So far, the Camp Totally Safe Secret Lair Superdrop has been stuffed full of household names. We’ve seen cards featuring Chucky, cards featuring the Ghostbusters, and the third installment of the Hatsune Miku drop. It wouldn’t be a Secret Lair product without some kind of curveball, however, and in this case said curveball comes courtesy of Peach Momoko.
If you haven’t heard of her already, Peach Momoko is a Japanese artist known for her work with Marvel comics. This drop spotlights her unique style well and also features a truly strange assortment of blue cards. Though you likely haven’t heard of most of them, there is some value to be found here.
Peach Momoko Secret Lair Highlights
There are no $10+ heavy hitters in the Peach Momoko Secret Lair drop, but there are a few solid financial hits regardless. The best of the bunch is Time Sieve, a huge staple in artifact decks in Commander. There are many ways to turn this two mana investment into an engine for infinite turns. Tivit, Seller of Secrets can do it just by connecting for damage once, and there are many alternatives with all the artifact generators running around these days. As a result, Time Sieve will run you around $8.50: a respectable start for the drop.
Next up we have Visions of Beyond, one of the many attempts at a ‘fixed’ Ancestral Recall that we’ve seen. This can draw you three cards for one mana in a dedicated Mill deck and shows up in Modern Mill as a result. It also sees a lot of Commander play, where 20 cards in a graveyard is a more realistic prospect than in constructed. This is a solid card and one that will cost you $7.50 ordinarily. Getting a spooky new version in this drop is not bad at all.
The last of the financially relevant cards here is Psychic Corrosion. Like Visions of Beyond, this is a staple in Mill decks, pretty much exclusively in Commander. You can combine it with huge draw spells like Peer into the Abyss and Enter the Infinite to win the game on the spot, or just use it as part of a ‘fair’ Mill deck to grind your opponents out over time. Either way, it’s a very solid archetype staple, and a $6 card to boot, so no one is going to begrudge it appearing here.
Into The Bulk Bin
It’s not all peachy for this Secret Lair drop, however. The final two cards are what one would charitably call ‘bulk’ at best. These are pretty much inevitable in any Secret Lair, but they sting more here due to the lack of big value cards on the top end.
Aetherize is a decent way to clear out an aggressive player’s board in Commander, thus buying you time and playing into the Mill theme the rest of the drop is going for. Four mana is quite a lot for an effect like this, however, and as a result, it’s not particularly popular. It’s not particularly pricey, either, with copies going for around $0.50 at present. Given the graveyard and Mill theme present among the other cards here, this slot could have gone to something better.
Drown in Dreams at least sticks to the brief. This is a pretty inefficient draw or mill spell, which lets you do both if you have your Commander out. With infinite mana this can technically take two opponents out of the game at once, but the same is true of a lot of cards. This is another $0.50 Commander card and one that you might consider in a Mill deck if you have a lot of ramp. This is a better pick than Aetherize to be sure, but still not very exciting as far as Secret Lair cards go.
A Bizarre Addition
Overall, the Peach Momoko Secret Lair is an odd one. The financial value comes to around $23, which is pretty underwhelming for a $30 plus shipping product. The usual Secret Lair price markups may push it over the line, but you’re unlikely to get a big return for buying this Lair.
Thematically, this Lair is quite an odd one as well. There’s a subtle horror in the art and flavor text which does bring it in line with the rest of the Camp Totally Safe Superdrop, but the all-blue Mill theme feels a bit out of nowhere. The ‘narrative’ of the cards does seem to tie into losing one’s memory, which in Magic is represented by Mill, but it still feels odd placed next to the other spooky drops we’ve had recently. Maybe this makes more sense to fans of Peach Momoko’s work, but on its own, it feels strange.
With that in mind, I don’t predict this drop will have the same growth potential as others we’ve seen lately. It seems unlikely to sell out quickly, and the source material lacks the large following necessary to draw in big demand down the line. Getting a Japanese Marvel artist is a neat tie-in to Magic’s Japanese expansion plan, however, as well as some nice foreshadowing for the full-on Marvel set that we’ll be seeing very soon.
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