Wizards of the Coast gradually implemented what they prepared for Magic: The Gathering and her great final fantasy crossover this summer. At the weekend, the band debuted a significant part of the cards, both from the main set and the layers of the commander, and the fans enjoy witty and even surprising cuts from their favorite Final Fantasy games.
The universe, apart from cooperation with the Final Fantasy plot cards to pass. The main set tinches throughout the main line Final Fantasy, numbered games, from Final Fantasy 1 to Final Fantasy 16. Meanwhile, the decks of the commanders focus on four specific games: Final Fantasy 6, 7, 10 and 14, with the appropriate commanders of Terra, Cloud, Tidus and Y’shtola.
Some of the cards shown during magic last Saturday: the meeting panel in Pax East captured the journey of individual characters during their games. For example, Cecil Final Fantasy IV has all the mechanics around the transformation from a shadowy knight in Paladin. Recalling the Final Fantasy exploit the “Saga Creature” configuration to act as powerful but ephemeral forces on the pitch, combining the magic and concepts of final fantasy.
Then you have cards such as Sephithroth, a legendary soldier, with graphics from Tetsuya Nomura. The transformation along the card illustrates various forms of SephiROTH in the entire FF7 universe, from a teenage warrior to, ultimately safer SephiROTH on the SephiROTH card, one wing angel.
And what would the Final Fantasy be without some cids? The Final Fantasy Set contains CID from each of the Nonume Final Fantasy games, although Wizards choose older cid from Final Fantasy XV over their daughter Cindy.
However, after the Saturday Wizards of the Coast panel Issued a list to four of the above -mentioned layers of the commanderAnd the fans began to view art and accessories to see how the team adapted these four Final Fantasy matches to Magic. It turns out quite well.
Reproduction or modern versions of existing magic cards receive clever crossovers thanks to the Final Fantasy tradition. For example, SkullClamp is based on the Jenova project in Final Fantasy 7 because of its art.
Together forever Also emotional stabbed in the Final Fantasy 10 fans. It should not be surprising that the Final Fantasy 10 has some emotional wells from which you can draw, with a central journey of the heroes through the ruined earth, on a gloomy pilgrimage. By the way, waist cards refer to some significant moments of the character, so you may want to enter those decks that will be aware that there will be some spoilers for each game.
But to brighten Things, one of the more iconic and often the Final Fantasy 10 menu, moments also used an inspiring connection.
In fact, Wizards found more than a few ways to include less stern Moments of Final Fantasy in the cards. Clever hiding It will elaborate on the stage on the wall market with the cloud, Aerith and Tifa in dresses, heading for Don Corneo, and even has a mechanics that seems to match the occasion. I am a gigantic fan of the secret rendezvous card, which has four different versions of the Golden Saucer Date scene from Final Fantasy 7 with each potential date: Aerith, Tif, Yuffie and Barret.
Despite this, fans discover diminutive details that show how much tribute consists of source material. In particular, the Final Fantasy 14 set has a lot of references to MMORPG recognized by critics. . Hildibrand Manderville card He imitates the infamous gentleman’s habit to disappear and return, creating a rather engaging white/black card.
One user in Subreddit FFXIV He noticed that the Archaeomant map card uses, for example, a real possible location found on the Gaganaskin treasure map.
In turn, Final Fantasy 14 players had fun with the cards. There are some jokes I wonder who is represented by the Thancred cardReferring to “It is than” meme. And is Alternative text text The user added a replication card to the ritual, commemorating the favorite speech of all from the Kingdom of Reborn:
Even the Tome of Legends card presents a wonderful book with tails, with all the diminutive details that you see in the game when the player raises the tails and, of course, a few omitted four connections in the row.
In these cards there is clear attention to detail, and I certainly intrigued me to see the full set. While Games Commander has gained a lot of love in these cards, a few disclosures from the Saturday panel Municipality with beaver Let me see how some other Final Fantasy games have been adapted to the full set of magic.
Magic: Final Fantasy Set of the Congregation will appear on June 13, 2025, and the pre -premiere weekend a week earlier.
Eric is an independent IGN writer.
