Over the last two years, I have had the pleasure of working with the team at Ravensburger to cover a somewhat new-to-me category: trading card games
(If you look at the bottom left of the card, you'll notice that it says FFVIII right beside the collector number, letting you know which Final Fantasy videogame it hails from)
Magic: The Gathering has specific ways it represents story elements through its gameplay, and I'm happy to see that these mechanics were translated so well to create an authentic-feeling Final Fantasy experience that goes much deeper than Cactuar's 9999 damage ability
This can be an intensely frustrating strategy for the Amber and Amethyst player's opponent
The big new addition is the Bambi characters with some seriously cool cards here
Listings for the card went as high as $1000 during the first weekend, and today it still fetches over $300 on TCGPlayer, ungraded