From the top down, however, this card is a perfect example of what the design team has described as the snapshot method, where a creature card captures a moment in a single characters story
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
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
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