A Veil Over the Land

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I downloaded MTG Arena a while ago and Final Fantasy is being advertised there alongside some cards that were shown yesterday.

Vivi, Terra, Kefka, Clive, and Noctis mythic cards & card sleeves are available in the bundles. There's no Cloud or Sephiroth sleeves...yet.

They have a ton more cards to show, including the Buster Sword they teased, but I'm definitely getting the feeling that Terra's getting pushed out really hard.

This isn't Dissidia though. In Dissida, every character was represented equally. In MTG, only a select few are in your face. So, I guess what they're doing is just popularizing the character. If Terra is up there with Cloud despite all the other characters they could have chosen, then something's obviously up with that ($14,000 statue aside).

I remember mentioning that being the possibility long ago, and it's happening. Back then if anyone mentioned Terra you'd get some Dissidia NT screenshot of her because they weren't doing anything at all with her and most people here probably still think Square-Enix would see Celes or Locke as the main character (Wizards wanted Celes too).

Cloud's cards are kinda "boring" (not my words), which makes me believe they have more for him. Also, Magitek Armor hasn't been shown once.

Well, there'll be more reveals almost every day.

A little MTG advice I guess, for non-commander, and maybe not Standard (that's always changing)...since a lot of people like shiny big cards.

IMO, Cloud's mythic is the best one so far. The others are slow. Even Lightning's is slow. They can just "die by removal" too. Cloud can be revived/blinked and give more value off the bat thanks to cheaper cards that revive lower power creatures than the others. No one would want to kill him because of his tutor ability too. His creature type is also good to have in white. Equipment is harder to remove and benefits any other creature.

Squall can revive him (& w/Fang to draw an extra card). If your equipped Cloud attacks alone while Squall is in play, his ability could trigger FOUR times. As a popular example, if you have Sword of Fire & Ice, you'll deal 8 damage (to up to four other targets) and draw four cards if you hit a player (not counting the 4 damage the equipment gives).

Sephiroth (1, 2) isn't immediately effective and you lose creatures because of him...who's to say you'll get to draw what you want with Sephiroth? Terra (1, 2) is a bit better than Sephiroth when she first enters (she can get what her transformation wants), but her transformation is slow if you don't have the right saga/enchantment combo immediately. Kefka (1, 2) is expensive and hands could be empty by that point.

If Cloud can't hit the opponent, well, maybe there's an equipment that can help.

Probably why he's "boring", his sword is likely the important card. Transform abilities are a really expensive crutch. Don't worry about the mythic rares if you want to play.

This video is kinda relevant for new players.

Also, there's no Sherlotta, so I rate the set a 1/10. But there's a look-alike, so 4/10. I don't like Blue, so 3/10.

The FF Magic the Gathering event will happen at PAX on the 10th (tomorrow).

You can find information as well as teased cards here.

Cloud immediately ends up in the Edge of Creation and never leaves until Sephiroth is defeated. I thought it odd that Cloud was separated from everyone else right after Jenova was defeated, but it makes sense when you remember the scene there in Remake.

When Zack does his attack with Cloud, they go back to Cloud who's still at the Edge of Creation while Zack is at Aerith's church.

I think the Edge of Creation is to Cloud what Aerith's church is to Zack.

In the video linked above, when Aerith joins Cloud in the battle he's still in the Edge of Creation because the rock formations are still there.

Meteor appears at Aerith's church with Zack for some reason, but it doesn't appear to Cloud. Zack has trouble meeting Aerith, but Cloud doesn't despite her being "dead". If that's a pattern, then it seems more likely that Zack will meet Terra first as the other hints from long ago imply.

They may also be hinting that the planets of FF6 (Cloud) & FF7 (Zack) will become one at some point. I wasn't sure it would get "that far", but that sounds like what Sephiroth's goal is.

I suppose they didn't have a better way of showing Cloud's "special place" other than having it on a rock in space with some faint yellow flower made of stars.

It could be that Aerith is "playing a part" for the character in Part 3 that may die before Jenova Absolute. At that part of the game, it'll have to be a REALLY IMPORTANT character, and I'd be surprised if it's just Zack.

I couldn't believe it'll be Tifa either, she's not "that type" of character.

I'm very certain that Sephiroth is trying to play Terra's "part" ("A touching reunion..."). Calling him "Sephiroth Reborn" may be a very indirect clue if we swap the person...if that's what they're hinting at.

I've been having more difficulties lately, so I'll see you all until something drops, and thanks for reading~

This is the biggest hint in Remake.

I wanted to explain something about this. Terra actually "talks" here.

