collectible card games

Short answer: the MTG Star Trek signed cards are seven hand-autographed headliner cards with fewer than 250 copies each, found only in Collector Boosters ($37.99 MSRP) when the set hits stores on November 13, 2026, per Wizards of the Coast. Early eBay asks sit near $30,000 for Kirk and Picard, but as of November 10 none had sold, and one Picard auction ended without meeting its reserve. The best guide to what happens next is the last capped Magic chase with years of data: The Brothers’ War serialized schematics, 500 copies of each card, still log only about three to five recorded sales per card per year on PriceCharting four years later.

This window was on our November 13 TCG drop radar, which compares the Star Trek headliners with Yu-Gi-Oh!’s serial-numbered Grand Master Rares. For the earlier serialized Magic chase, see our Reality Fracture scarcity lesson, and for the original set-by-set dates, November TCG drops. All of our Magic coverage lives on the Magic: The Gathering hub, and the liquidity frameworks sit in Collector Guides.

What the MTG Star Trek signed cards are

Wizards’ Collecting Star Trek article lays out the rules. There are 7 different signed headliner cards. Each was printed, hand-signed by the actor who played the character, and randomly inserted into a Collector Booster. There are fewer than 250 copies of each. They can turn up in Collector Boosters of any language, but the card itself is always English. Wizards has not published pack counts or pull odds, so nobody can honestly tell you the chance per pack.

• Captain James T. Kirk (#1701), signed by William Shatner
• Captain Jean-Luc Picard (#1701D), signed by Patrick Stewart
• Mr. Spock, Science Officer (#1702), signed by Ethan Peck
• Lieutenant Commander Data (#1703), signed by Brent Spiner
• Captain Kathryn Janeway (#1704), signed by Kate Mulgrew
• Seven of Nine, Unassimilated (#1705), signed by Jeri Ryan
• Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge (#1706), signed by LeVar Burton

Card names come from Wizards; collector numbers and actor pairings are as listed by Cardsphere and NerdSnack. Seven cards at fewer than 250 each means fewer than 1,750 signed cards in the whole print run. The first one surfaced early: Game Rant reported on November 8 that a game store had already pulled a signed Picard, days before street date. Patrick Stewart died on October 28, 2026, which has put that card at the center of early attention.

Asks are not prices yet

Draftsim logged the first eBay listings on November 10. Every number below is an asking price, not a sale:

Two things stand out. First, the spread between asks for cards with the same cap (Data at $9,500, Kirk at about $30,000) tells you that sellers are guessing. Second, a failed Picard auction is real information: at least one seller set a floor higher than any bidder would pay. Until a few copies actually change hands, there is no price. There is only a range of hopes.

Compare that with the same characters in unsigned form. UnboxTCG logged TCGplayer prices on November 10 of $299.98 for the showcase surge foil Mr. Spock and $297.99 for the surge foil Picard. Those versions already have enough copies moving to form a price. The signed versions do not.

The historic lesson: Brothers’ War serialized schematics

The Brothers’ War (November 18, 2022) brought what Wizards called a first for any Magic set: serial-numbered cards. Per Wizards’ booster breakdown, each of the 63 schematic retro artifacts got 500 serialized copies, numbered 1 to 500 in double rainbow foil. They appeared in fewer than 1% of Collector Boosters. That is 31,500 numbered cards spread across 63 names.

Launch week looked like a gold rush. MTG Rocks tracked a serialized Wurmcoil Engine #217/500 selling for $1,000 on a single bid, and #159 for $710. Soon after, the TCGplayer buyer’s guide noted that most early eBay sales landed between $250 and $600, with only Chromatic Star 001/500 clearing $1,000. Here is what four of those cards have done since, using only PriceCharting sale rows whose titles show a serialized copy:

Read that table as a liquidity record, not a price forecast. With 500 copies of each card, these chases still trade a handful of times a year. Prices moved in both directions: Wurmcoil Engine never got back to its launch-week $1,000, while Cloud Key more than doubled from its 2024 sales. A fixed print run did not set the direction. Demand for the specific card did, and with so few sales, a single trade can move the “price” by hundreds of dollars.

What the lesson means for the signed headliners

• Expect even thinner trading. Each signed card has fewer than half the copies of a Brothers’ War serialized card, and only seven names exist. If a 500-copy card logs three to five sales a year, a sub-250 card can go months between public sales.
• No two copies are identical. A serial number is the only difference between two Brothers’ War serialized copies. A hand signature adds placement, boldness, and smudge risk, so comparable sales will be harder to match.
• Launch prices are the noisiest. The Wurmcoil record shows how a first-week sale can become an anchor that later sales don’t reach. The first few signed sales will say more about who was bidding that week than about long-run value.
• Demand beyond Magic matters. These cards will also draw Star Trek autograph collectors, which no serialized schematic ever had. That can support prices, but it does not make the cards trade more often.

How to act on Star Trek release weekend

If you pull one: sleeve and top-load it right away and handle it by the edges, because the signature is the value. Don’t price it off the asks above. Wait for real completed sales of that exact character, or run an auction with a reserve you would honestly accept. If the reserve isn’t met, that tells you something about the market too.

If you want to buy one: price against sold listings only, compare the signature itself, and expect early sellers to test the ceiling. A three-to-one spread in asks between cards with the same cap tells you there is no shared anchor yet.

If you are buying sealed: a $37.99 Collector Booster is a bet on the rest of its contents, with an unpublished chance at a signed card. Buy it for what you know you get. Our Nov 13 radar breaks down the Beam Me Up Bundle’s $99.99 against its boosters at MSRP. Full product details are on Wizards’ Star Trek product page.

Quick answers

How many MTG Star Trek signed cards are there? Seven different cards, each with fewer than 250 copies, per Wizards. That puts the total under 1,750.

Are the signed cards serialized? Wizards does not describe them as serial-numbered. It says only that there are fewer than 250 of each.

What are they worth? No sale had been recorded as of November 10, 2026. Early eBay asks ranged from $9,500 (Data) to about $30,000 (Kirk and Picard). An ask is not a value.

What are the odds of pulling one? Wizards has not published odds or Collector Booster print totals, so any per-pack figure you see is an estimate.

Sources: Wizards: Collecting Star Trek; Wizards: Star Trek product page; Wizards: What’s Inside The Brothers’ War Boosters?; Draftsim (Nov 10, 2026); NerdSnack; Game Rant (Nov 8, 2026); Cardsphere; UnboxTCG; MTG Rocks; TCGplayer; PriceCharting sale logs linked in the table above.