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
So it goes for our Ex-SOLDIER
Klang, Metallic Leader Uncommon Tangled 26 Heal What Has Been Hurt Common 129 Ive Got a Dream Uncommon Treasure Planet 81 Morph, Space Goo Rare 104 Billy Bones, Keeper of the Map Common 109 Jim Hawkins, Space Traveler Legendary 110 Jim Hawkins, Thrill Seeker Common 122 Scroop, Backstabber Uncommon 136 RLS Legacy, Solar Galleron Rare 138 Captain Amelia, First in Command Common 176 John Silver, Greedy Treasure Seeker Rare 196 Ba-Boom
It will virtually always be able to kill something of your opponents, and trust me -- playing a 4/4 Flyer and subtracting from your opponents side of the board is pretty game-changing
This kind of slow, grindy payoff can be outclassed in the modern Commander landscape, but creating copies of Archon of Cruelty and Agent of Treachery each turn is a tantalizing enough reward to try anyway