The Biggest Magic: The Gathering Crashers and Climbers This Week - June 23

Great news, everyone: The latest Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy Universes Beyond acceptable has arrived, and it includes immoderate large cards.

The accomplishment of a caller acceptable has already fixed emergence to refreshed synergies with immoderate forgotten cards seeing a boost, but naturally, the latest influx of cardboard has caused prices to ascent and others to fall.

Magic: The Gathering - Crashers

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We’re seeing superior drops crossed Final Fantasy cards arsenic much cards participate the marketplace and things commencement to settee down post-release. That's a bully motion for anyone looking to prime up a fewer pursuit cards standalone alternatively than ripping unfastened much packs than your slope relationship tin handle.

Take Lightning, Army of One, for example. Her Borderless variant was sitting astir $90, but has present dropped to astir $50. Will it ascent again? It’s hard to say, but we’ll support an oculus connected it.

The latest mentation of Rhystic Study, dubbed ‘Stay with Me’ and featuring gorgeous full-art of Tidus and Yuna is besides down to astir $100, having been implicit $230 not agelong ago. It's 1 of the astir fashionable cards from the "Through the Ages" collection, truthful good worthy keeping an oculus connected close now.

The Borderless mentation of Cloud, Midgar Mercenary is besides down to astir $50 now, a driblet of astir $60 from motorboat week.

Vivi is besides inactive rising successful worth this week, but it’s inactive a crisp driblet from the $100 marketplace request past clip we looked astatine him. He tin beryllium recovered for astir $55-60 close now, truthful support an oculus connected this one.

Finally, Sephiroth, Fallen Hero’s Extended Art mentation has crash-landed from astir $100 to conscionable $7 since the pre-release time pricing, that's a large ol' drop, and a bully illustration arsenic wherefore it's bully to hold and spot connected however the marketplace volition autumn post-release of a large acceptable similar this.

Magic: The Gathering - Climbers

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As we covered recently, Final Fantasy’s cards person bizarrely fixed immoderate syngizing Doctor Who cards a mega boost successful value. For starters, Danny Pink’s quality to gully cards from counters makes him an perfect pickup for your Tidus Commander Deck, but the terms has climbed steeply from $4 to implicit $12 already.

Next up, Barbara Wright mightiness not beryllium the archetypal paper you deliberation of erstwhile playing Final Fantasy cards, but her Read Ahead quality means she tin manipulate Summons from the caller acceptable to get to the champion effects much quickly. She’s inactive going for astir $4, truthful she isn’t arsenic pricey arsenic Danny, but she was a dollar not agelong ago.

Another Tidus synergy, Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus is simply a Phyrexian Horror that, admittedly, wouldn’t look retired of spot successful a Final Fantasy battle. He tin treble your proliferation of counters, which is perfect for Tidus’ deck. He’s gone from $6 not agelong agone to implicit $14 now.

Aside from our Blitzball star, Vivi Ornitier is getting plentifulness of emotion from players (I packed 1 myself, hooray!). One paper that works good with him is the Flame of Anor, an instant with a trio of effects you tin prime 1 of. If you power a Wizard (like our adorable friend), past you tin prime two. It’s up to astir $3, with the foil going for implicit $4. Not large numbers, sure, but not agelong agone it was a $2 paper and it could ascent yet.

If you’ve ever wanted to upset pals successful a casual crippled of Commander, Mesmeric Orb tin brace nicely with either Final Fantasy’s The Water Crystal oregon if idiosyncratic astatine your array is playing the Mothman Fallout deck.

The archetypal of those combos volition get your friends milling themselves endlessly, portion the second tin dispersed truthful galore Rad counters that it could extremity up being the shortest crippled of Commander successful history. Mesmeric Orb conscionable deed $24 and could ascent higher, a $7 summation week-on-week.

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Everything other Final Fantasy is beauteous blistery close now, truthful if you negociate to find thing successful stock, it mightiness beryllium worthy picking up ASAP to debar disapointment.

Looking for much TCG treatment and marketplace watch? Check retired the afloat MTG merchandise docket for 2025, past week's MTG terms movers and shakers, or, connected the Pokemon broadside of things, our latest crashers and climbers for Pokemon TCG and the astir costly cards going close present for Pokemon trainers.

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.

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