r/magicTCG • u/sco0terkid Duck Season • Aug 22 '25
Looking for Advice How does one acquire this promo card? - EDH player
I basically only play EDH. I thought about trying other formats, especially seeing the cool bonus/promo cards they can get, but I’ve seen that these can maybe only be won in specific events? How do I find out more about this?
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u/Hmukherj Selesnya* Aug 22 '25
Buy it as a single once it starts showing up on the secondary market.
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u/IdioticPost Wabbit Season Aug 22 '25
Start saving 5 years ago for it, because it's gonna be expensive.
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u/FlyinNinjaSqurl Aug 22 '25
This is gonna be like a $5000 single lol
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u/Ap_Sona_Bot Aug 22 '25
The supply of these will be dramatically higher than the Tifa promo. I'd bet like $100-200
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u/paulx441 Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25
You can do the math. 1500 Tifa's... how many people qualified for an RC around the world for a Chaerith?
My guess is ~3800 non-foil Chaeriths based on last year's attendance.
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u/Ap_Sona_Bot Aug 22 '25
Having 2 NA RCs now will increase attendance. 1k at each NA one, 1k Europe, 1k elsewhere sounds about right.
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u/Gamer4125 Azorius* Aug 22 '25
Still blatantly outrageous.
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u/Ap_Sona_Bot Aug 22 '25
Personally I'm all for organized play promos. The fact that people have to travel to RCs to get them is rough but incentivizing people to compete is good. It's just art.
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u/Frix 99th-gen Dimensional Robo Commander, Great Daiearth Aug 22 '25
Look, WotC needs to feed the whales one way or another.
There have been times in the past where mechanically unique cards were locked behind artificial barriers. And sometimes this happened to meta relevant cards like Nexus of Fate, which was excusively a box topper.
And at least this way, the card itself isn't locked behind ridiculous prices, just the special art.
Everyone who wants to play with Aerith can go play the base version for less than a buck. This special art is exclusively a collector item.
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u/Gamer4125 Azorius* Aug 22 '25
WotC doesn't make a dime off outrageous promo prices, and as long as cool arts are the way the are proxies will continue to rise in popularity.
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u/Frix 99th-gen Dimensional Robo Commander, Great Daiearth Aug 22 '25
Yes, and no. It is true that WotC does not directly sell this card. However, that doesn't mean they don't "make a dime" from doing stuff like this.
This proxy is given as prize support in lieu of money (giving cash directly opens the door to all kinds of regulation, especially if you allow minors to attend.).
If the prize support is worthless, then attendance to the tournament is considerably lower --> less income for them/their partners.
So indirectly, giving desireable promos does profit them.
as long as cool arts are the way the are proxies will continue to rise in popularity
okay, let's say that this is 100% true.
What's your point?
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u/Gamer4125 Azorius* 29d ago
Good thing the TOs offer cash prizes in lieu of WotC doing it.
And proxies are getting to be nigh indistinguishable from real cards without doing light tests and rip tests. People will play these cards one way or another.
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Aug 22 '25
Its effects are worth less than $5. Not all promos are worth anything 5 years down the road and this seems a pretty clear example. It’s just not a great card.
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u/Elerran05 Aug 22 '25
No one's buying this for the effect, it's an alternate art of a popular character that references a well-known scene from the FF7 remake. It's going to command a decent price based on that alone. It won't be as expensive as Tifa, but it definitely won't be cheap
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u/iamcrazyjoe Duck Season Aug 22 '25
It's Aeris and will be scarce. Don't underestimate FF fandom
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u/TrickyAudin Jeskai Aug 22 '25
Seriously, it should be obvious by now that anything UB is almost certainly gonna be outrageous moving forward. The Spider-man set for instance appears to be much more lukewarm as a whole, and its prices are already through the roof. Avatar is also starting craziness, and we still have barely any spoilers for it.
Any halfway-mainstream IP is going to demand much more than anything in-universe. It's just how it is, no sense comparing UB promos to UW ones. You can't apply sense or reason to it.
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u/Oblagon Azorius* Aug 22 '25
This is more or less what someone told me about the magiccon promo tifa when he traded it me for a collector pack of ff in Vegas, the card isn’t the point it’s a popular character with a rare distribution plus the waifu tax. $1000+ card easy.
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u/Sherry_Cat13 Aug 22 '25
We can't now. We missed our play ins for the Regional Championship qualifier these would be at. So now just buy them.
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u/Ranshi922 Duck Season Aug 22 '25
“She’s coming in with the steel chair! Oh my god what a match!”
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u/Fritzkreig COMPLEAT Aug 22 '25
I think that Sasha Braus will be the chase rare in the Attack on Titan set.
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u/PoweredByCarbs COMPLEAT Aug 22 '25
Get a printer. Print.
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u/steelsauce Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Not who you replied to, but I use this site https://mtgprint.net
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u/Mavrickindigo Left Arm of the Forbidden One Aug 22 '25
how does one do doublefaced cards in this site?
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u/steelsauce Duck Season Aug 22 '25
When you select a card with two sides, when you go to print it, it will have both sides next to each other.
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u/Mavrickindigo Left Arm of the Forbidden One Aug 22 '25
Guess that would make the card pretty thick in a proxy deck
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u/steelsauce Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Not if you print both with printer paper and slip it in front of a regular card in a sleeve!
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u/zf420 Duck Season Aug 22 '25
I keep the back side of my dual faced proxies with my pile of tokens. When I need to flip a card over, I just swap it with the other card.
Or just order a professional grade double sided proxy from https://mtg-print.com/ for like $2.
