MTG Secret Lair Roll for Initiative Superdrop has an awesome $30 reprint

Magic: The Gathering‘s newest Dungeons & Dragons crossover arrives Monday, Feb. 9, with the “Roll for Initiative” Secret Lair Superdrop delivering varied reprints of spells and characters all set within the Forgotten Realms. The drop was introduced throughout the Feb. 3 episode of Weekly MTG hosted by Blake Rasmussen, the place he was joined by Secret Lair Senior Director Lindsey Bartell and Senior Product Designer Steve Sunu. Every of those drops will likely be obtainable in non-foil and foil variations, priced at $29.99 or $39.99, respectively.

As a result of this can be a collection of seven D&D-themed drops, most of the playing cards included are reprints from Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur’s Gate. Followers of Baldur’s Gate 3 could be thrilled to see new variations of Shadowheart and Gale right here bundled with playing cards that instantly help their skills. Throughout the remaining drops, there is a good quantity of worth available, however maybe the perfect focuses on Curse of Strahd‘s titular villain. Let’s take a more in-depth look.

Shadowheart’s Devotion

• 1x Shadowheart, Darkish Justiciar
• 1x Beseech the Queen
• 1x Black Market
• 1x Victimize
• 1x Historic Bronze Dragon

Many of the playing cards right here do not boast a ton of worth, however there’s some nice synergy available between Shadowheart, Darkish Justiciar; Black Market; and Victimize for anybody with a black deck that emphasizes sacrificing creatures. Even different multicolored decks that leverage this mechanic, like one that includes Edea, Possessed Sorceress because the Commander, could make nice use of those playing cards. The standout of this drop, nevertheless, is unquestionably the Ancient Bronze Dragon, which prices about $16 or extra on TCG Participant. Although it is costly to forged at seven mana for a 7/7, it comes with flying and allows you to roll a d20 after which add X +1/+1 counters on every of as much as two creatures at any time when it offers fight injury to a participant. Roll excessive on that d20, and this means can win you video games. Even if you happen to roll low, you are still taking a look at a reasonably constant buff to 2 of your creatures.

Gale’s Ambition

• 1x Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Archmage’s Appeal
• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Private Tutor

There is not a lot happening within the Gale’s Ambition drop until you may have a number of love for the long-haired wizard from Baldur’s Gate 3. Brainstorm and Arcane Denial have already been reprinted so usually they’re actually not price a lot. Archmage’s Appeal has some versatility, however because it prices three blue mana, that just about limits it to mono-blue decks. Private Tutor might be the very best card right here due to its sheer worth: for a single blue mana, you’ll be able to search your library for any sorcery card and put it on the highest of your deck.

Black Lights & Darkish Dungeons

• 1x Seasoned Dungeoneer
• 1x Displacer Kitten
• 1x Tortured Existence
• 1x Sefris of the Hidden Methods

That includes eye-catching pulpy artwork and a strong assortment of playing cards, this could be the best of all of the drops in Roll for Initiative. That stated, Seasoned Dungeoneer and Sefris of the Hidden Ways each require that you just’re already invested in Magic‘s dreaded “enterprise into the dungeon” mechanic. In the meantime, the worth for different variations of Displacer Kitten at the moment hovers round $24, and with good purpose. Its core means enables you to blink one among your creatures (eradicating it from after which returning it to the battlefield) each single time you play a noncreature spell for further enter the battlefield (ETB) triggers. Investing loads in instants means you are able to do this throughout fight to stop injury. Tortured Existence can also be an attention-grabbing selection right here. That enchantment was initially a part of 1998’s Stronghold set and may solely be present in The Listing (a curated checklist of older playing cards that not seem in Play Boosters these days), making it quite onerous to accumulate until you pay the circa $4 to purchase it on some sort of market. The preliminary forged prices one black mana, after which with it on the board, you’ll be able to pay one other single black mana and discard a creature card to return a creature out of your graveyard to your hand, thus making it a powerful recursion software.

Shadows Over Baldur’s Gate

• 1x Grim Hireling
• 1x Wild-Magic Sorcerer
• 1x Xorn
• 1x Prosper, Tome-Sure

These 4 playing cards encourage you to create a deck with Prosper, Tome-Bound because the Commander, leaning right into a twin give attention to casting spells from exile and producing treasure tokens in consequence. Wild-Magic Sorcerer prompts cascade each time you forged a spell from exile, so that you’d get straightforward free spellcasting there. Xorn enables you to generate an additional treasure token each time you create one, making it helpful as properly. Grim Hireling is well the most costly and helpful card on this bunch with a market value between $16 and $18. It generates two treasure tokens everytime you deal fight injury to an opposing participant, however for one mana, it additionally enables you to sacrifice treasure tokens to scale back a goal creature’s energy and toughness by that quantity. It is not a legendary, so you’ll be able to’t have it’s your Commander, however if you happen to’re working any sort of treasure-focused deck — like Korvold, Fae-Cursed King — then it is a must-include.

Whispers in Candlekeep

• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Dragonborn Champion
• 1x Klauth, Unmatched Historic
• 1x Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm

Klauth, Unrivaled Ancient mainly invented firebending lengthy earlier than the Avatar: The Final Airbender set formally launched it to Magic. Higher but, you get to maintain the mana it generates till the tip of your flip quite than lose it on the finish of fight. (Although Ozai, the Phoenix King does this even higher, permitting you to maintain the surplus mana.) Miirym, Sentinel Wyrm is strong, however solely in green-blue-red dragon decks and nowhere else, in order that’s a tad limiting. Dragonborn Champion is ok for serving to you draw playing cards, however you want a approach to reliably deal at the least 5 injury to a participant (most likely with one other dragon with flying). And you actually do not want yet one more Counterspell, do you?

Strahd’s Descent

• 1x Strefan, Maurer Progenitor as “The Satan Strahd”
• 1x Bloodletter of Aclazotz as “Solid-Off Consort”
• 1x Finish the Festivities
• 1x Voldaren Property as “Fortress Ravenloft”

It is a disgrace that Wizards went with Strefan as an alternative of Edgar Markov to lastly give us the enduring Strahd von Zarovich in Magic. Frankly, Strefan is not all that attention-grabbing along with his clunky Blood token skills, whie an Edgar reprint would have despatched gamers into an absolute frenzy. Finish the Festivities looks like an extremely highly effective early-game sorcery in four-player Commander, hitting each opposing participant, creature, and planeswalker for one level of injury — and for just one pink mana! Fortress Ravenloft is first rate for vampire decks, and a must-include for people who lean into blood tokens (aka, good for Strefan/Strahd). The massive draw of this specific drop, nevertheless, is Solid-Off Consort. Initially from 2023’s The Misplaced Caverns of Ixalan as Bloodletter of Aclazotz, it is a vampire demon that doubles the quantity of life an opponent loses. That explains why it sometimes goes for round $30 on-line.

Lands of the Forgotten Realms

• 2x Plains
• 2x Island
• 2x Swamp
• 2x Mountain
• 2x Forest

Drops that focus totally on primary lands are a little bit of a rarity, however Wizards appears to be banking on the truth that gamers have a number of love for the Forgotten Realms. Every land right here represents a unique location within the Forgotten Realms, specifically Waterdeep on plains, the Moonshae Isles on islands, the Underdark on swamps, Neverwinter on mountains, and the jungles of Chult on forests.

The “Roll for Initiative” Secret Lair Superdrop arrives on Monday, Feb. 9.