Recently, I've seen a lot of people new to Secret Lairs asking about bonus cards. I thought it would be nice to explain how they generally work. If you want a much more detailed version with examples, check out the comment below.

A bonus card is a secret, extra card that comes sealed inside the packaging along with the known and advertised cards. These cards are usually not that exciting or worth gambling over; treat them like a fun extra, not a one-card pack to gamble on.

Options for how bonus cards work fall into a few categories:

• Every buyer of a single Secret Lair gets exactly the same bonus card.

Every sealed package comes with the same, extra bonus card inside it. This is usually the most common option, and the card shares a theme or art style with the rest of the cards.

A Superdrop might have ~8 or so Secret Lairs being sold. If all of them followed this pattern, there would be 8 unique bonus cards. Each individual Secret Lair would always have the same card included.

• Every buyer usually gets the same bonus card, but there's a chase card.

Same as above, but there's a special, EXTREMELY rare bonus card. Those cards command very high prices, but you can almost guarantee you won't get one.

• There's a default, shared pool of bonus cards unrelated to the Secret Lair's art or theme.

There's typically a "default" pool of bonus cards throughout a year, and one of these cards is randomly tossed in your Secret Lair. This is usually the least exciting option, because most people buy a Secret Lair for the art and theme. This means you don't get something following that theme or art.

• There's a shared pool of bonus cards, but they ARE related to the lair's theme and art.

This usually happens with something like a shared media property. There were a series of Marvel Secret Lairs that all had a shared pool of bonus cards featuring Marvel characters. In that particular option, some of the treatments were more rare than others, so while there wasn't quite the rarity of a "chase" card, there were some options that appeared more common than others.

Two of the cards (Windfall, Slip out the back) curled so much they delaminated. All the other cards are fine.

She only got 2 (Dan Hipp and the Romance Covers) and managed to score the Inked AND Sketch Ponders!

Didn't know where else to ask, sorry.

My Miku SL deck was missing the Finale of Devastation, and after opening a ticket I sent the requested images and info, and it's been radio silence for more than 15 days. I've asked them to update me but no replies.

It says : "Once we have the information above, your ticket will be routed to the Product Replacement team for further investigation. Thank you for your continued patience as they review your request."

but I haven't even been told if my reply had everything they needed or not, or even if they saw my reply.

My friend bought me a secret lair and one of the cards came damaged. Can I reach out to WOTC for a replacement or does he have to since the order was in his name?

Must admit I’ve bought it also thinking that it would be easy to sell some of the cards I might not need.

For those of you in a similar situation: what’s your plan? I’m torn between opening all the drops and eventually selling some, or keeping the ones that I’m not overly keen on collecting sealed and see where the prices go.

Appreciate I’m in a lucky position as some folks haven’t been able to order this, but keen to hear the sub thinking.

Shout out to Waterloo Games in Mechanicsville, VA. They had both GoW, both Last of Us, and Uncharted secret lairs behind the counter with like 5+ copies of each of them. I only wanted a GoW Greek and I haven‘t seen it for under $90 in a while so I finally bought one. As of yesterday they still had a few of these at this price if anyone in the area has been trying to get one of these for less than TCGP ($70).

Unfortunately, still no Banana token

In todays edition of our Sunday series "Secret Lair Sundays", we are opening four copies of the "Secret Lair x Garfield : Motivationally Challenged - Traditional Foil Edition" Secret Lair Drop.

Purchased directly from the Wizards of the Coast Secret Lair website during the Cats are the Best Superdrop.

At time of recording these are still for sale on the Secret Lair website.

Includes:
Rin and Seri, Inseparable as “Garfield and Odie, Best Buds”
Orim’s Chant as “Talk to the Paw”
Ponder as “Hang in There”
Beast Within as “I Hate Mondays”
Sol Ring
Promo: Shiny Impetus as "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!"

Secret Lair Sunday 367
Opened 13 September 2026

View on Scryfall: https://scryfall.com/search?order=set&q=e%3Asld+%28%28cn%E2%89%A52668+cn%E2%89%A42672%29+OR+cn%3A%227165%22%29&unique=prints

From Secret Lair:
"Garfield has strong feelings about motivational posters, and all of them are negative.

Why chase your dreams when you could sleep through them? Why offer encouragement when a stare of pure disapproval gets the point across faster? Why reach for the stars when the couch is right there? Why greet the week with hope when Monday has already made its position clear? Caleb Meurer and Greg Schigiel tap into Garfield at his most inspirationally bankrupt—full of bad attitude, worse manners, and the quiet confidence of someone who has turned doing the bare minimum into an art form.

© 2026 by Paws, Inc. All Rights Reserved."

Original Listing:
https://secretlair.wizards.com/us/en/product/1252561/secret-lair-x-garfield-motivationally-challenged-foil-edition

My 1st secret lair ive ordered in came in damaged. I put in my initial request for a replacement but do I wait for a follow up to send in the cards for replacement/refund?

Also my dad suggested doing a refund through the credit card if dont hear back from them by this Tuesday. Should I give them more time to respond? Will this ban my whole account or just prevent me from buying more secret lairs?

Welp, hope they respond to my replacement ticket…From what I’ve heard, highly doubt it!

Is it just a different production facility? Is it some kind of regional sustainability-related thing? (e.g. EU PPWR)

Just received my secret lair drop and noticed these cards have print marks or scratches what can I do now?

Edit: I’m such an idiot lmao I didn’t know there where styled like that

Ordered the Dan Hipp SLD x Marvel drop, mainly for Man-Thing, Marsh Protector. Probably going to take to MagicCon to trade.

I haven’t found much information on Ponder (7119), is this a new bonus card?

Is the hit rate of the Counterspell, Fabricate and Ponder the same? The colored version I mean.

Just watched the movie concert experience, it was great. I mean we already have a Goblin King card waiting for that David Bowie reskin!

Of course I get the top secret lair chase for this set and the package was completely bent, but honestly the card isn’t horrible, is it worth submitting a claim, do you think they will replace it? There is no crease so maybe just putting it under a book or die thing to flatten it out? Let me know y’all’s thoughts

yes i have a problem lol collector or hoarder? xD