This guide uses Square Enix’s May 6 specification. November 13 is a tentative release date; regional release, shipment and retailer stock are unverified.
WHY IT MATTERS
Use the exact card code and treatment together. The premium count includes several kinds of version, and the one-premium-per-pack specification supplies no individual Sephiroth or Shantotto odds.
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The two headline counts describe different scopes
Square Enix’s Memories of Life specification lists 118 standard card types and 167 premium card types. The premium total is broken into 130 premium versions of standard cards, 35 full-art premium cards, one Noir card and one Special card. These are treatment categories in the published configuration, rather than a promise of 285 different named game pieces.
Separately, the announcement includes premium versions of all 12 cards exclusive to the Final Fantasy XIV – Heavensward starter set. It says five newly illustrated cards from that group also receive full-art premium versions. Keep the starter identity and booster treatment as separate fields. The announcement does not provide a complete card-by-card reconciliation between its 118 standard types and 130 premium versions, so those totals should not be turned into a deduced list of unique card identities.
An older card code can identify a new collecting target
The listed Noir card is Sephiroth [7-034L]. Its older number prefix should stay in the record beside the Memories of Life Noir treatment. Replacing it with a guessed 30-prefix code would erase the manufacturer’s exact identifier. For the Special card, Square Enix instead names Shantotto [30-080L].
Shantotto’s announced treatment features a gold-foil stamped signature by Fumio Minagawa. A stamped-signature treatment should be described as such when comparing listings. The product text does not establish a hand-signed autograph, and the word “signature” alone should not be used to imply one.
The announcement also lists three Legacy full-art premium reprints: Tifa [20-077L], Cyan [21-004L] and Vegnagaen [25-105L]. Keep the original code with the new treatment and the particular copy’s photographs. Square Enix describes Legacy cards as reprints usable in tournaments like standard cards; that statement does not make every differently numbered card or game system interchangeable.
Keep the tentative date and sample caveat attached
The May 6 announcement gives November 13, 2026 as a tentative release date and says card images are still under development and may differ from the final product. Those qualifications remain part of the source when using it to plan a collection on November 12. They are not a current retailer-stock check or proof that a photographed physical copy matches the final production card.
A useful target row has the card’s exact code, treatment, source product and status: wanted, offered or physically checked. For this set, the practical decision is whether to pursue standard cards, particular premium presentations, starter-card upgrades or a named chase. The published counts help define those projects; they do not establish a buying price, market demand or an expected financial return.
