MTG Final Fantasy release date, card spoilers, and latest news
What is the MTG Final Fantasy release date? The third premier Magic: The Gathering set of 2025 is the crossover with Square Enix’s Final Fantasy franchise. There’s plenty of ground to cover, with sixteen games all taking place in their own unique fantasy universes, and Wizards is hitting every single one of them.
Below you’ll find the release date for the Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy set, as well as other set details and card spoilers. You can also check out the MTG release schedule, to see where Final Fantasy fits in with the rest of 2025’s MTG sets.
MTG Final Fantasy release date
The global release date for MTG Final Fantasy is June 13, 2025. That’s when it’ll be coming out in paper form, though it’ll most likely drop on Arena a couple of days earlier. Prerelease dates are now confirmed, beginning – as ever – the week before launch, on June 6. If you’re close enough to a participating store, this will be your first chance to get your hands on the Final Fantasy cards.
Spoiler season should be a little while before that, with previews flying throughout the last week of May. These days, sets are revealed pretty rapidly – usually it takes just seven days before we’ve seen the whole thing.
Though it’s not officially spoiler season yet, we’ve still seen a ton of cards – check out the Final Fantasy spoilers below.
MTG Final Fantasy set information
Final Fantasy is the first of many Universes Beyond sets with cards that are legal in all formats, from Standard to Legacy. As a result it’s been designed with a lower power level than past UB products, which were built either for Commander or Modern.
It is a full Standard set, however, with it’s own draft environment and four EDH decks. When it comes to size, Wizards has compared the release to MTG Lord of the Rings, which had 281 new cards.
As well as the regular set, MTG Final Fantasy also has a bonus sheet called ‘Through the Ages’. This contains reprints of existing characters and cards with original Final Fantasy concept art. So, for example, above are versions of Sram, Senior Edificer reimagined as Firion and Ragavan as Zidane.
There are 64 of these Through the Ages cards in total, four for each Final Fantasy game.
MTG Final Fantasy spoilers and news
At Pax East a ton of new cards and gimmicks were shown off, from rainbow Chocobos to an absurdly powerful Sephiroth.
We also saw Cid, a recurring character who’s become something of a running joke in the series. He’s in every game except the first, and so Wizards has made a Cid card with 15 different arts.
You can have as many Cids in your deck as you like, but only one on the battlefield at a time – as he is a legendary creature. That’s okay, though – Cid’s buff to artifact creatures and heroes also counts the number of Artificers in your graveyard.
Another oddity, MTG Final Fantasy has a single pair of Meld cards. Fang and Vanille from FFXIII combine to form Ragnarok, a powerful 7/6 Beast Avatar with a lot of keywords and an excellent death trigger. Because its components are both uncommons, this is perfectly achievable in Limited!
In FFXVI, character didn’t just summon Eikons, they became them. Magic represents this with transforming cards, like the one below. Here we see Clive become Ifrit, fighting an opposing creature and then making you loads of mana.
You’ll probably be able to use that mana to play your whole hand, but luckily when Ifrit switches back to Clive, you get to redraw. This is also the set’s one and only use of the devotion mechanic
The first MTG Final Fantasy card spoilers gave us a sneak peek at some of the mechanics and themes for the set. We also found out that this set will be priced as a premium product, with $70 Commander decks and $38 collector boosters.
As for the cards, we saw plenty, from summonable saga creatures to Cactuar that can deal 10,000 damage. Early on, Wizards also shared four MTG Commander precon decks launching alongside the set.
Each deck is themed around a particular Final Fantasy game. You can see the decks’ MTG commanders below, but first here’s an overview:
| Deck | Commander | Game | Color Combo | Theme |
| Revival Trance | Terra, Herald of Hope | 6 | Mardu (Red/Black/White) | Graveyard |
| Limit Break | Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER | 7 | Naya (Red/White/Green) | Equipment |
| Counter Blitz | Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian | 10 | Bant (Green/White/Blue) | Counters |
| Scions & Spellcraft | Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed | 14 | Esper (Blue/White/Black) | Non-creature spells/Life drain |
Terra, Herald of Hope leads the graveyard deck Revival Trance that can quickly assemble a large horde of low-power creatures, perhaps for some aristocrats shenanigans.
We’ve also been shown her alt-commander Celes. She’s a wheel-on-a-stick that goes infinite with any Persist creature. (The above is only a mock-up).
If there’s one thing Cloud is known for, it’s carrying around the ridiculously oversized Buster Sword. So Cloud’s deck, Limit Break, is all about equipment – though as the commander demonstrates, there’s also a power-matters subtheme.
Tidus, Yuna’s Guardian goes all in on counter shenanigans, moving them around and proliferating. +1/+1 counters will obviously feature heavily, but hopefully some keyword or shield counters will also make the cut in Counter Blitz. We’ve seen art for a reprint of Together Forever featuring Yuna and Tidus, which almost certainly hails from this deck.
Finally, Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed represents the MMO. Her deck, Scions & Spellcraft, is all about draining life by casting big non-creature spells.
As for the main set, one of the main new mechanics is saga creatures. These work pretty seamlessly as a fusion between the two card types. They come in and trigger effects on each turn like a saga, but while they’re on the field can also block and attack and behave as normal creatures. Wizards says these will appear at all rarities.
Transforming cards are also a mainstay of the FF release. As the examples above show, these can represent multi-stage boss monsters or a quest and its reward.
Recently, the official Final Fantasy Twitter account has begun sharing card spoilers for specific characters on their canonical birthdays. The FFXV character Gladio was shown off on April 2, for instance. This uncommon landfall commander is perhaps not the most exciting card from the set, but the ability to fetch up any land at all is pretty nice.
Before this, Zell was unveiled on March 17. This unusual red card lets you play more lands than usual – but it’s not pure ramp, you have to bounce them back to hand again.
Stay tuned, as we’ll keep this guide updated with the latest Final Fantasy x Magic news as soon as it appears. Meanwhile, to find out about other MTG sets coming out next year, you can take a look at our guides for Edge of Eternities or Tarkir Dragonstorm.
