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Bad to the Bones

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Released 5 cards

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Every card in this drop

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  • Bottomless Pit

    Bottomless Pit

    Enchantment

    • Card Kingdom $19.99 foil $19.99
    • Cardmarket €16.73 foil €19.71
    • Mana Pool $17.84 foil $18.51
    • TCGplayer $16.78 foil $20.55
  • Necrogen Mists

    Necrogen Mists

    Enchantment

    • Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $20.99
    • Cardmarket €12.71 foil €10.27
    • Mana Pool $14.58 foil $14.99
    • TCGplayer $15.87 foil $16.43
  • Reassembling Skeleton

    Reassembling Skeleton

    Creature — Skeleton Warrior

    • Card Kingdom $24.99 foil $42.99
    • Cardmarket €21.58 foil €24.43
    • Mana Pool $25.62 foil $26.94
    • TCGplayer $26.42 foil $29.47
  • Tinybones, Trinket Thief

    Tinybones, Trinket Thief

    Legendary Creature — Skeleton Rogue

    • Card Kingdom $37.99 foil $44.99
    • Cardmarket €32.30 foil €33.01
    • Mana Pool $28.50 foil $34.50
    • TCGplayer $25.63 foil $33.11
  • Geier Reach Sanitarium

    Geier Reach Sanitarium

    Legendary Land

    • Card Kingdom $21.99 foil $32.99
    • Cardmarket €22.00 foil €23.56
    • Mana Pool $22.83 foil $27.07
    • TCGplayer $22.66 foil $26.94

The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time

The single-card total is each card's price at TCGplayer on , in US dollars. A total only shows when every card in the drop has a price.

DropVersionStore PriceCards One at a TimeCheaper
Bad to the Bones Foil Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $126.50 The store, by $86.51
Bad to the Bones Non-foil Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $107.36 The store, by $77.37

Rulings for the Cards on This Page

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6 rulings for 3 cards

Bottomless Pit

Wizards of the Coast 4 Oct 2004

The ability is controlled by the player who controls Bottomless Pit. This means that Bottomless Pit can trigger abilities which trigger off an opponent forcing you to discard.

Geier Reach Sanitarium

Wizards of the Coast 13 Jul 2016

If more than one player discards a card with madness simultaneously, the player whose turn it is puts their madness abilities onto the stack first, then each other player does the same in turn order. The last one put onto the stack resolves first, and a spell cast this way will resolve before resolving the next madness ability.

Wizards of the Coast 13 Jul 2016

When you activate Geier Reach Sanitarium's last ability, first each player draws a card. Then the player whose turn it is selects a card from their hand and sets it aside without revealing it; proceeding in turn order, each other player does the same. Then the cards that were set aside are discarded at once.

Tinybones, Trinket Thief

Wizards of the Coast 23 Jun 2020

Tinybones checks which opponents have no cards in hand only as its last ability resolves.

Wizards of the Coast 23 Jun 2020

Tinybones’s first ability triggers only if an opponent has discarded a card before the end step begins. If an opponent has more cards in hand than their maximum hand size, they’ll discard during their cleanup step, which is after the end step.

Wizards of the Coast 23 Jun 2020

Tinybones’s first ability has you draw just one card and lose just 1 life, no matter how many opponents discarded cards and no matter how many cards were discarded beyond the first.

Also Printed in Other Drops

Some of these cards came in other Secret Lair drops too, each with its own art.

From the same superdrop

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