It had more 1-2 mana ramp, more resilience, and included more oppressive spells to rebound like Time Warp and Expropriate
That is a huge drop in value for just one number, and depending on the collector, a 9 could be just as good as a 10
Enact Doom's world domination with an army of villainous Doombots at your command and strategies to weaken your opponents while strengthening yourself
Sand Stream slowly chips at your opponent's Basics and the main attack is just a heavy swing with some disruption
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
Having both this and Swords to Plowshares gives great redundancy to white in really top level removal and is utilized in practically every kind of deck using white