New Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair Cards Revealed At MagicCon
Featured artists and Secret Lair team members offer a glimpse behind the curtain.
By Jason Fanelli on
Secret Lair drops have become some of Magic: The Gathering's most popular products, with previously released cards--some seeing reprints for the first time in years--featuring unique art from acclaimed artists around the world. MagicCon Philadelphia shined a spotlight on the project, with some behind-the-scenes commentary as well as a few looks at what's to come.
Four new cards were revealed during the hour-long panel, with all of them scheduled to appear together in a future drop. Each card showcases a different planeswalker--Ugin, The Ineffable; Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord; Sarkhan, Dragonsoul; and Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God--as if they were «compleated,» or the MTG term of being turned into one of the evil Phyrexians.
The drop will be the first time a Secret Lair is made available at local game stores, as opposed to the Secret Lair which had exclusively offered drops in the past. Emily Floyd, senior business manager for Wizards Of The Coast, said during the panel that the website experience «is just not the same as walking into a store,» and this drop is designed to be «one more way to get players into stores.»
The panel also featured senior creative art director Tom Jenkot who spoke about how Secret Lair compares to the «Booster Fun» variants found in card packs, where he said that ideas are «interchangeable, where things that don't fit into one can become part of the other.» Previous Secret Lair artists Justine Jones and Wizard of Barge also joined the panel, where they spoke of their experiences with the Secret Lair project.
The panel ended with brief teases for future drops, which featured multiple pieces of artwork
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