While Batterskull has long been the best friend of Stoneforge Mystic, the printing of Kaldra Compleat added an even deadlier threat to the Artificers toolbox
However, if you go through a ducting system, you just need cards of equivalent rarities, not value
But its also not the best equipment thanks to its normal equip cost and the fact that it doesnt give toughness to protect your creatures
Now a card with this kind of effect is just a joke
I would build a deck in such a way that I never needed to cycle this, except in Modern there are decks that have next to no creatures, and against those decks, I would cycle this in the first game of the match and then stick it in my sideboard for the rest of that match
The best part is that the times youre least interested in doing that are the times when your opponent has a lot of removal, which is exactly when youre happiest to pay six mana to draw three+ cardsjust be sure they cant kill your creature in response