Collecting Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™: The Four Most Important Things to Know

Experience the characters, stories, and stunning artwork of one of gaming's most beloved franchises in Magic: The Gathering®—FINAL FANTASY™, Magic's latest Universes Beyond release. Drawing from every mainline FINAL FANTASY game—from FINAL FANTASY to FINAL FANTASY XVI—the set captures everything that fans of the franchise love.

Fans got their first major look at the set at PAX East, where we showcased some of the exciting cards and treatments you can find in Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY. You can watch the debut on the official Magic: The Gathering YouTube channel or twitch.tv/magic, then follow along with previews from your fellow FINAL FANTASY and Magic: The Gathering fans.

Curious about the goodies you can expect to find in the set? We've got the four most important things to know about the set right here. And if you're looking to collect your favorite cards from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY, you've come to the right place.

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY is an exciting release for fans of Magic and FINAL FANTASY alike. The set releases on June 13 and is available for preorder now at your local game store, online retailers like Amazon, and elsewhere Magic products are sold.

The Four Most Important Things to Know About Collecting Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY

 

1. Capture the Serialized Golden Chocobo and Colorful Chocobo Cards!

Digital renders. Not actual cards.

Help! Our prized chocobos have escaped the pen! They're very nice birds who love Gysahl greens, so be on the lookout. We've corralled some of these chocobos into this article, and you can learn all about them in their dedicated section below.

Non-serialized versions of Traveling Chocobo are mechanically identical to serialized variants. Images are digital renderings and not actual cards. Gysahl greens will not improve your odds of opening a serialized card.

2. See Stunning Artwork on Borderless FINAL FANTASY Artist Cards

It is with great pleasure that we present the borderless FINAL FANTASY artist cards. These 10 cards feature brand-new illustrations from artists who have worked on FINAL FANTASY titles.

During the development of this release, we invited these esteemed artists to select the character of their choice from the FINAL FANTASY series and illustrate them in their own art style as a celebration of the collaboration. From 天野喜孝/YOSHITAKA AMANO to 野村哲也/TETSUYA NOMURA, these incredible artists who have contributed to the history of FINAL FANTASY have been an honor to work with.

Borderless FINAL FANTASY artist cards are available in Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters and Collector Boosters, appearing in both non-foil and traditional foil.

3. Relive Franchise Moments with FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages Cards

FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages showcases iconic Magic cards with FINAL FANTASY artwork. These cards form a bonus sheet for the set featuring existing artwork from the FINAL FANTASY series, which highlights artists such as 天野喜孝/YOSHITAKA AMANO and 野村哲也/TETSUYA NOMURA.

Cards from the FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages bonus sheet are available in non-foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Traditional foil versions are available in Collector Boosters.

4. Borderless Character Cards Strike a Pose

Borderless character cards celebrate many fan-favorite characters from the FINAL FANTASY series. Here, characters from the FINAL FANTASY series are depicted with a background correlating to each character's first game appearance. There are borderless character versions of cards from the main set and the Commander decks.

You can find non-foil and traditional foil borderless character cards in Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Surge foil borderless character cards appear only in Collector Boosters. Borderless character cards from the Commander set are found in non-foil and traditional foil within Collector Boosters.

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And that's just the start of all the amazing treatments from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY. We've got all the details right here to help you prepare for the set's global tabletop release on June 13, 2025. Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY is available for preorder now at your local game store, online retailers like Amazon, and elsewhere Magic products are sold.

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Details

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Set Code: FIN

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander Set Code: FIC 

FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages Set Code: FCA

Legality:

• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY (FIN) is a Standard-legal set.
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander (FIC) and FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages (FCA) are Commander-, Legacy-, and Vintage-legal sets, and individual cards are also legal where already available in other formats.
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters contain cards from FIN and FCA. These cards are playable in Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Draft and Sealed when opened from Play Boosters.

Website: Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY

Card Image Gallery: Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Card Image Gallery

MSRPs for Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY will be set as follows:

• Play Booster: $6.99
• Collector Booster: $37.99
• Commander Deck: $69.99
• Collector's Edition Commander Deck: $149.99
• Bundle: $69.99
• Gift Bundle: $89.99
• Starter Kit: $19.99

Preorder Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY

You can preorder Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY products now, including Play Boosters, Collector Boosters, Commander decks, Collector's Edition Commander decks, Bundles, and Gift Bundles. Fans who preorder a Play Booster box or Collector Booster box from their local game store will receive a traditional foil Herald's Horn Buy-a-Box promo card while supplies last!

