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{{Infobox set
{{Infobox set
   |name = Secret Lair Drop Series:/ More Adventures in Middle-earth
   |name = Secret Lair Drop Series:/ Summer Superdrop 2023
   |image =  
   |image = Summer Superdrop 2023.jpg
   |image_bgcolor = white
   |image_bgcolor = black
   |symbol_description = Shooting star
   |symbol_description = Shooting star
   |design =  
   |design =  
   |development =
   |development =
   |art=
   |art=
   |release = July 26, 2023
   |release = June 26, 2023
   |size = TBA cards (1 mini-set)
   |size = 37 cards (7 mini-sets)
   |code_expansion = SLD
   |code_expansion = SLD
   |code_expansion_ref = [[Information below the text box]]
   |code_expansion_ref = [[Information below the text box]]
   |code_expansion_explain =  
   |code_expansion_explain =  
   |series = [[Secret Lair Drop Series]]
   |series = [[Secret Lair Drop Series]]
   |first =  
   |first = {{SLD|Spring Superdrop 2023}}
   |second =
   |second = {{SLD|Summer Superdrop 2023}}
   |third =  
   |third = {{SLD|Fall Superdrop 2023}}
   |previous = The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
   |previous = The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth/Starter Kit
   |next =  
   |next = Commander Masters
}}
}}
'''''More Adventures in Middle-earth''''' is a [[drop]] in the [[Secret Lair]] product range and a continuation of the ''[[Secret Lair Drop Series]]''. It is also part of the [[Universes Beyond]] product line. It becomes available for purchase from the [[Wizards of the Coast]] webshop [https://secretlair.wizards.com/us secretlair.wizards.com] on June 26, 2023.<ref>{{DailyRef|announcements/secret-lair-drop-more-adventures-in-middle-earth|Secret Lair Drop More Adventures in Middle-earth|[[Wizards of the Coast]]|May 30, 2023}}</ref>
{{otheruses|Summer Superdrop}}
The '''''Summer Superdrop 2023''''' is a [[superdrop]] in in the [[Secret Lair]] product range and a continuation of the ''[[Secret Lair Drop Series]]''. It was available for purchase from the [[Wizards of the Coast]] webshop [https://secretlair.wizards.com/us secretlair.wizards.com] from June 26 to August 28, 2023. The cards were shipped on August 29, 2023.


==Description==
==Description==
This set is a tie-in with [[Universes Beyond]] set ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth]]''. Based on the 1978 animated fantasy film ''The Lord of the Rings'', this drop revisits the classic movie directed by Ralph Bakshi from the screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel ''The Lord of the Rings''.
The Superdrop contains seven [[drop]]s. Buyers received two ''[[The Brothers' War]]'' [[Collector Booster]]s for every $200 spent on ''Summer Superdrop 2023''.
 
''The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth'' is a tie-in with the [[Universes Beyond]] set ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth]]'', released three days earlier. Based on the 1978 animated fantasy film ''[[Wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings (1978 film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'', this drop revisits the classic movie directed by [[Wikipedia:Ralph Bakshi|Ralph Bakshi]] from the screenplay by [[Wikipedia:Chris Conkling|Chris Conkling]] and [[Wikipedia:Peter S. Beagle|Peter S. Beagle]] based on the novel [[Wikipedia:The Lord of the Rings|of the same name]] by [[Wikipedia:J.R.R. Tolkien|J. R. R. Tolkien]].<ref>{{DailyRef|announcements/secret-lair-drop-more-adventures-in-middle-earth|Secret Lair Drop More Adventures in Middle-earth|[[Wizards of the Coast]]|May 30, 2023}}</ref>
 
There is also a drop in the [[Artist Series]], featuring [[List of illustrators|Ryan Alexander Lee]].
 
The ''Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever'' is accompanied by the following poem:
 
;“<c>Waste Not</c>” by the <c>Nekusar, the Mindrazer</c>.
 
