Magic: The Gathering is having its biggest year yet with Final Fantasy’s Universes Beyond set, and its cards dominate the top-selling cards of the year.
In fact, in putting together this top 10, every entry was Final Fantasy themed, from characters to Surge Foils worth hundreds.
With that in mind, we’ve put together the top 10 below, covering Final Fantasy, Edge of Eternities, Tarkir: Dragonstorm, Aetherdrift, and Innistrad Remastered.
Here’s the top 10 for each, thanks to data from TCGPlayer.
Final Fantasy
According to TCGPlayer, the top-selling Final Fantasy cards are as follows:
- Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Starting Town
- Yuna, Grand Summoner (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Tifa Lockhart (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Cloud, Midgar Mercenary (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Tifa, Martial Artist (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Vivi Ornitier
- Y’shtola, Night’s Blessed (Borderless – Surge Foil)
- Yuna, Hope of Spira (Borderless – Surge Foil)
Many of those Borderless Surge Foil variants have been commanding a fair amount of value on the secondary market, but Starting Town popping up near the top is a nice surprise.
Edge of Eternities
The next most popular set at the time of writing (and the most recent), Edge of Eternities shows there’s plenty of appetite for Magic’s own characters and stories.
- Icetill Explorer
- Texxeret, Cruel Captain
- Quantum Riddler
- Cosmogrand Zenith
- Exalted Sunborn
- Evendo, Waking Haven
- Uthros, Titanic Godcore
- Texxeret, Cruel Captain (Borderless)
- Ouroboroid
- Quantum Riddler (Borderless)
Tarkir: Dragonstorm
The set before Final Fantasy might feel as though it’s been swept under the rug, but anyone looking for dragons will find a lot to like. And yet, the top 10 most popular cards include multiple versions of the same four cards.
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer
- Ugin, Eye of the Storms
- Voice of Victory
- Ugin, Eye of the Storms (Borderless)
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer (Borderless)
- Ugin, Eye of the Storms (Showcase)
- Voice of Victory (Borderless)
- Elspeth, Storm Slayer (Showcase)
- Mox Jasper (Showcase)
- Mox Jasper
Aetherdrift
Magic’s power-sliding set is still proving pretty popular, with the top 10 cards according to TCGPlayer data including lands, sorceries, and that all-important Aetherspark.
- Stock Up
- Riverpyre Verge
- Bleachbone Verge
- The Aetherspark
- Sunbillow Verge
- Ketramose, the New Dawn
- Sunbillow Verge (Borderless)
- Bleachbone Verge (Borderless)
- Wastewood Verge
- Riverpyre Verge (Borderless)
Innistrad Remastered
Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the top 10 here are versions of everyone’s favorite vampire, Edgar Markov. He appears no less than four times!
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope (Showcase)
- Edgar Markov (Showcase)
- Edgar Markov
- The Meathook Massacre (Showcase)
- Edgar Markov (Retro Frame)
- Edgar Markov (Showcase) (Serial Numbered) (Double Rainbow Foil)
- Avacyn, Angel of Hope (Retro Frame)
- Tree of Perdition
- The Meathook Massacre
- Emrakul, the Promised End (Showcase)
Lloyd Coombes is an experienced freelancer in tech, gaming and fitness seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar and many more. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay.