If you don't have any ways to cheat around equip costs, your turns are going to be very slow, allowing your opponents to interact with your battlefield and remove threats before you can even take advantage of them
Joining those above are Paths of the Dead, which is just Cavern of Souls
15 Most Valuable Apocalypse Cards Cromat | Illustrated by Donato Giancola Apocalypse , the final set from Invasion block, released on June 4, 2001 and wrapped up the years-long Weatherlight Saga with the Phyrexians getting defeated by the Weatherlight crew, which boasted such notable Magic characters as Gerrard, Urza, Sisay, Tahngarth and Karn
Being a legend also detracts from his worth with vulnerabilities to Karakas and Phyrexian Metamorph etc
for example, try to shuffle the cards with only one hand
So many players found themselves switching to Magic the Gathering Online because of those reasons, it wasnt cheap either as you had to buy the cards anyways, but it was a least a cheaper option than playing paper magic