If you didn’t hear the announcement last Star Trek Day, Magic: The Gathering (published by Wizards of the Coast) will be releasing for the 60th anniversary in November a brand new Star Trek themed set. Today Creation Entertainment have announced a new sponsorship from Wizards of the Coast for STLV.

Official announcement text:

CREATION ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS STLV: TREK TO VEGAS
SPONSORED BY MAGIC THE GATHERING

TM & © 2026 Wizards of the Coast LLC.

TREK TO VEGAS TO CELEBRATE 60 YEARS OF MAGICAL STAR TREK LORE

Las Vegas, NV – Rio Hotel in Las Vegas, August 5-9, 2026 – Creation Entertainment is proud to announce that Wizards of the Coast, publisher of Magic: The Gathering is sponsoring the 2026 STLV: Trek To Vegas convention. This sponsorship brings unprecedented opportunities to this year’s attendees, including; swag and giveaways, photo opps, a premiere panel, special guests with meet and greet opportunities, set previews, a chance to learn how to play Magic with game designers and fellow fans.

STLV will mark the first time fans can play with Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek™ Welcome Decks ahead of its release in November. In this brand-new set, your favorite characters from across the Star Trek galaxy come to life in exciting ways, with art that captures iconic moments and more. This set will be available for pre-order at the convention.

60 years has come and gone and this is the most exciting time to celebrate with your favorite actors, writers, directors, podcasters, historians, and fan favorites from the world of “Star Trek” including; William Shatner, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Kate Mulgrew, Celia Rose Gooding, Paul Giamatti, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Scott Bakula, 180 celebrity guests have signed on so far, with more to come.

Please join Creation Entertainment and Magic: The Gathering in Las Vegas, for the most incredible fan experience of 2026. This year’s event is expected to sell out; tickets are on sale now.

https://creationent.com/events/stlv-26/tickets

I’m not even a Magic player and I can’t wait to try out the Welcome Decks.

Just an FYI, if anyone looks into this and sees a good deal of negativity in the MTG community about it, it isn't that they're specifically negative about Star Trek, but rather there's just a general growing discontent with the volume and variety of 3rd party IP sets being produced in the last year or two. The sets are usually pretty solid on theming for those who like that IP, play quality varies (but that's true for any set), usually feels better when the set has a bit of a story to it.

These sets are created with the primary goal to pull in new players based on the IP, collecting the game is not cheap, but there's a wide variety of interesting ways to play it. You won't be "competitive" with just cards from this set (if that matters to you), you'll probably need a variety of IP cards from things like Marvel, Turtles, Airbender or Final Fantasy as well as the Magic core IPs.

Look, I don’t expect to actually play at all. But I’m not going to worry about being competitive if I do.

I just started playing MTG and didn't know about this forthcoming Trek expansion, so I'm intrigued.

They have a series of sets they make that themed after existing IPs. The latest was Marvel.

We will be in the Holosuite coming up with the wildest community formats to keep this going as long as possible.

I know nothing about the game, but can one of them be a 47 minute timed limit?