First Look at 6 Final Fantasy Cards That Bring Iconic Art to Magic: The Gathering

As pre-orders merchantability retired and tons of references are revealed, Magic: The Gathering's upcoming crossover with Final Fantasy is shaping up to beryllium its biggest ever. Today, we get to adhd to that amusive with six cards that are disposable successful the upcoming set: 3 featuring classical conception creation by Yoshitaka Amano, and 3 with much caller creation by Toshitaka Matsuda.

Flip done the assemblage beneath to spot each six cards, and work connected to larn wherever to find them yourself:

The cards we are revealing contiguous are portion of the "Through the Ages" bonus expanse that is wrong the larger main set. That means they are each reprints of existing cards reskinned with conception creation and characters from antithetic Final Fantasy games - truthful portion determination are nary marque caller oregon mechanically unsocial cards present similar the ones that person been shown disconnected precocious oregon those successful the Commander decks we antecedently revealed, they bash person creation that stretches backmost each the mode to the precise archetypal crippled successful the series.

Unlike the cards successful the main set, Through the Ages cards bash not go ineligible successful Magic's Standard format (though they inactive are if the existing paper was already ineligible there, of course), fundamentally conscionable making them alternate creation versions of those cards. That said, they tin beryllium recovered successful some the fancier Collector Boosters arsenic good arsenic 1 successful each 3 of the regular Play Boosters that are utilized for Limited events similar Draft and Sealed.

That means if you program to play a batch of this acceptable either astatine your section crippled store oregon digitally connected thing similar Magic: The Gathering Arena, you are apt to spot these cards successful enactment rather frequently. Five of the six cards present are Rares, which means they won't amusement up arsenic often, but Thrum of the Vestige is notably an Uncommon. That's a reskin for 1 of Magic's astir ubiquitous cards, Lightning Bolt, and I wouldn't beryllium amazed if this peculiar printing has rather the interaction connected the set.

The Warrior of Light reprinting of Jodah, the Unifier is besides definite to beryllium a fashionable 1 - Jodah is simply a almighty and communal Commander, and the creation utilized present is Amano's from the Japanese boxart of the archetypal Final Fantasy. Similarly, Amano's iconic creation for Final Fantasy 4's Cecil Harvey has been repurposed for 1 of Magic's strongest spouse commanders, Tymna the Weaver, which has lone ever been reprinted erstwhile earlier this.

These cards motorboat physically arsenic portion of the larger Final Fantasy acceptable connected June 13, with the integer versions going unrecorded connected MTG Arena and MTGO connected June 10. And if you are a Final Fantasy instrumentality who isn't into Magic yet, determination is inactive crushed to beryllium excited, arsenic FF7 Remake bid manager Tetsuya Nomura said the plan of Sephiroth connected 1 paper is antithetic for immoderate cryptic reason.

Tom Marks is IGN's Executive Reviews Editor. He loves cards games, puzzles, platformers, puzzle-platformers, and tons more.