The Final Fantasy Universes Beyond Magic: The Gathering Set is excellent. My only knock against it is how expensive it was to buy anything at launch between stores charging way over MSRP and scalpers driving up prices on reseller sites. For the first time since the record-breaking expansion launched, however, you can finally get the much sought after pre-constructed Final Fantasy Commander decks at a huge discount. In fact many of them are finally selling for even less than what they launched at.
The biggest deal is for the bundle of all four decks—Revival Trance (FFVI), Limit Break (FFVII), Counter Blitz (FFX), and Scions & Spellcraft (FFXIV)—that’s been popping up on Amazon for way below its normal $280 price. Right now, you can buy the bundles as part of a “limited time deal” for just $190, or less than $50 per deck. Considering each deck also comes with a two-card sample collector booster which can include some of the rarest cards in the set, that’s not a bad deal at all.
But you can also buy all of the individual decks for some of their lowest prices as well right now. While stock and prices are always in flux, there have been a lot more stores selling Counter Blitz, Revival Trance, and Scions & Spellcraft for as low as $50 each. Some resellers on TCGPlayer and eBay are even selling them for less. Limit Break—which features the Cloud, Ex-SOLDIER commander card—is still going for closer to $70, which is what it was priced at back when all those pre-orders immediately sold out earlier in the year.
Counter Blitz is probably the best of the bunch when it comes to a strong, well-rounded Commander deck, but for fans of Final Fantasy, each is fun and compelling in its own way, and features cards referencing characters and events from across the franchise’s history. While MTG can feel overwhelming to try to get into, even for lapsed players who have a good understanding of the general landscape, the Commander decks are an easy way to just treat it like any other tabletop game you play every so often with friends.
Wizards of the Coast said it plans to keep printing the Final Fantasy set to meet demand, so hopefully prices will continue to drop. If you were one of those fans that resisted the FOMO and didn’t pay way over MSRP at launch, that patience just paid off.