The Final Fantasy Trading Card Game 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.
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).
