Here's The 12 Best-Selling Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Cards Right Now

The Final Fantasy Universes Beyond crossover is already proving to beryllium a monolithic hit. After breaking preorder records, the acceptable is present flying disconnected shelves and selling retired everywhere, with collectors and Commander fans alike scrambling to prime up iconic characters successful paper form.

Whether you're opening boosters, sorting done prerelease pulls, oregon keeping tabs connected the marketplace for commercialized value, it's wide this acceptable is drafting superior attention.

If you're funny which cards are successful highest request close now, either to currency successful oregon conscionable to spot what the hype is each about, we've breached down the apical 12 best-selling Final Fantasy cards based connected information from trusted marketplace TCGPlayer.

We’ve simplified the database for clarity, grouping immoderate variants, similar Borderless and Surge Foils, with their basal versions, portion besides noting the circumstantial paper fig that’s proving astir fashionable (i.e, Aerith Gainsborough - 519). Not each slot is simply a Mythic Rare either. This database includes a spot of assortment to bespeak what’s really trending, portion inactive focusing connected the standout cards from the set. Let’s dive in.

12. Aerith Gainsborough - 519

Aerith Gainsborough is simply a deceptively almighty motor for beingness summation and +1/+1 antagonistic strategies. With lifelink built in, she tin commencement increasing immediately,every clip you summation life, Aerith picks up a +1/+1 counter.

And erstwhile she dies, she passes that spot on, putting X +1/+1 counters connected each legendary carnal you control, wherever X is the fig of counters she had. In the close deck, that tin beryllium a game-ending swing.

The card’s popularity is reflected successful its pricing. The modular people is conscionable $1.83, portion the foil mentation goes for $16.81. For collectors oregon premium deckbuilders, the borderless mentation is astir $39, but the uncommon borderless surge foil sits astatine a overmuch steeper $140+.

11. Starting Town - 289

Starting Town is an early-game powerhouse, particularly successful multicolor decks. If you tin play it connected crook one, two, oregon three, it enters untapped, giving you contiguous entree to mana without slowing your tempo. Beyond that, it taps for colorless, oregon you tin wage 1 beingness to make 1 mana of immoderate color, making it a flexible portion successful astir immoderate deck.

That versatility comes astatine a price. The regular mentation is presently going for astir $14, portion the foil volition acceptable you backmost conscionable nether $17. Still, for decks that attraction astir fast, reliable mana crossed aggregate colors, it's proving to beryllium good worthy the cost.

10. Summon: Knights of Round - 359

Summon: Knights of the Round is 1 of the hottest cards from the Final Fantasy crossover close now, and it’s not hard to spot why. For conscionable 5 mana, you make 3 2/2 achromatic Knight carnal tokens, instantly gathering a board.

But it gets adjacent amended with its [V] ability, Ultimate End, which gives each your different creatures +2/+2 until extremity of crook and puts an indestructible antagonistic connected each of them. Combined with the card’s ain indestructible keyword, it turns adjacent a humble committee into a astir unstoppable force.

The borderless mentation is presently going for $35.99, which marks a 25% driblet successful marketplace terms this month. The modular people is much budget-friendly astatine $21.88. Either way, it’s a almighty pickup for Knight, token, oregon white-based Commander decks, and 1 that’s apt to stay popular.

9. Traveling Chocobo - 210

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.

Considering however overmuch the ink versions are already going for, I can't ideate however overmuch the Gold Foil variant would really beryllium valued at, possibly you conscionable triumph astatine wealth and ne'er person to wage for Magic cards again, present that would beryllium nice. But, that being said, 1 did precocious merchantability for astir $30K connected eBay.

8. Summon: Bahamut - 1

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 astir $93 successful the borderless variant, oregon astir $30 for the modular people close present astatine TCGPlayer.

7. Lightning, Army of One - 545

How galore paper variants bash you NEED? Apparently, Final Fantasy 13’s protagonist, Lightning, needs astatine slightest five. To beryllium fair, that makes consciousness considering however galore rotation disconnected games she got.

Army of One 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.

Market terms is already up to astir $256.50 for the astir fashionable Borderless Surge Foil version, portion my idiosyncratic favourite is seemingly the cheapest (but inactive conscionable arsenic popular), mean people for $20.58.

6. Yuna, Hope of Spira - 549

Yuna's an absorbing one, arsenic it's conscionable her 549 Borderless Surge Foil that person drawn the most interest from anxious buyers successful the secondary market.

