Worse condition copies arent any cheaper currently, and the Rainbow Foil variant sells for $126 at minimum
Green ramp decks and weenie creatures decks are the best place for him but I frequently see him getting put into midrange and control lists
$10$50 (Mid-Range) Rhystic Study, Cyclonic Rift, Demonic Tutor, Smothering Tithe, Vampiric Tutor, Ad Nauseam, Teferi's Protection, Consecrated Sphinx, The One Ring, Bolas's Citadel, Thassa's Oracle, Drannith Magistrate, Seedborn Muse, Humility, Natural Order
But for every player had wished for Dockside Extortionist and friends to no longer be part of Commander, there was another who had happily bought into the format as it was and found the banning to be arbitrary
There is a very real cost (as there should be with The One Ring), since at a certain point the burden counters will be taking significant chunks of life from you, but the cards youre drawing along the way should more than offset it
It basically ran the show with blue devotion (a tempo deck featuring four Thassa, God of the Seas and lots of average creatures) and Azorius control (draw-go deck that won with Sphinx's Revelation) for over a year