Terra can "talk" if there are quotes. It means that they are referencing "something else". Due to Tifa's expression right after, it's definitely Terra's line (especially with the echo/reverb).

Aerith also had this expression when she showed off her red dress. It's just Terra's expression, I know others have mentioned it in that way. Tifa's eyes being that way though...doesn't fit the moment at all in any other way. It's almost like she got possessed when she said that line.

If I recall...both of these moments are in Sector 6.

Also, it's really odd how Leslie says "Huh?" but they both look at Cloud.

The orphans who do a play in the Children's Hideout also talk in quotes two times. They also have one of the biggest hints.

The other lines they say are not in quotes, but those lines show they're talking to Cloud, or at least it seems like it. If that IS the case, then the quoted lines may also be directed towards him in a weird existential sort of way.

I'm not 100% sure, but Cloud may be imitating the Squall/Leslie face when the camera switches to him.

There is another quote from Tifa that I know of...

This is from the ending of FF6, and also one of its biggest hints.

There's a song that I know I haven't mentioned. It's Eyes on Me, the FF8 song by Faye Wong.

"I saw you smiling at me Was it real, or just my fantasy? You'd always be there in the corner Of this tiny little bar."

Every character in FF6 gets one of these "cards", Terra's was just a bit weird since it doesn't make any sense with her character in the FF6 we know.

I'm not sure about what they do to create songs with celebrities, but this song is similar to how they did the Rebirth song "No Promises to Keep", which may be a "sequel" to "Eyes on Me"

"Walking city streets with worn cobblestones Listening to people rushing past to rhythms all their own Life passing me by, not thinking how the years have flown Until I met you."

If this is the case, then "Eyes on Me" is not about anything in FF8, it's also another song about Terra, which is not surprising, there's too much FF6 Opera stuff in that game and Squall/Rinoa are literally designed after Cloud & Terra.

"Eyes on Me" mentions "this tiny little bar" as the place "the guy" would always be in. I think this is why the bars in FF7 are called things like "Seventh Heaven" or "Turtle's Paradise", and why they put Tifa in charge of one while Aerith was given "flower duty".

When "No Promises to Keep" says "Till the day that we meet again On our street, I want to believe", it's actually a place in FF6. But right now, it's hard to visualize what exactly that scene looks like other than looking at what Cloud already does with Tifa or Aerith.

After this FF6 "name card" passes by, it's a conversation Terra has with Maduin about needing to be "strongly attached to something or someone" to prevent her from just vanishing from the world. Back during late 2019 this was one of the biggest reasons I started to wonder if there was actually a actual main character that was no longer there rather than the official "male Terra" line from 1994.

"Eyes on Me" also has a bunch of "Clerraisms", like "dream", "smile", being separated and thinking it was just a hallucination, etc...just like Hollow, just like the FF6 Opera, just like No Promises to Keep, and maybe some other random song.

This video compares the main theme of FF7 Remake ("Hollow Skies") to Terra's Theme and Awakening (FF6 songs).

Back when I posted this on Twitter, I remember writing something along the lines that it would take multiple repeat listens to "get it", especially with #6.

Comparison #3 is continuing the song with the slowed down version of Awakening.

Comparison #6 is comparing the "faint background noise" of Hollow.

This is using the SNES versions of Terra's Theme & Awakening.

I'm almost 100% convinced that the girl in the beginning of FF7 Remake is supposed to represent Terra. The clue is the dead flower right before she shows up on the Moogle slide...a slide that is out of place on top of the Sector 5 plate.

The flower is basically saying "I've waited THIS long".

My belief about the beginning of FF7 where there is just a bunch of stars being viewed by "someone" is that it's actually Terra, possibly looking for shooting stars but seeing none of them, which is why it transitions to Aerith immediately after, since she's designed as the FF6 Opera character in FF7 (hence the Loveless sign).

In Remake the "girl" looks at the Sector 5 reactor, which is hinting that information about Terra is found in Sector 5, which it did (as well as with the children). They show this area when Terra gets attacked by Sephiroth in Dissidia NT too.

The girl is also the first notable character to appear on the original trailer back in 2015 when she had a shirt with Priscilla's dolphin on it while the boys in the back have wooden Buster Swords. The dolphin is faint, but it's below the two buttons. It may be faint because it was a hint, but it's easy to see that the game changed dramatically since then. The eye zoom-in and dead yellow flower and still there.

The things said during this trailer appear to have a double meaning. One is that they're talking about us waiting for the Remake's announcement, and the other is the actual reunion at the end of the game.

