Commanders like Y'shtola, Kefka, Tifa, and more have unique abilities or powerful combos to build around
For 7, Cloud wielding a big sword lines up nicely with the equipment strategies of a white-red Magic deck, but Holt says that adding green to the mix let us tie in the power matters cards and cards that reference the Planet and lifestream. While Tidus ability to pass counters around might lead you to think the deck for 10 is all about Blitzball, this classic white-blue-green strategy actually primarily came from the idea of that games Sphere Grid leveling system as a way to empower your creatures
Those include cards featuring Prepared spells, which feel like a greatest hits of spells from Magics long and storied past, like Ancestral Recall or Demonic Tutor, a series of new Elder Dragons, and the awesome new Emeritus cycle
Graveyard filling and card draw I have included a large number of cards that draw and fill the graveyard to aim for repeatedly filling the graveyard
Ultima also does this, in classic Final Fantasy fashion, albeit her second form is not the angelic one