This past weekend has been an absolute rollercoaster for Magic: The Gathering players. Between new set reveals, Lorwyn Eclipsed spoilers, and a staggering number of new Secret Lair drops, there was an awful lot to take in. Amid all the chaos, it’s easy to forget that players who ordered the Spider Man Secret Lair drops are only just now getting their hands on them, and the new Bonus Cards they contain.
We saw one of these last week in Fatal Push, but it turns out there were two more waiting in the wings. While none of these Bonus Cards are particularly high-value, they do come with an interesting gimmick. Like the comic variant covers of yesteryear, there are multiple versions of each, with the art in various stages of completion. If these variants are as rare as early reports suggest, we could be looking at some pricey Bonus Cards indeed.
Brainstorm
The first of the new Spider Man Bonus Cards for today is a true Magic: The Gathering classic. Even if you started playing recently, chances are you’ve heard of Brainstorm. It’s one of the best blue draw spells in the game, seeing play in a huge range of formats. Legacy and Vintage, in particular, are pretty much constructed around the card and the things it can do.
Financially, Brainstorm is a bit less exciting than its reputation suggests. While it’s extremely powerful, it has also been reprinted 38 times, many of which have been at common. That’s enough to do a number on the price of any card, and Brainstorm is no exception. You can get copies for just over $1 right now, which is an absolute steal given how good the card is. We have seen a couple of low-key Secret Lair versions of the card in the past, but they’re still only sitting in the $2.20-$2.80 range.
The fact that this new version is a Bonus Card should jack that price up quite a bit, mind you. Since it’s not a guaranteed drop, the number of copies on the market will be lower. Brainstorm is also the kind of card that players love to grab in blinged-out versions, so there’s likely to be a lot of demand. It’s impossible to say for sure where it will land, of course, but it could easily be rather expensive.
Harmonize
Next up is a card that seems to have been chosen for flavor rather than function. Harmonize is an old-school green draw spell, shocking at the time for giving the color access to decent draw at all. For a long time, it was also the best option in the category for green decks in Commander, and therefore saw a good amount of play.
These days, however, Harmonize has largely been power crept out of any Magic format. Green has no shortage of great card draw options now, whether it’s Guardian Project or The Great Henge. There are also many strong options in colorless, most notably The One Ring. Paying four mana for just three cards, and no other upsides, feels underwhelming in 2025, with all these other options available.
Because of this, and because of the card’s 34 reprints, Harmonize is now largely bulk. If you need a copy, it can be yours for as little as $0.14 on the low end. Interestingly, Harmonize actually seems to have a higher financial ceiling than Brainstorm when you factor in past Secret Lair versions. The Hatsune Miku version goes for around $15.50 right now, which is nothing to sniff at. This is likely mostly down to the license, of course, but the Spider Man IP holds quite a lot of weight as well. We could well see this one land in a similar place when all is said and done as a result.
Variant Covers
While the individual card picks here are solid, what’s really interesting about the Spider Man Bonus Card lineup is the pool of variants. As revealed by images from across social media, you can get these cards in a number of different versions.
When we looked at Fatal Push last week, it seemed that there was a normal and Inked version, in keeping with the Venom Unleashed drop. Now that we have more information, however, it appears things go even further than that. In addition to the full-color and Inked versions, each Bonus Card also has a sketched version with even less detail.
These variants are reminiscent of the ‘work in progress’ cards we see with each Artist Series drop. They appear to show the artwork in an early stage, with no real solid coloring at all. These versions also appear to be the rarest of the three, at least based on the prices vendors are selling them for. In a post from Throwaway_lv, one vendor is shown to be selling the full-color Harmonize for $7, and the Sketch version for a whopping $250.
It’s too early to say whether these variants are rare enough to warrant these prices. That said, it’s hard to deny their appeal. The artistic process is particularly interesting to comic book fans, after all. While it’s a tad gimmicky, it’s nice to see Wizards embrace more drop-specific Bonus Card concepts. Like the black-and-white cards from the Twisted Toons drop, these are much more fun than just having one super-rare chase card.
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