The weirdest change is the slide. It was originally the shell building from the Forgotten Capitol. Around this point Cloud's "given" the ability to see another alternate world, which is why the rift in the sky and Aerith only appear to him. This may mean that he'll see the planet coming out of the sky, the characters, etc. related to that specific "alternate world".

When Sephiroth says that their world will "become a part of it", he's looking at the "flower nebula". The hint I posted about a while back shows that this "flower nebula" appears in Aerith's room, showing two circles becoming one almost exactly like Terra and Gaia in FF9 at the end of that game. The other circle looks like a sun (likely Gaia, FF7's planet) because of the FF6 opera "I'm the darkness, you're the stars. Our love is brighter than the sun."

This dialog by Sephiroth is implying that he wants the two planets to become one and that the only way Cloud can defeat Sephiroth is if Cloud "ceased to exist". Most things about Sephiroth are just him copying what Terra will likely do, since this is actually Jenova behaving like Terra.

The scene where Sephiroth/Jenova "saves" Cloud from the Midgardsormr is one example. I think he may be showing a scene after Cloud gives the Black Materia to Sephiroth and falls into the lifestream. In Ever Crisis, the portal that leads Kefka and other crazy stuff to be connected to FF7 is a product of the lifestream. Well, that COULD be a hint. The end of OG FF7 implies that Tifa will meet Terra alongside Cloud, so it may be a bit complicated.

Edit:

Over the years I've been wondering if they're trying to hint that Terra has a connection to Aerith through that mako pipe. I mean, we can go with the conventional wisdom that she's just "being Aerith", but the transition of scenes makes it more seem like a message is being given to Aerith, and that Ever Crisis "lifestream connects to other worlds" hint just fits the reason why she's at that pipe with her eyes closed.

All the cards from the Cloud/Sephiroth starter deck have leaked. I know Spanish, but the entire translated list of them is found here on Reddit or here in Kotaku if the Reddit post vanishes.

Left is Sephiroth deck and right is Cloud deck. Yes, there's a Suplex card.

There's also a post from Square Enix...

It's obviously teasing FF9, we can hold it at that. Well, I wouldn't just believe they're teasing FF9 alone, but I'll stop here anyways.

So, I went to see how the 25th anniversary of FF8 was like to see if this giant mass of FF9 news was actually abnormal...I could hardly find anything. Even when putting a timestamp on the search I still couldn't find much. It's also odd how the random MTG reveals didn't go past Celes & Zell's birthday despite an FF9 character having a birthday too (Eiko).

I went through FF9 like a month ago by reacting to someone play it for the first time. What interested me about seeing it at this angle was that the person playing the game could clearly see the Sephiroth/Cloud connection with Zidane and Kuja around the time the "worlds merging" part appeared with Garland.

I believe DFFOO has had hints almost at the end of the game where Sephiroth will use the empty world that has been drained of mako as a ship to travel to other planets, and with what he says in FF7R and what FF9 shows, he'll "absorb" those planets then feed off of them. Opera Omnia is also very adamant in showing parts of different worlds in the same area like they've been combined...and it has happened since Act 1 of the game.

These aren't the only hints, some are randomly in Remake if you see how they sometimes connect 6 & 7 during Chapter 4 and the sewers with Tifa.

The world's merging idea may have originated from OG FF7 before they changed their mind and went with meteor. My theory is that they brought the cut main character of FF6 (Cloud) directly into FF7, replacing his earlier "Zack-like" plan so they could create a story where he reunites with his earlier game at the end because the planet is literally right there...but they decided on not doing that and left it on a weird mystery cliff hanger. It kinda explains how I feel about the ending of FF7...it's kinda scuffed, possibly rushed. It's also why Yuffie and Vincent became optional since much of their story had to vanish.

And also why everyone in Wutai and this one kid in Sector 5 say "planet" when referring to meteor (like everyone else does). What we're seeing right now in FF7R is more or less that "middle plan".

I like seeing the Japanese ads because they have no problem putting older characters like Maria and Lenna in. When I go through Japanese internet I feel like I'm in a different world that somehow knows about FF2 almost as much as FF8 and tons of people are aware that there was an FF6 crossover event in Ever Crisis.

Take a look at the thing that is directly in front of Terra. In a picture full of females and monsters, It kinda feels out-of-place, doesn't it? I think there's 4 weapons in the pic and 3 are right in front of Terra, but the Buster Sword is the only one that's not wielded by anything and isn't the weapon of a monster or a female character

(btw, that's not Vivi, just a normal Black Mage)

The Buster Sword is also used as a symbol of Cloud protecting someone. I recall 3 moments in particular: