The FF set for MTG sold $200 million in one day, setting an impossibly high record to beat for future releases, and it was five years in the making - it even started before Final Fantasy 16 came out, with Wizards of the Coast working closely with Square Enix to then integrate that game too
Were there any close runner-ups you considered
For the first time ever, we felt the need to include punch-out lore counters in a preconstructed deck since you can use Tidus and other cards to move them around and keep your Summons on the battlefield for even longer
Though the Rise of the Floodborn card can get three lore just by questing, Grand Pabbie, Oldest and Wisest can also get lore through its Ancient Insight ability, which means that whenever you remove a damage from any of your characters, then you automatically gain a lore
Commander is often referred to as the face of Magic: The Gathering for several reasons, like the sales of Commander products, how engaged fans are with the format, the fact that it's a multiplayer setting rather than the usual 1v1 scenario, and the fact that it can be relatively easy to get into with precon decks
This Amber and Emerald starter deck focused a lot on the Dalmatian puppies , which also included a new way to play, by allowing a player to have up to 99 copies of the tail wagger cards in one single deck though, the starter deck did not do that, thankfully
