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PC Gamer
Jody Macgregor

Fans are celebrating Magic: The Gathering's latest return to its own setting, but numbers don't lie—the Final Fantasy crossover boosted revenue 23%

Sephiroth from Final Fantasy 7.

The planes of the Magic: The Gathering multiverse are separated by the Blind Eternities, a mysterious between-space that's never been fully explored. The latest set, Edge of Eternities, visits the boundary of the Blind Eternities for the first time, using it as the locale for a science-fantasy space opera that pushes at the limit of Magic's genre as well as its physical space.

Still, it's been heralded as another return-to-form by Magic fans online, like the more trad-fantasy Tarkir: Dragonstorm before it, thanks to taking place within Magic's expansive multiverse rather than fully beyond it as recent crossovers have. These crossovers are, in the words of YouTube comments and Reddit posts, evidence that Wizards of the Coast doesn't have confidence in Magic's actual identity, and will only hurt its brand.

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