Summary
Some of the most fun you can find withMagic: The Gatheringcards come from Secret Lairs. These cards are sometimes very silly, pulling in-jokes from the community, giving spotlights to famous artists, or are Universes Beyond cards coming in to expand the game.
Only around for a limited time, the Our Boss Is On Vacation Superdrop brings together nine Secret Lairs under one banner for players to collect. If you’re looking to pick up a few of these drops but aren’t sure if they’re worth it, we dug into the card’s average value in each drop and brought them together for you to judge for yourself.
The prices here are pulled fromTCGplayer.com’sMarket Value and are subject to change over time.
9Secret Lair x SpongeBob SquarePants: Lands Under The Sea
Value: $0.75
The Lands Under the Sea Secret Lair takes players to various locations like the Plains showcasing Jellyfish Fields or the Swamp showing off Rock Bottom.Each of the five landsis unique and really captures the feel of the show.
The nice thing with this Secret Lair is that it comes with two of each basic land, which is an increase from other basic land Secret Lairs. You might only need to pick up one or two of these to get enough lands for a deck, especially since on the secondary market, these lands are bound to spike in price.
8Secret Lair x SpongeBob SquarePants: Internet Sensation
Value: $8.98
SpongeBob SquarePants has a long history of taking over digital culture with all sorts of silly screenshots and lines from the show. This ironic Secret Lair takes six of these amazing memes and dumps them on some of the most appropriate Magic cards possible.
Counterspell being the mocking SpongeBob meme is absolutely perfect, and you’re able to be tons of people will be following it up with a “I cAsT oMnIsCiEnCe” immediately afterward. While not everyone is going to love these cards, they’re great for what they are.
7Secret Lair High: Class Of ‘87
Value: $11.08
Throw on the nostalgia goggles ‘cause this Secret Lair takes you back to the far-off year of 1987 with a high school yearbook-style drop. There are only four cards in this Secret Lair, and not one of the legendary creatures in it are particularly valuable but they are very fun and if you run them as your commander, you’ll want to pick up a few of these.
The front of each of these features an amazing stylized card with artwork from Stephen Andrade, while the back is a delightful mess of squiggles and funky shapes with high school text and all their abilities, designed by Scott Okumura.
6Pick ‘em & Stick ‘em
Value: $13.75
This is a bit of a hard Secret Lair to pin down, mostly because of those five sticker sheets. This Secret Lair features art from Rian Gonzales and the cards picked are delightful, filled with bright colors and popping artwork, the real treasure is from the sticker sheet.
See, Magic has only released a few sticker sheets during the Unfinity run, but this Secret Lair introduces brand new sticker sheets with special artwork from Gonzales. Pitiless Plunderer and Hedron Crab are particularly worthwhile in this set, since they’re hard to track down normally.
5Tragic Romance
Value: $15.54
Illustrator Abigail Larson gets her own Secret Lair drop with the Tragic Romance collection, a four-card drop that tells a story of forbidden romance across each card. Two legendary creatures are at the center of this drop,Skithiryx, the Blight Dragonand Kaalia of the Vast.
Larson definitely dove into the romantasy elements of the two, and according to the description of the drop, this is all part of a custom fanfiction that the art director put together and had Larson illustrate.
4Twisted Toons
Value: $22.14
If you’re all about that old-timey vibe, you are going to love the Twisted Toons drop. This Secret Lair collection takes four very good cards, and then a Young Wolf, and gives them a Looney Tunes feel.
Each card has artwork from illustrator Desmuncubic and between the stylized, cartoony artwork and the eye-catching font, you’re able to get a ton of milage out of this Secret Lair drop in formats like Commander.
3They Grow Up So Fast
Value: $24.46
Every Dragon, from hellkites to Dragonlords, start as cute little guys and gals, and the They Grow Up So Fast Secret Lair show gives you some absolutely adorablereversible kindred Dragon cards to play with.
The front of each card features a Tarkiran Dragonlord in their full glory, while the back give us a much cuter look a them as little hatchlings. Even though Dragons on Tarkir are born as full adults from dragonstorms on Tarkir, this Secret Lair breaks time and space to give us a cute look into these babies.
2Secret Lair x SpongeBob SquarePants: Legends Of Bikini Bottom
Value: $28.72
All your favorite SpongeBob SquarePants characters are now in Magic, coming as reskinned cards that are (mostly) very strong. SpongeBob himself takes the role as Jodah, the Unifier, a legendary creature kindred commander that gives you a functional form of cascade but exclusively for legendary creatures.
Each other character is themed based on the animal they’re based on, like Sandy Cheeks being Toski, Bearer of Secrets, and Squidward being Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar.
1Garden Buds
Value: $32.19
This neat Secret Lair is all about lands and green spells, centered around Ashaya, Soul of the World. Each card here features artwork from Jordan Crane, and breaks traditional formatting rules to tell a story in each card.
These cards are all solid choices, with Ashaya, Soul of the World being a popular commander pick, both as the commander and in the 99 since she makes all your creatures into lands as well. To pair with her, you have Horn of Greed, which lets you draw cards when you have lands, now your creatures, come into play.
