As reported by the BBC, Trafton opened the card and immediately called a game store to ask how to get it appraised officially, only to be hung up on because the staff thought it was a prank
If you notice an opponent that plays a deck that generates a ton of creatures, you want to target them before they get too many creatures for you to handle.
Blacks strong removal suites keep opposing threats in check, while whites enchantment synergies and recursion options help retrieve combo pieces if they are destroyed
Due to things like Sorin, Grim Nemesis functioning as Corrupt in addition to a more-than-fine win condition, and Dark Petition finding Virulent Plague to shut down tokens and some planeswalkers, everything seems to be in place for (almost) Mono-Black Control to exist
One of the things we realized when setting out to do an artifact set was that there were certain qualities about artifacts that had to get represented in the block