Edit: we had a fun and successful Final Fantasy prerelease weekend! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, whether to pick up pre-orders or play in our events.
Other edits are in italics throughout the post.
It’s almost here! Magic the Gathering: Final Fantasy prerelease weekend starts on June 6th, just under a week away.
If you haven’t seen the card spoilers already, you can check them out on Scryfall here. There are some incredible cards in both the regular set and the commander set, and considering the regular set will be legal in 60-card formats like Standard and Modern, it’s going to be interesting to see which cards get played in competitive formats.
Because this is already the best-selling Magic set of all time, and because we’re seeing incredible demand for this release, we wanted to go over what to expect this week, what’s the same, what’s different, and how to best navigate the Final Fantasy prerelease weekend.
Pre-Orders
Pre-orders for Final Fantasy have been closed since early May. We had Play Booster boxes available in our online shop but our remaining stock is reserved for in-store customers until Wizards of the Coast completes a reprint of the set.
If you did pre-order, then you’ll receive an email on Monday, June 2 with details for how to pick up your order. We’ll have two lines going on Friday morning, one for customers who prepaid to swing by and pick up their items, and the regular line at the counter for anyone looking to shop.
If you did not pre-order, then you’ll have to stop by on Friday morning or throughout the weekend to pick up the items you’re looking for. We’ll have plenty of singles and Play Boosters, but are going to run out of Commander Decks, Collector Boosters, and Bundles pretty quickly so please plan your trip accordingly.
In the future, for highly in-demand releases like these, we typically offer pre-orders ahead of time through our Discord server of nearly 2,000 members. All you need to do to enjoy these perks is to join our community here!
Item Availability
Because Final Fantasy is so popular, and because just about every store in the country got allocated down from our original order requests, some items are going to disappear fast this weekend. We tried really hard to get as much of this release as possible, but because allocations were so tight it’s important to recognize the real constraints facing the following items:
- Collector Boosters – we’re not selling full boxes on release. Instead, we’re limiting sales to 6 packs per person. We got less than half of what we ordered and are expecting to be sold out before the end of Friday.
- Collector Commander Decks – two of the decks are available: Counter Blitz (FF X) and Scions & Spellcraft (FF XIV). The other two decks already sold out through pre-orders.
- Commander Decks – we’ll be low on Limit Break and Scions & Spellcraft, but have a decent supply of the other two. These were the most pre-ordered items overall and will be limited on release. The good news, though, is commander decks aren’t a single-print-run item so we will be restocking them in the future.
- Bundles – we got very few of these from our distributor, so they’ll go fast.
On the other hand, we have plenty of Play Booster Boxes to go around, and are opening a ton of singles from the main Final Fantasy set so you can get all the goodies you need to upgrade your decks, build new ones, and fill out your collection.
Prerelease Events
Unlike normal prerelease weekends, you must have a ticket ahead of time to attend our events. Eventlink doesn’t enforce a player cap, but we only have 66 chairs, so we’re selling tickets ahead of time to guarantee your admission to each event. If you buy a ticket, you have a spot in that event.
Please be aware that tickets are nonrefundable. Buying a ticket is a commitment to attend an event that stops someone else from being able to play, so we want to make sure everyone who has a ticket will be attending the event. That said, if something comes up, please let us know and we’ll do our best to work with you.
You can purchase a ticket for the Friday night event, Saturday morning and evening events, and our Sunday Two-Headed Giant event right here from our website by clicking on the products below. Please note that both you and your partner must separately purchase a ticket for Two-Headed Giant so we can register both of your names.
Our Sunday night event at 6p is walk-in registration only to end the weekend on a more casual note.
Event tickets removed since they’re in the past.
In the future, visit our shop tab to preregister for our events.
If we have spots leftover for any of our events, we’ll open up registration to in-store customers about an hour ahead of the start time. For sold out events, we’ll have a waiting list where you can put your name ahead of the event in case anyone no-shows or we end up with extra space.
Promos
We’ll be giving out the crystal d10 dice to each person who attends our events this weekend while supplies last. It’ll be given to you when you check in for the event, and you’ll also receive a special token of Tim! One of our good friends made custom tokens and we chose to turn Tim into his very own 8-bit Final Fantasy persona.
When you attend your 2nd prerelease of the weekend, we’ll also be giving out commemorative Final Fantasy dice bags. These are extremely limited and will also go out on a first-come basis based on when you check in for your 2nd event, so please plan accordingly.
Miscellaneous Events
If you are not a Magic player and are looking to use our gaming space this weekend, please understand we expect to be absolutely packed and may not have room to accommodate you. Call the store ahead of your visit (303-482-1829) so we can let you know if there’s room.
Closing Thoughts
It’s going to be an incredible weekend! Please be courteous to one another and to our team, and have fun playing in the most highly-anticipated Magic the Gathering prerelease of all time!
We’re so excited to have you come game and shop with us, and will do our best to make sure it’s a fun and successful weekend for all of us.
PS, look at Vivi. Look at this cute art. This set is amazing!
