It could be that the designers meant to put in the similar It Calls Me to stop the Ruby/Sapphire deck using discarded items with Maurices Machine and Belle Mechanic Extraordinaire
This helps further protect Stitch as your opponent can no longer choose them as their intended effect target
Now, thematically, there doesn't seem to be a super strong of a connection between Barnabas in FF16 and Kraum, though this isn't that uncommon for the Final Fantasy: Through the Ages cards
It's a moment that has only ever been seen in two dimensions before, both in the original game on the SNES and then in the Pixel Remaster collection, so to see it reimagined as MTG artwork is pretty special, and via an entirely new card, not a reskinned one, no less
Ifrit (Borderless) - Final Fantasy (Near Mint) reaches a certain value
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