Magic: The Gathering Arena Final Fantasy is a video game

lol

probably because 14 is the most recent FF that has a positive reception

based

Oh no no no no cloudsissies...

he's literally me…I…thank you..

Astrologian's Planisphere will 100% see heavy play in Standard. In fact, it already has a deck it fits right in.

Clearly commander is getting the shit arts because they will just eat up all that slop anyway

magicspoiler.com/mtg-set/final-fantasy/

this site has a lot more cards on it

Tifa literally sets up a turn 3 kill...

I could tolerate Jotc's kikery for years but the UBshit is the last straw for me.

It's quite probable that XIV is just being heavily favored for spoiler season due to its popularity, and while they have cards for I~V, they are not being spoiled because of the inferior engagement they would generate in comparison.

You were the one to click this thread. Nobody made you do that.

The ones that have a Chocobo as the small symbol next to the card type in the middle of the card (Just below the picture) are Commander cards. They won't be part of the set proper and might not even end up being in Arena.
Still fun to look at them, though.
Rikku a cute

Wow, really? Their target audience for this reference set is people who play the game mostly made up of memberberries that is also the most profitable in the franchise's history? I'm shocked!

all the Cids

SOVL

Ishgard is a holy city of elvish nobility that's been in a war with dragons for a thousand years, I'm not sure what the sorcery effect has to do with it
Matoya is an old witch that sometimes helps research things
White auracite is a type of rock that pulls in aether like a sponge, usually used to seal in intangible beings
Astrologians are healers that buff other players by playing a card minigame
Sages are healers that focus on damaging enemies to heal allies passively
Circle of Power is meant to be Ley Lines, a black mage spell that makes a circle that buffs your casting massively while you're standing in it. It is notorious for making black mages not move to dodge obvious incoming damage, which is probably what the life loss is meant to represent

god the design they went with for zodiark in endwalker was such a fucking mistake

wouldn't really call 8's Cid an artificer

Magic: the selloutening

Lots of cute Yuna cards.

Shame all the VII stuff is from Remake, but what can ya do.

my mother name is jenova...the jenova project...is this a coincidence?

when you read the FF7 OG dialogue outloud it sounds so fucking stupid

You have to realize Sephiroth was pretty heavily in denial. The idea that he is an artificially created monster and not human at all was his greatest fear.

Can just steal +1/+1 counters from any creature that has them

Can just steal shield counters from Sanctuary Warden

Can just steal an indestructible counter from the Phyrexian Horrors

What the fuck lol
And it's only gonna get more powerful as more unique counters keep being printed

based
I'm still gonna keep playing MTGA but I'm not gonna spend any gold or gems on this soulless UBslop.

What am i missing with the FF6 commander deck?
It doesn't seem to have any real theme other than having a full graveyard and occasionally bringing something back.

searching for friends. terra puts things in the graveyard and celes pulls them out

Sounds like some heavily involved combo shit. Meanwhile red does it for free.

it is se's main moneybag

Yshtola's ability is really cool but at 6 mana she's unplayable

HAHAHA

why did they have to make the game look so gay? I just want to play my wife and beat people up with trees

i recognize most of these lands but a few seem generic

V & XII is strangely lacking in cards
and there's way too much stuff from XIV

Is there a Bahamut card?

Yes

pajeet thread

I'm a bit confused by how saga creatures work
So let's assume you play this on turn 7, it has summoning sickness and it can't attack, so it does the first ability
What happens at turn 10? Does it do its mega flare ability and then immediately get sacrificed before it can even attack? So you only get 2 attacks with it?

WATCH OUT!

Sounds like some heavily involved combo shit

no actually it's just this plus a fetchland

Yes. What's your confusion?

So let's assume you play this on turn 7, it has summoning sickness and it can't attack, so it does the first ability

What happens at turn 10? Does it do its mega flare ability and then immediately get sacrificed before it can even attack? So you only get 2 attacks with it?

Correct. You will have an opportunity for two swipes, three if it gains haste or entered attacking by some means (such as pic related), but as soon as it hits 4 lore counters it explodes.
Summons aren't meant to stick around.

I'm glad some people found enjoyment in online TGC's, but this hobby really died for me when it wasn't high school friends and me just playing for fun, I wish I enjoyed online versions.

