(2023-10-13) Effects that last "for as long as that creature has a [kind of] counter on it," such as Aven Mimeomancer's, stop applying to Me, the immortal once it leaves the battlefield
Those shenanigans get more frequent the higher power you go, too, and as soon as youre at a table where everyone has a combo or early win con, a counterspells flexibility at protecting your combo and stopping someone elses is key
R&D spent a lot of time on this (and I'll get more into the nitty-gritty of how design structure has changed when we get to previews for Murders at Karlov Manor )
Marcy: More for the cool art, but FF games are (traditionally) turn based RPGs, and this recreates a battle from FFVI, the game that really put FF on a lot of people's radars
[7] Up until Version 3, League play was another method of competitive play
Another possible but less likely situation: someone claiming damages to an insurance company and manipulating the price to inflate the damage claim value