Final Fantasy: Top 5 Best Cards for Historic

Historic is an exclusive digital format that works, in a way, like Modern in MTG Arena. As a result, the Historic meta is very similar to the Modern meta.

Currently, the meta includes decks like Boros Energy, Belcher, Affinity, and many other combo decks that also see play on tabletop in some way.

Final Fantasy will bring new cards to Historic that can benefit certain strategies and enable new ones. In this article, we'll go through five of them, one for each color. I believe these cards have a lot of potential for this format, so let's see which decks can make them shine!

Restoration Magic is extremely versatile and can fit decks like Boros Energy or Azorius Artifacts really well, as they both need to protect their creatures.

Its first mode grants a single creature indestructible and hexproof, but its second mode does the same and also gives you 3 life. As for its third mode, it protects all your creatures from any removal except global exiles, and gives you 6 life.

Boros Auras is another popular aggro list in this format that could play this card, considering it lets you protect more than a creature at once and this deck doesn't play any card that does that.

Furthermore, Izzet Wizards sees play in Historic and is one of the most popular decks right now. It performs really well, and got even stronger after it started playing Cori-Steel Cutter, one of the most impactful cards in MTG in the last couple of months. However, Final Fantasy might just bring us a new equipment card to play alongside Cutter.

Astrologian's Planisphere is an artifact that also costs two mana, but features a new ability, Job Select, which creates a token creature when this equipment card enters play and equips it to that token. The equipped creature becomes a Wizard and gains the ability to get a +1/+1 counter whenever you cast a non-creature spell and whenever you draw your third card each turn.

Izzet can do these two things rather easily. Though Steel Cutter might still be better in some aspects, particularly as it's a token engine, Planisphere is valuable too, as it lets you create a solid threat on the board that can quickly spiral and end the game.

Sephiroth, Fabled Soldier is an excellent payoff card for Yawgmoth and maybe even for some Sam Combo version. Both decks center around sacrifice interactions, and, though you'll have to set it up, if you play him at the right time, Sephiroth can be a perfect win condition in them.

Sam Combo might not have space for this card, considering it prefers creatures that can play with Lurrus of the Dream Den, but it's worth a try, even if it's just with one version of this deck. As for Yawgmoth, I firmly believe we can play this card in it as a one-of.

Fire Magic is another reasonably cheap modal card for this format that can easily fit many decks. It is basically a sweeper with three different modes.

Its first mode is an End the Festivities at instant speed, which is quite rare, as you'll only find this type of effect in the game at sorcery speed. Its second mode is a Fiery Cannonade, and the third is an instant speed Anger of the Gods.

They're all excellent, even more so considering this format is full of decks with creatures you can easily target with this sweeper, like Boros Energy, for instance.

Tifa Lockhart is one of the most fun creatures in this set because she will let us play a completely new Green Stompy build in the format. Tifa has Landfall*, which lets you double her power whenever a land enters play on your side of the board. As such, you can use this to create a one-hit-kill deck.

With Tifa in play, you may cast a Scale Up on her, make her a 6/4, and keep her abilities. Then, just play a fetch land on the board and sacrifice it to get another land. This way, you'll double Tifa's power twice, and end up with a 24/4 creature with trample that could very well deal lethal damage to your opponent.

The order above is important. If you put a land in play before you pump her, she won't have enough power to deal lethal damage.

Final Fantasy will be available in Magic Arena on July 10th! You can check out the entire set by clicking here.

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