Blue creature decks often desire equipment to give their weaker guys a bit more presence on the board and Kira has poor synergy with them which is critical in deck building
Neither is usable the turn it comes down, both net 2 additional colorless mana, but the latter sees infinitely more play than the former
Squall is the main protagonist of Final Fantasy VIII, acting as the party leader and known for saying "whatever" and being a bit of a loner
For starters, the richness of Final Fantasy s lore made it easy to build entire decks around one game each, rather than smushing multiple titles into a single product
At that point, your eye tends to drift towards cards in those two colors
While my personal feelings on this aren't that strong (maybe because I don't play that much paper Magic ), I certainly see how the 8 Whack player has the right to be angry and feel like they were robbed by someone who was cheating