Nah, it's even weaker in a multiplayer environment where trading a card for a card means you're two cards short
The most expensive card in the deck is Wurmcoil Engine, sitting around $10 for the cheapest printing
With her Read A Book ability, Belle allows you to double the amount of cards you can play into your inkwell each turn
Curse of Vengeance has spite counters, which is just rad and exactly the kind of flavor win you need to help people forgive you for playing a curse deck
The Streets of New Capenna are still smoking with action, but were moving on to the major Commander release of the year, set in one of the most infamous places in the Forgotten Realms
You just need a 0-cost artifact and your choice of evil sacrifice outlets, from Altar of Dementia to Blasting Station