The two cards don't actually have anything to do with each other beyond sharing an artist, which I think makes the joke a bit more ridiculous
It's more likely that after a few years of declining profits, we'd start to see layoffs at Wizards supporting R&D is expensivewhich would mean fewer new Magic cards and products (somewhat ironically creating a self-fulfilling prophecy, since less products would mean less reprints, driving up prices on cards even more and making fake cards even more appealing) until eventually Wizards just shuts its doors and Magic becomes a dead game
I want to see what it does
Black Lotus is the most expensive Magic card of all time, and it sells for a whopping $500k+
Whatever your reason for needing high-toughness creatures, here's an updated list of the biggest of them
Cards ListU 0246 FIN Whenever an artifact you control enters, put a +1/+1 counter on Tidus