Earlier this year, I found myself getting sucked back into the world of Magic: The Gathering by way of Final Fantasy when they released a set meant to honor every single game in the series!
Despite not having done anything with Magic since high school and in fact selling off my most expensive cards when the twins were born to open their college funds.
Side Note: It’s a little crazy that the most expensive card I sold in that batch about seven years ago got me about $250 (Revised Underground Sea) and today that same card goes for over a thousand dollars! Oops…
Anyways, after picking up a handful of cards on eBay just to check them out, I eventually decided to start collecting them myself – first a few at a time from eBay sellers and eventually stumbling upon Card Kingdom, which was actually the same place I sold those cards to years ago … and boy, did it get addictive from there! I don’t want to admit to how many orders I placed from my hospital bed in the first week I was recovering from my transplant, but needless to say it was several! 😉
As I write this post, I have about half of all of the Final Fantasy set – originally it was about 300 cards and I was only 9 away from being done, but then I decided to add the Commander series to my list, too, which brought the total up to 338 of 683 cards, which mind you is excluding all of the stupid expensive ones because this is already expensive enough as it is without some of them being $800 or more!
Anyways, I thought it would be fun to wrap up this post with a handful of my favorite cards from the Final Fantasy games that I did play, beginning with the one that started it all…
