Magic: The Gathering Scalpers Are Already Selling the Sonic Secret Lair At a Mark-Up

The Sonic the Hedgehog crossover with Magic: The Gathering's boutique Secret Lair drops went unrecorded yesterday, and it was predictably popular. Eager fans swarmed the site, and now, scalpers are already selling immoderate of the merchandise online astatine a mark-up.

Secret Lair is Magic: The Gathering's peculiar postulation of uncommon and unsocial cards, with either brand-new designs oregon peculiar reprints of classical cards. For Sonic, the Blue Blur got 3 antithetic sets of cards. The Friends & Foes postulation featured caller cards that could, presumably, beryllium Commanders for Sonic-focused Commander decks, similar Knuckles, Amy, Dr. Eggman, and Shadow. Turbo Gear and Chasing Adventure, meanwhile, were reprints of cards similar Lightning Greaves and Unexpected Windfall with Sonic-styled paper art.

When the acceptable went unrecorded astatine 9am PT yesterday, a queue formed and rapidly ramped up. There were limits successful place, presumably to forestall radical from mass-purchasing and flipping the goods. Still, it shouldn't beryllium a astonishment that a fewer paper sets person recovered their mode onto eBay already, astatine a marked-up price.

The Turbo Gear Foil Edition, for example, is being listed astatine $70 (or champion offer) connected eBay with a preorder/presale marker, arsenic the existent Secret Lair cards person not shipped yet. For comparison, the Secret Lair store terms for this foil acceptable is $39.99.

More costly options, similar the full Sonic postulation sans foil, are going for $349.99 (or champion offer), and immoderate listings enactment idiosyncratic collections similar the Friends & Foes astatine $80 oregon more.

The unusual portion is that portion the Secret Lair vault volition yet tally dry, and immoderate parts of the postulation person already gone down to debased oregon nary stock, different paper sets are inactive available. As of this writing, the Friends & Foes Foil Edition is inactive disposable for $49.99. It won't always be available, but it's someway some astonishing and not astonishing these sets are already getting flipped.

For those who'd alternatively pursuit aft different cards, the adjacent Magic: The Gathering acceptable Edge of Eternities is officially retired connected August 1, with pre-release starting connected July 25.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.