Affectionately known to fans as "Sad Robot," Solemn Simulacrum has seen play in plenty of artifact decks for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering since its debut in 2003's Mirrodin set. Four migh📖t seem like a lot to pay for a 2/2, but Solemn Simulacrum offers card advantage upon entering and leaving the battlefield, and there's no shortage of ways to int🎉eract with its status as an artifact.

When a card 🌠becomes as iconic as Solemn Simulacrum has, there's no question that it will start to make appearances on promo cards, limited editions, and even the occasional set reprint. Here are the most valuable ones to add to your binder.

Prices listed below 🉐ref🍒lect the market price on the day this article was written; May 6, 2025.

8 M21239-PRE - 2021 Core Set Pre🅷release Promo ($2.14)

Prerelease Attendance Was Down In 2020.

Prerelease promos don't often see much of an increase in value over the regular version of the card that you'd find in a booster pack. Everybody who goes to a prerelease gets one, and having the date of the event engraved on the card generally isn't a bi꧃g enough difference to make them exciting to collectors.

Of course, people weren't attending in-person events in June of 2020, when Solemn Simulacrum was offered as the promo for the coming year's Magic Core Set. At the end of the day, this card is still just a prerelease promo, but the lower tournament att𝔉endance▨ in the middle of the global COVID-19 pandemic means that fewer players got to claim a copy.

7 M♏RD245 - Mirrodin ($2.22) 💝

The Original Sad Robot.

It took a lot to stand out among the legions of powerful artifact creatures in the days of Mirrodin. Anyone who was playing competitively at that time will never forget how powerful Affinity decks were. With monstrous cards like Arcbound Ravager tearing across the met💫a fueled by Cranial Plating and artifact lands, it took some cunning players to notice the simple utility of a humble robot.

Solemn Simulacrum has had a lot of really great illustrations over th༺e years, but if you have a soft spot for the original art by Greg Stapౠles, why not fill out your deck with the original printing?

6 WHO837 - Universes Beyond: Doctor Who, Surge Foil ($3.33) 🔴

Sadly, You Can't Go Back In Time To Get A Booster Box.

The Universes Beyond: Doctor Who set showcases💟꧒ many of the show's classic aliens as famous Magic cards. Solemn Simulacrum, for their part, is represented by an Emojibot - appropriately looking quite sad.

There are several versions of the card in the Doctor Who set, including extended art, but the rarest - and by extension the most valuable - is the surge foil variant.

5 🐭 PIP1014 - Universes Beyond: Fallout, Extended Art Surge Foil ($4.28) ꧃

One For The Vault.

Fallout was another Universes Beyond set that mashed up classic Magic cards with other beloved franchises. While the extended art surge foil isn't the most valuable card in the set by a long shot, it's still a rare enough pull that it's probably worth hanging onto if you were lucky enough to get one. After all, it's unlikely that we'll see that artwork෴ on a card ever again, un🐓less Wizards and Bethesda decide to do another set sometime in the future.

4 ܫ SLD1725 - Luke Pearson Secret Lair, Rainbow Foil ($5.26)

He's Just A Little Guy!

The most recent printing of Solemn Simulacrum came in the Winter 2025 Superdrop. The Luke Pearson collection, featuring illustrations by the artist for the comic series Hilda, iꦬncludes the Simulacrum hard at work, dourly carving a new friend from wood.

As of right now, there's little difference between the foil and non-foil versions, so if you're buying the c🤪ards as singles the rainbow foil will only run you an extra quarter. If you're getting the whole Sec🎀ret Lair, though, expect the foil set to be more expensive.

3 ♈SLD1113 - Yoji Shinkawa Secret Lair ($12.66)

The Box It Comes In Is Too Small To Hide Under, Unfortunately.

Yoji Shinkawa is best known for character and mech design for many of Hideo Kojima's games, including the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metal Gear Solid series and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Stranding. His Secret Lair drop lends his signature style to several Magic🍨 cards, inc꧑luding, of course, Solemn Simulacrum.

Shinkawa's take on the Simulacrum gives the card an edgy sci-fi vibe, making it a great way to add some flavor to your deck. Releasing in 2022, it's now been a few years, so the 💞cards in this collection will likely be harder to come by as more time passes.

2 SLD791 - Through The Wormhole Secret Lair, Galaxy Foil ($13.08) 🌠

A Truly Otherworldly Card.

Secret Lair: Through T🌱he Wormhole featured high science-fiction art from Dani Pendergast, including a Solemn Simulacrum pondering its existence at the end of space and time. While🐟 getting the whole set sealed is an expensive proposition, the individual aren't that unreasonable in terms of price.

Through The Wormhole came in b💎oth a standard and "galaxy foil" edition; the galaxy foils are gorgeous, but if you're 🍌looking to save money the standard version of the Pendergast Solemn Simulacrum is less than half the price of the foil.

1 💎 MPS025 - Master🍃piece Series: Kaladesh Inventions ($75.53)

The Rarest Simulacrum Of Them All

If you were very lucky during Kaladesh block circa 2016, you could get a special foil from the Masterpiece Series in a booster pack. Only one pack in 144 had a Masterpiece (that's one card out of four booster boxes), and with 29 other Masterpieces in Kaladesh packs the odds of specifically pulling a Masterpiece Solemn Simulacrum were astronomical; you'd have to open 120 booster boxes on average to get one.

With that kind of rarity, it's no surprise that the Masterpiece version of Solemn Simulacrum is so much more valuable than any other printing of the card. Getting a Secret Lair before it sells out relies on a very different kind of luck than finding a card in a booster; to ge🐼t a Masterpiece, your only recourse was to open pack after pack, or shell out the cash to buy the card from someone who'd already💦 got one.