Juliet and game designer Brendan McLeod dispel Ondore’s lies as they talk about Final Fantasy XII’s sparse appearances in the canon “Magic: The Gathering–FINAL FANTASY”, and set out to make a jeskai Commander deck with all new designs for the game’s biggest hitters and most memorable moments and characters.
Brendan’s bsky with links to Paper Labyrinths and The Prisoner’s Dilemma: https://bsky.app/profile/brendanmcleod.com
Cards from the Episode:
Topics Discussed:
- Paper Labyrinths
- The World is Born from Zero
- Paying for guiness book of world records plaques
- Forthcoming/fifthcoming
- FFXII having a great remaster/Switch port
- FFXII as the best Star Wars videogame
- Vaan shade
- Ivalice as a shared FF setting but the fewest FF cards
- Many Cids, the First Evil Cid
- Al-Cid Margrace and Brontë Adelvys on the current season of Friends at the Table
- Judges as Multiple Darth Vaders with their own politics and ambitions
- Vayne’s Treachery vs. Shot the Sheriff
- Juliet has feelings about the Solidor family
- Vayne Solidor as Itachi Uchiha
- “I am the senate.”
- Baiting rebel forces with a fĂŞte
- Inversion of The Phantom Menace
- Cheesing the grim reaper with a phoenix down
- Giving Penelo a cartoon big gun
- Don’t listen to Ondore’s lies!
- Obligatory Borges reference – “Three Versions of Judas”
- What if Han Solo Was Beyoncé
- What if Han Solo Was Married to Beyoncé
- Ashe-Basch. Ashe-Basch. Ashe Basch Penelo Larsa Balthier
- Bill Ferny, Bree Swindler
- Belias, the Gigas, the guardian of the treasure of Raithwall’s Tomb
- God-Pharoah’s Legendary Confusion
- Norin the Wary, Norin the Bold
- A shortcut to Flagbearer
- 3/2 for three is the place to be
- Sleeper Agent and handing your opponent your commander