I just got my Miku secret lair and generally I'm very happy with it; it looks gorgeous. However, I must comment frustration that there's two separate bonus cards, with a difference of rarity it seems, no less. It sucks that 'oh actually there's another Miku card you don't get without going to the secondary market which will absolutely ratchet up the price." This feels different to the more generic bonus cards like the slivers which weren't attached to any one secret lair

Two questions: (for everyone to answer) 1) Do you prefer the bonus to be connected to the Secret Lair theme or separate? 2) Do you like the ability to occasionally get rarer bonus cards, or would you prefer all of them get the same thing?

Hi mark! So for the discord card from the secret lair, it says “a non-land magic card name”. So would that include: double faced cards with a land on the back, silver border/acorn cards, test cards from mystery booster, test cards from Gavin's unknown event, and hero's of the realm cards? It seems like some of them shouldn’t count. If so which ones?

Any can count if it’s in the database.

"I think players who care about deck aesthetics like having basic lands match and/or be of a similar feel, but lots of players could care less. I agree the more enfranchised you get the greater the chance deck aesthetics matter" - while this is probably true, I suspect that the target audience of themed land Secret Lairs mostly care about aesthetics.

I’m taking the note of “could you give us the option of buying more of a single basic land” to heart and will pass it along to the Secret Lair team.

I’m loving the Secret Lair baseball cards and I’m hoping it does well so maybe more will be coming in the future! High five to whoever came up with the idea to do them!

I’ll pass along the high five. I agree they’re pretty cool.

Can I request a podcast on designing the walking dead cards and what it is like to design for a UB Secret Lair? I know you recently did one on LoTRs but I’m curious what it was like from your perspective and with the secret lair component.

I can add it to the “short list”.

I was talking about Secret Lair cards when I talked about making them DFCs.

Having the Secret Lair cards be double-sided with each version on one side would be seen as a downside by a lot of people.

To offer a counterpoint, the Bother's War commander decks being completely in retro frame made then an instant preorder for me.

I think there’s a little confusion about the point I was making the other day. The complaints I’m getting aren’t “this product shouldn’t exist.” There’s clearly an audience excited for them, and the goal of design is to make products that inspire and excite some portion of the audience which these Commander decks with retro frames are doing an amazing job at. The issue being raised is more this. Alternate frames are great. It’s cool that there are different aesthetics for cards and players can opt into the look they like. Magic, though, should have a unified default that players can always have some access to. To some players continuity of look is an important aesthetic choice, so they want to always have the ability to access the default version. That’s the issue being raised.It’s a similar issue to another recent complaint I’ve been hearing about the Secret Lair Countdown Kit. Let the players choose whether cards are foil or not. Not having control over that is disconcerting for a bunch of players.

Good afternoon Mark, I'm not one of those people who is against WH40K being in magic, I think it's a great way to bring in new people. However, for me personally, some of those cards are a bit too sci-fi for me to want to slot them into my existing commander decks. That being said, I've very excited about what I've seen so far. So I wanted to know, are there plans to include these cards in "The List" similar to how you did for the Stranger Things SL?

We are able to create Magic versions if the need arises, but only the Secret Lair cards have planned Magic versions.

With regards to the warhammer commander decks. As a longtime WH fan I’m incredibly excited but was wondering, does the “in universe versions released about 6 months after” rule for the universes beyond cards apply to the presumably warhammer themed commander precon exclusive cards?

It applies to Secret Lair Universes Beyond cards. We do reserve the right to make a Magic version of any Universe Beyond card, but we’ve only promised to do the Secret Lair ones.

"If an acorn card or an old silver border card later becomes possible in black border/main magic, are you more likely to just create a new card, or reuse the secret lair equivalency tech? We haven’t done it (yet), so that discussion has not happened." The Cheese Stands Alone was nearly 1:1 reprinted as a black border card in Barren Glory.

We clearly can just make a new card with a new name. The question is can we say an silver-bordered card is no longer silver-bordered and now Eternal legal? We haven’t done it, but that’s the hypothetical I was discussing.