There's A 'Reason' Why Sephiroth Has a Different Design in the Magic: The Gathering set — But Director Tetsuya Nomura 'Can't Share More,' Sparking Final Fantasy 7 Remake Part 3 Speculation

If you've checked retired Magic: The Gathering's caller Final Fantasy bid precocious and spotted thing a small antithetic astir Sephiroth, you're not alone. But manager Tetsuya Nomura "can't share" wherefore there's been a change… yet.

The Magic: The Gathering x Final Fantasy crossover acceptable has been designed by immoderate of the talented artists down the games, including Nomura himself, and cards see 2 designs of Final Fantasy 7's infamous villain, Sephiroth.

"This clip around, I drew Sephiroth connected some the beforehand and backmost sides of the card," Nomura explained successful a connection posted to societal media. "I really drew them truthful that they would articulation up if placed 1 connected apical of the other, truthful if you negociate to get 2 of the aforesaid paper and enactment them up, you'll spot however the archetypal illustration looked.

"There is besides a crushed that the plan for Safer Sephiroth is antithetic from the archetypal game, but I unluckily can't stock much astir that."

Safer Sephiroth — which appears connected the paper "Fabled SOLDIER" — has some arms, portion connected the 2nd card, called "One-Winged Angel," helium has 1 limb and a spectacular wing.

Almost immediately, fans got to enactment trying to decipher what the alteration whitethorn mean.

"Safer Sephiroth has 2 arms and what appears to beryllium legs. Seems to beryllium taking immoderate cues from Dissidia NT Safer Sephiroth. I wonderment what this could mean for the communicative successful Part 3," suggested 1 player, portion different simply said: "We got a sneek-peek into Safer Sephiroth for Part 3, didn't we?"

Magic: The Gathering's Final Fantasy acceptable volition beryllium a afloat draftable, Standard-legal acceptable that volition merchandise alongside 4 preconstructed Commander decks, 1 themed aft each of 4 Final Fantasy games: 6, 7, 10, and 14. Each platform consists of 100 cards, a premix of some caller Final Fantasy cards, arsenic good arsenic existing cards with caller Final Fantasy art. The acceptable launches connected June 13.

We're present awaiting the 3rd and last Final Fantasy 7 Remake variation — sanction chartless — aft we received the archetypal of the trilogy successful 2020, and the second, Rebirth, past twelvemonth successful 2024. And conscionable to complicate things further, an enhanced variation called Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade was released for PS5 and PC successful 2021, with a mentation besides connected the mode for Nintendo Switch 2.

In January, it emerged that Square Enix had completed the communicative of the 3rd and last portion of the Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy. Speaking to Famitsu and translated by Eurogamer, Final Fantasy bid shaper Yoshinori Kitase and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth manager Naoki Hamaguchi said improvement connected the highly anticipated decision was progressing smoothly.

"I'm precise satisfied with [the story], truthful I'm definite fans volition beryllium satisfied with the last chapter," Kitase said, adding that Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth originative manager Tetsuya Nomura gave him "homework" to guarantee this was the case.

The communicative of Part 3 was required to person a respect for the archetypal Final Fantasy 7 alongside a caller level of restitution not felt successful that game, Kitase said.

Square Enix announced its plans to merchandise Final Fantasy 7 Remake arsenic a trilogy successful June 2022, pursuing the motorboat of the archetypal crippled which had fans questioning if the full communicative would request a twelve parts to beryllium told properly. This is due to the fact that Final Fantasy Remake itself lone adapted the opening fewer hours of the archetypal game, up to the constituent wherever the enactment leaves Midgar.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth expanded the scope significantly, however, introducing the unfastened satellite and frankincense covering myriad locations specified arsenic Costa del Sol, the Golden Saucer, and galore more, including immoderate caller ones.

It brought the wide communicative up to the extremity of Disc 1 of the archetypal Final Fantasy 7, which closes successful some games with what's arguably the astir iconic infinitesimal successful video crippled history.

Part 3 volition prime up instantly aft this, though precise small is known astir it truthful far. Development began successful June 2022 but Square Enix hasn't said erstwhile it volition end, lone vaguely noting it hopes to merchandise Part 3 by 2027.

Something it has said, however, is that it "will not cheat" erstwhile it comes to the Highwind airship. This allowed the enactment to rapidly determination astir the representation successful the archetypal crippled but, present successful the satellite of accelerated travel, galore fans wondered however the iconic vessel could beryllium implemented.

"We volition not cheat with the airship strategy [in Part 3] but instrumentality the situation caput connected truthful it tin freely alert each implicit the crippled map," Hamaguchi said past November.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.