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Universes Beyond Final Fantasy Prerelease
In the mid 1980s, struggling video game publisher Square Soft gave one of their game designers, himself also struggling after several failed games, one more chance to make a game for them. He'd had an idea for this game for a while, but until another company released a wildly successful game in the same genre Square didn't believe that this kind of game could succeed. The designer, after his several failures, had decided that if this game failed, he would retire from video games. But that didn't happen. Because that designer is Hironobu Sakaguchi, and that game is Final Fantasy.
Final Fantasy released on the Famicom in Japan in 1987, and took the gaming world by storm. In the 38 years since, there have been 16 main line Final Fantasy games, plus countless direct sequels (such as Final Fantasy X-2), spin-offs, and remakes. Now this legacy is coming to Magic the Gathering. Universes Beyond Final Fantasy will include cards based on iconic characters, monsters, weapons, and more, from all 16 main line Final Fantasy games. This will also be the first Universes Beyond set to be Standard Legal.
SpaceCat will be hosting Universes Beyond Final Fantasy Prerelease events on June 6th at 7:00 PM and June 7th at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM. We would like to hold additional prerelease events on June 8th, but we don't know yet whether or not we will have enough prerelease packs to do so. If we do not have enough, we will hold Universes Beyond Final Fantasy Booster Drafts that day starting at 2:00 PM, with new pods starting after that whenever we have both enough players and enough space to start one. When we have more information on how many prerelease packs we will actually be getting, we will update this page with more definitive information.
Each Prerelease event will cost $49.99 plus tax to enter. Each player will receive a prerelease pack containing 6 play booster packs of the set, a dated foil rare or mythic rare card from the set, and a spin-down life counter. Players will have 50 minutes to build a 40 card minimum deck from the contents of their prerelease pack plus basic lands (which we provide for players who don't bring their own). There will then be three 50 minute best of three matches played with those decks. Everything from the prerelease pack that doesn't go into the deck is considered sideboard, and players can swap cards between their deck and their sideboard between games or matches as much as they want. They can even swap to a completely different deck, so long as they only use cards from their prerelease pack and basic lands. At the end, prizes will be assigned based on match wins. 3-0 gets 5 Play Booster Packs, 2-1 gets 3 Play Booster Packs, and 1-2 gets 1 Play Booster Pack. Even if you don't win any matches you can still draw a random card from our pile of miscellaneous Magic promos. Join us in celebrating one of the best JRPG franchises in the world!