Local game stores and wholesalers are generally the intended customer for cases of boosters, not individual collectors
Mechanically, shes a little more out of place but as a ramp tool, youd be hard-pressed to find a better one for Black
I wasn't able to track down a specific issue where this panel appears (please let me know in the comments if you do!) but there's a good chance it's from Maximum Carnage, a big storyline that spanned through all the ongoing Spider-Man comics in 1993, and saw Carnage do what he does best, spread death and havoc, this time with a makeshift "family" of superpowered maniacs
Icetill Explorer from Edge of Eternities is a perfect card Greater Good is an amazing way to sacrifice Sandman, Shifting Scoundrel and net you big card draw Lizard, Connors's Curse A 5/5 trampler for four is already aggressively costed, but Lizard takes things further with his "Lizard Formula." When he enters, he strips a creature of all abilities and locks it in as a vanilla 4/4
Kaito, Cunning Infiltrator This three-drop on curve three loyalty planeswalker is next with four abilities
However, Play Design is not a fan of the mechanic, so I don't think it will see a big return, though maybe it can show up as a cameo on a card or two