Black Is Magic
Black Is Magic is a . A theme groups drops that share a franchise or an idea.Secret LairSpecial Magic cards sold by Wizards of the Coast on their own online store for a short time. Most are cards that already exist, given new art by a well-known artist or another franchise. A Secret Lair copy of a card plays exactly like any other copy of it.Open the full glossaryThemeOur way of grouping Secret Lair drops that share a subject, like Marvel or Fallout, so every version is on one page.Open the full glossary
Released 7 cards
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Every card in this drop
Click a card for the card itself, the decks that play it and, once you are signed in, whether you already own a copy. To mark every card here at once, press Show what I own. A foil is the shiny version of a card. Secret Lair sells it as a separate Foil Edition of the same drop.
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- Card Kingdom $18.99 foil $22.99
- Cardmarket €11.27 foil €12.34
- Mana Pool $13.84 foil $13.41
- TCGplayer $14.30 foil $19.08
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- Card Kingdom $9.49 foil $10.99
- Cardmarket €9.18 foil €11.61
- Mana Pool $6.13 foil $6.86
- TCGplayer $7.18 foil $6.48
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- Card Kingdom $5.99 foil $5.49
- Cardmarket €6.15 foil €5.78
- Mana Pool $6.12 foil $6.02
- TCGplayer $6.88 foil $6.62
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- Card Kingdom foil $2.79
- Cardmarket €3.05 foil €3.75
- Mana Pool $3.02 foil $3.16
- TCGplayer $3.69 foil $4.45
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- Card Kingdom $14.99
- Cardmarket €13.12 foil €13.08
- Mana Pool $9.61 foil $11.34
- TCGplayer $10.31 foil $10.89
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- Card Kingdom $8.99 foil $9.99
- Cardmarket €9.63 foil €9.88
- Mana Pool $9.89 foil $10.40
- TCGplayer $11.09 foil $11.37
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- Card Kingdom $2.79 foil $2.99
- Cardmarket €2.83 foil €3.35
- Mana Pool $2.34 foil $2.94
- TCGplayer $3.43 foil $4.71
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.
| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
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| Black Is Magic | Foil | Price when it launched: $49.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $63.60 | The store, by $13.61 |
| Black Is Magic | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $56.88 | The store, by $16.89 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
explain how a card works in tricky situations. They come from Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic.RulingThe official answer to how a card works in a tricky situation. Most rulings are written by Wizards of the Coast, the company that makes Magic, and a few are notes from Scryfall, the card database Magic players use. A ruling explains a card. It does not change what the card says.Open the full glossary
14 rulings for 5 cards
Cultivate
If you choose to find only one basic land card, you put it onto the battlefield tapped.
Kaya, Ghost Assassin
As the last ability resolves, each opponent will choose a card to discard and set it aside. Then all those cards are revealed and discarded simultaneously.
You choose whether or not to target a creature as you activate the first ability. If you chose a target creature, you choose whether to exile Kaya or that creature as the ability resolves. If you chose a creature and that creature is no longer a legal target as the ability tries to resolve, the ability doesn't resolve and none of its effects happen. You won't exile Kaya or lose 2 life.
If you didn't choose a target creature for the first ability, and Kaya isn't on the battlefield as the ability resolves, you'll just lose 2 life. No card will be exiled or returned to the battlefield.
Path of Ancestry
Your commander's creature types are checked immediately after you cast a creature spell spending mana from Path of Ancestry's last ability. They aren't set before the game begins, and they may not be the same types your commander had when you activated that ability.
If you have two commanders, the last ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities. When you spend that mana on a creature spell that shares a creature type with either of your commanders, you'll scry 1.
If you don't have a commander, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana.
If Path of Ancestry's last ability produces two mana (most likely due to Mana Reflection), spending those two mana to cast creature spells that share a creature type with your commander will cause two abilities to trigger. Each of those abilities will cause you to scry 1. You won't scry 2. This is true whether you spend the mana on one creature spell or two.
If you cast your commander with mana from Path of Ancestry, and your commander hasn't somehow lost all of its creature types while on the stack, you'll scry 1.
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Path of Ancestry's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce {C}.
If your commander has no creature types, it can't share a creature type with any spell that you cast.
Ponder
If you choose to shuffle your library, that includes the three cards you just looked at and put back on top of it.
Teferi, Hero of Dominaria
You don't decide which two lands to untap until the next end step.
You choose the target for the triggered ability of Teferi's emblem after you've seen the card you drew.
Also Printed in Other Drops
Some of these cards came in other Secret Lair drops too, each with its own art.
- CultivateThe Zeta Set, Hatsune Miku, Their Magic is Limitless, Everyone's Invited!, Raining Cats and Dogs
- Path of AncestrySecret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, Their Magic is Limitless, Secret Lair Promo x Avatar The Last Air Bender Path of Ancestry, Everyone's Invited!, 20 Ways to Win
- PonderSecret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, Garfield: Motivationally Challenged, Avatar: The Last Airbender: A Lot to Learn, Dungeons & Dragons: An Exhibition of Adventure, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Shalai, Voice of PlentyHatsune Miku, 20 Ways to Win
- Sol RingSecret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, Masters of the Universe: She-Ra, Princess of Power, The Zeta Set, The Hobbit: Smaug's Spoils, Hatsune Miku
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