The Meaning of Life, Maybe
The Meaning of Life, Maybe 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 $13.99 foil $15.99
- Cardmarket €6.49 foil €6.67
- Mana Pool $11.46 foil $10.36
- TCGplayer $15.58 foil $13.04
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- Card Kingdom $2.99 foil $3.49
- Cardmarket €2.78 foil €2.92
- Mana Pool $3.85 foil $4.15
- TCGplayer $4.12 foil $3.86
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- Card Kingdom $94.99 foil $179.99
- Cardmarket €73.07 foil €156.22
- Mana Pool $83.25 foil $164.99
- TCGplayer $76.08 foil $175.54
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- Card Kingdom $17.99 foil $21.99
- Cardmarket €9.39 foil €9.94
- Mana Pool $15.21 foil $20.62
- TCGplayer $13.88 foil $15.35
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- Card Kingdom $9.49 foil $9.49
- Cardmarket €4.82 foil €7.95
- Mana Pool $9.65 foil $14.36
- TCGplayer $8.54 foil $8.68
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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| The Meaning of Life, Maybe | Foil | Price when it launched: $39.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $216.47 | The store, by $176.48 |
| The Meaning of Life, Maybe | Non-foil | Price when it launched: $29.99, from a saved copy of the Secret Lair store page (Wayback Machine). | $118.20 | The store, by $88.21 |
Rulings for the Cards on This Page
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18 rulings for 4 cards
Forced Fruition
Yes, the opponent draws seven cards. It’s not optional.
Future Sight
You must follow the normal timing permissions and restrictions for the top card of your library and pay its costs. If the card has alternative or additional costs, you may pay those. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
The top card of your library isn't in your hand, so you can't suspend it, cycle it, or activate any of its abilities.
If the top card of your library is a land, you may play that land only if you have any available land plays.
If the top card of your library changes while you're casting a spell, playing a land, or activating an ability (most likely because that top card is the card you're playing), the new top card won't be revealed until you finish doing so.
Mental Misstep
If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be the value chosen for it while that spell is on the stack.
If you're at 1 life or less, you can't pay 2 life.
A card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its mana cost is each color that appears in that mana cost, regardless of how that cost may have been paid.
To calculate the mana value of a card with Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, count each Phyrexian mana symbol as 1.
Each Phyrexian mana symbol in a spell's mana cost contributes 1 to that spell's mana value. For example, Mental Misstep's mana value is 1, regardless of how its cost was paid.
As you cast a spell or activate an activated ability with one or more Phyrexian mana symbols in its cost, you choose how to pay for each Phyrexian mana symbol at the same time you would choose modes or choose a value for X.
Phyrexian mana is not a new color. Players can't produce Phyrexian mana.
Mind's Dilation
If you cast the card this way, it will resolve before the spell that caused Mind's Dilation's ability to trigger.
If you don't cast the card, perhaps because you choose not to or because it's a land card, it remains exiled.
If you cast an instant or sorcery card this way, it goes to its owner's graveyard as normal. It doesn't return to exile.
If you cast the exiled card, you do so as part of the resolution of Mind's Dilation's ability. You can't wait to cast it later in the turn. Timing permissions based on the card's type are ignored, but other restrictions (such as "Cast [this card] only during combat") are not.
If the card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
If you cast a card "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs, such as emerge costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as escalate costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, you must pay those.
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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