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I would say that pure monetary value does effect power but with highly diminishing returns and even at the lowest cost the synergy and construction of the deck is more important.
The most expensive card I own is Sheoldred, The Apocalypse - and I always take her out of my decks because she just doesn't synergise with them. Yeah it's powerful, yeah it doesn't weaken my infect deck (for example), but a dirt cheap Blightbelly Rat is far more valuable to me in that deck if I want to do the things my deck is supposed to do, have fun, and have a good chance of winning.
I haven’t played in a very long time, but daaaamn Sheoldred would work soooo well in my old casual Memory Jar/Megrim discard deck.
You're right, and my bad for not mentioning this earlier, but even though we're new to paper MTG, we've had some experience playing on Arena. So, we didn't end up wasting money on useless cards. We both decided to upgrade our decks with cards that align with the precon theme, making sure to replace weaker or unfitting cards that originally came in the deck!