While she makes sense in a tribal context, she was designed to be able to function perfectly on her own, without the need for a board full of vampires
This peculiar sorcery from 1993's Arabian Nights demands that players carry out a subgame of MTG aside from the actual game, and the subgame's loser forfeits half their life in the real game
Curses generally fit a type of control build anyway so a control commander in the colors of the curses you want is probably the right choice, at least until The Unluckiest gets printed and we live the dream
In the case of the decklists you find occasionally under the Decks tab of the store, the gem value is quite inflated
The Cheese was just fine standing alone without this printing
Wizards of the Coast did try to compensate for this by increasing the Mana tax as you increase Esper Sentinels power, but any Auras or buff spells after often reserved for the Commander in Voltron style decks