Black appeals to players who like to feel like theyre getting away with something. Black allows for a lot of flexible resource management, being able to reanimate and sacrifice creatures at advantageous rates while generating bursts of mana, life, and card draw
Its generally better to buy individual booster boxes over cases
It will be difficult to develop early when youll be forced to spend mana reacting to what your opponent is doing, which is why I cut several creatures when sideboarding
While reprints are expected as soon as July, and should continue for a while given the Final Fantasy expansion is part of MTGs standard set of cards (and thus legal in all tournament play), the difficulty of not only finding cards at the moment, but actually being able to afford them, has been a bit of a buzzkill.
Pricing and Investment After its power was recognized, the Riddlers price jumped from a pre-release low of $11 to a stable $20 to $30
Theres very little your opponents can do to stop this scenario once it's in place, short of a mass exile spell like Sunfall or Farewell