Magic The Gathering is collaborating with Final Fantasy, and the card set is only a month and a bit away. To show off the collaboration, Magic The Gathering designers hosted a panel at PAX East. We got an early look at what they planned to show off. They shared the story of how this collaboration came to be and the process it took to get to the finish line. We heard about the story from four specific individuals who worked on the cards.
Even though this set was revealed in February of this year, this collaboration has been worked on far longer. The designers were working on this collaboration between the two companies for five years. That is right, this collaboration was in the works even before Final Fantasy XVI was released. The idea for each game in the series being created into a card was the thought process of “What nine things are important out of this Final Fantasy Title or Character that fans will need to see?” That became the mindset that each of these cards was made.
The very first Final Fantasy set the groundwork for the series as a whole. The job system, the four crystals,...
