The nice thing about the FF pre-constructed Commander decks, is that these are ready to play so you and a couple friends can each pick one up for your next game night
As this is classed as a starter set, you won't have everything you need to start playing Lorcana
I'm also a huge fan of this art, and the dozens (dozens!) of Final Fantasy VIII fans will scoop this up quick
There's a lot of staples for Counters decks here, like Inspiring Call, Inexorable Tide, Hardened Scales, and it's the first time we've seen Damning Verdict reprinted, one of the best cards for a Counters deck as a one-sided wipe and it was quite expensive for that reason
Rather than building an overly synergistic deck, simply look for 2-for-1s and kill spells, and try to grind out the competition
To do that, 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 explore 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