Secret Lair: Cats Are the Best
The Garfield Drops
Three drops, fifteen cards, and Magic's first Garfield crossover — sold on June 15, 2026 as part of the Cats Are the Best Superdrop rather than as a Garfield release of its own. Every card, what it was renamed to, and what the singles are actually worth.
Contents as published by Wizards. Single-card prices checked August 17, 2026 and quoted for ordinary printings, not the Secret Lair versions.
The Facts
The thing to understand first is the name, because almost every write-up of this gets it wrong. There is no Garfield Secret Lair. The product is the Cats Are the Best Superdrop, it holds eight drops, and three of them are Garfield ones — sharing that superdrop's window, its bundle tiers and its checkout. Each of the three has its own full name, all of which begin Secret Lair x Garfield:, but that prefix is not a product you could buy on its own.
Coverage at the time reported the two halves separately often enough that the line-up looked disputed, which is where the confusion comes from — some outlets named the Garfield three, others named Felix the Cat, Toby's Journey and Cats of Chaos. Neither was wrong and neither was complete. It is one list of eight.
The Three Drops
The Garfield Secret Lair.
There isn't one. Garfield appears across three drops of the Cats Are the Best Superdrop — Motivationally Challenged, As Intended, and Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You — each sold separately at $29.99 non-foil. Asking a store for "the Garfield Secret Lair" is ambiguous between three products.
Motivationally Challenged
Garfield's motivational posters, matched to cards that share the joke. It is the only one of the three to rename its cards, and it is the drop with a real commander in it — Rin and Seri, Inseparable , a legendary Dog Cat, printed here as Garfield and Odie, Best Buds. Whoever made that match was paying attention: the card is literally a Dog and a Cat that make each other's tokens.
Rin and Seri, Inseparable ↗
Garfield and Odie, Best Buds
Orim's Chant ↗
Talk to the Paw
Ponder ↗
Hang in There
Beast Within ↗
I Hate Mondays
Sol Ring ↗
Keeps its own name
As Intended
The one with an idea rather than a theme. All five cards were printed in Magic's original 1993 set, and the drop asks what they would have looked like if Garfield had art-directed it — which lands twice over, because Magic's creator is Richard Garfield. It is the cheapest of the three by singles value and the most quoted of the three by some distance.
Swords to Plowshares ↗
Alpha original
Counterspell ↗
Alpha original
Dark Ritual ↗
Alpha original
Earthquake ↗
Alpha original
Fog ↗
Alpha original
Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You
Garfield the performer rather than Garfield the cynic. The card choices are the loosest of the three thematically and the most playable in a vacuum: It That Betrays is a genuine Eldrazi finisher, and Maddening Cacophony is a staple of every mill deck that can cast it.
The Garfield Names Are Flavor Names
This is the part that causes arguments at tables. The card that says Garfield and Odie, Best Buds across the top is Rin and Seri, Inseparable . Not a version of it, not a variant with its own rules text: the same card, with different words printed where the name goes. Magic calls that a flavor name.
The Oracle name — what every rule, every deckbuilding restriction and every card that says "choose a card name" actually reads — stays Rin and Seri, Inseparable. Everything downstream follows from that, and the same is true of Talk to the Paw, Hang in There and I Hate Mondays.
Garfield and Odie, Best Buds is a new legendary creature, so it is a new commander to build around.
It is Rin and Seri, Inseparable with different art and a different name printed on it. Its rules text, mana cost and color identity are unchanged, and a deck cannot run both it and another copy of Rin and Seri, because Commander is singleton and they are one card.
Its color identity is , exactly as Rin and Seri's is, so the deck it heads is a Naya deck and nothing outside those colors may be in it.
It is legal wherever Rin and Seri is legal, which includes Commander. The same goes for all fifteen cards — each is a reprint, so each inherits its original's legality exactly.
If someone at the table cannot read the card, the Oracle name settles it. Look up Rin and Seri, Inseparable.
Sol Ring keeps its own name in Motivationally Challenged. Only four of the five were renamed, which is worth knowing before you go looking for a Garfield pun on it.
Almost None of Them Are Cats
Worth saying plainly, because the superdrop these arrived in is called Cats Are the Best and the character on the box is the most famous cat in print. Of the fifteen cards across the three Garfield drops, exactly one is a Cat creature — Rin and Seri, Inseparable, which is a Dog Cat and therefore only half qualifies. The other fourteen are five instants, four sorceries, an artifact, an enchantment and an Eldrazi.
That is not a criticism of the drops, which never claimed to be typal fuel. It is a warning about one specific purchase: if you are buying these to fill out a Cat deck, you are buying one Cat for ninety dollars. The wider superdrop has the same shape, and the Cats Are the Best page covers it across all eight drops.
