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Hatsune Miku Joins MTG as a Secret Lair Commander Deck

Magic: The Gathering is getting its first-ever Universes Beyond Commander deck, and Hatsune Miku is leading the charge. Wizards of the Coast revealed the Secret Lair Commander Deck: Hatsune Miku on 4 August, with the pre-order window opening at midnight SGT on 11 August — and closing just 24 hours later. If you miss the window, the deck is gone: this is a print-on-demand release with no planned reprint.

What the Hatsune Miku MTG Commander Deck Contains

Hatsune Miku MTG Secret Lair Commander Deck key art
Image courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

The 100-card pre-constructed deck is built around Miku-themed artwork throughout. Inside the box, per Wizards of the Coast’s official decklist reveal, you’ll find:

  • 12 new foil borderless cards featuring original Miku-inspired artwork
  • 14 foil borderless basic lands
  • 10 double-faced tokens

The deck is a green-white (Selesnya) build focused on tokens and life gain — a playstyle that rewards going wide, stacking counters, and building an army of small creatures. It should be approachable for players new to Commander while having room to upgrade for veterans.

The Commander Card Is Drawn by Miku’s Original Designer

Hatsune Miku MTG Commander Deck card art by KEI
Image courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

The centrepiece is the Commander card itself, illustrated by KEI — the character designer who created Hatsune Miku’s iconic look back in 2007. Having the original designer bring Miku into the MTG multiverse as a Universes Beyond card is a meaningful choice: this isn’t just licensed art, it’s as close to an official Miku origin print as you’ll find in a card game. Additional artists on the deck include Naoki Saito and Yaso (八三).

The Universes Beyond line lets characters from outside the MTG universe appear as fully canonical multiverse cards. Miku joins a line that has previously welcomed The Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, and Final Fantasy.

A New Product Format: The First Secret Lair Commander Deck

Hatsune Miku MTG Secret Lair card art detail
Image courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

Until now, Secret Lair releases have been small booster-style sets — a handful of alternate-art reprints or Universes Beyond cards sold directly. The Hatsune Miku Commander Deck is the first Secret Lair product to be a full 100-card Commander deck, marking a new tier in the Secret Lair line.

Because it is print-on-demand, Wizards only produces units for confirmed orders placed during the 24-hour window. There is no secondary stock, no retail distribution, and no reprint planned. Once the window closes, the only way to get one will be the secondary market.

How Singapore Commander Players Can Pre-Order

Hatsune Miku MTG Commander Deck card featuring Miku
Image courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

The pre-order window opens at 09:00 PDT on 10 August 2026, which is midnight (00:00 SGT) on 11 August for Singapore players. It runs for exactly 24 hours, closing at midnight SGT on 12 August.

Orders go through the Secret Lair store directly. The price is US$149.99 — roughly S$200 at current exchange rates. Check the Secret Lair store for your region’s shipping options, as Singapore and Southeast Asia availability varies by drop; the listed regional destinations are North America, Europe/UK, and Japan (via Rakuten Books). If direct shipping to Singapore is not listed, your local game stores may organise a group order — it’s worth checking with your community before the window closes.

Physical delivery timelines: North America, May 2027; Europe/UK, June 2027; Japan, within 2027. This is not a day-one pickup — it’s a pre-order for a product roughly nine months out.

For players based in Japan, a separate channel opens on Rakuten Books at 12:30 JST on 11 August, also for 24 hours, at approximately ¥24,750 (including tax). The Secret Lair drop page lists the deck’s available languages and shipping details.

Hatsune Miku MTG Secret Lair Commander Deck card art
Image courtesy of Wizards of the Coast

Singapore has one of the most active MTG Commander communities in Southeast Asia, with Friday evening Commander sessions running at multiple game stores across the island. A Miku Commander deck — combining two fandoms that overlap heavily in this region — is the sort of release that sells out quickly. Set an alarm for midnight.

Hatsune Miku Starry Party Is Coming to Switch 2 and PC in 2027

Your favourite virtual pop icon is swapping the rhythm stage for a party arena. Good Smile Company announced Hatsune Miku Starry Party at Anime Expo 2026, and it is exactly what Singapore Vocaloid fans have been craving — a six-player party action game featuring the full Crypton Future Media cast reimagined as Nendoroid chibi figures, heading to Nintendo Switch 2 and PC via Steam in 2027.

Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Kagamine Len as Nendoroid figures in Hatsune Miku Starry Party
Image courtesy of Good Smile Company

What Is Hatsune Miku Starry Party?

Developed jointly by Crypton Future Media and Good Smile Company, Starry Party (スタリパ, as fans are already abbreviating it) is a party action game built around the beloved Nendoroid figure line. Every character in the game is rendered as their compact, round-headed Nendoroid counterpart — the same design language that has made Good Smile’s collectible figures a staple at anime events from Akihabara to Singapore’s own Anime Festival Asia.