Yet, her modular variant is besides going done overmuch much of geniune surge successful worth implicit the past mates of weeks, rising +143.65% successful value, jumping from a debased of $5.68 to astir $20.15 astir recently. It's a large leap successful specified a abbreviated abstraction of time.

5. Tifa Lockhart - 536

Tifa Lockhart continues to beryllium a main enactment of the champion selling Final Fantasy cards, and adjacent featured arsenic 1 of the astir fashionable during the presale play conscionable earlier the Universes Beyond acceptable launched.

Tifa has a Landfall trigger that doubles her powerfulness alongside her existing Trample keyword. As TCGPlayer points out, you tin turn her onslaught powerfulness with thing similar Titanic Growth and past usage Fabled Passage to treble it again.

She’ll acceptable you backmost betwixt $9.10 for the modular version, and each the mode up to $187.60 for the Borderless Surge Foil variant. Otherwise, and rather surprisingly, the non-foil Borderless mentation is beauteous bully worth for wealth astatine astir $25.

4. Buster Sword - 255

What’s Cloud without the Buster Sword? Thankfully, this iconic limb gets the attraction it deserves successful Magic’s Final Fantasy set, with a stunning borderless mentation illustrated by Karuta Shiki. It’s much than conscionable a collector’s portion too, it’s a almighty portion of instrumentality successful its ain right.

Buster Sword gives the equipped carnal +3/+2, making it a superior menace successful combat. But the existent payoff comes erstwhile that carnal connects with a player. Not lone bash you gully a card, but you tin instantly formed a spell from your manus with mana worth adjacent to oregon little than the harm dealt, without paying its cost.

Of course, a paper this flashy doesn’t travel cheap. While existent listings connected TCGPlayer hover astir $66 for the modular issue, it has already sold for arsenic overmuch arsenic $208.30 this period for its fantastic borderless version.

If you're a instrumentality of Cloud oregon conscionable emotion flashy, high-impact equipment, this is 1 to watch, and thing nether triple digits is looking similar a bargain close now.

3. Vivi Ornitier - 248

Final Fantasy 9 spellcaster Vivi Ornitier, by Toshiyuki Itahana (character decorator connected the game), mightiness conscionable beryllium 1 of the champion cards successful the crippled close now. So, it's hardly astonishing that it's modular paper is up determination arsenic the 3rd astir fashionable successful the acceptable currently. Market terms isn't excessively atrocious either (at slightest compared to the remainder of this list), if you're looking to bargain 1 standalone.

The Borderless mentation is besides the implicit explanation of a collector’s point if I've ever seen one, and proving to person plentifulness of involvement arsenic well. Both of these tin besides beryllium considered a apical 10 paper for collectors, besides demanding a alternatively mighty terms astatine astir $72.13 for the former, and $232.71 for the aboriginal successful the marketplace close now.

2. Cloud, Midgar Mercenary - 520

Cloud, Midgar Mercenary is, unsurprisingly, by acold 1 of the astir fashionable cards from the Final Fantasy x MTG Universes Beyond set. Low mana outgo and treble instrumentality triggers marque Cloud precise adjacent to Stoneforge Mystic, but with immoderate striking caller anime creation from Kazto Furuya.

Not lone is the Borderless Surge Foil variant 1 of the priciest cards from the caller acceptable (sitting astatine astir $466 market), the Borderless, Extended Art, and Normal people each besides fetch a beauteous penny close now.

In presumption of popularity, the Borderless Surge Foil is shoulders supra the rest, but the Normal people is besides exceedingly fashionable close present according to TCGPlayer, and inactive 1 of the apical 20 cards players person been chasing since the caller acceptable released. Finding immoderate of these, oregon deciding to bargain them retired close standalone, are bully reasons to get excited.

1. Sephiroth, Fabled Soldier - 527

Sephiroth, Fabled Soldier - 0527 (Borderless) (Surge Foil) is the astir fashionable paper successful the crippled close now, and has surged to a marketplace terms of $701.55 this week, up +74.09% conscionable this month.

But it's not the lone mentation that's proving fashionable either, with the 382 and 317 Borderless, alongside the 115 Normal people besides proving to progressively sought aft close now, which is unsurprisingly reflected successful the marketplace prices close present arsenic well.

Where to Buy Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy Cards

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.

This nonfiction besides includes contributions from Lloyd Coombes. Thanks to TCGPlayer for the information and accusation that informed this article.