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Artist Series Nils Hamm: contents, prices and what it was worth

A Secret Lair drop released October 2022, 5 cards in 2 versions. What it cost, what the cards are worth today, and how that compares to buying them plainly.

Was Artist Series Nils Hamm worth buying?

Yes — the singles are worth more than it cost.

Artist Series Nils Hamm (the non-foil edition) cost $29.99 at release. Its 5 cards are worth $64.38 today — 2.15× what you paid, over the 3 years since it was released.

Foil: Yes — cost $39.99, singles worth $66.69 today, 1.67×.

That is a return over time, not a judgment about the day it launched: the price on the left is from release day and the one on the right is from today. An older drop has had longer for its cards to move, which is why age is quoted alongside the multiple. It also does not account for inflation — a 1.3× return on a 2021 drop has lost some purchasing power that the same figure on a 2025 drop has not.

It is a question about buying it at release, which is when it was available at that price. Secret Lair drops sell for a limited window and then leave the store, so what a sealed copy trades for today is a different number this page does not track.

Card prices as of 2026-09-03. Release price: MTG Wiki.

What is unusual about this drop

Sword of Truth and Justice alone is 57.8% of what this drop’s singles are worth ($37.20 of $64.38), and its top three cards are 91.9% of it. Concentration like that is worth knowing before you buy, but across the whole Secret Lair catalogue it does not predict a good drop — plenty of top-heavy drops returned less than evenly-spread ones.

The Secret Lair printings in this drop carry a 1.46× treatment premium — that is what they are worth against $44.23 for the cheapest ordinary printings of the same 5 cards. The median across the 92 drops released in 2022 is 5.93×, so this art is holding less of a premium than its 2022 siblings (0.25× the year’s median).

By what its singles are worth today, Artist Series Nils Hamm is the 192nd most valuable of the 405 Secret Lair drops with priced contents, and the 48th of the 92 released in 2022.

Was the foil worth the upcharge?

Artist Series Nils Hamm sold in 2 versions, and they did not return the same amount. This is the comparison the two editions share a page for.

What the same cards cost without the art

The 5 priced cards in this drop can be bought in their cheapest ordinary printings for about $44.23, against $64.38 for the Secret Lair versions. That difference is what you are paying for the treatment — the gameplay is identical, and every card here is legal in exactly the same formats either way.

Every card in Artist Series Nils Hamm

Art by Nils Hamm.

Non-foil (the edition this page’s verdict covers)

Prices as of 2026-09-03. TCGplayer market price for this exact printing; Card Kingdom where they stock it. “Plain copy” is the cheapest paper printing of the same card anywhere.

Foil

Prices as of 2026-09-03. TCGplayer market price for this exact printing; Card Kingdom where they stock it. “Plain copy” is the cheapest paper printing of the same card anywhere.

Look up sealed Artist Series Nils Hamm on TCGplayer

Sealed copies trade on the secondary market once the store window closes. That price is not tracked here — the figures on this page are for the singles.

How these numbers are worked out

The release price is what Wizards of the Coast charged for the drop when it was on sale. The singles total is the sum of TCGplayer market prices for the exact printings the drop shipped — not for ordinary copies of the same cards, which is a different and usually much smaller number, shown above as the plain-copy comparison. The multiple is one divided by the other.

Two things it deliberately does not do. It does not price sealed copies: once a drop leaves the store its sealed price is set by the secondary market, and that is a different question from whether buying it at release paid off. And it does not adjust for inflation — the multiple is nominal, so a return earned over six years is not directly comparable to the same figure earned over one.

Card prices refresh weekly and this page is rewritten only when its numbers actually move, so the date above is the real one rather than today’s.

FAQ

Was Artist Series Nils Hamm worth the money?

Yes — the singles are worth more than it cost. Artist Series Nils Hamm cost $29.99 at release and its singles are worth $64.38 today — 2.15× what you paid. That is a return measured to today, not a judgment about release day.

What cards are in Artist Series Nils Hamm?

Artist Series Nils Hamm contains 5 cards illustrated by Nils Hamm. It was released October 2022 in 2 versions: Non-foil, Foil.

What is the most valuable card in Artist Series Nils Hamm?

Sword of Truth and Justice, at $37.20 — 57.8% of the drop's total singles value.

Is it cheaper to buy the Artist Series Nils Hamm cards separately?

The same 5 cards in their cheapest ordinary printings cost about $44.23, against $64.38 for the Secret Lair versions. The gameplay is identical; the difference is the art.

Can you still buy Artist Series Nils Hamm?

Secret Lair drops sell direct from Wizards of the Coast for a limited window and are not reprinted in that form, so once the window closes the only supply is the secondary market. This page prices the singles, not sealed copies. Prices shown are from 2026-09-03.

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