It was only a matter of time before the two fantasy worlds collided, and on June 13, 2025, Magic: The Gathering will finally join forces with the world of Final Fantasy to?? bring a stunning new set of cards to the table.

As part of MagicCon: Las Vegas, Wizards of the Coast have revealed a bunch of new sets that will be released at some point in 2025, and while we’ll get into the other sets a little further down, the focus here is definitely on the Final Fantasy cards and? the beautiful examples of artwork that w??e’ve already seen. 

The set will feature not only well known faces from across the 16 game franchise, but also locations, spells, and mounts. It will be the largest single collection of artwork from the franchise as well, featuring artwork by both Wizards of the Coast artists and renowned Final Fantasy illustrators. 

My Final Fantasy XIV fangirl heart is overjoyed at the inclusion of an Emet-Selch card, as well as other familiar faces like Kefka from FFVI and Sephiroth from FFVII??. There’s also a Post Moogle that’s beyond adorable, and an illustratio?n of Tidus and Yuna wrapped in an embrace. 

I’ve got to be honest, I’ve managed to avoid being pulled into the world of Magic: The Gathering thus far, but this might be the set that breaks me. In fact, there’s no might about it, I’ll be pre-ordering this as soon as I possibly can. If you want to do the same, you can sign up for updates via the Wizards of the Coast website. 

All Magic: The Gathering sets revealed at MagicCon: Las Vegas

If y??ou’re not into Final Fantasy, here are the other sets that were also revealed during MagicCon: Las Vegas:

Innistrad: Remastered (January 24)

This reprint of the Innistrad set first released in 2011 will be the first to release in 2025. If you’re a fan of the gothic horror world filled with vampires and werewolves, then you’ll know what to expect from Innistrad: Remastered. However, there will be a new type of card included, called Headliners, which are described as “th??e most exciting card to collect in a releaseâ€? 

Aetherdrift (February 14)

The first Standard-legal set of 2025, Aetherdrift will follow a “death raceâ€?theme in which residents f?rom three different planes in the MTG universe will come to together to compete for the Aether Spark?. Apparently it’s a trophy that provides an incredible amount of power to the winner. 

Tarkir: Dragonstorm (April 11)

Tarkir: Dragonstorm will be set on the plane of Tarkir??, and will see five clans battle it out against a surge of lethal dragons. This set will include some familiar faces, including Sarkhan and the spirit dragon Ugin. 

Edge Of Eternities (August 1)

When Edge of Eternities is released in August, MTG will be jetting off into space for this first-time space opera. Explore beyond the edges of the known multiverse in an area known as the Solthera system, and encounter a familiar yet long-ab??sent villain, Tezzeret. 

Marvel's Spider-Man (TBA 2025)

Although we have no specific release date for this Spider-Man themed expansion, it will work nicely alongside the soon-to-be-released Marvel themed Secret Lair Superdrop, which is coming in November. 

Secret Lair x SpongeBob SquarePants

I think you could be forgiven if you didn’t see this one coming, but yes you read that correctly. SpongeBob, and likely the rest of Bikini Bottom, is being brought into the Magic: The Gathering universe. There’s no specific release date for this one, and I’m interested to see how it g?oes, so watch this space.

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Magic: The Gathering invites players to experience a game filled ?with many intentionally funny cards, which is a great thing to think about when trying to blow off steam after losing a game due to lack of mana.

I love those, but the cards that make me laugh the most are those that come with abilities t??hat are just baffling---and that are still intended for serious competitive play. Let's look at some of the strangest cards in the history of the game, shall we?

Force of Savagery

Achieving success in a match of MTG might involve engaging in perilous behavior and the employment of straight-up suicidal c?reatures, but Force of Savagery is a completely different beast.

Even though it has a cost of three and comes with 8 strength, that counts for nothing by itself ????because landing on the battleground as is will cause it to die immediately, splattered on the pavement. Force of Savagery isn't a card that merely works better as a combo piece---it's that very rare card that depends on combos to even stay alive, let alone be useful.