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Important Dates

• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Card Previews: May 10–30
• Full Card Image Gallery: May 30
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Prerelease Events: June 6–12
• Global Tabletop Release: June 13
• Magic Academy Events: June 13–July 24
• Standard Showdown Events: June 13–July 24
• Magic Presents: Chocobo Racing: June 13–July 24
• MagicCon: Las Vegas: June 20–22
• Commander Party Events: June 20-26 and July 18–24
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Gift Bundle Release: June 27
• Magic Spotlight: FINAL FANTASY: June 27–29
• Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Store Championships: June 28–July 20

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Card Set Info

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY's main set has a total of 309 cards, containing 20 mythic rares, 74 rares, 111 uncommons, and 80 commons, 10 lands, and 16 basic lands.

Each Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander deck contains 25 new-to-Magic cards.

FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages has a total of 64 cards, containing 17 uncommons, 32 rares, and 15 mythic rares.

The Booster Fun of Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY

With stunning artwork from FINAL FANTASY artists to dazzling foil treatments, Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY is filled with Booster Fun treatments that are sure to excite fans. Each one is crafted to showcase the best elements of the FINAL FANTASY franchise, and we look forward to sharing more of these cards over the coming weeks.

Serialized Golden Chocobo and Colorful Chocobo Cards

Digital render. Not actual card.

This serialized Traveling Chocobo card depicts the elusive golden chocobo and is the rarest, most sought-after card from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY. This stylish version can only be found in English-language Collector Boosters, with each copy being uniquely numbered from 1 to 77.

But there's more than one kind of chocobo. You can also find these four colorful neon ink foil Traveling Chocobo cards—pink, green, yellow, and blue—in all languages of Collector Boosters. These colorful chocobos only appear in English.

Additionally, you can open non-foil and traditional foil borderless copies of Traveling Chocobo in all languages of Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.

Finally, we've crafted this black Traveling Chocobo card. Appearing in all languages of Collector Boosters, this card is only available in Japanese.

So, the most exclusive and elusive version of Traveling Chocobo is the serialized golden chocobo, found only in English-language Collector Boosters. Then, the swift and spectacular black chocobo, printed only in Japanese in all languages of Collector Boosters. Pink, green, yellow, and blue neon ink foil colorful chocobos appear at the same rate in all languages of Collector Boosters.

Non-serialized versions of Traveling Chocobo are mechanically identical to serialized variants. Images are digital renderings and not actual cards. Gysahl greens will not improve your odds of opening a serialized card.

Why Is the Black Chocobo Printed Only in Japanese?

"We worked closely alongside SQUARE ENIX and FINAL FANTASY VII Creative Director Tetsuya Nomura during the design of our colorful chocobo cards. The original idea featured the serialized golden chocobo along with the four colorful chocobos, each themed around the FINAL FANTASY VII chocobo-racing minigame. During development, we learned that the black chocobo was a favorite of Nomura's as it was the fastest chocobo in the original FINAL FANTASY VII minigame. Working with the SQUARE ENIX team, we developed this card as a surprise to thank him for his collaboration on this project. So, the black chocobo features a special print treatment—first pioneered in Phyrexia: All Will Be One—and is being printed only in Japanese as a nod to this story for Tetsuya Nomura."
—Zakeel Gordon, product architect for Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY

Full-Art FINAL FANTASY Landmark Basic Lands

This set contains 16 different basic lands, one for each mainline game in the series. These basic lands, consisting of three of each basic land type and one Wastes, appear throughout Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY's products. To browse all of these basic lands, check out the Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Card Image Gallery.

These basic lands appear in all Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY products with the following treatments:

• Play Boosters: Non-foil and traditional foil
• Collector Boosters: Traditional foil
• Bundles and Gift Bundles: 16 Non-foil and 16 traditional foil
• Commander decks: Non-foil
• Collector's Edition Commander decks: Surge foil
• Starter Kits: Non-foil

FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages

FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages showcases iconic Magic cards with FINAL FANTASY artwork. These cards form a bonus sheet for the set featuring existing artwork from the FINAL FANTASY series, which highlights artists such as 天野喜孝/YOSHITAKA AMANO and 野村哲也/TETSUYA NOMURA, names that FINAL FANTASY fans will surely recognize.

