Wizards of the Coast is firing Magic: The Gathering Secret Lairs at us with the velocity of a machine gun (luckily they're made of paper and bounce right off. Ha!). We hadn't even had time to acknowledge the Avatar drop when, bam, a new crossover was suddenly announced with Monster Hunter.
Here's the financial breakdown of this Superdrop, with the current foil and non-foil versions of every single card. This new collection arrives on the Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair store on December 1, 2025. As usual, the cards will be available in non-foil and foil versions, priced at $29.99 / $39.99 respectively.
The Hunt
- Blind Obedience (Crimson Moonlight) - $2 Nonfoil / $2.90 Foil
- Snap (Kushala Daora's Fury) - $2.40 Nonfoil / $3.50 Foil
- Village Rites (Song of the Barbarous Beast) - $0.25 Nonfoil / $0.45 Foil
- Mizzium Mortars (The Rage of Yian Garuga) - $0.60 Nonfoil / $2.50 Foil
- Tooth and Nail - $1.25 Nonfoil / $1.60 Foil
- Total = $6.50 Nonfoil / $10.95 Foil
We begin with one of the most pathetic Secret Lairs I've ever seen. The Hunt costs about five times more than its cards are worth. There's literally nothing desirable here, and the card choices don't even feel all that flavorful, with rather weak connections to their reskins.
The Monsters
- Nezahal, Primal Tide (Lagiacrus, Lord of the Seas) - $8 Nonfoil / $22 Foil
- Drakuseth, Maw of Flames (Rathalos, King of the Skies) - $0.55 Nonfoil / $0.80 Foil
- Ziatora, the Incinerator (Fatalis, the Black Dragon) - $0.40 Nonfoil / $1.10 Foil
- Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire (Nergigante, Herald of Destruction) - $0.60 Nonfoil / First foil printing
- Sarulf, Realm Eater (Zinogre, Lord of Lightning) - $0.35 Nonfoil / $0.95 Foil
- Total = $9.90 Nonfoil / $24.85 Foil
Things get a tiny bit better when we look at The Monsters, but not a lot. Nezahel, Primal Tide, represented by Monster Hunter Tri's flagship beastie, Lagiacrus, is the main selling point here. This card-drawing creature can dodge removal and because it's never had a proper reprint outside of Commander precons, the foil version is pretty pricey. It doesn't make up for the rest of the collection being filler. Fitting picks and great art, I think, but not desirable cards.
The Hunters
- Grand Abolisher (Dual-Bladed Hunter) - $11 Nonfoil / $13 Foil
- Archaeomancer (Hero of Hoarfrost Reach) - $0.30 Nonfoil / $3.80 Foil
- Grim Haruspex (Nargacuga Stalker) - $1.50 Nonfoil / $5.40 Foil
- Imperial Recruiter (Bherna Huntmaster) - $12 Nonfoil / $15 Foil
- Champion of Lambholt (Champion of Kotoko [sic]) - $2.45 Nonfoil / $13 Foil
- Total = $27.34 Nonfoil / $50.20 Foil
What I would normally call a 'middling' Secret Lair value-wise, but here it's the best of the bunch. There's some rare cards here like the red tutor creature Imperial Recruiter and stax card Grand Abolitier (why didn't they pick something with double strike if they were going to call this card Dual-Bladed Hunter?). Champion of Lambholt is another creature that keeps getting reprinted in precons, which is why its foil value is so inflated.
Overall a decent lair, this one, though the flavor text feels like it was rushed out at 5:05 on a Friday night. The typo lets the side down a bit, too, though I imagine only hardcore MH fans will notice. And too-online Magic fans, which - ah - is most of us, isn't it?
The Monsters II
- Razaketh, the Foulblooded (Gore Magala, Dark Eclipse) - $10 Nonfoil / $16 Foil
- Kalamax, the Stormsire (Brachydios, Brutish Indigo) - $0.55 Nonfoil / $0.65 Foil
- Wasitora, Nekoru Queen (Nargacuga, Ever-Present Shadow) - $0.60 Nonfoil / $1 Foil
- Amareth, the Lustrous (Velkhana, Silver Sovereign) - $0.50 Nonfoil / $0.70 Foil
- Total = $11.65 Nonfoil / $18.35
Blech, once again there's only one card in this drop worth mentioning. If you want a huge demon for a reanimator deck, this could be a good way to get a Razaketh. While it has marginally more value than the other Monsters drop, Monster Hunter fans seem particularly down on this one, criticizing both the flavor of the picks and the artwork, this time.
It feels strange that this collection only has four cards. Usually when that happens, it seems to be because particularly high-value cards were chosen, but I guess that didn't happen here.
Ooh, I almost forgot - there's also a Sol Ring promo card if you buy everything at once in $200+ bundles!
And that's your lot. Overall, this was a pretty dismal drop, though I imagine Monster Hunter fans will just be happy to get their favorite fearsome creatures onto Magic cards. A cynical part of me wonders if low value cards were deliberately chosen for this drop because WotC knows fans of the franchise would buy it anyway.
At least these drops have some highly playable cards, even if they're not desirable, so Monster Hunter fans will be able to find a place for them in EDH. However, it feels like this product was put together without the care and love for a franchise that we see in the better Universes Beyond MTG sets and Secret Lairs. The typo on Kokoto village, the hit-and-miss flavor text, and some strangely ill-fitting card choices are all good examples of that.
I also think WotC missed a trick here not making an equipment-centric lair. Don't you know I only fight these monsters so I can make big swords and pretty armor out of their bones and skin?
Let us know what you think of this SL on the Wargamer Discord. Hey, I guess if there's one good thing about this drop it's that Monster Hunter was one of my UB set predictions, and I'd say this means I was basically correct. It's close enough, shut up!