With the dust settling after the release ofMagic: The Gathering’sFinal Fantasycollaboration, there are almost too many great cards to consider adding to your collection. While the official Pre-cons for theFinal Fantasyset offer excellent flavor from different eras of the franchise, there’s nothing like tailoring a deck to your own needs and preferences. Thankfully, theFinal Fantasyset has no shortage of high synergy cards to choose from.
It’s hard not to pick powerful commanders from across the franchise when considering cards to add to your decks, buteven cheaper card options with shorter abilities can have great potential. Whether you’re going for fast-paced ramping, quick damage combos, or threatening your opponents, there are always plenty of ways to improve on already solid foundations. Whether you haven’t had a chance or don’t feel like committing to one ofMagic: The Gathering’sFinal FantasyCommander Pre-cons, there are still plenty of excellent singles to add to your commander decks.
10Emet-Selch, Unsundered Can Be A Great Partner For Graveyard Synergy
A Powerful Commander Card With Even Greater Combo Potential
Although a commander like Emet-Selch, Unsundered and his Hade, Sorcerer of Eld backside is harder to fully utilize in most decks, it still has great potential for some powerful combos, whether he’s your primary commander or not.Stacking up your graveyard with powerful spells, Emet can temporarily unlock your graveyard after having 14 or more cards in the pile, letting you unleash them at will so long as it’s still your turn.
Although Emert’s transformed Hades form does cause further cards to be exiled instead of getting re-used again in the graveyard, there are plenty of ways to avoid the downside while still reaping the rewards. Bytemporarily phasing out Hades, Sorcerer of Eld, after summoning a card, you can still cast the spell without having to exile it, allowing you to rinse and repeat until your opponents have been reduced to despair.
9Jumbo Cactuar Has Deadly Potential With The Right Buffs
Providing An Easy Target To Distract Your Opponents
Although Jumbo Cactuar raised plenty of controversy when it was first released, it’snot a broken cardby any means on its own. While the 10,000 attack damage is terrifying to consider at first glance, it’s not too difficult to deal with in a format like Commander, butJumbo Cactaurstill has some exciting combo potentialwhen used properly.
Instants like Fling or Tend The Pests can put you in an incredibly favorable position just from getting to the attack stage.
There are plenty of ways to make great use out of a card like Jumbo Cactuar, so long as an opponent doesn’t immediately take it out of the game, and even then,it’s a great way to reduce the amount of counterplay at their disposal. Even if your opponent has plenty of blockers, instants like Fling or Tend The Pests can put you in an incredibly favorable position just from getting to the attack stage, setting up an easy Wincon.
8PuPu UFO Could Become A Staple To Your Landfall Deck
Ramping Your Manabase Has Never Looked So Cute
While being able to play additional mana has solid but limited benefits for most players,PuPu UFO can be a massive significant boon for any deck that relies on fast-paced ramping or any form of landfall triggers.Although this artifact isn’t too powerful on its own, the PuPu UFO is incredibly easy to incorporate into your deck as a colorless artifact.
There are plenty of ways to get even more out of a card like PuPu UFO, especially with abilities that untap a card, allowing you to triple the amount of lands you may play in a single turn for devastating effects. Even without a dedicated landfall deck,being able to counteract the negative effects of land like Radkdos Carnarium is a useful trick to have up your sleeve.
7Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian Can Deal Significant Damage To Unprepared Opponents
Just As Powerful As It Is Hard To Pronounce
Although Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian shines drastically brighter in a graveyard deck,Fandaniel still has considerable potential for any Black deck, especially with some Red flair. Filling your graveyard with Surveil on top of regular spellcasting, it’s easy to quickly load your graveyard to unleash a devastating amount of damage while whittling away your opponents' creatures.
On top of forcing your opponents to sacrifice their valuable creatures, dealing two damage for every instant or sorcery spell in our graveyard is an easy mechanic to abuse.Even without being entirely dedicated to the ability, Fandaniel is just waiting to be added to your next compatible commander deck, adding an easy way to deal some extra player damage.
6Noctis, Prince of Lucis Provides Significant Artifact Potential
Offering A Variety Of Combo Potential For An Underrated Commander
It didn’t take long forMTGplayers to conjure up some powerful combos for Noctis, making him easily one of the highest potential cards from the set.Even if you don’t plan on using Noctis as a commander, he’s still an incredibly powerful addition to most artifact equipment decks, especially when paired with the right cards.