You'll find one non-foil FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages card in every three Play Boosters. Each Collector Booster contains one FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages card in either non-foil or traditional foil.

Borderless FINAL FANTASY Artist Cards

Countless beloved artists have contributed to the FINAL FANTASY series over the years. Now, they've lent their talents to this Magic set on borderless FINAL FANTASY artist cards. These feature cards from the main set of Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY with glorious artwork bringing your favorite characters to life.

These cards feature brand-new artwork from 板鼻利幸/TOSHIYUKI ITAHANA, 野村哲也/TETSUYA NOMURA, 上国料勇/ISAMU KAMIKOKURYO, 吉田明彦/AKIHIKO YOSHIDA, 松田俊孝/TOSHITAKA MATSUDA, 髙橋和哉/KAZUYA TAKAHASHI, 茂木雄介/YUSUKE MOGI, ROBERTO FERRARI, and 天野喜孝/YOSHITAKA AMANO.

There are 10 borderless FINAL FANTASY artist cards, consisting of 7 mythic rares and 3 rares. You can find these cards in non-foil or traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.

Borderless Woodblock Cards

Our artists and designers have summoned this amazing treatment for the monsters, summons, and spells of FINAL FANTASY. Inspired by the woodblock painting technique, the artwork on these cards shows the FINAL FANTASY series in a whole new way.

There are 50 borderless woodblock cards in the Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY's main set: 3 commons, 12 uncommons (one of which is a double-faced card), 29 rares, and 6 mythic rares.

Borderless woodblock cards can be found in non-foil and traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.

Borderless Character Cards

With over 100 legendary creatures in the set, we wanted to capture the look and feel of these FINAL FANTASY characters. Here, beloved characters from the FINAL FANTASY series are depicted with a background correlating to each character's first game appearance.

There are 32 borderless character cards from the main set, with 4 uncommons (two of which are double-faced cards), 20 rares, and 8 mythic rares. There are 8 mythic rare borderless character cards from Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander found only in Collector Boosters.

Borderless character cards can be found in non-foil and traditional foil in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Borderless character cards from the Commander set are found in non-foil and traditional foil within Collector Boosters. Additionally, surge foil borderless character cards can be found only in Collector Boosters.

Borderless Adventure Lands

Take a trip through the many iconic locales of the FINAL FANTASY franchise with borderless Adventure lands! There are 5 rare monocolor Adventure lands in Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY, and each has a borderless version.

You can find non-foil and traditional foil borderless Adventure lands in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters.

All Fifteen Iterations of Cid, Timeless Artificer

The mechanically minded artificer, Cid, is a mainstay of the FINAL FANTASY series. And now, he's coming to Magic: The Gathering on Cid, Timeless Artificer! To capture the many forms that he takes, we've created fifteen alternate artworks, each depicting a different version of Cid from across the FINAL FANTASY games.

There are 15 cards with alternate art for Cid, Timeless Artificer when counting the main set version. Each version is mechanically identical to the main set version, which can also be found with extended art in Bundles, Gift Bundles, and Collector Boosters. You can find non-foil and traditional foil alternate-art versions of Cid, Timeless Artificer in Play Boosters and Collector Boosters. Click here to see all the versions of Cid!

FINAL FANTASY VII Date Cards

Visit the Gold Saucer amusement park and take a ride on its skywheel! We're capturing this moment from FINAL FANTASY VII on 4 different versions of Secret Rendezvous.

Each card features Cloud alongside Tifa, Yuffie, Aerith, or Barrett. The Limit Break Commander deck contains the version of Secret Rendezvous with Tifa (0253). The other versions of Secret Rendezvous appear in both non-foil and traditional foil in Collector Boosters.

Extended-Art Cards

The heroes and villains of FINAL FANTASY are breaking free of the card frame on extended-art cards! There are 163 extended-art cards featuring legendary creatures from the main set and Commander decks. From among the main set extended-art legends, there are 40 uncommons, 44 rares, and 14 mythic rares. From among the extended-art Commander legends, there are 57 rares and 8 mythic rares.

