Not only are they a great time to interact with the community, fans, the staff at Ravensberger, and just generally have a great time away playing Lorcana, but there is tremendous value in attending at well
The reason why Lightning, Army of One is so good is due to Stagger
It's a Booster-based set so we didn't see the same 40% increase on Commander Deck prices, but price tags on everything else are still pretty eye-watering
Paired with characters that have lore-centric abilities, to begin with, like Magica De Spell Midas Touch or Ariel Treasure Collector, you'll be at 20 in no time
To do that, we developed a workflow that asked concept artists and card artists to pull hallmark character designs from Yoshitaka Amanos original (and legendary) concept art, the original FFVI sprites, and the FFVI Pixel Remaster character portraits, to synthesize the most consistent elements of each characters design into something new. We also encouraged our artists to punch up finer details and explore elements where they thought they could push (fabric, patterns, textures, etc.) Then, we would meet with the Final Fantasy VI review team, and they would give us feedback on what core elements they wanted to preserve and what new elements they were excited about
