Brain Dead
Brain Dead is a : 4 drops and 25 cards. 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 4 drops 25 cards
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Brain Dead: New Earth Mentality Sold out $29.99 10 cards
| Version | Store Price | At the Store |
|---|---|---|
| Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
| Foil | $39.99 | Sold out |
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- Card Kingdom $3.49
- Cardmarket €3.70 foil €7.13
- Mana Pool $4.41 foil $5.47
- TCGplayer $6.34 foil $8.85
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- Cardmarket €8.74 foil €9.93
- Mana Pool $7.87 foil $11.06
- TCGplayer $8.94 foil $12.68
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- Card Kingdom foil $9.49
- Cardmarket €5.70 foil €6.84
- Mana Pool $5.83 foil $6.74
- TCGplayer $6.46 foil $8.65
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- Card Kingdom $1.49 foil $2.79
- Cardmarket €2.00 foil €1.66
- Mana Pool $2.30 foil $1.61
- TCGplayer $2.51 foil $2.34
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- Cardmarket €4.62 foil €5.57
- Mana Pool $3.12 foil $5.14
- TCGplayer $4.00 foil $5.04
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- Card Kingdom $1.49 foil $2.29
- Cardmarket €2.70 foil €3.28
- Mana Pool $1.34 foil $1.25
- TCGplayer $1.74 foil $1.87
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- Cardmarket €2.58 foil €3.81
- Mana Pool $1.86 foil $2.14
- TCGplayer $2.24 foil $2.30
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- Card Kingdom $1.99 foil $1.99
- Cardmarket €2.38 foil €3.19
- Mana Pool $1.59 foil $2.24
- TCGplayer $1.83 foil $2.11
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- Card Kingdom foil $2.49
- Cardmarket €2.29 foil €3.24
- Mana Pool $1.55 foil $1.39
- TCGplayer $1.93 foil $1.99
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- Card Kingdom $1.49 foil $1.99
- Cardmarket €2.31 foil €2.12
- Mana Pool $1.56 foil $1.54
- TCGplayer $1.89 foil $2.03
Brain Dead: Creatures 5 cards
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- Card Kingdom $34.99 foil $37.99
- Cardmarket €25.12 foil €26.22
- Mana Pool $28.06 foil $30.54
- TCGplayer $26.49 foil $25.22
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- Card Kingdom $1.99 foil $1.79
- Cardmarket €1.36 foil €1.92
- Mana Pool $2.03 foil $1.39
- TCGplayer $3.39 foil $2.20
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- Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $19.99
- Cardmarket €8.83 foil €10.43
- Mana Pool $16.39 foil $19.22
- TCGplayer $19.00 foil $26.18
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- Card Kingdom $2.99
- Cardmarket €1.43 foil €2.24
- Mana Pool $1.96 foil $2.93
- TCGplayer $1.73 foil $3.01
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- Card Kingdom $14.99
- Cardmarket €9.46 foil €11.72
- Mana Pool $10.42 foil $12.59
- TCGplayer $11.28 foil $11.11
Brain Dead: Lands 10 cards
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- Card Kingdom $7.49 foil $8.99
- Cardmarket €4.32 foil €5.91
- Mana Pool $9.89 foil $8.88
- TCGplayer $9.47 foil $7.89
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- Card Kingdom $12.99 foil $9.99
- Cardmarket €6.65 foil €0.02
- Mana Pool $9.63 foil $5.26
- TCGplayer $10.41 foil $10.30
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- Card Kingdom $18.99 foil $20.99
- Cardmarket €10.08 foil €12.95
- Mana Pool $12.50 foil $17.85
- TCGplayer $15.12 foil $21.62
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- Card Kingdom $18.99 foil $14.99
- Cardmarket €15.01 foil €9.35
- Mana Pool $16.58 foil $15.61
- TCGplayer $16.22 foil $15.37
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- Card Kingdom $11.99 foil $13.99
- Cardmarket €5.68 foil €8.00
- Mana Pool $13.28 foil $11.06
- TCGplayer $14.36 foil $12.77
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- Card Kingdom $7.49 foil $7.49
- Cardmarket €4.51 foil €5.78
- Mana Pool $7.29 foil $12.08
- TCGplayer $6.60 foil $12.62
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- Card Kingdom $6.49 foil $7.49
- Cardmarket €6.32 foil €8.65
- Mana Pool $8.33 foil $10.00
- TCGplayer $10.69 foil $11.61
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- Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $20.99
- Cardmarket €11.94 foil €14.45
- Mana Pool $13.54 foil $20.27
- TCGplayer $14.38 foil $18.89
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- Card Kingdom $12.99
- Cardmarket €8.58 foil €11.02
- Mana Pool $10.61 foil $18.02
- TCGplayer $14.65 foil $16.55
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- Card Kingdom foil $13.99
- Cardmarket €5.92 foil €15.25
- Mana Pool $14.69 foil $12.72
