Magic Carta is a strange little thing. InTales of Graces f Remastered, there are 90 cards in all, each with a quote from a Tales character from the series' long and cherished history. Once you’ve found them, you can play a memorization minigame in one town, and earn a few rewards for your collection in another.
We’d never label Magic Carta as remotely mandatory. If you’re not interested, that’s fine - just know that you’ll miss out on some titles, costumes, and the like. If that’s enough incentive, or you just plain love the game, here’s some help on how to play.
How Do You Collect Magic Carta Cards?
Well, there aretwo ways, and one of them is far easier than the other. Yet it lacks any sense of accomplishment you might feel if you look for them all yourself. The choice is yours!
Find Them Throughout The Game
Sparkling spotsin overworld areas and elsewhere havea chance of containing the Magic Carta card for their given area. You will need toscour every region until one of them pops as the card.It could happen your first time; it could happen on your thirtieth!
You’ll also obtain many Magic Carta cards bycompleting inn requests in various towns, as well asfilling out each town’s stamp card. Combined, these three methods will net youall 90 cards… eventually. It’s quite a tall order!
Unlock Them All Via Free DLC
On the other hand, you canacquire every last Magic Carta card, all 90 of them, from thebeginning of the gameby accessing theright-most tab in the items menu, which lists all the downloadable content which was purchasable on PS3 but now comes free with the remaster.
you’re able to do this at any time if the slow churn isn’t rolling for you. Clearly, it cheapens the whole process, but it wasn’t a particularly complex process to begin with, right?
How To Play Magic Carta
Once you’ve reached the town ofSable Izolle, you’ll soon spota man with a smiley face above his headnot far from the entrance. As you’ll no doubt have learned by now,these icons symbolize potential side quests.
After the initial conversation, you canplay Magic Carta against the man, whose name is Carver. You can eventually choose fromthree difficulties, each with their own reward for winning, but unless you took the DLC card acquisition route, you’ll likely not have them all when you first visit Sable Izolle.
Difficulties And Rewards
Each difficulty level hasan initial reward for winning, as well as a better reward for winning while preventing Carter from gettinganypoints.That’s kind of a lot to ask for, especially on Hard.
Magic Carta Rules
Even if you’rewell-versed in Tales characters,you might still struggle.If you don’t know many very well,it’s an impossible task without heaps of practice rounds. This is especially true sinceeach difficulty adds more cards to the pool.
Here’s how the whole thing works:
Magic Carta Tips
The number one way to ensure victory (or at least a fighting chance; Carter is absurdly swift on Hard) is toresearch your owned cards in the inventory menu,memorizing the first few words of each card, or alternatively,taking screenshots as needed.
It also helps to have an article handy which lists every card, and topause whenever a round begins,taking the time to check. We’ll have a full list of characters and their associated quotes very soon, which should be a big help.
The whole ordeal is certainly far easier if you’re a Tales diehard.
Zavhert Port Prizes
There’s another big use for Magic Carta cards:a man right near the dock at Zavhert Port will reward you with prizes for milestones in your card-collecting journey.
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Asbel receives a new title
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Mastery Tonic G
TheLost Ankletserves no immediate purpose. Bring it toWarrior’s Roost’sinn (such as it is) andcheck the list of requests here. You’ll find a call for this Lost Anklet.Complete the request- but know thatyou’ll only see it if you’ve reached at least the third floor of the Zhonecage.
Doing so unlocks a funcameo fightin the Zhonecage.
It’s possible thatrewards for 60 cards onward are only given out during the Future Arc,which you can start afterfinishing the main story. We’ll need to confirm this before we can say so for sure, butif you aren’t getting anything for those tiers yet, you ought to be able to in the Future Arc.
