This card lets you draw off of equipment entering play (whether cast, recurred, or cheated in), and grants equip 0 to all of your equipment for jumping through the kindergarten level hoop jump of achieving metalcraft
As for Altar of Dementia, several backups are available on Magic Arena , like Sling-Gang Lieutenant, although they cost enough mana that we'd have to lose Lurrus of the Dream-Den as our companion, which probably isn't worth it
Once you reach the phase of the game where you can afford to do multiple things per turn, you need card draw to ensure you keep having things to do (Circle of Power, Fight On!, Travel the Overworld) or at least cards which can be used multiple times (flashback spells, Ring of the Lucii, Shambling Cieth, Relentless X-ATM092)
Temple of Deceit
Lets open the boxes and lets start as usual from the contents