Why the Final Fantasy Magic card Flash Photography is spiking in value

Universes Beneath: Prompto is here to copy one of your permanents

Magic: The Gathering players have suddenly started paying a lot more attention to one previously overlooked Final Fantasy card. Flash Photography — a blue sorcery featuring Final Fantasy 15’s Prompto Argentum taking a selfie with a chocobo — has exploded in value in recent weeks. Throughout most of February, its market price hovered just above $8. Now, Scryfall lists its price at $38.77. The cheapest listings on TCG Player have it priced at $32 with one near-mint version listed at a whopping $123.60.

Normally, these kinds of massive price spikes get triggered by newly discovered mechanical interactions after the launch of a new set. In this case, however, the March 6 global release of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles set doesn’t really offer up any clean answers as to why everybody wants Flash Photography now. We can likely chalk it up to classic supply and demand.

Flash Photography is part of the FF15-themed scene box released in December 2025 called Camp Comrades. Originally priced at $41.99, Camp Comrades includes six unique Magic cards and depicts the four BFFs Noctis, Ignis, Gladiolus, and Prompto camping. All four heroes appear in the main Final Fantasy set as legendary creatures, and Noctis also appears as a reprint of the wickedly powerful Kenrith, the Returned King. The scene box delivers a different, very powerful version of Noctis called Noctis, Heir Apparent that has great equipment synergies and adapts his Warp Strike maneuver from FF15. There’s not much synergy amongst these cards, but each one does reflect the characters they portray with a lot of flavor.

We see the bespectacled chef Ignis cooking dinner for the group, hence why the green Campsite Cuisine enchantment works great in food decks. Gladio stands with his massive sword over his shoulder, probably ready for some combat practice. His enchantment, Warrior’s Resolve, has the rare training mechanic that gives a creature a +1/+1 counter when it attacks alongside a stronger creature. Then there’s Prompto, the group’s cheerful photographer who spends much of their adventure snapping pictures of anything and everything, while occasionally pitching in to shoot monsters with a gun. Flash Photography costs two colorless and two blue mana (four in total) to create a token that’s a copy of target permanent. That makes it hugely versatile. And if you target one of your permanents, you can cast it at any time. It also has flashback, so you can play it again from your graveyard for six total mana.

The one major caveat with Flash Photography is that you can’t copy a legendary creature — or rather, you shouldn’t. The legend rule makes it so you can’t have more than one copy of the same legendary on the board at the same time. If you copy one, you’ll have to sacrifice one or the other. So you’d want to use it on a powerful non-legendary creature or some kind of enchantment (like Warrior’s Resolve or Campsite Cuisine, for instance). There are cards out there like Sakashima of a Thousand Faces that negate the legend rule, so putting these two cards in a deck together is a wise choice.

Every card from a Final Fantasy scene box, whether it’s Camp Comrades or any of the other three, is one-of-a-kind. Supply of these boxes has gone down considerably since their December release, resulting in increased prices for the boxes and the cards in them. There probably won’t ever be any reprints, so all of these cards are more scarce than most. Can we just chalk Flash Photography’s surge in price to this scarcity? Possibly. But I’ve got a theory: is it possible there’s a copy meta developing?

Secret Lair’s recent Totally TubuLair Superdrop is TMNT-themed, and it includes a whopping three copy cards: a Pirated Copy reprint called Slash, Evil Turtle from Dimension X; a reprint of Sakashima's Student; and a Second Harvest reprint. That last one is green and copies your tokens. But the other two — like Flash Photography — are blue creatures that enter as a copy of a creature. I’m also reminded of Mirrorform from Lorwyn Eclipsed, which transforms all of your non-land permanents into a copy of a non-aura permanent. It’s possible that players are noticing this uptick in copy cards and devising strategies around it. As one of the better copy cards around, Flash Photography makes for an enticing addition to any deck focused on the mechanic. But it’s also just one of those really solid cards that can work really well as part of almost any strategy.

As a pro tip: if you do find yourself in the market for Flash Photography, don’t overpay for the single when Amazon currently lists the entire Camp Comrades scene box for $60.