The New MSCHF X Secret Lair Features The First Ever Peelable Magic The Gathering Card
Rip up a golf course in this highly artistic new Secret Lair sale.
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Wizards of the Coast and New York art collective MSCHF are finally releasing their Magic the Gathering Secret Lair collaboration later this week, and it features a card treatment we’ve never seen in the game before.
MSCHF x Secret Lair will feature six cards, each given radical makeovers by MSCHF. The cards are Teferi’s Puzzle Box, Cut//Ribbons, Swords to Plowshares, Grim Tutor, Blood Moon, and a basic Plains. Each one is completely different from the others, with Teferi’s Puzzle Box being a heavily industrial style, Sword to Plowshares looking very death metal album cover-y, and Cut // Ribbons looking like medieval catacombs. Meanwhile, the Plains is a… golf course?
Except the Plains isn’t just a Plains. As discovered by Magic content creators, like TheMaverickGirl who were sent the drop in advance, the art can be peeled off to reveal a hidden, extra card underneath: the red and white land Battlefield Forge. It isn’t the best land ever printed, but the artistic merit of literally tearing up a golf course to make something new is neat. According to MSCHF, this treatment was to “reveal our true feelings about golf”. Golf, of course, is the sport of massive, ecologically dead, water-hungry fields for rich people to play around in.
MSCHF is probably best known for its recent sale of the Andy Warhol piece “Fairies”, where it was mixed into a collection of 999 forgeries and all were sold for $250 each as “Possible Real Copy Of ‘Faeiries’ By Andy Warhol”.
Unlike other recent Secret Lairs, like Stranger Things and the upcoming Arcane: League of Legends crossovers, MSCHF’s drop feels more in line with what Secret Lair started out as. While the visuals may not appeal to some people, giving artists the chance to design Magic cards however they wanted is cool, and using the limited print run nature of Secret Lair as a way to experiment with new print techniques that we may see again in the future is really interesting.
Even ignoring the artistic implications, these are some good cards. Swords to Plowshares is a white staple in Commander, and Blood Moon sees a decent amount of play in other formats too, like Modern. While not the best Tutor card ever made, Grim Tutor is one of only a handful of cards like it that’s legal in the growing Pioneer format.
MSCHF x Secret Lair will be available for preorder through the official Secret Lair site at 12PM EST (17:00 UTC) on Saturday, November 20. Prices and end dates haven’t been announced, but drops like this tend to run for a few weeks and cost around $39.99.
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