Curiously, despite prerelease events kicking off last weekend, we’re yet to see MTG Star Trek make a major impact. While it has had some strong showings in competitive formats, financially, it’s nowhere.
So far, none of the set’s precons or spicy main set cards have caused any major price spikes, which is a huge surprise. Instead, it seems that Reality Fracture and its impressive suite of Commanders are still leading the charge.
While it has taken some time, cards like The Chain Veil have been climbing consistently thanks to this set. If sales keep up as they have, this card’s already solid price increase might just be the start.
MTG The Chain Veil
Originally released in Magic 2015, which confusingly was released in 2014, The Chain Veil is a true Superfriends staple. Essentially, this card lets you use each of your Planeswalkers twice in one turn, which is hugely powerful.
Whether you’re using The Chain Veil to accelerate loyalty counter production or build towards an Ultimate fast, it’s very hard to go wrong. Hell, if you’ve got mana to spare and can untap The Chain Veil, you can even activate it multiple times per turn.
Thanks to this strength, which only gets better the more Planeswalkers you have, The Chain Veil has long seen widespread play. In any deck that uses a ton of Planeswalkers, like
Commodore Guff
Commodore Guff
At the beginning of your end step, put a loyalty counter on another target planeswalker you control.
+1: Create a 1/1 red Wizard creature token with "{T}: Add {R}. Spend this mana only to cast a planeswalker spell."
−3: You draw X cards and Commodore Guff deals X damage to each opponent, where X is the number of planeswalkers you control.
Commodore Guff can be your commander.
or
Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice
Atraxa, Praetors’ Voice
Flying, vigilance, deathtouch, lifelink
At the beginning of your end step, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
, this card is usually in the 99.
To date, in fact, The Chain Veil sees play in around 67,000 decks, according to EDHREC. While impressive, this number did get a substantial boost recently thanks to Reality Fracture.
In this set, which was one of the best in 2026, we got
Tam, the Possibility
Tam, the Possibility
Planeswalker spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.
{W}{U}{B}{R}{G}, {T}: Proliferate X times, where X is the number of planeswalker types among planeswalkers you control. (To proliferate, choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
, who is a purpose-built five-color Superfriends Commander. As if that wasn’t enough,
Jace, Multiverse Architect
Jace, Multiverse Architect
At the beginning of combat on each opponent's turn, they may pay {2}. If they don't, creatures they control can't attack Jaces you control this turn.
+1: Draw two cards, then put a card from your hand on the bottom of your library.
−3: Exile another target planeswalker or creature you control. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a creature or planeswalker card. Put that card onto the battlefield and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Jace, Multiverse Architect can be your commander.
has also been using The Chain Veil, as it helms a surprising number of Jace Typal decks.
Through these two cards alone, over 8,000 new decks using The Chain Veil have been created, but it doesn’t stop there. Multiple new Commanders from Mystery Booster: Commander Edition are also picking up this staple artifact to great effect.
With
Arzakon
Arzakon
+2: Arzakon deals 3 damage to any other target.
−3: Create a Black Lotus token. (It's a {0} artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add three mana of any one color.")
−7: Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.
Arzakon can be your commander.
,
Feroz, Ulgrotha’s Warden
Feroz, Ulgrotha’s Warden
+2: Create two 1/1 blue Bird creature tokens with flying.
0: Draw a card. You may put a permanent card with mana value 4 or less from your hand onto the battlefield.
−7: Create a Feroz's Ban token. (It's a {6} artifact with "Creature spells cost {2} more to cast.")
Feroz, Ulgrotha's Warden can be your commander.
, and
Worzel, the Protector
Worzel, the Protector
0: Create a 1/1 white Cat creature token with "{T}: Put a loyalty counter on each planeswalker you control."
−1: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a planeswalker or basic Plains card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
−8: Create ten Scryb Sprites tokens. (They're {G} 1/1 Faerie creatures with flying.)
Worzel, the Protector can be your commander.
all using The Chain Veil, demand has been rather consistent. Admittedly, these three are only responsible for around 1,500 new decks, but that’s still not to be scoffed at.
A Staple’s Steady Spike
While The Chain Veil has been a staple in Superfriends decks since it was released, it wasn’t always hugely expensive. Following its reprint in Commander Masters, the price of this card tanked from around $33 to just $5.
A few months ago, for instance, a near-mint Magic 2015 copy of The Chain Veil would have set you back $4.88. Thanks to over 160 sales in the past month, however, prices have been creeping up rather steadily.
Currently, the same near-mint Magic 2015 copy of The Chain Veil will set you back $18.85, including shipping. This marks a 286% price increase over the past few months, and finding a cheaper variant is going to be near-impossible.
Despite being from a more modern set with a higher print run, the Commander Masters reprint of The Chain Veil is barely any cheaper. Right now, near-mint copies of this printing will run you $18.48, so you’re basically splitting hairs.
The same is also true for The List reprint of The Chain Veil, as that’s selling for $19.26 right now. At best, the cheapest copy of this card you can find on TCGplayer right now is $16.49, but that’s for a lightly played example.
Notably, while prices are up across the board, there’s actually still a fair bit of supply left on TCGplayer. With around 450 copies available across all three printings, this isn’t a last-minute spike as the market dries up.
A Stable Staple?
Looking ahead, while it’s impossible to predict the future of MTG, especially its many price spikes, this one does feel somewhat solid. Unlike many spikes we see, there’s still a good bit of supply here, and this card has long been popular, so it hasn’t popped up out of nowhere.
Due to this, it’s unlikely that demand for The Chain Veil will completely dry up overnight, as it really is a Superfriends staple. In the short term, it’d take something like a new reprint to really drive prices down again.
That being said, while Superfriends decks are back in vogue thanks to Tam and Jace, their popularity might not be eternal. While it seems that the Star Trek MTG set hasn’t pushed them out of the spotlight, Nauctis: The Sunken Realm might manage it.
If, or rather when, this happens, we could see the price of The Chain Veil dip slightly as interest shifts elsewhere. Considering that Superfriends is a fairly beloved and well-supported archetype, however, it might not completely bottom out.
Ultimately, as is often the case with MTG finance, we can only really wait and see what happens in the future.
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