Magic: The Gathering has revealed a have a look at its forthcoming Remaining 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 Remaining Fantasy VI, Tidus from Remaining Fantasy X, Y’shtola from (critically acclaimed MMORPG) Remaining Fantasy XIV, and naturally, Cloud from Remaining 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 (referred to as the Commander), every deck’s mechanics and playing cards are designed to inform the story of a particular Remaining Fantasy recreation.
For the reason that again half of Remaining 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 appropriate 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 Remaining Fantasy is absolutely cool.
Within the IGN interview, Holt assured followers that though 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 Remaining 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 can be much more playing cards revealed throughout an official MTG x Remaining Fantasy livestream happening on February 18th at 1PM ET.