While Noctis’s controller-damaging ability is one of themany flavorful effectsfrom theFinal Fantasyset,there are plenty of ways around it that make Noctis easily used in infinite combos.With cards like Aetherflux Reservoir and the ridiculously priced Mox Diamond, you can not only generate infinite health from Noctis but also annihilate your opponents by sacrificing a measly 50 life.
5Sphere Grid Is An Effective Way To Buff Your Creatures
A Cheap Alternative To Increase The Potential Of Weaker Cards
While a +1/+1 enchantment is nothing new for green,enchantments like Sphere Grid are still an excellent asset to have on the board for any compatible commander deck. With the potential to add both +1/+1 counters and even trample to a wide variety of creatures, you can get a lot more out of weaker creatures with the right setup.
Combined with other counter-giving cards,Sphere Grid can quickly become a significant problem for players without a proper way to deal with trample, especially with cards that trigger off of opponent damage. From large dinosaurs to smaller enemies that love to chip away at opponents, it’s easy to see Sphere Grid becoming a staple in plenty of green creature decks.
4Tataru Taru Is A Great Inclusion For Group Hug Decks
Punishing Greedy Opponents From Reaping Your Rewards
Although Tataru Taru isn’t the strongest way to punish opponents benefiting from Grouphug draw mechanics, it’s just enough to benefit you without scaring off other players entirely.Building up an arsenal of treasure tokens is an excellent safeguard for future emergencies, letting you pump out some powerful creatures or defensive spells with ease.
When combined with cards that benefit your opponents a little too much or even more than yourself,Tataru Taru is an incredibly cheap way to even the playing field for only two mana. Despite the drawback of only being able to activate Tataru Taru’s ability once per turn, there are still plenty of opportunities to build up a considerable horde of valuable treasure.
3Lifestream’s Blessing Is Every Green Player’s Dream
Card Draw And Life Gain In One Simple Package
Although it was hard to choose between this card and Ancient Adamantoise,Lifestream’s Blessing can be an incredibly useful boon for just about any Green deck. Combining some of Green’s best effects with massive monster-related card draw and significant health gain, Lifestream’s Blessing can be a lifesaver to keep you in the game long enough to set up your Wincon.
Although Lifestream’s Blessing’s full potential only activates by paying its Foretell costs, keeping the card handy for the moment you set down a massive creature is a great way to avoid its cancellation while acting as an insurance policy for your life total. Although it’s not a game-changing card by any means,Lifestream’s Blessing is stillan excellent choice for most Green stompy decks that need more survivability and card drawwhile saving deck space for more monstrous creatures.
2Matoya, Archon Elder Is A New Staple For Blue Players
Boosting Your Scrying Abilities To Even Greater Heights
At first glance, a card like Matoya, Archon Elder isn’t as exciting as some flashier options out there, but Matoya has astounding potential to become a staple in just about any Blue deck. Given how prevalent scrying and surveil mechanics are for the color,being able to draw after every single activation is an excellent way to get even more value from great cards.
With the right card combos, Mayota can easily become one of thebestFinal Fantasycommandersto choose from, making cheap cards even more versatile by adding card draw to their low-cost effects. Even with Mayota as part of your 99,utilizing this creature can allow for all kinds of egregious Blue combo shenaniganswhile keeping your hand fully stocked at all times.
1Vivi Ornitier Offers Excellent Mana Ramp For A Variety Of Decks
Dishing Out Damage While Building Up Your Manabase
Surpassing the expectations of a Red and Blue combo card,Vivi Ornitier is just as excellent a mana ramp as it is a danger to your opponents. With both of its abilities synergizing excellently with each other, there’s very little room for improvement for a 3-mana creature like Vivi Ornitier.
Vivi can easily net you an absurdly high manabase to unleash plenty of powerful spells.
Although Vivi Ornitier has some strong potential as your primary commander,just having Vivi included in your deck can be a massive boon, with plenty of game-ending combos just waiting to be abused.Whether artificially boosting its counters with cheap spells or utilizing equipment to buff the legendary creature, Vivi can easily net you an absurdly high manabase to unleash plenty of powerful spells, or even melt yourMagic: The Gatheringopponents down on its own.
