We developed a workflow that asked concept artists and card artists to pull hallmark character designs from Yoshitaka Amanos original (and legendary) concept art, the original FFVI sprites, and the FFVI Pixel Remaster character portraits, to synthesize the most consistent elements of each characters design into something new. We also encouraged our artists to punch up finer details and bsexplore elements where they thought they could push (fabric, patterns, textures, etc.) Then, we would meet with the Final Fantasy VI review team, and they would give us feedback on what core elements they wanted to preserve and what new elements they were excited about. "It's our hope that the [FF6] character designs should feel like how you 'remember' them..." So they had the four games decided, but when it comes to Commander, thats only half the equation WOTC also needed to figure out which characters would lead each deck
Ultimately it was fairly obvious that this process would be reversed, but it was still good fun to theorize about the list of possible victims.
Ive had Cube games where this is essentially Demonic Tutor
I discovered no less then FOUR formats that various apps and systems prefer to use over the other the others
First Edition Blastoise (Base Set, Holographic) Blastoise may have lived in Charizards shadow, but its First Edition holographic card is just as legendary
