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Final Fantasy 7’s Most Iconic City Is Coming To Magic: The Gathering

admin May 26, 2025

Summary

Magic: The Gathering adds iconic Midgar city from Final Fantasy 7 as a Land-Town Adventure card.
Midgar card can be used as a basic Swamp or to sacrifice a creature for cards.
The card, based on Final Fantasy 7, references Shinra Corporation’s energy-draining reactors.

Magic: The Gathering is bringing the most iconic city from the Final Fantasy series into the game as a unique kind of Land, one that matches the fearsome reputation it had in its own title.

One of the unique Final Fantasy mechanics being added to Magic: The Gathering involves its special Land-Town cards. Locations like Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X are classed as both a Land and an Adventure card, meaning they have a secondary use that can be activated for an additional cost.

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The MagicTCG Reddit has another spoiler for an upcoming Final Fantasy crossover set. The card in question is Midgar, City of Mako, based on the iconic location from Final Fantasy 7. It’s a Land-Town card with a power that will be familiar to fans of the source material.

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Midgar Mako Reactor Final Fantasy VII Remake Cover art — Image Via Square Enix

When used as a regular land, Midgar functions like a basic Swamp, providing a single black mana. However, if it’s alternate condition is used, then it acts as Sorcery that allows the player to sacrifice an artifact or creature to draw two cards, at the cost of three black mana.

Midgar, City of Mako’s power, refers to how the Shinra Corporation in Final Fantasy 7 is using the literary power of the land as an energy source. When a lifeform dies in Final Fantasy 7, their spirit rejoins the Lifestream within the world, and the Shinra Corporation is draining it, prompting eco-terrorist groups to oppose them.

The might of the Shinra Corporation cannot be understated, and Midgar, City of Mako is equally as impressive. Tying a sacrifice/draw effect to a land is a fantastic addition to black decks and anything comboing with it, ensuring Mako Reactors are going to be draining life from across the entire Magic: The Gathering multiverse.