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Goblin and Squabblin: contents, prices and what it was worth

A Secret Lair drop released August 2023, 5 cards in 2 versions. What it cost, what the cards are worth today, and how that compares to buying them plainly.

Was Goblin and Squabblin worth buying?

Yes, clearly.

Goblin and Squabblin (the non-foil edition) cost $29.99 at release. Its 5 cards are worth $277.82 today — 9.26× what you paid, over the 3 years since it was released.

Foil: Yes, clearly — cost $39.99, singles worth $404.98 today, 10.13×.

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

Muxus, Goblin Grandee alone is 30.8% of what this drop’s singles are worth ($85.62 of $277.82), and its top three cards are 82.1% 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 10.53× treatment premium — that is what they are worth against $26.39 for the cheapest ordinary printings of the same 5 cards. The median across the 53 drops released in 2023 is 5.14×, so this art is holding more of a premium than its 2023 siblings (2.05× the year’s median).

By what its singles are worth today, Goblin and Squabblin is the 6th most valuable of the 405 Secret Lair drops with priced contents, and the 3rd of the 53 released in 2023.

Was the foil worth the upcharge?

Goblin and Squabblin 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 $26.39, against $277.82 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 Goblin and Squabblin

Art by Wizard of Barge.

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 Goblin and Squabblin 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 Goblin and Squabblin worth the money?

Yes, clearly. Goblin and Squabblin cost $29.99 at release and its singles are worth $277.82 today — 9.26× what you paid. That is a return measured to today, not a judgment about release day.

What cards are in Goblin and Squabblin?

Goblin and Squabblin contains 5 cards illustrated by Wizard of Barge. It was released August 2023 in 2 versions: Non-foil, Foil.

What is the most valuable card in Goblin and Squabblin?

Muxus, Goblin Grandee, at $85.62 — 30.8% of the drop's total singles value.

Is it cheaper to buy the Goblin and Squabblin cards separately?

The same 5 cards in their cheapest ordinary printings cost about $26.39, against $277.82 for the Secret Lair versions. The gameplay is identical; the difference is the art.

Can you still buy Goblin and Squabblin?

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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