Magic: The Gathering

Despite the buzz surrounding the upcoming Magic: The Gathering – Final Fantasy expansion, details had been scarce regarding the previously announced Final Fantasy Secret Lair offerings. Now, Wizards of the Coast has unveiled the items included in the drops along with the themes connecting the featured cards.

The Final Fantasy Secret Lairs will form part of the Summer Superdrop, launching on June 9 at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET. There are three Final Fantasy Secret Lair drops:

• Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Game Over
  • Five cards, all centered around Final Fantasy antagonists
• Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Weapons
  • Five cards, all focused on Final Fantasy weaponry
• Secret Lair x Final Fantasy: Grimoire
  • Five cards, all highlighting Final Fantasy spells

The drops will be sold both individually and in bundles, some of which will include a Gilded Lotus promotional card. A list of the cards included in the Final Fantasy Secret Lair drop can be found below.

Magic: The Gathering – Final Fantasy is set to be released on June 13 in local game stores and major retailers. Prerelease events will commence on June 6 at local game stores, while the Secret Lair Summer Superdrop will start on June 9.

Gilded Lotus

• Artifact
• Requires 5 mana to cast
• Tap this card: Add three mana of any one color.

Spira’s Punishment (reprint of Day of Judgment)

• Sorcery
• Requires two generic and two white mana to cast
• Eliminate all creatures.

Absorb into Time (reprint of Temporal Extortion)

• Sorcery
• Requires four black mana to cast
• Upon casting, any player may pay half their life, rounded up. If they do, counter Temporal Extortion.
• Take an additional turn following this one.

Merciless Poisoning (reprint of Toxic Deluge)

• Sorcery
• Requires two generic and one black mana to cast
• As an additional cost to play this spell, lose X life.
• Every creature gets -X/-X until the end of turn.

Unseat the Usurper (reprint of Praetor’s Grasp)

• Sorcery
• Requires one generic and two black mana to cast
• Search an opponent’s library for a card and exile it face down. That player then shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

Meteorfall (reprint of Star of Extinction)

• Sorcery
• Requires five generic and two red mana to cast
• Destroys target land. Meteorfall deals 20 damage to each creature and each planeswalker.

Yuna’s Sending Staff (reprint of Staff of the Storyteller)

• Artifact
• Requires one generic and one white mana to cast
• When this artifact is played, create a 1/1 white Spirit creature token with flying.
• Whenever you create one or more creature tokens, place a story counter on this artifact.
• Pay one white, tap this card, and remove a story counter: Draw a card.

Clive’s Invictus Blade (reprint of Blade of Selves)

• Artifact – Equipment
• Requires two generic mana to cast
• Requires four mana to equip
• Equipped creature has myriad. (Whenever it attacks, for each opponent other than the defending player, you may create a token copy that’s tapped and attacking that player or a planeswalker they control. Exile the tokens at the end of combat.)

Cloud’s Buster Sword (reprint of Umezawa’s Jitte)

• Legendary Artifact – Equipment
• Requires two generic mana to cast
• Requires two generic mana to equip
• Whenever the equipped creature inflicts combat damage, add two charge counters on Cloud’s Buster Sword.
• Remove a charge counter from Cloud’s Buster Sword: Choose one –
  • The equipped creature gains +2/+2 until the end of turn.
  • Target creature gets -1/-1 until the end of turn.
  • You gain 2 life.

Gaia’s Dark Hammer (reprint of Colossus Hammer)

• Artifact – Equipment
• Requires one generic mana to cast
• Requires eight generic mana to equip
• The equipped creature receives +10/+10 and loses…