Spoilers for the Magic: The Gathering Final Fantasy set are finally here in number, thanks to the preview panel at Pax East on May 10
It's still probably dying after the first trigger, but that's fine if you already made four or five Wolf tokens
Players may cast spells that they know Vexing Bauble will counter
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. 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
The thing is not as many work with the +1/+1 or explore theme so being left out does make some sense