Which Star Trek Secret Lair drops are worth beaming up?

Wizards of the Coast has revealed Secret Lair x Star Trek: Set Phasers to Superdrop, a batch of Star Trek themed Magic: The Gathering drops going on sale November 9, 2026. Five of the drops are public now, and a sixth will be revealed later, per the official Magic announcement. Each drop is $29.99 non-foil or $39.99 foil, according to EDHREC's breakdown of the press release.

I like this one more than I expected to. It is not just Star Trek art slapped on random cards. A few of these drops actually play with the show's ideas in the card treatment itself, and that is the part worth paying attention to before you start clicking at 9 a.m. Pacific.

Every revealed drop, priced per card

Here are the five public drops with their card counts from EDHREC's list. The per card numbers are my own math at the non-foil price, which is the easiest way to compare a ten card land pack with a four card drop.

The four cent problem

Here is the detail I keep coming back to. Wizards says you get one foil Return of the Wildspeaker as a "Transporter Boondoggle" promo for every $199.99 you spend, while supplies last. Buy all five revealed drops in foil and you spend $199.95. That is four cents short of the promo.

Buy all five in non-foil and you are at $149.95. So if the promo matters to you, you either go all foil and add something else to the cart, or you wait for the sixth drop, which will push almost any full set order over the line. Orders over $99 also ship free, per the Wizards page, so even four non-foil drops clear the shipping bar.

Five foil drops come to $199.95. The promo starts at $199.99. Somebody at Secret Lair has a sense of humor.

Which ones I would actually buy

• Beam Me Up, if you only get one. The reversible cards show a character in danger on one side and the transporter bay on the other. That is the best use of the reversible treatment I have seen, because flipping the card is literally the effect: Momentary Blink and Essence Flux remove something and bring it back. It is also the priciest per card, and I do not care.
• Lower Decks, if you play Commander. Four legendary creatures and the Cerritos as a legendary artifact. Thrasios as Tendi is the obvious grab for partner players, and a Lower Decks themed command zone is the kind of deck that starts conversations at a table.
• KHAAAAAAAAN, for the movie people. Six cards built around The Wrath of Khan, and the card names do a lot of the work. Best Served Cold on a board wipe and Reliant's Betrayal on Illusionist's Gambit are both good jokes that fit the card's job. EDHREC counted the A's in the drop name, by the way: eight.
• tlhIngan maH, if you love the gimmick. Klingon text on one side, English on the other. Fun at the table, but you will be flipping it over to read it every time, and that gets old.
• New Worlds, last. Ten planet basics are pretty, but lands are where Secret Lair has the most competition from itself. Cheapest per card, least reason to rush.

Sale day, practically

The Wizards announcement has a checklist that is worth taking seriously for a licensed drop like this. The pre-queue opens at 8 a.m. PT, an hour before sales go live at 9 a.m. PT. To get in, you add any product to your cart and proceed to checkout. When the sale opens, people in the pre-queue get a random spot in line; anyone who arrives after 9 a.m. joins in order. Adding items to your cart does not reserve them, and nothing is yours until checkout completes. Make a Wizards account and save your shipping and payment details ahead of time.

Wizards has not said whether these are limited print runs. EDHREC thinks it is likely, so I would treat it that way if you have your heart set on one.

Where this fits

Wizards is leaning hard on licensed crossovers this year, from the Marvel side we covered when Darkhold Destiny wrote its own Marvel story to this one, which the announcement says arrives just in time for the release of the Magic: The Gathering and Star Trek set. It is landing in a busy stretch for the company, too, with the union effort we wrote about when the D&D union headed to a vote still in the background.

My call: Beam Me Up is the drop that understands Star Trek best, and Lower Decks is the one that will see the most play. If you are buying both, foil only matters if you love foil. The four cents can wait for the sixth drop.

How we made this: researched and drafted with AI assistance. Sources are linked in the piece.