Evaluating cards is hard, but there's something that feels Timmyless and undewhelming about a 9 mana creature you can only attack with twice. Let alone the average saga creature you can only attack with once The card's power and toughness almost seem like flavor at that point.

you're not using bahamut as a beatstick anyway with an ability like mega flare

14 is like 5 games, it and 7 should logically get the bulk of cards with 11 and 13 following them, but we know that isn't happening

If he survived to the fourth lore counter, then he's leaving with a nuclear blast that almost certainly kills everybody and wins you the game. It's VERY timmy because Bahamut probably won't survive to do that.

nude terra

the final lore counter is basically supposed to be their actual summon attack, in bahamut's case you want to either ramp up into it and use the resources it grabs you to play as much shit as possible or play it naturally and ramp up its counters (which is the gimmick of the FFX commander deck) to blow it up faster

Neat
Is Tifa green, by the way?

Yep.

green seymour

green fucking hojo

red white sephiroth

blue green sin

are commander precons usually this weird

If you're playing it for 9 you're probably playing it to proliferate your way into the four lore counter anyway

emet dying card

amaurot card

azem stone card

even a fucking hermes card

I guess its to be expected from the biggest demographic of FF fans nowadays

birds do not cause every creature to sacrifice themselves

Flavor miss!

Pokemon is losing so hard it's not even funny

For me the biggest miss flavor-wise was the chocobos all being the same instead of each featuring some ability and then the gold chocobo having all of them.

no balamb garden card

bros wtf...

Isn't that exactly what the gold chocobo does, though? Whenever a chocobo activates an ability, it activates it twice, the second time is the gold chocobo imitating it.

thats for a black meteion card later
but honestly I wanted more of the non reality-warping stuff like gaius and yotsuyu

Life is almost impossible.

I've never played MtG but I'd like to buy a pack because I like FF. Which pack do I buy?

No.

ishgard isnt legendary

OH DO YOU SEE

unless you want cards from the precons you'd just buy the core set/singles from it. There's not a separate commander set, just 25 cards unique to each based on the game they represent
The renamed reprints are all just recycled art too

Is there a viable way left to play magic if I don't want to grind ladder for hours a day in Arena and I also don't want to play cuckmander

is this AI

Cockatrice

Technically. But not really. They're just double translated cards.

These are your options

Personally, if I wanted to "lightly" dip my toes in just for shits and giggles since I love FF, I'd buy a starter kit that comes with two decks. They're neat, especially if you have a friend to play with. They're balanced against each other.

Then I'd buy a bundle (not a gift bundle). So that's only 75 bucks :^) Alternatively a single play booster so just 27 bucks total instead (A bundle has a bunch of lands, dice, and 10 play boosters inside it). Everything else is too expensive and not worth it.

just play eternal card game instead

campaign

PvE gauntlet mode

multiplayer casual or ranked

draft against AI or other players

monthly draft tournament

incredibly generous f2p model

pinnacle of digital-only CCGs

With that said, I imagine all this shit has been scalped already, so it's one of those things that are probably just worth buying it if you happen to walk by a store that is lucky enough to still have them.

is that effect supposed to be the joystick spinning limit break or something

You have to have a group of friends that want to play normally, potentially with some house rules.

It's already sold out on pre-orders, you might be screwed. If you literally just want a single pack of cards though, the play booster is the basic one and you should be able to find those without much grief. Given the insane demand WotC might do a heavier printing, if you don't mind waiting and want more cards later.

A single collector booster is worth 40 bucks

nani?

Dead IP collabing with another dead IP. Neat

Tits hidden

Now show the alt art. This DOES have alt art, right?

You have to have a group of friends that want to play normally, potentially with some house rules.

That usually means commander.

No, more like $80. Every shop immediately jumped the collector stuff to double MSRP.

Unfortunately
Cube is the chad's way of playing MTG with friends albeit

some of it has gone down again. I canceled some preorders that have gone down in price since I put the money in

Thanks for the tip, so one of these two? They're the only ones in stock (prices in AUD).
I'm a little confused because I thought the FF cards already came out. I could have sworn I already saw pictures of them.

Wait for the main set version

Its a huge game and also they need new blood NOW because the newest expansion was dogshit and pushed lots of people away

I just want to play an actual game by actual rules and try to actually win and not just mindlessly curve out on aggro for 8 hours a day to maximize my ranked gains or circlejerk with silly wholesome chungus 20 card combos where nobody's allowed to interact with one another because removal is anti fun
Limited more or less seems like the only fun way to play that's left

During PAX on Saturday they started revealing a shitload of spoilers, and announced the start of pre-orders. The set releases next month.

this is true. in fact they recently advertised for new scenario writers, and its specifically says you need to have finished the expansion previous to current but not the current

cool setting

dogshit story

same as it ever was

The starter kit contains two simplified babby decks. The bundle is 9 normal packs of cards, a set of all basic lands in both normal and foil, a large d20, and whatever specific rare card from the set the bundle features. Good enough if you're getting it for the novelty of the set.

