Reverent Mantra gets first reprint in Cats Are the Best Superdrop
Reverent Mantra’s first reprint lands in Purr Majesty, and the old white protection trick is still close to a $20 Commander card.
Is this finally the cheapest way for Commander players to get a real upgrade, or just premium packaging around a niche effect? For Reverent Mantra, the answer sits squarely in the useful middle. Wizards of the Coast folded the 1999 Mercadian Masques instant into the Cats Are the Best Superdrop, giving the card its first-ever reprint after 27 years and putting a long-overlooked white tool back in front of Commander players.
Reverent Mantra is not flashy on paper. It costs {3}{W}, can be cast by exiling a white card from hand, and then gives all creatures protection from a chosen color until end of turn. In Commander, that is exactly the kind of line that saves a board from a sweeper, blanks a pile of spot removal, or lets an alpha strike connect through the right wall of blockers. MTG Rocks highlighted Blasphemous Act as the kind of popular wrath this can punish, and that is the right read: this is a protection spell for decks that actually plan to keep creatures on the table.
The card’s profile explains why the reprint matters. EDHREC lists Reverent Mantra in 3,888 decks, which is enough to prove it is a real playpiece and not just a nostalgia pick. Market data has kept the Mercadian Masques printing near the $20 mark, with TCGplayer showing a near-mint price around $20.15 and Scryfall listing the old version at about $20.26. That makes the Secret Lair version more than cosmetic for players who want the card in hand rather than on a checklist.
The rest of Purr Majesty gives the drop more weight than a single chase reprint. Vanessa Stockard’s five-card lineup also includes Court of Grace, Windborn Muse, Queen Marchesa, and Ruinous Ultimatum. Queen Marchesa especially carries real Commander gravity, sitting in the top 100 commanders of the last two years and showing up in more than 186,000 EDHREC decks. Add in that premium versions of Queen Marchesa and Ruinous Ultimatum already command meaningful prices, and the drop starts to look less like a one-card gamble and more like a package with multiple live hits.
Wizards set the full Cats Are the Best Superdrop for June 15, 2026, with a pre-queue at 8 a.m. PT and sales opening at 9 a.m. PT, only on MagicSecretLair.com. Three Garfield-themed drops join Purr Majesty and SimzArt’s Witch’s Familiar, which adds Sheltered by Ghosts, Spirit of the Hearth, Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow, Wayfarer’s Bauble, and Boseiju, Who Shelters All. The cat side won a 2025 Cats vs. Dogs Chaos Vault contest after the foil cat drop sold out within three hours, and this follow-up leans on the same formula: distinctive art, a few real Commander staples, and one white card that finally gets the reprint it should have had years ago.
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