The Marvel Super Heroes set lands on June 26th, 2026. Before it does, Magic: The Gathering has already released eleven separate Secret Lair drops across two full superdrops — the 2024 Marvel Superdrop and the 2025 Spider-Man Superdrop. Whether you missed them on release, want to track them down on the secondary market, or just want to know which ones were actually worth buying, here is every Marvel Secret Lair ranked from best to worst.
Ranking criteria: mechanical card quality, Commander playability, collectibility, how well the Marvel character translates to MTG, and overall value for money at original retail. Secondary market prices shift constantly — use this as a guide to which drops have lasting value, not a live price check.
1. Secret Lair x Marvel’s Iron Man — S Tier
Cards: Iron Man, Titan of Innovation · Galvanic Blast · Commander’s Plate · Sol Ring · Inventors’ Fair · Treasure token
The best Secret Lair in either superdrop, and it is not particularly close. Sol Ring is the single most-played card in Commander — a format with over 50 million players — and this drop gives you a Sol Ring with Iron Man art. That alone would make the Iron Man drop worth owning. The fact that it also includes Commander’s Plate (a legitimate staple), Inventors’ Fair (an underrated but genuinely powerful utility land), and a new Iron Man legendary creature makes this a four-for-four on value.
Tony Stark’s entire identity — genius inventor, armored billionaire, artifact obsessive — maps onto MTG artifact synergies so cleanly it seems like the design team wrote the character around the card type. Iron Man, Titan of Innovation is the kind of commander that rewards creative deckbuilding, which is exactly right for the character. The Treasure token reskin completes the package.
If you only buy one Marvel Secret Lair on the secondary market, buy this one.
2. Secret Lair x Marvel’s Storm — S Tier
Cards: Storm, Force of Nature · Lightning Bolt · Jeska’s Will (Storm’s Will) · Ice Storm · Manamorphose (Ororo Borealis)
Lightning Bolt is the most iconic card Magic: The Gathering has ever printed. Three mana, three damage, instant, one red mana — it has been in print since 1993 and it has never stopped being played. Getting a Lightning Bolt with Ororo Munroe’s face on it is the kind of thing that makes competitive players and collectors equally excited, for entirely different reasons.
Beyond the Bolt, Jeska’s Will (reframed as Storm’s Will) is one of the strongest red spells in Commander — it generates massive mana and deals substantial damage in a single card. The Storm legendary creature herself captures the weather-manipulation aspect of the character through elemental and instant/sorcery synergies that feel genuinely faithful. Ice Storm and Manamorphose round out a drop with the highest raw spell power of any in the first superdrop.
Storm has always been one of the X-Men’s most visually spectacular characters, and the card art across this drop reflects that. Everything here earns its place.
3. Spider-Man: Heroic Deeds — A Tier
Cards: Ephemerate · Three Visits · Lightning Greaves · Sol Ring · Command Tower
The Spider-Man Superdrop’s best entry, and arguably the best-value Commander drop across both entire superdrops. Command Tower goes in every single Commander deck — no exceptions. Sol Ring goes in every single Commander deck — no exceptions. Lightning Greaves is a staple in the majority of Commander decks. Three Visits is a ramp spell that has been printed in power-level-appropriate sets for a reason. Ephemerate is a blink spell with genuine competitive applications.
This is a drop where you could build an entire Commander mana base and equipment suite from the contents alone, all with Spider-Man art. The Three Visits reskin that shows Peter Parker teaming up with Miles Morales and Ghost-Spider is one of the best pieces of crossover art in either superdrop. The concept — Commander staples with Spidey art — is executed perfectly.
If you missed this on release and play Commander, track it down. Every card is immediately playable.
4. Secret Lair x Marvel’s Wolverine — A Tier
Cards: Wolverine, Best There Is · Berserk · Rite of Passage · Rhythm of the Wild · The Ozolith (Adamantium Bonding Tank)
The Ozolith — reframed here as the Adamantium Bonding Tank — is one of the most creatively inspired reskins in Magic history. The Ozolith is a card that stores counters from dying creatures, keeping them available to transfer to new ones. Adamantium is the indestructible metal bonded to Wolverine’s skeleton. The thematic connection is so clean it seems obvious in hindsight, and that is the mark of excellent card selection.
Berserk is a Legacy-playable combat trick that has been a finisher in green-based aggressive decks since the early days of the game. Rhythm of the Wild is a Commander staple for creature-heavy decks. Rite of Passage synergises beautifully with Wolverine’s healing factor — creatures that survive damage grow stronger. The Wolverine legendary creature himself is built for combat, which is exactly right.
The theming across this drop is the tightest of any in the first superdrop. Every card choice feels intentional.
5. Secret Lair x Marvel’s Captain America — A Tier
Cards: Captain America, First Avenger · Sigarda’s Aid (Captain America’s Aid) · Flawless Maneuver · In the Trenches · Sword of War and Peace (Shield of War and Peace)
The Shield of War and Peace is the best individual card-to-character reskin in either superdrop. Sword of War and Peace reimagined as Captain America’s vibranium shield is immediately correct — the protection from white and red, the life gain, the damage dealing. Nobody who understands both the card and the character could see this reskin and think it was wrong. It is the most elegant single piece of design in the Marvel Secret Lair line.
