Magic: The Gathering is a tabletop collectable trading card game franchise originally conceived by Richard Garfield and published by Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The game sees players take the role of planeswalkers, powerful wizards that summon creatures and cast spells in a duel against each other, represented by the cards the players draw and play from their decks. Players are expected create these decks from pre-made sets, obtain them from "booster packs"—foil packages with randomised cards within—or otherwise "draft" them depending on the varying rules of the game, known as "formats". As part of the "Universes Beyond" and "Secret Lair" sub-brands, Magic features crossover decks and cards with various other media franchises, including Final Fantasy.
Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy[]
Crossover logo.
A Universes Beyond tentpole booster set, known as Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy, or simply Final Fantasy, with the expansion code of FIN, released on 13 June 2025. This set's design was led by Yoni Skolnik and Zakeel Gordon of Wizards of the Coast and overseen by Shoichi Ichikawa of Square Enix, and featured characters, settings, and creatures from the 16 main instalments of the series.[1] The set and some of the art for it was officially unveiled during MagicCon in 2024, and was available as physical sets, as well as digitally for Magic: The Gathering Arena.[2] As a booster set, cards can be purchased in booster packs, functioning similarly to gacha systems found in Final Fantasy games, and as a tentpole release, cards are meant to be playable in official Standard competitive format.
This release also featured four Commander decks as a separate set, with the expansion code of FIC: "Revival Trance", "Limit Break", "Counter Blitz", and "Scions & Spellcraft", led by the Terra, Herald of Hope, Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER, Tidus, Yuna's Guardian, and Y'shtola, Night's Blessed commander cards respectively, each built around a single game of the series.[3] As preconstructed Commander sets, all cards in these are featured in boxed versions of each deck, purchased separately.
The release also featured a "bonus sheet" set of cards, known as "Final Fantasy Through the Ages", with the expansion code of FCA, which featured preexisting Final Fantasy artwork in Final Fantasy-themed reprints of existing Magic cards. These could also be found in regular booster packs for the Final Fantasy set.
Additionally, some other cards themed after the Final Fantasy series that are not part of these sets were available as limited run promotional cards—such as "buy-a-box" promotions which feature these cards as singles accompanying the purchase of particular box-sets or as rewards for participating or attending certain events—under the generic expansion code PRM, not being part of any numbering scheme or set. These cards could be original cards, alternate card variants of cards from the main set, or, like the Through the Ages set, be themed reprints of older Magic cards. Unlike the Through the Ages set, however, promotional card reprints can feature new original art. Similarly, some cards were only available as participation or victory rewards from the Store Championship competitions under the SCH set, following the numbering of this separate set.
The main Final Fantasy set contained 309 cards, including 26 land cards; while each Commander deck contains 25 new cards; and the Through the Ages set contains 64 total cards. The set introduced new mechanics to Magic themed after the Final Fantasy series, including job select Equipment cards, tiered spell cards, Saga creature cards themed after summons, transforming double-faced cards, and Adventure land cards.
The set was widely criticized by Magic players for its exorbitant prices. In Magic's premier rotating format, Standard, expensive mythic rare cards from the set pushed the prices of some relevant decklists to 400 USD or higher. Despite this, the Final Fantasy release was publicized as one of the bestselling sets released for Magic: The Gathering.
Following the original release, a secondary holiday 2025 release is set to release 5 December 2025, consisting of four scene boxes, a "Chocobo bundle", and a special edition of the "Limit Break" Commander deck that includes a digital copy of Final Fantasy VII. Each scene box includes booster packs as well as six unique cards for each box that when placed together display a "scene" for each game, the boxes being "Final Fantasy—Garland at the Chaos Shrine", "Final Fantasy VIII—Children of Fate", "Final Fantasy IX—The Siege of Alexandria", and "Final Fantasy XV—Camp Comrades". The "Chocobo bundle" includes boosters and a certain number of pre-set cards, including new art variations of previously released cards as part of the Final Fantasy sets, with foil variations stylized with chocobos' tracks.
Cards[]
Expansion symbols for the standard (FIN), Commander (FIC), and Through the Ages (FCA) sets.
The following is an incomplete list of all cards known to be featured in each set, arranged by number and subset.
Card numbers with a pipe | between two numbers indicate that multiple variants of the card with different numbering were printed, be them with alternate or expanded art or foil versions. Card names with a forward slash / between two names indicate that the card is double sided, featuring both names as each side of the card. Card names followed by parentheticals ( ) indicate a reprint of the parenthesized Magic card under a different name.
