It’s hard to believe we’re a couple of weeks into the Final Fantasy set already, and yet it won’t be long until Edge of Eternities arrives thanks to Magic: The Gathering’s rapid product cadence.
In the meantime, there have been more big card price changes, and many of them revolve around everyone’s favorite new card, Vivi Ornitier.
Climbers: Let's Talk About Vivi Ornitier
Vivi has been a very popular card since his debut, and the diminutive spellcaster has made a big impression.
He’s dropped to just under $50 now, but he’s still seeing plenty of synergistic cards climbing.
One of those is Savor the Moment, which gives you a double turn for just three mana. That then powers up Vivi, too. Market price is up to $9.10, over a 50% boost versus last month.
As we covered in our recent synergies feature, Harmonic Prodigy gives double Wizard triggers – nice! That means it's gone up by 118.70% in the past month (246.76% in three) – not so nice!
That's good for those that own the card, not so good for those who are looking to pick it up standalone. Still, market is still just $12.75 right now, so it could be a lot worse.
Moving away from Vivi, Tifa’s getting some love from Bristly Bill, Spine Sower. This Outlaws of Thunder Junction card can help power up our martial artist heroine, but at a cost of almost $40 now.
Another nifty synergy that's climbing is Perch Protection. This Instant has climbed from a dollar to almost $6, since it handily ties into Chocobo decks.
Crashers: Doctor Whom?
As we also covered in our synergies feature, Doctor Who's Barbara Wright is a great companion (in and out of the TARDIS) for summon-focused Final Fantasy decks, and she’s dropping ever so slightly.
She’s just now at $3.80, down from a $4.44 high a week back (albeit still massively up versus 3-months ago… 2135.29%!)
Final Fantasy’s Golbez, Crystal Collector has dropped to well under $3 now, as has Aerith, Last Ancient, who was $15 just a short while ago.
Kefka, Court Mage has seen a big drop since pre-release, but keeps climbing and dropping ever-so-slightly since. It’s just $4 right now.
Climbers Again? A Surge [Foil] in Price
Surge Foils, which appear in other MTG Universes Beyond sets like Fallout and Warhammer 40K, are a unique style of foiling that is significantly prettier than their regular foil counterparts.
Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER, currently has a $718.89 market price. Yes, you read that correctly. He has extremely powerful abilities, and is now a game-changer in Pioneer Sacrifice decks.
The market prices for some of these are obviously a little bit insane, but I expect they'll go down a bit once the hype dies down. Though, that could be a while.
Back in the old days of Magic (like ten years ago), single card prices were based mostly on their age, availability, and playability. For awhile, cards like Jace, Vryn's Prodigy were $100+ extreme outliers due to its power and prominence in that Standard format.
Now, with Universes Beyond sets, casual Magic fans buying into the game to chase these gorgeous treatments have driven up prices. Jace is now sitting around $4 since it's been a victim of power creep, but I'm not sure these Final Fantasy Surge Foils will follow the same trend.
MTG Sealed Sets
Everything else Final Fantasy is pretty hot right now, so if you manage to find anything in stock, it might be worth picking up ASAP to avoid disapointment.
Looking for more TCG discussion and market watch? Check out the full MTG release schedule for 2025, last week's MTG price movers and shakers, or, on the Pokemon side of things, our latest crashers and climbers for Pokemon TCG and the most expensive 151 cards going right now for Pokemon trainers.
Lloyd Coombes is Gaming Editor @ Daily Star. He's a big fan of Magic: The Gathering and other collectible card games, much to his wife's dismay. He's also a tech, gaming, and fitness freelancer seen at Polygon, Eurogamer, Macworld, TechRadar, Tom’s Guide, IGN, and more.
Thanks to TCGPlayer, we’ve pulled together the biggest climbers and crashers for this week.
This article includes contributions from Robert Anderson and Myles Obenza.
