And, needless to say, that second skill is devastating: Life loss to all other players plus card draw every time one of your ninjas connects will make quick work of any foes that cross Yuriko's path
Players like those things and they could easily cameo in sets. Should Wizards change their tune, there would be positives to this development, specifically Snow and Typal decks in older formats getting more tools to work with
The MTG team described playing the games themselves (especially if they hadnt played that particular entry), then creating three categories for the Final Fantasy elements, from the need to haves (category 1) to that would be nice, but we probably wont have room (category 3) and discussing with Square Enix even at this conceptual phase as well as consistently showing them specific cards and getting feedback
The very first Angel in Magic: The Gathering (MTG) was, incidentally, in the very first set to be released, way back in 1993