If you want to play with the Standard rotation and rules from 1999, you absolutely can
The battles themselves are easy enough to complete with a basic deck and a little luck, even at the most difficult Expert level
Often you arent casting the Artifact for its native nine mana but for much less as you typically run high power creatures to discount the cost
And in case you forgot, we typically get seven versions of every Standard rare / mythic as a baseline: a regular and a foil printing from boosters, an extended art and an extended art foil from Collector Boosters, a timestamped prerelease promo in foil, and a foil and a non-foil planeswalker stamped version from the Promo Packs
It's an amazing option for a tempo strategy where it kills quickly if you have some bounce or tap effects in your deck, and it works with auras, equipment, and pretty much everything in the game of Magic