You can open non-foil versions of these cards in Collector Boosters. Additionally, each Bundle and Gift Bundle contains 2 traditional foil extended-art legendary creatures.

There are 28 rare new-to-Magic cards from the Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander decks that can also be found with extended art. These cards appear in both non-foil and traditional foil in Collector Booster Sample Packs found in the set's Commander decks.

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Product Details

Play Boosters

Each Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Booster box contains 30 Play Boosters. Each Play Booster contains the following:

• 14 Magic: The Gathering cards
  • 6–7 Commons
    • In one third of Play Boosters, one of these commons will be replaced by a card from the FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages bonus sheet. Cards from the bonus sheet aren't found in the wildcard or traditional foil slot in Play Boosters.
      • You can receive an uncommon (63.25%), rare (29.75%), or mythic rare (7%) FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages bonus sheet card.
  • 3 Uncommons
  • Of these uncommons, 0.3% will be a double-faced uncommon borderless woodblock or borderless character card.
  • One of those uncommons—Cid, Timeless Artificer—has 15 different alternate-art variants. Cid, Timeless Artificer appears at the same rate as other uncommons, and all variants of the card appear at equal rates. Since there are 109 uncommons that can appear in this slot, any given uncommon has a 0.9% chance to be Cid, Timeless Artificer.
  • 1 Wildcard of any rarity
    • From the main set of Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY, you can receive a common (16.7%), uncommon (58.3%; same proportion as above), a borderless woodblock common (2.6%), borderless woodblock or borderless character uncommon (5.7%), or rare or mythic rare (16.7%; same proportion as below).
  • 1 Non-foil rare or mythic rare
    • Default frame rare (80%) or mythic rare (10%)
    • Borderless rare (8%) or mythic rare (1%)
    • FINAL FANTASY artist rare (0.5%) or mythic rare (0.5%)
  • 1 Traditional foil card
    • Default frame common (55.75%), uncommon (35.9%), rare (5.5%), or mythic rare (0.75%)
    • Booster Fun common (0.1%), uncommon (0.5%), rare (1%), or mythic rare (0.25%)
    • 1 of 15 Cid variants (0.25%)
  • 1 Land
    • Common two-color land (55%) or basic land (45%)
    • This card is traditional foil 20% of the time.
• 1 Non-foil token or art card
  • Double-sided token (65%), art card (30%), or stamped art card (5%)

Collector Boosters

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Collector Booster boxes contain 12 Collector Boosters. Each Collector Booster contains the following:

• 15 Magic: The Gathering cards
  • 3 Traditional foil commons
    • Includes the 80 main set commons and the 10 common two-color lands
  • 3 Traditional foil uncommons
    • Includes all 109 main set uncommons
    • Each of the 15 Cid, Timeless Artificer alternate-art variants appear one fifteenth as often as any one of the other uncommons.
  • 1 Non-foil Booster Fun common or uncommon
    • 1 of 40 Extended-art legendary uncommons (66.7%)
    • 1 of 3 Main set Booster Fun commons (5%) or 13 uncommons (26.7%)
    • 1 of 3 Alternate-art Secret Rendezvous uncommons (1.6%)
      • Features artwork of Yuffie (0217), Aerith (0218), or Barrett (0219)
  • 1 Traditional foil or surge foil Booster Fun common or uncommon
  • 1 of 3 Traditional foil Booster Fun commons (13.75%) or 13 uncommons (72.75%)
  • 1 of 3 Traditional foil alternate-art Secret Rendezvous uncommons (4.5%)
  • 1 of 4 Surge foil uncommon borderless character cards (9%)
  • 1 Traditional foil basic land
  • 1 Traditional foil default frame rare (87.75%) or mythic rare (12.25%)
  • 3 Booster Fun rares or mythic rares
    • 1 Non-foil main set Booster Fun rare (23.1%) or mythic rare (3.8%)
    • 1 of 44 Non-foil extended-art legendary rares (18.2%) or 14 mythic rares (2.9%)
    • 1 Non-foil Booster Fun Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander card
      • From among 7 rares (2.9%) and 16 mythic rares (3.3%)
    • 1 of 93 Non-foil extended-art Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander rares or mythic rares
      • From among 28 rares (11.6%), 57 extended-art legendary rares (23.6%), and 8 extended-art mythic rares (1.6%)
    • 1 of 7 Traditional foil Booster Fun rares (1.4%), 28 extended-art Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander rares (5.8%), or 8 mythic rares (0.8%)
    • 1 of 8 Surge foil Booster Fun Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander mythic rares (1%)
    • A Collector Booster will have a maximum of one traditional foil or surge foil card in these slots.
  • 1 FINAL FANTASY Through the Ages bonus sheet card
    • From among 17 uncommons (68.3%), 32 rares (25.7%), and 15 mythic rares (6%)
    • This card is traditional foil 50% of the time.
  • 1 Traditional foil, surge foil, or colorful chocobo rare or mythic rare
    • 1 of 3 Traditional foil FINAL FANTASY artist rares (1.9%) or 7 mythic rares (2.2%)
    • 1 of 29 Traditional foil borderless woodblock rares (36.5%) or 6 mythic rares (3.8%)
    • 1 of 26 Traditional foil main set borderless rares (31.6%) or 9 mythic rares (5.6%)
    • 1 of 20 Surge foil borderless character rares (15.1%) or 8 mythic rares (3%)
    • Colorful Traveling Chocobo in yellow, green, blue, pink, or black (less than 1%)
      • Yellow, green, blue, and pink colorful chocobo cards appear in English in all Collector Boosters. Black chocobo cards appear in Japanese in all Collector Boosters.
    • A serialized golden Traveling Chocobo card appears in less than 1% of Collector Boosters.
      • Serialized golden chocobo cards are only in English-language Collector Boosters.
• 1 Traditional foil double-sided token

