Final FantasyThe Set Review

These are our scores, not a community aggregate. Limited is graded on the archive: format speed, archetype spread and decision density. Commander is graded on EDHREC inclusion rank. Opening value is graded on median rare and mythic price and value concentration.

Final Fantasy is the best selling Magic set of all time, and it is not close. Hasbro's CEO confirmed that where The Lord of the Rings took six months to deliver two hundred million dollars of revenue, Final Fantasy did it in a single day. It was the highest grossing set in the game's history before it had even fully released.

That commercial reception is the dominant fact about this set, and it is worth separating from the play experience. The crossover brought in an enormous number of people who were buying a Final Fantasy product rather than a Magic product, which is exactly what Universes Beyond is for and exactly why some long-time players are uneasy about it.

Reception sources: Hasbro CEO on Final Fantasy revenue; Draftsim, Final Fantasy best-selling set; MTG Rocks, best and worst selling sets of 2025.

Final Fantasy is unusual in this collection because its identity is carried by card design rather than by keyword mechanics. Our automatic mechanic detector, which finds keyword abilities appearing on at least five cards and scores them against the set median, found no keyword with enough coverage to report. That is a finding rather than a gap: the set leans on Sagas, transforming characters and equipment instead of a named mechanic.

The best design idea is the summon cycle, Sagas that resolve into the iconic creature. It gives the crossover its most Magic-native moment: a card that plays out a summon sequence over three turns and then leaves Bahamut on the battlefield. The character cards, particularly the transforming villains, do the rest of the work.

The archetype spread was healthy. Blue-red big spells finished first at 57.3 percent and was also the most drafted deck despite being pitched as the difficult one, and red-green landfall finished last at 53.8. A 3.5 point spread across ten pairs is a well balanced format.

Prices move, so this is a snapshot. Base price means the cheapest printing, which is what the card actually costs you. Where a premium treatment runs materially higher we note it separately, because special treatments otherwise flood the top of any value list.

We hold both the Limited archive and Commander inclusion data. Final Fantasy shows a strong but not perfect correlation, with one very clear category of exception: the Crystals.

305 of the 313 cards carry an EDHREC rank. The rank is global across all of Magic rather than relative to this set, so a card at #50 is the 50th most played card in the format overall. For reprints the rank belongs to the card, not to this printing.

#748

#778

#939

#943

#1,047

#1,149

By colour identity

By strategy

The market signal here is different in kind from every other set in this archive. Prices are driven substantially by character recognition, not by format demand: Vivi and Cloud are expensive because of who they are as much as what they do. That makes the set's value more durable in one sense, since nostalgia does not rotate, and more fragile in another, since it is not anchored to play.

For Pauper, 96 commons entered the pool. As with most recent sets, the commons are competent rather than transformative.