The first Magic card I ever bought a second copy of was a Reverent Mantra. I had no business owning one. I was twelve, the local card shop owner had it in his $1 binder because nobody else wanted it, and I thought the white-on-marble Mercadian art looked like a stained glass window. Twenty-something years later, my Reverent Mantra lives in a box in my basement and the current TCGplayer floor for the only existing printing is $20.42.

Wizards just put it in a Secret Lair.

The Cats Are The Best Superdrop got its final two drops previewed on May 22, and one of them, Purr Majesty, has Reverent Mantra in it. That alone is enough to make me write something. The five-drop Superdrop releases June 15 at noon ET, and with the three Garfield drops already covered in our reprint math post from May 16, the last two reveals fill in the picture.

So: Purr Majesty and Witch’s Familiar. What’s in them, what they’re worth, and where they land in the full ranking of all five drops.

Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Purr Majesty: cats in crowns by Vanessa Stockard

Vanessa Stockard is the cat painter. If you’ve ever seen the “Kevin the cat” Renaissance-portrait series floating around Instagram, that’s her. Wizards landed an excellent choice here.

The contents:

  • Court of Grace
  • Reverent Mantra
  • Windborn Muse
  • Queen Marchesa
  • Ruinous Ultimatum

The reprint value math, using current TCGplayer floors on the cheapest existing printing of each card:

  • Reverent Mantra: $20.42
  • Ruinous Ultimatum: $3.13
  • Court of Grace: $2.65
  • Queen Marchesa: $1.36
  • Windborn Muse: $0.49

Total: $28.05 against a $29.99 non-foil MSRP. You’re basically clearing the price of the drop on Reverent Mantra alone, and everything else is bonus. Foils against $39.99 land north of break-even depending on which copies you can find.

Reverent Mantra is more interesting to me than most actually-played Commander staples. It’s a 1999 Mercadian Masques common that nobody runs, which sounds like a bad pick until you realize it means there’s exactly one printing in existence and the available supply is whatever survived 26 years of attics, garage sales, and basement floods. The Mercadian print run was large by 1999 standards, but that’s not the same as 2026 Modern Horizons 3 numbers. Cards in that bucket drift up over time as Reserved-list-adjacent collectors fish them out.

The other thing I like about Purr Majesty: Queen Marchesa is on the list, and Marchesa is one of the great underloved Mardu commanders. She’s at $1.36 now, which is borderline criminal for what she does (free 2/2 Assassin every upkeep if you’re being attacked, monarch generation, three colors of removal), but the price is what it is because she’s already had several printings. Sleeving a Stockard-cat version of her into a Marchesa deck is the move.

Witch’s Familiar: cat spirits by SimzArt

This is the other new drop and it leans into the spirit-cat aesthetic. SimzArt’s work tends toward ethereal, washed-out colors and lots of negative space. The contents read like a serious Commander player put them together:

  • Sheltered by Ghosts
  • Spirit of the Hearth
  • Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow
  • Wayfarer’s Bauble
  • Boseiju, Who Shelters All

Reprint value:

  • Boseiju, Who Shelters All: $16.90
  • Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow: $2.53
  • Sheltered by Ghosts: $1.02
  • Spirit of the Hearth: $0.37
  • Wayfarer’s Bauble: $0.29

Total: $21.11. Not as strong as Purr Majesty, but still respectable for a drop dominated by one big card.

A quick note on which Boseiju this is, because the difference matters. “Boseiju, Who Shelters All” is the original 2004 Champions of Kamigawa legendary land that says players can’t counter your spells. “Boseiju, Who Endures” is the 2022 Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty card that destroys an artifact, enchantment, or nonbasic land. Endures is the Modern staple and currently runs around $22 in its NEO printing. Shelters All is older, less played, and runs $16.90.

So Witch’s Familiar is reprinting the older Boseiju, not the newer one. That’s fine, but it isn’t the Modern-staple-money-maker some people will assume on first glance. If you’re buying Witch’s Familiar expecting to flip a $25 land, double-check which one it is.

Reverent Mantra

All five drops, ranked

With everything now revealed:

  1. Motivationally Challenged (Garfield). Rin and Seri carries the drop at roughly $26.75, plus Orim’s Chant at $5.78 and a Ponder for $1.99. Comes out to about $35 in reprint value. The value king of the Superdrop. Covered in detail in the prior Garfield post.

  2. Purr Majesty. $28.05, anchored entirely by Reverent Mantra. The hidden value drop, and the art is genuinely lovely.

  3. Our Only Thought Is to Entertain You (Garfield). About $27 thanks to It That Betrays ($15.08), Maddening Cacophony ($7.28), and Maddening Hex ($4.99). Solid value, chaotic aesthetic.

  4. Witch’s Familiar. $21.11, mostly Boseiju with smaller filler. Less value than the top three but the art is the most cohesive of the five.

  5. As Intended (Garfield). About $8 in reprint value against $29.99. The slap-Jon-with-a-Counterspell drop. You’re buying for the gag, not the math.

I went into the math expecting the two non-Garfield drops to anchor the Superdrop’s value, and they sort of do, but Motivationally Challenged still wins on raw reprint price because Rin and Seri is just that expensive of a card. The Reverent Mantra play in Purr Majesty is the cleverest single-card pick across the Superdrop, though, and I respect it as a piece of pricing design.

What this does to your existing cat tribal singles

Probably not much. None of these reprints touch the actually-played cat tribal lords like Arahbo, Roar of the World, Brimaz, King of Oreskos, or Felidar Sovereign. Even Rin and Seri, the only cat-themed legend in the Superdrop, just gets another printing in a drop where she’s already been printed twice before. Cat tribal Commander stays where it is.

The price I’d watch is the original Mercadian Masques Reverent Mantra. Reprints usually crash older printings, but the new SL frame is a borderless cat-themed version with Vanessa Stockard art, which functions more like a parallel-universe printing than a true reprint. The 1999 version might soften by a few dollars in the next month and drift back up. Or it might tank to $8 and stay there. I genuinely don’t know. Twenty-six-year-old card prices are unpredictable in ways recent prices aren’t.

A scanning note

If you’re buying any of these and adding them to a tracked collection, the Secret Lair set codes matter. Secret Lair drops all log under “SLD” in Scryfall, but the individual drops get distinct release dates and collector numbers. A Sheltered by Ghosts from Witch’s Familiar is a different printing than a Sheltered by Ghosts from a Duskmourn Commander deck, with different prices and different resale floors. If your collection app doesn’t differentiate, moving between apps will lose the SL printing data and you’ll find yourself recataloguing a year from now. Worth setting up correctly on day one.

The pre-queue opens 11 AM ET on June 15. If you want one of these and you’re hoping the value drops linger, set an alarm for noon and hope nobody else is reading this post.