Everything You Need to Know About the Through the Ages Cards in Final Fantasy

Herko Kerghans June 3, 2025 Collecting, MTG Cards, MTG Products

Last updated on July 23, 2025

Najeela, the Blade-Blossom | Illustration by Tetsuya Nomura

Cracking a Final Fantasy Play booster or Collector booster now comes with a bit of Square-Enix-flavored déjà vu. You may find a Through the Ages card: an iconic Magic staple that’s slipped into a new wardrobe of Final Fantasy art and lore. Think Ancient Copper Dragon cosplaying as the Dragon of Mount Gulg, or Nyxbloom Ancient as the The Cloudsea Djinn, complete with art from Yoshitaka Amano himself, or others among the most well-known artists from the original video games.

And better yet: since Final Fantasy‘s Through the Ages is a bonus sheet, you can draft them (if you're lucky enough to find one!).

Whether you’re a Final Fantasy diehard, a value-minded drafter, or a Commander brewer hunting shiny upgrades, this 64-card gallery is designed to hit every button. Let's find out all the details!

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What Are the Through the Ages Cards in Final Fantasy?

Ancient Copper Dragon | Illustration by Yoshitaka Amano

Final Fantasy‘s Through the Ages is a bonus sheet found in Final Fantasy Play boosters and Collector boosters. A bonus sheet is a bunch of extra cards that aren’t part of the main set, but that you can find in boosters and draft with. They have their own set code: Through the Ages cards have the “FCA” set code, while main set Final Fantasy cards have the “FIN” set code.

According to Magic's Head Designer Mark Rosewater, the Through the Ages bonus sheet contains cards from throughout Magic with a fun twist. They’re all reprints of iconic MTG cards, but using existing artwork and recognizable names from the Final Fantasy video game franchise.

These alternate-art versions (sometimes called “reskins” in MTG lingo) feature a secondary title bar below the name line, where you can see the original card's name. For example, Thrum of the Vestige is really Lightning Bolt in a Final Fantasy trench coat.

This second name in the little box below the normal title bar is still the card's real name as far as deckbuilding rules are concerned.

“For the purposes of format legality, deck construction, game rules, and effects, these cards have only the card name specified in the secondary title bar,” says WotC's official Final Fantasy Release Notes. “The alternate name has no effect on gameplay.”

If you put Thrum of the Vestige in your Commander deck, you're in fact putting in a Lightning Bolt as far as singleton deckbuilding rules go.

FCA cards also have their own set symbol:

Many of the illustrations are from 天野喜孝/YOSHITAKA AMANO – who was the main character, image, and graphic designer from Final Fantasy I to Final Fantasy VI – and from 野村哲也/TETSUYA NOMURA, who took up Amano's mantle from Final Fantasy VII onward.

Bonus sheets from previous sets sometimes have a unifying mechanical theme (in Outlaws of Thunder Junction, for example, all the cards from the Breaking News bonus sheet could commit a crime), but there's no specific mechanical thread connecting these Through the Ages cards. They’re simply some of the best Magic cards ever printed, re-imagined in the Final Fantasy setting and illustrated by some of the most renowned FF artists.

FCA cards are legal in Commander, Legacy, and Vintage, and each card is also legal in any other format where it’s already legal (e.g., Lightning Bolt is Modern-legal).

How Many Through the Ages Cards Are in FIN?

There are a total of 64 cards on Final Fantasy‘s Through the Ages bonus sheet: 17 uncommons, 32 rares, and 15 mythic rares.

List of Through the Ages Cards in Final Fantasy

Are Through the Ages Cards Standard Legal?

Only if they’re already legal as part of a Standard-legal set – if not, they aren’t.

Although they are found in Play boosters, Final Fantasy‘s Through the Ages cards have their own set code (FCA), and are only legal in formats in which they’re already legal.

For example, Atraxa, Grand Unifier was originally printed in Phyrexia: All Will Be One and is Standard-legal, at least until Edge of Eternities. Atraxa’s Through the Ages alternate version, Sephiroth, the Savior is also Standard-legal until Phyrexia: All Will Be One rotates out of Standard. Meanwhile, Fynn, the Fangbearer was printed in Foundations, which will be Standard-legal until at least 2029, so its Vayne Carudas Solidor alternate version is also Standard-legal until then.

Lightning Bolt, on the contrary, isn’t legal in Standard or Pioneer, so its Thrum of the Vestige version from FCA is also unplayable in those formats. But it's playable in Modern and Eternal formats since it's already legal there.

Are Through the Ages Cards in Play Boosters? The FIN Draft Format?

Yes, and yes!

Any Through the Ages card that you find in your FIN Sealed pool, or that you pick during a FIN draft, is playable in that Limited format, even if they aren’t Standard-legal.

Where Can You Open Through the Ages Cards?

You can find non-foil versions of all the cards from the Through the Ages bonus sheet in Final Fantasy Play boosters and Collector boosters.

Traditional foil versions are only available in Final Fantasy Collector boosters.

You won't find Through the Ages cards in any of the Final Fantasy Commander precons – only in boosters.

How Many Are in Each Pack?

You'll find a Through the Ages card in one out of three Play boosters, so you can expect one FCA card in 33.33% of the FIN Play boosters you crack. They’re always non-foil in Play boosters.