Goblin Bomb

The only predictable thing about goblins is their troublemaking ability. Goblin Bomb is hilarious because it makes the result of a game that's meant to be about mental wits hinge entirely on luck. Its owner will only have to pay two mana, whic?h is pretty low for something that could obliterate the opponent in 5 turns, but it's highly unlikely that you'll get the desired outcome out of five coin tosses in a row, considering how they're meant to be 50/50.

Though Goblin Bomb will hardly prove a reliable killing-blow machine, it might very well work wonders in te?rms of making your opponent feel highly anxious.

Mogg Assassin

And yet another coinflip, but ??this time in true hardcore goblin mode. With Mogg Assassin, losing the coinflip won't cause you to merely delay the detonati??on of a bomb that will destroy the opponent but actually light the fuse that will result in its owner's undoing.

Paying three mana for a 2/1 creature that can end up destroying every single one of its owner's creatures is a r??idiculous gamble that only a true gobli?n-hearted player would go for.

Divine Intervention

MTG is like tennis: It's very expensive, and every match has a decisive result. I mean, unless you're playing with Divine Intervention. This is the only card of the game that might force a game to end in a draw. Imagine trusting your deck and abilities so little that you put in a card that isn't meant to help yo??????????????????????????u win, but also trusting luck so much that you believe you'll make it until you have the eight mana required to make it work.

Goblin Game

Though Planeshift was conceived as a serious expansion set, I suspect it's but a greatest hits colle??ction of the dumbest ideas for cards that the people at Wizards had ever come up with. So many of the Planeshift cards are bizarre to the point of feeling like someone forgot to mention that they're not meant to be serious, and Goblin Game is the best of the bunch.

Did you come to play a card game? Too?? bad, because Goblin Game forces players to go look for objects, hide them, and then reveal all the concealed objects at once. The one who reveals fewer objects ??ends up losing half of their HP but rounded up, meaning that no one can ever lose the game to this---but they will never recover their dignity.

Shahrazad

This card has one of the longest texts in the history of the game, but going through the effort of reading and trying to understand it is more than worth it because of all the confused laughter you'll get out of it. Long story short, Shahrazad has players pausing their current game to start another MTG ma??tch inside that one with their remaining cards. All that just to have the winner halving the HP of ??the adversary.

The best part about it is how there are no rules to stop the madness in case any of these players have more Shahrazad cards, meaning that they can trigger up to eight MTG subgames deep.

Raging River

At this point you're probably already aware that long texts tend to mean just dumb and confusing abilities. I'd love to have the infamous Sorrow's Path here, but I've previously talked about it in an even more fitting list, so it's time for Raging River to get the spotlight. For some reason, t??his encha?ntment has both players picturing a river, then dividing defending and attacking creatures among the river's two margins to make the process way more convoluted for everyone involved.

Chaos Orb

Did you ever think wind conditions could stand behind you becoming the greatest MTG player of all time?

This is the only serious card in the history of the game that you need to actively drop on top of the opponent's side of the play area, but that's not all. Players will also have to hope that it does a flip during its fall, because only then will it destroy all permanents it comes in contact with. Chaos Orb is such a dumb card from the early days of the gam??e that even Wizards w??ent on to spoof it in the Unglued set.

Illicit Auction

You gotta wonder just how confident the people behind making MTG in the early days were when so many cards just took you away f??rom the actual game. This time, we have Illicit Auction, a card that turns a match into a silly bidding contest that will culminate with the "winner" paying a likely unreasonable amount of HP to gain or maintain control of a creature. Absolutely none of this is worth it in any way.

Quarum Trench Gnomes

A 1/1 creature for the price of four mana is quite a lot---unless it comes equipped with an amazing ability. Quarum Trench Gnomes' ability is extremely topical, but also an??noying to the point of getting the right opponent to ragequit. These little fiends can render plains incapable of producing white ?mana, which is just a vile ability that doesn't exist in any other creature against any other type of land.

Whoever came up with the idea for Quarum Trench Gnomes must have really hated the color White---or was perhaps trying to warn us about the serious dange??rs of fracking. In tha??t case, then kudos for the incredible foresight and satirical abilities on display.

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