Magic: The Gathering has revealed a have a look at its forthcoming Final Fantasy-themed set. In an interview with IGN, senior recreation designer Daniel Holt talked concerning the collaboration and this preliminary look, which focuses on 4 main character playing cards and their related pre-constructed Commander decks.
The revealed playing cards embody Terra from Closing Fantasy VI, Tidus from Closing Fantasy X, Y’shtola from (critically acclaimed MMORPG) Closing Fantasy XIV, and naturally, Cloud from Closing Fantasy VII. What’s fascinating about these Commander decks is that as a substitute of being constructed to easily help a single highly effective card (often called the Commander), every deck’s mechanics and playing cards are designed to inform the story of a particular Closing Fantasy recreation.
Because the again half of Closing Fantasy VI is all about rebuilding the world Kefka destroyed, its related deck is all about returning creatures from the graveyard to the battlefield, for instance. Cloud’s deck is all about tools — you gotta have the proper materia for the job, proper? Magic has at all times been actually good with the way it marries the story of a set to gameplay mechanics, and seeing that utilized to Closing Fantasy is basically cool.
Within the IGN interview, Holt assured followers that although these Commander decks are centered on solely 4 video games, the remainder of the Customary-legal set will function playing cards that symbolize all 16 mainline Closing Fantasy video games.
You may see previews for a few of these playing cards’ paintings on the set’s official web site here. There will likely be much more playing cards revealed throughout an official MTG x Final Fantasy livestream going down on February 18th at 1PM ET.