Everything You Need to Know About the PlayStation Cards in Magic

Timothy Zaccagnino October 16, 2025 Collecting, MTG Cards, MTG Products

Last updated on December 21, 2025

Jin Sakai, Ghost of Tsushima | Illustration by Dominik Mayer

As much as I consider myself an XBOX gamer these days, with what little time I have for actual gaming, I grew up on PlayStation and the many, many icons it created over the years. The PS1/PS2 era of gaming is a core feature of my and my siblings’ childhoods (my brother has a dog named Kratos), and amid all the Universes Beyond muck and rabble going on, I’m actually very excited to see these cards. My only wish is that these somehow flip-flopped with properties like Star Trek or TMNT, which feel better suited to Secret Lairs, while many PlayStation games have the breadth to justify a full MTG set.

The PlayStation Secret Lairs bring us a bunch of new commanders and valuable reprints, and they show promise for what a fully fleshed out PS/MTG crossover might look like. Let’s see what they’ve got, and whether they’re worth your money. Just remember to save your progress along the way.

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Secret Lair x PlayStation Basic Information

Kratos, Stoic Father | Illustration by Nathaniel Himawan

Set Details

Secret Lair x PlayStation is a Secret Lair Superdrop that consists of seven individual drops, each based on a headliner game from the Sony PlayStation line-up. They somehow snubbed Crash Bandicoot here, but you’ll see Nathan Drake, Kratos, Joel, and a few other highly recognizable names from PlayStation history.

Each drop contains at least one new, mechanically unique legendary creature, while a couple feature two partner commanders. The set also officially reworks the off-brand partner pairing abilities to actually use “partner” text. For example, you’ll see “Partner – Survivors” on characters from The Last of Us, which works exactly like existing mechanics like “friends forever” and “doctor’s companion”. I’m unsure if the older spin-offs are getting reworked to use “partner” text, but it looks like the new norm moving forward (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles also features a unique partner mechanic).

Legality

All of the mechanically unique Magic cards from these drops are legal in Eternal formats, including Commander, Legacy, and Vintage. They aren’t legal in Standard, Pioneer, or Modern. If by some chance these cards end up coming to MTG Arena, they’ll be legal in Brawl and Timeless as well.

The reprints don’t affect card legality, and those cards are legal only in formats in which they were already legal.

Important Dates

The Secret Lair sale begins on October 27, 2025 at 9:00am PST / 12:00pm noon EST. It’ll be available on the official Secret Lair website.

Word to the wise: If this is your first time trying to buy Secret Lair product online, it can be a complete bloodbath if the drop(s) in question is even remotely popular enough. People tend to experience slowdowns on the website or fail to get an opportunity to buy anything if they enter the queue too late. If you’re serious about trying to snag any of these, you need to be on the site and in the queue as early as possible (and even then, there are no guarantees).

Secret Lair x PlayStation Card List and Gallery

Remember that each individual drop comes with a bonus card, which isn’t currently known. Sometimes it’s an alternate art copy of another card in the drop, other times it’s another great reprint, and sometimes it’s one of a collection of different cards. I’ve got my money on Astro Bot versions of the characters in each lair, which would be super cool (or, you know, 1,000 more versions of Command Tower or whatever).

I’ve marked each of the mechanically unique cards with an asterisk.

Secret Lair x The Last of Us Part I

Secret Lair x The Last of Us Part II

Secret Lair x God of War: Greek

Secret Lair x God of War: Norse

*Atreus, Impulsive Son
*Kratos, Stoic Father
Teferi's Ageless Insight (Mimir's Ancient Wisdom): double-sided, same card on both sides
Iroas, God of Victory (Freya, Queen of the Valkyries)

Secret Lair x Uncharted

Secret Lair x Horizon: Into the Forbidden West

Secret Lair x Ghost of Tsushima

Available Products

There are seven total Secret Lair drops, which can be purchased individually or in various Superdrop collections (prices currently unknown for Superdrops). The individual drops are all priced the same, at $39.99 for non-foil versions and $49.99 for rainbow foil editions.

