On the Expense of Printing MTG, Especially With Respect to the Colors Red and Black

Strangely, MTG chose red to be the color of mythic rare card’s instead of black.  As far as I know, black ink is more expensive than red ink.  Of course, it still may cost more to produce a mythic rare due to the cost of the artwork placed on the card.  That is, though quality of art is subjective, it may cost MTG more to purchase the artwork that the company uses in the production of cards that are of mythic rarity.  Thus, it is such that the cards of the color red, are generally the cheapest for a company to produce, and as such if you are playing red as a color, as I am writing this, most red cards have increased pervasiveness of red, and thus on the whole are most likely to be the least expensive to make although this idea may be compensated for due to the amount MTG pays for art on the cards themselves.  Thus, due to the unknown cost of purchasing the original piece of artwork, if is a painting, then it is really impossible to ascertain how much any card costs to print.  For example, MTG might have a certain amount of allotted money for cards according to rarity or some other factor, such that there are other variables that may be considered.  For instance, a card that is red may cost more to produce because those in charge of the red color are less able to be efficient with their money.  As I recall reading, each color has its primary person in charge of it, and each of these people are not equal and thus it is as such that a red card may cost more to produce that an black card depending on the efficiency of those that produce red cards as opposed to producing black cards.  However, the intent of this blog is to state that as a general rule, the color black is generally more expensive to produce than red, although this difference in cost may not be significant for the production of any particular card, it is likely that these production costs add up over the production of multiple series, such that they become very significant.  For example, just considering the ink of a card, these difference are almost certainly only fractions of a penny in difference, but even fractions of a penny add up.

My actual hypothesized reason that red is chosen as the color to represent mythic rarity is that in the Christian Bible, the words of Jesus are commonly in red print.