Ive had both of these cards in my book for months, and Ive had interest from ten or fifteen people
Nobody outside of the upper echelons of WotC has the facts and data to support or refute this claim, though, so in order to support my argument, I'll illustrate with examples from a handful of MTG's game modes
Wait, was I skipped? You can play into Timesifter by stacking the top of your library with Sensei's Divining Top and other scry effects, or just loading the rest of your deck with high mana value creatures like Scornful Egotist (maybe playing well in the 99 of a Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow ninja deck)
Most of the rest of the deck has seen Restricted List and Banned List action in various formats
Except the "sale" was never completed
The suit's introductory section claims this "was known internally as the 'parachute' strategy" and allegedly involved "releasing specific Magic sets that could be thrown together at low cost and on short timelines for the explicit purpose of compensating for revenue shortfalls in other Hasbro divisions"