Monster Anatomy 101
Monster Anatomy 101 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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- Card Kingdom $11.99 etched foil $12.99
- Cardmarket €5.23
- Mana Pool $10.04 foil $9.61 etched foil $9.61
- TCGplayer $12.22 etched foil $9.46
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- Card Kingdom $17.99 etched foil $24.99
- Cardmarket €17.08
- Mana Pool $16.97 foil $20.84 etched foil $20.84
- TCGplayer $18.06 etched foil $23.84
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- Card Kingdom $11.99 etched foil $13.99
- Cardmarket €11.15
- Mana Pool $11.44 foil $17.17 etched foil $17.17
- TCGplayer $13.30 etched foil $17.59
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- Card Kingdom $12.99 etched foil $16.99
- Cardmarket €9.28
- Mana Pool $10.87 foil $15.14 etched foil $15.14
- TCGplayer $12.78 etched foil $15.32
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- Card Kingdom $42.99 etched foil $57.99
- Cardmarket €30.27
- Mana Pool $37.12 foil $60.72 etched foil $60.72
- TCGplayer $38.14 etched foil $58.33
The Store Price Against Buying the Cards One at a Time
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| Drop | Version | Store Price | Cards One at a Time | Cheaper |
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| Monster Anatomy 101 | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from the community Magic wiki (mtg.wiki). | 0 of 5 cards priced | Not enough prices yet |
| Monster Anatomy 101 | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $94.50 | The store, by $64.51 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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17 rulings for 5 cards
Fleet Swallower
If two Fleet Swallowers attack, each trigger determines the top half of that player’s library separately. For example, if the target player has fifteen cards in their library, that player puts the top eight cards into the graveyard, then puts the top four cards into the graveyard.
Fleet Swallower’s triggered ability can target any player, not just the player it’s attacking.
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
If you have fewer cards in your library than the amount of damage Gishath deals, you reveal the cards you have. Because you're not drawing cards, you don't lose the game.
Goblin Trashmaster
You can sacrifice Goblin Trashmaster to pay the cost for its own ability.
Because damage remains marked on a creature until it’s removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a Goblin you control may become lethal if Goblin Trashmaster leaves the battlefield during that turn.
Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
You choose which player, planeswalker, or battle the new creature is attacking. It doesn't have to be attacking the same player, planeswalker, or battle that Ilharg is attacking.
If the new creature leaves the battlefield before the end step, most likely because it died in combat, that card remains in its current zone. It won't return to your hand.
If you control another player's God when it dies, you decide whether to put that card into its owner's library.
If an effect exiles the God and immediately returns it to the battlefield, its last ability triggers but will have no effect. However, if an effect exiles it and would return it to the battlefield at a later time, the God's ability may return that card to its owner's library first. If it does, the effect that exiled it won't return it later.
If the God's owner has two or fewer cards in their library, the God is put on the bottom of their library as its last ability resolves.
If one of these Gods leaves the graveyard or exile while its last ability is on the stack, it will remain in its new zone, even if that zone is a graveyard or exile.
In a multiplayer game, if you put another player's God onto the battlefield under your control, it will be exiled as you leave the game. If you were still the controller of that God, you would control its triggered ability but you have left the game; that ability won't resolve and the card remains in exile. Similarly, if you lose the game at the same time that another player's God that you put onto the battlefield is destroyed, it remains in its owner's graveyard.
If one of these Gods dies and it's your commander, you may put it into the command zone before its ability puts it into your library. If you save your commander this way, it won't put it into your library. The same is true if it would be exiled.
If the new creature has an ability that triggers at the beginning of the end step, that ability will trigger and resolve even if the creature is returned to your hand during the end step before that ability resolves.
Although the new creature is attacking, it was never declared as an attacking creature (for the purposes of abilities that trigger whenever a creature attacks, for example, such as those of Trusted Pegasus and Makeshift Battalion).
Protean Hulk
You can find any number of creature cards, so long as their total mana value is 6 or less. For example, you could find eight creature cards with mana value 0 and three with mana value 2, but you couldn't find two with mana value 4.
If a card in your library has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
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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