Secret Lair: Mechanically unique cards will be available in WPN stores

Wizards of the Coast announced this Monday (13) that WPN stores will be able to sell drops from its Secret Lair series when they have mechanically unique cards. The drops made available to stores will be in non-foil treatment and with limited supplies.

The change in the Secret Lair exclusive card model is due to the end of The List in the Magic: The Gathering booster packs, where Wizards could reprint them with illustrations and aesthetics from the game's universe and insert them into these special slots.

The full announcement can be read below:

Most Secret Lair cards are reprints, but sometimes, we create mechanically unique cards. We've heard from fans that they would like more ways to access those cards beyond the Secret Lair website. Historically we've addresssed this through the "SLX" program, landing on in-Multiverse reskins in The List.

However, The List is gone, so we're trying a different approach—letting Wizards Play Networks sell them directly to you.

This means that the next time we have a drop that has mechanically unique cards in it, we're going to make a limited quantity of those non-foil drops available for WPN stores to sell directly to you. Those drops will be on sale in stores while supplies last after they go on sale on the Secret Lair website, but they'll be the exact same non-foil drops you could buy on MagicSecretLair.com. Just from the person who runs your Friday Night Magic.

It's a bit of a test, but it's one we're excited about. Finding the best ways to get mechanically unique drops into the hands of players who want them is something that's important to us, and we're excited to try this new approach. We're going to be watching this test closely and talking to fans and WPN stores to make sure we're doing this right, but we're pretty excited to give it a go regardless. Keep an eye out for more details on when and how this will roll out coming up.

The company also announced the reprint of exclusive Secret Lair cards through the Spring Flourishes program, where participating stores will host Limited events for a limited time, and players who participate in these will receive cards from drop Secret Lair x Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves in a non-foil, borderless version with exclusive illustrations. The events will take place between April 25th and May 25th.

Source: DailyMTG