Quick Hits

• Star Trek launch week is here. Following yesterday's debut stream, Draftsim has your prerelease primer, a ranking of the four precon face commanders, a breakdown of all ten Limited archetypes, and a case that the set is secretly a high-power combo Commander release.
• Kicker is now deciduous. Mark Rosewater confirmed the mechanic will recur across sets going forward — the question was prompted by a Dimir rare among the Star Trek spoilers.
• Azorius Control "handily owned" Modern's recent RC Los Angeles, per MTGStocks, which flags key cards from the 75 as price-watch targets.
• Standard jank alert: MTGGoldfish is attempting Green Tron with no Tron lands, leveraging a new Emrakul that turns your lands into Sol Lands — and Denzilore Fatehold is going infinite.

Set News

Star Trek is 2026's final set — and the year's last Universes Beyond release — and Draftsim's prerelease guide covers everything you need before you sit down to rip packs. The set's Commander offerings are already generating buzz, with Kirk, Enterprising Captain among the revealed faces. Over on the data side, EDHREC shipped a redesign follow-up adding popular tags to the revamped commander pages — a quality-of-life win if you deck-build by themes. Evergreen readers can also catch Draftsim's Constellation retrospective and their ranking of the 59 best Humans in Magic.

Commander Corner

The Star Trek precons are the headliners: Draftsim has ranked all four face commanders and gone deeper with an argument that the set is secretly a high-power combo Commander release — not just a flavor crossover. If you're picking one up, Spock, Logical Choice already has a primer aimed at newer players looking to leverage instant-speed play. From the new-lore side, EDHREC decks out Denzilore Fatehold as a +1/+1 counters build from Reality Fracture's Echoverse. Spooky season continues with Minn, Wily Illusionist illusion typal, plus the usual evergreen goodness: all 13 Ooze commanders ranked, a 60-to-100 conversion of Izzet Spellementals, and a Top 10 large-life-loss list for Hela. Still holding Warhammer 40K precons? Draftsim checks whether they're worth it and offers 17 easy upgrades for The Ruinous Powers.

Competitive Scene

Two Standard experiments from MTGGoldfish this week: Single Scoop tries to Green Tron without Tron lands, using the new Emrakul to turn lands into Sol Lands, while Against the Odds builds infinite loops around Denzilore Fatehold. Eternal-format readers get Joe Dyer twice: This Week in Legacy surveys the many colours of Tron, and Vintage 101 digs into Jace in Vintage.

Finance & Market

With Azorius Control's dominant performance at RC Los Angeles fresh in everyone's mind, MTGStocks runs down cards from the deck that could see price movement — worth a look before the market fully digests the results.

Design & Lore

Rosewater's blog was busy today:

• Kicker is deciduous — expect it sprinkled through future sets, as foreshadowed by that Dimir rare in Star Trek spoilers.
• Flavor words are flexible on reprints — they can be added or subtracted, and readers cited existing examples like Shadowspear → Totec's Spear (added) and Black Market Connections (removed).
• Flavor text on basic lands is coming in Marvel's Darkhold Destiny, done when appropriate.
• On UB sets: R&D designs years ahead and locks content 6-9 months before release, so very recent source material is mostly off-limits without partner cooperation.
• A non-Shapeshifter creature with changeling is an "if," flavor permitting.
• Asked for a postmortem on Avacyn Restored's Limited reception, Rosewater's terse reply name-checks Alara Reborn as "okay, but not a huge success."

Finally, high fives were requested and granted for Thrór's Map (one reader's card of the year), Tam the Possibility, and Q, Stacking the Deck — a good day for design-team morale. See you at the Star Trek prerelease.