Yes, it can get you the extra turn and generate the card advantage that can inevitably get you closer to a bonafide win condition, but it still can whiff, too, and many times just delays dying by a turn
The Illumineers trove has 8 of the sets packs, so at around $100 you are paying about $12 for the rest of the stuff
Bog Raiders Bog Raiders is your average 2/2 for three Swampwalk creature, this time with the zombie type for extra synergy with your zombie lords like Death Baron and Diregraf Captain
Based on this experimenation, it seems like the Sapphire/Steel deck is more aggressive , with new cards boosting Strength and increasing Resistance, while the Amber/Amethyst deck is more about mitigating and removing damage
Merlin, Rabbit is the only card that allows you to draw, and while Tiana, Celebrating Princess does provide some benefit to an empty hand, the problem is that every card you draw of the top will cost less than four ink and be fairly low impact