Collector boosters are guaranteed one Through the Ages card in every pack. They can be in either non-foil or traditional foil.

In Play boosters, a Through the Ages card can replace one of the commons. That's the only slot where you can find them – cards from the bonus sheet aren't found in the wildcard or traditional foil slot in Play boosters. According to the official Collecting Final Fantasy x MTG article, the rarity distribution is:

An uncommon FCA card 63.25% of the time,
A rare FCA card 29.75% of the time, or
A mythic rare FCA card 7% of the time

Keep in mind that you only find an FCA card in a third of your Play boosters. If you crack 100 FIN packs, you'll end up on average with around 21 FCA uncommons, about 10 FCA rares, and just 2 or 3 FCA mythics.

Collector boosters have a dedicated Through the Ages slot, so you're 100% guaranteed to find one FCA card in each one. According to the official article, their rarity distribution is:

68.3% chance of an uncommon FCA card,
25.7% chance of a rare, and
6% chance of a mythic rare.

In Collector boosters, the FCA card is a traditional foil 50% of the time.

Will Through the Ages Cards Be on Arena?

All FCA cards will be coming to MTG Arena with the same Play booster distribution during Draft events.

In fact, FCA cards will introduce several partner commanders to the digital format! This will be supported by Brawl, and creates the first opportunity to run double commanders in that format.

The Most Valuable Through the Ages Cards from Final Fantasy

Here are the most expensive FCA cards according to TCGplayer as of early June 2025, with prices above $100. Key words here are pre-sale prices. These can, and probably will change wildly after Final Fantasy goes live. They should usually be (much!) lower after release, but since many of these cards will be sought-after collectibles – and some will likely be bought by FF collectors that have no interest in ever playing Magic – there's no way to know the final price.

Najeela, the Blade-Blossom (Cloud Strife) – $103

A 5-color commander hidden behind a red casting cost, Najeela, the Blade-Blossom turns warriors into an aggressive army with vigilance, trample, and lifelink.

Oh, and an extra combat on top!

It's both one of the most popular commanders overall and strong enough for cEDH. And in FCA, Najeela is portrayed as arguably the most recognizable character in the whole Final Fantasy franchise! Again, it seems too expensive for a card that has a Commander Legends printing for less than $8 but, hey, it's Cloud Strife!

Urza, Lord High Artificer (Terra Brandford) – $126

If Cloud is Final Fantasy‘s most famous character, Urza is probably Magic's. Urza, Lord High Artificer isn’t a commander that's here to play fair: It's one of the top cEDH commanders (which is even more impressive given the hard time mono-colored commanders have at the highest tier), and it already has another crazily priced printing: Its Mystery Booster 2 version hovers around $380. So, yeah, Terra Branford may indeed stay costly.

Sephiroth, the Savior (Atraxa, Grand Unifier) – $156

Standard powerhouse, where barring a very unlikely ban it will remain legal until Fall 2025. It’s one of the juiciest targets to reanimate in Legacy, and it’s one of the most popular commanders in the last two years, and arguably the best 4-color commander. Atraxa, Grand Unifier is the poster angel for a multi-format staple, and its premium printings from Phyrexia: All Will Be One aren’t too far from $100.

Sephiroth, the Savior is an excellent fit for the Phyrexian angel, and Tetsuya Nomura's art here is gorgeous.

Dragon of Mount Gulg, (Ancient Copper Dragon) – $161

As a rule, pre-sales prices go down as a set's launch date approaches, and then they go down by a lot unless the card turns out to be a bona-fide powerhouse.

Ancient Copper Dragon is a powerhouse, and it seems to be in such large demand that its pre-release price has actually been increasing – Dragon of Mount Gulg was around $150 in mid-May, but now it's close to $200!

And looking at other versions, it may very well stay that expensive: All its Baldur's Gate printings cost between $80-$100, for a card that sees a lot of cEDH play.

Stay with Me (Rhystic Study) – $246

Oh, gee… I wonder what happens when you take one of the stapliest staples that ever stapled in Commander, make it a mythic rare, slap it onto a bonus sheet of Magic's best-selling set ever, and illustrate it with the two Final Fantasy characters that WotC is determined to turn into “I'm not crying, you're crying!” moments?

In case you were wondering: The going rate is north of $250 for the non-foil copy of Stay with Me, aka Rhystic Study. Something along $800 for the foil version. And, yeah, judging by the Wilds of Eldraine printing, which was also part of a bonus sheet (Enchanting Tales), these are actually the expected prices even well after the set's hype dies down.

Do you pay the 1 (hundred, times two and a half)?

Wrap Up

Lightning Bolt | Illustration by Toshitaka Matsuda

And that's pretty much all there is about Final Fantasy‘s Through the Ages bonus sheet! It has no unifying mechanical theme; WotC just went ham and jammed a ton of great Magic cards along with existing Final Fantasy artwork from some of the most recognizable FF artists, to make pack-cracking even more exciting.

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Herko Kerghans

Herko has been battling online since EVE was a thing, fell in love with digital CCGs nearly a decade ago, and got his first taste of MTG during Arena's Open Beta. He loves Limited formats, crunching data, and (usually silly) puns and wordplay.