Secret Lair Buyers Strike Gold With Multi-Hundred Dollar Foils

Last updated on November 11, 2025

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The hits keep coming with Secret Lairs, don't they? In the span of a month, we've seen the Super Scare Superdrop, the PlayStation Superdrop, and a $200 Countdown Kit, almost all of which sold out within an hour. It's that last one that's got the market up in a frenzy now.

I briefly reviewed the Encyclopedia Countdown Kit once all the contents were revealed last week, but one thing I didn't account for was the randomly inserted foils that you could open in the drop. Of the 26 cards (27 total including the bonus Alhammarret's Archive), some had a random chance of being a traditional foil, while others still had an even smaller chance of being halo foils. And if you haven't checked out the prices on those lately… well, you might be holding onto some money.

Halo Foil Extravaganza

A lot of Countdown Kit halo foil buzz started with the sale of a $350 Sol Ring just days after the sale went live. That price might've been a touch high, and you can see people posting the same card on eBay just below $300 now, though some listings shoot higher in the $400-600 range. Even if you wanted to low-ball it and say the price should be around $200, well, that's what the whole Countdown Kit cost to begin with! In other words, a single halo foil hit might just cover the cost of entry for the kit, and everything else is a bonus.

That said, halo foils are extremely rare to begin with. Players have reported, on average, between 0-2 halo foils per kit, with the number of traditional foils being closer to six or seven. And even if you were to spike a halo foil or two from your kit, there's no guarantee it's going to be something of worth. Though it would be a nice way to make one of the duds from the drop worth a little something extra. Halo foils of Temple of the False God, for example, are listed between the $60-80 range right now.

The Big Hits

The best cards to hit in halo foil are the ones you'd imagine, the already-expensive cards in their non-foil forms. Urza's Saga seems to be big money, with the lowest listing on eBay at $400, and most of them at least $100-200 more than that. Makes sense, given the card's Constructed and Commander pedigree. This is now the holy grail version of the card, unless you count the weird textless version (but who even knows what that one does?).

Phyrexian Altar and Field of the Dead are both big $$ cards, judging by the typical listing for both being above $200.

As mentioned with Temple of the False God, the halo foiling also turns the biggest whiffs from the collection into just enough money to cover a phone bill for the month. That was a major complaint for the Countdown Kit: There was solid value all around, but a handful of filler cards in the $1 range, not what you want to see in a $200 collection of cards.

However, some of the $1 duds approach $100 territory with the halo foiling. Hymn to Tourach and Junji, the Midnight Sky were two of the biggest misses, not just because they're sub $1 card to begin with, but because they're not even heavily played in any format (“We miss you Hymn” — Legacy players, probably). Slap a fancy foiling on those and you're looking at $70, $80, or even more for a copy.

The Whole Thing, A-Z

What if you missed out on the initial sale? How much would it cost to buy an individual, unopened Countdown Kit? Not as much as you might expect, actually.

You can find a bunch of these on TCGplayer right now from $240 up, majority hovering in the $250-260 range. The market price is listed as $346.29, but they're currently much cheaper than that from various vendors. This is probably because the going rate from the Secret Lair website was roughly $150 a pop. Yes, they sold individually for $200, but there was also a package deal where people could buy a set of two Countdown Kits for $299.

Considering the total value of the kit comes out to roughly $260 before accounting for foils, it's still not that bad of a deal if you're interested in the big-money cards. And if you do happen to spike a fancy halo foil or two, you might even find yourself up in the exchange.

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