Pattern Buffer Preservation
New in Star Trek (TRK), releasing November 13, 2026.
Pattern Buffer Preservation: Sorcery, Star Trek. Look at the top two cards of your library. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{B}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colour identity
- Black (B)
- Rarity
- Common
- Set
- Star Trek (TRK)
- Released
- 2026-11-13
- Collector number
- 123
- Artist
- Alex Negrea
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About Pattern Buffer Preservation
Pattern Buffer Preservation is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common black sorcery from Star Trek (TRK), an expansion set released in November 2026. It is collector number 123 in that set, with art by Alex Negrea. It costs {1}{B} (one generic and one black mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is black. Star Trek is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.42 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Beam me up {1}{B} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for {1}{B} if you also return a creature you control to its owner's hand. Then exile this spell.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.42 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
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