Magic: The Gathering | Star Trek Commander Deck Reveals: Choose We Are the Borg or Wait for the Other Three?

The useful news for Star Trek Commander buyers is a decklist, rather than another preorder price. Wizards' October 26 announcement reveals We Are the Borg while leaving Federation Fleet, Landing Party and Klingon Fury awaiting their contents. That changes what a UK buyer can assess before paying: Borg can now be judged as a complete deck, while its three rivals still require patience^[1]. Choose Borg if its artifact-creature and graveyard strategy is what you want to play. If you are choosing between crews, wait for the remaining lists before committing your deck budget.

This is a different decision from simply taking the first available preorder. A known strategy is useful information, but early disclosure does not establish that Borg is the strongest deck, the best collection of reprints or the right fit for your table. The immediate advantage is that you can examine what you are buying. Use that opportunity to check how the deck operates, rather than treating the first reveal as a reason to settle on it.

One revealed list, four different commitments

The official announcement identifies Federation Fleet as blue-red-white, Landing Party as green-white-blue, Klingon Fury as red-white-black and We Are the Borg as white-blue-black. At the time of writing, the first three sections say their contents will be revealed in the future; Borg has the decklist and accompanying overview^[1]. The practical comparison therefore begins with what is known about each deck, rather than a speculative ranking of four finished lists.

Colour preference is already a reasonable filter. Someone looking specifically for a green deck can rule out Borg without calculating reprint values. Someone who wants Picard's crew need not buy the Borg Queen as a substitute just because that list is available first. For an undecided player, the missing lists have decision value: they could reveal a more appealing commander, a familiar strategy or cards that better complement an existing collection.

What the Borg reveal lets you judge

Wizards describes the Borg Queen as strengthening artifact creatures and taking creatures from opponents' graveyards, turning them into Borg creatures that can provide further advantages. Locutus of Borg helps expand those forces^[1]. That is a more useful purchasing description than the franchise name alone. It points towards a deck for someone who enjoys developing a creature force while making use of opponents' discarded or destroyed creatures.

Before ordering, follow the official decklist and read the commanders alongside the rest of the deck. Look at the cards that support the artifact creatures, the ways the deck uses its graveyard plan and what you would enjoy doing over repeated games. If those actions sound appealing, Borg has cleared an important test. If you mainly want a favourite character on the box, make that preference explicit; a sealed deck purchase should not depend on an assumed playstyle that the cards do not deliver.

The reveal also makes it possible to check your collection for overlap. That matters most if you already own several Commander decks and are buying for a new experience. Read the list before assigning value to its contents: a card you already own may be useful in another deck, but it does not necessarily justify purchasing an entire preconstructed deck. A newcomer can instead judge the appeal of the complete package, without planning immediate upgrades or buying extra boosters to make it playable.

The foil decision can already be separated from the deck decision

Wizards confirms that each standard deck contains a ready-to-play 100-card deck, a traditional foil borderless face commander, 99 non-foil cards, ten double-sided tokens, a reference card and a deck box. The announcement describes 32 new-to-Magic cards among those 99. Collector's Editions contain the same ready-to-play deck with surge foil cards, including a surge foil borderless face commander^[1]. Buyers can therefore choose a strategy first and decide whether the treatment is worth extra money second.

In the current snapshot, the lowest buyable standard Borg listing is £59.95, compared with £144.95 for its Collector's Edition. That is an additional £85.00 for the premium edition. These are item prices from listings marked in stock or pre-order, before delivery^[3]. For someone buying to play the revealed deck, the standard version provides the same card selection. The extra expenditure needs to be justified by wanting the foil treatment itself.

Across the tracked Star Trek Commander products, including Collector's Editions and any deck-set rows, 8 products have listings. There are 25 listing rows from 5 retailers: 4 in stock, 4 pre-order and 17 out of stock. Of the four individual standard decks, 1 currently have a buyable listing^[3]. Those are listing-status counts, not quantities of decks held by shops.

Read the status column before comparing the displayed prices. An out-of-stock quote cannot be checked out and does not establish what a rival deck will cost when orders reopen. Likewise, a Collector's Edition preorder for another crew does not oblige a buyer to spend more to secure that theme. If you want its standard edition, follow the matching product page and wait for a buyable standard listing.

Star Trek We Are the Borg Commander Deck

Buyable item price
£59.95

Tracked listings
4

A dash means no listing is currently marked in stock or pre-order.

Star Trek Federation Fleet Commander Deck

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Tracked listings
3

A dash means no listing is currently marked in stock or pre-order.

Star Trek Landing Party Commander Deck

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Tracked listings
3

A dash means no listing is currently marked in stock or pre-order.

Star Trek Klingon Fury Commander Deck

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Tracked listings
3

A dash means no listing is currently marked in stock or pre-order.

Interest supports comparison, not a rush to order

Google Trends data for Great Britain over the past three months includes “star trek mtg commander deck” among related queries for “mtg commander deck” in the October 27 reading^[4]. That is evidence of product-specific search interest. It gives buyers a useful reason to follow the reveals, but it supplies neither a UK sales count nor a measure of remaining retailer allocations. The concrete development today is that one of those searches can now lead to an actual revealed list.

Wizards gives November 13, 2026 as the release date for both editions^[2]. Its decklist announcement does not give reveal dates for the other three lists. A buyer waiting for them should watch the official page rather than assume a daily schedule. Revisit the internal product pages alongside each reveal: the useful moment to compare is when you have both the contents you want and a buyable quote for the correct edition.

The decision is consequently quite narrow. Buy standard Borg if the revealed artifact-creature and graveyard plan appeals, the current delivered price fits your budget and you are comfortable with the retailer's preorder terms. Wait if your preference still depends on seeing Picard, Spock or Worf's complete decks. There is no need to predict a price fall to justify waiting: learning which deck you actually want is already a sufficient reason to keep the money uncommitted.