Having done a number on Standard, Historic, and Pioneer, it looked too slow for Modern, a format that almost never gets up to as many as seven lands
This set could be the start of your MTG journey "This new Magic the Gathering crossover is exactly what I dreamt that Final Fantasy cards could be [...] the new renders of Terra, Cloud, Tidus, and Y'shtola on the boxes are some of the nicest depictions of the beloved characters I've seen in years - and might finally be the push that gets me into playing Magic
And there you are with your pile of cheap cards and a dream, somehow still becoming the threat with copious amounts of direct damage and a wincon baked into your commander
While each one does it slightly differently, whether its mana cost, what they can target, or their base stats, theyre all similar enough that I think theyre equal in ability
Potentially quadrupling the counters, via flashback, can make any number of commanders (Ghave, Guru of Spores anyone?) deadly in pretty dramatic fashion
Nicol Bolas, The Ravager MTG's Nicol Bolas and his brother Ugin are more usually depicted as planeswalkers than Elder Dragon creatures, but this card starts out as a creature and later flips into a powerful planeswalker worthy of Bolas' archvillain status