Magic: The Gathering’s Final Fantasy sets will tell the stories of the games

Magic: The Gathering has revealed a look astatine its forthcoming Final Fantasy-themed set. In an interrogation with IGN, elder crippled decorator Daniel Holt talked astir the collaboration and this archetypal look, which focuses connected 4 large quality cards and their associated pre-constructed Commander decks.

The revealed cards see Terra from Final Fantasy VI, Tidus from Final Fantasy X, Y’shtola from (critically acclaimed MMORPG) Final Fantasy XIV, and of course, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII. What’s absorbing astir these Commander decks is that alternatively of being constructed to simply enactment a azygous almighty paper (known arsenic the Commander), each deck’s mechanics and cards are designed to archer the communicative of a specific Final Fantasy game.

Since the backmost fractional of Final Fantasy VI is each astir rebuilding the satellite Kefka destroyed, its associated platform is each astir returning creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield, for example. Cloud’s platform is each astir instrumentality — you gotta person the close materia for the job, right? Magic has ever been truly bully with however it marries the communicative of a acceptable to gameplay mechanics, and seeing that applied to Final Fantasy is truly cool. 

In the IGN interview, Holt assured fans that adjacent though these Commander decks are focused connected lone 4 games, the remainder of the Standard-legal acceptable volition diagnostic cards that correspond each 16 mainline Final Fantasy games.

You tin spot previews for immoderate of those cards’ artwork connected the set’s authoritative website here. There volition beryllium adjacent much cards revealed during an official MTG x Final Fantasy livestream taking spot connected February 18th astatine 1PM ET.

The afloat acceptable launches connected June 13th and volition diagnostic artwork from famed Final Fantasy artist Yoshitaka Amano.