Sigarda’s Aid is a Commander staple in equipment decks, which Cap’s entire identity lends itself to. Flawless Maneuver protects your board at the right moment. The Captain America legendary himself leans into the Voltron archetype — suit up, protect the team, lead by example. It is a coherent design that reflects the character’s military leadership ethos.
The drop loses a point relative to Iron Man and Storm purely on card power — In the Trenches is the weakest inclusion in any first-superdrop entry — but the ceiling here is as high as any drop in the line.
6. Secret Lair x Marvel’s Black Panther — B Tier
Cards: Black Panther, Wakandan King · Secure the Wastes · Primal Vigor (Bast’s Blessing) · Heroic Intervention · Karn’s Bastion (Wakandan Skyscraper) · Warrior token
Heroic Intervention is a legitimate Commander staple — one of the best protection spells in green — and Primal Vigor is a powerful doubling effect that wins games. The Black Panther drop is not bad. It is genuinely solid. It lands in B tier purely because the field it is competing against is so strong.
Secure the Wastes is playable but not a staple. Karn’s Bastion as Wakandan Skyscraper is a clever reskin but the card itself is niche. The Black Panther legendary himself focuses on counters and tribal Warrior synergies, which is thematically appropriate but mechanically less exciting than the top three entrants. This is a fine drop to own, particularly for Black Panther fans — it just does not have the single card that makes you go looking for it specifically.
7. Spider-Man: Villainous Plots — B Tier
Cards: Doctor Octopus · Black Cat · Electro · Lizard · Command Tower (Oscorp skin)
The most interesting conceptual entry in either superdrop. Rather than giving you a hero commander, Villainous Plots introduces four mechanically unique villain cards — Doctor Octopus, Black Cat, Electro, and the Lizard — all legal in Commander, Legacy, and Vintage. These are not reskins. They are brand-new cards designed specifically for the characters.
Doctor Octopus translates well to MTG — tentacles, theft mechanics, reach into multiple zones at once. Black Cat’s luck manipulation and Electro’s direct damage both map naturally onto existing MTG mechanics. The Oscorp Command Tower completes the sinister corporate aesthetic. This drop is for players who want to build themed villain decks rather than optimised Commander staple packages, and for that audience it delivers.
The secondary market value is lower than the hero drops precisely because the cards are mechanically unique and therefore untested at scale — but that also means there is upside if any of these break out in a format.
8. Daily Bugle Breaking News — C Tier (Highest Style Points)
The Daily Bugle drop does not contain cards that look like Magic cards. It contains five cards designed to look like issues of the Daily Bugle newspaper, each featuring a story about Spider-Man on the front page. They are still functional Magic cards — the rules text is there — but visually they are something completely different from anything else in the game’s history.
The C tier placement is about mechanical utility, not creativity. As a concept, this is one of the most original Secret Lair drops ever made. As a card acquisition strategy, the value depends entirely on which five cards are included. It lands in C tier because its ceiling is “very cool display piece” rather than “Commander staple,” but collectors and Spider-Man fans should consider it regardless of what the actual cards are.
9. Venom Unleashed (Colors) — C Tier
A Venom-themed set featuring new mechanically unique Venom cards in various colours. The appeal here is almost entirely character-based — if you love Venom, this is the drop for you. The cards themselves are designed for Commander play but have not demonstrated the kind of breakout potential that would make them must-haves outside the Venom fan base. Solid execution of a niche concept.
10. Mana Symbiote — D Tier
Contents: 10 cards — two of each basic land with Venom art, in a special raised foil treatment. Price: $59.99.
Basic lands are basic lands. They are functionally identical to the free ones in every starter pack Magic has ever produced. The Venom art is fine, the raised foil treatment is premium, and collectors who want a matching Venom-themed basic land package will find this drop exactly what they are looking for. For everyone else, spending $60 on basic lands is a genuinely difficult case to make. Secondary market prices on basic land Secret Lairs historically underperform their retail price. Buy only if completing the full Venom set is the goal.
11. Venom Unleashed (Ink) — D Tier
The foil parallel treatment version of Venom Unleashed (Colors). There is nothing wrong with it — the foiling is attractive and the cards inside are the same mechanically unique Venom designs as the colour version. The D tier placement is purely structural: this is a duplicate of another drop in the same superdrop, differentiated only by treatment. It exists for completionists. If you are buying every drop in the Spider-Man Superdrop, you are already buying this. If you are being selective, there is nothing here that the Colors version does not provide.
The Summary Before June 26th
The Marvel Super Heroes set is going to introduce a completely different scale of MTG Marvel content — full booster sets, Commander precons, the works. But these eleven Secret Lairs are the build-up, the foundation layer, the collector’s items that existed before the main event.
The Iron Man and Storm drops from the 2024 Superdrop are the ones to chase. Spider-Man’s Heroic Deeds drop is the sleeper hit of the entire run. Everything else is a function of how much you care about the specific characters involved. Track down the S and A tiers on TCGPlayer or CardMarket before the set drops and the wider audience starts looking back at what they missed.
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