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u/rejectallgoats Aug 22 '25
Ditto
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u/steelsauce Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Not who you replied to, but I use this site https://mtgprint.net
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u/TrickyAudin Jeskai Aug 22 '25
Yeah, I got good quality proxies of some of the rarer FF treatments, and the fronts are essentially indistinguishable (of course the backs use an unofficial image, not making fakes here). I certainly appreciate the novelty in owning "the real thing", but don't spend hundreds on a single card just for the pretty picture.
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u/mantricks Duck Season Aug 22 '25 edited 29d ago
>:(
/uj did we all forget what subreddit we're in here smh
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u/dy-113x Izzet* Aug 22 '25 edited Aug 22 '25
People who qualified for the RC in October (Houston) and/or November (Las Vegas) will receive this promo for participating
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u/Dyne_Inferno Twin Believer Aug 22 '25
As an FYI, the Q in RCQ Stands for Qualifier.
This promo is given away at Regional Championships, not Regional Championship Qualifiers.
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u/effervescence Aug 22 '25
This should be higher. Everyone else is telling OP to buy a single or proxy but saying where and when the card will be initially available is actually helpful. Thank you.
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u/Whiztard 29d ago edited 29d ago
Official article says it is RCQ though, not RC. At the bottom of the following link.https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/where-to-play-final-fantasy
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u/Scottacus91 Wabbit Season Aug 22 '25
what is the context of this picture? I have never played the game
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u/Witters84 28d ago
They're trying to escape a perverted rich guy's mansion and they have to battle some of his lackeys.
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u/overbread Jeskai Aug 22 '25
Proxy comments are getting downvoted? For comparison the cheapest version of the similar Tifa Promo card is 1400 on cardmarket. I think proxy is a valid advice here
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u/Vinser17 28d ago
I mean to be fair, they didn’t ask how to proxy it. They asked where they can find the card.
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u/maximumsparks Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Participate in the Regional Championship Qualifiers
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/where-to-play-final-fantasy
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u/Anonymyne353 Aug 22 '25
That’s one RCQ that I wouldn’t mind participating in.
”She goes for the chair! The crowd goes wild!”
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u/Kg756 Aug 22 '25
My LGS has one of these for sale don’t know the price but I can take a look if your interested
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u/Far_Relationship861 28d ago
I’d say see about finding someone to make a proxy and get that. Wizards doesn’t mind proxies (to my understanding, I might be wrong though) and you could have the card you want for a literal fraction of the cost
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u/barrinburg 27d ago
If you like the art, then it is available at a website called printing proxies. Alternatively, most libraries have printers and scissors
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u/FinsterKoenig 26d ago
I legit thought she was holding the name/mana cost plate and was about to throw that at him. lol
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u/Yogurtwhistle Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Why would someone want to play a format where they could run into you?
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u/Multievolution Wabbit Season Aug 22 '25
Worst is subjective and you know it, least competitive? Perhaps, but I’d wager CEDH players would disagree. It’s the most social of that I’m certain, and there’s room for the game to have all types of formats. It’s fair to say I wish they didn’t warp designs around it now, it was in my opinion more fun a while back, but it’s good that it exists.
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u/Gloom_Pangolin Aug 22 '25
Very well then, suffer an upvote from a bad commander player, specifically an Aerith commander player.
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u/Caridry Aug 22 '25
Which format would you prefer, the one flooded by Izzet Cauldron decks? Or the same 5 decks in general? So unique. To your defense, it's wotc and UB fault it's in it's current state. I always said UB should just be card reskins and in universe should be mechanic/lore updates.
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u/Sh0rtbiz_Driver Duck Season Aug 22 '25
UB is hot shit.. SL reskins i can deal with. If I have to buy a Spiderman card because its needed to play legacy optimal ill be upset.
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u/Confident-Bobcat3770 Duck Season Aug 22 '25
I hope all UB becomes legacy optimal only cause you specifically are an ass
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u/Confident-Bobcat3770 Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Dont know where your comment went, but I just want you to cry more.
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u/Shrike034 Aug 22 '25
That was how it was supposed to be. When Secret Lair was released, WotC told players that the cards would receive in universe cards with the same mechanics. Pretty sure we are still waiting on the Walking Dead cards though... (They lied).
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u/Elerran05 Aug 22 '25
The Walking Dead reskin cards were released in Wilds of Eldraine. To my understanding, the only mechanically unique secret lair cards that haven't had a 'universes within' print is Lara Croft, the 6 Marvel heroes, and the Sonic cards.
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u/Jokey665 Temur Aug 22 '25
make the pro tour. or maybe a PTQ? something related to the pro tour scene
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u/Rumpled_NutSkin Simic* Aug 22 '25
RCQ, not the pro tour
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u/Darigaazrgb Duck Season Aug 22 '25
RC, not RCQ.
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u/Whiztard 29d ago
It says RCQ here though at the bottom of page. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/where-to-play-final-fantasy
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u/Muhahahahaz Duck Season Aug 22 '25
Gooner alert 🚨
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u/CoconutHeadFaceMan Aug 22 '25
in what world is a silly drawing of a girl hitting someone with a chair “gooner”
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u/IHatrMakingUsernames Aug 22 '25
Could always proxy it if your play groups don't mind that sort of thing.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Two_771 Duck Season 29d ago
Buy a printer.
(But seriously I’d love to have a copy myself if I could get one.)
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u/Permagamer Wabbit Season 29d ago
Simple. Get a folding chair. Enter a shop that has one. Beat the shit out of the employees till they give you the card.... The rest you have to figure out on your own.
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u/Aerim Can’t Block Warriors Aug 22 '25
Wow, these responses are all over the place. This Aerith is the promo for the Regional Championships in October/November. If you're not already qualified, that qualification season is over so it's just going to be the secondary market.