<c>Syr Konrad, the Grim</c> rode into war,<br>
Upon a steed of shadow and pain.<br>
The inhuman horde fell to his sword,<br>
The ghasts and the ghouls had been slain.<br>
 
But when the Mindrazer joined the fray,<br>
Syr Konrad was unseated and fell.<br>
Bound to the <c>Wheel of Misfortune</c></br>
And slowly dragged into hell.<br>
 
===Drops===
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
! Drop
! Price<br>(non-foil)
! Price<br>(trad. foil)
! Description
|-
|The Stars Gaze Back
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Four cards with art by [[List of illustrators|Yu Maeda]]. Beyond the celestial veil, towering [[elemental]]s study us through eyes of starfire. They dream and reality obeys — our destiny is their plaything. And the reverie never ends.
|-
|The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Two Common to Rare and two Uncommon to Rare [[reprint]]s from ''[[The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth]]''.  with art directly pulled from Bakshi’s 1978 animated classic. [[Universes Beyond]].
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Five black and white illustrations by [[Wikipedia:Mark Riddick|Mark Riddick]], telling the story of the poem “Waste Not”.
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Part of the [[Artist Series]]. Four cards and a token with art by [[List of illustrators|Ryan Alexander Lee]]. Inspired by the liner notes in an old heavy metal album, these cards show a [[hero]] charged by the [[god]]s to do battle with a giant creature in the shadowlands beyond the known world.
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Five [[goblin]]s with art by [[Wizard of Barge]].
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Ten borderless [[Mountain]]s set on [[Lorwyn–Shadowmoor|Lorwyn]], with art direction and flavor text by [[Wikipedia:John Darnielle|John Darnielle]] of the [[Wikipedia:The Mountain Goats|The Mountain Goats]].
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|$29.99
|$39.99
|Five spooky biker and racer scenes depicted by [[List of illustrators|Ryan Quickfall]]. Inspired by the song ''[[Wikipedia:Bad to the Bone|Bad to the Bone]]'' by [[Wikipedia:George Thorogood|George Thorogood]].
|}
 
===Bundles===
The drops could be bought separately or in one of four bundles. The ''More Adventures in Middle-earth Bundle'' contains the ''More Adventures in Middle-earth'' drop in foil and non-foil for $69.98. The ''Tearing Up A Sick Tube of Non-Foils Bundle'' contains all non-foils for $208.99. The ''Carving Up A Barrel of Foils Bundle'' (all foils)  costs $278.99 and the ''Shredding A Wave of Everything Bundle'' combines the latter two for $488.99.


