The event underscored the immense effort and passion behind Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy, promising a collaboration set truly crafted with love for fans of both franchises
Getting to jam out your spells early can be a huge tempo boost, especially if youre running a lot of removal and disruption as you should be
The illustration made by Anesaki Dynamic is very energetic, with Pidgeot swooping in to snatch a Magikarp straight out of the river
When creatures die, you create Devil tokens that deal damage on their way out too
While at MagicCon Vegas in late September this year, I spoke with Mike Turian, product architect for Magic (though his role while M21 was in design was principal product designer, according to his LinkedIn), and he confirmed that for M21 the design for showcase cards was intended to keep the text boxes clean and uncluttered, kind of like you would see in simple but powerful spells with only a few words on them, like Wrath of God or Counterspell