Secret Lair Spectacular

The Secret Lair Spectacular is a tournament played at MagicCons starting in 2025, when it replaced the Secret Lair Showdown.

Description

This event features a unique experience with the wild, wacky nature of Secret Lair. It is played with Modern decks. As a special action, once during your turn, you can call a judge to use your redemption challenge item to enter the Secret Lair. Entering the Secret Lair adds a specially designed deck of planechase cards to help turn the tide of the game. This variant uses all the rules for the Planechase format. These events feature several exclusive Secret Lair Prize cards only available through these events and distributed over six rounds of play. The higher ending contestants win foil versions of the same cards.

List of Planechase cards

The Planechase cards designed for this stretch the definition of plane cards depicting a location on a plane to include the representation of different concepts. Each plane is named after a Secret Lair Drop. The cards were designed by Carmen Klomparens. Some are referencing the cards in the Secret Lairs themselves, some feature a concept that creates the feeling of the Secret Lair, and some feature inside jokes.

MagicCon	Name	Plane	Text	Notes
Chicago 2025	Deceptive Divination	Secret Lair	Change the text of each sorcery spell and sorcery card not on the stack by replacing "sorcery" with "instant." Whenever chaos ensues, choose two target players. each of them searches their library for a card, then shuffles and puts that card on top.	The plane pokes fun at the print error with Circular Logic in the Deceptive Divination drop, which was printed with the card type sorcery instead of instant.
Chicago 2025	Fblthp: Completely, Utterly, Totally Lost	Secret Lair	When you planeswalk to this plane and at the beginning of your upkeep, create a Map token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Acrtivate only as a sorcery.") Whenever chaos ensues, draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.	The card shares its name with Secret Lair Drop Series: Fblthp: Completely, Utterly, Totally Lost that was illustrated by the same artist. Fblthp is a homunculus from Ravnica with a talent for getting hopelessly lost.
Chicago 2025	Finally! Left-Handed Magic Cards	Secret Lair	Each creature's base power is equal to its printed toughness. Each creature's base toughness is equal to its printed power. Whenever chaos ensues, draw a card from the bottom of your library.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Finally! Left-Handed Magic Cards.
Chicago 2025	Happy Yargle Day!	Secret Lair	At the beginning of each player's end step, if that player doesn't control a creature named Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, that player puts a bargle counter on a creature they control. It becomes a copy of Yargle, Glutton of Urborg, except it isn't legendary. Whenever chaos ensues, choose Swords to Plowshares, Opt, Fatal Push, Anger of the Gods, or Explore at random. Copy the chosen card. You may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Happy Yargle Day!
Chicago 2025	Imaginary Friends	Secret Lair	Players may cast spells as though they were other cards legal in this game's format with the same type and mana cost (Mana cost includes color). Whenever chaos ensues, exile cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost, but only as another card following this plane's first ability. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Imaginary Friends. The concept of this card is similar to Mental Magic. For the Chicago event the format in question was Modern. The plane shares its name with the Mystery Booster playtest card Imaginary Friends.
Chicago 2025	Li'l Giri Saves the Day	Secret Lair	Legendary Food tokens you control have hexproof and indestructible. When you planeswalk to this plane, create Li'l Giri, a legendary 1/1 colorless Food Warrior artifact creature token. Whenever chaos ensues, put X +1/+1 counters on target legendary artifact creature you control, where X is the number of times you've rolled the planar die this turn.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Li'l Giri Saves the Day
Chicago 2025	Math is for Blockers	Secret Lair	Whenever a nontoken creature attacks, exile it. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control tapped and attacking at the beginning of that player's next declare attackers step. Whenever chaos ensues, goad target creature. (Until your next turn, It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Math is for Blockers The printed card misspells "nontoken creature" as "nontoken create".
Chicago 2025	Mycosynthwave	Secret Lair	All permanents are artifacts in addition to their other types. All cards that aren't on the battlefield, spells, and permanents are colorless. Players may spend mana as though it were mana of any color. Whenever chaos ensues, the next spell you cast this turn has affinity for artifacts.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: Mycosynthwave
Chicago 2025	sAnS mERcY	sECreT LaIR	wHeN YoU pLAnESWalK tO tHIs pLAnE, eACh pLAyER cHoOSeS a nOnBlACk cREaTuRE tHEy cONtrOl. dEsTRoy tHOsE cREatUReS. wHeNEveR cHoAS EnSUEs, pERfoRm tHe foLLowiNG pROceSs X tiMEs, wHErE X iS tHe nUmBEr oF tImes yOU'vE roLLeD tHe PlaNAr diE tHIs tuRN. eAcH oPPonent LOseS 3 LiFE uNLeSs tHAt pLAyEr sAcRiFicEs A nOnLaND pErManENt OR diSCaRds a cArD.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: sAnS mERcY. The printed cards misspells "chaos" as "choas".
Chicago 2025	We Hope You Like Squirrels	Secret Lair	At the beginning of each player's upkeep and whenever a player casts a spell, that player creates a 1/1 green Squirrel creature token. Whenever chaos ensues, put a +1/+1 counter on each Squirrel you control.	References Secret Lair Drop Series: We Hope You Like Squirrels

Promos

Year	Participation	4 wins	Top 32
2025	Sudden Edict	Questing Druid	Lightning Bolt

Gallery

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  The front and back face of a Secret Lair Spectacular plane card.