Deveney says they wanted to stick close to what fans would expect from its pixel art sprites and limited concept art while also expanding upon them, and hopes that the character designs should feel like how you remember them, despite being a hybridization of many different references and new ideas. To help accomplish that, WOTC even consulted directly with the Final Fantasy 6 team as they updated these character to the standards needed for Magic art
they are completely different people who just happen to be named Cid, and happen to be a machinist or technologist of some kind
Put four copies in your deck and mulligan until you find one of them
On the other hand, the original Warrior of Light is here as a reskin of Jodah, the Unifier
We couldn't mix the acorn stamp with the foil stamps on the rare and mythic rare sheet
It doesn't just fetch a card to your hand, it plonks an artifact of your choice right onto the battlefield