My goal was to have players to find their favorite classic job, put that Equipment into their deck, and grant that job to their favorite creatures (what if Cloud were a dragoon?) or double down on the same flavor (I equip Kain with Dragoon's Lance!)
The sheer volume of cards demands a way to store cards that maximizes the space available, and card boxes do that
Create a number of 1/1 red Warrior creature tokens equal to the number of creatures target player controls
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You could force something to block Nemesis, or cycle a Jund Sojourners, or sacrifice a Goblin Arsonist
In an artifact-heavy deck with cards like Treasure Map or Servo Exhibition, Sami helps cast huge haymakers like Aurelia's Fury or Hellkite Igniter way ahead of curve