- TCGplayer $13.35 foil $15.36
Brain Dead: Staples 5 cards
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- Card Kingdom $6.49 foil $7.49
- Cardmarket €7.17 foil €8.95
- Mana Pool $7.45 foil $7.06
- TCGplayer $7.48 foil $6.23
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- Card Kingdom foil $9.49
- Cardmarket €12.46 foil €13.54
- Mana Pool $8.23 foil $11.93
- TCGplayer $8.85 foil $12.74
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- Card Kingdom $7.49 foil $10.99
- Cardmarket €10.70 foil €12.71
- Mana Pool $9.89 foil $15.02
- TCGplayer $9.74 foil $13.98
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- Card Kingdom $8.49 foil $9.49
- Cardmarket €11.19 foil €15.69
- Mana Pool $9.68 foil $14.61
- TCGplayer $10.25 foil $14.05
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- Card Kingdom $6.49 foil $11.99
- Cardmarket €6.96 foil €10.43
- Mana Pool $7.31 foil $11.98
- TCGplayer $7.45 foil $11.64
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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| Brain Dead: New Earth Mentality | Foil | $39.99 | $47.86 | The store, by $7.87 |
| Brain Dead: New Earth Mentality | Non-foil | $29.99 | $37.88 | The store, by $7.89 |
| Brain Dead: Creatures | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $67.72 | The store, by $27.73 |
| Brain Dead: Creatures | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $61.89 | The store, by $31.90 |
| Brain Dead: Lands | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $142.98 | The store, by $102.99 |
| Brain Dead: Lands | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $125.25 | The store, by $95.26 |
| Brain Dead: Staples | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | $58.64 | The store, by $18.65 |
| Brain Dead: Staples | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $43.77 | The store, by $13.78 |
When It Was on Sale
What the Secret Lair store listed for each version, and when it sold out.
| Drop | Version | Price | Status | On Sale | Sold Out |
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| Brain Dead: New Earth Mentality | Foil | $39.99 | Sold out | ||
| Brain Dead: New Earth Mentality | Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
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
29 rulings for 9 cards
Command Tower
If you have two commanders, the ability adds one mana of any color in their combined color identities.
If you don't have a commander, Command Tower's ability produces no mana.
If your commander is a card that has no colors in its color identity, Command Tower's ability produces no mana. It doesn't produce {C}.
Consecrated Sphinx
The ability triggers once for each card an opponent draws. You choose whether to draw two cards as each of those abilities resolves.
If each player controls a Consecrated Sphinx, their abilities will cause each other to trigger until one player chooses not to draw cards.
You may either draw two cards or not draw at all. You can't choose to draw only one card.
Jace's Archivist
If this ability causes a player to draw more cards than are left in their library, that player loses the game as a state-based action. If this ability causes all players to do this, the game is a draw.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
If the copied creature has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
If a copied creature is copying something else, the token you create will use the copiable values of the target creature. In most cases, it will just be a copy of whatever that creature is copying.
Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied creature will trigger when the token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied creature card will also work.
If a copied creature is a token that isn't a copy of something else, the copy copies the original characteristics of that token as stated by the effect that created it.
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original creature (except that the copy also has haste) and nothing else (unless it's copying a creature that's a token or that's copying something else; see below). It doesn't copy whether the creature is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and/or Equipment attached to it, or any non-copy effects that changed its power, toughness, types, color, and so on. Most notably, if the target creature isn't normally a creature, the copy won't be a creature.
If another creature becomes a copy of, or enters the battlefield as a copy of, the token, that creature will copy the creature card the token is copying, except it will also have haste. However, you won't sacrifice the new copy at the beginning of the next end step.
