Magic Star Trek Beam Me Up Lets You Recast Spells From Graveyard
Beam me up, a new mechanic in Magic: The Gathering's Star Trek set, is reportedly an alternative casting cost that lets a player cast an instant or sorcery from their graveyard by paying its beam me up cost and returning a creature they control to its owner's hand. It was introduced in November 2026 with the set.
A spell cast for its beam me up cost is exiled when it leaves the stack, whether it resolves, is countered, or fails to resolve because its targets became illegal. Returning the creature is part of the cost, not part of resolution, so an opponent cannot respond by removing that creature after the spell is cast. Any creature the player controls can be returned, including tapped, stunned or summoning-sick creatures. Tokens are eligible but cease to exist in hand. A creature the player has assimilated returns to its owner's hand, not the player's. A creature enchanted by Marooned cannot be returned to pay the cost.
A spell's mana value does not change when it is cast with beam me up; it is determined by the printed mana cost. A beam me up card can be cast whenever that spell type could normally be cast: sorceries in the player's main phase with an empty stack, instants whenever the player has priority. The card must be in the graveyard and the player must control a creature to return. The only cards with beam me up natively are sorceries.
Beam me up differs from flashback in that it requires returning a creature you control to its owner's hand; both exile the spell once it leaves the stack.
Cards listed with beam me up are Adversary by Algorithm, Boarding Action, Energize, Federation Resupply, Final Frontier, Open Communications, Pattern Buffer Preservation, Pure Energy, There's Coffee in that Nebula and Transporter Malfunction. Open Communications, a blue sorcery, was one of the first beam me up cards previewed, revealed in early Star Trek previews in August 2026. Final Frontier searches the library for a basic land card or planet card and puts it onto the battlefield tapped, and it can be repeated for its beam me up cost. Federation Resupply tutors an aura, equipment, or spacecraft card and can do so again for its beam me up cost.
Scotty, Miracle Worker costs 3 mana and gives each card in your graveyard beam me up, but only instants and sorceries can be cast this way, and only during your main phases. It has no beam me up cost of its own. Reddit cEDH players have discussed using Scotty, Miracle Worker in decks led by Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh, a 0-mana commander.
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