Magic: The Gathering has revealed a have a look at its forthcoming Closing Fantasy-themed set. In an interview with IGN, senior recreation designer Daniel Holt talked in regards to 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 an alternative of being constructed to easily help a single highly effective card (referred to as the Commander), every deck’s mechanics and playing cards are designed to inform the story of a particular Closing Fantasy recreation.
For the reason that 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 gear — you gotta have the fitting 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 de facto cool.
Within the IGN interview, Holt assured followers that regardless that these Commander decks are centered on solely 4 video games, the remainder of the Normal-legal set will characteristic playing cards that signify 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 right here. There might be much more playing cards revealed throughout an official MTG x Closing Fantasy livestream going down on February 18th at 1PM ET.
