Summary
The card reveals forMagic: The Gathering’sFinal Fantasyexpansion are coming thick and fast with the set’s launch now less than a month away. Among them is a Suplex card, and yes, it is a reference to the iconic Final Fantasy moment that springs to mind whenever you hear the wrestling move and the name of the series in the same sentence.
Even though inspiration for Final Fantasy cards has been pulled from across all of its games, the focus is really on Final Fantasies 6, 7, 10, and 14, with each of those games getting its own Commander Deck. That’s where the inspiration for MTG’s new Suplex card comes from, as it takes the iconic moment fromFinal Fantasy 6where you can literally suplex a train.
It’s a moment that has only ever been seen in two dimensions before, both in the original game on the SNES and then in the Pixel Remaster collection, so to see it reimagined as MTG artwork is pretty special, and via an entirely new card, not a reskinned one, no less. In Final Fantasy 6, Sabin can turn back and hit the Phantom Train pursuing him and the rest of his party with a suplex during a pretty tense boss fight.
Suplex A Train Onto Your Tabletop This Summer
One Of Final Fantasy’s Most Famous Moments Has Its Own MTG Card
While there is at least one card in the Final Fantasy expansion that uses pixel art, MTG has taken a different approach for the Suplex card. The reimagining of one of the most memed moments in Final Fantasy history puts the camera behind Sabin, running at the train, arms out ready to grab it around the middle to deliver a pro wrestling move that any WWE Superstar would be proud of.
The opponent you’re hitting with a well-timed suplex in MTG won’t be a train, of course, but the Phantom Train that gets lifted up and slammed back down roof-first is featured in the artwork. Who or whatever you hit with a suplex in MTG will suffer three damage, and then be exiled rather than die if that would have been enough damage to kill it.
The card even has a Sabin quote incorporated into its design: “The time has come to put my training to good use”, which is a nice touch.
It’s been a busy week for MTG Final Fantasy cards making headlines.Tetsuya Nomura’s comments about a Safer Sephiroth card he designedhave many convinced that’s what the villain’s final form will look like in Remake Part 3, andTifa’s Secret Rendezvous card suggests her date with Cloud at the Gold Saucer is the canon option.
