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
And with the blue/black color pair, you get the privilege of playing all the best single-target removal and counter spells in Standard
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.
To make things even better, it included some crazy powerful cards for the time like Dragons Fire and Alladdin, Heroic Outlaw a card that was used in every Ruby deck back then (and is still strong in my opinion)
New sets will be released four times a year