===Card list===
===Card list===
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! Artist
! Artist
! Notes
! Notes
|-
|The Stars Gaze Back
|1255
|{{card|Flamekin Harbinger||SLD|#=1255}}
|Yu Maeda
|Borderless art
|-
|The Stars Gaze Back
|1256
|{{card|Omnath, Locus of Rage||SLD|#=1256}}
|Yu Maeda
|Borderless art
|-
|The Stars Gaze Back
|1257
|{{card|Risen Reef||SLD|#=1257}}
|Yu Maeda
|Borderless art
|-
|The Stars Gaze Back
|1258
|{{card|Voice of Resurgence||SLD|#=1258}}
|Yu Maeda
|Borderless art
|-
|More Adventures in Middle-earth
|1293
|{{card|Slip On the Ring||SLD|#=1293}}
|Bakshi Productions
|
|-
|More Adventures in Middle-earth
|1294
|{{card|Gandalf, Friend of the Shire||SLD|#=1294}}
|Bakshi Productions
|
|-
|More Adventures in Middle-earth
|1295
|{{card|Mirror of Galadriel||SLD|#=1295}}
|Bakshi Productions
|
|-
|More Adventures in Middle-earth
|1296
|{{card|Shire Terrace||SLD|#=1296}}
|Bakshi Productions
|
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|1297
|{{card|Syr Konrad, the Grim||SLD|#=1297}}
|[[Wikipedia:Mark Riddick|Mark Riddick]]
|[[Borderless]] art
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|1298
|{{card|Underworld Dreams||SLD|#=1298}}
|Mark Riddick
|Borderless art
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|1299
|{{card|Waste Not||SLD|#=1299}}
|Mark Riddick
|Borderless art
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|1300
|{{card|Wheel of Misfortune||SLD|#=1300}}
|Mark Riddick
|Borderless art
|-
|Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever
|1301
|{{card|Nekusar, the Mindrazer||SLD|#=1301}}
|Mark Riddick
|Borderless art
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|1302
|{{card|Nemesis of Reason||SLD|#=1302}}
|Ryan Alexander Lee
|New flavor text
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|1303
|{{card|Gaea’s Blessing||SLD|#=1303}}
|Ryan Alexander Lee
|New flavor text
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|1304
|{{card|Twilight Prophet||SLD|#=1304}}
|Ryan Alexander Lee
|New flavor text
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|1305
|{{card|Worldspine Wurm||SLD|#=1305}}
|Ryan Alexander Lee
|New flavor text
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|1306
|{{card|Wurm||SLD|#=1306}}
|Ryan Alexander Lee
|
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|1311
|{{card|Goblin Lackey||SLD|#=1311}}
|Wizard of Barge
|Borderless art
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|1312
|{{card|Goblin Matron||SLD|#=1312}}
|Wizard of Barge
|Borderless art
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|1313
|{{card|Goblin Recruiter||SLD|#=1313}}
|Wizard of Barge
|Borderless art
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|1314
|{{card|Muxus, Goblin Grandee||SLD|#=1314}}
|Wizard of Barge
|Borderless art
|-
|Goblin & Squabblin'
|1315
|{{card|Shattergang Brothers||SLD|#=1315}}
|Wizard of Barge
|Borderless art
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1358
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1358}}
|Darrell Riche
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1359
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1359}}
|[[Victor Adame Minguez]]
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1360
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1360}}
|[[Mark Zug]]
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1361
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1361}}
|Warren Mahy
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1362
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1362}}
|Larry MacDougall
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1363
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1363}}
|Omar Rayyan
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1364
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1364}}
|Martina Pilcerova
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1365
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1365}}
|Fred Fields
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1366
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1366}}
|[[Ron Spears]]
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|1367
|{{card|Mountain||SLD|#=1367}}
|Erica Williams
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|1404
|{{card|Bottomless Pit||SLD|#=1404}}
|Ryan Quickfall
|Borderless art, new flavor text (which uniquely "falls" off the bottom of the card,<br>making a pun with both the flavor of the card and the artist's last name)
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|1405
|{{card|Necrogen Mists||SLD|#=1405}}
|Ryan Quickfall
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|1406
|{{card|Reassembling Skeleton||SLD|#=1406}}
|Ryan Quickfall
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|1407
|{{card|Tinybones, Trinket Thief||SLD|#=1407}}
|Ryan Quickfall
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|-
|Bad to the Bones
|1408
|{{card|Geier Reach Sanitarium||SLD|#=1408}}
|Ryan Quickfall
|Borderless art, new flavor text
|}
|}


==Bonus cards==
==Bonus cards==
As an extra, the drop comes with a surprise bonus card.
As an extra, the drops come with a surprise bonus card. Except for the cases listed below, the potential bonus cards for these drops included various extended art slivers and borderless versions of {{card|Shadowborn Apostle||SLD|#=680}} # 680 (AlbaBG)
{| class="wikitable sortable"   
{| class="wikitable sortable"   
! Drop
! Drop
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! Card #
! Card #
! Notes
! Notes
|-
|More Adventures in Middle-earth
|{{card|Grima Wormtongue||SLD|#=734}}
|734
|Uncommon reprinted as Rare. Erroneously printed as a 2/4 instead of 1/4.<ref>{{WebRef|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/167iqv1/in_case_tales_of_middle_earth_secret_lair_wasnt/|title=In case Tales of Middle Earth Secret Lair wasnt dissapointing enough|date=September 2, 2023|author=|publisher=Reddit}}</ref>
|-
|Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee
|Sketch version {{card|Gaea's Blessing||SLD|#=}}
|735
|
|-
|Featuring: the Mountain Goats
|Alternate art {{card|Mountain Goat||SLD|#=737}}
|737
|Art and flavor text poem by John Darnelle
|}
|}


