Secret Lair Winter Superdrop 2025 Revealed
Header Image: Deflecting Swat, illus. Jesper Ejsing
If you're waylaid by the winter doldrums, Wizards of the Coast has a potential remedy in the form of a brand-new Secret Lair collection.
The Secret Lair Winter Superdrop 2025 is here, and eight separate collections span a wide variety of styles and reprints sure to be of interest to most Magic players. But just as winter is fleeting, so is the availability of the Secret Lairs contained within the Superdrop. The Secret Lair Winter Superdrop 2025 is available for purchase on Feb. 10 at 9 a.m. PST and are limited print run, so when they're out, they're out.
However, if there's more supply than demand, you might find that they'll be featured on the Secret Lair storefront for an indeterminable amount of time: "Additionally, as has been the case for the last few Superdrops, there's no hard end date to the sale," writes Wizards of the Coast. "But we do plan to clean up the storefront from time to time and remove products that have been around for a while."
So what's in the Secret Lair Winter Superdrop 2025? Let's find out.
Secret Lair x Hatsune Miku: Winter Diva
The question that resident Commander's Herald news reporter Josh Nelson asked more than a month ago has finally been answered. Featuring art by Micah Epstein, kelogsloops, Fariba Khamseh, Miguel Mercado, Julia Metzger, and Anna Podedworna, the Winter Hatsune Miku collection is the fourth and final stop on her year-long Secret Lair tour.
- Giada, Font of Hope as "Miku, Font of Pop"
- Youthful Valkyrie
- Counterspell
- Swan Song
- Brago, King Eternal as "Miku, Queen Electric"
- Scrying Sheets
The Hitsune Miku Winter Drop is available in both non-foil and rainbow foil, for $29.99 or $39.99, respectively.
Aether Drifters
Pushing the aesthetic of Aetherdrift to its logical extreme, the Aether Drifters Secret Lair features an homage to single-sold diecast toy cars. You may draw comparisons to Matchbox or Hot Wheels, but these are not those, because those brands are both owned by Mattel.
The listing for the cards does, however, include a warning: "Do not attempt to open packaging. You will tear your card in half." Art for these selections has been provded by Doogie Horner, Rob Pavic, and Ivan Shavrin.
- Reversible Parhelion II
- Reversible Mechtitan Core
- Reversible Peacewalker Colossus
- Reversible Reckoner Bankbuster
- Reversible Smuggler's Copter
- Reversible Mechtitan token
These race cards will be available for $29.99 in non-foil, or $39.99 in traditional foil.
Arcade Racers
The tie-ins with Aetherdrift continue with Arcade Racers. Instead of physical toys providing inspiration for this particular Secret Lair, however, we're drawing ideas from a different generation of racing entertainment: the arcade.
I'll let the Secret Lair listing itself set the mood:
Ready to race? Insert token to IGNITE ENGINES! :::
-- Select Your Track --
- Big Score: You've stolen the loot, now it's time to escape.
- Final Fortune: When push comes to shove, you make your own luck.
- Heat Shimmer: The desert is hot, but your engine is hotter.
- Roiling Vortex: Outrace your opponents, outrun the lava.
- Wheel of Misfortune: Doom awaits you around every turn.
::: Get ready to grab the wheel and push the pedal to the metal! :::
3 ... 2 ... 1 ... GO!
Art for this selection is provided by 6VCR, Kirokaze, and Chuck Lukacs
Arcade Racers is available in both non-foil for $29.99 and rainbow foil for $39.99. That's either 120 quarters, or 160, depending on your preferred finish.
City Styles 2: Dressed To Kill
Here we've got the sequel to one of the more popular Secret Lairs in recent years in City Styles 2: Dressed to Kill. That first set featured Sakashima the Impostor
This time around, we're getting another collection by artist Tsubonari, featuring:
- Karmic Guide
- Ninja of the Deep Hours
- Captain Sisay
- Selvala, Explorer Returned
- Veyran, Voice of Duality
Non-foils and rainbow foils are options for these, at $29.99 and $39.99.
Featuring: Luke Pearson
Illustrator and writer of the award-winning graphic novel series Hilda, Luke Pearson brings his charming style to Secret Lair in his first featured artist drop.
- Witch of the Moors
- Bear Umbra
- Realmwalker
- Solemn Simulacrum
As for availability, you guessed it: $29.99 for non-foil, $39.99 for rainbow foil.
Featuring: Mitsuhiro Arita
Mitsuhiro Arita has nearly 30 years of experience creating beloved art for trading card games, with works that have become some of the most recognizable in the world. His first collaboration with Magic: The Gathering was on a borderless Lumra, Bellow of the Woods
- Light-Paws, Emperor's Voice
- Murktide Regent
- Lightning Bolt
- Shorikai, Genesis Engine
Non-foil: $29.99. Rainbow foil: $39.99
Artist Series: Jesper Ejsing
Danish illustrator Jesper Ejsing made his Magic: The Gathering debut with art on five cards in 2007's Lorwyn. Since then, Ejsing has illustrated more than 250 Magic cards in his vibrant, dramatic, and imaginative style. A long-time Commander player in his own right, this Artist Series drop features four cards selected by Jesper, new art illustrated by Jesper, and flavor text curated by Jesper. It's the quintessential "Jesper" experience.
- Sun Titan
- Breeches, Eager Pillager
- Deflecting Swat
- Llanowar Elves
Non-foil: $29.99. Rainbow foil: $39.99. If you can name the more than 30 Magic references in the art of Deflecting Swat, you can get it for free, kinda.
Ejsing is actually holding a little competition on his own that will see a lucky handful of people get their hands on some very special prizes. To enter the competition, name all 30 in alphabet order. Send an email with your answer to ejsing@jesperejsing.dk with "Deflecting Swat Competition" in the subject line.
The competition starts when the Superdrop releases on Feb. 10 and end Feb. 17 at noon CET. According to Jesper himself, "there are 30 visual references in the background of the painting for Deflecting Swat. From the right answers I will draw lot for the first prize and five additional prizes. The first prize is the color comp for the Deflecting Swat painting. The five additional winners will get a secret lair Rainbow Foil pack."
Yes, this is real. No, I will not help you.
Lorwyn Lightboxes
We aren't due to head back to the world of Lorwyn for roughly another year, but that doesn't mean we can't get a little preview by way of Secret Lair.
Artists Hari & Deepti bring this cycle of typal lands from Lorwyn out of the shadow of the past and into the spotlight with scenic, meticulously painted, and beautifully photographed cut-paper lightboxes.
- Ancient Amphitheater
- Auntie's Hovel
- Gilt-Leaf Palace
- Secluded Glen
- Wanderwine Hub
Non-foil: $29.99. Rainbow foil: $39.99.
Winter's Breath Given Form
So, anything strike your fancy?
The Jesper Ejsing cards are amazing, but that might be my own personal bias coming into play. There's quite the variety here, so are there any must-haves for you? Or are you in a deep freeze when it comes to winter spending?