If Kiki-Jiki's ability creates multiple tokens due to a replacement effect (such as the one Doubling Season creates), you'll sacrifice each of them.
Lightning Greaves
If a creature enters the battlefield under your control and gains haste, but then loses it before attacking, it won't be able to attack that turn. This means that you can't use one Lightning Greaves to allow two new creatures to attack in the same turn.
You can't simply unequip Equipment from a creature. If Lightning Greaves is attached to the only creature you control, you won't be able to attach other equipment to it (or target it with anything else) until you have another creature to which you can attach Lightning Greaves.
Mirror Entity
Mirror Entity's ability overwrites any effects that previously set a creature's base power and/or toughness. Any existing effects or counters that raise or lower a creature's power and/or toughness continue to apply to the creature's newly-set power and toughness.
Activating the ability with X = 0 will cause all creatures you control to become 0/0 and be put into the graveyard.
Changeling applies in all zones, not just the battlefield.
Mogg Assassin
You and your opponent both pick the target creatures on announcing, which is before the coin is flipped. You pick first.
Stinkweed Imp
Once you've announced that you're applying a card's dredge ability to replace a draw, players can't take any actions until you've put that card into your hand and milled cards.
If an effect puts a card into your hand without specifically using the word "draw," you're not drawing a card. Dredge can't replace this event.
You can't attempt to use a dredge ability if you don't have enough cards in your library.
If you're drawing multiple cards, each draw is performed one at a time. For example, if you're instructed to draw two cards and you replace the first draw with a dredge ability, another card with a dredge ability (including one that was milled by the first dredge ability) may be used to replace the second draw.
Dredge can replace any card draw, not only the one during your draw step.
One card draw can't be replaced by multiple dredge abilities.
Notably, Stinkweed Imp's ability isn't deathtouch. It's a triggered ability that triggers only on combat damage.
Wurmcoil Engine
It must be clear to all players which token has deathtouch and which token has lifelink.
The two creature tokens enter at the same time.
Also Printed in Other Drops
Some of these cards came in other Secret Lair drops too, each with its own art.
- Command TowerSecret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, Masters of the Universe: Sold Separately, The Zeta Set, Hatsune Miku, Stardew Valley: Life in Pelican Town
- Consecrated SphinxFeaturing: Imiri Sakabashira, Extra Life 2020
- ForestSecret Lair x Star Trek: New Worlds, The Oddlands: Forests, The Oddlands: Islands, The Oddlands: Mountains, The Oddlands: Plains
- IslandSecret Lair x Star Trek: New Worlds, Secret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, The Oddlands: Forests, The Oddlands: Islands, The Oddlands: Mountains
- Lightning GreavesThe Hobbit: Smaug's Spoils, Viva Las Rakdos, Marvel's Deadpool: I Fixed It (You're Welcome), Fallout: Greet the Dog, Marvel's Spider-Man: Villainous Plots
- Meteor GolemHorizon: Into the Forbidden West, From Cute to Brute, Special Guest: Jen Bartel
- Mirror EntityEveryone's Invited!, Raining Cats and Dogs
- Mogg AssassinHeads I Win, Tails You Lose
- MountainSecret Lair x Star Trek: New Worlds, The Oddlands: Forests, The Oddlands: Islands, The Oddlands: Mountains, The Oddlands: Plains
- PlainsSecret Lair x Star Trek: New Worlds, Secret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, The Oddlands: Forests, The Oddlands: Islands, The Oddlands: Mountains
- Sakura-Tribe ElderSpecial Guest: Fiona Staples
- Scattered GrovesRaining Cats and Dogs, From Cute to Brute
- Sheltered ThicketRaining Cats and Dogs, From Cute to Brute
- SkullclampThe Zeta Set, Hatsune Miku, Goblin Storm, Raining Cats and Dogs, Special Guest: Yoji Shinkawa
- 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
- SwampSecret Lair x Star Trek: New Worlds, Secret Lair Commander Deck: Odds and Ends, The Oddlands: Forests, The Oddlands: Islands, The Oddlands: Mountains
- Thought VesselThe Zeta Set, The Hobbit: Smaug's Spoils, Through the Wormhole, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
- Wurmcoil EnginePlay-Doh: Squishful Thinking
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