After a thrilling weekend of watching competitive FFTCG matches going on at the SoCal Crystal Cup, it’s a new week of articles. So for the time being, I decided that every Monday will be dedicated to showing (in my opinion!) where certain Final Fantasy cards link-up with their video game counterparts. So let’s get going!

Rubicante – 2-023H

Ah Rubicante, the gentleman Archfiend. When Cecil and his crew encounter Rubicante at the Tower of Babil, they are fatigued from the climb and many encounters that have led them to up. Not only that, but Edge has gone berserk from seeing his parents experimented on by Dr. Lugae. Always wanting a fair and honorable fight, Rubicante heals your party to full strength before engaging. This is represented in the card in the first line. When Rubicante attacks, all forwards that the opponent controls are activated, giving them a fair shot to defend themselves. Brilliant!

Yang – 2-091C / 2-090R / 3-095R / Ursula – 3-073C

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Both 2-091C and 2-090R versions of Yang directly benefit from card name or Job Monk cards. This directly links to Yang being the guardian (Final Fantasy 4) and then King (FF4: After Years) of Fabul, a Kingdom that embraces it’s tradition of fielding monks for it’s army. Even as King, Yang takes time to teach his military how to master the martial arts, as well as his daughter Ursula, who also combos well with Yang. Yang and Ursula train together regularly, and perform excellent as a duo.

Pieuje – 6-121C

Pieuje, one of the Princes that holds power in the mighty kingdom of San d’Oria, has the ability to search for 1 Job Prince and add it to your hand. This relates to him keeping tabs on his brother Prince Trion, who is his brother. Throughout the San d’Oria main story in Final Fantasy XI (if you are a member of that nation), there are various cutscenes with the 2 brothers arguing over what the best course of action is to take, but many of the citizens agree they both make a formidable team when they agree on things. When the orcs threaten their nation, Pieuje knows to rely on the formidable might of Trion’s Royal Knights. Ironically, they had to choose for Trion to either be a Knight or Prince in the TCG, so they opted to make him a Knight (Which is still accurate).

Trion – 5-111R

As Prince (and Future King) of San d’Oria, Trion’s major responsibility in the kingdom is the leadership and training of The Royal Knights, the military backbone of San d’Oria. This is clearly reflected in his ability text, which shows that all Job Knight cards other than Trion that you control gain 1000 power.

With Rydia, she has the S ability of Gaia’s Wrath. This clearly establishes her event with meeting Cecil and Kain for the first time, where she summons Titan to defend her. Titan unleashes Gaia’s Wrath (Quake, in the poorly translated SNES version) which separates the group, injuring her in the process. This is shown in a video (from my play-through!) below (video@24m53s)

And that’s all for today folks! Hope you enjoyed the article and please look forward to more coming up soon!

(Did you know? Tidus from Final Fantasy X was originally going to have black hair. This was shown in the beta units for Final Fantasy X, which was demonstrated early in development to showcase “Playonline”, an online system that would allow you to show off your stats in FFX, as well as look up information on monsters, boss strategies, and record times for mini games / side quests such as Tidus’ Chocobo Race to earn his ultimate weapon. This was eventually scrapped, and pushed to fully support Final Fantasy XI. Video below for an example!)