Dreaming Darkly
Dreaming Darkly 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 4 cards $29.99 at the Secret Lair store
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Every card in this drop
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| Version | Store Price | At the Store |
|---|---|---|
| Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
| Foil | $39.99 | Sold out |
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- Card Kingdom $12.99 foil $17.99
- Cardmarket €15.76 foil €16.18
- Mana Pool $10.93 foil $13.34
- TCGplayer $11.50 foil $14.32
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- Card Kingdom $23.99 foil $34.99
- Cardmarket €20.66 foil €26.55
- Mana Pool $18.75 foil $20.84
- TCGplayer $19.77 foil $20.88
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- Card Kingdom $1.79 foil $2.79
- Cardmarket €4.01 foil €3.65
- Mana Pool $1.86 foil $2.85
- TCGplayer $2.26 foil $3.13
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- Card Kingdom $8.99 foil $10.99
- Cardmarket €8.23 foil €11.61
- Mana Pool $7.70 foil $10.40
- TCGplayer $6.89 foil $11.22
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dreaming Darkly | Foil | $39.99 | $49.55 | The store, by $9.56 |
| Dreaming Darkly | Non-foil | $29.99 | $40.42 | The store, by $10.43 |
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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| Dreaming Darkly | Foil | $39.99 | Sold out | ||
| Dreaming Darkly | Non-foil | $29.99 | Sold out |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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16 rulings for 4 cards
Glen Elendra Archmage
If a token with no -1/-1 counters on it has persist, the ability will trigger when the token is put into the graveyard. However, the token will cease to exist and can't return to the battlefield.
If a creature with persist that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, persist won't trigger and the card won't return to the battlefield. That's because persist checks the creature's existence just before it leaves the battlefield, and it still has all those counters on it at that point.
If a creature with persist stops being a creature, persist will still work.
The persist ability triggers when the permanent is put into a graveyard. Its last known information (that is, how the creature last existed on the battlefield) is used to determine whether it had a -1/-1 counter on it.
If multiple creatures with persist are put into the graveyard at the same time (due to combat damage or a spell that destroys all creatures, for example), the active player (the player whose turn it is) puts all of their persist triggers on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last trigger put on the stack is the first one that resolves. That means that in a two-player game, the nonactive player's persist creatures will return to the battlefield first, then the active player's persist creatures do the same. The creatures return to the battlefield one at a time.
When a permanent with persist returns to the battlefield, it's a new object with no memory of or connection to its previous existence.
If a permanent has multiple instances of persist, they'll each trigger separately, but the redundant instances will have no effect. If one instance returns the card to the battlefield, the next to resolve will do nothing.
Guardian Project
A face-down creature has no name, so it can't share a name with anything. This includes other creatures with no name.
If the entering creature leaves the battlefield and returns while Guardian Project's ability is on the stack, that same card will be a new creature you control that shares a name with the creature that was on the battlefield, so you won't draw a card. However, Guardian Project's ability may trigger for the new creature and you may draw a card as that ability resolves.
Whether the entering creature shares a name with a creature you control or a creature card in your graveyard is checked both as that creature enters and as Guardian Project's ability resolves. If the entering creature isn't the first of its name as it enters, the ability doesn't trigger at all; if its name is shared as the ability resolves, you don't draw a card.
If the entering creature is put into your graveyard while Guardian Project's ability is on the stack, that same card will be a creature card in your graveyard that shares a name with the creature that was on the battlefield, so you won't draw a card.
Roon of the Hidden Realm
If Roon of the Hidden Realm's ability targets a commander, that card's owner may choose to have it go to the command zone after it is exiled. If they do, it will not be returned to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step.
Soulherder
Once the exiled creature returns, it’s considered a new object with no relation to the object that it was. Auras attached to the exiled creature will be put into their owners’ graveyards. Equipment attached to the exiled creature will become unattached and remain on the battlefield. Any counters on the exiled creature will cease to exist.
If any other abilities you control trigger at the beginning of your end step, you choose the targets for all of them as they’re put onto the stack, and you choose the order they’re put onto the stack. For example, this means that you could exile a creature put onto the battlefield by an unearth ability (and then unearth’s delayed triggered ability won’t exile that creature), but you can’t target a creature that will be returned to the battlefield by another ability during your end step (such as Astral Drift’s delayed triggered ability).
If a token is exiled this way, it will cease to exist and won’t return to the battlefield.
If a creature is exiled but ends up in another zone (most likely because it’s a player’s commander in the Commander variant), Soulherder’s first ability triggers.
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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