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Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy First Look

  • Writer: Taylor Rioux
    Taylor Rioux
  • Feb 18
  • 2 min read

Final Fantasy, the iconic video game series, is making its way to Magic: the Gathering this summer — June 13, to be exact. 


Featuring the stories and characters of the iconic franchise, Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY will contain over 100 creature cards across the entire release, including 55 borderless character cards. While some new mechanics have yet to be revealed, we have seen popular summons brought to life as Saga creatures — a combination of a creature card and a saga card, with the functionality of both. We also see the return of double-faced cards, Emet-Selch being one such example.


Emet-Selch, Unsundered turns into Hades, Sorcerer of Eld once his conditions are met.


What’s Inside?

 

The first items on the docket are the 4 commander decks, Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander (FIC): Revival Trance (Terra, Herald of Hope), Limit Break (Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER), Counter Blitz (Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian), and Scions and Spellcraft (Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed). These commander decks will tell the story of their respective games through the cards, so we’re looking forward to seeing the decklists as they are released.

Four cards, the commanders for the commander set, are shown here. Text on each of the cards is as follows: Terra, Herald of Hope {R}{W}{B} Legendary Creature — Human Wizard Warrior Trance — At the beginning of combat on your turn, mill two cards. Terra gains flying until end of turn. Whenever Terra deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {2}. When you do, return target creature card with power 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. 3/3; Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER {2}{R}{G}{W} Legendary Creature — Human Soldier Mercenary Haste When Cloud enters, attach up to one target Equipment you control to it. Whenever Cloud attacks, draw a card for each equipped attacking creature you control. Then if Cloud has power 7 or greater, create two Treasure tokens. 4/4; Tidus, Yuna's Guardian {G}{W}{U} Legendary Creature — Human Warrior At the beginning of combat on your turn, you may move a counter from target creature you control onto a second target creature you control. Cheer - Whenever one or more creatures you control with counters on them deal combat damage to a player, you may draw a card and proliferate. Do this only once each turn. 3/3; Y'shtola, Night's Blessed {1}{W}{U}{B} Legendary Creature — Cat Warlock Vigilance At the beginning of each end step, if a player lost 4 or more life this turn, you draw a card. Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with mana value 3 or greater, Y'shtola deals 2 damage to each opponent and you gain 2 life. 2/4.
The commanders for the new commander sets: Terra, Herald of Hope, Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER, Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian, and Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed

Next, we have Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY (FIN), the standard legal set. This set will feature cards representative of all 16 mainline Final Fantasy titles. We’ve already seen cards such as Sephiroth, Planet’s Heir and Jumbo Cactuar revealed, but there are many more exciting and storied characters on the horizon.


Also revealed are FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages (FCA), a Commander-, Legacy-, and Vintage-legal set, Play Boosters (sealed and draft curated sets) and 3 new secret lair drops to be revealed at a later date. FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages (FCA) will showcase iconic Magic cards with FINAL FANTASY artwork, with pieces done by legendary artists such as Yoshitaka Amano and Tetsuya Nomura.


Featured in (FIN), cards like Jumbo Cactuar and Sephiroth are sure to open interesting avenues of play.


Where to Buy?

 

The set releases on June 13 and is available for preorder now at local game stores, online retailers like Amazon, and elsewhere Magic products are sold.


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