Despite Magic’s Final Fantasy spoiler season continuing throughout this week, Wizards of the Coast is beginning to gear up in earnest for Secret Lair’s next big drop. Three new non-Final Fantasy Secret Lair drops have been revealed as part of the 2025 Summer Superdrop, and some of them have impressive reprints attached.
All three of these drops are artist-related, but one offers a much more enticing reprint value than the rest. Either way, the 2025 Summer Superdrop appears to be shaping up nicely ahead of its release on June 9th at 12:00 PM EST.
Featuring Imiri Sakabashira
Of the three drops revealed today, the Featuring Imiri Sakabashira is, by far, the most exciting one. The drop may only have four cards included, but an extremely good heavy-hitter balances out the value.
This heavy hitter is, of course, Consecrated Sphinx – one of blue’s Commander Game Changers. As this designation suggests, Consecrated Sphinx is one of the most powerful blue cards in all of Commander. Thanks to the four-player nature of the format, Consecrated Sphinx threatens to draw an absurd number of cards if left unchecked.
Consecrated Sphinx already has a couple of Secret Lair drops, one of which is the cheapest variant of the card. This variant sells for $34, which bucks the usual trend regarding Secret Lairs having a premium. As the premium variants age, however, they are likely to become more expensive. Either way, Consecrated Sphinx should reliably be enough to recoup the value of this entire Secret Lair.
The value doesn’t stop with Consecrated Sphinx, either. Scion of Draco still sees play in Modern Domain decks, and retails for about $4 as a result. Sadly, Resculpt and Mirage Mirror don’t hold significant secondary market values, but this Secret Lair is easily worth the buy either way.
Artist Series: Phil Foglio
Phil Foglio’s Artist Series drop offers one card that’s much more interesting than the others. Constant Mists is an extremely scarce but very niche reprint that sees a healthy amount of Duel Commander play. The card can essentially function as a repetitive Fog in exchange for one of your lands. In a focused strategy, this could effectively stop an opponent from ever dealing combat damage to you.
Despite this powerful application, very few decks are actually capable of sacrificing lands while developing or even maintaining their board state. As a result, Constant Mists’ $16.66 secondary market price is more likely a result of the card’s last printing appearing in Magic’s 1998 Stronghold set. Notably, thanks to this printing, Constant Mists does not have a foil variant, which offers some potential for the foil Phil Foglio Secret Lair drop.
Similar to the previous Secret Lair, this collection’s headliner is followed up by a few mediocre, but acceptable reprints. Despite Goblin Bombardment being a card that’s been around forever, it has a $3 market price. Anyone playing Modern shouldn’t be surprised by this, as Goblin Bombardment is a central piece of the Boros Energy deck. Otherwise, Goblin Bombardment remains a powerful enchantment for Aristocrat decks in Commander.
Song of the Dryads is a rather unique removal spell that players can use to remove opposing Commanders for extended periods of time. Since this enchantment just turns a creature into a Forest, you can’t choose to put an enchanted Commander back into the Command Zone since it isn’t moving zones. Thanks to this application, the card has about a $3.77 secondary market price.
Sadly, the last reprint in Phil Foglio’s Secret Lair drop is not too interesting from a financial perspective. Despite Orcish Lumberjack’s extreme potential, this isn’t an expensive card. Utilizing Lumberjack is rather difficult in Commander thanks to its stringent requirements. The explosive mana is a big upside if used properly, however. Lumberjack is worth about 50 cents, but a card as unique as this one will have its fans.
Overall, this Secret Lair falls behind the common asking prices for drops like this, but the value does surpass a lot of the disappointing products we’ve seen recently.
The Art of Frank Frazetta
A historic comic icon, Frank Frazetta has had a massive impact on science fiction and fantasy art far after his time. This Secret Lair, as a result, is sure to have its fans, regardless of the secondary market value offered by the lair.
Fortunately for Frazetta fans, this Secret Lair does have a valuable reprint enclosed. Despite being recently reprinted in the Wilds of Eldraine Bonus Sheet, Aggravated Assault remains a Commander combo piece and maintains a secondary market value of $11. The recent reprinting of Assault means that this Secret Lair reprint is unlikely to have a significant effect on the value of the card. Even better, this particular printing has a strong chance of maintaining a premium after some time passes.
Unfortunately, none of the other cards in this Secret Lair have an impressive secondary market value. Desperate Ritual has a mediocre $2-$3 secondary market value thanks to its increased demand due to Modern Storm decks. Zulaport Cutthroat, another $2 card, and Deadly Dispute are fantastic additions to Aristocrats Commander decks, while Murderous Rider is a mediocre removal option that can have some additional synergies in some strategies.
Sadly, despite their playability, neither Deadly Dispute nor Murderous Rider is worth more than a dollar. This means that the secondary market value, at least for the nonfoil variant of this Secret Lair, fails to surpass $16.