Final Fantasy MTG: Best Cards to Chase and Buy Today

Final Fantasy 13’s protagonist is each astir the Stagger mechanic, teeing your foes up for treble harm portion besides offering lifelink, archetypal strike, and trample successful a three-cost card.

She’s already up for astir $44.13 for the Borderless mentation astatine the clip of writing.

9 - Summon: Bahamut

I emotion a large ol’ dragon successful my Magic collection, and Bahamut surely fits that bill. Not lone does this Summon make a 9/9, but it tin region permanents, trigger paper draw, and usage Mega Flare to fundamentally decorativeness a crippled of Commander. All yours for $52.61 successful the borderless variant.

8 - Stay With Me (Rhystic Study)

Rhystic Study is infamous for being a fantastic paper that taxes your opponents oregon gives you paper draw, and this caller creation from Final Fantasy X is plucked close from 1 of the game’s astir heartfelt moments. It’s going to outgo you, though, since it’s presently up for astir $112.

7 - Dragon of Mount Gulg (Ancient Copper Dragon)

The showcase mentation of this large ol’ beast is going for astir $72.25, and is 1 of 3 fantastic Yoshitaka Amano pieces apt to beryllium a large gully for collectors. Creating up to 20 Treasure tokens successful a azygous turn? Yes please.

6 - Cloud, Midgar Mercenary

Low mana outgo and treble instrumentality triggers marque Cloud precise adjacent to Stoneforge Mystic, but with immoderate striking caller anime creation from Kazto Furuya. The extended creation mentation is conscionable shy of $50 astatine the clip of writing.

5 - Buster Sword

What is Cloud without his iconic weapon? Thankfully, the Buster Sword has a borderless mentation worthy of specified a hero. It’ll acceptable you backmost a whopping $128, though!

4 - Vivi Ornitier

This borderless mentation of Final Fantasy 9 spellcaster Vivi by Toshiyuki Itahana (character decorator connected the game) is the explanation of a collector’s item. As a result, it costs astir $100, though it’s a large Commander for an aggro pain deck.

3 - Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER

An antagonist conscionable arsenic iconic arsenic his protagonist counterpart, Sephiroth’s paper creation by the legendary Tetsuya Nomura is apt to marque him incredibly popular. He’s presently going for conscionable implicit $100, and I'd beryllium precise amazed if he’s not very, precise fashionable successful Commander decks to come.

2 - Y’Shtola Night’s Blessed - Surge Foil

Sure, Y’Shtola comes successful the Final Fantasy 14 Commander deck, but the surge foil 1 is fetching a very, precise precocious terms already. TCGPlayer has it pegged astatine astir $474 close now.

Honorable Mentions: Borderless Surge Foil Varients

But however astir immoderate honorable mentions earlier we get to fig one? As portion the apical 9 features the implicit champion cards you should beryllium connected the look retired for, there's a fewer much pricey options to cheque successful with arsenic well, astir of which are surge foil borderless variants arsenic well!

1 - Traveling Chocobo

The pursuit paper of each pursuit cards, determination are conscionable 77 golden foil Traveling Chocobos retired there, available. There are different versions, including Neon Ink versions going for good implicit $1000, but if you negociate to find the golden foil, it is the one you’ll privation to find erstwhile you’re cracking unfastened Collector Boosters.

Where to Buy Final Fantasy MTG Sealed Boosters and Sets

I'm going to springiness it to you consecutive close from the off. It's painfully hard to get clasp of immoderate of these sets from large retailers close now. While we saw immoderate large restocks implicit the past month, beauteous overmuch everyplace is sold retired of Final Fantasy MTG astatine the clip of writing.

I tin supply immoderate useful links to bookmark truthful you tin cheque backmost in, but for now, your champion accidental of securing anything will beryllium via the astir trusted third-party resellers similar TCGPlayer.

Or perhaps, collectors volition alternatively beryllium astir funny successful the caller Final Fantasy x Secret Lair drops, instead. It’s been a engaged twelvemonth for Wizards of the Coast’s limited-time mini-sets, and portion the institution sold retired of each 3 Final Fantasy drops successful grounds clip (leaving galore disappointed), you tin inactive get them via third-party sellers... if you're consenting to wage the inflated costs, that is.

There are a trio of Final Fantasy Secret Lair sets, Weapons, Grimoire, and Game Over, each offering unsocial creation and names for Magic: The Gathering cards. Everything is disposable successful modular and foil, alongside the Japanese variants arsenic well.

But, since they've sold out, you won’t find Secret Lair drops astatine the aforesaid terms arsenic you’d find them straight from Wizards of the Coast (standard $30 nonfoil, $40 rainbow foil), with astir being listed anyplace betwixt $80-$150 oregon above.

This is simply a immense markup, truthful if you're looking to buy, beryllium definite you're 100% informed of what you're paying for. You tin bargain them from eBay, but we’ve ever recovered TCGPlayer, portion inactive eBay-owned, to beryllium the astir unafraid and trustworthy mode to nab Secret Lair drops post-release.

Lloyd Coombes is Gaming Editor @ Daily Star. He's a large instrumentality of Magic: The Gathering and different collectible paper games, overmuch to his wife's dismay. He's besides a tech, gaming, and fittingness freelancer seen astatine Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, IGN, and more.

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Jun 13, 2025 5:00 pm