In general terms, companions encourage creative deckbuilding and reinforce the idea that self-imposed restrictions can be fun and novel
This doesn't kill enough stuff, and cycling it away doesn't make up for that
It's rather misleading because the effect is simple and good in that you can add up to two ingenuity counters per turn and cast an artifact for free based on the number of those counters
CLEAVER SKAAB (INNISTRAD: MIDNIGHT HUNT COMMANDER ) (INNISTRAD: MIDNIGHT HUNT COMMANDER ) A fresh recruit to the undead cause, this is a cleav- uh, clever way to amplify the potential of the tribes many previous bombs
There's no real reason a deck like this needs a land like Reliquary Tower or Tectonic Edge over other better, budget-friendly, colorless lands
Whatever your poison, theres an awful lot of potential in The Serpent Society, and as someone who just finished building an Atraxa, Praetors Voice deck, I think I may have to sneak it in at the cost of something else.