Battles are a new card type that comes into play under your opponents control, and then have to be defeated to turn them into something else
Give that permanent or player another counter of that kind
Drawing cards is vital in Magic, and with Gix in play, whenever a creature you control deals damage to an opponent, you can choose to draw a card and lose a life for each creature
Whether its Thassas Oracle, Retreat to Coralhelm or Intruder Alarm, theyre all powerful, synergistic blue cards, but not as playable outside of specific decks
The far larger concern, as Verhey outlines, is how the team could take 16 mainline Final Fantasy games the bounds they set for adaptation and figure out what they were going to include, who, and how
Ishgard, the Holy See Ishgard, the Holy See is the white adventure land in the main Final Fantasy set, and its a pretty nice entry in the cycle