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander Decks

Each Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Commander deck contains the following:

• 1 Ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck
  • 1 Traditional foil face commander
  • 1 Traditional foil featured commander
  • 98 Non-foil cards
• 10 Double-sided tokens
  • Revival Trance, Limit Break, and Scions & Spellcraft each contain 10 double-sided tokens.
  • Counter Blitz contains 4 punch-out counter cards and 6 double-sided tokens.
• 1 Collector Booster Sample Pack
• 1 Reference card
• 1 Deck box

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Collector's Edition Commander Decks

Each Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Collector's Edition Commander deck contains the following:

• 1 Ready-to-play 100-card Commander deck
  • 1 Surge foil face commander card
  • 1 Surge foil featured commander card
  • 98 Surge foil cards
• 10 Double-sided tokens
  • Revival Trance, Limit Break, and Scions & Spellcraft Collector's Edition decks each contain 10 double-sided surge foil tokens.
  • Counter Blitz Collector's Edition contains 4 punch-out counter cards and 6 double-sided surge foil tokens.
• 1 Collector Booster Sample Pack
• 1 Reference card
• 1 Deck box

Bundle

Each Bundle contains the following:

• 9 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters
• 2 Traditional foil extended-art cards from 161 extended-art legendary cards
• 32 Full-art basic lands
• 1 Spindown die
• 1 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY card-storage box

Gift Bundle

Each Gift Bundle contains the following:

• 9 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters
• 1 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Collector Booster
• 2 Traditional foil extended-art cards from 161 extended-art legendary cards
• 32 Full-art basic lands
• 1 Spindown die
• 1 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY card-storage box

Starter Kit

Face off against a friend with Cloud, Planet's Champion or Sephiroth, Planet's Heir! Each Starter Kit contains the following:

• 2 60-card preconstructed decks
  • 1 Traditional foil legendary creature in each deck
  • 5 Non-foil new-to-Magic cards in each deck
  • 54 Non-foil cards from the main set in each deck
• 4 Non-foil double-sided tokens
• 2 MTG Arena code cards (available in select regions)
• 2 Deck boxes

Prerelease Packs

Each Prerelease Pack contains the following:

• 6 Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Play Boosters
• 1 Traditional foil year-stamped rare or mythic rare card
• 1 Deck box
• 1 Spindown die
  • 1 in 20 Prerelease Packs contains a special acrylic spindown die.

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Enter the Realms of FINAL FANTASY

Thank you for joining us on this exciting trip through Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY. We'll be revealing more of this exciting set over the coming weeks, so follow along with previews in the Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY Card Image Gallery.

Magic: The Gathering—FINAL FANTASY is an exciting release for fans of Magic and FINAL FANTASY alike. The set releases on June 13 and is available for preorder now at your local game store, online retailers like Amazon, and elsewhere Magic products are sold.

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