Whether you attended MagicCon Las Vegas yourself or decided to celebrate from home, many MTG players picked up the recent MagicCon Las Vegas Festival-in-a-Box. The value provided in these boxes was incredible from a financial perspective, so picking them up makes a lot of sense.
Adding even more unexpected value, it appears that the Slay the Day Secret Lair that was available as part of the MagicCon Festival in a Box has a randomized Bonus Card slot. This grants the potential for some seriously expensive goodies for lucky players, but we can’t really say that these promos are otherwise exciting.
The Big Prize
Of all the Secret Lair Bonus Cards discovered for Slay the Day, this Seven Dwarves is likely the chase card. This particular variant has not yet been sighted on TCGplayer, suggesting that this might be its first appearance in the wild.
Doing various treatments on cards that break deck restriction rules is a larger pattern we’ve seen in chase Secret Lair Bonus Cards. Particularly persistent fans can try to collect enough copies of these cards to play in a themed Commander deck. The unique demand combined with extreme scarcity means that these reprints generally have a surprising price tag attached to them.
Looking at current prices for Seven Dwarves Secret Lair variants, these don’t seem quite as expensive as past chase cards with the same characteristics. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re cheap, either. All of Seven Dwarves’ Secret Lair printings range from $50 to $125 in value, an astronomical premium for a 7-cent card. This Seven Dwarves variant marks the fifth one discovered. There’s no guarantee that exactly seven different printings will appear, but it would make a lot of sense.
This probably isn’t the last of the Seven Dwarves Secret Lair cards, but even if this is on the cheaper side of the collection, $50 is still an amazing pull in the Bonus Card slot.
As valuable as this is, these are all promos we’ve seen before. Seven Dwarves is only exciting for a very select few. The following cards don’t break patterns we’ve already seen, either, which has made the reaction to them rather unceremonious.
Stitcher’s Supplier
Stitcher’s Supplier recently got a white-bordered treatment in Mystery Booster 2, and it now has a foil retro-bordered treatment as a Bonus Card from the Slay the Day Secret Lair. This follows an established pattern of Retro Foil Zombies appearing as more common Bonus Cards in recent Secret Lair products. Supplier appears to be the card that players are most excited about from this collection, but it isn’t worth that much.
Stitcher’s Supplier is among the best cards that one can employ for a graveyard-based strategy, but it isn’t worth much financially. 25 cents for a card that can, essentially, mill six cards for one mana is a steal. Supplier’s low price tag comes from a massive amount of reprints, commonly appearing in any Commander precons that have any resemblance of a graveyard strategy.
All of that said, Stitcher’s Suppliers previous Secret Lair appearances could suggest that this particular card might be worth more than players expect. The only Secret Lair variant available at the time of writing goes for $15. We wouldn’t expect this printing to go for as much since other Retro Foil Zombies don’t have huge premiums, but the popular ones, like Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver, are surprisingly expensive. Stitcher’s Supplier does see a lot of play, so it may land somewhere in the middle.
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion also has the potential for a decent premium thanks to it being a possible Commander. To date, Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion doesn’t have any premium printings at all. A few reprints aside, the most expensive copy of Neheb is its prerelease variant at just over a dollar. The cheapest variant doesn’t even scratch 50 cents.
While Neheb does have the potential to have some ravenous fans, numbers suggest that this card won’t be popular. According to EDHREC, Neheb only has about 448 decks, which is incredibly low. The card sees no constructed play, either, which means that this is likely not a card you want to see in your Slay the Day Bonus Slot.
Cleaver Skaab
We may have saved Cleaver Skaab for last, but it’s certainly not the least, at least in terms of reprint value. This is a popular Zombie Typal card in Commander, that’s capable of not only killing your Zombies for death triggers, but replacing them with two token copies. To date, the card has only appeared in Commander: Innistrad Midnight Hunt and has a $5 secondary market value.
Thanks to being a massively valuable tool for Zombie Typal, there will always be some level of demand for Cleaver Skaab, and among the variants available, this Secret Lair Bonus Card is going to be the rarest. As such, there’s a good chance it’s going to be worth a decent amount of money.
Ultimately, these might not be all the Bonus Cards you can find in Slay the Day, just the ones that have appeared on the internet. That said, this likely does encompass the bulk of the cards that you can expect to find.