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City Styles

City Styles 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 5 cards

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Every card in this drop

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  • Sakashima the Impostor

    Sakashima the Impostor

    Legendary Creature — Human Rogue

    • Card Kingdom $42.99 foil $54.99
    • Cardmarket €39.88 foil €47.95
    • Mana Pool $41.15 foil $45.05
    • TCGplayer $34.67 foil $49.34
  • Massacre Girl

    Massacre Girl

    Legendary Creature — Human Assassin

    • Card Kingdom $34.99 foil $39.99
    • Cardmarket €21.77 foil €25.00
    • Mana Pool $29.38 foil $34.41
    • TCGplayer $36.47 foil $36.76
  • Azusa, Lost but Seeking

    Azusa, Lost but Seeking

    Legendary Creature — Human Monk

    • Card Kingdom $74.99 foil $84.99
    • Cardmarket €42.36 foil €55.02
    • Mana Pool $71.77 foil $72.41
    • TCGplayer $70.82 foil $76.42
  • Teysa Karlov

    Teysa Karlov

    Legendary Creature — Human Advisor

    • Card Kingdom foil $89.99
    • Cardmarket €79.13 foil €97.72
    • Mana Pool $81.99 foil $88.77
    • TCGplayer $74.87 foil $82.62
  • Paradise Mantle

    Paradise Mantle

    Artifact — Equipment

    • Card Kingdom $27.99 foil $44.99
    • Cardmarket €28.41 foil €45.08
    • Mana Pool $29.31 foil $38.28
    • TCGplayer $29.06 foil $44.76

The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time

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DropVersionStore PriceCards One at a TimeCheaper
City Styles Foil Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $289.90 The store, by $249.91
City Styles Non-foil Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $245.89 The store, by $215.90

Rulings for the Cards on This Page

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18 rulings for 4 cards

Azusa, Lost but Seeking

Wizards of the Coast 23 Jun 2020

Azusa's ability is cumulative with other effects that allow you to play additional lands, such as that of Song of Creation (from the Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths set).

Massacre Girl

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Creatures that die while Massacre Girl's triggered ability is still on the stack won't cause its delayed triggered ability to trigger since that delayed triggered ability hasn't been created yet.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

If more than one creature dies at once, Massacre Girl's delayed triggered ability triggers that many times.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Massacre Girl's enters-the-battlefield triggered ability and its delayed triggered ability each affect only creatures on the battlefield at the time that those abilities resolve. Creatures that enter the battlefield or become creatures later in the turn won't get -1/-1 unless the delayed triggered ability triggers and resolves again later.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

A creature with 0 toughness doesn't die immediately. Rather, the creature dies the next time a player would receive priority. This means that any creatures whose toughness becomes 0 as Massacre Girl's enters-the-battlefield ability resolves will remain on the battlefield until just after the delayed triggered ability has been created.

Wizards of the Coast 3 May 2019

Once Massacre Girl's enters-the-battlefield ability has triggered, it doesn't matter whether Massacre Girl remains on the battlefield. The delayed triggered ability will be created as the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves.

Sakashima the Impostor

Wizards of the Coast 1 Jun 2005

If there is no creature on the battlefield or if you don't choose a creature as Sakashima enters, Sakashima remains a 3/1 Human Rogue.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Jun 2005

Sakashima doesn't get the return to hand ability unless a creature is copied as Sakashima enters. Sakashima can't copy itself because the choice is made as part of the event that puts it onto the battlefield, and whatever will be copied must already be on the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 1 Jun 2005

Sakashima must be on the battlefield at the end of turn in order to return to hand. If Sakashima leaves the battlefield after the ability is activated but before the at-end-of-turn ability resolves, the ability does nothing.

Teysa Karlov

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

Look at each creature as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger multiple times. For example, if a land that has become a creature dies, an ability that triggers when it dies triggers twice.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

An ability that triggers on an event that causes a creature to die doesn't trigger twice. For example, an ability that triggers “whenever you sacrifice a creature” triggers only once.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

If a creature dying at the same time as Teysa (including Teysa itself dying) causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

Teysa's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger twice. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to pay a cost for that triggered ability, are also made separately.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

If you somehow control two Teysas, a creature dying causes abilities to trigger three times, not four. A third Teysa causes abilities to trigger four times, a fourth causes abilities to trigger five times, and so on. This also means that if you control Teysa and cast a second one, an ability that triggers when it dies due to the “legend rule” triggers three times.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

If a creature dying at the same time that another permanent you control leaves the battlefield causes a triggered ability of that permanent to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to “creatures.” In these cases, the trigger event may also refer to something being “put into a graveyard from the battlefield.” For example, an ability that triggers “whenever an artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield” would trigger twice if an artifact creature dies while Teysa Karlov is on the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

An ability that triggers when a creature “leaves the battlefield” will trigger twice if that creature leaves the battlefield by dying.

Wizards of the Coast 25 Jan 2019

Teysa affects a creature's own “when this creature dies” triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that trigger when that creature dies. Such triggered abilities start with “when” or “whenever.”

Also Printed in Other Drops

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