The game supports up to six simultaneous players competing across a variety of mini-games and party challenges. While the developers have teased that some stages will lean into the rhythm-game experience Miku fans know and love, there will be plenty of non-rhythm challenges as well, positioning this as a proper party title rather than a spiritual successor to the Project Diva series.

初音ミク 新作ゲーム ティザーPV「初音ミク スターリーパーティ」 — via GOOD SMILE CHANNEL on YouTube

Confirmed Playable Characters

The teaser trailer, set to the original track StargazeR by producer 骨盤P (Kotsupan-P) featuring Hatsune Miku, confirms six playable Vocaloids at launch:

  • Hatsune Miku
  • Kagamine Rin
  • Kagamine Len
  • Megurine Luka
  • MEIKO
  • KAITO

Good Smile Company has teased that more characters will be announced before launch, so the roster is not necessarily final.

Hatsune Miku Nendoroid figure glowing green in Hatsune Miku Starry Party
Image courtesy of Good Smile Company

Why Singapore Vocaloid Fans Should Be Excited

This is Miku’s first starring role in a dedicated game since Hatsune Miku: Project Diva Mega Mix+ launched in 2022. While she has made cameo appearances in titles like Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds and crossover events in Persona 5: The Phantom X, Starry Party marks a full return to gaming as the lead.

For Singapore fans, the confirmed language list is a positive signal: the game will ship with support for English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese — all languages with strong player bases across Singapore and the broader Southeast Asian market. No Singapore-specific release date or pricing has been announced, but the multilingual support suggests a wide regional rollout is planned rather than a Japan-only or US-exclusive launch.

Close-up of Hatsune Miku's face in Hatsune Miku Starry Party teaser
Image courtesy of Good Smile Company

What We Still Don’t Know

A firm release date, pricing, and any details beyond the teaser are yet to be confirmed. With the 2027 launch window still far off, expect a fuller reveal — likely at a Nintendo Direct or a future Good Smile Company showcase — to flesh out the full mini-game roster and multiplayer modes. Keep an eye on the official X account @Starrypa_Miku for updates as they drop.

For more upcoming Switch 2 titles and Vocaloid news, check out our Game News and Manga Anime sections.

Hatsune Miku Joins Persona 5: The Phantom X Tomorrow — 1st Anniversary Collab Live 25 June

If you’ve been waiting for Hatsune Miku to gate-crash the Metaverse, tomorrow’s your day. Persona 5: The Phantom X — the free-to-play mobile spin-off from Atlus and Perfect World — launches its Version 4.4 update globally on 25 June 2026, and the star of the show is everyone’s favourite virtual pop idol joining the Phantom Thieves for the game’s 1st anniversary celebration.

[Hatsune Miku x P5X] Ver. 4.4 PV — The Hatsune Miku Collab is finally here! — via Persona5: The Phantom X (Official West) on YouTube

Miracle Concert — What Miku Brings to P5X

Hatsune Miku enters P5X as a Navigator character under the event banner Miracle Concert. Rather than dealing direct damage, Miku supports her party through music: she picks from a selection of three songs using her first and second skills, each granting different buffs to the team. After accumulating unique stacks over a few turns, she can spend them to grant the entire party two turns of free action — a powerful buff in longer encounters.

Hatsune Miku x Persona 5 The Phantom X — Miracle Concert event art
Image courtesy of Perfect World / ATLUS / SEGA / Crypton Future Media

Outside of battles, the collab fills the in-game city of Shibuya with Miku branding — billboards, her songs in the background, and a selection of Hatsune Miku-themed furniture and decorations for your home base. There is also a rhythm minigame where you can play from a set of six songs across different difficulty levels, which should appeal to the VTuber-adjacent corner of Singapore’s gaming community.

Southeast Asian Server Gets the Update Simultaneously

One of the standout things about Version 4.4 is that all six regional servers — Mainland Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Global, and Southeast Asian — go live at the same time. If you are playing P5X on the SEA server, you will not be waiting for a delayed rollout. Everything from Miku’s character banner to the Miracle Concert event drops for everyone on the same day.

Persona 5: The Phantom X is free to download and play on Android, iOS, and PC. Hatsune Miku is obtainable through the game’s gacha system during the anniversary event period.

Miku’s Persona Pedigree

Hatsune Miku in Persona 5 The Phantom X — collab character art
Image courtesy of Perfect World / ATLUS / SEGA / Crypton Future Media

This is not Miku’s first encounter with the Persona franchise. Her design in P5X draws directly from her appearance in the 2015 rhythm game Persona 4: Dancing All Night, making her technically a returning face rather than a first-time guest. That crossover lineage adds some in-universe logic to the collab, even if it is a stretch to call the DECO*27-scored virtual idol a true Phantom Thief.

