Welcoming Zeta and A Set In A Post

It finally came....the only time I have ever ordered a Secret Lair drop with Magic The Gathering...

The first, and hopefully only, booster pack drop from Secret Lair, the Zeta release was done with a horrible result for many as crashes and time outs made many miss the order which was a limited quantity on release. It was such a blunder that there is a 24 hour window coming up that they are allowing on demand printing for everyone who wants these packs.

Now, on one hand, I was lucky and I got to order. I picked up two packs with the intention originally of keeping one and selling one. Now that I have them and given how they came, I am keeping one sleeved as arrived, and opening the other in order to put the pack into the collection of booster packs.

Opening the one, this is what is printed on the outside of the envelope, under the flap.

Also, inside were...

Very white and very basic, as the design is supposed to be in trying to mimic the test phase and black and white type test cards for the original releases. The packs were sold for just under #20 USD each, so for two and converted, with taxes etc, it was about $75 CDN, so not cheap.

As for the pack, with the white packaging, I can tell you that the top card is a Dispatch which is a white card - for what it's worth. I am not going to search the pack otherwise since I am not opening it, but a cool little piece of unique Magic!

A solid winner of a day from the 2026 Lot today as we get a full 7 card insert set that I didn't have before.

I only needed these three cards to complete the 2015-16 Upper Deck Tim Hortons Season Highlights insert set, but all sever cards were actually here anyway for a nice little set.

I had about half from back in the day, but even the couple other cards here were great condition while the couple I had from before were a bit worn, so we get a solid quality boost too!

A few other keepers today...

Set help, a couple Toronto cards and a Rask uncorrected error card makes for fine cards to keep.

Not a bad way to do a checklist, by also getting a 1,000 point accomplishment put onto a card as well. Yay Douggie!

An assortment of other cards here now for trade...

We continue the food related trend with some McDonald's hockey cards, though nothing I needed...

The aforementioned other Season Highlight cards that I already had, and another bunch of O Pee Chee Platinum cards. AGain, I don't mind the set, but happy to help others with it instead of trying to build it myself as it just doesn't do enough for me to care to keep it. Would keep Leaf cards of course, but no such luck today.

Shout out to Erin - nice card, even if it isn't one of the Timmies sets I am collecting as it's a World stage set, not NHL, but still a cool design and nice cards. Besides, I appreciate the set being inclusive - took quite a while for the women's game to get footing in such card sets that the men's has had for years.