While it can help if your opponent is on a strategy that involves Fire Energy (with notable examples at the time including Eevee Grove Flareon ex and Shining Revelry Charizard ex), it is otherwise completely useless
Odds are you probably dont have much else going for you anyway if youre destroying the entire board
[78] About six months after the meeting with Adkison, Garfield had refined the first complete version of his game
Gallery and List of Intimidate Cards Academy Raider Accursed Spirit Bellowing Tanglewurm Bladetusk Boar Blind Zealot Brain Weevil Cavern Lampad Cyclops Tyrant Flesh Carver Forlorn Pseudamma Geth, Lord of the Vault Halo Hunter Heirs of Stromkirk Highborn Ghoul Immerwolf Krenko's Enforcer Lifebane Zombie Mikaeus, the Unhallowed Sepulchral Primordial Spectral Rider Vela the Night-Clad Best Intimidate Cards A theme of the best intimidate cards is that if you removed intimidate they still likely make this list
Exemplar of Light Exemplar of Light is a little subpar as a 3/3 flying for 4 mana, but just gaining life once means you get your card back
Of course, the casting cost isnt the only way these equipment cards can be balanced