- #0001|#0356 Summon: Bahamut
- #0002|#0324|#0421 Ultima, Origin of Oblivion
- #0003|#0422 Adelbert Steiner
- #0004|#0374|#0423|#0519 Aerith Gainsborough
- #0005 Aerith Rescue Mission
- #0006|#0325|#0424 Ambrosia Whiteheart
- #0007|#0425 Ashe, Princess of Dalmasca
- #0008 Auron's Inspiration
- #0009 Battle Menu
- #0010|#0375|#0427|#520 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary
- #0031 Sidequest: Catch a Fish / Cooking Campsite
- #0034|#0327 Stiltzkin, Moogle Merchant
- #0078|#0362 Summon: Shiva
- #0091|#0380|#0445 Cecil, Dark Knight / Cecil, Redeemed Paladin
- #0122 Tonberry
- #0127|#0384 Zenos yae Galvus / Shinryu, Transcendent Rival
- #0139 Gilgamesh, Master at Arms
- #0170 Zell Dincht
- #0191|#0343 Jumbo Cactuar
- #0200 Sazh's Chocobo
- #0218|#0394|#0483 Emet-Selch, Unsundered / Hades, Sorcerer of Eld
- #0221|#0486 Garland, Knight of Cornelia / Chaos, the Endless
- #0224 Gladiolus Amicitia
- #0233 Lightning, Army of One
- #0241|#0502 Shantotto, Tactician Magician
- #0242|#0348|#0508 Sin, Spira's Punishment
- #0243 Squall, SeeD Mercenary
- #0317 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER / Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
- #0322 Kefka, Court Mage / Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
- #0391 Tifa Lockheart
- #0552 Cloud, Planet's Champion
- #0553 Sephiroth, Planet's Heir
Tokens (FIN)
- #0001 Copy
- #0022 Food
- #0001|#0167|#0201|#0209|#0220 Celes, Rune Knight
- #0002|#0168|#0202|#0210|#0221 Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER
- #0003|#0172|#0203|#0211|#0222 G'raha Tia, Scion Reborn
- #0004|#0186|#0204|#0212|#0223 Terra, Herald of Hope
- #0005|#0187|#0205|#0213|#0224 Tidus, Yuna's Guardian
- #0006|#0188|#0206|#0214|#0225 Tifa, Martial Artist
- #0007|#0191|#0207|#0215|#0226 Y'shtola, Night's Blessed
- #0008|#0192|#0208|#0216|#0227 Yuna, Grand Summoner
- #0083 Hildibrand Manderville
Tokens (FIC)
- #0006 Zombie
- #0012 Dragon of Mount Gulg (Ancient Copper Dragon)
- #0060 Yuffie Kisaragi (Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow)
- Promotional cards (PRM)
- #0001
魔 女 の予見 (Majo no Yoken?, Witch's Foresight) (Force of Negation); part of a Japanese exclusive buy-a-box promotion. - #0001 フェイタリズム (Feitarizumu?, Fatalism) (Arcane Denial); part of a Japanese exclusive buy-a-box promotion.
- #0001 Torgal, Clive's Companion (Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful); part of a United States exclusive MagicCon 2025 attendance promotion.
- #0002 Tifa Lockhart; part of a United States exclusive MagicCon Las Vegas 2025 ProTour Qualifier participation promotion.
- #0001 Ultima; part of a Standard Showdown promotion.
- #0002 Squall, SeeD Mercenary; part of a Standard Showdown promotion.
- #0001 Cloud, Midgar Mercenary; part of Pro Tour and Magic Spotlight promotions.
- #0002 Joshua Rosfield (Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh); part of Magic Spotlight and ProTour Qualifier promotions.
- #0001 Culling Ritual; part of a Commander Party promotion.
- #0002 Despark; part of a Commander Party promotion.
- #0001 Aerith Gainsborough; part of Store Regional ProTour Qualifier promotion for October - December 2025 .
- #0001 Swords to Plowshares; MagicFest 2025 promotion only available during all MagicCons in 2025.
- Store Championship cards (SCH)
- #0039 Prophetic Beginning (Preordain)
- #0040 Diabolos, Guardian Force (Death's Shadow)
- #0041 Bhujerba, Floating City (City of Brass)
Card art[]
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Secret Lair x Final Fantasy[]
The 2025 Secret Lair Summer Superdrop features 3 Final Fantasy themed "drops" (i.e. individual limited releases) of multiple cards in the form of "Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Game Over", "Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Grimoire", and "Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Weapons", released 9 June 2025. These drops depict villains winning, specific characters' magic spells, and characters' iconic weapons respectively. Like other releases in the Secret Lair sub-brand, these feature themed alternate art reprints of older cards organized into themed drops that guarantee all cards within the pseudo-set. As Secret Lair cards are not part of an individual set, they feature the standard expansion code of SLD, following the sub-brand's numbering conventions, and feature the standard Magic shooting star expansion symbol. Early purchases of these drops feature a Final Fantasy VII themed reprint of the Gilded Lotus card as a purchase bonus.
