Magic: The Gathering has revealed a have a look at its forthcoming Final Fantasy-themed set. In an interview with IGN, senior sport 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 Final Fantasy VI, Tidus from Final Fantasy X, Y’shtola from (critically acclaimed MMORPG) Final Fantasy XIV, and naturally, Cloud from Final Fantasy VII. What’s attention-grabbing about these Commander decks is that as a substitute of being constructed to easily help a single highly effective card (generally known as the Commander), every deck’s mechanics and playing cards are designed to inform the story of a particular Final Fantasy sport.
Since the again half of Final 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 gear — you gotta have the suitable materia for the job, proper? Magic has all the time been actually good with the way it marries the story of a set to gameplay mechanics, and seeing that utilized to Final Fantasy is basically cool.
In the IGN interview, Holt assured followers that though these Commander decks are centered on solely 4 video games, the remainder of the Standard-legal set will function playing cards that signify all 16 mainline Final Fantasy video games.
You can see previews for a few of these playing cards’ art work on the set’s official web site right here. There can be much more playing cards revealed throughout an official MTG x Final Fantasy livestream going down on February 18th at 1PM ET.
