Quick Hits

• Star Trek preview season is live. Tuesday's WeeklyMTG debut stream kicked off spoilers with roughly 45 new cards and new mechanics — headliners include Captain Benjamin Sisko, Nyota Uhura, Captain Jonathan Archer, the U.S.S. Discovery at Black Alert, and the Romulan Bird-of-Prey (Draftsim's full recap, MTGGoldfish, EDHREC).
• Magic just topped $600 million in quarterly earnings for the first time, per EDHREC — and Mark Rosewater flagged an NPR Marketplace segment citing MTG as Hasbro's main growth driver.
• A Secret Lair sellout has Mystery Booster Commander boxes fetching around $700, per Draftsim's report on the latest Festival in a Box debacle.
• A FedEx truck full of PSA-graded cards was burglarized, with a Golden Headliner Smaug reportedly among the stolen orders (Draftsim).
• Warhammer 40,000 Commander decks are getting reprinted — MTGStocks examines the secondary-market fallout and what it signals about future reprints.

Set News

The Star Trek debut dominated the day. EDHREC's recap covers the Stardate-Tuesday stream that officially launched preview week, while Draftsim catalogued all 45 new cards and MTGGoldfish broke down the new mechanics. Individual cards are already hitting the r/magicTCG galleries, including Captain Benjamin Sisko, Nyota Uhura, Communications, Captain Jonathan Archer, the U.S.S. Discovery, at Black Alert, and the Romulan Bird-of-Prey.

Rosewater's first Star Trek "Making Magic" preview column digs into his personal history with the franchise. He also answered why 2026 got seven Magic sets: "We had to do seven because two sets weren't full size." Good news for Universes Within hopefuls — MaRo says IP-specific species like Klingons or Skrulls can get a one-for-one substitution in an in-universe reprint.

Looking further ahead, WotC teased next year's Marvel crossover at New York Comic Con, and EDHREC already has a Darkhold-themed deck tech for Gargantos, the Endbringer.

Commander Corner

With Reality Fracture putting Jace on everyone's mind, EDHREC ranks every Jace for the command zone. Staying in the set, Draftsim spotlights Aerid Konstrari as an infinite-power combo brew worth building, and EDHREC ranks every scry-payoff card — arguing Denzilore Fatehold is one of Reality Fracture's biggest commanders, if a boring one.

On the competitive end of the format, EDHREC examines wheels in cEDH and why they thrive in a format where players hoard every resource. Elsewhere: Draftsim ranks 20 underrated Boros commanders, builds a control-flavored Meria, Scholar of Antiquity list, and settles the eternal Talismans vs. Signets debate for your mana base.

Competitive Scene

MTGGoldfish's Best Standard Deck Ever bracket pits the tournament's oldest deck — 1994 Black Lotus Control — against Primeval Titan-fueled Wolf Run Ramp from 2011. Meanwhile, the MTGGoldfish Podcast (Ep. 610) asks whether pile shuffling is cheating, prompted by a WotC ad, and whether concessions in Magic can ever be ended.

Finance & Market

The $600M quarter caps a run EDHREC frames as Magic carrying Hasbro — back in July, MTG was "the clearest reason Hasbro had" a good quarter, and the ceiling keeps rising. The Warhammer 40,000 Commander reprint is the reprint story to watch, with MTGStocks weighing what it means for deck prices and future reprint cadence. Add the Festival in a Box sellout inflating Mystery Booster Commander boxes to ~$700 and the PSA truck heist, and it's a weird week for cardboard value. One micro-nugget from MaRo: don't hold your breath for a Telepathy reprint — "there's very little demand for it."

Design & Lore

Beyond his preview column, Rosewater weighed in on the buzzy Q, Stacking the Deck ("Happy to hear that"), confirmed he's a fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars, and revealed he mostly plays Limited — favoring bleeder decks that stall and plink away at opponents. He also promised the Drive to Work years-in-review will return for 2019 onward "at some point." For your pop-culture file: the new Street Fighter movie (set in 1993) features Magic cards on a desk, including a wince-inducing Mox Ruby tucked under a monitor. And a r/magicTCG thread is debating whether WotC should introduce a "humanoid" type grouping tied to Kamigawa: Titanbreach mechanics — an interesting flavor-vs-rules fight to watch.