First look at 6 Final Fantasy Cards that bring iconic art to magic: Party
Blog Andrew Joseph 16 May , 2025 0
As Booking sell and Revealed many referencesMagic: The party is coming, Final Fantasy is coming, the biggest ever. Today we can add fun fun with the upcoming six cards: classic concept art written by Yoshitaka Amano of three cards, and the latest art by Toshitaka Matsuda.
Search the gallery below to view all six cardscontinue reading to find out where you find them:
The card we reveal today is part of the “age” bonus list in the “larger main group”. This means they are all reprints of existing cards that reintegrate with concept art and characters from different Final Fantasy games – so there are no brand new or mechanically unique cards here Recently displayed Or those Our Previous Revealed Commander Deckthey do have art that extends all the way to the first game in the series.
Unlike cards in the console, cards via Ages won't become legal in Magic's standard format (although of course still existing cards are already legal, it's really just making them an alternative art version of these cards. That said, they're all found in more advanced collector boosters, as well as one of every three regular game boosters that are used for limited events such as drafts and seals.
This means that if you plan to play this set of cards digitally on a local game store or something like magic: a party venue, then you will most likely see these cards often. Five of the six cards here are rare, meaning they won't appear often, but the trace thrum is obviously rare. It's one of the most common cards in magic, the re-skin of Lightning, and I wouldn't be surprised if this particular printing had a big impact on the set.
Jodah's Warrior of Jodah is also certainly a popular man – Jodah is a powerful and ordinary commander, and the art used here is the Japanese framework of Amano's original final fantasy. Similarly, Amano adapted the iconic art of Final Fantasy 4's Cecil Harvey, weaver Tymna, one of the Magician's most powerful partner commanders, who once reprinted once before that.
The cards are part of the larger Final Fantasy setup on June 13, with the digital versions going live on MTG Arena and MTGO on June 10. If you're the ultimate fan of fantasy, you don't like magic yet, and there's still reason to be excited, as FF7 Remake series director Tetsuya Nomura said. Sephiroth design on a card is different for some mysterious reason.
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