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
Some card designs are open-ended and could have been anything in FINAL FANTASY, while other cards are top-down and designed to be exactly one character, moment, land, or object
Abilities that trigger when a creature enters the battlefield see that a 1/1 creature entered the battlefield
When combined with effects like Mind Over Matter, The One Ring can even draw your entire deck without any downside
Whenever Corsairs of Umbar deals combat damage to a player, amass Orcs 3
The difference with the Pauper version is that it focuses more on an all-in attack with a number of big creatures rather than relying on one dude