Final Fantasy Trading Card Game

Final Fantasy Trading Card Game
Card back to the Final Fantasy CCG
DesignersTarou Kageyama
PublishersSquare Enix
Players2 or more
Setup time< 5 minutes
Playing time< 60 minutes

The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game (Japanese: ファイナルファンタジー・トレーディングカードゲーム Fainaru Fantajī Torēdingu Kādo Gēmu),[1] often abbreviated as Final Fantasy TCG or FF-TCG, is a trading card game developed by Hobby Japan and published by Square Enix. The first iteration (the "Chapter" series) was released in Japan in 2011 but never released outside Japan and was discontinued in order to release a second iteration (the "Opus" series) worldwide in October 2016.[2]

Each player uses a deck of 50 cards, with no more than 3 copies of the same card. Players play cards by spending Crystal Points, earned by "dulling" (turning from vertical to horizontal) Backup cards, or by discarding cards. The game features a wide range of Characters from games in the Final Fantasy series.[3] The game has a global tournament circuit.

There are 1898 unique cards in the Chapter series. As of Opus XI, the Opus series developed 1700 different cards.[4] The game had sold more than 3.5 million booster packs in Japan (as of September 2016) and 5.5 million packs worldwide (as of July 2017).

  1. ^ "ファイナルファンタジー・トレーディングカードゲーム (FF-TCG)" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-01-25.
  2. ^ "From the Producer Special Vol. 7: The Chapter Series | FF Trading Card Game". fftcg.square-enix-games.com. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
  3. ^ "Final Fantasy Trading Card Game Annual featuring artwork from 2018-2020 releasing this December". 20 October 2020. Retrieved 2020-10-20.
  4. ^ Tarou Kageyama (June 1, 2020). "プロデューサーからスペシャル Vol.7 『Chapter』シリーズ" (in Japanese). Retrieved March 31, 2021.
    Tarou Kageyama (June 1, 2020). "From the Producer Special Vol. 7: The Chapter Series". Retrieved March 31, 2021.