If the people buy in at a higher price and sellers cant replenish their supply effectively then all the manipulation has done was sped up an already organic trend
Who could have seen that coming
You need Natures Claims against Stony Silences and Damping Spheres, whilst Thragtusks do double duty against Blood Moon and Lava Spike
Of course, today the vast majority of copies out there in the wild have the correct stats, and counter to what you might think, the misprinted version is actually worth less than the right version and its various reprints
Any card that lets you give control of that permanent to an opponent or force them to make a copy of it puts them under an alternate loss condition, which is a roundabout way to win the game
If you can minimize that in game 1, and even win in that first game, you are in way better shape to take down Infect in games 2 and 3