By making the Final Fantasy set legal in Standard format, Wizards of the Coast is enabling it to affect mainstream play, including competitive tournaments that feature the latest sets before and after Final Fantasy
3 damage is a really important breakpoint at the moment, due to how many 3 Willpower characters there are in the meta that can come down on turns 2 and 3 and Smash deals with them efficiently
While theyre a controversial element in Commander, doubly so since the new Bracket System dropped, tutor effects are undeniably useful in the format
Compelling Potential Typically, while they can spike incredibly hard, Commander-based price spikes tend to be rather fickle
Unfortunately, nobody has come forward with the 77th Golden Chocobo just yet, so we can't really get a decent idea whether this is just what people think the card is worth, or if it's just one particular outlier that was bought by a person with far more money than you and I