While I can see the justification for buying the art sleeves just because they look so good, if you are going to pay $7.49 to sleeve a deck with plain matte sleeves, there are better options available
There are plenty of good reasons to modify a finished deck
Bonehoard Dracosaur Bonehoard Dracosaur is big enough to be a great blocker, and also has two keywords that make it an incredible attacker
So theres actually a significant trade-off hereand thats assuming everything goes the way your attacking opponent thinks it should
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The primary upside of this over Howling Mine is obviously that you get to go first, which is kind of like making it a cantrip, but its also worth noting that given the phenomenally clunky nature of spells in Esper Control decks, this might just make a reasonable instant speed threat to play at the end of their turn