Kiros is a one-of-a-kind Triple Triad card in Final Fantasy VIII used to play the minigame and for turning into items with Quezacotl's Card Mod. Kiros is the hundred and first card in the inventory and the second Level 10 card. It depicts Kiros Seagill who is playable in some Laguna dreams.
As a Level 10 Player Card, Kiros has good values with an A, which represents the value 10 for the minigame and is unbeatable without special rules. Its value placements may also be useful for games that use Same and/or Plus.
Obtain[]
The man in black in Deling City shopping street has Kiros.
Kiros is the first card obtained from the Queen of Cards quest. It becomes available in the Deling City shopping arcade from a man in black who is part of the background rather than a character model after losing MiniMog to the Queen of Cards and sending her to Dollet. When there she gives the card to her son and her father creates the Kiros card, which shows up in Deling City. The man who has Kiros plays with Galbadia region rules.
The earliest the player can get the Kiros card is by winning MiniMog in Balamb Garden before setting out to the Timber mission. Before boarding the train, the party can play the Queen of Cards on the train station, purposely lose the MiniMog to her, and talk to her again to ensure she is heading to Dollet; if she is going to Galbadia instead, the player should reset and try again until she is going to Dollet. Then, after the events in Timber the party is instructed to go to Galbadia Garden. Rather than do that, they can go to Dollet and find the queen at the upstairs of the pub, where she says that her father has made a new card that is somewhere in Deling City. The party can win MiniMog back from the boy in the artist's atelier across the street from the pub. When the story takes the party to Deling City, they can find the man in black near the shops and win the Kiros card off him.
After the events at the Lunatic Pandora, the game progresses to the endgame and there aren't many Triple Triad players left. The Queen of Cards is now found on the escape pod crash site, which is not marked on the world map, but is found by walking around the peninsula south from Tears' Point. (Video of correct spot) The queen will have all the cards from her sidequest.
If the player completed the Card Club quest before the point of no return (fighting the boss atop the Lunatic Pandora), the club members will appear aboard the Ragnarok in the endgame, from whom the player can win all Level 8–10 cards they do not currently hold in their deck, even the cards they had modified before. Though the Queen of Cards will have Kiros if the player didn't get it, the left girl of CC Diamond will play any Level 8–10 card in order that the player does not currently have. This also allows the player to modify the Kiros card and then win it back.
Card Mod[]
The Kiros card refines into 3 Accelerators with Quezacotl's Card Mod. It teaches Auto-Haste to a GF, a very good ability. Kiros may be worth modding, as getting an Accelerator otherwise is arduous and the player would need the ultimate GF Eden to even make it. The only other way to get one is by killing PuPu, which is not something the player will likely want to do.
Physical version[]
In 1999, following the release of Final Fantasy VIII in Japan, Bandai produced a full set of collectible Triple Triad cards in Final Fantasy VIII Carddass Masters Perfect Visuals. The set was made up of the 110 cards as seen in the game along with 72 artwork cards and a collector's edition playing mat. The cards have a blue side and a red side. The cards have become a rare collector's item.