Leviathan (Final Fantasy VIII card)

Leviathan is a one-of-a-kind Triple Triad card in Final Fantasy VIII used to play the minigame and for turning into items with Quezacotl's Card Mod. Leviathan is the ninety-first card in the inventory and the third Level 9 card. It depicts the Leviathan Guardian Force drawn from NORG after the events of Balamb Garden Revolt. The card is called "Leviathan" even if the player renames the GF.
As a Level 9 GF card, Leviathan has good values and has one A, which represents the value 10 for the minigame and is unbeatable without special rules. Its value placements may also be useful for games that use Same and/or Plus. Leviathan is a water-elemental card, which comes into effect with the Elemental rule in play. Placing Leviathan on a tile with the matching droplet symbol boosts its values by +1. The increased values are disregarded for Same/Plus calculations, but do count toward Combo mechanics.
==Obtain==
Leviathan's card is held by Magician Joker of the secretive Card Club of Balamb Garden who plays with Balamb region rules. The player can start the quest after defeating BGH251F2 in Fishermans Horizon as long as they have talked to Jack in the Balamb Garden lobby and won at least 15 Triple Triad games in Balamb Garden (games played in the Cafeteria, Library and 2F Classroom do not count). Talking to Jack again after defeating the FH boss will then have him declare himself the lowest-ranking member of the Card Club and beating him in a game lets the player challenge the next rung up and so on.
CC Joker is not part of the club hierarchy, and can be played at any time after starting the quest. He is randomly found in the rightmost area of the Training Center. If he does not appear, the player can exit the screen and return to re-roll the chance of him being there. He can appear even if the player is not doing the card quest, but will decline to play Triple Triad, saying the player is not skilled enough for him (he will operate a shop, however). After starting the quest, CC Joker will play Triple Triad when challenged with the and may play the Leviathan card in his hand. For winning, he will bequeath the player the GF Meter upgrade to the party's Battle Meter.
If the player completed the Card Club quest before the point of no return (fighting the boss atop the Lunatic Pandora), the club members will appear aboard the Ragnarok in the endgame, from whom the player can win all Level 8–10 cards they do not currently hold in their deck, even the cards they had modified before. This allows the player to modify the Leviathan card and then win it back. If the player did not complete the Card Club quest before the point of no return, only CC Joker appears aboard the Ragnarok to sell items and offer weapon remodeling.
==Card Mod==
The Leviathan card refines into 3 Doc's Codes that teaches the Med Data ability to a GF, which doubles the potency of healing items when equipped. It can further be refined into Megalixir. It is not worth modifying a one-of-a-kind card to get to use Med Data, as another GF already learns it natively (Alexander). By the time the player can refine Doc's Codes into Megalixirs, they can already get Bahamut that modifies into 100 of them.
==Physical version==
In 1999, following the release of Final Fantasy VIII in Japan, Bandai produced a full set of collectible Triple Triad cards in Final Fantasy VIII Carddass Masters Perfect Visuals. The set was made up of the 110 cards as seen in the game along with 72 artwork cards and a collector's edition playing mat. The cards have a blue side and a red side. The cards have become a rare collector's item.
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