In some very unusual cases (and in this set, that's saying something), a Contraption will find its way onto the battlefield without being assembled
The decks other character, Cruella De Vil, Miserable as Usual, is a much cheaper card able to be played earlier on, and can force characters off the field when shes banished by returning a character to its players hand - playing into the decks more control-like tendencies
Played both when you have a lot of the targets as well as when you want the self mill
Aside from being another step in the normalization of expensive Magic product, the fact that Final Fantasy is a Standard-legal set presents its own set of issues
Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, for example, is the beholder at the centre of the Xanathar Thieves Guild and here allows you to steal other peoples cards straight from their libraries