Brain Dead: Staples
Brain Dead: Staples is a .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 glossaryDropOne Secret Lair product: a few cards sold together, usually 4 to 6, often with a foil and a non-foil version. Wizards calls each one a drop.Open the full glossary
Released 5 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 $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: 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 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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5 rulings for 2 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}.
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.
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
- 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
- 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
- Thought VesselThe Zeta Set, The Hobbit: Smaug's Spoils, Through the Wormhole, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
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