When playing the format online, players would add a Vanguard card to their your deck before playing, and at the start of the game, the avatar card from your deck would start in play for you and applied the modifications listed on it
This artwork is a flashback (heh) to a core memory of Noctis that has never been featured anywhere else, and an especially poignant one since the eventual death of King Regis spearheaded Noctis journey to become a destined hero, while the car Regalia became a metaphor of the relationship between Noctis and Regis throughout the game
(2020-06-23) A permanent card is an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker card
2025 has cemented the approach to making Precons notably powerful out of the box
I've also snuck in an infinite combo: Satoru Umezawa on the battlefield + Peregrine Drake attacking unblocked + Thousand-Faced Shadow in hand + any other unblocked attacker = infinite mana and infinite damage