the median was a 23.7% drop. The table has the seven biggest drops among main-set cards and the two biggest rises.

Deep Space 9 just missed the list at -43.7%. Five LCARS lands fell further than that: Temple Garden and Blood Crypt by 56%, Overgrown Tomb by 49.6%, Breeding Pool by 46.3% and Steam Vents by 45.1%.

The other two risers over $10 barely moved: Captain Kathryn Janeway went from $15.69 to $16.04 and Quark, Humble Proprietor from $13.20 to $13.79. Below $10, the biggest jump was Gowron, Eager for Battle, from $1.10 to $2.80. Captain Jonathan Archer ($2.20 to $3.31) and Captain Benjamin Sisko ($4.40 to $5.68) also went up, but these are a dollar or two.

Rising deck counts haven't held prices up. All 16 cards we tracked on October 31 were in more EDHREC decks by November 3. Deep Space 9 went from 1,914 decks to 2,872 and Crystalline Entity from 2,148 to 2,408, yet Deep Space 9's price fell 34.1% and Crystalline Entity's 12.6% over the same three days. Khan's count went from 478 to 558 while its price came back from $18.24 to $16.15. Of the 15 with a price at both reads, Picard is the only one that rose by more than 2%. That's why it's the card we'd watch, and still not the card we'd preorder.

Why Star Trek preorder prices keep sliding

We can't see who is selling, but three things in the data point the same way.

The market is thin. Picard's $24.30 market price came from 17 listings. Scryfall and TCGplayer, read six minutes apart, disagreed by a third on U.S.S. Enterprise-A ($13.78 against $9.24) and by more than $4 on Gul Dukat ($16.01 against $11.39). And on October 31, three Scryfall reads inside one hour had Crystalline Entity at one price, then $4.40 higher, then back where it started.

More copies are about to show up. Wizards' retailer page says stores can "begin selling all products from the new set during the Prerelease week," which starts November 6. That's a week of packs being opened before the November 13 release.

We've seen this with the last set. In Reality Fracture, nine of the ten priciest preorder cards were cheaper 17 days after release, by a median 52.5%. The one that went up, The Theorist, Jace Beleren, went from $32.97 to $63.49, and it was one of the set's two most-played mythics in Standard. No Star Trek card has a Standard tournament result yet: on November 3, Scryfall still listed Picard as not legal in Standard.

Some collectors expect the same. In an r/mtgfinance thread started on November 1, one commenter wrote, "I think the set is actually going to dip hard post release," and said they'd keep a few preorders and "get ready to buy the dip." That's one reader's opinion, but it's the plan our numbers point to.

If you've already picked the deck you want to build, our best Star Trek cards ranking says which of these cards earn a slot. The timing doesn't change: we'd wait until after prerelease weekend.

Shock lands: the Star Trek copies don't save you money

Wizards confirmed all 10 shock lands are in Star Trek, and a week ago that looked like the cheap moment to buy them. In our Standard price list, we told readers to wait for these reprints. The preorders say the wait buys you almost nothing. On November 3 the cheapest TCGplayer listing for a regular Star Trek shock land ran from $8.45 (Godless Shrine) to $10.79 (Blood Crypt), and only Blood Crypt had a market price yet, $10.91. Another commenter in the same r/mtgfinance thread said it in one line: shock lands "have just been printed in popular in-universe sets, the most expensive ones are barely above $10."

Here's what the older copies cost the same night. The last two columns are the cheapest nonfoil printing on Scryfall that isn't from Star Trek. A lowest listing and a market price aren't the same measure, so read the gaps under a dollar as a tie.

eoe-261eoe-261Shop on TCGplayer Watery Grave, Steam Vents, eoe-256eoe-256Shop on TCGplayer Sacred Foundry and eoe-254eoe-254Shop on TCGplayer Godless Shrine are 13 to 87 cents cheaper as Star Trek preorders, which is no reason to wait. eoe-251eoe-251Shop on TCGplayer Breeding Pool and ecl-266ecl-266Shop on TCGplayer Overgrown Tomb have an older copy under $9, and Temple Garden, eoe-258eoe-258Shop on TCGplayer Stomping Ground and Hallowed Fountain are $2.34 to $3.96 cheaper in an older printing. The Magic Tournament Rules say cards from older sets with the same name as a Standard-legal card "may also be played," so a Lorwyn Eclipsed Steam Vents does the same job as the Star Trek one. Steam Vents was in 190 of the 755 Magic Online Standard Challenge lists from October 1 to 21. If you need four, buy whichever copy is cheapest today.

The LCARS versions are a different purchase. These are the showcase shock lands in the Star Trek computer frame, and Wizards' Play Booster odds put one in the rare slot 1.4% of the time. All six that had a price on October 26 were listed at $49.99. On November 3 they ran from $19.80 (Hallowed Fountain) to $27.42 (Steam Vents). The LCARS Watery Grave was the exception at $43.41, less than $7 below where it started. Wizards' own article pitches Watery Grave at Legacy players and Steam Vents at Standard ones. If you want an LCARS land for your deck, we'd wait for prerelease packs to add copies, as with the mythics above.

Image: card images from Scryfall (card art and frames, Wizards of the Coast). Prices: Scryfall nonfoil, November 3, 2026.

Commander deck singles: prices with almost no listings

The new cards in the four Star Trek Commander decks have the least reliable prices of all. On Scryfall, One, Borg Evolved shows $49.95; TCGplayer's market price for the same product was $18.80, from 5 listings. Hugh, First of Many shows $28.95 on Scryfall and $16.17 on TCGplayer, from 4 listings. The extended-art Command Chair sits at $49.99 with 1 listing, and the borderless Locutus of Borg at $20.00 with none.

A price set by one seller is that seller's asking price. Until the decks are on shelves, we wouldn't pay any of these, and we'd treat the Scryfall number as a placeholder. If you're weighing sealed product instead, our Star Trek Collector Booster box breakdown covers what a box costs and what it holds.

Where these prices come from

Checked November 3, 2026. Scryfall's search API at 22:03 (UTC+7) for every Star Trek and Star Trek Commander printing, nonfoil usd; Scryfall's card pages link that price to the TCGplayer product. TCGplayer's product details for the same product IDs at 22:09, for the market price, lowest listing and listing counts. EDHREC deck counts at 22:10. The October 22 and 26 reads were saved for our Collector Booster box post, and the October 31 read for the best-cards ranking. "Change" compares the same printing between two reads.

References

• Wizards of the Coast: Collecting Star Trek
• Wizards Play Network: Star Trek dates and details
• Wizards of the Coast: Magic Tournament Rules, February 27, 2026 (PDF)
• Scryfall: Star Trek (TRK) card list
• Scryfall: Star Trek Commander (TRC) card list
• TCGplayer: Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Star Trek)
• EDHREC: Captain Jean-Luc Picard
• EDHREC: Crystalline Entity
• Magic Online: Standard Challenge decklists
• MTG Rocks: Most expensive Reality Fracture cards (September 24, 2026)
• r/mtgfinance: Star Trek. If we are being honest. (November 1, 2026)