I Can't Not Be Excited About the New Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering Cards

Final Fantasy is one of the most successful game series of all time, with more than 200 million copies sold across the 16 mainline games and various spinoffs. So you can imagine the hype when Wizards of the Coast announced last fall that Magic: The Gathering -- a trading card game that pulled in $1 billion in revenue last year -- was releasing a Final Fantasy set. At PAX East on Saturday, we got the latest glimpse at some of the cards in the Final Fantasy Magic set, which will be released next month. The Final Fantasy panel took us through cards from every mainline Final Fantasy game, giving us our first looks at protagonists like Final Fantasy 8's Squall and 13's Lightning, plus glimpses of recurring characters like chocobos and Cid. We also got to see multiple versions of Final Fantasy 7 icon Cloud Strife -- one card in the main set, another card leading a Commander set. Wizards of the Coast We saw Final Fantasy staples like crystals, summons, villainous transformations (in the fo ... Read full article.