Sounds like my first few commander attempts. I'd stopped playing in 07/08 and when I came back in 2020 I had a bad case of WTF??? from all the new stuff.

Lol, mtg has always been pay-to-win in constructed, at least to some degree. It's kinda part of the fun though, I love going to modern tournaments with an old $50 burn deck. Better not miss your mana drops boys, you've got four turns...