Thats still the case for the recent remake, Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, though the baseline difficulty has been ratcheted down somewhat from the '90s version
Early on this can force an opponent to use hard location removal and lose tempo
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This is kind of like Fling, but a little more flexible because if your creature has higher toughness than power it can survive