Dont get me wrong, Balthier and Fran is quite strong, but there are so few vehicles in Final Fantasy that you can play in a red/green deck that this just feels incredibly out of place
For example, if you control The Ozolith ("Whenever a creature you control leaves the battlefield, if it had counters on it, put those counters on The Ozolith.") when Zack Fair's last ability resolves, you'll put the appropriate number of each kind of counter onto both The Ozolith and the target creature
The FFXV character Gladio was shown off on April 2, for instance
(When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 Hero creature token and attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has Trample and Haste, and is a Samurai in addition to its other types
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