Magic: The Gathering's Star Trek expansion is arriving as part of Wizards of the Coast's Universes Beyond program, and early intel suggests the set's most coveted products will face serious scarcity issues.
Collector Boosters for the set carry a $37.99 price tag and contain the rarest cards plus alternative art treatments. The problem: demand will likely exceed supply, and resellers are already positioning themselves to flip inventory at inflated prices. This creates a genuine bottleneck for collectors actually interested in the cards rather than turning a profit.
The Beam Me Up Bundle sidesteps that problem entirely. Priced at $99.99, it bundles one Collector Booster with enough additional content to justify the cost and create an easier path to the hard-to-find pack.
The bundle includes 8 Play Boosters, 30 lands (10 in full-art format), a spindown die, and a storage box. The real value add comes from two of eight possible Schematic cards that showcase iconic Star Trek ships in traditional foil, a variant exclusive to this bundle and unavailable elsewhere.
By volume, the included boosters and lands alone approach $94 in retail value, meaning you're essentially paying $5.99 more for guaranteed access to a Collector Booster that would otherwise sit in a reseller's inventory. Bundles like this historically drop in price within weeks of launch, making early action the smarter play if the set appeals to you.
The trade-off is obvious: spending nearly $100 to access a $38 product feels inefficient on paper. Whether that equation makes sense depends entirely on how badly you want those rare variants and how much you value avoiding scalper sites altogether.
Author Emily Chen: "It's telling that Wizards basically has to bundle Collector Boosters with filler just to get them into collectors' hands, but at least the Star Trek theme means the filler is actually pretty good."
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