Did they show any of the special art versions from the collector boosters? I'm halfway expecting it to be all Amano pieces. I know they're doing the gold chocobo art for the 77 serialized Traveling Chocobo cards, but I didn't hear about anything beyond that.

$130 for NINE packs and a D20

What the shit

its an awful deal. just get some boosters. a booster box is the best deal and you'll more than likely make your money back if you resell anything

Damn, that's expensive as fuck.
If you can handle that price, then sure, that's definitely gonna be more than enough, you won't be missing for any more than that, and it also won't be excessive. Basically the full FF MTG experience.

I do think the starter kit is a great way to have the set, so maybe just that, though it's still expensive at 40.

Can't even imagine what the actual insane shit that is highway robbery is priced at. Are gift bundles at 180 bucks?

so far the only card I actually want to put in a deck is vivi. just buying him will be cheaper than getting a single booster probably

Although in saying that I think this set would have been getting planned out before dawntrail released, but still some people at square must have know they had a stinker on their hands

Alright, yeah, doing more research, I'd just buy a starter kit and maybe a play booster or two. Forget the bundle. It's a robbery too. Not worth the price. The lands are nice, but whatever.

The starter kit contains two simplified babby decks

Yeah but they're balanced against each other and they look nice. I think they do their job well as starters and the one product that a tourist would buy. They also look nice and usually have plenty of fanservice and even some unique cards. The cards are mechanically weak but I doubt that matters to someone that only wants to play MTG for the FF cards. I don't see the average MTG tourist during this set being interested in getting hyper competitive standard decks that are only gonna have like 2 FF cards in them.

This one is weird because they want each Memeander deck to have all its cards be in the same color as the commanders (obviously) AND representing the same game.

So, in other words, the FFVI deck is not allowed to have blue or green cards, the FFVII deck is not allowed to have black or blue cards, the FFX deck is not allowed to have black or red cards and the FFXIV deck is not allowed to have green or red cards.

the FFVII deck is not allowed to have black or blue cards

The exact colors that fit Sephiroth, so commander players get this instead.

Same with 16's

MtG is a dead brand I'm not kidding

They had a prime opportunity to reprint Glimpse the Unthinkable.

REEEEE
GIVE ME MY THREE LINES YOU JEWISH CAT LOLI

Im genuinely impressed by how flavorful these cards are. Must have had a much longer dev cycle than most sets.

Buy an ad.

nuh uh, we also got Celes

I want to proliferate with her, if you catch my drift

Chocobros, we're eating so good

Faris card when?

The reason is that 90% of cards spoiled today are from commander precons which is FF6,7,10 and 14. Wait for the standard set reveal

100% Kino kino kino

i never imagined mog was that big. also, relm is comically small. perfect

gives you the ol' spicy Kain

How have I not seen a bahamut yet

I mean there's this one

We'll also get Gay Bahamut from XVI

Which cannot be played in the FFVII commander precon. Words have meaning.

Into the Nazgul deck you go

My boy Vivi looks so good...

I only played 13 because of this coming out. Big mistake

no "my memories will be part of the sky" quote

niggers
ALL NIGGERS

is this game worth getting into or is it p2w city? keeps popping up and im partial to try it, thoughts?

SOLDIER, First Class

0/1

1/2, technically. But his cuck ability to save other people is pretty first class.

Locke's in

Can I make friends playing card or board games

Eh, I find MTG to be more fun when you can play it with a friend group. It tends to be less sweaty and more of a way to facilitate social interaction.

Depends on if you like drafting and silly wacky formats plus brawl or not. Even if you do, you're gonna want to grind with a red aggro deck to get currency every once in a while.

Where's Gaius

The Buster Sword was what gave him +1/+1. Zack as a First Class SOLDIER is 0/1 without it.

Motherfucker, Red XIII needs to be RGW or I'm not buying anything.

Implying there's not gonna be a buster sword card

no Yu Yevon

Sorry, Tataru is more important

This is so strangely worded.

no Jecht

cmon man he was in Dissidia!

Why you so slow man?

Wait for the main set. He'll have red in his color identity anyway, the FFX precon has no red

Huh that's weird, last week or so my phone has been unable to play webms for some reason but yours works.
Anyway they probably want to be careful about anything too spoilery with her

choose one at random

?????

it'll be an Endsinger card, not the Meteia if we get one

Relm doesn't get her own card

Yeah probably, should avoid any big spoiler that way

You cant control the guy in the game too

Thank god i can play an Al Bhed deck in peace

Phoenix Down is counted among FF6

Is this because they weren't called that until FF6 (FF3) in the States? Because that's a nice nod, if that's what they were going for. Also I'm glad they also let it be an undead killer.

