MTG Star Trek Signed Cards: Shatner and Mulgrew Autograph Cards Explained

The biggest bombshell from the MTG Star Trek First Look wasn't a card design — it was ink. For the first time in Magic: The Gathering's history, the Star Trek set includes signed cards physically autographed by the actors who played the characters. Not printed signatures. Actual pen-on-cardboard autographs from Star Trek legends, randomly seeded into booster packs.

Seven "headliner" characters get a special treatment: full-art, textless cards with a signature field where the rules text would normally sit. Each card was printed, then individually signed by the actor who portrayed that character, and inserted into Collector Boosters. A signed card can show up in a Collector Booster of any language, though the card itself is always in English.

The two revealed so far are exactly who you'd guess:

• Captain James T. Kirk, signed by William Shatner
• Captain Kathryn Janeway, signed by Kate Mulgrew

The other five are still under wraps, but Wizards dropped two hints on stream: they're not all captains, and — stating the obvious with a wink — the actors had to be alive to sign them. That rules out some beloved icons and has the community speculating hard. Patrick Stewart feels like a lock. Beyond that? Start theorizing.

Fun detail from the reveal: the Wizards team said Shatner was a total pro at the signing table and genuinely curious about how fans would end up pulling the cards.

Wizards says there are approximately 250 copies of each signed card. That's it. Two hundred and fifty Shatner-signed Kirks in existence, exclusive to Collector Boosters ($37.99 MSRP each, if you can find them at MSRP).

For context, that puts these autograph cards in the same rarity territory as the serialized concept Praetors from Modern Horizons 3, which were numbered to 250. The serialized market is famously swingy — one MH3 serialized card has sold for over $2,000 while equally rare ones sit under $800 — but those didn't have a genuine celebrity autograph attached. These cards sit at the intersection of Magic collecting, sports-card-style autograph chasing, and sixty years of Star Trek fandom. The ceiling could be very, very high.

Let's be honest about the market reality: Collector Boosters have been getting cleaned out by scalpers since the Final Fantasy set, and adding a lottery ticket signed by William Shatner to the box is gasoline on that fire.

Our advice, as always: preorder through your local game store early, and lock in MSRP where you can. If you're buying Collector Boosters purely to chase an autograph card, understand the math — at roughly 250 copies per card spread across a global print run, these are lottery odds. Buy boosters because you want the set; treat a signed pull as winning the away-mission jackpot.

Everything else revealed so far — the Star Trek Commander decks, the LCARS shock lands, and the Stardates bonus sheet — is covered in the rest of our Star Trek coverage.

The MTG Star Trek set features seven signed headliner cards hand-autographed by Star Trek actors, including William Shatner's Kirk and Kate Mulgrew's Janeway, with roughly 250 copies of each. They're textless, full-art, and exclusive to Collector Boosters when the set releases November 13, 2026. Five more signed characters are still unrevealed — and they're not all captains. We'll break down the rest as Wizards beams them in. Nerd Leagues out.