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Wizards of the Coast is going to turn as much paper into gold as it can with Magic: The Gathering, and leading the way is its best-selling Final Fantasy Universes Beyond set. The company recently announced at MagicCon Atlanta 2025 that it will be releasing additional Final Fantasy box sets with new cards featuring more beautiful art spanning the Square Enix RPG franchise’s history. If you’re worried about your wallet, relax! The initial wave of pre-orders sold out instantly.

This mini-expansion includes a new Chocobo Bundle, a new Commander Deck, and four new Scene Boxes. They all arrive on December 5 and all of them are basically impossible to find online right now. Hopefully, fans have better luck with the inventory that comes directly to their local hobby shops. The Chocobo Bundle is $110 and comes with a bunch of booster packs, Chocobo-themed lands, alt-art reprints, a new promo card, and an incredibly neat life total click-wheel:

Then there’s the new $100 FFVII Limit Break Commander Deck that comes with a PC download code for the HD remaster of the original game and an exclusive Traditional Foil promo card that shows Cloud looking up at Shinra HQ. It seems way over-priced but is also completely sold out right now on Amazon.

The new Scene Boxes are what really have my attention. There’s one for Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy IX, and Final Fantasy XV. Each comes with six Foil Borderless Scene Cards, six Art Cards, three Play Boosters, and one Display Easel for $42. The six cards go together to recreate scenes from each game. These new cards aren’t legal in standard play but look cool as heck. The art on the boxes alone makes me want one.

There was no shortage of Lord of the Rings Scene Boxes when they arrived in 2023, offering hope that after the initial frenzy subsides, fans will be able to get access to the new Final Fantasy ones without too much trouble or paying over MSRP for them. Are the boxes worth even that? In the grand scheme of things, probably not. But that’s the whole point of Universes Beyond: subverting logic with passion.

The result has been very lucrative for Wizards but a pain for many fans. “This whole collab has been so confusing,” wrote one after the latest Final Fantasy products were announced. “Every attempt I’ve made at actually purchasing cards has shown that the set is sold out everywhere, and they don’t seem to be printing any new ones. But there’s new cards still coming out too?” Yes. And I suspect these won’t be the last ones either.

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Marvel Legends is crossing over with Magic: The Gathering’s new Spider-Man set with a series of action figures bundled with exclusive MTG foil cards. There are four different figures in the collection so far: Battle-Damaged Spider-Man, Agent Anti-Venom, Mary Jane Watson equipped with the Iron Spider costume, and Man-Wolf.

The Spider-Man Magic: The Gathering set launched today, September 26, but these figures/promo codes arrive over the next two weeks.

$40 | Releases October 10

This Spider-Man figure comes with a “Specactular Spider-Man” foil card that can give you a powerful advantage if you decide to sacrifice it. The figure features Spider-Man in a tattered version of his costume, and it comes with web-shooter, web-shield, and web-line accessories.

$40 | Releases October 2

The foil card included with this toy is “Agent Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer” and it can bring back a target creature from the graveyard. This card can also deflect, and the action figure is an accurate replica of the powerful anti-symbiote character–the lore around him is way too much to get into right now. For accessories, Agent Anti-Venom comes with several sets of alternate hands, two blast effects, two smoke effects, tendrils, and a powerful arsenal of weapons.

$42 | Available Now

Now sporting a stylish costume that her former husband Spider-Man once wore, Mary Jane’s “Stark Upgrade” foil card can be tapped to add +1/+1 counters to all creatures and vehicles in your game. The figure features over 20 points of articulation and it comes with an alternate masked head, two “thwip” hands, and four articulated Iron Spider legs.

$59.89 | Releases October 2

John Jameson isn’t just an astronaut and the son of Daily Bugle boss J. Jonah Jameson, he’s also the fearsome Man-Wolf. His foil card features a transformative effect, allowing him to tap into primal powers. For his accessories, he’s armed with his sword Stargod, a bow, and several arrows.

A closer look at the included cards.

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Ever since it started collaborating with big IP, Magic: The Gathering’s popularity has surged through the roof. The Marvel crossover could be the biggest one yet for the collectible card game, as it focuses not only on Spider-Man and his amazing friends, but also villains like Mysterio, Sandman, and Venom.

The Spider-Man Play Booster Box gets you 30 packs of 14 cards each for a total of 420 Spider-Man-themed MTG cards, and Spidey’s Spectacular Showdown Scene Box will give you three Marvel’s Spider-Man booster packs and two different sets of six scene cards. Other in-stock Spider-Man MTG products include the Spider-Man Bundle and Spidey’s Spectacular Showdown Scene Box.

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Spider-Man is the second major Universes Beyond crossover set for Magic: The Gathering this year. The Final Fantasy set launched in June and is the most popular MTG set ever. In November, Avatar: The Last Airbender joins the MTG universe.