Latest revision as of 23:23, 17 October 2023

Secret Lair Drop Series:
Summer Superdrop 2023
[[File:{{#setmainimage:Summer Superdrop 2023.jpg}}|250px]]
Set Information
Set symbol
Symbol description Shooting star
Release date June 26, 2023
Set size 37 cards (7 mini-sets)
Expansion code SLD[1]
Secret Lair Drop Series
Spring Superdrop 2023 Summer Superdrop 2023 Fall Superdrop 2023
Magic: The Gathering Chronology
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth/Starter Kit Secret Lair Drop Series:
Summer Superdrop 2023		 Commander Masters
For other uses, see Summer Superdrop.

The Summer Superdrop 2023 is a superdrop in in the Secret Lair product range and a continuation of the Secret Lair Drop Series. It was available for purchase from the Wizards of the Coast webshop secretlair.wizards.com from June 26 to August 28, 2023. The cards were shipped on August 29, 2023.

Description

The Superdrop contains seven drops. Buyers received two The Brothers' War Collector Boosters for every $200 spent on Summer Superdrop 2023.

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is a tie-in with the Universes Beyond set The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, released three days earlier. Based on the 1978 animated fantasy film The Lord of the Rings, this drop revisits the classic movie directed by Ralph Bakshi from the screenplay by Chris Conkling and Peter S. Beagle based on the novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien.[2]

There is also a drop in the Artist Series, featuring Ryan Alexander Lee.

The Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever is accompanied by the following poem:

“Waste Not” by the Nekusar, the Mindrazer.

Syr Konrad, the Grim rode into war,
Upon a steed of shadow and pain.
The inhuman horde fell to his sword,
The ghasts and the ghouls had been slain.

But when the Mindrazer joined the fray,
Syr Konrad was unseated and fell.
Bound to the Wheel of Misfortune
And slowly dragged into hell.

Drops

Drop Price
(non-foil) 		Price
(trad. foil) 		Description
The Stars Gaze Back $29.99 $39.99 Four cards with art by Yu Maeda. Beyond the celestial veil, towering elementals study us through eyes of starfire. They dream and reality obeys — our destiny is their plaything. And the reverie never ends.
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth $29.99 $39.99 Two Common to Rare and two Uncommon to Rare reprints from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. with art directly pulled from Bakshi’s 1978 animated classic. Universes Beyond.
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever $29.99 $39.99 Five black and white illustrations by Mark Riddick, telling the story of the poem “Waste Not”.
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee $29.99 $39.99 Part of the Artist Series. Four cards and a token with art by Ryan Alexander Lee. Inspired by the liner notes in an old heavy metal album, these cards show a hero charged by the gods to do battle with a giant creature in the shadowlands beyond the known world.
Goblin & Squabblin' $29.99 $39.99 Five goblins with art by Wizard of Barge.
Featuring: the Mountain Goats $29.99 $39.99 Ten borderless Mountains set on Lorwyn, with art direction and flavor text by John Darnielle of the The Mountain Goats.
Bad to the Bones $29.99 $39.99 Five spooky biker and racer scenes depicted by Ryan Quickfall. Inspired by the song Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood.

Bundles

The drops could be bought separately or in one of four bundles. The More Adventures in Middle-earth Bundle contains the More Adventures in Middle-earth drop in foil and non-foil for $69.98. The Tearing Up A Sick Tube of Non-Foils Bundle contains all non-foils for $208.99. The Carving Up A Barrel of Foils Bundle (all foils) costs $278.99 and the Shredding A Wave of Everything Bundle combines the latter two for $488.99.

Card list

Drop Card number Card/Token Artist Notes
The Stars Gaze Back 1255 Flamekin Harbinger Yu Maeda Borderless art
The Stars Gaze Back 1256 Omnath, Locus of Rage Yu Maeda Borderless art
The Stars Gaze Back 1257 Risen Reef Yu Maeda Borderless art
The Stars Gaze Back 1258 Voice of Resurgence Yu Maeda Borderless art
More Adventures in Middle-earth 1293 Slip On the Ring Bakshi Productions
More Adventures in Middle-earth 1294 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire Bakshi Productions
More Adventures in Middle-earth 1295 Mirror of Galadriel Bakshi Productions
More Adventures in Middle-earth 1296 Shire Terrace Bakshi Productions
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever 1297 Syr Konrad, the Grim Mark Riddick Borderless art
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever 1298 Underworld Dreams Mark Riddick Borderless art
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever 1299 Waste Not Mark Riddick Borderless art
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever 1300 Wheel of Misfortune Mark Riddick Borderless art
Death Is Temporary, Metal Is Forever 1301 Nekusar, the Mindrazer Mark Riddick Borderless art
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee 1302 Nemesis of Reason Ryan Alexander Lee New flavor text
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee 1303 Gaea’s Blessing Ryan Alexander Lee New flavor text
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee 1304 Twilight Prophet Ryan Alexander Lee New flavor text
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee 1305 Worldspine Wurm Ryan Alexander Lee New flavor text
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee 1306 Wurm Ryan Alexander Lee
Goblin & Squabblin' 1311 Goblin Lackey Wizard of Barge Borderless art
Goblin & Squabblin' 1312 Goblin Matron Wizard of Barge Borderless art
Goblin & Squabblin' 1313 Goblin Recruiter Wizard of Barge Borderless art
Goblin & Squabblin' 1314 Muxus, Goblin Grandee Wizard of Barge Borderless art
Goblin & Squabblin' 1315 Shattergang Brothers Wizard of Barge Borderless art
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1358 Mountain Darrell Riche Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1359 Mountain Victor Adame Minguez Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1360 Mountain Mark Zug Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1361 Mountain Warren Mahy Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1362 Mountain Larry MacDougall Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1363 Mountain Omar Rayyan Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1364 Mountain Martina Pilcerova Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1365 Mountain Fred Fields Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1366 Mountain Ron Spears Borderless art, new flavor text
Featuring: the Mountain Goats 1367 Mountain Erica Williams Borderless art, new flavor text
Bad to the Bones 1404 Bottomless Pit Ryan Quickfall Borderless art, new flavor text (which uniquely "falls" off the bottom of the card,
making a pun with both the flavor of the card and the artist's last name)
Bad to the Bones 1405 Necrogen Mists Ryan Quickfall Borderless art, new flavor text
Bad to the Bones 1406 Reassembling Skeleton Ryan Quickfall Borderless art, new flavor text
Bad to the Bones 1407 Tinybones, Trinket Thief Ryan Quickfall Borderless art, new flavor text
Bad to the Bones 1408 Geier Reach Sanitarium Ryan Quickfall Borderless art, new flavor text

Bonus cards

As an extra, the drops come with a surprise bonus card. Except for the cases listed below, the potential bonus cards for these drops included various extended art slivers and borderless versions of Shadowborn Apostle # 680 (AlbaBG)

Drop Bonus card Card # Notes
More Adventures in Middle-earth Grima Wormtongue 734 Uncommon reprinted as Rare. Erroneously printed as a 2/4 instead of 1/4.[3]
Artist Series: Ryan Alexander Lee Sketch version Gaea's Blessing 735
Featuring: the Mountain Goats Alternate art Mountain Goat 737 Art and flavor text poem by John Darnelle

References

  1. ↑ Information below the text box
  2. ↑ Wizards of the Coast (May 30, 2023). "Secret Lair Drop More Adventures in Middle-earth". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
  3. ↑ In case Tales of Middle Earth Secret Lair wasnt dissapointing enough. Reddit (September 2, 2023).
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