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Magic: The Gathering Star Trek Set Adds a Token-Replacing Holo Engineer
The Magic: The Gathering Star Trek set goes on sale November 13, with official stores selling it from November 6. The Universes Beyond release coincides with Star Trek's 60th anniversary.
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Why it matters
The replacement is mandatory, so a four-mana creature turns Treasure, Clue, and Food production into 3/3 creature production, which reaches into older formats where those tokens are everywhere.
Holo Engineer, the previewed card, costs four mana and creates a colorless 3/3 Illusion artifact creature token when it enters. While it is on the battlefield, any token created under your control becomes that many 3/3 Illusion artifact creature tokens instead.
Two Magic teams worked on a starship mechanic at the same time. The Star Trek design team began while a separate team was developing Edge of Eternities, and the two groups settled on the Edge of Eternities version, which shipped August 1, 2025.
The preview card depicts Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the Deep Space Nine character who built the medical hologram known as the Doctor. Its flavor text comes from a scene about a prototype whose eyes struck the model as lifeless.
Because the token substitution is compulsory, Treasure, Clue, and Food arrive as 3/3 Illusion artifact creatures whether the pilot wants mana or a body. Pitiless Plunderer is the piece the article pairs with it for a three-card combo in Modern and below.
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