MTG’s Final Fantasy Secret Lairs Include Cyclonic Rift, Heroic Intervention, Toxic Deluge, And Other Big-Money Reprints

Updated May 14, 2025 at 20:19 BST by Joe Parlock: Wizards has confirmed the English names, dates, and prices for these drops.

Each will cost the regular Secret Lair pricing of $29.99 for the non-foil version, and $39.99 for the foil. You’ll also get the Gilded Lotus promo if you purchase one of two bundles, one in English or one in Japanese, for $199.99.

These drops go live on June 9 at 9AM PT/12PM EST/5PM BST on the official Secret Lair website.

The original story is below, although images and names have been updated to feature the English printings.

Summary

• The Final Fantasy crossover Secret Lair drops are absolutely incredible.
• The drops will likely sell out fast, so act quickly or the scalpers will win.
• Unfortunately, you won’t be getting Tactics or Type-0 cards this time.

Magic: The Gathering has revealed its lineup of Secret Lair drops for its Final Fantasy crossover, and it includes some of the best reprints we’ve ever seen in a release.

Three drops will be coming in the upcoming Summer Superdrop, but you’re likely going to have to act lightning-fast, because these are all but guaranteed to sell out almost immediately.

These cards were all revealed through Famitsu. However, for Japan, they will also be available through Rakuten on June 10, giving us somewhat of an idea of when these are going to arrive.

Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Game Over

The first of the three drops focuses on the villains of Final Fantasy, with each getting some of the scariest interaction available in the game.

A drop that includes three board wipes in Day of Judgment, Star of Extinction, and Toxic Deluge would already be frightening, but adding in an extra turn spell in Temporal Extortion, and a way to exile key cards from your opponents’ decks with Praetor’s Grasp makes this by far the meanest Secret Lair drop we’ve ever seen.

Though they’re very playable cards, and Universes Beyond drops always skew to being more valuable than their regular versions, the base reprint value here is the weakest of the three drops. Temporal Extortion is the most valuable with a regular printing being about $20, but Star of Extinction, Day of Judgment, and Toxic Deluge have all been reprinted fairly regularly.

Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Weapons

One for the Voltron enjoyers, this drop is all about the weapons of the series. I’m surprised we’ve not got the Gunblade from Final Fantasy 8, but the Buster Blade being reimagined as an Umezawa’s Jitte is still excellent.

The only card that doesn’t see frequent play in Voltron decks here is Staff of the Storyteller, and that’s only because this is the first time it’s being reprinted outside of the Phyrexia: All Will Be One Commander precon.

In terms of reprint value, Sword of Truth and Justice is doing a lot of the heavy lifting at $35, but even then Umezawa’s Jitte is around $15. These are all but guaranteed to skyrocket though thanks to the characters weilding them.

Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Grimoir

This is the big one. Showcasing major characters across the series using their ultimate abilities, it’s also by far the most stacked Secret Lair drop we’ve had in a good long while.

Lightning Bolt and Damn are classic cards that see a lot of play in all kinds of formats, while Prismatic Ending is a staple in WUBRG and domain decks that have access to lots of different colours of mana. But the easy winners here are Heroic Intervention, a way to protect your entire board from a wipe, and Cyclonic Rift – ironically one of the few board wipes that can get around Heroic Intervention.

These two cards are absolute all-stars in Commander, and they are where the reprint value of this drop can be found. Heroic Intervention has had a few reprints of late that have dropped its price a bit, but it’s still ten dollars and something any green deck would want. Meanwhile, Cyclonic Rift is at a whopping $50, making it the most valuable card in the whole collection of drops.

The final card is a promo version of Gilded Lotus. We don’t know exactly how you’ll get this card yet – it may be an inclusion in all drops as their bonus card, or it could be an extra for spending over a certain amount. Gilded Lotus isn’t the most valuable bonus card we’ve ever seen, but its art is still gorgeous enough to likely be worth getting a hold of.

The problem is that, as these are Secret Lair drops, there’s a very high chance they’ll sell out almost immediately. Provided you can get through the queue, which often breaks in drops like this, if you’re not there the second sales open, you’ll likely be too late to grab them.

Final Fantasy is already Magic’s best-selling set from preorders alone, and we saw just how quickly the Monty Python drops sold out. Though later Universes Beyond drops, like SpongeBob SquarePants, did take longer to sell out, the hype for Final Fantasy is on a whole other magnitude.

Another disappointment is that many Final Fantasy fans were hoping Secret Lair was where we’d see some of the side games – particularly Final Fantasy Tactics. While the main set is only the mainline, numbered games, Secret Lair would have been the perfect opportunity to include games like Tactics, World of Final Fantasy, or maybe even Kingdom Hearts.