Star Trek Precons Ranked: Which Commander Deck to Buy

Of the four Star Trek precons, Landing Party is the one to buy. It has the most reprint value, $132.89 at November 1 prices, the most lands, the best mana odds in our shuffles, and it sold for $65.18 on TCGplayer that day, under the $74.99 MSRP. We Are the Borg is second and is the deck Commander players are building most. Federation Fleet is third. Klingon Fury comes last on ramp, staples, tracked games and player interest.

All four decks release on November 13, 2026, and Wizards says each 99 holds 32 new-to-Magic cards. None of them runs a Game Changer, so every deck sits at Bracket 2 out of the box, which Playgroup's deck pages also state. That takes raw power off the table as a tiebreaker. What separates them is the older cards you keep, how reliably the mana works, and how the first recorded games went.

Source: card images from Scryfall (card art and frames © Wizards of the Coast). Ranking: BaseMTG, November 1, 2026.

If you only want the decklists and where to preorder, our Star Trek Commander decks guide has all four lists in full. This page is about which box earns its price.

The four Star Trek precons side by side

Everything below comes from Wizards' October 29 decklists, cross-checked against Playgroup's and EDHREC's copies of the same lists. Three of EDHREC's entries looked wrong at first and turned out to be Star Trek names on reprints: Loran of the Third Path is printed as Sonya Gomez, Learning Together, Alhammarret's Archive as Orb of the Emissary, and The Immortal Sun as Central Plexus Core. Scryfall lists those three plus Mutavault, printed as Galactic Menagerie in Landing Party, as the only renamed cards in the Commander set.

Reprint value adds the cheapest non-foil copy of each older card on Scryfall, so it is what the singles would cost you to buy separately, not what a collector pays for a Star Trek printing. Wargamer ran the same count with prices from October 30 and got the same order: Landing Party at $143.76, We Are the Borg at $120.76, Klingon Fury at $97.47 and Federation Fleet at $83.75. Both counts put Landing Party $55 to $60 ahead of Federation Fleet.

The Playgroup numbers are wins in tracked pods with the stock list, where a four-player game makes 25% the even mark. No deck has reached it yet, and 20 to 83 games is a small sample. We use them as a tiebreaker, not as the ranking.

Source: BaseMTG simulation, 100,000 shuffles per deck, November 1, 2026. Decklists: Wizards of the Coast.

The shuffles show the mana gap. Every deck finds three or four lands in its opening seven about half the time, from 47.3% for Federation Fleet to 50.4% for Landing Party. The split comes later: Landing Party hits its fourth land on turn 4 in 72.9% of games on the draw, the other three sit near 68%, and Klingon Fury sees a ramp card by turn 3 in only 58.7%.

1. Landing Party: the most deck for your money

Commander Spock reveals the top card of your library whenever he enters or attacks. You cast it for free if its mana value is no higher than the number of differently named lands you control, and a land card can go onto the battlefield tapped. The deck is built for that count: 32 of its 40 lands are nonbasic, with only eight basics, so Spock turns on early and keeps growing.

msc-172msc-172Shop on TCGplayer, Farseek, Nature's Lore, Rampant Growth, Growth Spiral and Lotus Cobra are six of its 11 ramp cards, and Exploration lets you play an extra land each turn. That is why this deck tops the shuffle table on land drops.

It also has the best reprints. On November 1, Exploration ($29.46), Sea of Clouds ($19.62), Guardian Project ($12.31) and Ancient Greenwarden ($12.20) were the four reprints worth $10 or more, and 46 of its 54 reprints sit in EDHREC's top 1,000 Commander cards, the most of the four decks.

Source: Scryfall prices (TCGplayer market), November 1, 2026. Decklists: Wizards of the Coast. Chart: BaseMTG.

The weak spot is removal. Landing Party has two board wipes, Austere Command and Wrath of God. That ties Klingon Fury for the fewest of the four if you leave out Pest Control, which only destroys permanents with mana value 1 or less. Landing Party is also the only deck Playgroup has no tracked games for yet. Spock has 264 decks on EDHREC, fewer than Picard's 299. We still rank it first, because the land base and the reprints are fixed facts and the play data is not in yet.

2. We Are the Borg: the deck everyone wants to build

The Borg Queen costs seven mana, the most of the four commanders, and gives your artifact creatures +2/+2. She is one herself, so she hits the table as a 6/6. Whenever she enters or attacks, an opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they hit a creature, and you put that creature onto your battlefield as a Borg artifact with a +1/+1 counter.

frc-21frc-21Shop on TCGplayer, Commander's Sphere and three Talismans lead the most ramp of the four decks, 13 cards, which she needs to reach seven mana. That puts a ramp card in hand by turn 3 in 77.1% of our shuffles on the draw, the best of the four.

msc-161msc-161Shop on TCGplayer is one of her three board wipes. The new Join the Collective destroys every creature and gives you a 1/1 Borg artifact token for each nonartifact creature it killed, and Battle of Wolf 359 shrinks only nonartifact creatures, so it spares your own Borg.

The demand is what puts it second. On November 1, The Borg Queen had 657 decks on EDHREC, more than twice as many as any of the other three face commanders, and EDHREC's page for this precon showed 189 lists built under her and 64 under Locutus of Borg. It also has the best record on Playgroup, 22.9% across 83 games.

