Wizards of the Coast is setting phasers to Secret Lair. The newly announced Secret Lair x Star Trek: Set Phasers to Superdrop will celebrate the franchise through transporter rescues, Klingon fury, strange new planets, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and the wonderfully chaotic crew of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Five limited drops go on sale November 9, with a mysterious sixth collection still waiting to emerge from behind the final frontier.
Beam Me Up Escapes Certain Disaster
A reliable transporter can solve nearly any problem, assuming nobody accidentally creates an evil duplicate or traps someone inside a pattern buffer.
Beam Me Up gives four existing Magic: The Gathering cards a special reversible treatment inspired by Star Trek’s iconic transporters. One side depicts a character facing immediate danger, while the reverse shows them safely materializing inside the transporter bay.
Eerie Interlude becomes “Beam Us Up,” Essence Flux receives the title “Materialize,” and Conjurer’s Closet transforms into “The Transporter.” Momentary Blink retains its original name but joins the same reversible rescue mission.
The card selection perfectly captures the function of a transporter. Each spell temporarily removes something from danger or repeatedly moves permanents in and out of play. That makes the drop especially useful for blink decks built around reusing enters-the-battlefield abilities.
Scotty may not be able to change the laws of physics, but these four cards can certainly make removal spells considerably less effective.
New Worlds Explores the Final Frontier
New Worlds transforms all five basic land types into unfamiliar planets worthy of a Starfleet expedition.
The collection includes two Plains, two Islands, two Swamps, two Mountains, and two Forests. That gives players 10 basic lands featuring different destinations from across the cosmos.
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Rather than concentrating on one crew or series, the drop celebrates exploration itself. Each card turns an ordinary land drop into another stop on an ongoing mission to seek out strange new worlds.
Ten cards also make this one of the Superdrop’s largest individual collections. It will not provide enough lands for an entire deck, but it can give a five-color Commander build an appropriately interstellar foundation.
tlhIngan maH Speaks Klingon
There is no language more commanding than Klingon, especially when the person speaking it is holding a bat’leth.
tlhIngan maH, meaning “We are Klingon,” presents five aggressively red cards through reversible designs. One side uses Klingon text, while the other reveals its English translation for players whose language studies have not yet reached warrior level.
The drop includes Demand Answers, Relentless Assault, Seething Song, War’s Toll, and Warstorm Surge.
The selection captures Klingon culture through combat, passion, directness, and an understandable desire to attack more than once. Seething Song produces an explosive burst of mana, while Relentless Assault creates another combat phase.
War’s Toll forces opponents into uncomfortable all-or-nothing decisions. Warstorm Surge turns every arriving creature into immediate damage, providing exactly the kind of battlefield entrance a Klingon warrior deserves.
The cards may be translated into English, but victory sounds better in the original Klingon.
Khan Gets the Appropriate Number of A’s
KHAAAAAAAAN revisits the vengeance, sacrifice, obsession, and magnificent shouting of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
The six-card drop adapts memorable scenes from the acclaimed film through a mechanically eclectic collection:
- Wrath of the Skies as “Best Served Cold”
- Commandeer
- Illusionist’s Gambit as “Reliant’s Betrayal”
- Buried Alive
- Genesis Wave
- Fracture
“Best Served Cold” invokes Khan’s obsessive pursuit of revenge, while Commandeer naturally captures the struggle for control between two brilliant opponents. “Reliant’s Betrayal” recreates Khan turning a Federation starship into a weapon against Kirk.
Buried Alive speaks to the film’s grief and sacrifice, while Genesis Wave evokes the reality-altering power of the Genesis Device. Fracture is an especially fitting final inclusion for a story about two men whose history has become impossible to repair.
It may not be the easiest set of cards to place inside one deck, but the collection appears designed to tell a complete cinematic story rather than support one narrow strategy.
The Lower Decks Crew Reports for Duty
The U.S.S. Cerritos may not receive Starfleet’s most glamorous missions, but it has finally earned its own Secret Lair.
The Lower Decks drop transforms four legendary creatures into the animated series’ central ensigns. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun becomes “Mariner, Breaching Protocol,” while Kambal, Profiteering Mayor becomes “Boimler, Citing Protocol.”
Silas Renn, Seeker Adept appears as “Rutherford, Rebuilding the Past,” and Thrasios, Triton Hero becomes “Tendi, Exploring the Future.”
Weatherlight completes the collection as “U.S.S. Cerritos, California-Class,” giving the crew a legendary artifact ship to carry them toward their next second-contact assignment.
The selections cover all five colors across the four characters, creating several possible Commander combinations. Thrasios and Silas Renn can even serve as partner commanders, placing Tendi and Rutherford together in the command zone.
Unfortunately, Bradward Boimler remains mechanically associated with collecting Treasure. Honestly, that sounds like a situation Mariner would never let him forget.
A Sixth Star Trek Secret Lair Drop Remains Classified
Wizards has announced that Set Phasers to Superdrop will contain six drops, but only five have been revealed.
The company has not shared the sixth collection’s theme, card list, price, or reveal date. Its absence leaves plenty of possibilities from across 60 years of Star Trek.
The final drop could explore captains, villains, Holodeck disasters, alternate timelines, or one suspiciously large collection of Tribbles. For now, that information remains classified at the highest levels of Starfleet.
The Star Trek Secret Lair Superdrop Arrives November 9
Every revealed Secret Lair x Star Trek drop will cost $29.99 in non-foil or $39.99 in traditional foil. All six limited-quantity collections go on sale November 9 at 9:00 a.m. PT through the Secret Lair storefront.
Customers will receive free shipping on orders over $99. Wizards will also include one foil Return of the Wildspeaker as “Transporter Boondoggle” for every $199 spent while promotional supplies remain.
Which revealed Star Trek Secret Lair drop are you beaming into your collection first? What do you think the classified sixth drop will celebrate? Will you display the Klingon side of the cards or use their English translations? Share your thoughts in the comments or @me.
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