Alongside Miku, the 1st anniversary has brought a run of crossover characters in recent weeks — including Yukari Takeba from Persona 3 and the upcoming Akihiko Sanada — making this a strong time for lapsed players to log back in.

For more on mobile games and anime crossover news, visit our Game News section. Persona 5: The Phantom X is available globally from the official P5X site and major app stores.

Hatsune Miku Official Shop in Akihabara: Is It Worth It?

If you follow Hatsune Miku, you’ve probably seen the photos: a whole building in Akihabara wrapped in Miku and the Kagamine twins, with a giant “HATSUNE MIKU OFFICIAL SHOP IN AKIBA” banner over the entrance. I went looking for it on a recent Tokyo trip — and the honest version is shorter than the hype. It’s real, it’s official, and it’s worth knowing exactly what you’re walking into before you build a day around it.

Quick verdict: it’s a permanent official Miku corner on Level 2 of Don Quijote Akihabara, not a flagship megastore. It’s compact — think one well-stocked section, not a multi-floor experience. Not worth a special trip across Tokyo on its own, but if you’re already in Akiba (and as a Miku fan, you will be), it’s an easy, fun stop that’s open around the clock.

A walkthrough of the shop — via GsChannel on YouTube

Where it is and what makes it unusual

The shop sits on the 2nd floor (Level 2) of Don Quijote‘s Akihabara branch at 4-3-3 Sotokanda. Per the official Hatsune Miku blog (Japanese), the corner — branded “HATSUNE MIKU official shop in Akiba” — opened on 27 April 2024 as a permanent fixture.

That word “permanent” is the genuinely unusual part. Most official Miku retail in Japan is pop-up: limited-run fairs, anniversary booths, collab cafes that vanish after a few weeks. This one stays put. And because it lives inside a Don Quijote — Japan’s famously chaotic 24-hour discount chain — it inherits Donki’s hours. You can buy an official Nendoroid at 3am if that’s your life. I can’t think of another character shop where that’s true.

Inside the Hatsune Miku Official Shop in Akiba, with a painted sky ceiling and Kagamine Rin and Len wall art
Image: GameTrader.SG

What’s actually inside

The space leans into the theme hard: a painted blue-sky ceiling, the full Crypton/Piapro cast on the walls — Miku, the Kagamine twins Rin and Len, Megurine Luka, plus KAITO and MEIKO — and a “HATSUNE MIKU OFFICIAL SHOP IN AKIBA” graphic running right across the floor. It photographs much bigger than it feels in person.

Stock-wise, it’s mostly the small, giftable stuff: acrylic keychains, badges, phone straps, folding fans, stationery, apparel and plush, alongside glass cases of scale figures and deformed (chibi) figures. When I visited, scale figures ran from around ¥6,273 (roughly S$55) up to the big premium display pieces at ¥30,000–¥38,000 (north of S$300). The everyday goods are far gentler on the wallet — this is a place you can walk out of with a ¥700 keychain and be happy.

Hatsune Miku scale figures in a glass display case with Japanese yen price tags
Image: GameTrader.SG

The display cases of oversized deformed figures are a nice touch — they’re showpieces more than stock, and they make the corner feel like a proper official space rather than just a merch rack. A large designer figure (by illustrator CHANxCO) was on show when the shop first launched, per the official blog.

Display cases of deformed chibi Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len figures inside the official shop
Image: GameTrader.SG

One thing to know: check Level 5 too

Here’s the bit that’s easy to miss. The Level 2 corner is the always-on permanent shop, but the same Don Quijote Akihabara periodically runs limited-time “Hatsune Miku Don Quijote Fair” collab events on a separate floor (Level 5), with newly drawn illustrations and fair-exclusive goods you won’t find downstairs. If you’re making the trip specifically for merch, it’s worth checking whether a fair is running during your dates — that’s where the collectible, time-limited items live.

What this means for Singapore fans

For SG Miku fans, the takeaway is simple: don’t fly in for this, but absolutely swing by if Akihabara is on your Tokyo itinerary — and it should be. Budget 15–20 minutes, go in expecting a tidy official corner rather than a flagship, and enjoy that you can drop in basically whenever, since it never really closes. The keychains, straps and stationery make easy souvenirs, and the prices on the small stuff are reasonable even before you factor in that there’s no equivalent permanent official Miku shop here at home.

The HATSUNE MIKU OFFICIAL SHOP IN AKIBA floor graphic running through the aisle
Image: GameTrader.SG

If you’re chasing more Japan store visits and gaming finds, browse our other guides. And if a Miku Don Quijote Fair lands while you’re in town, that’s the version actually worth planning around.