You do have three sided dice right?

They're letting random NPCs have cards now?

I thought it was because locke was desperately searchi g for the phoenix treasure.

should've been a 2/2, no text

Gotta fill those packs

guessing the flavor of this one is how she worked to recruit people to the rebellion?

Conrad did that. Lyse just stood there like dead weight.

Astrologian doing Astrologian things

hey, she was in charge for like 1.5 zones

I like lyse unlike the mysogonists on Anon Babble but I struggle to understand why she has those abilities.

can be cast as an instant

MY TURN

My boy! Now where is my rat wife?

This card seems very good in commander and, looking through the decklists, I suspect it will be the most expensive card of the bunch a year from now.

where's his card?

got leaked a while back, but only in spanish

why does Ryne look 30 on that card?

Nice. I don't play Magic because no one who lives around me does and I don't care about online clients. Might still pick up the FFIX set just because I love the characters and game in general.

lighting choice. thancred looks older as well.

not sure if thats supposed to be their initial Eulmore encounter or at some point during the SHB MSQ

For me, its the emporer

i enjoy card games but fucking hate hearthstone and yugayoh so i've been thinking about semi-casually getting into magic to start off with and thought the game might be a decent start.

Just RG

I'd rather spend the $1000 on a new vr headset than one year of virtual cards

Might still pick up the FFIX set

it's basically one giant set and you gotta hope to get FFIX stuff. some precons have designated IX stuff.

Kuja tummy and chest.... erotic...

Aussie here. Bundles are usually the best starting point purchase because you get 9 booster packs (used to be 10), sometimes a promo card, and a pack of land cards with the art from the set.
A bundle usually goes for $70 AUD.
However, they are treating Final Fantasy like a specialty set, even though its a fully standard legal set.
This is why the Bundle for FF is $100-110 AUD (preorders are now $129 yikes).
My advice is maybe pay for 2-3 booster packs for $12 AUD each and a starter kit.
You can buy singles off ebay or mtgmate for cheap.

emet-selch looks fun for some esper bullshit. fill up your yard, use that cheap white low cmc reanimation to get emet out, etc. pretty sure we've got those hasty landfall reanimators right? it'll all be fine if we survive the mice

Actually I guess they worked backwards, she's a monk and this is how we design monks recently, designing crossover cards for standard instead of respecting the crossover
She does have that one bit where she gets buffed by papalymo so that explains the prowess but the cost reduction is baffling

is there any other ff9 cards? surely its not just vivi, kuja and alternate art of an existing card zidane??

Theres artwork released for the Youre Not Alone scene. What the card is yet to be revealed

Steiner, Beatrix, and I think a few more were in that same spanish leak

I hope they do multiple omegas and gilgameshes

Cheers mate. I'll probably just get some boosters. Should I preorder those? When will they be in shops? I'd rather walk in ang buy one physically.
What shops would stock them other than EB Scams?

Clearly it's set in the future

all the different colored chocobo play the same

What's the fucking point? We were robbed of a proper Chocobo Deck by their need to add something for collectors (make sure you get the GOLDEN CHOCOBO!).

XI doko...

Pretty sure there are actual chatbox generated cards floating around for years though

then Ryne's hair should be red

Its fun but it just never quite gets as wild as MTG can.

Depends on the format. It runs the whole range from "$20 starter deck" to "more expensive than Warhammer" to "Decks that cost the same as a low-end car".

try look for a local game store, a LGS. I'd try find a "Good Games" store near you.
The prerelease Friday I think June 6th is when youll be able to buy things before the release date all that week.
You should be able to just buy a booster pack or two and a starter kit. i doubt those are sold out whoever your local game shop is.

best map theme imo youtube.com/watch?v=XEO7RCD7jVg

Al Bhed

I'm looking forward to the reveal of the "Wakka, Genocidal Crusader" card.

I said LGS like Good Games because they will sell a week early during the prerelease period.
Stores like EB Games won't sell until the release date which is June 13th.

Wakka gains +X/+0 where X is your opponents devotion to black

Dagger fine as hell here DAMN

man thats unfortunate oh well.

TABLETOP THREAD

I wonder when we'll reach a sufficient critical mass of Magic cards for AI to have enough sample data to print a vaguely coherent set. You just fucking know someone at Wizards is prototyping this.

Oh, I assumed you were talking Arena when I posted Yeah, the real game is P2W.