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Monster Movie Marathon

Monster Movie Marathon 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

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Every card in this drop

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  • Dismember

    Dismember

    Instant

    • Card Kingdom $10.99 foil $11.99
    • Cardmarket €11.65 foil €13.40
    • Mana Pool $9.43 foil $11.09
    • TCGplayer $10.57 foil $12.33
  • Blasphemous Act

    Blasphemous Act

    Sorcery

    • Card Kingdom $32.99 foil $44.99
    • Cardmarket €32.97 foil €35.84
    • Mana Pool $32.37 foil $35.62
    • TCGplayer $31.63 foil $36.90
  • Beast Within

    Beast Within

    Instant

    • Card Kingdom $23.99 foil $27.99
    • Cardmarket €22.38 foil €25.87
    • Mana Pool $20.47 foil $20.16
    • TCGplayer $23.13 foil $28.67
  • Grafdigger's Cage

    Grafdigger's Cage

    Artifact

    • Card Kingdom $14.99 foil $21.99
    • Cardmarket €18.08 foil €21.84
    • Mana Pool $15.06 foil $21.76
    • TCGplayer $15.90 foil $20.96

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.

DropVersionStore PriceCards One at a TimeCheaper
Monster Movie Marathon Foil Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $98.86 The store, by $58.87
Monster Movie Marathon Non-foil Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). $81.23 The store, by $51.24

Rulings for the Cards on This Page

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10 rulings for 4 cards

Beast Within

Wizards of the Coast 19 Mar 2021

If the target permanent is an illegal target by the time Beast Within tries to resolve, the spell won't resolve. No player creates a Beast token. If the target is legal but not destroyed (most likely because it has indestructible), its controller does create a Beast token.

Blasphemous Act

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2020

The total cost to cast Blasphemous Act is locked in before you pay that cost. For example, if there are three creatures on the battlefield, including one you can sacrifice to add {C}, the total cost of Blasphemous Act is {5}{R}. Then you can sacrifice the creature when you activate mana abilities just before paying the cost.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2020

To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Blasphemous Act). The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2020

Blasphemous Act's ability can't reduce the total cost to cast the spell below {R}.

Wizards of the Coast 10 Nov 2020

Although players may respond to Blasphemous Act once it's been cast, once it's announced, they can't respond before the cost is calculated and paid.

Dismember

Wizards of the Coast 7 Jun 2024

A Phyrexian mana symbol contributes 1 toward the mana value of a card, even if life is paid for it. Specifically, Dismember's mana value is always 3.

Grafdigger's Cage

Wizards of the Coast 12 Jul 2019

If an effect exiles a card from a library and allows a player to cast it, that player may do so. The spell is cast from exile, not a library.

Wizards of the Coast 12 Jul 2019

Look at the card as it exists in your graveyard to determine whether it can enter the battlefield. For example, Sculpting Steel can be put onto the battlefield as a copy of a creature, but Phyrexian Metamorph can't be put onto the battlefield, even if it would copy a noncreature artifact.

Wizards of the Coast 12 Jul 2019

Manifesting a card from a graveyard or library is an impossible action while Grafdigger's Cage is on the battlefield.

Wizards of the Coast 12 Jul 2019

Players can still play lands from graveyards or libraries if an effect allows them to do so.

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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