Are the PlayStation Secret Lairs Worth It?

Here I’ll look at the current market price of cards within each of the drops and see if you’re close to the $40 range, which is the asking price for each drop. I’m not factoring in the premium foil editions of the Secret Lairs. Prices were based on TCGplayer market prices as of October 12, 2025, using the cheapest available version of each card.

Note that there’s no realistic price included here for the mechanically unique cards. Presale prices tend to be highly inflated, so we’re purely looking at reprint value. Bear in mind that current prices might also fluctuate once this set drops, as a sudden influx of reprints can tank the price of something that hasn’t been reprinted much. The total reprint value for each drop is as follows:

The Last of Us Part I: $19.62
The Last of Us Part II: $20.02
God of War: Greek: $14.83
God of War: Norse: $14.62
Uncharted: $28.98
Horizon: Into the Forbidden West: $38.56
Ghost of Tsushima: $16.63

Don’t be shocked that some of these only get you halfway to that $40 price tag. Remember that there’s at least one unique new card in each drop (sometimes two) that add to the value of the drop post-release, as well as whatever bonus cards they might slot into these. You could probably add a solid $5 to each of these numbers to account for the unknown cards, and even more if anything ends up taking off, or if there are any particularly generous bonus card reprints.

Also keep in mind that the drops that contain partner commanders are at a distinct disadvantage when solely counting reprint value, since two slots in each of those drops are occupied by a new card that we have no useable data on. Still, those newcomers are going to have to do some heavy lifting to make them worth your while (the God of War drops in particular need some help from the new card and bonus card prices).

Thankfully, each individual drop comes with at least one great money reprint. Blightsteel Colossus is the biggest one at $30+, found in the Horizon drop, but there are other great value reprints across the board, including Pyrohemia, Dictate of Erebos, Eiganjo Castle, and more.

So: Are these are worth it? The answer is probably a firm yes for anything that’s already close to or above the $30 mark on reprint value alone, which includes Uncharted and Horizon. Everything else is going to lean heavily on the settled prices for the new cards, plus the value of the bonus cards. I doubt many of those total up to $20 per drop, so you’re not going to make your $40 back on all of these unless one of the commanders really takes off, or if they drop Smothering Tithe in the bonus slot again. I'm also a little annoyed that the Norse God of War drop has one fewer card than the rest; a double-faced card doesn't count as two cards, Wizards! You could say the same of the tokens in The Last of Us drops.

Of course, if you’re picking these up purely because you love the characters and you want to collect the cards, that’s a personal judgment call.

Will Local Game Stores Get These Drops?

According to the official announcement article from Wizards of the Coast, “Non-foil versions of these drops will be available at WPN game stores for purchase at a later date.” So yes, you can expect to find these in a larger LGS near you some time after the initial release.

Game Over

Abby, Merciless Soldier | Illustration by Wayne Wu

I’m really excited for these drops, even more so because they occupied the same initial announcement space as Dwight Schrute from The Office. This feels more like what Secret Lair should do if Wizards is going to make Universes Beyond this much of its core identity moving forward. Mix Magic with video games, it’s a natural fit!

I’m also curious to see which of these new commanders grab peoples’ attention, and I’m happy to see a few great reprints across the board here. If you’ve got your eye on any of these drops, or if you have a PlayStation character in mind you’d like to see on a Magic card, let me know in the comments below or over in the Draftsim Discord. And come back to tell us how your experience with the Secret Lair website went.

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Timothy Zaccagnino

Timothy has been a Magic enthusiast since picking up the game in 2012, with a love of Limited and Commander. He's the co-creator of Jank Diver Gaming and host of The Jank Tank podcast. These days you can find him at the draft table, brewing his 20th EDH deck or cubing with friends on Arena.