"This deck has been the most-anticipated out of the four Trek precons," u/JdeFalconr wrote on r/magicTCG on October 20. Not everyone in that thread wants the Queen at the helm. "I plan on taking this deck apart and sticking a bunch of stuff in urza," u/Hot-Cattle8314 replied the same day, and EDHREC already shows 20 lists from this precon under Urza, Chief Artificer.

The reprints are good but narrow: Morphic Pool ($27.20), Unwinding Clock ($20.39) and The Immortal Sun ($11.68) carry more than half of the $103.73. It is also the priciest regular deck at $69.69. If artifacts are your thing, buy this one first. Otherwise Landing Party gives you more.

3. Federation Fleet: a 4-mana commander in the weakest box

Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary is the cheapest of the four face commanders at four mana. He draws you a card whenever another historic permanent with mana value 3 or more enters under your control. His "seek out" ability, which triggers when you draw your second card each turn, puts a +1/+1 counter on a creature and two charge counters on a Spacecraft. A commander you can cast on turn 4 and recast after removal suits a deck that sweeps the board often.

And this one does. Federation Fleet has the most board wipes of the four: Supreme Verdict, Chain Reaction, Promise of Loyalty and the new U.S.S. Enterprise-E, which destroys all tapped creatures. If you want a controlling deck, that list is the reason to pick it.

The problem is what else comes in the box. On November 1, its 53 reprints were worth $78.11, the least of the four, and only Training Center ($18.08) and Alhammarret's Archive ($10.31) were worth $10 or more. It has 10 ramp cards, all of them rocks such as Mind Stone and Thought Vessel. Playgroup has it at 19.4% across 31 games. Picard had 299 EDHREC decks that day, but EDHREC's precon page counted only 56 lists under him, against 189 for the Borg Queen.

4. Klingon Fury: buy it to take apart

Worf, Defiant Commander makes a 2/1 Klingon Warrior token with haste when he enters. His battlefront trigger exiles the top card of your library for each opponent you attacked that turn, and you can play those cards until the end of your next turn. That rewards attacking everyone at once, and the deck needs to keep doing it.

The numbers are the worst of the four. It has 8 ramp cards, so a ramp card shows up by turn 3 in only 58.7% of shuffles. It has 36 reprints in EDHREC's top 1,000, the fewest, and its 7.5% win rate across 20 Playgroup games (read November 1) is a D grade, far below the other two decks with data. Worf had 75 EDHREC decks that day. Picard had four times as many.

There are good cards to pull out. Vault of Champions ($16.57), World at War ($11.00) and Sword of Light and Shadow ($10.25) lead $86.11 of reprints, which is more than Federation Fleet's $78.11. If you already play a Boros or Mardu Warrior deck, those reprints make Klingon Fury worth buying as a parts box.

msc-146msc-146Shop on TCGplayer destroys all creatures and costs less for each one on the battlefield, and Ruinous Ultimatum destroys only your opponents' nonland permanents, so the deck can reset a board it is losing. As a deck to play out of the box, it is still last.

What the Star Trek precons cost before release

Regular decks have dropped below MSRP since October 21, when they sold for $80.51 to $86.98 on TCGplayer. On November 1, three sat near $65 and We Are the Borg at $69.69, while the Collector's Editions with surge foils stayed $46 to $71 above their $159.99 MSRP.

At $65, Landing Party's reprints are worth about twice the deck's price, and Federation Fleet's about 1.2 times. Buy the regular deck now if you want it. The surge foil version costs 29% to 45% over MSRP, so only pay that for the foils. North American buyers should expect a wait either way, since Wizards warned on October 16 that Commander decks in the region may arrive after the November 13 release.

How we checked: decklists from Wizards of the Coast, cross-checked against Playgroup and EDHREC. Card prices and Game Changer flags from Scryfall, deck prices from TCGplayer, EDHREC deck counts and Playgroup win rates, all read November 1, 2026. Ramp and board wipes were read from each card's rules text. Ramp counts every card that adds mana, puts a land onto the battlefield or lets you play an extra land, including conditional ones: Ambulatory Reactor (mana for artifacts only) and Queen's Diamond (mana for your commander only) in We Are the Borg, Jefferies Tube in Landing Party and Qo'noS Quartermaster in Klingon Fury. Leave those out and the counts are 11 for the Borg, 10 each for Landing Party and Federation Fleet, and 7 for Klingon Fury, so the Borg still has the most and Klingon Fury the fewest. Opening hands are 100,000 seeded shuffles of each 99 on the draw, with no mulligans.

For what Bracket 2 means at the table, see Commander brackets explained. For the last Commander precons we ranked, see Reality Fracture precons ranked.

References

• Wizards of the Coast, "Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Commander Decklists," October 29, 2026: magic.wizards.com
• Wizards of the Coast, "Collecting Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek": magic.wizards.com
• Wizards of the Coast, Star Trek product delays in select regions, October 16, 2026: magic.wizards.com
• Wizards of the Coast, Commander format page (Game Changers and brackets): magic.wizards.com
• Playgroup, Star Trek set page and precon pages, read November 1, 2026: playgroup.gg
• Wargamer, Matt Bassil, Star Trek precon reprint breakdown, October 30, 2026: wargamer.com
• EDHREC, We Are the Borg precon page: edhrec.com
• Scryfall, Star Trek Commander cards with Star Trek names: scryfall.com
• TCGplayer, Star Trek Commander Deck: Landing Party: tcgplayer.com
• r/magicTCG, We Are the Borg precon thread, October 2026: reddit.com