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| Design | Daniel Holt[1] | ||||
| Release date | December 2, 2024 | ||||
| Plane | Multiversal | ||||
| Themes and mechanics | Alternate win conditions | ||||
| Set size | One 100-card deck | ||||
| Expansion code | SLD[2] | ||||
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Secret Lair: 20 Ways to Win is a Secret Lair Commander deck, that became available for purchase from the Wizards of the Coast webshop secretlair.wizards.com on December 2, 2024.[3][4]
Description[ | ]
20 Ways to Win is a complete, 100-card commander deck themed around alternate win conditions. Eleven cards and one token have new art. Most of the other reprints with original art have their original card face. They can be identified by the white planeswalker symbol in the lower-left corner of the card, similar to Mystery Booster cards and cards on The List. However, there are 16 enchantment cards with updated Nyx card frames, and one card that received the update Kindred type.
Notice that for this deck, even the appropriate Basic lands appear only once.
Priced at $149.99 (USD) and printed in the English language only, 20 Ways to Win is a limited-print-run product available while supplies last. This deck is pre-printed and begins to ship shortly after the sale has started.
Contents[ | ]
The package contains:
- 1 Ready-to-Play 100-card Commander deck with:
- 10 Borderless rainbow foil cards with Japanese inspired tanuki artwork (SLD #1825-#1834)
- 16 Non-foil enchantment cards with updated Nyx card frames (SLD #1836-#1851)
- 74 Non-foil cards with the Planeswalker symbol
- 1 Display commander printed on thicker cardstock; not legal for sanctioned play (SLD #1853)
- 2 Rainbow foil Shrine tokens with Tanuki artwork (SLD #1835)
- 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens, including a token with promo Spirit artwork (SLD #1852)
- A life wheel
- 20 Ways to Win, Master them All insert
Win conditions[ | ]
The deck's gimmick is its extensive list of ways to win the game (the three regular methods, and 17 alternate ways):
- If You Want a Job Done Right — Dealing 21 or more Commander damage to the last opponent.
- Ol' Reliable — Reducing the last opponent's life total to zero.
- The Library is Closed — Having the last opponent draw a card from an empty library.
- Forgot Your Sunscreen — Casting Approach of the Second Sun for the second time that game.
- Barbershop Quartet — Control four or more Biovisionary during your end step.
- Notarized — Control four or more Demons with different names and Liliana's Contract at upkeep.
- Here, Kitty Kitty — Have 40 or more life and Felidar Sovereign at upkeep.
- Go the Distance — Have 50 or more life and Test of Endurance at upkeep.
- Face the Music — Control a creature with power 20 or greater and Mayael's Aria at upkeep.
- Baker's Dozen — Have 13 cards in hand and Triskaidekaphile at upkeep.
- Splish Splash — Untap 15 tapped creatures with Halo Fountain.
- Ribbit — Have 20 or more cards in hand and attack with Twenty-Toed Toad.
- Ribbit 2: The Ribbiting — Have 20 or more counters on Twenty-Toed Toad and attack with it.
- Storybook Ending — Have five colors among permanents, six or more card types on the battlefield and/or the graveyard, life total greater or equal than the starting life total, and Happily Ever After at upkeep.
- Bull in a China Shop — Control 20 or more artifacts and Hellkite Tyrant at upkeep.
- Counter-Punch — Have 20 or more growth counters on Simic Ascendancy at upkeep.
- Eighth Wonder — Control 8 or more artifacts with the same name before resolving the second half of Mechanized Production's trigger at upkeep.
- Gate Crasher — Control 10 or more gates with different names before resolving the second half of Maze's End's second activated ability.
- Tower of Power — Have 100 or more Tower counters on Helix Pinnacle at upkeep.
- A Penny Saved ... — Control 10 or more Treasures and Revel in Riches at upkeep.
Updated cards[ | ]
- New art (rainbow foil)
- 1825 Go-Shintai of Life's Origin
- 1826 Approach of the Second Sun
- 1827 Felidar Sovereign
- 1828 Happily Ever After
- 1829 Triskaidekaphile
- 1830 Revel in Riches
- 1831 Helix Pinnacle
- 1832 Simic Ascendancy
- 1833 Sol Ring
- 1834 Maze's End
- 1835 Shrine token
- New enchantment frames
- 1836 Darksteel Mutation
- 1837 Ghostly Prison
- 1838 Monologue Tax
- 1839 Pariah
- 1840 Test of Endurance
- 1841 Mechanized Production
- 1842 Mystic Remora
- 1843 Ghoulish Impetus
- 1844 Liliana's Contract
- 1845 Shiny Impetus
- 1846 Fertile Ground
- 1847 Lignify
- 1848 Mayael's Aria
- 1849 Trace of Abundance
- Other
Deck list[ | ]
A 
deck, themed around alternate win conditions.
20 Ways to Win
Tokens[ | ]
The tokens are:
- 2 Rainbow foil Shrine tokens
- 10 Non-foil double-sided tokens:
- 2
1/1 Spirit creature with flying (SLD) // 2/2 Shapeshifter creature with changeling (KHM) - 2 1/1 Thopter artifact creature with flying (NEC) // Copy (LCI)
- 2 Treasure artifact(NEO) // 1/1 Citizen creature (SNC)
- 1 Treasure artifact (NEO) // 1/1 Shapeshifter creature with changeling (2XM)
- 1 2/2 Samurai creature with double strike (ONE) // 1/1 Shapeshifter creature with changeling (2XM)
- 1 2/2 Samurai creature with double strike (ONE) // Clue artifact (CMM)
- 1 1/1 Spirit creature with flying (SLD) // Clue artifact (CMM)
- 2
Bonus cards[ | ]
As an extra, the deck comes with a surprise bonus card.
| Deck | Bonus card | Card # | Notes |
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| 20 Ways to Win | Enduring Ideal | 887 |
References[ | ]
- ↑ Daniel Holt (November 18, 2024). "Excited for the announcement of the SLD deck I've been leading for the last year and a half!". Bluesky.
- ↑ Information below the text box
- ↑ MTG Secret Lair (November 18, 2024). "How many ways can you name to win?". Twitter.
- ↑ Wizards of the Coast (November 27, 2024). "Secret Lair Commander Deck: 20 Ways to Win Full Decklist". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.
- ↑ Daniel Holt (November 27, 2024). "An opportunity came to give it new Kamigawa art and flavor text.". Bluesky.
- ↑ Daniel Holt (November 27, 2024). "I've always loved this little Spirit from original Kamigawa block.". Bluesky.
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