Summary
- A game-breaking combo in the upcoming Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy set has already been discovered.
- This combo centres around Noctis, Prince of Lucis.
- Using several artifact cards you can generate infinite health at no cost.
Magic: The Gathering’s secret lair crossover with Final Fantasy isn’t releasing until June 13, but we’ve already seen quite a few of the cards. As you might expect, the community’s theorycrafters have already been hard at work figuring out powerful card combinations.
One of the most exciting cards releasing with the set is Noctis, Prince of Lucis—the protagonist of Final Fantasy 15 and potentially a menace to Magic: The Gathering players in the years to come. Noctis is a 4/3 White/Blue/Black hybrid with Lifelink, with an ability that reads, “You may cast artifact spells from your graveyard by paying 3 life in addition to paying their other costs. If you cast a spell this way, that artifact enters with a finality counter on it.”
Noctis’ personal journey in Final Fantasy 15 is centred around him wielding the weapons of past monarchs, making a focus on artifacts thematically appropriate for the character.
And We’ve Broken It…
A user named xTGE has already discovered a very powerful combo using Noctis, which they describe as “broken”. The combo involves the cards Aetherflux Reservoir and Mox Diamond, along with Noctis.
Aetherflux Reservoir is an artifact that gives the player one life for every spell they cast during a turn, every time they cast a spell during that turn. Mox Diamond is an artifact that costs zero mana that offers you a choice when it comes into play: discard a land or sacrifice Mox Diamond. You may see where this is going.
With Aetherflux Reservoir and Noctis on the board, and Mox Diamond in the graveyard, you can generate infinite health. This is done by using Noctis’ ability to play Mox Diamond from the graveyard, which costs three health, and declining to sacrifice a land, sending it back to the graveyard.
Crucially, if you choose not to discard a land, Mox Diamond never enters the battlefield. This means it won’t receive a finality counter, which would cause Mox Diamond to be exiled rather than returning to the graveyard, rendering it unusable for Noctis.
Simply repeat this process, next time paying 3 life to gain 2 life and so on. You can then generate infinite health and use Aetherflux Reservoir’s ability to one-shot every other player in the game. As you probably guessed, there are tons of other cards that an infinite combo like this can be useful for.
Magic: The Gathering’s highly anticipated Final Fantasy set will release on June 13.
Magic: The Gathering
- Franchise
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Magic: The Gathering
- Original Release Date
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August 5, 1993
- Player Count
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2+
