If you just touched up the land base and added in some more of the recursion, you'd have a fine deck in its own right, but it wouldn't be an upgrade article without a few suggestions
If this card seems unplayable to you, you probably shouldnt be playing a curse deck
At events like prereleases, where newer players face experienced ones, I see new players get surprised by all the different opportunities to interact during combat
Otherwise, you gain 2 life
Its certainly novel to build around two singleton-busters, but the problem is that youre left with few slots for much of anything else in the deck, and the gameplay is very linear
And they can also be your commander in EDH