What the Cards Are Worth
Each drop cost $29.99 non-foil. Here is what the same five cards cost as ordinary printings, which is the comparison that actually tells you something:
Across all three that is roughly $84 of cards against $89.97 for the three non-foil drops — unusually close for a Secret Lair, where the art is normally the whole of what you are paying for. The distribution is the interesting part, though. Motivationally Challenged is worth more than it cost, and it is worth more than it cost because of one card: Rin and Seri alone is about $33. As Intended is five Alpha commons and uncommons at roughly a third of the drop price, which is the ordinary Secret Lair trade and is fine, because nobody bought that one for the Fog.
Buy it if
You want the art. This is the only way to get Garfield on a Magic card, it is the entire point of the product, and no argument about singles prices touches it.
You play Rin and Seri. Motivationally Challenged is the one drop whose singles are worth more than the box, and Garfield and Odie is about as on-theme as a Dog Cat commander can get.
You liked the Alpha joke. As Intended is the drop with an idea in it rather than a theme, and it is the one people will still be showing each other in a year.
Skip it if
You are buying it to fuel a Cat typal deck. Exactly one of the fifteen cards is a Cat creature, and it is also a Dog.
You want the cards cheaply. Two of the three drops cost more than their singles do, and As Intended costs roughly three times its card value.
You are buying it to flip. Secret Lair now prints to demand across an open window rather than to a capped run, which is the condition under which secondary prices do not spike.
The window closed in June 2026, so none of this is orderable from Wizards any more and the cards exist only secondhand. Prices there move, and the figures above are for ordinary printings rather than the Secret Lair versions.
A Commander Worth Tracking
Of everything in these three drops, one card changes what you can build: Rin and Seri makes a Naya deck that turns every Dog into a Cat and every Cat into a Dog, and it is the reason Motivationally Challenged is the drop people actually play rather than shelve. It is also a deck that lives or dies on whether the token engine gets going before the table notices, which is exactly the kind of thing a felt sense is bad at answering.
TurnZero HQ tracks life totals, commander damage and results for the whole pod, and keeps a per-deck record across a season — so "the Garfield deck is fun but probably bad" becomes a number you can check.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a Garfield Secret Lair?
Not as a product of its own. The Garfield cards are three drops inside the Secret Lair: Cats Are the Best Superdrop, which went on sale June 15, 2026 and held eight drops in total. Each Garfield drop is individually named — Secret Lair x Garfield: Motivationally Challenged, Secret Lair x Garfield: As Intended, and Secret Lair x Garfield: Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You — but there is no “Garfield Superdrop” and nothing sold simply as “Secret Lair x Garfield”.
What is in the three Garfield drops?
Motivationally Challenged pairs Garfield's motivational-poster humour with matching Magic cards; As Intended reimagines five cards from Magic's original set as if Garfield had art-directed it; and Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You is built around Garfield the performer. Each holds five cards and cost $29.99 non-foil or $39.99 foil.
What cards are in the Garfield Secret Lairs?
Motivationally Challenged: Rin and Seri, Inseparable (printed as Garfield and Odie, Best Buds), Orim's Chant (Talk to the Paw), Ponder (Hang in There), Beast Within (I Hate Mondays) and Sol Ring. As Intended: Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, Dark Ritual, Earthquake and Fog. Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You: It That Betrays, Maddening Cacophony, Maddening Hex, Hunter's Insight and Molten Collapse.
Is Garfield and Odie, Best Buds a real commander?
It is Rin and Seri, Inseparable, which is a legal commander, so yes — but it is not a new card. Garfield and Odie, Best Buds is a flavor name, meaning the words printed on the card. The Oracle name every rule reads stays Rin and Seri, Inseparable, its color identity is still Naya, and a deck cannot run both it and another copy of Rin and Seri, because they are one card and Commander is singleton.
Are the Garfield cards Commander legal?
Yes. Every card in all three drops is a reprint of a card that already existed, so each is legal exactly where its original printing is — which for all fifteen includes Commander. Secret Lair cards are real Magic cards, not proxies or collector-only items.
Are the Garfield cards actually Cats?
Almost none of them. One of the fifteen is a Cat creature — Rin and Seri, Inseparable, which is a Dog Cat — and the other fourteen are instants, sorceries, an artifact, an enchantment and an Eldrazi. The Garfield theme lives in the art and the names rather than in the creature type, which is true of the wider Cats Are the Best superdrop as well.
Why is the drop called As Intended?
It is a pun with two halves. The drop reimagines five cards from Magic's original 1993 set as though Garfield the cat had been its art director — and Magic's actual creator is Richard Garfield. All five cards in it, Swords to Plowshares, Counterspell, Dark Ritual, Earthquake and Fog, were printed in that first set.
Can you still buy the Garfield Secret Lairs?
Not from Wizards. Secret Lair drops sell for a limited window and the Cats Are the Best window closed after June 2026, so from that point the cards exist only on the secondary market as singles or sealed drops.
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