Every Star Trek Commander Deck in MTG: Picard, Spock, Worf, and the Borg Queen

The Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek set (releasing November 13, 2026) comes with four preconstructed Commander decks, each led by an iconic character. Wizards has published all four decklists, so here's a breakdown of every deck, its face and alternate commanders, its strategy, and how to upgrade it — so you can pick your captain before prerelease weekend.

Federation Fleet — Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary (Jeskai)

Colors: White-Blue-Red (Jeskai)

Jean-Luc Picard, Luminary draws a card whenever another historic permanent (artifact, legendary, or Saga) with mana value 3 or greater enters under your control, and his Seek Out ability — whenever you draw your second card each turn — puts a +1/+1 counter on another creature and two charge counters on a Spacecraft. That makes this a historic-value deck that leans on the returning Spacecraft & Station mechanic (artifact starships that charge up into creatures via the Station keyword, not Crew — here's how Station works). The alternate commander, Captain Janeway, Endgame, turns it into an Officer combat deck instead.

Upgrade priorities: extra card draw to reliably hit your second draw each turn (Mr. Spock, Science Officer is the dream), charge-counter doublers like Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge, Captain Jean-Luc Picard to tutor out a Spacecraft, artifact ramp (Sol Ring, Arcane Signet), and protection so your flagship survives a board wipe.

Landing Party — Commander Spock (Bant)

Colors: Green-White-Blue (Bant)

Spock's deck is built on Strange New Worlds, which scales with the number of *differently named* lands you control. Whenever Commander Spock enters or attacks, you reveal the top card of your library and may cast it for free if its mana value is at or below that count (or put it onto the battlefield if it's a land). The deck also carries Lt. Arex, Ever-Adapting and the alternate commander Captain Kirk, Boldly Going, which fetches basics or Starship Enterprise — a landfall Spacecraft.

Upgrade priorities: swap identical basics for distinct nonbasic lands — the Bant Planets (Vulcan, Risa, Earth, Sector 001) are an easy start — plus land-search like Final Frontier and Warp Speed, and Strange New Worlds payoffs from the main set like Captain Pike, Fullness of Time and Deep Space Scan.

Klingon Fury — Worf, Defiant Commander (Mardu)

Colors: White-Black-Red (Mardu)

Worf, Defiant Commander leads the aggressive Klingon Fury deck. He makes a hasty 2/1 Klingon Warrior when he enters, and his Battlefront ability exiles the top X cards of your library to play, where X is the number of opponents you attacked this turn. Battlefront runs through the deck — Kurn, Son of Mogh draws X cards, Martok, Hero of the Empire hands out +1/+1 counters, and Korok, Liberated Rage pumps your whole team. The alternate commander, Kor, Cause of Vengeance, sacrifices a creature whenever you attack to draw and pump your Klingons and Warriors.

Upgrade priorities: cheap evasive and hasty bodies so you can swing at every opponent each turn, sacrifice payoffs from the main set like Gowron, Eager for Battle and General Chang, Cold Warrior, and efficient removal to clear blockers.

We Are the Borg — The Borg Queen (Esper)

Colors: White-Blue-Black (Esper)

The Borg Queen's deck is the villain of the set. The Borg Queen gives your artifact creatures +2/+2, and whenever she enters or attacks, a target opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they hit a creature — which you Assimilate: it enters under your control with a +1/+1 counter as a Borg artifact creature. Resistance is famously futile. The alternate commander, Locutus of Borg, gives your artifact creatures the ability to make Borg tokens when they connect.

Upgrade priorities: more Assimilate sources from the main set (Death Is Irrelevant, Borg Queen, Perfection Manifest, and the Borg Cube Spacecraft), artifact-creature anthems and token makers, and sacrifice outlets or removal to keep opponents' graveyards stocked with creatures to assimilate.

Which Deck Should You Buy?

• - Love card draw, artifacts, and starships? Federation Fleet (Picard).
• - Love lands and free spells? Landing Party (Spock).
• - Love aggression and combat? Klingon Fury (Worf).
• - Love artifacts and stealing the show? We Are the Borg (Borg Queen).

For how the set's new mechanics — Assimilate, Face a Dilemma, Seek Out, Strange New Worlds, Battlefront, and Federation — actually play, see our Star Trek mechanics explained guide.

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