Additionally, each individual drop includes a bonus card. These can be either one common "rare" card exclusive to each drop, or one rare "mythic" card featuring one of Yuna's aeons from Final Fantasy X.
Cards[]
- Final Fantasy: Game Over
- #1858 Spira's Punishment (Day of Judgment)
- #1859 Absorb into Time (Temporal Extortion)
- #1860 Merciless Poisoning (Toxic Deluge)
- #1861 Unseat the Ursurper (Praetor's Grasp)
- #1862 Meteorfall (Star of Extinction)
- Final Fantasy: Weapons
- #1863 Yunas Sending Staff (Staff of the Storyteller)
- #1864 Clive's Invictus Blade (Blade of Selves)
- #1865 Cloud's Buster Sword (Umezawa's Jitte)
- #1866 Gaia's Dark Hammer (Colossus Hammer)
- #1867 Tidus's Brotherhood Sword (Sword of Truth and Justice)
- Final Fantasy: Grimoire
- #1868 Yuna's Holy Magic (Prismatic Ending)
- #1869 Hope's Aero Magic (Cyclonic Rift)
- #1870 Noctis's Death Magic (Damn)
- #1871 Vivi's Thunder Magic (Lightning Bolt)
- #1872 Aerith's Curaga Magic (Heroic Intervention)
- Purchase bonus
- #0909 Gilded Lotus
- Bonus cards
- #7001 Primogenesis (Feed the Swarm); exclusive to "Final Fantasy: Game Over"
- #7002 Armiger Unleashed (Forge Anew); exclusive to "Final Fantasy: Weapons"
- #7003 Porom's Silence Magic (Silence); exclusive to "Final Fantasy: Grimoire"
- #7004 Yojimbo (Solitude)
- #7005 Shiva (Subtlety)
- #7006 Anima (Grief)
- #7007 Ifrit (Fury)
- #7008 Magus Sisters (Endurance)
Magic: The Gathering Arena[]
MTG Arena Mastery Pass rewards, including 3 chocobo companions.
Magic: The Gathering Arena, officially abbreviated as MTG Arena, is a collectable trading card video game that features digital representations of the cards featured in the Final Fantasy sets, as well as exclusive crossovers with the Final Fantasy series, including avatars, moogle and chocobo companions, and unique card sleeves. Some of these are available as part of bundle purchases, while others are exclusive to a limited time "Mastery Pass".
Final Fantasy Trading Card Game[]
As part of cross promotion with Magic: The Gathering — Final Fantasy, the Final Fantasy Trading Card Game features a special promotional Alphinaud card with art that when placed together with a limited promotional Swords to Plowshares card depicts Alphinaud and Alisaie from Final Fantasy XIV alongside a moogle.
Behind the scenes[]
In an interview with IGN about the Commander decks featured in the Final Fantasy set, Daniel Holt and Dillon Deveny from Wizards of the Coast explained that Final Fantasy VI characters are amalgamations of their multiple appearances, based on Amano art, other concept art, and the various sprite art through the years and interpreted by their artists in an effort of getting the characters to appear "how you ‘remember’ them", and that while Final Fantasy VII characters and situation are based on the original release, they used content from the Final Fantasy VII remake project to inform visuals of shared events. Additionally, they explained that the counters from the Final Fantasy X commander deck were based on the idea of the Sphere Grid, and that while the development team landed on Y'shtola as the Final Fantasy XIV commander, the Warrior of Light was considered in-depth beforehand. All commander decks feature white mana as part of their shared theming.[3]
Citations[]
- ↑ Magic: The Gathering [@mtg] (2024, October 25). "A Sneak Peek at Magic: The Gathering – FINAL FANTASY" [Video]. YouTube.
- ↑ Final Fantasy Portal Site (2024, October 28). "Magic: The Gathering - FINAL FANTASY Set for Release in June 2025! New Art and Details Available Now!". Final Fantasy Portal Site. Archived from the original on 28 October 2024.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Marks, Tom (2025, February 17). "Final Fantasy Commander Decks Revealed, Feature Cloud, Tidus, and More". IGN Entertainment, Inc. IGN. Archived from the original on 17 February 2025.