Magic: The Final Fantasy Commander's Deck is full of fun, surprising references

The wizards of the coast have been gradually launching its works Magic: Party and this summer’s big Final Fantasy crossover. Over the weekend, the team made its debut on the console and Commander’s deck, and fans enjoyed some fun and even surprising cuts from their favorite Final Fantasy game.

The universe that cannot be collaborated with Final Fantasy can both get the usual commander treatment and booster-driven series, so there is a a lot of Cards for cards. The Tinker's entire Final Fantasy mainline, numbered game, from Final Fantasy 1 to Final Fantasy 16. Meanwhile, the Commander Deck looks at four specific games: Final Fantasy 6, 7, 10 and 14, its respective commanders of Terra, Cloud, Tidus and Y'Shtola.

Last Saturday’s Magic: Pax East’s party panel showed some cards that captured the journey of individual characters throughout the game. For example, Cecil of Final Fantasy IV has an entire mechanic that revolves around the transformation from Dark Knight to Paladin. Final Fantasy’s subpoena utilizes the “Legendary Creature” setting, acting as a powerful but temporary force on the field, blending magic and Final Fantasy concepts in the process.

Then you have cards like Sephiroth, Fabable Soldier, and artworks from Tetsuya Nomura in Square. The conversion along the card illustrates the various forms of Sephiros in the FF7 universe, from young fighters to Sephiroth who ends up being safer in the card, a winged angel.

What would Final Fantasy be without some CID? The final fantasy set will include CIDs in each numbered Final Fantasy game, although Wizards chose Final Fantasy XV to go past daughter Cindy's old CID.

However, after Saturday's group, the Coast Wizard Released the list of the above four commander decksfans began to study art and added a team of how to adapt these four Final Fantasy games to magic. Very good, it turns out.

Reprint or new version of existing magic cards, legend with Final Fantasy gets some clever crossovers. For example, SkullClamp borrows the Jenova project in the art of Final Fantasy 7.

Together, forever Also emotionally stabbed 10 fans of Final Fantasy. The Final Fantasy 10 has some emotional Well Springs, whose central protagonist travels through a land of destruction that can be borrowed on a gloomy pilgrimage. By the way, the cards on several decks reference some notable character moments, so you might want to get into these decks and know that each game will have some story-breakers.

But to ease one of Final Fantasy 10's more iconic and often-memorable moments, it was also edited with an inspiring call.

In fact, the Wizards discovered multiple ways to incorporate moments of Final Fantasy into the card. Smart Hidden Turn the clouds, Aerith and Tifa in their gowns, head to Don Corneo's, and even have a mechanic suitable for the scene. I'm a big fan of the Secret Conjunction Card, which has four different versions of Final Fantasy 7's Golden Disc dating scenes, each potential date: Aerith, Tifa, Yuffie and Barret.

Even so, fans found details that showed how much respect was paid to the original material. Especially the Final Fantasy 14 set, there are many quotes of the well-received MMORPGs. this Hildi Branmandevilka Mimicking the habit of the infamous gentleman disappearing and returning, creating for an interesting white/black card in the process.

A user on ffxiv subreddit Note that, for example, archaeological map cards use real locations found in the gaganaskin treasure map.

In turn, Final Fantasy 14 players have fun on the cards. There is something about Want to know who represents whoquote “This is Bick's” meme. besides Alternative flavor text The user added a copy card ceremony to commemorate everyone's favorite speech in Realm Reborn:

Even the legendary bibliography depicts a fantastic book of tails, all the little details you'll see in the game when the player picks up the tail, and of course a few missed the four-inch connection.

There is some obvious attention to the details in these cards, which certainly made me very interested to see the full set. While Commander Games gets a lot of love in these cards, some revelations from Saturday’s panel Communicate with beaver Let me crave a look at how some other Final Fantasy games fit into the full magic collection.

Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection of the Party was held on June 13, 2025, a week ago before the weekend before release.

Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.