Magic: The Gathering’s Past Universes crossover with Closing Fantasy affords a gorgeous journey down reminiscence lane with some actually cool Commander playing cards and deck synergies besides. It has additionally made everybody lose their minds because the best-selling enlargement within the card sport’s historical past sees costs skyrocket, together with one collector asking $50,000 for the set’s uncommon Golden Touring Chocobo.
The Closing Fantasy Universes Past set contains solely 77 of those foil playing cards in whole. They’re much like the One Ring from the Lord of the Rings MTG crossover that ended up promoting for hundreds of thousands to Put up Malone. Whereas there are extra of them, making them barely much less uncommon in idea, that additionally means there are extra of them to be traded between collectors, and one of many Golden Touring Chocobo playing cards that’s already been found was not too long ago put up on eBay for $50,000.
It was Touring Chocobo 41/77 to be exact, and it was technically listed for $200,000 initially, earlier than its vendor apparently thought higher it Wargamer studies. It has since been offered for a “greatest provide,” so the ultimate worth is unclear, however in keeping with the third-party device 130point it could have been nearer to $40,000. If correct, that will truly made your entire set of 77 Gold Chocobos value $3,080,000 if all of them fetched the same quantity, dwarfing what the One Ring beforehand offered for.
The Closing Fantasy set incorporates a bunch of standard Touring Chocobo playing cards as properly, every of mythic rarity however that includes a special colour from Closing Fantasy VII, together with yellow, pink, blue, inexperienced, and black. These much less uncommon variants are nonetheless fetching wild valuations, with many priced at over $1,500. Different costly playing cards embrace, not surprisingly, iconic fundamental characters like Sephiroth, Cloud, Lightning, Terra, and Clive, in addition to summons like Knights of the Spherical and Bahamut. There are borderless, Via the Ages, and Surge Foil variants of every, upping the costs even additional.
And what about individuals who simply need to have enjoyable opening packs, taking a look at playing cards, and taking part in the precise sport? Nicely, the launch frenzy has made Closing Fantasy one of many hardest units to truly take part in as a fan, simply as its reputation hits new heights. Play booster bins are offered out most locations, and the collector’s boosters are just about solely obtainable from resellers at this level for excessive markups.
Even huge field shops are turning to scalping. A Goal I visited this week was promoting a couple of dozen common Closing Fantasy MTG play boosters with an MSRP of $7 for $15 every. I wished to cry. “RIP to the informal gamers looking for product,” reads a typical chorus on Reddit. Whereas reprints are anticipated as quickly as July, and may proceed for some time given the Closing Fantasy enlargement is a part of MTG’s commonplace set of playing cards (and thus authorized in all event play), the problem of not solely discovering playing cards in the intervening time, however truly with the ability to afford them, has been a little bit of a buzzkill.
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