Last Fantasy X’s Laughing Scene Is Now a Magic: The Gathering Card

This past weekend Wizards of the Coast actually lifted the lid on its upcoming Final Fantasy crossover set for Magic: The Gathering, however the oodles of playing cards revealed there have been apparently not sufficient. Right this moment the Magic group revealed even extra playing cards to gamers, they usually’re stuffed with unimaginable nods to Last Fantasy historical past… together with an absolute gem from Last Fantasy X.

Right this moment Wizards revealed the full card lists for every of the 4 Last Fantasy preconstructed Commander Decks that can launch alongside the growth subsequent month. The 4 decks are constructed round 4 iconic entries from the mainline Last Fantasy collection: Revival Trance, primarily based on Last Fantasy VI; Restrict Break, primarily based on Last Fantasy VII; Counter Blitz, primarily based round Last Fantasy X; and Scions and Spellcraft, primarily based round Last Fantasy XIV. Every deck of 100 playing cards is totally themed for the Last Fantasy set, from wholly new playing cards to re-flavored takes on already-existent Magic playing cards with new thematically acceptable artwork.

One such re-flavor within the Counter Blitz deck is Inspiring Name, a inexperienced mana prompt that has been round in varied Magic units because it first appeared in 2015’s Dragons of Tarkir. It’s a easy sufficient card, granting any creatures you management that you simply’ve given +1/+1 counters to short-term safety whereas additionally drawing just a few playing cards. However in Counter Blitz, it turns into, effectively, extra of an inspiring chuckle:

Sure, proper all the way down to the flavour textual content, we’re getting Yuna and Tidus’ notorious chuckle scene from Last Fantasy X in card type. An early second within the sport, the scene sees Yuna attempt to cheer Tidus up because the duo and the remainder of the social gathering put together to hold on their pilgrimage to defeat the monstrous entity referred to as Sin, who Tidus has simply discovered (spoilers for a 24-year-old PS2 sport) is definitely seemingly a reworked corruption of his long-missing father, Jecht. Yuna, figuring out her quest will finally declare her life, tries to get Tidus to discover ways to cover his feelings and placed on a contented face, first actually after which via comically compelled laughter. The remainder is Last Fantasy meme historical past:

Though the aim of the scene is that Tidus and Yuna’s laughter is supposed to be compelled and awkward sounding (as you possibly can see above, they get away into real laughter instantly after), the clip of their barked laughs has spent the previous two and a half many years taking over a lifetime of its personal as a viral meme, from goofy music edits to dunks on cringy online game voice performing (X was the primary Last Fantasy to function in depth voice performing). And now, its legacy is reclaimed in Magic.

It’s simply one in every of many nice little nods and references all through what we’ve seen of the Last Fantasy set thus far. The Commander Decks have revealed a ton of recent playing cards in an identical vein which have nice mechanical nods to their respective video games—a few of my favorites embody Zack Fair in FFVII‘s, which helps you to basically replicate Cloud swiping Zack’s identification after his demise, or Champions from Beyond in FFXIV‘s, a really nifty nod to the MMORPG’s social gathering finder mechanic (and one of the coolest moments in its growth Shadowbringers). A lot of the nods are reverentially severe, befitting the eagerness that’s on show for this assembly of fantastical titans. However it’s good that in playing cards like Inspiring Name’s remixing, the Last Fantasy set is aware of when to have a little bit of compelled laughter at itself too.

Magic: The Gathering – Last Fantasy hits cabinets subsequent month on June 13. Head on over to Wizards’ card image gallery for the set to see much more playing cards from the crossover!

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