Final Fantasy MTG Print Money Machine… Is Spider-Man Next? - Error Code Show


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Square Enix x Wizards of the Coast = 💸 A match made in nerd heaven. The new Final Fantasy Magic: The Gathering set raked in a jaw-dropping $200 million in just one day — proving the Universes Beyond collabs are no joke. Now the big question: can the upcoming Spider-Man set top that record? We dive into the hype, the money, and whether MTG’s crossover strategy is unstoppable or heading for burnout.
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So, Magic the Gathering Final Fantasy made Wizards
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of the Coast $200 million in revenue in a single
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day. Yes, you heard that number right. $200 million
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in a single day. This was by far the most successful
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drop that they've ever had. The prices were through
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the roof and they still sold like freaking gangbusters,
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right? Some of the cars were really really great
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People really really seemed to obviously enjoy
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the set being that they bought a metric ton of
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it so Magics obviously really leading any users
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beyond we've now got edge of eternity's came
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out after Final Fantasy It's a normal magic set
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but our next two sets that are dropping Are spider
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-man and avatar the last airbender, but I specifically
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want to focus on spider -man today, okay Let's
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talk some spider -man Final Fantasy makes 200
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million dollars in revenue in a single day. It's
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a huge franchise It's been around forever But
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so is spider -man so my primary question to you
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Jay as we kind of look forward and then we'll
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kind of talk about Avatar as well. Can the Spider
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-Man set beat that number? No. No? No. It's very
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simple. End of segment. No. Why do you think
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that, again, I would hazard to guess that Spider
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-Man is a overall larger franchise than Final
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Fantasy. Yeah. You know, I'm just not going to
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I'm not going to answer your question. I'm going
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to take Marshawn Lynch approach and just be like,
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you know why I'm here. No, I'm just kidding.
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No, I think it makes sense to me. Final Fantasy.
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Lots of crossover. Lots of crossover. I don't
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think Spider -Man has that same crossover ability.
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Like I love Spider -Man. Yes. grew up watching
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the cartoons, just like Batman, just like the
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Justice League. I've always been a Spider -Man
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fan, but I just don't see the crossover. I don't
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think they're going to have fans go crazy over
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the Spider -Man cards. Prove me wrong. I mean,
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it's definitely possible. Now, I will say this.
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Don't know from a power set. I haven't had a
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chance to completely look through the set first
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off. They got some really great cards, right?
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Look at some of the art here. It's beautiful,
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right? Lots of different spider -man's where
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spider -ham that's one. This is the one I really
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love I love these like old 1960s comic art that
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they're doing that So Love some of the art that
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they've got going for here. I really want the
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spider -ham card Right, like I desperately desperately
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want spider -ham Where is he? There we go Peter
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porker spider -ham Okay, tell me you don't love
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that Yeah that I do like it but like Spider Gwen
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look at the some of this art is just really really
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good. Yeah it's it's really cool. I don't know
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but to me this is almost like a like me personally
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I would wait and then buy. Aftermarket? Yeah
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like aftermarket the very specific cards that
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I want like I wouldn't go out. Don't know I'm
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looking over to our twitch chat somebody said
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it's the the secondary market is higher But you
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have a lot of people who wanted Final Fantasy
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or don't probably plan on getting more magic
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stuff again And that square enix has flubbed
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giving fans merch they want and so this was the
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chance for Final Fantasy fans to get some cool
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merch for their Final Fantasy habit I Don't necessarily
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disagree with that again the only thing that
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makes me wonder is again objectively spider -man
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is a bigger franchise than uh and final fantasy
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um all right sticking on this topic slightly
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though so then the set right after this is avatar
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of the last airbender i think i already know
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your answer to this question right I want to
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come back to that in a second. See the look in
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your face. Can that one outsell Final Fantasy?
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No. Sticking with the nose. I'm sticking with
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the nose because also like I don't even I feel
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like. I don't know, like I feel like avatars
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already out of the line. I know we have another
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movie coming up. but i feel like it's already
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out of out of its prime and that's that's my
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cold take i don't know so so if you were to pick
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a franchise oh god for ub right that magic could
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make right is there any set any franchise that
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you go this will outsell final fantasy Twitch
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chat just put their opinion in Yeah, let me what
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do you think about this? I'm Just thinking about
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that. Look at these venom cars. These are cool
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chat this I Love the art they're doing. I really
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do. Oh, is there a carnage? Oh They didn't make
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a carnage. Well, you know what? Screw you magic.
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I want carnage Okay, I want carnage. How do you
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have venom and no carnage? like seriously so
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many peter parker cards um let's see here somebody
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said dragon quest that's going that we're going
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old school youtube chat thank you for that um
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somebody say something about dragon flight this
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weekend is dragon flight this weekend i don't
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know I'm just coming on my stuff. Oh, yeah. I
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have nothing really. I can't think of anything
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other than Star Wars slash Star Trek. Like that's
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a big enough franchise where you have crazy fans.
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Oh, wait. No. You know what? No. He thought of
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something. Pokemon. I just don't think it'll
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ever happen because Pokemon already has a card
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game. Exactly. It would never happen. But maybe
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if it did because Pokemon I mean you have the
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crazy you have the crazy collectors that buy
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cards just to hold cards that don't ever play
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the like the game that don't they're not even
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Pokemon fans. They just buy the cards. So doing
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a crossover with magic which I don't think would
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ever happen but if it did i think that's that
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star wars and star trek are like the only things
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that could be final fantasy i think okay i i
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had to show this one though masked meower it's
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a spider cat hero it's spider cat uh didn't they
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do potter no no they've never done a harry potter
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um i don't know 200 million a day that's amazing
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magic hey You're going to make up for all the
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downslide on your D &D money because of the loss
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of the Baldur's Gate royalties this year. So
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congratulations, you're going to make it up.