Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair Strixhaven set hits the frame
Chris Burns - Apr 23, 2021, 9:39am CDT
Today we’re taking a peek at a pair of Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair drops, the first of which is butting up against the frame with Strixhaven. The second – which you’ll see this afternoon – blasts the frame into bits. The Strixhaven set looks like the game element designers dove in to holy magic stained glass windows and tore them asunder, making way for the next level.
This is the newest Secret Lair drop, a Showcase: Strixhaven set of six cards. These cards include art that not only places high-level or otherwise eye-blasting art in Magic cards, but expands upon the way in which card art interacts with the play elements in the game.
Magic: The Gathering’s latest set of cards lifts the curtain on an all-new setting called
Strixhaven: School of Mages. The centerpiece of this academic plane of existence is called the Mystical Archive, a library that holds a record of every spell ever cast. Now publisher Wizards of the Coast is expanding the stacks just a little further: Its newest Secret Lair drop adds six more spells to that collection, and fans can order their own set starting April 26.
Polygon has the exclusive reveal of those new cards below, which will be available in regular ($29.99) and foil ($39.99) versions. Plus, we wrangled an interview with Tom Jenkot, senior creative art director in charge of the release.