Magic The Gathering Cards as an Investment

I don't know about any of that. It's been too long and I never followed the inner working of WotC

I think the relic uniques might have been inspired by the expeditions/masterpieces/invocations. It's a thing they started a little while ago, extremely rare cards with a unique card design and alternate art, always foil and also some reprints of pretty old cards (mana crypt or lotus petal for example). They look pretty dope and some are rather expensive (though still peanuts when compared to a graded 10 mint double signed alpha lotus).

Finance world pretty rough these days from mumbling on the street. Used to be a flipper.