While a 1/1 might not be much to write home about, as soon as you get ten permanents in play and you get the City's Blessing, all your Saproling creatures get +2/+2 and suddenly become 3/3 threats
Nahiris Lithoforming Nahiri's Lithoforming can really net a lot of cards in a landfall deck
Tod and Copper team up on this Enchanted Emerald Ink card, which interestingly holds the Puppy classification on it
Sevinne, the Chronoclasm goes into the bin of face commanders vastly outshone by one of their back-up options with Ghired, Conclave Exile, Jeleva, Nephalias Scourge, and quite a few others actually
Deveney says they wanted to stick close to what fans would expect from its pixel art sprites and limited concept art while also expanding upon them, and hopes that the character designs should feel like how you remember them, despite being a hybridization of many different references and new ideas. To help accomplish that, WOTC even consulted directly with the Final Fantasy 6 team as they updated these character to the standards needed for Magic art