I guess it easily could on some madness cards but in general all you are doing with cycling (assuming some actual cost to do so) is raising the floor of a card
Now comes the difficult part: between Carmen and Clavileno I actually think Carmen has a much higher power ceiling, but to reach that ceiling you'd need to start moving away from Vampires and into more efficient sacrifice triggers (Pitiless Plunderer) and lifegain payoffs (Archangel of Thune)
Art by Eri Welli
One example may be "500 assorted commons and uncommons, Mirrodin through Shards of Alara era," "2,000 bulk commons from 2010 onwards" or "1,000 pre-modern bulk commons, uncommons and rares." New players who want to cheaply kick-start their collection can buy these bulk lots and gain countless new cards to play with, as well as explore a wider variety of cards than most Magic starter products provide
The knight does 500 damage to your opponent each time they activate a card or effect
I know Dark Confidant came before Augur, but Confidant is to Clinton Kane as Darkstar Augur is to Brooke Schofield
