Nowadays, its much easier to tell how much Magic The Gathering cards are worth because pricing is real time
And in Commander decks, there are just far more better options than these two cards, especially in the already competitive spaces of Isshin and Boros equipment decks
For Mono-Blue, you can play plenty of hate cards
Sure, triple green is somewhat of a restrictive mana cost, but mana bases have never been better and neither has access to fixing
Whenever a nontoken Vampire under your control dies, you can pay one mana to create a 1/1 Bat token with flying, exiling the Vampire in question
I had already become intrigued by how much MTG had expanded its mechanics and modes in the time since I last played the game