As a final note, I dont know anything about the Final Fantasy games myself, and I wont evaluate these cards based on how well they adapt characters, so I wont comment on the flavor at all
In this form, he has superb stats and a truly game changing ability
However, unlike other commanders that return artifacts to your hand, Daretti is capable of putting them into play at the cost of a sacrificed artifact
I could also see this card working very well in Angel decks that make use of Divine Visitation thanks to the ease at which it makes tokens
One of the great advantages of that article is it was based on Frank Karsten's excellent work showing how often we'd hit our drops to what turn based on how many Lands we're running
Esika makes for a great legendary Gods deck, utilizing Prismatic Bridge to get them into play, and the World Tree land which can grab all of them out of your library, which makes for a very fun build