There were many other cards on their shelves that were in great condition and others available at more reasonable prices
$0.99 Shakedown Heavy Streets of New Capenna $0.49 Hunted Bonebrute Murders at Karlov Manor $0.35 Waning Wurm Planar Chaos $0.69 Scrollshift March of the Machine $0.39 Monoist Sentry Edge of Eternities $0.39 Kalakscion, Hunger Tyrant Aetherdrift $1.99 Parting Gust Bloomburrow $2.79 Daemogoth Titan Strixhaven: School of Mages $1.49 Honest Rutstein Outlaws of Thunder Junction $1.29 Flicker of Fate Theros Beyond Death $0.49 Xu-Ifit, Osteoharmonist Edge of Eternities $0.49 Nyxathid Jumpstart 0 results found
Here's one example that managed to draw ire from lawyers anyway: Hamilton from "Cream of the Croagunk Crop" was originally supposed to be one for Hiroshi from Dokonjou Gaeru
While reprints are expected as soon as July, and should continue for a while given the Final Fantasy expansion is part of MTGs standard set of cards (and thus legal in all tournament play), the difficulty of not only finding cards at the moment, but actually being able to afford them, has been a bit of a buzzkill.
Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard cards but before it receives +1/+1 counters, if any