It's clear via the reporting from IGN and the comments made by Holt and Deveny that the team at WotC has a great love for this franchise, which in part led to the choices of Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy X due to the places those games held in the team's hearts
Overall, its pretty easy to jot down a basic outline of what you want a card to look like, even if some of the bells and whistles youd wish were there arent present
Then I tossed for, for game winning, the powerhouse of Nettlecyst and other similar pumping effects for a Commander damage win if needed
Second, search recent sold listings for graded copies of the same card at grade 9 and grade 10 to understand what the market is actually paying for certified condition
in other cases, when a creature is put onto the battlefield attacking, that creature's controller chooses which player, planeswalker, or battle it's attacking